Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread Jim Ault
On 10/11/06 8:47 PM, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/06 10:41 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with Trevor (and some other folks, too, I guess). If you disabled a control and it *still* swallowed mouseclicks then that wouldn't exactly be disabled, no? I guess it

Re: Using 'for each' to modify a container

2006-10-12 Thread Jim Ault
Hello, Jacque, On 10/11/06 8:14 PM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Marriott wrote: And I'm *really* concerned about the second part of your report Further, I don't reuse the name 'thisLine' in the next instance of a repeat for each loop in the *same handler*, but change

Re: Using 'for each' to modify a container

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Smith
Clearly, it shouldn't be necessary, but I wonder if putting empty into LNN or delete variable LNN after each loop has finished would cure that? Best, Mark On 12 Oct 2006, at 07:51, Jim Ault wrote: Hello, Jacque, On 10/11/06 8:14 PM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill

Re: Using 'for each' to modify a container

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Using Variable Watcher and some test variables, I saw 'LNN' change the way you would expect, then later, strangely, it held some garbage characters, and thus the bug(s). The failure was not always the same, but it did fail before the end of the process. By not reusing LNN each time, the

Re: Using 'for each' to modify a container

2006-10-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
The first part though, about not changing the contents of a loop variable, does give unexpected results though I hardly ever get an actual script error. Usually I just get scrambled variables. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software |

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread Dave Cragg
On 12 Oct 2006, at 04:47, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/11/06 10:41 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with Trevor (and some other folks, too, I guess). If you disabled a control and it *still* swallowed mouseclicks then that wouldn't exactly be disabled, no? I guess it depends on how you

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread kevin oneil
On 10/11/06 5:23 PM, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Actually what I mean is that it shouldn't act like it doesn't exist... if you click on a disabled opaque button, it shouldn't pass the click to things behind it... Ah. I could see how

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
I guess it depends on how you define disabled... I don't define disabled as transparent, but inert. Meaning that it acts like any other button you click that is disabled - nothing happens. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Smith
But that seems to be the problem - it's doing nothing. The question is whether it should do something ie. intercept the mouseclick. Best, Mark On 12 Oct 2006, at 09:00, kevin oneil wrote: Logically, I think this is a bug. When clicked, a disabled button should by definition NOT do

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread Dave Cragg
On 12 Oct 2006, at 08:43, Robert Brenstein wrote: Can of worms IMHO. I believe the current behavior is fine. It is predictable, easily explained, and consistent among all objects. It may catch someone by a surprise once a while but that is part of learning. Lovely conclusion. I vote for

Re: Resizestack: sending and passing problem

2006-10-12 Thread André.Bisseret
Le 11 oct. 06 à 23:57, David Bovill a écrit : Spent hours trying to track this down... send resizeStack to card 1 Could not get it to work. Then tried this. Create a blank stack - on the card script add: on mouseUp beep pass mouseUp end mouseUp And put an empty button on a card.

Re: [OT] AJAX to Overtake Flash?

2006-10-12 Thread Luis
Hiya, I remember now... That's why I'm interested in local and remote DBs. A light DB with recent data which synchronises with the remote. I have been doing this with Derby and HSQLDB (both can run as client and server). They're fairly lightweight for client apps, although HSQLDB worries me a

Unwanted Explicit variables set to true?

2006-10-12 Thread David Glasgow
Hmmm. Recently, 2.7.2 on OS X started to behave as if explicitvariables was set to true. Perfectly functioning scripts opened in the editor would generate unquoted literal errors and moaning about undeclared variables. I today moved to 2.7.4, confident that the problem would go away, but

Re: HTML detection

2006-10-12 Thread jbv
Chipp, JBV, I think I would need more information about what you're trying to do. If you're talking about strict HTML, then of course as previously mentioned, checking for html in the string should work. If you're looking to strip tags from text then there are a couple ways to do that.

[OT] - REALBasic Claims 100K Users

2006-10-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Do I count as: 1. a user of RealBasic 2. a user of Runtime Revolution ??? 1. I downloaded the free Linux version of RealBasic a while back - didn't like it and didn't use it - however my personal details are, presumably, washing around in the RealBasic company's database. 2. Somebody bought

Re: CGI for Slide show

2006-10-12 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
There is an alternative with javascript using properties of image tag. It can (re)load images without reloading the whole page, so it also saves some bandwith for you. Here is the recipe provided all images are in same format (let'say jpg) and with names made using a phrase and a number - e.g.

Re: Threads

2006-10-12 Thread Luis
Maybe this could be done, albeit in a rather primitive way: Separate standalones communicating with each other? Cheers, Luis. Dar Scott wrote: On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Andrew wrote: What kind of communication? Do this and let me know when you are finished. Do this, show progress,

RE Is this weird or is it just me?

2006-10-12 Thread Lars Brehmer
Wow, I didn't expect so many responses and opinions on this small matter! And I do agree (conditionally) with both. I still find it odd that mouseEnter does nothing but mouseUp does in the sense that a clickable opject under the disabled button is clicked. As far as transparency is

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/12/06 2:48 AM, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have expected behaviour as Ken describes. I don't think it's a case of swallowing mouseClicks, but of passing them on through the hierarchy, e.g. to card, to stack, etc. That would be the same as if you clicked on any visible

Re: RE Is this weird or is it just me?

2006-10-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Lars, Wow, I didn't expect so many responses and opinions on this small matter! And I do agree (conditionally) with both. I still find it odd that mouseEnter does nothing but mouseUp does in the sense that a clickable opject under the disabled button is clicked. As far as

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/12/06 2:43 AM, Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can of worms IMHO. I believe the current behavior is fine. It is predictable, easily explained, and consistent among all objects. Well, that's my problem with it... it was *not* predictable (at least not for me and a few others

Re: Using 'for each' to modify a container

2006-10-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 12, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Mark Smith wrote: Clearly, it shouldn't be necessary, but I wonder if putting empty into LNN or delete variable LNN after each loop has finished would cure that? Putting empty into the labelVariable in each repeat loop solves some problems so I would imagine

Re: Unwanted Explicit variables set to true?

2006-10-12 Thread Malte Brill
Hi David, check your preferences. Maybe you accidently checked Variable checking by default in the script editor pane? Prefs are preserved cross versions since 2.7.x so this might be the cause. This setting is not exactly the same as setting the explicit vars. You might want to check

Re: Unwanted Explicit variables set to true?

2006-10-12 Thread Stephen Barncard
I had this problem and found out it was Constellation, it has it's own settings for explicitvariables. But you didn't mention it, I know. Hmmm. Recently, 2.7.2 on OS X started to behave as if explicitvariables was set to true. Perfectly functioning scripts opened in the editor would

Re: CGI for Slide show

2006-10-12 Thread Stephen Barncard
The script still has to be adjusted for Non MSIE browsers, current version works on MSIE. Which is exactly why I went to pure HTML at the time (7 years ago). Browser compatibility was even worse then. There is an alternative with javascript using properties of image tag. It can (re)load

Re: Unwanted Explicit variables set to true?

2006-10-12 Thread Jerry Daniels
In Galaxy (and I believe in Constellation) the explicit vars property is only set during a compile, and then it is set according to the explicit var setting that is attached to the object being compiled. This is a Galaxy/Constellation convention. SO...I don't think it's entirely accurate

Re: Unwanted Explicit variables set to true?

2006-10-12 Thread Stephen Barncard
In Constellation, the explicitvars prefs setting on the edit window did NOT track the Rev IDE setting in preferences. That's what I reported to you as 'strange behavior' several months ago. I think I may have gotten an update that had that checkbox set, as I know I didn't set it. Anyway that

Re: CGI for Slide show

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Sivakatirswami- Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 10:15:07 PM, you wrote: I've heard iFrame was deprecated, but it works really well. I am also using now an iFrame that calls a Rev CGI which returns a small html chunk. You can also make AJAX calls in your iframe to respond to user mouse clicks,

Re: RE Is this weird or is it just me?

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Klaus- Thursday, October 12, 2006, 6:43:23 AM, you wrote: ps. another quickie - is there any way to do something like repeat for each marked card? No, there isn't. But there is a for each BZ enhancement request: BZ#3448 -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this weird or is it me?

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Thursday, October 12, 2006, 6:42:00 AM, you wrote: Actually, Dave, you're absolutely right. A disabled button shouldn't prevent the message from continuing through the hierarchy; for me the issue is not so much that the mouse event is stopped at the button, but that the event is allowed

revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi friends, does anybody had success with the revVideoGrabber in 2.7.4? QuickTime 7.1.3 on Mac and PC. Tried with the demo stack Video Captur.rev in Sample projects on my Mac and PC and almost nothing worked... :-/ I do not have any videosource attached on my Mac (is this necessary to get the

Re: CGI for Slide show

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Viktoras- Thursday, October 12, 2006, 2:47:28 AM, you wrote: This is how your image tag might look like for a slideshow of 15 images: img src=im1.jpg name=thisIm alt=Click to change image galleryimg=no onclick=if (i=15) {i++}; else {i=1}; thisIm.src='im'+i+'.jpg'; The script still has

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

2006-10-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've amended my web page that describes everything step by step to make it easier for others to get started: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env006.htm Thanks for the guide - I had Basilisk up and running in no time, but

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-12 Thread Malte Brill
Hi klaus, works here. But If I recall correctly it really needs a video source attached. (can´t test on the iMac, as it has the iSight built in). This is on the INTEL iMac. No way to test it on PPC at the moment. All the best, Malte ___

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Malte, Hi klaus, works here. But If I recall correctly it really needs a video source attached. aha, thanks, this is a start :-) (can´t test on the iMac, as it has the iSight built in). Does NOT work with the built-in iSight??? This is on the INTEL iMac. No way to test it on PPC

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-12 Thread Malte Brill
Does NOT work with the built-in iSight??? It DOES work. But you can not switch the built in iSight off, so I can not test a no hardware attached scenario. :-) All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: revVideoGrabber broken?

2006-10-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Malte, Does NOT work with the built-in iSight??? It DOES work. But you can not switch the built in iSight off, so I can not test a no hardware attached scenario. :-) Ah, good news :-) All the best, Malte Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de

digital circuit simulator

2006-10-12 Thread Marty Billingsley
Hi -- Anyone know of a digital circuit simulator implemented in RR? I'd like my students to be able to drag logic gates around, hook them to inputs, put power to the inputs, and see what the output is. An applet example of what I'm looking for can be found at http://

Re: Macro Substitution

2006-10-12 Thread Robert Sneidar
store bobtest to testme store this is a test to testme.01 In Foxpro this would actually create a variable named bobtest01 and put this is a test into it. Macro Substitution will substitute a variable for it's value at runtime. There is no one liner I know of that could reproduce this

Re: CGI for Slide show

2006-10-12 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
Thanks Mark! That's why I wrote it has to be adjusted ;-) Best wishes Viktoras ---Original Message--- From: Mark Wieder Date: 10/12/06 21:02:41 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: CGI for Slide show Viktoras- Thursday, October 12, 2006, 2:47:28 AM, you wrote: This

Re: Macro Substitution

2006-10-12 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Bob, put bobtest into testme do put quote this is a test quote into testme . 01 bobtest01 is now a variable that contains this is a test. Le 12 oct. 06 à 21:59, Robert Sneidar a écrit : store bobtest to testme store this is a test to testme.01 In Foxpro this would actually

Re: Macro Substitution

2006-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Robert Sneidar wrote: store bobtest to testme store this is a test to testme.01 In Foxpro this would actually create a variable named bobtest01 and put this is a test into it. Macro Substitution will substitute a variable for it's value at runtime. There is no one liner I know of that could

Re: Testing for numerics

2006-10-12 Thread Robert Sneidar
OIC Jim. I think you've nailed it. A declared global does NOT show up in the globals UNTIL you put something into it! Brilliant! So is there a handler that gets triggered if I declare a global? If so, I can intercept it and auto-initialize it with a handler to null and never have to change

Re: Resizestack: sending and passing problem

2006-10-12 Thread Chipp Walters
David, Try this: set the width of this stack to 300 send resizeStack to this stack You need to 'send' the message for it to work. that will do the necessary resizing for you. Another VERY helpful tip on WinXP is to right-click the desktop choose properties to show the Display Properties panel,

Re: Threads

2006-10-12 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
Why shouldn't it work? Threads can be produced by cloning an invisible substack (named thread) with a handler and renaming the clones to thread_1, thread_2, etc... If this makes any sense to anyone the code is free to explore (Rev studio 2.7): go stack url

Porter-Duff demo stack

2006-10-12 Thread Dar Scott
I have a very limited, tiny, one-card demo showing the Porter-Duff ink values. It does not have the workaround for Revolution using clip-to-self; I tried to keep this very simple. Just type this to the message box: go URL http://www.swcp.com/dsc/freedownload/PDdemo.rev; All it does is

Globals, trapping using setProp [was Re: Testing for numerics]

2006-10-12 Thread Jim Ault
If you want a trigger, Rev sends messages for both setting and getting custom properties. Sohh... a one-liner is all we need in our working scripts.. set the trapGlobalEvent of this stack to gExecuteStatus --I made up ŒtrapGlobaEvent¹ and one handler in the stack or back script or

Re: Where to Save Downloads -- Best Practice?

2006-10-12 Thread Sivakatirswami
Well the original stack will be a standalone, I have to assume the user could put this anywhere. If we deliver it a a zipfile, each user will have a different style of what they will do with the executable after they decompress it... I can't now for sure where it will be. If we use a

Re: Using 'for each' to modify a container

2006-10-12 Thread Robert Sneidar
I have experienced no corruption of data, but I certainly have had unexpected behavior. Given: put 1 into mcnt repeat for each line tline in mlist put empty into word 1 of tline put tline into line mcnt of mlist put mcnt + 1 into mcnt end repeat As each iteration of the repeat loop

Re: Using 'for each' to modify a container

2006-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Sneidar wrote: put 1 into mcnt repeat for each line tline in mlist put empty into word 1 of tline put tline into line mcnt of mlist put mcnt + 1 into mcnt end repeat FWIW, doing the data collection with the form put...into line... loses much of the performance value of using

Re: digital circuit simulator

2006-10-12 Thread Judy Perry
Marty, I don't know of one, but I'd LOVE to see what you come up with! Judy On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Marty Billingsley wrote: Hi -- Anyone know of a digital circuit simulator implemented in RR? I'd like my students to be able to drag logic gates around, hook them to inputs, put power to the

Stack rename itself

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have a stub executable that will open stacks so that the stacks can save themselves with their data. I would like to be able to rename the stack file and other pertinent information so that there could be multiple versions of the stack personalized to different people. I think what I