Way to read from USB port with Rev (Bar Code Reader)

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Alcibiades
say, can you tell me which barcode reader you've tried this with? Sure, its a Datalogic Gryphon. Any reader which uses a Y cable to connect should work however. The only problem I can see with this method is that you have to ensure that the window in which your data is going to be entered

Image Libraries

2007-01-14 Thread Bob Earp
Does anybody know where there is some good documentation on the care and use of the Image Library ? The on-line documentation says see the Object Image Library section, but such a section does not seem to be included. Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, British Columbia

Re: Visibility Problem

2007-01-14 Thread Scott Morrow
Charles, Is the loc of the graph where it would be visible to your eyes? Inadvertently placing an object outside the rect of the card has messed me up more than a few times. -Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust !) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email

Re: Cron job w/ Rev CGI

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Marriott
Well, I figured out how to suppress the error messages. I can add a second parameter to the end of the crontab entry which redirects error messages to the file/directory of my choice. 2/dev/null So, the whole string is */15 * * * * /path/to/cgi/script.rev /dev/null 2/dev/null or

Re: Cron job w/ Rev CGI

2007-01-14 Thread Pierre Sahores
Bill, Did you try to upload empty files named with the lost libs names behind your Rev engine in your cgi-bin directory. Some times, it does the trick if i right remember the Jacque's CGI courses. Best, Le 14 janv. 07 à 13:35, Bill Marriott a écrit : The error seems to occur because the

Re: Ed-Media/AACE CFP

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Possibly Judy - we are looking to do some presentations with Internet 2, Re software and some EU and US universities... so keep us in touch? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Virtual Custom Property Sample - Recursion Limit Problem

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
On 12/01/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lock messages=true will mean the unwanted message will not be introduced into the hierarchy. Actually, I find little or no value to the getProp/setProp behavior and simply program a normal handler to do the task. Every time I think that getProp

Visibility Problem

2007-01-14 Thread Charles Szasz
Scott, Thanks for that suggestion! The loc is within rec of the card. I have found through further study that the two graphics (g7 and g8) are not receiving the data points except when the third graphic has it checkbox checked. And the data points are not the same for graphics 3 and 4.

Re: Visibility Problem

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
On 14/01/07, Charles Szasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to post a snippet of this code but because of its size it was not posted. Charles you can use a service like http://rafb.net/paste/ for this - then you just add the the url of the pasted code to the email?

Re: Virtual Custom Property Sample - Recursion Limit Problem

2007-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: 2) lock messages locks stops messages being sent and therefore any recursion, but is badly designed in that it also blocks the initial call to the getprop or setprop handler. This prevents a couple of very useful things you could do when you start to try to design reuseable

Re: Virtual Custom Property Sample - Recursion Limit Problem

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
On 14/01/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why if I do have a need to lock messages to prevent recursion in getProp/setProp I tend to do so inside the getProp/setProp handler, rather than in the handler that calls it. But more frequently I just use an internal name for any

Re: Virtual Custom Property Sample - Recursion Limit Problem

2007-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: Richard these are good techniques but only work for one level down and not in general. If you want a group to set the property of one of its elements (a sub-group) and allow this behavior to recurse down the chain until a group no longer supports that property yu are pretty

Re: Some thoughts on testings...

2007-01-14 Thread Rob Cozens
Andrew, Jacque, et al: - To be considered minimally adequate, the testing effort would have to detect the symptoms of all critical errors, and the symptoms of most, if not all, of the symptoms of all other errors. I propose that the job of the tester is to do at least minimally adequate

Gray Background on Printing

2007-01-14 Thread LunchnMeets
Hi Everyone, It seems the default background of a printed sheet is gray. How do I change it so it doesn’t have a colored background? Thanks in advance. Joe Orlando ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Display a text on a movie

2007-01-14 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, It's not possible to put a field on a movie (rev 2.6.1 on macOS X). But perhaps there is a workaround ? Thanks. Ludovic http://www.botanic06.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Virtual Custom Property Sample - Recursion Limit Problem

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
The aim is to release a re-useable component framework for Rev. A major part of this tool framework are views - which are MVC style components designed to replace or enhance the Rev Object Library. Views can be arbitrarily nested - so if you are constructing a complex layout you can take some

Re: Cron job w/ Rev CGI

2007-01-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Bill, also, if your CGI uses any environment variable that is only present during CGI execution time then this cron job will not work as expected. Invoking your CGI like this in a cron job will not have the same default folder as the apache cgi one nor it will have the friendly variables

Re: Gray Background on Printing

2007-01-14 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Joe, Go into the card's inspector and make sure in the Colors and patterns that the default background color is white, or a nearly so as possible. HTH, Also Joe, Wilkins On Jan 14, 2007, at 8:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, It seems the default background of a printed

Re: Display a text on a movie

2007-01-14 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Ludovic, Take your movie into iMovie. There you should be able to add text or all sorts. Save the movie and then use it in Rev. Obviously, I've never done this, but that's the beauty of Macs, everything usually works seamlessly together. Let me know if that does the trick. Joe Wilkins

Visibility Problem

2007-01-14 Thread Charles Szasz
At the suggestion of David Bovill, I have posted the complete graph code at http://rafb.net/paste/ Thanks David for telling me about this site! Charles Szasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Cron job w/ Rev CGI

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Marriott
That was one of the first things I tried; but I might not have put them in the right spots, because the errors still persisted. I tried the cgi-bin folder, the website root folder, and my home directory. Pierre Sahores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill, Did you

Re: Display a text on a movie

2007-01-14 Thread Ludovic Thébault
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:45:23 -0800, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Ludovic, Take your movie into iMovie. There you should be able to add text or all sorts. Save the movie and then use it in Rev. Obviously, I've never done this, but that's the beauty of Macs, everything usually works

Re: Display a text on a movie

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Yes - just make sure that the player has the alwaysbuffer set to true - then you can put whatever you want in front of it - you can even use inks and transparency if you want ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

How to cancel drag and drop when it is in progress?

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Is there a way for a script to cancel a drag and drop event while it is in progress? set the dragdata to empty Does not seem to work? Am I right that if a mouseDown handler starts a drag-and-drop - then a mouseUp event is not sent (a dragdrop may be sent instead) - but a mouseDoubleUp is

Visibility Problem - Correction

2007-01-14 Thread Charles Szasz
At the suggestion of David Bovill, I have posted the complete graph code at: http://rafb.net/p/QM5cAF36.html Charles Szasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Visibility Problem - Correction

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
OK - that was long :) Can't really spot anything... the only thing I can suggest is to debug it properly in stages: and cut out each possible cause one at a time. 1) It seems unlikely that it is an IDE issue as you are using ids - but exclude this by taking Chipps suggestion and write a little

Re: Some thoughts on testings...

2007-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Rob- Sunday, January 14, 2007, 8:37:25 AM, you wrote: Would anyone care to comment on the potential role of testers to: A. Point out where the operational manifestation of the specifications creates illogical or inappropriate user experiences and I think this is key to the user

Re: Some thoughts on testings...

2007-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Andrew- Saturday, January 13, 2007, 9:35:09 AM, you wrote: It is almost as if the managers know this. When testers point out errors, that slows down the development effort. Inadequate testing resources result in fewer errors being reported, and, consequently, faster development. ROTFL. One

Re: Virtual Custom Property Sample - Recursion Limit Problem

2007-01-14 Thread Bernard Devlin
David Bovill said: The arbitrary nesting is then achieved by a top level view just kowing its own components and given its own rect where to position a subview. In this way you get a nested series of views each with there own view_Rect handler. A resizeStack event triggers the top-evel

Re: Some thoughts on testings...

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Just to add to this thread - a little tangentially maybe - a lot further can be got within the Rev development community by using the community to develop robust components and libraries. By this I mean developer testing using something akin to the philosophy of open source development and unit

Visibility Problem Resolved!

2007-01-14 Thread Charles Szasz
The visibility problem that I was experiencing has been resolved! I am not really sure what the problem was in the script but after pasting the script of the first graph and making modifications in the script, the problem disappeared. Thanks to all who tried to help me on this problem!

Re: Virtual Custom Property Sample - Recursion Limit Problem

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Yes - if you want to take a look at the way I am going about it write to me off list - its pretty near finished and will be open sourced with a separate commercial license for those wanting to include the code in closed projects. The idea is for component developers to get a revenue share on

Gray background on printing

2007-01-14 Thread Charles Szasz
Joe, Put the following code in open stack: OpenStack set the backgroundcolor of this card to white end OpenStack Save it and close the stack and then reopen it and try printing. You can also the script in an opencard handler: openCard set the backgroundcolor of this card to white end

Setting the default source path for image controls

2007-01-14 Thread Bob Earp
First a rant, rave... call it what you will, maybe even me being more of a dufus these days after a recent birthday. Unfortunately I haven't had the luxury of spending a lot of time with Rev over the last year, and am just getting back into it, hence my reliance on its documentation, which has

Re: Setting the default source path for image controls

2007-01-14 Thread David Bovill
You cant set the default of an image control directly. Instead you would script it - the technique i use is to add a handler like this: setprop image_File shortFile put the default_Folder of me into rootFolder put rootFolder shortFile into someFile set the fileName of me to someFile

Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML)

2007-01-14 Thread Derek Bump
Well, I'm a little behind the game, but I'm trying to work with XML documents, and I'm running into walls. I am having difficulty understanding all the different variations of XML, or for that matter, making Regular Expressions that allow me to forget trying to understand XML and just pull

Re: Gray background on printing

2007-01-14 Thread Bill
You can also set up another bug report complaining about the lack of WYSIWIG like I did and vote for it although when I did it the answer was that the invisible gray background is supposed to be like that. I, and it appears most everyone else, have given up and just manually set the

Re: Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML)

2007-01-14 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 1/15/07, Derek Bump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm a little behind the game, but I'm trying to work with XML documents, and I'm running into walls. I am having difficulty understanding all the different variations of XML, or for that matter, making Regular Expressions that allow me to

Re: Way to read from USB port with Rev (Bar Code Reader)

2007-01-14 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 1/14/07, Peter Alcibiades [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: say, can you tell me which barcode reader you've tried this with? Sure, its a Datalogic Gryphon. Any reader which uses a Y cable to connect should work however. The only problem I can see with this method is that you have to ensure that

OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
I have been trying to SSH to my desktop Mac from a remote location without success. After two days of failed attempts I am on the brink of insanity. The hundreds of web documents I've read about it all indicate it should be very easy, and there is no reference to the problem I'm having --

Re: Cron job w/ Rev CGI

2007-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Marriott wrote: That was one of the first things I tried; but I might not have put them in the right spots, because the errors still persisted. I tried the cgi-bin folder, the website root folder, and my home directory. The fake files have to go in with all the other Unix installation

Re: Setting the default source path for image controls

2007-01-14 Thread Tereza Snyder
On Jan 14, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Bob Earp wrote: I wish to set the default path for image controls, can this be done? If so what is the property for it? Failing that, anybody know if a referenced image (in an image control) can be relative rather than absolute? I always use relative

Re: Setting the default source path for image controls

2007-01-14 Thread Jim Ault
On 1/14/07 12:45 PM, Bob Earp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish to set the default path for image controls, can this be done? If so what is the property for it? Failing that, anybody know if a referenced image (in an image control) can be relative rather than absolute? you could try this