[ANN] Splitter Bar Object 1.0.0

2006-11-03 Thread Shao Sean
Allows you to have resizable views in your application. To quote Apple: A split view groups together two or more other views, such as column or list views, and allows the user to adjust the relative width or height of those views. A split view includes a splitter bar between each of its

Re: Link text style -- bug or feature ?

2006-11-03 Thread André.Bisseret
Hi, As far as I am concerned, I have fields whose textStyle is set to link, but I am using the mouseUp however. The reason why I am using the link textStyle for some fields is that I think the user understand immediately that the lines are clickable. Up to now, I did not notice that there

Corrupted Files in OS X

2006-11-03 Thread andreas
Hello Gregory propably the same happens within my setup. I'm using a shared folder on a Windows 2003 server. This has rw permissions. However, I end up with a file that has the .revtilde extension. Then my runrev app freezes. I see, you wrote this long ago - so perhaps you know what you did to

re: [ANN] Splitter Bar Object 1.0.0

2006-11-03 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi Shaosean, Thanks for this widget. I was just thinking I would need to develop something like this for a project I'm working on. Whilst I was at your site, I downloaded the other widgets - some nice ones there too (I can see the filter field being useful). However, when I looked at

Re: rev~ file extension ?

2006-11-03 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
Hi Andreas, it happened that few days ago I looked through the rev site and documentation on crashes of the IDE and damaged stacks. I experience them quite regularly throughout the development cycle, so now I am doing up to 17 backups per day in case stack gets damaged. Now can not remember the

Re: Audio problem... loud static

2006-11-03 Thread andreas
Hello Mark I hope I didn't gave your subject a new title. Excuse me! Never create a new subject by copying an old mail To your subject. I experienced the same thing as you did. In my project I use .wav. files. Those work well with Crossplatform projects. Are you shure, Metacard

Re: rev~ file extension ?

2006-11-03 Thread andreas
Thanks for your hint, Viktoras I hope Runrev will use the correct file, after a crash - it should! - and distinguish them by fileextension. Yes, they are crash files I think, too. So my problem occures before this file is generated. Kind regards Andreas Stämpfli Am 03.11.2006 um 10:13

User Interface Font Sizes

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Alcibiades
How does Revolution pick which fonts it uses for the user interface and how does one change them? For example, if I look at the reference documentation - dictionary, it is displaying on my screen with font size 6 or so. Maybe less. Just about readable with an effort, but needs reading

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

2006-11-03 Thread Luis
Hershel Fisch wrote: When I bought Rev, what, a month or so ago, I had a problem. Sure, I was getting to grips with it, but I couldn't understand why it was behaving that way. As my first port of call, as a new user, I emailed Rev support: What I got back was a possible indicator as to the

Re: rev~ file extension ?

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Andreas, If you want to use the older backup *.rev~, you need to remove the original file that was saved by Revolution and rename the backup into *.rev. Probably, you keep crashing because you are using a corrupt file. Hopefully, the backup is still the original valid file. Best,

[ANN] The Scripter's Scrapbook at Half Price

2006-11-03 Thread FlexibleLearning
-- The Scripter's Scrapbook - Half Price - (This is a Revolution Users Only special price, valid until 13 November 2006) Download the starter-kit of your choice with over 200 code

Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin

2006-11-03 Thread Luis
That '1 cent' just went up in value in my books! Cheers, Luis. Viktoras Didziulis wrote: let's hope somebody will do this within the next 5 years ;-). I wonder why Rev attracted so few Open Source developers and people willing to share their code. Collection of freely available and reusable

Re: Corrupted Files in OS X

2006-11-03 Thread Luis
I've had files affected in this way when on Windows systems: Try putting the .rev file in the Anti-Virus exclusion list and see if that sorts it out. Cheers, Luis. andreas wrote: Hello Gregory propably the same happens within my setup. I'm using a shared folder on a Windows 2003 server.

Re: rev~ file extension ?

2006-11-03 Thread Dave Cragg
On 3 Nov 2006, at 07:19, andreas wrote: Hello in short: does someone know what the file extension rev~ means? I have the strange feeling that this file crashes my application. Rev creates those files when it does a save. From memory (not very good), it first renames the current file

Re: RevCon - How To Increase Rev Profile

2006-11-03 Thread Adrian Williams
Ditto Luis... Adrian On 2 Nov 2006, at 10:05, Luis wrote: Maybe, just maybe, getting bugs fixed would do the trick. Happier developers not hampered by the environment, less likely to move to another environment and releasing more software (ie: more productive). Cheers, Luis. Kay C Lan

Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Bump
Like I said before, if you'd like to see the development of a Revolution Plugin or ActiveX object for Web Browsers then get on BugZilla or STSRevZilla and vote for Bug #3940. http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=3940 Thanks to all those who have voted already! Derek Bump

Re: Audio problem... loud static

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Swindell
Duh. Nope, you're right, no MP3 support. I assumed it would since MP3 is perhaps the most popular audio compression scheme on the planet, it handles them perfectly as files, and utilizes Quicktime. Mark On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:25 AM, andreas wrote: Hello Mark I hope I didn't gave your

Trouble with sub stacks

2006-11-03 Thread Dave Herndon
I have a mainstack that serves as the main view of my database and I edit the database by hiding and showing modal substacks. When I hide the substack I am able to use the command. on mouseUp hide stack EditWindowSubstack go to card 1 of stack mainstack

Re: Linux standalone

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin Brooks
Thanks all for the information. My need is not immediate (famous last words), so I can wait until the next release, assuming it will come sometime in the first half of 2007. Does anyone have a clue about timing? Just a ballpark would be nice. -Kevin Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:31:30 +

How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi all, My bringing this up isnt implying that we are shipping anything tommorrow but, Im interested in your feedback regarding browser interaction with Revolution. WHAT WE HAVE. Here is a short list of what we can do/is done and probably could be improved (if Im missing something, feel free to

Re: Trouble with sub stacks

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dave, Possibly, the problem is that although you hide the substack, it is still open and its style is still modal. Because it is modal, it probably blocks sent messages. Can't you just close the stack or use a different window style? Or call the handler directly instead of using the

Re: How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Lynn, You might want to look into Tyler Vano's very promising jsCard about which he wrote on the HyperCard list. 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 Store

Re: RevCon - How To Increase Rev Profile

2006-11-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On 11/3/06, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ditto Luis... Adrian Guys, you've gotta lighten up a little:-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Bump
Lynn, Well it seems to me that there is 1 other option that may be viable. A protocol loader much like html or ftp, or even a MIME type that is setup in the system. rev://www.somesite.com/stack.rev Much like iTunes, and very easy to implement, would consist of the very same Dreamcard

Re: How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
There's STILL a Hypercard list?? Wow. Lynn, You might want to look into Tyler Vano's very promising jsCard about which he wrote on the HyperCard list. Best, Mark -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___

Re: Dollars vs Pounds

2006-11-03 Thread Kay C Lan
Yes, I do realise that the IP address is taken into account. It's not so much that I'm being charged in £'s, I wouldn't care if it was sheckles, shindarkles or south pacific pesos, just so long as the exchange rate to clams on my Visa statement is 'roughly' the same. Xavier, who posted to me

ANN penTool 0.3.2g

2006-11-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, Download the Palette penTool 0.3.2g http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/penToolv032g.zip This version runs in Linux, without producing a recursion limit exceed. :D Check these screenshots: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/penTool_Linux.zip If your time permits, send me

ANN Mask bitmaps 02

2006-11-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, Download the stack Mask bitmap 02, http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/mask_bitmap02.zip This version includes the option to crop the image while masking. For reasons unknow to me, this process of masking and cropping works intermitently. i´m still investigating why it´s so, but if

Apologies for my complaints

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Bump
I just downloaded the update to iTunes and quickly realized 1 thing. Every time I update iTunes I have to reset the QuickTime settings to remove the system tray icon and enable Flash... Every time... and Apple still hasn't fixed this bug. In the past I have voiced my negative opinions on

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

2006-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Luis wrote: Hershel Fisch wrote: And when I bought my copy in the beginning and paid for support and didn't any answers only after resending my questions several times and waiting a week or two and a few times didn't receive any respond at all I don't that¹s any better. That's bad!! Did

Re: User Interface Font Sizes

2006-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: How does Revolution pick which fonts it uses for the user interface and how does one change them? For example, if I look at the reference documentation - dictionary, it is displaying on my screen with font size 6 or so. Maybe less. Just about readable with an

File paths in web-based stacks

2006-11-03 Thread Devin Asay
Greetings earthlings! I am teaching my students about launching stacks from a web server using 'go stack url ...'. I mentioned to them that they can launch any stack on any web server as long as they know the URL (and assuming permissions are set correctly, etc.) But I ran into a

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

2006-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: So I can't stress enough: if you do not receive a reply from tech support, we didn't get your note. I forgot to list the most common reason that a customer may not get a reply from tech support. This reason is probably the number one issue, and I can't believe I

Re: File paths in web-based stacks

2006-11-03 Thread Jim Ault
Of course, when you read your stack from a web server, it resides completely in memory, so the filename is empty. So the routine above does nothing. The defaultFolder is the one with the Rev app at startup. You could start there and get the user name and path to that folder, then create a

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Smith
Kay, I meant to check this out when I saw your post, but it's taken me a little time to get to it. I'm pretty sure that for multiple choice situations, a switch structure seems more efficient (ie. faster) than an equivalent multi-way if-then-else structure. I'd be interested to see if you

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread André.Bisseret
Hi Mark, On Mac pro OS X 10.4.8 (2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo) I get : for if then else : 95-96 milliseconds for switch : 12-13 milliseconds Best regards from Grenoble André Le 3 nov. 06 à 20:14, Mark Smith a écrit : Kay, I meant to check this out when I saw your post, but it's taken me a

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Swindell
H. What do you do to amuse yourself while you're waiting? Mark On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:46 AM, André.Bisseret wrote: Hi Mark, On Mac pro OS X 10.4.8 (2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo) I get : for if then else : 95-96 milliseconds for switch : 12-13 milliseconds Best regards from Grenoble André

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Smith
Like me, he runs other benchmarks on another computer, of course! :) Mark On 3 Nov 2006, at 21:01, Mark Swindell wrote: H. What do you do to amuse yourself while you're waiting? Mark On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:46 AM, André.Bisseret wrote: Hi Mark, On Mac pro OS X 10.4.8 (2.16 GHz Intel

Re: File paths in web-based stacks

2006-11-03 Thread Devin Asay
On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Jim Ault wrote: Of course, when you read your stack from a web server, it resides completely in memory, so the filename is empty. So the routine above does nothing. The defaultFolder is the one with the Rev app at startup. You could start there and get the user

[ANN] Splitter Bar Object 1.0.0

2006-11-03 Thread Shao Sean
Thanks for the feedback Bernard, I did try to contact you off-list, but the domain part of your email didn't seem to resolve (could be an error on my end).. Anyways, on to my reply Thanks for this widget No problem :-) With the calendar widget, I notice that once a day has been selected

Re: Dollars vs Pounds

2006-11-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: It's not so much that I'm being charged in £'s, I wouldn't care if it was sheckles, shindarkles or south pacific pesos, just so long as the exchange rate to clams on my Visa statement is 'roughly' the same. There might be good reasons for

[ANN] The Scripter's Scrapbook at Half Price

2006-11-03 Thread FlexibleLearning
-- The Scripter's Scrapbook - Half Price - (This is a Revolution Users Only special price, valid until 13 November 2006) Download the starter-kit of your choice with over 200 code

Re: Dollars vs Pounds

2006-11-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Dar Scott wrote: This vast difference would certainly encourage customers to be virtually in the US, which is probably not what RunRev wants. Grishim's law applies, I think. I don't think Grishim's law can be wished away, or avoided by strong moralizing

Re: [ANN] The Scripter's Scrapbook at Half Price

2006-11-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
If anyone on this list doesn't have this valuable piece of software by this time, they should get it right now if they do any scripting at all. I use it every day that I read the list which is every day! Many many times a week I'll be clipping handlers and techniques of note while browsing

Re: Dollars vs Pounds

2006-11-03 Thread Robert Brenstein
Yes, I do realise that the IP address is taken into account. It's not so much that I'm being charged in £'s, I wouldn't care if it was sheckles, shindarkles or south pacific pesos, just so long as the exchange rate to clams on my Visa statement is 'roughly' the same. Xavier, who posted to me

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

2006-11-03 Thread Bill Marriott
Jacque, If you have spam filters in place, please whitelist runrev.com and be sure to send your question from an account with a working email address which you check regularly. There was a period from 2/9/2006 to 5/13/2006 in which I received absolutely NO email from Rev... including the

Re: How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Dan Shafer
Since I've made as much noise about this over the years as anyone, I figured I'd better not bypass this chance to provide what I hope is clear input on the subject. For me -- and this may well be overly simplistic -- there are three kinds of applications: desktop apps, browser apps and

Re: How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Dave Cragg
On 3 Nov 2006, at 22:06, Dan Shafer wrote: Flash is a terribly interesting DELIVERY platform for this class of apps but the development tools for creating such apps suck big time. There is clearly an opportunity here for a way to build an app in Rev and then compile it to Flash and

Re: Dollars vs Pounds

2006-11-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On 11/4/06, Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RR has in the past explained the dichotomy of pricing. Personally, I still wonder whether it is really necessary, particularly since the disparity between pricing in dollars and pounds is quite noticeable even before we Europeans are slapped

Re: How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Bernard Devlin
Just a small correction (or perhaps I misread this). Flex produces Flash ouput (as swf files). I thought Laszlo did the same, but perhaps it has options for AJAX output too. Hi Dave This year Laszlo decided to target AJAX/DHTML as a delivery mechanism. I've (occasionally) pointed out on this

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Kay C Lan
OK, I've basically run your scripts but instead of using your exact script and button method I've used Richard Gaskin's excellent revBench, part of his free Devolution tools. So this is what is in one field: put random(6) into tRandomNo if (tRandomNo = 1) then get 1 else if (tRandomNo = 2)

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 3, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Can't explain why, but if you, and others, are getting faster with Switch, then maybe in 'real' situations it is quicker, which makes me feel even better about using it more:-) I have been running some speed tests and the more I do the more I get

Re: How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Andre Garzia
Bernard, Although AJAX/DHTML is a very powerful thing, I think people on this list keep mixing things, liking comparing oranges to shoes. Revolution could not export Flash because Revolution feature set is something that is not available for flash, flash is a vector animation thing with

custom protocols ( Re: How Else to Interact with Browser)

2006-11-03 Thread Andre Garzia
Derek, that can be done now. My mac os x machine will treat any url such as x-dreamcard://www.somesite.com/stack.rev as belonging to the dreamcard player, it will load the stack there. This easy to do... I can give you some steps on how to set this up in case you need. Andre On Nov 3,

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 3, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: put random(6) into tRandomNo switch (tRandomNo) These tests involve numbers and Mark's tests involve numerals. Maybe that is a clue. -- Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: File paths in web-based stacks

2006-11-03 Thread Jim Ault
On 11/3/06 1:21 PM, Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my case, I have dozens of example stacks that I have created over the years for my classes, none of which were written with the idea that they would someday be called from a web server. Now that I'm starting to do that, I don't really

Re: [ANN] The Scripter's Scrapbook at Half Price

2006-11-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 11/3/06 3:08 PM, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone on this list doesn't have this valuable piece of software by this time, they should get it right now if they do any scripting at all. I wholeheartily agree! My Scrapbook has over 500 entries in it, and its has become an

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

2006-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Marriott wrote: There was a period from 2/9/2006 to 5/13/2006 in which I received absolutely NO email from Rev... including the use-rev list, support requests, trial key requests, marketing materials, everything. (Luckily I had the gmane newsgroup interface for the list.) The messages

Re: How Else to Interact with Browser (was Re: Revolution Web Browser Plugin)

2006-11-03 Thread Bernard Devlin
Andre, I really appreciate you writing such a long and thoughtful reply to this. Especially since you are in Malta, and English is not your first language. You really are an amazing individual (and thankfully quite indomitable). The issues you bring up are very pertinent. However (and

Re: [ANN] The Scripter's Scrapbook at Half Price

2006-11-03 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Thank Hugh, I have always meant to get into using Scripter's Scrapbook, but never got around to checking it out very much. This offer has provided the incentive I needed to get started. Happy birthday, Sarah On 11/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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

2006-11-03 Thread Bill Marriott
The most common cause for this is when a whole range of IP addresses is blacklisted by one of the various watchdog groups on the net. Some places will blacklist an entire range of IP addresses rather than take the time to identify the IP of a single spammer. (Some providers have gone as

Re: switch case question

2006-11-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On 11/4/06, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running some speed tests and the more I do the more I get confused. Yeah, I know what you mean. When I originally ran my comparisons (months ago) I expected the results to be pretty much the same. When it came back that If-then was

Re: Does a day start at 1:00 AM everwhere?

2006-11-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/28/06, Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did this recently for my brother-in-law who is counting down the days to retirement. Or head off on a couples mission:-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit