Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 14, 2006, at 9:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm tempted to say that yes, you can't be a true card-head (love that term) without typng abbrevs for wds but wht do I kno. Well, I think people on this list have figured out that I'm not a true card-head, but they treat me kindly anyway.

executionContexts

2006-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I do not really understand Dar Scott's As a product Revolution does NOT have executionContexts except maybe as a reserved word of some sort. This is not an underdocumented feature of the product. I did not buy executioncontexts. I bought 2 varieties of Runtime Revolution and the both contain

Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I use fld and img because they seem fairly obvious; I eschew other abbreviations because I find that I have difficulty reading what I have typed at a later date. I do (admittedly a bit hypocritically) feel that when discussing coding on the use-list it would be extremely helpful for one and all

Re: executionContexts

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Smith
The point here is surely a practical one. RR have built executionContexts into the language for their own purposes, having written the IDE in transcript/revolution (eating their own haggis, as they put it), and presumably they needed it for some aspect of writing an IDE. Assuming that

storing binary into a altSQLite DB

2006-10-15 Thread Christian Langers
Hello, I'm just learning how to use a DB ; Is there a way to store binary files into a DB with the altSQLite ? I read that SQLite 3 accepted such data (BLOB) but I do not manage to integrate it into the database. I did follow the tutorial for creating a new DB, a table and adding data.

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Dar, I use only one abbreviation, which is fld for field, I use so many fields in my scripts that typing field all over grows tedious after a while so I like using fld and sometimes I use btn but this is seldon the case. I think the most important thing on delivering scripts for

Re: executionContexts

2006-10-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Richmond, by poking around the IDE source you'll find lots of little gems, specially functions and code that can teach you how to do many things but having access to the inner bowels of the RunRev IDE does not means that this is something you can rely on. The executionContexts is one

Re: storing binary into a altSQLite DB

2006-10-15 Thread Shao Sean
If you look in the documentation for revDB_execute you'll see that you need to add *b as the first 2 characters of your binary data.. _ Add fun gadgets and colorful themes to express yourself on Windows Live Spaces

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Dar Scott wrote: On Oct 14, 2006, at 9:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm tempted to say that yes, you can't be a true card-head (love that term) without typng abbrevs for wds but wht do I kno. Well, I think people on this list have figured out that I'm not a true card-head, but they treat

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Andre Garzia
I'll admit being involved in throwing things at public speakers, I am not without blame... :-) On Oct 15, 2006, at 1:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Dar Scott wrote: On Oct 14, 2006, at 9:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm tempted to say that yes, you can't be a true card-head (love that

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Jerry Daniels
I'm curious... Is your first name Dar or is that an abbreviation (abbrev) for something else? Best, Jerry Daniels Makers of Galaxy http://www.daniels-mara.com On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:03 AM, Dar Scott wrote: On Oct 14, 2006, at 9:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm tempted to say that

Re: storing binary into a altSQLite DB

2006-10-15 Thread Christian Langers
Thanks for your reply ! Hmm, I tried everything, but I always get an syntax error from the database I tried this : answer file put '*bURL (binfile:it)' into tRowData -- CONSTRUCT SQL put INSERT INTO Fotos(FotoID,FotoData) VALUES(null, tRowData ) into tSQL -- EXECUTE

Re: Context-free error messages during debugging

2006-10-15 Thread Graham Samuel
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:58:48 +0200, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graham, You could adjust the message box to throw errors instead of displaying them in its lower field, but it is probably easier to create your own message box and save that as a plugin. Just make a palette

Substitute Message Boxes

2006-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Missing the point completely of Graham Samuels' message (but for my own good reasons) I have uploaded a primitive message box to the usual place: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondsrrr/files/ its called Messenger pop it in your plug-ins folder, use it once, then chuck it out. and, if

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Jerry Daniels wrote: Is your first name Dar or is that an abbreviation (abbrev) for something else? Both! My birth certificate says Darwin and I use that in formal signatures. The dual name is a tradition my parents borrowed from my namesake who

Re: Context-free error messages during debugging

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: What I am saying is that I don't see that the engine has any excuse for not telling me the full context of an execution error, and I wonder why it does this sometimes and not at other times. Could this be related to password protection of

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: can I call function calling and message passings, jump? This is a good question. I have tried different words and have settled on call. I think I have seen in a HyperTalk manual words like use, send, call, generate, invoke and issue.

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:45 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I do (admittedly a bit hypocritically) feel that when discussing coding on the use-list it would be extremely helpful for one and all if abbreviations were not used. I think you are probably right (I'm still open on this), though I

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Ault
On 10/15/06 2:40 PM, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:45 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I do (admittedly a bit hypocritically) feel that when discussing coding on the use-list it would be extremely helpful for one and all if abbreviations were not used. I think

msql insert new record

2006-10-15 Thread Robert Mann
have a update code that works great, with some held form this list put UPDATE rider SET updateColValListOf123Pairs WHERE record_id = ' fld record_id ' into tSQL how would I change this to insert a new record get fcomp = ' fld fcomp ' get it ,freb = ' fld freb ' get it ,fctgmods = '

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Ken Ray
On 10/15/06 4:18 PM, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question to all, since it seems to be OK and even in to use abbreviations, how about for examples on this list where newbies read scripts? Should those be spelled out or should newbies learn to read abbrev early? (The word

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Dar and Ken, I nest so many functions in Rev that I bet the parser has a hard time tokenizing everything (like: hey, it's the eleventh parenthesis in a row, how odd) Ken, cdr and car are the building blocks of lisp... which remind me of a badge I saw in a car once which was my other CAR

Re: msql insert new record

2006-10-15 Thread Jim Ault
On 10/15/06 4:14 PM, Robert Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have a update code that works great, with some held form this list put UPDATE rider SET updateColValListOf123Pairs WHERE record_id = ' fld record_id ' into tSQL how would I change this to insert a new record put INSERT INTO

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Ken, cdr and car are the building blocks of lisp... which remind me of a badge I saw in a car once which was my other CAR is FIRST... when you have a list, for example '(1 2 3 4 5) then car returns 1 and cdr returns '(2 3 4 5). And with

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Jim Ault wrote: I agree with Dar on this. Since I usually answer questions while taking a short break from my work flow, I would not want to have to 'rework' a response so that it became crystal clear to someone brand new to Rev. This includes

Re: Use of abbreviations in scripts

2006-10-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Oct 15, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 10/15/06 4:18 PM, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my question to all, since it seems to be OK and even in to use abbreviations, how about for examples on this list where newbies read scripts? Should those be spelled out or should newbies

Re: RevDB and 2.7.4 on on OS 10.2.8?

2006-10-15 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Trevor I've been discussing it with Chris from Altuit because I thought it was altSqlite only but it seems this is not the case. I sure hope it gets fixed fast. Cheers Monte -- Monte Goulding BCompSci Sweat Technologies BAppSci

Substitute Message Boxes

2006-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
'Messenger' now sports a navigator panel: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondsrrr/files/ Hey, You never know, it might, eventually, have all the functionality of the in-built message box in RR - anybody who has either a desperate urge to reinvent the wheel, or see how these things work,