Re: Heads up about IE7

There were problems reported with IE7's version of wininet.dll back during beta, especially with certain third-party multiservice instant messaging clients, Microsoft Money, and with the HP Director software. The problem has been linked with a new function called InternetGetSecurityInfoByURLW. T

Tablet Compatibility

Tablet Compatibility Here we use increasingly Tablet PCs and the Revolution applications we develop are unfortunately not automatically compatible. Any work or development in this direction? Or is there something we should do in our applications to enable it? Thanks. Vijay Babu Kalangi. _

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

Hi, You hit the nail on the head (for me anyway)! On 21 Oct 2006, at 06:30, Judy Perry wrote: Well, I'd argue it a different way: If you're steathfully (is that a word??) going to switch away from an oft-vaunted policy of "free year of upgrades" for a license to a "this is all you're gonn

Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

Dave wrote: "The sad thing about it is that if they had just increased the price of the total package and offered a year's free updates, plus a separate stream for bug fixes as opposed to enhancements, they would have paid it." What I wonder about is why Runtime Revolution don't consider ma

Bottoms up about IE7

As an infrequent Windows user the following is probably a bit naive: With Mac and Linux changing a browser (I have about 6 on my Mac) does not "fatally bugger up the operating system" for other bits of software. Now I know that Microsoft (and, to a lesser extent, Apple) can be a bit paternalistic

Grab command

Works 100% for me: Mac 10.4.8 DC 2.6.1 and RRMedia 2.7.2 regards, Richmond I have just read and signed the online petition: "Hinge & Bracket" hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: htt

Re: Bottoms up about IE7

Hi, I'm guessing it's all to do with the dreaded DLLs on Windows. It happened on MacOS 9 too, to a lessor extent. For instance if you had Office 98 running and then used an older version (that used different DLLs (shared libs on the Mac), it could cause all kinds of chaos. In the same way

Careful

J. Landman Gay wrote: "Better be careful what you put in your scripts: " as a veteran user of 'abusive' language I am afraid I laughed my socks off - surely 'boks' are those things without which half the population of the world would fee

mad images

Hi, it is a very simple html (only p and img tags) page. However when I try to display it in a field as htmlText, images and text start a "crazy dance" and appear either at the very top of the field where only half of any image is visible or in places they should not be at all. Seems that positi

Re: mad images

Hi Viktoras, Hi, it is a very simple html (only p and img tags) page. However when I try to display it in a field as htmlText, images and text start a "crazy dance" and appear either at the very top of the field where only half of any image is visible or in places they should not be at a

Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

Hi. After a few month's work I am debugging the stand alone side of my application. So far the app works really well and with a complacent gleam in my mind's eye I click on the quit button of the main stack and my application won't die! The program is in two parts really. There is a Rev gen

intersect()

Hi all -- I seem to remember using the intersect() function before, where it returned false if one object was intersecting a transparent part of an image (don't remember if the image was a png or a gif). Now I can't seem to get that to work. Is there something I need to do to the image

Re: mad images

It helped ! Thanks! Regards Viktoras ---Original Message--- try setting the "fixed line height" of that field to false. That may ease your pain, at least a bit :-) > Viktoras Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de __

Re: Getting IP Address of Machine that is Currently Running the Stack

Hi, Thanks a lot, that worked great, for anyone that is interested, here is a function to return the local IP address: -- -- -- Get the Local IP Address of this Machine -- ---

Re: Careful

I know it isn't good, but I don't know what bocks exactly is (or are)... That just goes to show you, one man's (country's) swear word is another man's random syllables. At 12:12 AM 10/26/2006, you wrote: Better be careful what you put in your scripts:

Re: Careful

Peter T. Evensen wrote: > I know it isn't good, but I don't know what bocks exactly is (or > are)... That just goes to show you, one man's (country's) swear word is > another man's random syllables. As I understand it, you have two, I have none. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAI

Re: Careful

It's what squirrels like... Cheers, Luis. Peter T. Evensen wrote: I know it isn't good, but I don't know what bocks exactly is (or are)... That just goes to show you, one man's (country's) swear word is another man's random syllables. At 12:12 AM 10/26/2006, you wrote: Better be care

Re: card rect problem

Peter Brigham wrote: I can't figure out what could make the card height different from the stack height. I can't set the height of the card to fix it. I can't think of much either, but since you are working on a laptop, check the windowBoundingRect property. You may have to set that to a la

Re: Tablet Compatibility

Hi Vjay, Here we use increasingly Tablet PCs and the Revolution applications we develop are unfortunately not automatically compatible. Any work or development in this direction? Or is there something we should do in our applications to enable it? There is a Bugzilla request for TPC compliance

Re: card rect problem

J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham wrote: I can't figure out what could make the card height different from the stack height. I can't set the height of the card to fix it. I can't think of much either, but since you are working on a laptop, check the windowBoundingRect property. You may hav

ReVideoGrabber

Hi all, I recently filed a bugreport concerning some inconveniences of the ReVideoGrabber on OS X with QT 7.1.3. Maybe these facts and observations are useful to you, too: http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=3921 Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de _

U3 Serial Number

How does one get the serial number of a U3 thumb drive? I'd like to have a stack check to be sure it is on a specific U3 devise before opening. Thanks in advance. Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit th

Re: Careful

Hi Jacque, you got it almost right: bullock: noun a castrated male bovine animal raised for beef. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engin

Re: Careful

Rats! I have a bunch of script comments along the lines of --and now the squirrel hides his nuts in the ground Sure hope the search engine does not put me high on the abusive hit list. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 10/26/06 8:36 AM, "Luis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's what squirrels like... > >

Re: intersect()

Recently, Marty Billingsley wrote: > I seem to remember using the intersect() function before, where it > returned false if one object was intersecting a transparent part of > an image (don't remember if the image was a png or a gif). Now I > can't seem to get that to work. Is there something I

Re: RevVideoGrabber

Hi Klaus: You reported: --- 4. Broken functionality "revvideograbsettings" works fine but "revSetvideograbsettings" does not! Saved setting are NOT loaded, neither from a variable nor from a binary file nor a custom property. So you have to "revVideoGrabDialog" everytime you want

Re: RevVideoGrabber

Hi Richard, Hi Klaus: You reported: --- 4. Broken functionality "revvideograbsettings" works fine but "revSetvideograbsettings" does not! Saved setting are NOT loaded, neither from a variable nor from a binary file nor a custom property. So you have to "revVideoGrabDialog" ever

Re: Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

Hi Mark Well, it looks like you are doing a lot of unnecessary stuff. If you want to 'quit', all pendingMessages will terminate and all stacks will close automatically. If I read you right you need you only need... on closeStackRequest -- confirm whether to close the window answer question

Re: Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

Hi Hugh, On Windows, you need to cancel pending messages, close all stack, stop externals and stop running handlers to make sure that your application really quits. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your

Careful

Bullocks are, indeed, castrated bulls (other words for them are: steers, stirks) - but the same word spelt with an 'O' rather than a 'U' refers to testicles. Personally, I don't really give a "bucket of boks" what people write in their code if: 1. it works and 2. it doesn't eat up so many p

Re: Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: On Windows, you need to cancel pending messages, close all stack, stop externals and stop running handlers to make sure that your application really quits. I understand cancel pending messages and close all stacks, but I'll a little c

Getting IP Address of Machine that is Currently Running the Stack

I have done the obvious thing: I have lifted the scripts out of this recent thread and combined them in a stack which I have just uploaded to RevOnline: IP Addresser Credit IS given. Love, Richmond I have just read and signed the on

Re: RevVideoGrabber

Klaus, Just did a test on an older G4 IBook we have using the latest version of Rev Enterprise, OS 10.3.9, and Quicktime 6.5.2. Both functions worked perfectly. No problem saving and recalling video settings (from binary files) or switching between two firewire cameras (Unibrain Fire-I ca

Re: Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

I tried stripping things down to this script. Then after that wouldn't work I inserted a script to cancel pending messages, still no good. That leaves, in my mind, the question of running externals. Would having an opend connection to an sQL database through the alt3SQL dll cause this hang? I t

Re: RevVideoGrabber

Hi Richard, Klaus, Just did a test on an older G4 IBook we have using the latest version of Rev Enterprise, OS 10.3.9, and Quicktime 6.5.2. Both functions worked perfectly. No problem saving and recalling video settings (from binary files) or switching between two firewire cameras (Unib

Re: Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

On Oct 26, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Mark MacKenzie wrote: I tried stripping things down to this script. Then after that wouldn't work I inserted a script to cancel pending messages, still no good. That leaves, in my mind, the question of running externals. Would having an opend connection to an

JPEG files - how to read and write

Hi, I am exploring the possibility of using Revolution to read and write JPEG files. However, I can't seem to find much information about this. I know it can be done with other languages such as Director and Perl quite easily, but they both lack the rapid development qualities of Revolutio

Re: Careful

On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Better be careful what you put in your scripts: I would hope that my comments in delivered scripts help in the use and maintenance of the script and is free of offense and hurt, free of any indication or misreading that I intend to hurt

Re: JPEG files - how to read and write

Hi James, Just check your the export command in the docs. You also might want to read about the JPEGQuality property. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Sto

Re: Shell

On 10/21/06 10:33 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > put "#!/bin/sh" & cr into tScript > put "pw=" & quote & tPass & quote & cr after tScript > put "echo $pw | sudo -S - postgres" & cr after tScript > put "/usr/local/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -i" & cr after tScript > p

Re: [OT] - Careful

Hi, I didn't find an explanation for the singular form of the word in three different dictionaries and got the impression it is not part of what is generally accepted as correct English. I guess it makes sense to use the plural form only :-) Jacque was obviously right. Best, Mark -- Ec

Re: [OT] Careful

Dar Scott wrote: > I fully recognize that some are offended by the use of some words and > respect that. Indeed, I am offended at times myself, especially by > profane crudity or statist talk. Yet, I might use words in describing a > script, such as "environment", "market", "bid", "bet", "trade

Re: Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

Hello Devin. Not having much luck so far I stripped the close handler to the following: on closeStackRequest -- confirm whether to close the window answer question "Are you sure you want to quit the entire program?" with "Yes" or "No" if it is "Yes" then quit end if end closeStackRequ

Re: U3 Serial Number

Hi Paul - Check this out: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user/86313/match=u3 You'll find an answer. (There's a '$U3_DEVICE_SERIAL' item in the globals.) Phil Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one get the serial number of a U3 thumb drive? I'd like to have a stack c

can't play audio

I can no longer play audio with Rev 2.74 or 2.61 on my MacBook Pro. My operating system is 10.4.8. All other applications on my computer are playing audio correctly. So far, we have tried re-installing Rev 2.74, discarding preferences, repairing permissions, and clearing caches. Any sugges

Re: can't play audio

Claire Bradin Siskin wrote: I can no longer play audio with Rev 2.74 or 2.61 on my MacBook Pro. My operating system is 10.4.8. All other applications on my computer are playing audio correctly. So far, we have tried re-installing Rev 2.74, discarding preferences, repairing permissions, and

Re: U3 Serial Number

Thanks Phil (and Malte, and Chipp for asking the original question). Next question ... how does one retrieve this serial number? Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an

Re: Standalone app as Frankensteinian Monster

On 10/26/06 8:48 PM, "Mark MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Devin. Not having much luck so far I stripped the close handler > to the following: > > > on closeStackRequest -- confirm whether to close the window > answer question "Are you sure you want to quit the entire program?"

Re: U3 Serial Number

On 10/26/06 10:35 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Phil (and Malte, and Chipp for asking the original question). > Next question ... how does one retrieve this serial number? It's an environment variable so all you need to do is: put $U3_DEVICE_SERIAL into tSerialNum

Re: can't play audio

If this is an issue end-users are going to have with standalones, is there any way to check this situation and give feedback from within the standalone so that a user will know how and where to change the settings back? It's one thing for a developer to have to figure this out, but an end

Re: [OT] Careful

> What I do want to know is how long it took you to type all those quotation > marks. Isn't it obvious? on mouseup put quote into fld 2 repeat for each word loadedWord in fld 1 put loadedWord & quote & comma & space & quote after fld 2 end repeat put empty into char -1 of fld 2 end m