Re: Saving stack changes under Player

2006-12-20 Thread André.Bisseret
Yes, I had this problem with a previous version of Revolution Player ; It was necessary to set secure mode to false. But with the last version (2.7.1), it is simpler ; there is no possible setting any more and all is working well. André Le 20 déc. 06 à 00:42, Mark Swindell a écrit :

[ANN] Scripter's Scrapbook 5.27 Update

2006-12-20 Thread FlexibleLearning
www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk or www.ssBk.co.uk UPDATE AVAILABLE Thanks to feedback, an incremental update has been uploaded and is now available that includes an internal navigation Find palette, a more GUI-sympathetic Search filter as well as some welcome minor adjustments to behavior.

sorting table fields

2006-12-20 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
Hi and Seasons Greetings for all! are there any simple ways to do sort in table fields in Revolution like first sort by column A, then by column B, then by C... In a way it is done in MS Excell or Sun's Open Office spreadsheet... It is also quite straightforward in SQL, what about RevScript?

Re: Solstice salutations!

2006-12-20 Thread Scott Morrow
pass, fail... whatever Scott On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:31 PM, Judy Perry wrote: OTOH, There are, regrettably, those for whom proper usage of the language isn't even a priority. Heard last week during student presentations on the subject of the computer impact on society vis-a-vis

Re: Solstice salutations!

2006-12-20 Thread Kay C Lan
On 12/20/06, Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The student repeated the phrase at least three times. When I corrected him, he said, biopsy, autopsy.. whatever. Yes, but at least they are real words. Unlike quotes from a certain president that include: the possiblistics are endless and

Re: sorting table fields

2006-12-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
You can certainly do multi-column sorts by using a custom function applied to the sort line: on mouseUp sort lines of field table field by mySortKey(each) end mouseUp function mySortKey pLine --sorts by conjoining 2nd 3rd columns of a multicolumn table set the itemDel to tab return

Re: Report Builder

2006-12-20 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks Josh Mellicker and Sarah Reichelt for the heads up on Report Builder. Gregory ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: CPU timings

2006-12-20 Thread Graham Samuel
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:17:39 -0600, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Isn't a Pentium III/800Mhz a pretty old machine? Anyone know what's average out there in PC land? That is, if you were going to aim for a generic speed, what hardware would you use as a best-guess value?

Re: [ANN] Name Generator

2006-12-20 Thread David Glasgow
On 19 Dec 2006, at 11:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/namegen.rev; I tried this and generated 50 names. I don't believe they are random. I recognise them all from e-mails attempting to sell

[OT] Fun with icons on Linux

2006-12-20 Thread Robert John Warren
Richmond Mathewson wrote: For what its worth - my few thoughts: 1. Microsoft Windows has, for better or worse, successfully dominated the desktop market. 2. Linux, being a diffuse, amorphous thing (unlike a tightly centred organisation like Microsoft) has not pumped big bucks into an

Unicode text for buttons, etc

2006-12-20 Thread Carly J. Born
I'm new to using RunRev and so forgive me if this has been covered in a previous thread. I'm looking for a method of delivering what will potentially become a digital foreign language textbook, for which I need full Unicode support. I'm playing with the trial version and am having a hard

Windows titlebar question

2006-12-20 Thread jbv
Dear list, Is it possible to remove the standard ugly blue Windows border around a stack while keeping the title bar (with title, close box, etc), or at least change the color of that border + color of title bar ? I've tried every possible combination of decorations, but no luck... I also

Re: Windows titlebar question

2006-12-20 Thread Mark Smith
JB, not a windows expert, but I think the story is the same cross- platform. The window decorations are provided by the OS, rather than Rev itself, so unless you know how to hack your OS's window manager (I think there are tools out there for doing this), then setting the decorations to

Solstice salutations!

2006-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
seems to be sleeping (unlike Ebenezer who wants to work all the time) My favourite quote from 'revJournal' is; Many thanks this week to Sandy Beadle for her tutorial on using imported images in Rev. This week turns out to be 13th August 2005 methinks even Ebenezer needs a non-confrontational

Windows titlebar question

2006-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
At the risk of stating the obvious: the best way to get rid of the standard ugly blue Windows border around a stack is to install Linux and this is not as trivial as it seems . . . because unlike Windows, Linux offers a tremendous variety of Window managers and a large amount of Themes for

Re: Windows titlebar question

2006-12-20 Thread jbv
Richmond, Very good suggestion, but the app I'm working for will be distributed to hundreds of doctors... I just can't imagine adding a prompt saying in order to run this app, please install Linux first... JB At the risk of stating the obvious: the best way to get rid of the standard ugly

Question on Value Function

2006-12-20 Thread Dave
Hi All, I am calling a function in another stack using the value function. This code work great: get value(Initialize( myEnableFlag ), myStackFileName) But how can I add another parameter to the call? The following gives an execution error: get value(Initialize( myEnableFlag

Re: Unicode text for buttons, etc

2006-12-20 Thread Devin Asay
On Dec 20, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Carly J. Born wrote: I'm new to using RunRev and so forgive me if this has been covered in a previous thread. No worries, Carly. Unicode is a puzzlement to almost everyone when they first start to use it. One key to remember is that Revolution's unicode is

Combining encrypted data

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Miller
How do I combine three separate binary files of encrypted data into one file so that I can later retrieve the three distinct pieces of data from this one file and decrypt each? is there a particular delimiting character to be used? Char 13 doesn't seem to be it. Thanks. Richard Miller

Re: Unicode text for buttons, etc

2006-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Carly J. Born, 1) you can use unicode in runrev. Please search the docu for unicode* and read the info about uniDecode,uniEncode,useunicode,UTF8,UTF16 etc. 2) on win I can use any language if I select the language on the system bar for fonts and languages or use the charmap (just execute

Re: Windows titlebar question

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond Mathewson wrote: because unlike Windows, Linux offers a tremendous variety of Window managers and a large amount of Themes for each Window manager. This means that you can hack your Linux interface to pieces and back again, making your own, entirely individualistic GUI which is not

Re: Combining encrypted data

2006-12-20 Thread Mark Smith
The easiest way would probably be to base64Encode the three files (creates an ascii representation of the binary data) and store them 1 per line in a text file. Other than that, you might put 3 binary numbers at the start of the file representing their lengths, and then calculate offsets

Re: Solstice salutations!

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: My favourite quote from 'revJournal' is; Many thanks this week to Sandy Beadle for her tutorial on using imported images in Rev. This week turns out to be 13th August 2005 There are those who believe the entire astrophysical history of our universe took place in a single

Windows titlebar question

2006-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sorry, jbv! How about using a custom shape - a white square / rectangle say, and a 2 bit mask? You can then make a fake title-bar at the top then you should not have the unpleasant borders . . . see WINDOWSHAPE in the documentation sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

Re: Combining encrypted data

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Miller
Thanks, Mark. That worked fine. Richard On Dec 20, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Mark Smith wrote: The easiest way would probably be to base64Encode the three files (creates an ascii representation of the binary data) and store them 1 per line in a text file. Other than that, you might put 3 binary

Re: Windows titlebar question

2006-12-20 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, jbv wrote: Is it possible to remove the standard ugly blue Windows border around a stack while keeping the title bar (with title, close box, etc), Really the only way to do this is to create your own titlebar/frame and controls. The only gotcha I've personally run into is if someone

Re: sorting table fields

2006-12-20 Thread Jim Ault
On 12/20/06 2:02 AM, Viktoras Didziulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are there any simple ways to do sort in table fields in Revolution like first sort by column A, then by column B, then by C... In a way it is done in MS Excell or Sun's Open Office spreadsheet... It is also quite

Re: sorting table fields

2006-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Viktoras Didziulis wrote: Hi and Seasons Greetings for all! are there any simple ways to do sort in table fields in Revolution like first sort by column A, then by column B, then by C... Table fields are just regular fields with tabs between the data. So you can set the itemdelimiter to

Re: Solstice salutations!

2006-12-20 Thread Todd Higgins
I don't want to interject politics into this discussion, but I received the following holiday greeting and I thought I would pass it along as it may help other craft an appropriate end of the year greeting. ;-) For My Democratic Friends: Please accept with no obligation, explicit or

Solstice solicitations!

2006-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, Todd Higgins has put his foot right in it- which, by long-time habit is my prerogative on the RR use-list :) I am not a Republican in the sense I think he means to use that word; i.e. a supporter of the Republican party in the United States of America. I also feel that his long-winded

Themes for MSWindows

2006-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I am aware that there are themes for Windows. I was forced to do a lot of work with ToolBook (another headache in its own right) and Macromedia Director (which I enjoyed) on a Pentium 3 running Windows ME about 6 years ago in the United Arab Emirates - and coped with my rather irrational dislike

Re: INterfacing with Phidgets...

2006-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 6/11/06 16:33, Lynn Fredricks wrote: 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

Fonts on Linux yet again

2006-12-20 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I confess to being baffled by the following. Installed RR on my old Fedora Core 6 P3 laptop. The fonts work fine. But FC6 surely uses the most recent version of Xorg etc? So in that case, how come it works, if the explanation for its not working on Debian etch is that RR is using some old

The latest conventional wisdom on alternating stripes.

2006-12-20 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm starting a new project in 2.7 and seem to remember reading something about stripes in fields now being supported. I can certainly set a pattern for a field and see it scroll, but I can't seem to figure out how to match the pattern with the lineheight I'm using (11 point font on lineheight of

Re: The latest conventional wisdom on alternating stripes.

2006-12-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Answering my own question: Setting the top margin of a field (the second item in the margins) to a smaller number allows me to align the back image with the field. Sorry to bother. -Chipp On 12/20/06, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a better way to do this? Tried searching

Drawers in Tiger

2006-12-20 Thread Lars Brehmer
I haven't used drawers for a while, but I noticed that when I drawer a stack it doesn't slide out, rather it just appears where it should, but when I close it again, it slides in. I used drawers a lot back in Panther and they always worked as expected. I have, however noticed that sheets

Re: Question on Value Function

2006-12-20 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 4:21 PM + 12/20/2006, Dave wrote: Hi All, I am calling a function in another stack using the value function. This code work great: get value(Initialize( myEnableFlag ), myStackFileName) But how can I add another parameter to the call? The following gives an execution error:

Re: INterfacing with Phidgets...

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Barncard
And Phidgets are annoyingly PC-Centric!! (a) Phidgets are very cheap, compared with the other direct USB devices I've spotted (eg SERVICE USB) (and SERVICE USB is curiously Mac-centric). -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Drawers in Tiger

2006-12-20 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 12/21/06, Lars Brehmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't used drawers for a while, but I noticed that when I drawer a stack it doesn't slide out, rather it just appears where it should, but when I close it again, it slides in. I used drawers a lot back in Panther and they always worked as

Re: Drawers in Tiger

2006-12-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
No, drawers are still very broken in Rev 2.7.4. On the right side, they work fine. On the left side, dragging the drawer out to enlarge the window causes a gap between the main window and the drawer. Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: [OT] SheepShaver and printing...

2006-12-20 Thread Jim Carwardine
Hi Ken... I actually got around it about an hour ago. I downloaded PrintTpPdf (remember that one?) and put a PDF file on my handy dandy shared .dmg file and brought it back to my MB Pro and printed it. Worked like a champ and I can print on any printer I have now... Jim on 12/20/06 1:36 AM,

Mac OSX speech applescripts not active

2006-12-20 Thread Joshua Snyder
So, I now have applescript working to interact with my application, However, I want to use applescripts as Application spsific speakable items, now in order to do to do this, you simply create a folder within the speakable items folder that corresponds to the application name, and

Table Question

2006-12-20 Thread Charles Szasz
I have a table with six rows of three numbers each that are tab- delimited. The user can enter data directly into the table. My question how do you script to insert numbers that comes from data entry in a edit field to replace one of the numbers in a row? Charles Szasz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[MacOS X] How identify a bundle with 'the folders' command ?

2006-12-20 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, When i use the folders command, MacOS X bundle (.app, .key, .pages...) are listed as folder. How make the difference with real folders ? Thks. Ludovic http://www.botanic06.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com