Re: Mouse messages while down

2007-03-19 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 3/18/07 12:12 AM, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm now doing the politically correct mouseMove instead of using repeat while mouse is down. But it still leaves me having to check the location all the time to see whether it is inside one of my 400 buttons. It seems that the

Re: Flash and Rev question....

2007-03-19 Thread David Bovill
Yes - but I have two problems with that. Apart from not manageing yet to be able to copy and paste text into an altBrowser window on Mac (still think this should be possible by scripting focus issues) is that I can't do transitions between movies. If somene has knowledge of how to do this inside

Re: Installing Ubuntu or other Linuxes

2007-03-19 Thread Bob Warren
In my last post, I recommended a short article of simple, practical (layman's) advice for those considering the possibility of trying Linux (or my favourite, Ubuntu) and Rev/Linux 2.6.1 for the first time. It has now been properly presented, and you can view it at the following URL if you are

Re: Flash and Rev question....

2007-03-19 Thread Stephen Barncard
Dreamhost supports the streaming of FLV files. they also offer an online file converter to FLV. Can't answer the question about transitions. example http://www.burnoutworld.com/cgi-bin/emAlbum.cgi?c=show_thumbs;p=Cars/Car%20Burnout%20Videos http://dreamhost.com Yes - but I have two

Re: Linux-specific technical problems

2007-03-19 Thread Bob Warren
A few days back I had 2 outstanding Rev/Linux questions that I hadn't managed to clear up on-List. One of them was elegantly solved by Mark Wieder. The other did not have an immediate answer: In Rev Linux 2.6.1, can foreign symbols (with accents) be printed on the printer or not? Some

Re: Linux-specific technical problems

2007-03-19 Thread Bob Warren
Two other morsels of info about the problem of printing accented characters from a card in Rev/Linux 2.6.1: Rev's performance has only been tested using Ubuntu 6.06.1 and Mepis 6.0.1. Technical Support now have an Ubuntu computer available, so queries to them about Rev/Linux (or at least

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
Hi, Mac OS X 10.4.8, MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core Duo, 2GB RAM Ok, are you using the standard RunRev IDE and not running anything other that the standard RunRev stuff? I set the fill color via the Property Inspector, not via a script, not sure if that would make a difference. I have removed

Unusual Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Charles Szasz
Actually, the first four cards were created in a 1-2-3-4 sequence. This was done after I had completed an earlier version of the program that had 20 cards. So, I decided to do a revision of the program to reduce the number of cards and to correct the printing problem. Since I had run into

Re: Duration of non supported applications

2007-03-19 Thread Devin Asay
Thanks for correcting my misunderstanding, Bill. Devin On Mar 16, 2007, at 11:40 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: I can't answer all your Windows question with authority, but let me just point out that if you have Rev 2.7 already, 2.8 is a free upgrade, as 2.9 will be. - Revolution 2.8 is

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
Hi, Some more information on this. If I delete the Text counter object from the group that gets exported the it will output many more images (once it actually did all 500) before stopping. Doing this it will just continue forever, e.g. Most of the time I don't get the error dialog and

Re: Installing Ubuntu or other Linuxes

2007-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Warren wrote: In my last post, I recommended a short article of simple, practical (layman's) advice for those considering the possibility of trying Linux (or my favourite, Ubuntu) and Rev/Linux 2.6.1 for the first time. It has now been properly presented, and you can view it at the

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: Some more information on this. If I delete the Text counter object from the group that gets exported the it will output many more images (once it actually did all 500) before stopping. Doing this it will just continue forever, e.g. Most of the time I don't get the error dialog

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Ian Wood
On 19 Mar 2007, at 14:56, Richard Gaskin wrote: Is that physical memory or virtual? On OS X I've seen seemingly small apps take up a surprising amount of virtual memory, but operate in a much smaller physical space. Although FWIW I've not seen my Rev usage climb that high while running

Re: Revolution and Unicode

2007-03-19 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 17, 2007, at 10:19 PM, kee nethery wrote: My primary problem is that I need to access a web page that is UTF8, and convert it to unicode so that I can edit it and save it out as a file of unicode. There are a few good examples of how to deal with unicode in revolution but so far no

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
On 19 Mar 2007, at 15:14, Ian Wood wrote: On 19 Mar 2007, at 14:56, Richard Gaskin wrote: Is that physical memory or virtual? On OS X I've seen seemingly small apps take up a surprising amount of virtual memory, but operate in a much smaller physical space. Although FWIW I've not seen

Re: Revolution and Unicode

2007-03-19 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Devin has a web page with some similar content http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/unicodeInRev.html His stack from the Revcon 2006 presentation has the example scripts that he referred to and although I have a copy from the conference, I

OS X Standalone Icon Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Charles Szasz
I have completed my standalones for windows and OS X. The icons that I used for windows in the standalone worked fine. I was able to assign my application icons to use in dialogs for my OS X application but I have not had any success with OS X standalones. I cannot replace the generic

Moving a button

2007-03-19 Thread Charles Szasz
I have tried to move a button based on the properties of two buttons but this does not work. Here is the script: on preopenCard if the label of button check3 is not visible and the label of button check6 is visible then set the location of button check6 to the location of this card

Moving Checkbox

2007-03-19 Thread Charles Szasz
I have tried to move a button based on the properties of two buttons but this does not work. Here is the script: on preopenCard if the label of button check3 is not visible and the label of button check6 is visible then set the location of button check6 to the location of this card

Re: Linux-specific technical problems

2007-03-19 Thread Bob Warren
Don Jungk wrote: Hi Bob, OK, your PS file does have accented characters in it. It appears they are just in the wrong place. This code that I will paste in here is something I use when I have to re-encode a Macintosh font to work on my Linux computer. This should be put after all of the

Did you notice a change in the forums?

2007-03-19 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Anyone notice any changes in the forums? :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution Ltd http://www.runrev.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
On 19 Mar 2007, at 14:56, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dave wrote: Some more information on this. If I delete the Text counter object from the group that gets exported the it will output many more images (once it actually did all 500) before stopping. Doing this it will just continue

Re: Did you notice a change in the forums?

2007-03-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Lynn, Anyone notice any changes in the forums? :-) No :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution Ltd http://www.runrev.com Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution

Re: Moving a button

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Smith
Charles, the label of a button is a property of that button and does not have properties of it's own. I think what you need to test for is the showName property of the button itself. if the showName of button check3 is not true and the showName of button check6 is true then set the

Re: Memory Leak on export png????

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
Hi, Some more information: I built a standalone, this writes 288 files but I don't get the error dialog and it doesn't complete correctly, e.g. I don't get the Done! dialog at the end. Looking at the System Activity Monitor it only grabs around 35 MB of real memory 377 MB of virtual -

Re: Moving a button

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Yes, Charles. I'd put a couple of beeps into your script, or some puts to msg, so that you know the various parts of the script are even being called. I suspect your ifs are blocking the flow for some reason. Also, your naming of buttons may not be exactly correct. Joe Wilkins On Mar 10,

Re: Moving Checkbox

2007-03-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Charles, I have tried to move a button based on the properties of two buttons but this does not work. Here is the script: on preopenCard if the label of button check3 is not visible and the label of button check6 is visible then set the location of button check6 to the location

Re: Did you notice a change in the forums?

2007-03-19 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Lynn, Anyone notice any changes in the forums? :-) No :-) I think he means that you no longer have to log in to read the forums (fora?). Only to post. Regards, Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center

RE: Bkgnd process that returns immediately

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Powell
put start /MAX C:\foo.html C:\foo.txt into MyCom set the hideConsoleWindows to true get start cmd /c quote MyCom quote get shell(it) To keep the console window from flashing in the snippet above, Xavier responded use start /b to hide the window. I have tried this, in

Re: Re: MatchText, MatchChunk and the needle in the haystack

2007-03-19 Thread Bryan McCormick
Jim, Thanks for the script snippet. It didn't quite work as shown, but it did get me to think about the problem more carefully. I came up with this: put -Jan-,-Feb-,-Mar-,-Apr-,-May-,-Jun-,-Jul-,-Aug-,-Sep-,-Oct-,-Nov-,-Dec- into mthStrings -- i seemed to need to separate the routine

Re: MatchText, MatchChunk and the needle in the haystack

2007-03-19 Thread Dave
Hi, Not 100% sure, but should you start from 1? e.g. put 0 into pos should be: put 1 into pos All the Best Dave On 19 Mar 2007, at 17:24, Bryan McCormick wrote: -- note that i added a third param in case i need to force the routine to start elsewhere. it is set to 0 when i run

Re: Revolution and Unicode

2007-03-19 Thread kee nethery
Oooops! That should be: go stack URL http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/unicodeInRev.rev; go stack URL http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/unicodeExamples.rev; Thanks, these were the stacks I had from the conference and simple as they are, they are extremely useful (probably because they are

Re: Re:MatchText, MatchChunk and the needle in the haystack

2007-03-19 Thread Bryan McCormick
Dave, Sadly it does not impact the outcome. Mind you I tried it just in case. I have played with all the vars that I can think of and it does nothing. It does not even appear to matter (as I thought) if there are multiple months (i.e -Jan-) of the same type in a row (thought it might be

Re: Installing Ubuntu or other Linuxes

2007-03-19 Thread Bob Warren
Bob Warren wrote: In my last post, I recommended a short article of simple, practical (layman's) advice for those considering the possibility of trying Linux (or my favourite, Ubuntu) and Rev/Linux 2.6.1 for the first time. It has now been properly presented, and you can view it at the

Re: MatchText, MatchChunk and the needle in the haystack

2007-03-19 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/19/07 10:49 AM, Bryan McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave, Sadly it does not impact the outcome. Mind you I tried it just in case. I have played with all the vars that I can think of and it does nothing. It does not even appear to matter (as I thought) if there are multiple

Re: MatchText, MatchChunk and the needle in the haystack

2007-03-19 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Bryan McCormick wrote: Jim, Thanks for the script snippet. It didn't quite work as shown, but it did get me to think about the problem more carefully. I came up with this: put -Jan-,-Feb-,-Mar-,-Apr-,-May-,-Jun-,-Jul-,-Aug-,-Sep-,-Oct-,- Nov-,-Dec- into

Re: Linux-specific technical problems

2007-03-19 Thread Bob Warren
Sorry about that last enormous post under this thread which has polluted the list and is out of sequence. It was held up by the moderator because it was a little over the maximum length allowed for the UR-List, but now it seems that it has finally been released! Way back, I substituted it

Re: OS X Standalone Icon Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Devin Asay
Charles, Finder icons (and Windows application icons) must be in a specific format to work. How are you creating your icons? Devin On Mar 19, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Charles Szasz wrote: I have completed my standalones for windows and OS X. The icons that I used for windows in the standalone

Re: Bkgnd process that returns immediately

2007-03-19 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Mark, One thing you might find helpful is the 'start' Help info. Open a command line (aka DOS) window and at the prompt type: help start ... or if you want to have the info in a text file type: help start my-start-help.txt (the file will be created in the directory indicated on the

RE:MatchText, MatchChunk and the needle in the haystack

2007-03-19 Thread Bryan McCormick
Dave and Jim, Thanks for the suggestions. I think I have now exhausted all but the ugly walk through by hand and find the errors/solutions. For the record: 1) The textBlock length is not changing since I am not deleting anything from the block (or adding). I am using pos to advance the

Re:MatchText, MatchChunk and the needle in the haystack

2007-03-19 Thread Bryan McCormick
Sorry Devin, I did mean Devin not Dave in that last lengthy note. Definitely time to give it a rest. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

RE: Bkgnd process that returns immediately

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Powell
Phil Davis wrote: One thing you might find helpful is the 'start' Help info. Yes, I have done that. What it indicates is that /B is an optional argument to start that starts an application without creating a new window. But what is not clear is, which of the two lines where 'start' is used

Bluetooth

2007-03-19 Thread Matt
Does anyone know of the way that I could use BlueTooth to connect to my Palm Pilot through Revolution? I am on a PowerBook G4 and would use the built in Bluetooth. I know that i would have to use something like open socket, but I don't know which socket to open. The purposes of this is that I

Re: OS X Standalone Icon Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 3/20/07, Charles Szasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have completed my standalones for windows and OS X. The icons that I used for windows in the standalone worked fine. I was able to assign my application icons to use in dialogs for my OS X application but I have not had any success with OS X

Sending Web Queries to Excel

2007-03-19 Thread Bryan McCormick
I have been looking at Ken Ray's scripts for exchanging data from a worksheet to and from RunRev and Excel. I also see that Gary Rathbone had a tutorial on Web Queries and Excel but I cannot find that information anywhere on it (Gary site appears to be gone). Does anyone have any idea where

Re: OS X Standalone Icon Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 3/20/07, Charles Szasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have completed my standalones for windows and OS X. The icons that I used for windows in the standalone worked fine. I was able to assign my application icons to use in dialogs for my OS X

Re: Bluetooth

2007-03-19 Thread Ken Ray
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:08:45 -0600, Matt wrote: Does anyone know of the way that I could use BlueTooth to connect to my Palm Pilot through Revolution? I am on a PowerBook G4 and would use the built in Bluetooth. I know that i would have to use something like open socket, but I don't know

Stackrunner and Databases

2007-03-19 Thread Len Morgan
Hello all! I'm trying to do two things at once that may not be possible - at least I haven't figured out how yet. I want to use stackRunner to load and run a stack from a URL. This stack needs to access a PostreSQL database on the same server as the stack will come from. The stack works

Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hello all, Im wearing my Paradigma hat here (hey, if you can to RevCon 2005 you could have had one too!) but I also have my Runtime kilt handy. It seems that, in the span of the last two years, Ubuntu has come out of nowhere to achieve an unprecidented popularity. Paradigma is finalizing V4REV

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 19, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Hello all, Im wearing my Paradigma hat here (hey, if you can to RevCon 2005 you could have had one too!) but I also have my Runtime kilt handy. It seems that, in the span of the last two years, Ubuntu has come out of nowhere to achieve

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Ken Ray
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:35:17 -0700, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Hello all, Im wearing my Paradigma hat here (hey, if you can to RevCon 2005 you could have had one too!) but I also have my Runtime kilt handy. It seems that, in the span of the last two years, Ubuntu has come out of nowhere to

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Rishi Viner
Occasional use of Ubuntu and Kubuntu (you really need things to work with both Gnome and KDE desktops). Mainly SuSE with KDE as our standard environment here. Agree though, that Ubuntu is making lots of waves for all the right reasons. Cheers, Rishi. On Tuesday 20 March 2007 09:35, Lynn

Re: Do You Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Brent Anderson
Hello. I primarily use Mac, but my Linux distro of choice is Ubuntu. Last fall I researched all the major distros (Suse, Red Hat, FreeBSD) and it fell at the top (Although Red Hat did come close behind). Thanks, Brent Anderson Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Lynn Fredricks wrote: Of you running on Linux, how many are using Rev with Ubuntu? Me, as of yesterday. I'm not sure that counts yet, but it probably will eventually. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Phil Davis
Lynn Fredricks wrote: Of you running on Linux, how many are using Rev with Ubuntu? Me too, mostly out of curiosity more than need right now. I want to be ready with a Linux option when my clients start looking into it. Phil Davis ___

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Marriott
Hi Lynn, Of you running on Linux, how many are using Rev with Ubuntu? Knowing the level of interest in Ubuntu usage would be helpful for both companies. I used to be pretty huge on Debian-based Linspire as the best Linux flavor for complete technophobes/newbies. Then I learned that Linspire

RE: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Of you running on Linux, how many are using Rev with Ubuntu? Knowing the level of interest in Ubuntu usage would be helpful for both companies. I used to be pretty huge on Debian-based Linspire as the best Linux flavor for complete technophobes/newbies. Then I learned that Linspire

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Jerry Muelver
Lynn Fredricks wrote: Hello all, Im wearing my Paradigma hat here (hey, if you can to RevCon 2005 you could have had one too!) but I also have my Runtime kilt handy. It seems that, in the span of the last two years, Ubuntu has come out of nowhere to achieve an unprecidented popularity.

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Alex Shaw
Bill Marriott wrote: Ubuntu is clearly the flavor-of-the-month. As far as I can remember it has number one on the distrowatch.com list for a few years now :) Out of the dozen or so distros I've installed over the years.. Xubuntu is my favourite and have had no problems. Got a new rack

Bug with token chunk type?

2007-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
This: put token 1 of s800 ...returns s800, but this: put token 1 of 800s ...returns 800. bug? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com

Re: Bug with token chunk type?

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Smith
And put token 1 of s800s returns s800s The docs say: 'Use the token keyword to parse a Revolution statement.' (I assume that means a transcript statement, in the old parlance). So maybe these strings don't count as Revolution statements? Best, Mark On 20 Mar 2007, at 01:33,

Re: Bug with token chunk type?

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Marriott
It appears that only the letters a,b,c,d,e,f, and x operate the way you are expecting. on mouseUp repeat for each char x in abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz put 111 x into wholeThing put token 1 of wholeThingreturn after fld 1 end repeat end mouseUp put token 1 of s800

Re: Bug with token chunk type?

2007-03-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Marriott wrote: It appears that only the letters a,b,c,d,e,f, and x operate the way you are expecting. on mouseUp repeat for each char x in abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz put 111 x into wholeThing put token 1 of wholeThingreturn after fld 1 end repeat end mouseUp

Re: Bug with token chunk type?

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Marriott
Jacqueline, So it's hex. Not sure where the x fits in though. Ah, brilliant. The x is also used in Hex notation. For example, see the Windows CSIDL values at http://tinyurl.com/7hei ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Bug with token chunk type?

2007-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Bill Marriott wrote: It appears that only the letters a,b,c,d,e,f, and x operate the way you are expecting. on mouseUp repeat for each char x in abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz put 111 x into wholeThing put token 1 of wholeThingreturn after fld 1 end

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- I've got a Kubuntu box at home and we're changing our red hat machines at work over to Kubuntu as well. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Did you notice a change in the forums?

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Devin- Monday, March 19, 2007, 8:41:09 AM, you wrote: I think he means that you no longer have to log in to read the forums (fora?). Only to post. ...and it took how many months of us (well, me at any rate) carping about why this should be done? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]