Re: Broadcasts On OS X

2007-01-11 Thread Luis
Hiya, .255 is usually used as the broadcast IP for any routers/routing in the network. The broadcast address is for _network broadcasts_. Change the IP address you're sending to so that it doesn't end in .222 or .0 Cheers, Luis. Bridger Maxwell wrote: Hey, Today I was trying to get

Re: Broadcasts On OS X - Oops!

2007-01-11 Thread Luis
That should have been 'doesn't end in .255' not .222 Cheers, Luis. Luis wrote: Hiya, .255 is usually used as the broadcast IP for any routers/routing in the network. The broadcast address is for _network broadcasts_. Change the IP address you're sending to so that it doesn't end in .222

Re: The best way to store arrays as text file?

2007-01-11 Thread David Bovill
Thanks. I know what you suggest is faster - but it would not work for complex data containing tabs for instance. I don't want this to break when a user tries to store something odd in the future, and as i use arrays for all sorts of things including htmlText and possible unicode In general

Re: Contents of a field to XML...

2007-01-11 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Jan - a couple of things. First I think Revs XML parser seems to complain with certian entities Auml; for instance - which surprised me - I am looking into it now - does anyone now what XML parser RunRe uses - thought it was XPAT based??? And anyone know what other entities / quirks cause

A couple of handlers...

2007-01-11 Thread David Bovill
As I am not much good at regular expressions I thought I would share my ignorance with others :) Here is the best I can do with regard to extracting links from htmltext in fields - they only work on a single line and they do not find links with variable whitespace as you may get in html web

Re: BUG: importing image files crash rev 2.7.5

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Marriott
Richard, Is there a plan to adopt the more common industry convention of simply Development, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Release? We already are using the Beta label as the public naming scheme for releases. But in the immediate future, the dp internal naming system is not going to go away. It's

Re: The best way to store arrays as text file?

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: I know what you suggest is faster - but it would not work for complex data containing tabs for instance. I don't want this to break when a user tries to store something odd in the future, and as i use arrays for all sorts of things including htmlText and possible unicode

Extracting text from PDF

2007-01-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Anyone here have an efficient algo for extracting text from PDFs? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution

Re: BUG: importing image files crash rev 2.7.5

2007-01-11 Thread Luis
A release date tagged onto the end of that would clear up most of the problems. Cheers, Luis. Bill Marriott wrote: Richard, Is there a plan to adopt the more common industry convention of simply Development, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Release? We already are using the Beta label as the public

Command to hide the tool palette

2007-01-11 Thread Stgoldberg
In a message dated 1/11/07 11:00:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The IDE stacks aren't generally listed there (you aren't really expected to mess with them,) but here is a handy trick:   put the short name of the mousestack This will put the name of the stack the mouse is currently

Re: A couple of handlers...

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Ault
On 1/11/07 5:14 AM, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I am not much good at regular expressions I thought I would share my ignorance with others :) Here is the best I can do with regard to extracting links from htmltext in fields - they only work on a single line and they do not find

Re: OMG!!!! Steve Jobs is launching the iPhone and it runs MacOS X.

2007-01-11 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Actually, Intel is saying it is NOT providing the processor and this article says it is Samsung: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/1/10/6569 At 04:34 PM 1/9/2007, you wrote: I've got my fingers crossed but if Apple opens up the iPhone to apps other than widgets I will be in

Re: Broadcasts On OS X - Oops!

2007-01-11 Thread Brent Anderson
Hello. I think that the point was to use broadcasts not to use another address. I've found the same problem on OS X where when you write packets to a .255 address they don't get routed across the network, as if it were a regular address. In looking back on other threads on this subject,

Re: The best way to store arrays as text file?

2007-01-11 Thread Bernard Devlin
David said: In general no delimiter is completely safe - safest would be XML is my guess - all though I was wandering about JSON as it is simpler. I'm with Richard on this. The ASCII character set provides the following delimiters: (communication controls) SOH = start of heading STX =

Re: The best way to store arrays as text file?

2007-01-11 Thread Stephen Barncard
And then there is the NULL character - Ascii 0. also if you know the data is text - URLEncoding and Decoding will make almost any, especially non printable, char usable as a delimiter when used outside the encoded text. keyword{TAB}%3Cp%3E%3Cfont+size%[-URLENCODED

Re: Broadcasts On OS X - Oops!

2007-01-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
Brent Anderson wrote: Hello. I think that the point was to use broadcasts not to use another address. I've found the same problem on OS X where when you write packets to a .255 address they don't get routed across the network, as if it were a regular address. In looking back on other threads

Re: OMG!!!! Steve Jobs is launching the iPhone and it runs MacOS X.

2007-01-11 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Now that there is a 'smaller' version of OS X , I wonder if the releases will be named something like: Tabby, Calico, and Persian. :-) Or, with the new company name change, the new releases could be different varieties of apple. I'm looking forward to Granny Smith (aka 11.0.0). Roger Eller

Re: Broadcasts On OS X - Oops!

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Thursday, January 11, 2007, 9:56:01 AM, you wrote: It is certainly possible to send a broadcast packet from OSX (e.g. you can do ping 192.168.1.255 and it works correctly), but I don't know whether or not it is possible to do it from Rev. I'll play with it some more later tonight when

Re: The best way to store arrays as text file?

2007-01-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Bovill wrote: In general no delimiter is completely safe - safest would be XML is my guess Au contraire. :) I routinely use non-printing characters as delimiters because the user cannot type them. My favorites are numtochar(3) and numtochar(8) which are the enter and delete keys. They

Ways to get text from browser?

2007-01-11 Thread RGould8
Can anyone tell me the Applescript call to make in Revolution to retrieve the text that's presently in the browser window (either Safari or IE - - - I understand that Firefox is not Applescriptable yet) That is, unless I can use Altuit's browser inside Rev, but if I'm reading the runrev site

Re: Ways to get text from browser?

2007-01-11 Thread Andre Garzia
altBrowser is available for the mac since it's first version. I use it everyday. then you can just use the externals command to fetch the text. Andre On Jan 11, 2007, at 4:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the Applescript call to make in Revolution to retrieve the text

Re: Ways to get text from browser?

2007-01-11 Thread RGould8
Wow! That's great - - - I misread! In a message dated 1/11/07 1:54:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: altBrowser is available for the mac since it's first version. I use  it everyday. then you can just use the externals command to fetch the text. Andre On Jan 11, 2007, at 4:50 PM,

Re: Ways to get text from browser?

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Ault
On 1/11/07 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the Applescript call to make in Revolution to  retrieve the text that's presently in the browser window (either Safari or IE -  - - I understand that Firefox is not Applescriptable yet) You may not need this,

XML?

2007-01-11 Thread Brian Durney
Hello, I would like to write a stack that reads and displays data from an XML file. In the Revolution dictionary I found various functions and messages for working with XML. However, when I called the function revCreateXMLTreeFromFile, I got an error that said it couldn't find a

Re: Broadcasts On OS X - Oops!

2007-01-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi, As a workaround witch works for me with any Rev issues i still use (2.51 to 2.74) under the Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu or Solaris platforms : Build your stack under the Metacard (2.32 to 2.5 issues tested OK) first. Reopen and save this stack as stack.rev under the Rev environment

Re: XML?

2007-01-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Brian Durney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to write a stack that reads and displays data from an XML file. In the Revolution dictionary I found various functions and messages for working with XML. However, when I called the function revCreateXMLTreeFromFile, I

Vista heads-up

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Just got this on another listserv- Just as a note this path location will change under Vista. There is no 'Documents and Settings' folder under Windows Vista, unless they change the initial concept (It is now named 'Users'). I think the My Documents name changes as well. So don't hard code

Decode xml-data of mac-adressbook

2007-01-11 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, on Mac OSX I try to get the contents of the adressbook; for each adress there is a xml-file in /Users//Library/Caches/ com.apple.AdressBook/Metadata. The xml-file starts with ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? My adresses are german ones, so there are umlauts like äöü... If in

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2007-01-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here have an efficient algo for extracting text from PDFs? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Well, one would hope I know a thing or two about PDF files ;-) There are a couple of things that make this a challenge: text

Re: runrev export to pdf

2007-01-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Ian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Jan 2007, at 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question: Did Alejandro or anyone else continue working in pdf export from metacard or runrev? Any pdf lib abailable? Regards Franz Böhmisch Jan Schenkel has! His PDF library was

AltBrowser licensing/documentation

2007-01-11 Thread Brent Anderson
Hello. As we all know, RunRev has published the plugins from Altuit (altBrowser/Font/SQLite) to current Studio license holders via their newsletter. I downloaded the plugin pack and, after scouring Google caches for the documentation for altBrowser, I'm trying to get it online for

Re: XML?

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Ault
Can anyone tell me how to use the XML library, and are there examples of using it other than the fragments in the dictionary? Also you could save a bit of time, depending on your goals, by visiting http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/xmllib/xmllib.htm ...where there is a free Basic version

Re: Decode xml-data of mac-adressbook

2007-01-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- R. Hillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, on Mac OSX I try to get the contents of the adressbook; for each adress there is a xml-file in /Users//Library/Caches/ com.apple.AdressBook/Metadata. The xml-file starts with ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? My adresses are

Re: AltBrowser licensing/documentation

2007-01-11 Thread RGould8
I _just_ bought Rev Studio yesterday, so if there's a newsletter with instructions on where to download altBrowser, I'd love to know where it is. In a message dated 1/11/07 3:58:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. As we all know, RunRev has published the plugins from Altuit 

iPhone

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Wieder
All- The iPhone as a not.for.development.get.your.hands.off device: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/macworld2007/gizmodo-iphone-hands-on-part-deux-why-isnt-it-white-and-other-questions-227575.php ...and just out of curiosity, can anyone remember Apple announcing a product six months before the

Re: iPhone

2007-01-11 Thread Ian Wood
On 12 Jan 2007, at 00:14, Mark Wieder wrote: ...and just out of curiosity, can anyone remember Apple announcing a product six months before the announced shipping date? Best guess is that it would have been almost impossible to keep under wraps during the FCC approval process. Ian

Re: iPhone

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Smith
Mr. Jobs explains this in his key-note by saying that since it takes months to get all the necessary public licences (a fairly public process), they decided to announce it themselves, rather than effectively let the FCC (or whoever it is) do it for them. Or maybe he just couldn't wait :)

Re: Any way to use BlueTooth Flic barcode scanner in Rev?

2007-01-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.flicscanner.com/ I'd love to use this device with a Rev app I'm making if at all possible. I have no idea how to interface with BlueTooth technology, however. I picked up this one at Macworld to do some experiments.

Re: Any way to use BlueTooth Flic barcode scanner in Rev?

2007-01-11 Thread rgould8
That's great! I emailed them yesterday asking if I could obtain one as a developer, but I haven't heard back yet. I'm curious to know if the mini sends barcodes to Revolution as if you're using a keyboard, or if you have to write some special driver connections to get data out of it.

Re: iPhone

2007-01-11 Thread Dan Shafer
He announced Apple TV last fall, so there is some precedent. And the regulatory issues are certainly at the heart of this. That process is so leaky it's worse than a sieve. A sieve at least has some parts holding it together. Dan On 1/11/07, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Jobs

Re: Any way to use BlueTooth Flic barcode scanner in Rev?

2007-01-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to know if the mini sends barcodes to Revolution as if you're using a keyboard, or if you have to write some special driver connections to get data out of it. Here's the official word I got back from a representative: IntelliScanner mini is

Ed-Media/AACE CFP

2007-01-11 Thread Judy Perry
Hi all, The AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education) has just mailed out the 2nd round of CFP for its annual Ed-Media conference, which will be held in Vancouver, Canada, June 25-29, 2007. The final CFP is due April 12. You can find more details here:

Re: Any way to use BlueTooth Flic barcode scanner in Rev?

2007-01-11 Thread Scott Rossi
I'm curious to know if the mini sends barcodes to Revolution as if you're using a keyboard I'm still trying to get details on how to possibly connect the scanner output to Rev OK, it's pretty basic -- the scanner sends the barcode digits to any region on the screen that can accept text,

Re-2: AltBrowser licensing/documentation

2007-01-11 Thread runrev260805
Hi, i hope its ok, if i post the link where to enter license-key.After successfull verify of your license key you are directed to a site, where you can download the plugins. Unfortunately there is no documentation. So it might be a little difficult to use the plug-ins without that.