Re: Great things about Rev

2006-11-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
I was thinking some more about what makes development with Rev so different for me, and why I find it so rewarding. I've done lots of Java programming, web development, and Lotus Notes (Java, VB). Often the tools in those environments are expensive and/ or unwieldy. The development cycle

Rev_rant

2006-11-08 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Kay C Lan wrote: we wouldn't want anyone else joining Richmond as a recipient of the UserList Medal of Dishonour;-) OOO! When's the presentation? Wouldn't want to miss it :) or, as my English Granny once said; Sh*t sticks. And, as I seem to have won this award I would like to make a

Re: Rev_rant

2006-11-08 Thread Marielle Lange
On 8 Nov 2006, at 02:35, Kay C Lan wrote: [...] as a recipient of the UserList Medal of Dishonour;-) On 7 Nov 2006, at 18:27, Heather Nagey wrote: The rules of participation in this list include courtesy and tolerance of each other. It is not a venue to make personal attacks of any kind,

[OT] Atonement . . .

2006-11-08 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I am thinking of authoring a fat and authoritative volume entitled: The Scape Goat in World Literature and the Runtime Revolution User List :) However, while you are all saving up the money to buy it (Mind you I might send Luis and Bill Marriott signed copies) you can all go and join my Yahoo

try/catch -- deciphering error code numbers when caught

2006-11-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
I was sure I saw a discussion about this on the list in the past year, but I can't find it. Does anyone remember that discussion, and could possibly provide a pointer to it. Thanks, Bernard ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: try/catch -- deciphering error code numbers when caught

2006-11-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bernard, I wrote a shareware library to solve this problem, including error logging to files and several ways to display errors, including your own custom dialogs with parsed error information. You can find it in the developers section of the Economy-x-Talk homepage. Best, Mark --

strange thing with Rev cgi

2006-11-08 Thread jbv
Hi list, I have a Rev cgi script that builds javascript data (mostly large 2 dimensions arrays : typically 200 rows 500 cols), then replaces some keywords with these js data in a HTML template file before pushing the content to the client browser. Today, I suddenly got a code 500 error when

[OT] Life and attitudes on the UR-List

2006-11-08 Thread Robert John Warren
Dear Colleagues, There is an article at my private site called Brazil: Heaven or Hell - http://www.bobsite.org/brazil/ - which some of you might be interested in. It was written many years ago while I was still struggling to understand life and attitudes in Brazil (my adopted country). Were I

Re: try/catch -- deciphering error code numbers when caught

2006-11-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Thanks, Mark. I downloaded it and it seems to do what I want. It certainly makes sense out of the cryptic error codes that the engine throws. I was just going to complain about the error numbers thrown by the engine as being undocumented when I found this in the dictionary for the

Re: Rev_rant

2006-11-08 Thread Heather Nagey
Dear Folks, On 8 Nov 2006, at 09:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Love, Abuse and other muffled noises, Richmond :) LOL. Thank you. I needed a laugh this morning. God bless Richmond, our inhouse Exasperation De-Luxe. You may keep the medal for now and remember, list membership is a

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

2006-11-08 Thread Luis
Thank you for reading my post fully. Cheers, Luis. Chipp Walters wrote: Wow, so it appears Luis is taking time to admonish Rev Support based on another person's experience, even though his own experience has been documented as more than reasonable (by Rev's standards). I certainly do not

Re: Great things about Rev

2006-11-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On 11/8/06, Bernard Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was recently doing some Applescript/Filemaker integration for a client. I'd never touched either before, and I was quite shocked at the lack of documentation,... Ughh tell me about it. Finally got an AppleScript to work that's been so

Re: Great things about Rev

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 11/8/06, Bernard Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was recently doing some Applescript/Filemaker integration for a client. I'd never touched either before, and I was quite shocked at the lack of documentation,... Ughh tell me about it. Finally got an AppleScript to work that's been so

Re: Great things about Rev

2006-11-08 Thread Jim Ault
On 11/8/06 6:35 AM, Kay C Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/06, Bernard Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was recently doing some Applescript/Filemaker integration for a client. I'd never touched either before, and I was quite shocked at the lack of documentation,... Ughh tell me about

Newbie information and list attitude

2006-11-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I looked into this forum for some time before chiming in. I stayed with this forum because I liked what I saw (even if many of the forum topics go over my head). I read you religiously every day (and store info that is in my field of interest). I have benefitted enormously from

playStart message?

2006-11-08 Thread David Bovill
For player controlls we have a playStop and a playPaused message but no playStart? So how do you tell if a user has clicked on the moviecontroller to start a movie? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: playStart message?

2006-11-08 Thread Klaus Major
Hi David, For player controlls we have a playStop and a playPaused message but no playStart? So how do you tell if a user has clicked on the moviecontroller to start a movie? you're almost there, check the playstartED message :-) Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: playStart message?

2006-11-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi David, According to the docs, you can start a player with start player 1 start player The Player Name 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 software.

Go Stack URL

2006-11-08 Thread jhonken
How would you catch an error with the Go Stack URL if the URL was non existant would you use the URLStatus? Also can you combine the Go Stack URL with the URLStatus and feed it to a progrress bar? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jeff ___

Re: Go Stack URL

2006-11-08 Thread Dave Cragg
On 8 Nov 2006, at 22:04, jhonken wrote: How would you catch an error with the Go Stack URL if the URL was non existant would you use the URLStatus? Also can you combine the Go Stack URL with the URLStatus and feed it to a progrress bar? You won't be able to use urlStatus, but you can

Re: playStart message?

2006-11-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Apologies, wrong answer :-) Please ignore my previous message. I was going to write that Klaus is right, but I can't find the playStarted message in the docs?! Mark Op 8-nov-2006, om 23:01 heeft Mark Schonewille het volgende geschreven: Hi David, According to the docs, you can start a

Re: Great things about Rev

2006-11-08 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Thanks Bernard. I was away for a while and came back to quite a shock. After having read through such a mess of negative emails, it was great to end up with yours. Regards, Sarah On 11/8/06, Bernard Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what is the cause of so much negativity on the

Re: Rev_rant

2006-11-08 Thread Josh Mellicker
Here is another newbie opinion: Rather than comparing Rev to some ideal perfect dev solution (by the way, what is the name of that?), to me, the only pragmatic view is comparing it to other available options. I have worked with (mostly past versions of) Flash, RealBasic, Xcode, Director,

Re: playStart message?

2006-11-08 Thread David Bovill
Thanks all - really think this one should be documented! On 08/11/06, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies, wrong answer :-) Please ignore my previous message. I was going to write that Klaus is right, but I can't find the playStarted message in the docs?! Mark Op

Re: Rev_rant

2006-11-08 Thread Dan Shafer
As the folks on this list who know me understand quite well, I work with a number of different tool sets depending on the problem I'm trying to solve, the deployment environment called for, and other variables. For the problems for which it is the appropriate solution -- and the size of that set

Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-08 Thread Kay C Lan
Well folks with the opportunity to spend all yesterday scripting, what did I do. I went bug hunting. I've never submitted a bug into Bugzilla but I felt it was time I stepped up and gave it a shot so I went after the 'IDE anomaly' that irks me most. The occasional failure of the IDE to paste the