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

2006-11-04 Thread FlexibleLearning
Stephen Barncard 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. Ken Ray wrote: I wholeheartily agree! My Scrapbook has over 500 entries in it, and it has become an invaluable part of

Re: switch case question

2006-11-04 Thread André.Bisseret
Hi, I apologize ! Yesterday I was wrong about the time for switch ; I copied your script but did not uncomment it :-O) So, my result 12-13 millisec was not the right one. I am sorry ! After fixing, actually, here – for If then else : 94-96 – for switch : 50-52. As far as the tests of

INterfacing with Phidgets...

2006-11-04 Thread Beynon, Rob
Greetings, I wonder, from those who understand such things, how one would make Revolution talk to phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com/index.php), which are essentially little USB sensors/controllers etc. There are a whole set of libraries available, but I wonder which is the route of least

Re: switch case question

2006-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
This mirrors what I found, too. I'm at a loss as to why this might be. I guess the conclusion has to be that if speed matters in a particular application, then we must test things in context, and find out which approach works best in context. Best, Mark On 4 Nov 2006, at 10:25,

Re: INterfacing with Phidgets...

2006-11-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I wonder, from those who understand such things, how one would make Revolution talk to phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com/index.php), which are essentially little USB sensors/controllers etc. There are a whole set of libraries available, but I wonder which is the route of least resistance? I asked

Re: switch case question

2006-11-04 Thread André.Bisseret
Le 3 nov. 06 à 21:01, Mark Swindell a écrit : H. What do you do to amuse yourself while you're waiting? Mark I catch a glance to the sky: Running your tests, with if then else I saw 2 shooting stars; with the switch, only 1 ;-)) (well, I mean with the fixed scripts !). André On

The Scripter's Scrapbook: Order backlog

2006-11-04 Thread FlexibleLearning
If your order is not being processed immediately, do please bear with us... We are trying to keep up with demand here (the Scripter's Scrapbook has also now appeared on many software websites as well). Thank you all for your support. Remember that sharing is good for your community

EuroRevCon web gallery

2006-11-04 Thread Ian Wood
From sunny Malta! http://ianjameswood.co.uk/eurorevcon_2006/ Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

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

2006-11-04 Thread Marian Petrides
My sentiments exactly. Chalk up another order. Thanks and happy birthday, Hugh! Marian On Nov 3, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: 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

Re: Subject: Re: Stripping blank spaces before and after a word. Help

2006-11-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On 11/3/06, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have a good way to convert all text in a list to ALL CAPS? It would be nice to get a consistent look in the database. Here is the script I settled on. repeat with x = 1 to the number of items of MyList put word 1 to -1 of item x of

Annoying invisible background color.

2006-11-04 Thread Bill
Background color is gray but looks white. I thought this bug was fixed ages ago. If you try to print a card it comes out gray even though the background is set to white and it appears white. This is the special Scottish WYSIWY don't get -- I think. I read the posts here all the time and really

Re: Annoying invisible background color.

2006-11-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill wrote: Background color is gray but looks white. I thought this bug was fixed ages ago. If you try to print a card it comes out gray even though the background is set to white and it appears white. Is it merely the default appearance color, or is it truly SET to white. You can confirm

Re: INterfacing with Phidgets...

2006-11-04 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Dear Rob, FYI - There are other controllers out there that will work better from within Revolution. But, wIth out writing your own API for use in Rev ( You might have a problem with USB commands if Serial commands are not available) you might try to use the Phidgets API for

Re: Annoying invisible background color.

2006-11-04 Thread Bill
Thanks. It says in the property inspector that bath the stack background and the card background are white inherited. I ran your (nice and very quickly furnished) set the bockground color and now it says it is white and not just white inherited. Now I can print a nice white card. Maybe the name

Re: Getting data prepped for database entry.

2006-11-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On 11/3/06, Dave Herndon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if I can just check to see if the item is a number or a date and not do the single quote operation on those items I will be set. See my recent post against your original post Subject: Stripping blank spaces. It should give you

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

2006-11-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Bravo, Andre! For the first time, I get it. Your dissertation explains it all. You have defined all the acronyms and made it clear what we should be focusing on... this one goes into the scrapbook. Although AJAX/DHTML is a very powerful thing, I think people on this list keep mixing things,

Re: switch case question

2006-11-04 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 4, 2006, at 2:35 AM, Mark Smith wrote: This mirrors what I found, too. I'm at a loss as to why this might be. I guess the conclusion has to be that if speed matters in a particular application, then we must test things in context, and find out which approach works best in context.

Re: switch case question

2006-11-04 Thread Tereza Snyder
On Nov 4, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Dar Scott wrote: That looked suspicious. Sure enough, a number 6 will match a literal 6 in a case, but a string 6.0 will not match a literal 6 in a case. A string 6.0 will match a 6.0 case. A number 6 will not match a 6.0 in the case. To be clear: these

Re: INterfacing with Phidgets...

2006-11-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hey, this thing is cool... Well, they support all platforms and give away the API.. they made it work with RealBasic, Java, .Net, etc. If you're on a mac and the project demands this device, create an external..or have it made, then sell it as a product to others, or back to the Phidgets

Multiple sources in QT

2006-11-04 Thread Kevin Brooks
I've been using the Quicktime calls recently, thanks to the example code in the video capture stack. I don't need to capture video, just display it from a webcam - which works fine. Especially now that I discovered that Quicktime Broadcaster allows me to use the iSight as my webcam. But now I

Re: switch case question

2006-11-04 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Tereza Snyder wrote: That looked suspicious. Sure enough, a number 6 will match a literal 6 in a case, but a string 6.0 will not match a literal 6 in a case. A string 6.0 will match a 6.0 case. A number 6 will not match a 6.0 in the case. To be clear:

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

2006-11-04 Thread Derek Bump
Andre, Thank you for the offer, but I do know how to set that type of action up. It's just that, when I installed Revolution, that type of interaction was never setup. When I click a link to a Revolution stack in my browser, IE asks where I want to download the unknown file. Now one could

Group Problem

2006-11-04 Thread LunchnMeets
Hi Everyone, I'm using Mac OSX. I cut a group of fields and buttons from one stack and pasted it into another. However, I want that group in the new stack to appear on all existing and new cards. That's not happening. What did I do wrong? I checked off Act like background but that didn't do

Re: Group Problem

2006-11-04 Thread Dar Scott
On Nov 4, 2006, at 12:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cut a group of fields and buttons from one stack and pasted it into another. However, I want that group in the new stack to appear on all existing and new cards. That's not happening. What did I do wrong? I checked off Act like

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

2006-11-04 Thread FlexibleLearning
Wonderful to have you both on board, and thank you for the sentiments. And just in case 'newbies' feel it's only for old hands, the sooner you begin acquiring and organizing your own library of goodies, the easier recycling your electons will be. /H www.ssbk.co.uk Home of the Scripter's

Re: Group Problem

2006-11-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
I posted this 5 days ago: Create your button on the first card of your stack, select it, choose Group Selected from the Object menu and run the following script: put the short id of the last grp into myID -- following line shows grp if new cards -- are created afterwards set the bgBehavior

Re: EuroRevCon web gallery

2006-11-04 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks Ian! Wish I could be there - Phil Davis Ian Wood wrote: From sunny Malta! http://ianjameswood.co.uk/eurorevcon_2006/ Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

links again

2006-11-04 Thread Timothy Miller
As you might guess, I'm struggling with this topic -- links. I submitted a bz report that probably wasn't a bug. I asked a question on the list, thought I understood the helpful replies, but it turns out I don't understand very well after all. I've discovered several of my own misconceptions

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

2006-11-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
Well, I'm way out of my depth here so for Dan's .06 cents I can perhaps put in .01 cents. mostly musings... I'll state my bottom line first and then launch into a long dissertation: One way Revolution can look at the browser is the same way I look at Fed Ex. The browser is simply a facile

Re: links again

2006-11-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi TIm, Yes there is a way to do what you want, but it is a bit clumsy to implement. You need the property called linkText. However you cannot set it using the property inspector, so you have to set it manually, either using a button or the message box. I usually do it by entering the following