ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

Jim Ault wrote a long message outlining some ideas about how software developers make their money. Gosh, I must be stupid, but the only time I developed a piece of software for a large market ("Listen Hear" CD - about 4 years ago) I ended up with negligible money. Now I develop software for 3 com

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

Hey, I just thought I'd ask. You're lucky I haven't asked some of the harder questions. Joe Wilkins On Feb 22, 2007, at 11:10 PM, Jim Ault wrote: On 2/22/07 10:12 PM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sometimes I wonder if catering to this Window's mess is really worth all th

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

On 2/22/07 10:12 PM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I wonder if catering to this Window's mess is really worth > all the effort. After all, Cadillac was profitable and viable for > years and years by just providing the best available car at a premium > price to less th

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

Because we want to deliver software to the greatest number of people possible? Mark On Feb 22, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Sometimes I wonder if catering to this Window's mess is really worth all the effort. After all, Cadillac was profitable and viable for years and years

Re: Re-3: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Jacque- FWIW, I reported this last year in build 2.7.3 as BZ#3843. I just updated the bug report version to 2.8. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

Sometimes I wonder if catering to this Window's mess is really worth all the effort. After all, Cadillac was profitable and viable for years and years by just providing the best available car at a premium price to less than 5% of the market. Why should we worry about the other 95%? IMHO,

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

Ken Ray wrote: I'm sure there are more gotchas in Vista, but this was a major one that I thought the community should know about. Wow. Thanks for posting this, Ken. Only now I've got a bunch of questions about where we can legitimately write files. Can we still use the Application Data folde

Using Apple Help

What are people's opinions on using Apple's Help Viewer? How difficult is it to get setup and launched from a Rev application? Cheers, Trevor Hopkins Exeter, UK _ Upload 500 photos a month & blog with your Messenger buddies on Win

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

Thanks for that, Ken. One more note: Don't think you can save money getting Home Basic Edition -- it doesn't have Aero, so there's a lot of UI appearances you won't be able to check. For that an other Vista annoyances:

ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

Hey everyone - I've been working with the release of Vista (Home Premium Edition) since its release and just discovered something you may or may not be aware of that you REALLY need to be aware of IF: - You install your program to the Program Files folder - You leave the User Account Control

Re: [ANN] Son 2.0

Hi Malte, Hi all, thanks for all the wishes. I am really glad to participate in a community of heartily people like this. (And Klaus, Pfaff is the surname. :-) Spousal unit and me are not married) Ooopsie, didn't know that, sorry :-) All the best, Malte Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PR

Left Key, Right Key

How can I tell if the Left Control Key has been pressed rather than the Right Key? Not quite as daft as it seems! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. _

Re: [ANN] Son 2.0

Hi all, thanks for all the wishes. I am really glad to participate in a community of heartily people like this. (And Klaus, Pfaff is the surname. :-) Spousal unit and me are not married) All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-rev

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

On 22 Feb 2007, at 16:47, J. Landman Gay wrote: If anyone can think of any other thing that might be interfering with the message hierarchy, post that too. It's a good puzzle and together maybe we can figure it out. Any chance this is connected to the "edition" of Rev.( Enterprise, Studio

[ANN] New picture chooser for Ubuntu

Colleagues: You might remember that some time ago I released a pair of file/picture chooser widgets for Ubuntu Linux. These widgets still work OK, but they will no longer detect the presence of a floppy diskette drive if your computer has one. This is because Ubuntu (or possibly Gnome) have be

Re-7: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Original Message Subject: Re: Re-5: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4 (22-Feb-2007 21:23) From:J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > You should get a prize for figuring this out. :) Any gifts would be appreciated. ;-) Matthias

Re: revZip and rev 2.8 gm-3

Excellent Jacque. Thanks. I'll give this a try. I knew I was just missing something obvious. And I actually do have code that sets my externals on startup, I just wasn't getting the path correct. This should help. Thanks again. On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Chris Sh

Re: Re-5: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, renaming the "My Revolution Studio" folder in My Documents does not solve the problem. But there is another Revolution Studio folder under Windows XP For german Windows it can found at C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Anwendungsdaten\Runtime Revolutio

Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 6

In a message dated 2/22/07 1:50:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I understand. Do you have a "My Revolution" folder in your Documents > folder? If you do, quit Rev and rename that folder temporarily. After > that, does the test still fail? If you don't have a "My Revolution" > folder in Docume

Re-5: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Hi, renaming the "My Revolution Studio" folder in My Documents does not solve the problem. But there is another Revolution Studio folder under Windows XP For german Windows it can found at C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Administrator\Anwendungsdaten\Runtime Revolution\ and for english versio

Re: revZip and rev 2.8 gm-3

Chris Sheffield wrote: I'm having a problem that I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced. This is OS X, btw. I have an application that makes use of the revZip library. I have the standalone builder settings set to search for required inclusions. The first problem is that the revZip bund

Re: Performance Problem with large file

Paul Looney wrote: If it is taking 3 seconds now, processing from a variable should take (far) less than one second. If that is so, then you will not need to worry about covering the "hole". I do second Richard's suggestion about moving from XML; it is really slow, takes more memory for code, t

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 5

Joe, We've mentioned a couple times now that "startup" will never be sent to your stack in the IDE, so you might want to start excluding that from your list. Second, as Jacque pointed out the "My Revolution" folder persists through fresh installs, and will preload items during launch. You need

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Robert Brenstein wrote: However, someone said that removing all plugins does not help, so this may be a deadend street. Ah, I missed that. But it may be that they were checking the Rev plugins folder in the distribution instead of the one in My Documents (or Documents on Mac.) We can see. It

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 5

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/22/07 11:50:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is all pretty interesting. Could everyone who is having the problem post any plugins they are using? Not the ones that ship with Rev, but any others you've added to your plugins folder? That might g

Re: [ANN] Son 2.0

Congrats Malte! Looks like another golden master ;-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-r

Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 5

In a message dated 2/22/07 11:50:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This is all pretty interesting. Could everyone who is having the problem > post any plugins they are using? Not the ones that ship with Rev, but > any others you've added to your plugins folder? That might give us a clue. > > I

Re: Click Table

On 2/22/07 8:38 AM, "John Runde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am doing some financial programming. Of prime importance, is a a > Spreadsheet like field... I will call a "click field". It is a > crucial piece of my project, and I have not been able to get it to > work. Note that I am an accoun

Re: Parallels Desktop

On 22 Feb 2007, at 6:35 AM, Adrian Williams wrote: > Roger, > I'm having problems downloading from the link you supplied... It worked for me. Maybe the list wrapped the url. Try the link below, then click link to "NTFS-3G 20070116-r4.dmg". http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/ntfs-3g/ Roger E

Re: Re-3: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, now i had the time to test my other releases of Revolution Studio under Windows XP. I checked it on my machine with the following builds: Version 2.7.2 Build 261 Version 2.7.4 Build 291 Version 2.8.0 Build 350 Version 2.8.0 Build 360 I also installed each build on

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

This is all pretty interesting. Could everyone who is having the problem post any plugins they are using? Not the ones that ship with Rev, but any others you've added to your plugins folder? That might give us a clue. If anyone can think of any other thing that might be interfering with the m

Re: Performance Problem with large file

On 2/22/07 9:05 AM, "Len Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Morgan wrote: > I guess the other option I have if I want to "simulate" the field being > updated on the fly would be to figure out how many lines of text are > displayed, update the TEXT FIELD that many lines only (while creating a

revZip and rev 2.8 gm-3

I'm having a problem that I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced. This is OS X, btw. I have an application that makes use of the revZip library. I have the standalone builder settings set to search for required inclusions. The first problem is that the revZip bundle does not get cop

Re: Performance Problem with large file

Len, If it is taking 3 seconds now, processing from a variable should take (far) less than one second. If that is so, then you will not need to worry about covering the "hole". I do second Richard's suggestion about moving from XML; it is really slow, takes more memory for code, takes more memo

Re: Performance Problem with large file

Len Morgan wrote: > ...the problem is that I'm displaying the file in a rather large > text field as it is being built up. Each line of the CSV file > generates about 40 lines of XML. That's one reason I rarely bother with XML. :) Unfortunately, this isn't my choice. The XML file is s

Re-3: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Hi, now i had the time to test my other releases of Revolution Studio under Windows XP. I checked it on my machine with the following builds: Version 2.7.2 Build 261 Version 2.7.4 Build 291 Version 2.8.0 Build 350 Version 2.8.0 Build 360 I also installed each build on a virtual vmware machine,wh

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Robert Brenstein wrote: Hi, I did a test, too. None of the beeps is heard and no status messages seen. First, I did a normal test, then I removed all plugins, but this makes no difference. I did the test with messagetester.rev, on a PowerMac G3 with Mac OS X 10.4.8. This is all pretty int

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Mark Schonewille wrote: I did the test with messagetester.rev, on a PowerMac G3 with Mac OS X 10.4.8. I don't understand it then. I just tried the test on a G4 running OS 10.3.7 and it worked fine there too. Are you running any non-standard plugins? Mark Schonewille wrote: Any more sugg

Click Table

I am doing some financial programming. Of prime importance, is a a Spreadsheet like field... I will call a "click field". It is a crucial piece of my project, and I have not been able to get it to work. Note that I am an accountant, not a programmer (but an old hand at hypercard). Here

Re: Repeat bug???

Hello Dave and Mark, It's not a bug Some times you have to read the documentation. The with form: The with counter = ... set the counter to the startValue at the beginning of the loop, When the counter is greater than or equal to the endValue, the loop performs its final iteration and th

AW: Performance Problem with large file

And how about just showing a progress bar and the field only when it's finished? My 2 cents Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Richard Gaskin > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 16:51 > An: How to use R

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

ÉrIC, You say you are starting with a fresh Rev install, are you also starting with a fresh "My Revolution Studio" folder? Regards, Todd On Feb 22, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Éric Miclo wrote: Hello Bill, If I dare to complain here it is not because of the bug but because I've already made lots

Re: Repeat bug???

I've encountered this one, and it seems like a bug to me, though maybe there's an argument that it's correct behaviour. My workaround is to always subtract the step value -1 from the limit: repeat with itemIndex = 1 to the number of items in valueList - 3 step 4 Best, Mark On 22 Feb 2007, a

Re: Parallels Desktop

What an incredible source of information and expertise this list is. It looks like I'll be purchasing Parallels very soon based on experiences and recommendations offered by various experts here. Here is a link to an article I came across from MacWorld describing features of both VMware an

Re: Performance Problem with large file

Len Morgan wrote: ...the problem is that I'm displaying the file in a rather large text field as it is being built up. Each line of the CSV file generates about 40 lines of XML. That's one reason I rarely bother with XML. :) In the test file I have, it takes about 3 seconds per record (total

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Hi, I did a test, too. None of the beeps is heard and no status messages seen. First, I did a normal test, then I removed all plugins, but this makes no difference. I did the test with messagetester.rev, on a PowerMac G3 with Mac OS X 10.4.8. Best, Mark To add a tile to the puzzle: Mac

Performance Problem with large file

I first want to thank everyone that helped out with my file path parsing problems! Now that I'm past that issue, I've got a new one. What I'm trying to do with this program is read a CSV file then write out a formatted XML file of the data. This actually works quite well now but the problem

Repeat bug???

Hi All, Try out the following, on my setup it goes round the loop once too often! Well I assume it is supposed to stop when myItemIndex = 16??? Is this a bug? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave A stack with one button and one list field in it. on mouseUp put "00020120,4804,00020120,40

Re-2: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

The same here on my Windows XPSP2 machine wit Rev 2.8.0 GM3 Double clicking on messagetester.rev wit Rev not being opened does not show the messages. Double clicking on it with Rev already opened does show the messages. Regards, Matthias Rebbe Original Message Subject: Re:

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Hello Bill, If I dare to complain here it is not because of the bug but because I've already made lots of testing and that the bug is still considered as "unconfirmed" since the moment I did report it. I've downloaded your stack and tryied it with a fresh installed 2.8- gm3 version (with o

Re: Parallels Desktop

Roger, I'm having problems downloading from the link you supplied... On 21 Feb 2007, at 19:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chip Walters wrote: With the new Coherence option, you can actually use both Mac and PC simultaneously, as their application windows can share the same desktop. Actually, t

Re: MACHINE

Hiya, If you don't strictly need a Transcript solution you can use the following shell commands: OS X: system_profiler For details on usage: man system_profiler WinXP: systeminfo For details on usage: systeminfo -? Win2K: msinfo32.exe For details on usage: msinfo32.exe -? Note that this will

Re: LIST and RUNREV security

Hi, I have also experienced a massive increase in Spam since posting to this list. Don't know why this particular list should be the culprit unless the ease of programming in RunRev means that some wannbe coder has turned Spammer! lol Cheers Dave On 1 Feb 2007, at 20:03, Stephen Barncard

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

I did the test with messagetester.rev, on a PowerMac G3 with Mac OS X 10.4.8. 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. Download at http://www.sale

Re: [ANN] Son 2.0

Congratulations, Malte! You seem to code with your wife as well as with XTalks :-) Eric Le 21 févr. 07 à 21:17, Malte Brill a écrit : Hi all, just wanted to let you know that my second kid arrived today. Mattis Johan Pfaff Length 55 cm Weight 4280 gramm http://www.derbrill.de/linusundmattis

Re: ResizeQuality property seems much slower on Macs

On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Mark, Not sure, but I think the new 'best' uses bicubic sampling and the previous 'best' uses bilinear. You might try using 'good' in 2.7.8 and seeing if it doesn't render the same as 'best' in 2.7.4 Bicubic vs bilinear isn't near as big a dr

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Just to join in. Jacque's stack script works fine here, both when double-clicking or dragging on to a Rev icon. (And both when Rev is either currently open or closed.) This is on an Intel Mac-mini. Cheers Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-r

Re: Contracting text to a fixed width

Terry, thinking different : on contractTextOfField FieldToContract if there is a fld "SoOn" then delete fld "SoOn" if the formattedwidth of fld FieldToContract>the width of fld FieldToContract then lock screen clone field FieldToContract set the name of the last field to "SoO

Re: [ANN] Son 2.0

Congratulations, Malte. Best of luck with sleeplessNight2.0 and nappyChanger1.2 Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, just wanted to let you know that my second kid arrived today. Mattis Johan Pfaff Length 55 cm Weight 4280 gramm http://www.derbrill.de/linusundmattis.jpg All the best, Malte