> I agree with Ken. It would not hurt and would probably help to update
> your materials to the newest version of rev. At a minimum, you should
> re-build the "portal" standalone with the latest rev engine. In my
> view that would help legacy stacks survive longer.
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
Hi All,
Several times people have asked how to change screen resolution
programmatically. I usually recommended the Terminal command "cscreen"
but it is no longer under development and it does not handle all
resolutions especially the "stretched" ones.
I have now found another option called Swit
I haven't been following this thread very closely, but I've used the htmlText to
correctly display Arabic (after reversing the order of the entities). There's
more to it than that, but... If you can manage the display of Arabic using the
htmlText field property, maybe something similar could wor
When you say invisible do you mean you can see the image by using 'show image'?
There could be platform / rev version differences at play.
i created 2 teststacks, modified your script a little bit for these
stacks and ended
with a nice, correct yet invisible screenshot of the "printstack"s
cont
Bob Warren wrote:
put the length of field "test" >> 290
put the textfont of char 1 to 290 of field "test" >> EMPTY!!
put the textfont of char 2 to 3 of field "test" >> EMPTY
Aha!
Actually, this is probably correct. Fields can have a textfont property
independent of the text chunks inside
Jacque:
Please see my answers below.
Bob Warren wrote:
> Jacque:
>
> I have just made another little test program so that I can type into the
> field. My wife's Ubuntu is in Portuguese, and she has an ABNT keyboard.
>
> Of course, when she uses any program other than Rev (Word, Text Editor)
> Is anyone aware of any drawbacks in using 'the result' as a container for
> passing, say, a bunch of records from one handler to another? Like this:
>
You might want to pass "by reference", rather than duplication, but no
drawbacks I know of either way.
-- 2 examples (1 proc
Thanks everyone for the responses.
Stephen Barncard wrote:
I don't think it's any different than returning from a
function..although I haven't done it this way much. I'm not sure if you
can pass arrays this way for instance but that could just be converted
into a return-delimited table.
Thi
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:23:10 +, Mark Smith wrote:
> If the data is really big (which i guess is relative to how much RAM
> you have), then you're duplicating it, which could be quite
> inefficient ie. noticeably slow.
Good point, Mark... although it might be more of an issue with RAM than
I don't think it's any different than returning from a
function..although I haven't done it this way much. I'm not sure if
you can pass arrays this way for instance but that could just be
converted into a return-delimited table.
This would be useful for a custom Answer or Ask dialog that would
On 3/16/07, Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is anyone aware of any drawbacks in using 'the result' as a container for
passing, say, a bunch of records from one handler to another? Like this:
on processRecords
getRecords
put the result into tRecordList
repeat for each line tLine i
If the data is really big (which i guess is relative to how much RAM
you have), then you're duplicating it, which could be quite
inefficient ie. noticeably slow.
Unless there's some other reason not to, I might do
on processRecords
repeat for each line tLine in the uBigList of stack "XYZ"
Is anyone aware of any drawbacks in using 'the result' as a container for
passing, say, a bunch of records from one handler to another? Like this:
on processRecords
getRecords
put the result into tRecordList
repeat for each line tLine in it
-- your code here
end repeat
end processRe
On Thursday 15 March 2007 9:27 am, Bob Warren wrote:
> Don:
>
> Although I am pushed for time today, I couldn't resist trying to carry
> out your suggestion immediately. I followed your instructions as best I
> could, but the result was a PS file that still didn't display in the
> Evince utility.
>
On Thursday 15 March 2007 9:42 am, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> I'm a little lost in postscript, but...does this mean that if Bob were
> to replace the font he uses, things would automatically work?
I don't think so. The fonts he is using seem to have all the correct
characters. I'm not an expert in
Now with my final stack it isn't printing at all on the Mac. I'm giving up
and printing on Windows :(. I am using 2.8.0.
At 10:18 AM 3/14/2007, you wrote:
The odd this is, I discovered it I printed it once, I got the black
bars. If I tried printing a second time, the Japanese printed fine.
Hi Dave,
Hi All,
Please be patient with me, I started programming (exploring)
Revolution a few days ago. I'm not an inexperienced programmer,
nearly 30 years with C, Informix, SQL WIndows, PHP and a bit of VB.
But I'm still finding some of Revolutions syntax a bit strange. I
love it tho
On 3/15/07 10:19 AM, "Dave Ingledew - WCS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Please be patient with me, I started programming (exploring) Revolution a few
> days ago. I'm not an inexperienced programmer, nearly 30 years with C,
> Informix, SQL WIndows, PHP and a bit of VB. But I'm still f
On Mar 15, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Dave Ingledew - WCS wrote:
Hi All,
Please be patient with me, I started programming (exploring)
Revolution a few days ago. I'm not an inexperienced programmer,
nearly 30 years with C, Informix, SQL WIndows, PHP and a bit of VB.
But I'm still finding some of
Just a quick note... you can pass NULL in Rev, and use it as a character in
a string. This may not solve your particular of multiple param passing.
Jim Ault
On 3/15/07 9:00 AM, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 15 Mar 2007, at 15:19, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:00
Hi All,
Please be patient with me, I started programming (exploring) Revolution a few
days ago. I'm not an inexperienced programmer, nearly 30 years with C,
Informix, SQL WIndows, PHP and a bit of VB. But I'm still finding some of
Revolutions syntax a bit strange. I love it though and I hope t
Bob Warren wrote:
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Re: Linux-specific technical problems
Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
The reason it is being held:
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On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:23:45 +0100, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
So far I have used MetaCard and engine 2.6.6. The programs make use
of a portal stack (thanks to Sivakatirswami) which downloads/opens
the various educational programs. This downloading is
Revolution 2.8:
Bug 1955: The revPrintText and revPrintField commands did not work correctly
for a field with unicode text, this has been fixed...
Seems like the most recent Studio release should print Unicode correctly...
All the best
Viktoras
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From: Mark
In case my previous post does not get through the moderator on account
of its length, here is the first part of it again with a link to the PS
file in question:
Don Jungk wrote:
Hi Bob,
> OK, your PS file does have accented characters in it. It appears
they are just > in the wrong place. Th
On 15 Mar 2007, at 15:19, Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Dave wrote:
On 15 Mar 2007, at 14:23, Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Dave wrote:
Does anyone know away around this or do I have to abandon my
idea and have two separate GetXY functions?
I sup
Don Jungk wrote:
Hi Bob,
I just realized there is an easier way that should work for you.
-
Phew! Thank God for that. Perhaps Jacque can give me a little of the brain
surgery I need, then I'll try again later.
Thanks for now.
Bob
_
Mark Wieder wrote:
Bob- Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 7:02:10 AM, you wrote:
So if "mount" isn't a valid command, somebody had better tell smbclient!
> Possibly, smbclient -? for the available options is out of date.
Well, smbclient on my Ubuntu installation happily ignores "mount" as
well. O
Don Jungk wrote:
Hi Bob,
I just realized there is an easier way that should work for you. I was
re-encoding fonts that are resident in the printer, but you have the entire
encoding in your PS file.
I'm a little lost in postscript, but...does this mean that if Bob were
to replace the font he
Your mail to 'use-revolution' with the subject
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Don:
Although I am pushed for time today, I couldn't resist trying to carry
out your suggestion immediately. I followed your instructions as best I
could, but the result was a PS file that still didn't display in the
Evince utility.
However, since I have sent the whole original PS file creat
On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Dave wrote:
On 15 Mar 2007, at 14:23, Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Dave wrote:
Does anyone know away around this or do I have to abandon my idea
and have two separate GetXY functions?
I suppose you could pass false instead of empty and che
This is the text in Portuguese that was contained by the field of my
test program that produced an incorrect PS file. I hope it displays OK here!
Bob
bom ar [1]
bom-bril [1]
carvão [1]
desinfetante [1]
desodorante [1]
detergente [1]
esponja [1]
Finish l
On 15 Mar 2007, at 14:23, Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Dave wrote:
Does anyone know away around this or do I have to abandon my idea
and have two separate GetXY functions?
I suppose you could pass false instead of empty and check for that.
I don't think this would wo
On 15 Mar 2007, at 14:35, Ken Ray wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:59:10 +, Dave wrote:
However this doesn't seem to work, since it looks like there is no
way to tell if you are passing "empty" as apposed to a value that is
empty, e.g.
Sorry, Dave, but I don't see the difference... did yo
Mark Wieder wrote:
Bob-
Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 8:48:42 AM, you wrote:
In fact, it is not necessary to expose your password when accessing a
> network drive in Linux. I cut this out of Mark's suggested command line.
> On my network/machines, the following worked perfectly:
> put "smbclie
Hi Bob,
I just realized there is an easier way that should work for you. I was
re-encoding fonts that are resident in the printer, but you have the entire
encoding in your PS file. After the line "/isolatin1encoding [" you have a
list of 228 character definitions. The numbering starts at 0. You
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:59:10 +, Dave wrote:
> However this doesn't seem to work, since it looks like there is no
> way to tell if you are passing "empty" as apposed to a value that is
> empty, e.g.
Sorry, Dave, but I don't see the difference... did you want to have
some different action pe
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:23:45 +0100, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
> So far I have used MetaCard and engine 2.6.6. The programs make use
> of a portal stack (thanks to Sivakatirswami) which downloads/opens
> the various educational programs. This downloading is done by http.
>
> My questions to the g
Hi Martin,
Hi Klaus,
thanks for your interest. The following are the pertinent lines. If I
set the left of stack "Printstack" to say 250, it is onscreen and the
capture works OK (but this requires the printstack to be visible and
hence is not presenting a polished result for a print preview). If
On Mar 15, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Dave wrote:
Does anyone know away around this or do I have to abandon my idea
and have two separate GetXY functions?
I suppose you could pass false instead of empty and check for that.
--
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
www.bluemangolearning.com-
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:34:57 -0700, Mark Powell wrote:
>
> If (objApp.Name = "Windows Internet Explorer") or
> (objApp.Name="Microsoft Internet Explorer") then
>
>
> Hi Ken:
>
> Does this signify that the VB will not work with browsers other than IE?
Well, *technically*, yes, but the non-IE
I think I've just found the answer to my problem. Export snapshot DOES
work with offscreen OBJECTS, not stacks. It even works with groups, so
in my example I can group all the objects on my printstack and change
the export line to :
export snapshot from rect trect of grp "PrintGrp" to pictvar as
Hi Klaus,
thanks for your interest. The following are the pertinent lines. If I
set the left of stack "Printstack" to say 250, it is onscreen and the
capture works OK (but this requires the printstack to be visible and
hence is not presenting a polished result for a print preview). If I
set to 250
Supote,
Also, just because it can be used as a CGI doesn't mean this is the only way
to use Rev to build a website. You can write a desktop-based content
management system in Rev that uploads static HTML files via FTP, for
example. And many other possibilities.
"supote songthammawat"
<[EMAIL
Hi,
Please take a look at the function below. Basically I was trying to
make a flexible utility function that returned two values either as a
List in the return value or as individual (X, Y or X and Y) values.
It could then used as so:
get PDFGetXY(theDocumentRef,myXValue,myYValue)
or
Hi Matrin,
Unfortunately when the stack is offscreen I get the following error
with export snapshot:
export: no image selected, or image not open
sounds like a syntax problem. Could you post your code?
... You might be able to try export image and see if it doesn't
work with offscreen images
If (objApp.Name = "Windows Internet Explorer") or
(objApp.Name="Microsoft Internet Explorer") then
Hi Ken:
Does this signify that the VB will not work with browsers other than IE?
Mark
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Unfortunately when the stack is offscreen I get the following error
with export snapshot:
export: no image selected, or image not open
... You might be able to try export image and see if it doesn't
work with offscreen images in 2.7...I seem to think that might work.
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On 15 Mar 2007, at 04:53, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richard-
Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 8:54:34 AM, you wrote:
So while it's true that Rev's arrays are associative rather than
numerically indexed (and a request has been submitted to make that
more
self-evident in the docs), it's not like Rev inve
Thanks so much for all the help from everyone on this, two things I had
wrong needed the Linux engine only, and then I needed to change the first
line of code to #!Linux not #!Revolution
Now off to try and get my stack working as a cgi
Thanks
Rob
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Hello to the list
After having used MetaCard since 1989 I'm now retiring from my job
and there is no one to follow up my work. Both I and the institute
are worried about further usage of the educational programs I have
developed for various foreign languages at our University. Many of
th
Hi Martin,
Yep, I'm using 2.6. pixMapID doesn't work in 2.7. I need to rewrite that
part of my code. You might be able to try export image and see if it doesn't
work with offscreen images in 2.7...I seem to think that might work.
-Chipp
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I have been fooling around with this idea using another of the handy
tips on Sons of Thunder's Rev page,
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/imag007.htm
but am running in to an error with this line:
set the imagepixmapid of last image to (the pixmapid of stack pStackPath)
I get a 'c
Ah thanks Ken & Jim, got it work just perfectly with your help... it always
looks so simple when someone else does it!!!
Much appreciated!!
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From: "Jim Ault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "How to use Revolution"
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Dimens
A little refinement can get you tallys and averages for reporting:
Ken's example with the following added:
get tData
filter it with ("B444AAA,*,*,2" -- only month 2
put sumFuelKM(it, collectedValues) into collectedValues
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put "B444AAA" into tRegNo
put 2 int
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