Dropped Menu Bar

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi all, Well, it took me a few weeks, but I finally managed to get RR to do something truly awful! I just lost the entire Menu Bar for my main stack. When I select the Build Menu tool, it no longer lists the Menu Bar I've been developing. Any ideas as to how I can recover it? I hate the t

Re: Alias to Folder?

2007-03-29 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
At least on Windows this works: put specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/FolderName.lnk" into shortcutName create alias(shortcutName) to file theFolder Note that you use "file" even for a folder! Den 29. mar. 2007 kl. 21:13 skrev Scott Rossi: The docs say we have a create alias command.

Re: Slowing down speaking

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
You're so great Sarah. Thanks, Joe Wilkins On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:50 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Is there any way to slow down the speaking of text? revSetSpeechSpeed wordsPerMinute Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists

Re: Slowing down speaking

2007-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Is there any way to slow down the speaking of text? revSetSpeechSpeed wordsPerMinute Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferenc

Slowing down speaking

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi all, Is there any way to slow down the speaking of text? Joe Wilkins ___ 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/

From Planet Bizarre!

2007-03-29 Thread Sivakatirswami
Can't resist sharing this one. Imagine the day when one program start clobbering another? It should never happen, right? Well it happened yesterday to one of my users who had ATRA open in the background (9 years old and still doing well, Audio Transcriber.rev) She was surfing in Safari and a

Re: SOLUTION: Anyone here still trying to run applescript from CGI?

2007-03-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, I just checked here: MacBook:/Library/WebServer/Documents/Testing soapdog$ otool -L /usr/ sbin/suexec /usr/sbin/suexec: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 88.3.6) suexec is not linking against any library that might be changed. I think

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Thursday, March 29, 2007, 3:51:44 PM, you wrote: > put "(?Ui).*(clientName)$" into regEx > put replaceText(formLetter,regEx, tClientName) into letterToSend ...nice... > I can search for all the ways I have used "regEx" in my scripts. Wish I > would have started doing this 2 years ago when

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On 3/30/07, Jerry Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you value your time and your sanity, you might give Galaxy a test drive: Jerry, can you confirm that if I want to do a 'replace all' of a term in EVERY occurrence within a stack and it's substacks, I have to turn Galaxy Off and use the R

Re: SOLUTION: Anyone here still trying to run applescript from CGI?

2007-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- This is great. Just great. Do you know if this would break if the gcc library dependencies changed? Been through that already trying to get cgi access in linux... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: exportscripts.rev - Correction

2007-03-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On 3/30/07, Trevor DeVore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You are probably on an Intel machine. I had to recompile and modify the code a bit to work with the modified language code glue that BareBones introduced with Intel support. I can send it to you if you email me off-list. Someday my site wil

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Ault wrote: Actually, Ftp open/save is built into BBEdit [ ver 8.2.6 on OSX 10.4.7 ] Rev has built-in FTP too. :) I made a little stack with buttons for my scripts, so editing them gives me the auto-formatting I enjoy. Added a button to upload them to the server, and some others to te

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
Thanks Andre! I have grabbed it and will likely explore it a good bit tomorrow afternoon. I have a handful of perl scripts I would like to migrate and unify and this might be a helpful way to do it! I wish you all the best and hope all goes well! Wayne On 3/29/07, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Wayne, my server has crashed for some weird reason, so I disabled it's fastCGI support, meaning, my page is down, but the server is running and you can fetch your file at: http://andregarzia.com/RevHTTP.zip Cheers andre On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:29 PM, wayne durden wrote: I don't know if t

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On 3/28/07, Simon HARPER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Regarding the online dictionary, it seems to be different on the mac - the tutorials suggest you can use a drill down approach looking for say messages or commands and then locating the one you want (serendipitous browse) however on my mac I se

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
I don't know if the Rev community can afford to let you go back to school Andre :) I am reading posts and info about revonrockets from revconwest, and I am looking forward to giving this a go! Wayne On 3/29/07, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: damn, my server is crashing!!! allow me

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread Andre Garzia
damn, my server is crashing!!! allow me ten minutes to put it back up andre On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:19 PM, wayne durden wrote: Hi Andre: I am interested but the link I found on the web to it was offline? could you post where it's available? On 3/29/07, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
Hi Andre: I am interested but the link I found on the web to it was offline? could you post where it's available? On 3/29/07, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone doing CGI work with Rev could use my RevHTTP suite that allows you to debug CGIs from inside the Revolution IDE, this

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Anyone doing CGI work with Rev could use my RevHTTP suite that allows you to debug CGIs from inside the Revolution IDE, this way, you'll only upload your cgi when you're positive it works... It's really a time saver, setting breakpoints in CGI and stepping thru. On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:34 PM,

SOLUTION: Anyone here still trying to run applescript from CGI?

2007-03-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Folks, every once in a while, people here ask about "How to run applescript from CGI", this is specially cumbersome since we're locked with the Darwin engine which has no alternateLanguages support. I know that me, Kee, Mark Smith and Gary Thompson were looking for such solution for

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread Martin Baxter
J. Landman Gay wrote: wayne durden wrote: I swear sometimes I believe I am net more productive saving the script one line at a time for any change and ftp'ing it up and testing, no matter how small the change. Actually, I do that a lot. :) For those on a Mac, I highly recommend BBEdit and

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/29/07 5:34 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wayne durden wrote: > >> I swear sometimes I believe I am net more productive saving the script one >> line at a time for any change and ftp'ing it up and testing, no matter how >> small the change. > > Actually, I do that a lot.

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Martin Baxter wrote: I determined, by testing, that on Linux (and I would assume - other Unixes as well) there appears to be an assumption that any text files you import already have LF line endings, so no conversion is done. On Mac and Windows the native line endings (for either platform) are

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
wayne durden wrote: I swear sometimes I believe I am net more productive saving the script one line at a time for any change and ftp'ing it up and testing, no matter how small the change. Actually, I do that a lot. :) For those on a Mac, I highly recommend BBEdit and Fetch for cgi work. Fetc

Re: Alias to Folder?

2007-03-29 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: The docs say we have a create alias command. Is it possible to create an alias to a folder? (Rev 2.4, 2.7, 2.8) Thanks & Regards, Scott Rossi After looking at this, I suppose the relevant part is: put "ln -s" && tSourceOfAlias && tAliasL

Re: Alias to Folder?

2007-03-29 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: The docs say we have a create alias command. Is it possible to create an alias to a folder? (Rev 2.4, 2.7, 2.8) Thanks & Regards, Scott Rossi Hi Scott, Here is a bit of code I use to create an alias to an app on Macs. Since apps are vi

Re: Open A Windows Desktop Folder?

2007-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ken Ray wrote: >> on openFolder pPath >> replace "/" with "\" in pPath >> set the hideConsoleWindows to true >> get shell("explorer.exe /root,"& quote & pPath & quote) >> end openFolder > > You need to add "start" before your call: > >get shell("start explorer.exe /root,"& qu

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
Hi Jaqueline! Thanks for your comments. I actually waded in and put in the time today and have solved this already. CGI is particularly aggravating because it tends to involve multiple files (the form posting page, the cgi script, any text files being used as flat file databases, and any text f

Re: Open A Windows Desktop Folder?

2007-03-29 Thread Ken Ray
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:45:06 -0700, Scott Rossi wrote: > on openFolder pPath > replace "/" with "\" in pPath > set the hideConsoleWindows to true > get shell("explorer.exe /root,"& quote & pPath & quote) > end openFolder You need to add "start" before your call: get shell("start explore

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Martin Baxter
J. Landman Gay wrote: Martin Baxter wrote: Last I checked (admittedly quite a while ago) this was not true on Linux, just on Mac and Win. perhaps this has changed? Anybody currently working on Linux know if RR can nowadays properly open mac or win text files and translate line-endings without

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/29/07 2:45 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I found the most helpful is to be able to instantly search all >> the scripts of every Rev project I've ever worked on without having >> to open them. >> >> (Opening them in Rev takes more time, and sometimes triggers openCar

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Martin Baxter wrote: Last I checked (admittedly quite a while ago) this was not true on Linux, just on Mac and Win. perhaps this has changed? Anybody currently working on Linux know if RR can nowadays properly open mac or win text files and translate line-endings without scripted assistance?

Re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
wayne durden wrote: I am replacing perl cgi's and have found the process somewhat frustrating. No matter how simple the tasks are, it seems there are an abundance of places to make simple mistakes and very little feedback from the server letting me know where I have goofed this time. The best

Open A Windows Desktop Folder?

2007-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
More help needed ASAP... :-) I've been trying to use the following script to open a Windows desktop folder: on openFolder pPath replace "/" with "\" in pPath set the hideConsoleWindows to true get shell("explorer.exe /root,"& quote & pPath & quote) end openFolder This seems to work fine b

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Ault wrote: Just a few comments that I know about: In Revolution script editor I can't print tabs Yes, the tab key is used to run the 'reformat script' so you can only use tabs after comments, if you paste from another editor. If you go to Preferences -> Script Editor and turn off "auto

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
What I found the most helpful is to be able to instantly search all the scripts of every Rev project I've ever worked on without having to open them. (Opening them in Rev takes more time, and sometimes triggers openCard and openStack scripts, and there are sometimes stack name conflicts, especial

Re: exportscripts.rev - Correction

2007-03-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 29, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Hey Ken, Are you sure the BBedit Transcript language module still works? I tried installing both the one from your site and the one from Trevor's site. Neither of them showed up in BBedit as an available language. :-( You are probably on an

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Josh Mellicker
On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What does one do with scripts outside of the IDE that can't be done directly in the IDE? What I found the most helpful is to be able to instantly search all the scripts of every Rev project I've ever worked on without having to open

Re: exportscripts.rev - Correction

2007-03-29 Thread Devin Asay
Hey Ken, Are you sure the BBedit Transcript language module still works? I tried installing both the one from your site and the one from Trevor's site. Neither of them showed up in BBedit as an available language. :-( The stsXMLXMXLEditor worked flawlessly, however. :-) Devin On Mar 29

Re: exportscripts.rev - Correction

2007-03-29 Thread Ken Ray
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:22:59 -0500, Ken Ray wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:18:29 +0300 (FLE Daylight Time), Viktoras > Didziulis wrote: > >> Cool! But one may end with hundreds of files this way... What about >> exporting to an xml along with properties of stacks, cards and objects? And >> then

Re: Alias to Folder?

2007-03-29 Thread Ken Ray
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:13:11 -0700, Scott Rossi wrote: > The docs say we have a create alias command. > > Is it possible to create an alias to a folder? (Rev 2.4, 2.7, 2.8) Nope... http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=1059 Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: "While there is nothing difficult about the example you provide above, I see a broadcasting system (like the one Dave has talked about) as making your code cleaner and easier to read." Yes, you are completely right: however, I bet you didn

Re: Hiding a nonRev file in a Windows Standalone

2007-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Warren wrote: http://www.altuit.com/webs/revCentral/Number6/default.htm : "You can now SuckUp a binary file, then SpitOut it." And you can compress and even encrypt it: -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Martin Baxter
Devin Asay wrote: Here are some of the "aha!" moments that helped me figure out Xtalk scripting. Excellent post Devin, IMO It should be distributed with all new and demo license keys One minor picky point Internally, all line delimiters are ASCII 10 (LF), but Rev automatically translates

Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
"While there is nothing difficult about the example you provide above, I see a broadcasting system (like the one Dave has talked about) as making your code cleaner and easier to read." Yes, you are completely right: however, I bet you didn't think up your elegant and efficient version in the 2

revMail attachments question

2007-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Is it possible to use the revMail command so as to send not just an email, but the email with an attached file? My app is doing backups of the data file on the local machine, but it would be really neat to be able to send a backup automatically by email to an offsite machine. Save a lot of too

Alias to Folder?

2007-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
The docs say we have a create alias command. Is it possible to create an alias to a folder? (Rev 2.4, 2.7, 2.8) Thanks & Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.r

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Ken Ray
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:18:29 +0300 (FLE Daylight Time), Viktoras Didziulis wrote: > Cool! But one may end with hundreds of files this way... What about > exporting to an xml along with properties of stacks, cards and objects? And > then its just one step towards importing back into Revolution ide

[ANN] STS XML Library 2.0.4 Released

2007-03-29 Thread Ken Ray
A minor upgrade to the STS XML Library (2.0.4) was released today that fixed a few bugs, including a defect in the stsXML_DeleteNode command that would cause problems when deleting the last child node of a parent node. Additionally, a new version of the RSS Plugin (1.0.2) that fixed a few bugs

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Jim Ault wrote: On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Jim Ault wrote: In Revolution script editor I can't print tabs Yes, the tab key is used to run the 'reformat script' so you can only use tabs after comments, if you paste from another editor. Or just concatenate usi

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Ault
> On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Jim Ault wrote: > >>> In Revolution script editor I can't print tabs >> Yes, the tab key is used to run the 'reformat script' so you can >> only use >> tabs after comments, if you paste from another editor. > > Or just concatenate using the tab constant: > > put "o

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Jim Ault wrote: In Revolution script editor I can't print tabs Yes, the tab key is used to run the 'reformat script' so you can only use tabs after comments, if you paste from another editor. Or just concatenate using the tab constant: put "one" & tab

Re: Tutorial Videos

2007-03-29 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Thank you, Devin, found them! Now for my usual 'BUT': I think they would be much easier viewing if the background were set to black or, at least darker, textured background - that wall of white makes my eyes go funny. What!?! You didn'

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Nice to know, since I'm sure I'll be getting into the image management issue before too long. Thanks, Joe Wilkins On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Jim Ault wrote: On 3/29/07 8:36 AM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim, it's the computers. Even HC is fast! (smile) Joe Wilkins

Printing Crash

2007-03-29 Thread Dan Friedman
Greetings... CRASH! Anyone have any thoughts?? I have one field on a stack. I have set the textFont of the field to ",Unicode". I have pasted some Vietnamese text into this field. The text looks perfect on screen. I choose "Print", and CRASH! Any thoughts? Mac OS 10.4.9 Rev 2.7.4 (and 2.8.0)

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/29/07 8:36 AM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim, it's the computers. Even HC is fast! (smile) > > Joe Wilkins Actually, the Rinaldi XCMDs and XCFNs are compiled to give HCard speed boosts, and Rinaldi has noted that Rev is so fast you don't need most of them for Rev. H

Re: Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: 1. So let's have a merry drop-down button on the Main Stack to change units. 2. on mouseUp the mouseLine if it is "inches" then do FANCY CONVERSION ROUTINE NUMBER 999 end if end mouseUp where FANCY CONVERSION

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Jerry Daniels
If you value your time and your sanity, you might give Galaxy a test drive: http://www.daniels-mara.com/galaxy.htm http://www.runrev.com/section/revselect/galaxy/index.php I've been using tabbed browsing of object scripts and folders within handlers for a couple years. I have lots of

Re: Hiding a nonRev file in a Windows Standalone

2007-03-29 Thread Bob Warren
Chipp wrote at http://www.altuit.com/webs/revCentral/Number6/default.htm : "You can now SuckUp a binary file, then SpitOut it." Definitely non-schismogenetic and therefore recommended! It might even work in Linux too! Bob __

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
Thanks Jim! I did not notice and even did not bother to check this since my purchase last year (oh my!) that an alternative Edit:Find and replace in main Revolution menu is different from Find and replace in script editor. Thanks for pointing to this ! Regards! Viktoras ---Original Me

Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
"But how do you notify a "BOSS" that something has changed?" Oh, Dearie Me! here I am between a group of 7 year-olds ('before, after") and a group of adults (first-conditional) and I see this . . . being the fool I am, I rise to the bate:- 1. So let's have a merry drop-down button on the Main St

Re: Tutorial Videos

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
You sure that's the video's! lol Just kidding! All the Best Dave On 29 Mar 2007, at 16:21, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Thank you, Devin, found them! Now for my usual 'BUT': I think they would be much easier viewing if the background were set to black or, at least darker, textured background

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
H Simon, I can really sympathize with you! I was in the same boat around three years ago. The documentation is not very good, especially if you are used to working in C/C++ where the "white" books are available. The thing that really confused me and got me pulling my hair out is the "all

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Jim, it's the computers. Even HC is fast! (smile) Joe Wilkins On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Jim Ault wrote: On 3/29/07 8:12 AM, "Devin Asay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe others can share similar "Aha!" insights about the nature of the Rev scripting language. Coming from the old Hypercar

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Aha! So RR is just like HyperCard - except for custom properties and a few other querky things - as I knew all along. Thanks for the confirmation. No sarcasm intended. I'm serious! Joe Wilkins On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Devin Asay wrote: On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:27 AM, Simon HARPER wrote: H

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/29/07 8:12 AM, "Devin Asay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe others can share similar "Aha!" insights about the nature of > the Rev scripting language. Coming from the old Hypercard world, after 3 years I am still getting used to the fact that Rev can work through 100 lines of code in 2

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Ault
Just a few comments that I know about: > In Revolution script editor I can't print tabs Yes, the tab key is used to run the 'reformat script' so you can only use tabs after comments, if you paste from another editor. > find an replace using regular expressions, If a stack is the frontmost window

Tutorial Videos

2007-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thank you, Devin, found them! Now for my usual 'BUT': I think they would be much easier viewing if the background were set to black or, at least darker, textured background - that wall of white makes my eyes go funny. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson __

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:27 AM, Simon HARPER wrote: Hi there, and I do agree that, as a coder of 15 years, I would normally go on gut instinct. However, being used to c/c++, Java and Perl the Revolution Transcript syntax and expressions are not 'natural' for me, as I'm trained to think in the m

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Viktoras Didziulis wrote: In Revolution script editor I can't print tabs, find and replace phrases (e g. change names of globals) in ALL scripts of any stack with a single click (or is this option hidden somewhere?), find and replace using regular expressions, line numbering is absent (yes I know

Re: Tutorial Videos

2007-03-29 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Does anyone know where the tutorial videos are cached once they are downloaded? As it happens, I was just looking at this yesterday. On my system (OSX) they are in ~/Documents/My Revolution/Resources/Video Tutorials. I would assume tha

Re: Can't write in field ...

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
On 29 Mar 2007, at 06:39, Jim Ault wrote: get the properties of fld 1 combine it using cr and tab put it Wow Jim! That's so cool! I didn't know you could do that! Thanks a lot All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.r

Re: Can't write in field ...

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
Hi, Sounds stupid, but is "lockText" set on the Field? If unset it! All the Best Dave On 29 Mar 2007, at 06:39, Ken Ray wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:10:31 +0200, Jean-Pierre wrote: I 'm sure that it was a stupid things but ... I have made a programm for my son. Programm making fractal .

Re: Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
Hi, But how do you notify a "BOSS" that something has changed? As an example: I have a preference stack that hold the default way to display measurements (Inches, MM, CM or Pixels). Other stacks that display Measurement data use the setting to show how to display it. If I have a stack o

Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well . . . the way I do it ( is probably goofy and inefficient, but it works ): is pop all the variables into a list field on the mainstack and then do something rather like this: put fld "MAINSTACKVARHOLDER" of stack "BIGBOSS" into fld "SUBSTACKVARHOLDER" of stack "SMALLBOSS" where the names

Re: Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
Hi, I've written my own Message/Event Handling system which solves this problem plus a whole lot more. Basically it works like this: You have one stack that is the repository for all "Inter/Intra-Stack" data - Call it "DataManager". The other stacks (Call then "StackA" and "StackB" gain

Re: Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hello Simon, There are many ways to handle user preferences and I assume that you'll get many different ideas from the list. Here is one where used stacks are assumed read-only and current prefs stored out of any stack: Default standard prefs are stored in a custom property set. This is han

Re: Problem with Fields

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
Hi, The thing is that this was working perfectly before RunRev version 2.8.0.370 (the previous version I used was 350 I think). It also worked in 2.6.1.152. So something must have changed, either in RunRev or as a result of other changes I have made. I was really trying to determine which

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
Hi, Yes, the CodeWarrior Editor is much more powerful too. All the Best Dave On 29 Mar 2007, at 09:55, Viktoras Didziulis wrote: And I forgot to mention that undo/redo in Revolution script editor is very limited... But Revolution is still my favorite RAD anyway :-) Sorry for this additio

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Dave
Hi, Well I've got my own Exporter/Importer which dumps into a Folder and File Hierarchy, I can then drag the base folder into (say) a CodeWarrior Project and then do complex searches between separate stack/application. Also the Folder/File Compare in CodeWarrior is second to none and I've

Re: Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
So I've a main stack and sub-stack for preferences. I save and load the variables as a stack (not text of xml - just yet) when I open and close the substack. However, is there best practice for how to load the variables on startup of the mainstack and then use them in the mainstack - refereshing i

re: trying to replace perl cgi with rev

2007-03-29 Thread wayne durden
Hi everyone! Just wondering offhand if anyone has an already done cgi that accepts a single email address line from a form and adds it to a text file? One that finds it and deletes the line from the text file would be great for managing the unsubscribe part too. I am replacing perl cgi's and hav

Variable transfers Between Stacks and Sub-Stacks.

2007-03-29 Thread Simon HARPER
Hi there, So I've a main stack and sub-stack for preferences. I save and load the variables as a stack (not text of xml - just yet) when I open and close the substack. However, is there best practice for how to load the variables on startup of the mainstack and then use them in the mainst

Re: Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Simon HARPER
Hi there, and I do agree that, as a coder of 15 years, I would normally go on gut instinct. However, being used to c/c++, Java and Perl the Revolution Transcript syntax and expressions are not 'natural' for me, as I'm trained to think in the more mathematical syntax of these grammars and no

Newbie Question

2007-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I beleive one of the main reasons RR does not spend a lot of time and resources on updating documentation is because a very large number of programmers don't read the documentation in anything but a cursory manner - relying on their intuition, their past experience and their willingness ot "get the

Tutorial Videos

2007-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Does anyone know where the tutorial videos are cached once they are downloaded? sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.

Re: How to tell if a stack has been edited (OUPS !)

2007-03-29 Thread Jean-Paul Poccard
Sorry , I forgot filling the subject field in the mail I just sent. This is a copy of the previous mail : Le 28 mars 07, à 19:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : How to tell if a stack has been edited I have had to customize a file menu and choose wether "save" or "save as" had to be d

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 42, Issue 62

2007-03-29 Thread Jean-Paul Poccard
Le 28 mars 07, à 19:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : How to tell if a stack has been edited I have had to customize a file menu and choose wether "save" or "save as" had to be displayed, Is this the kind of problem you are confronted with ? I found among the rev functions this one :

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
And I forgot to mention that undo/redo in Revolution script editor is very limited... But Revolution is still my favorite RAD anyway :-) Sorry for this additional post :-( Best! Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev

Re: exportscripts.rev

2007-03-29 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
It is just a matter of personal preference, an alternative way of editing in an environment the user is used to for his other scripting tools (like Perl, PHP, HTML/Javascript, SQL, XML, Fortran, whatever else). On MS Windows my personal preference is Crimson editor. I am too addicted to its tools,

Re: Problem with Fields

2007-03-29 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi, Le 29 mars 07 à 02:04, Dave a écrit : I tried your suggestion and it worked! Not sure why though? The reason I added it without using the "send" command was because in the documentation for "openField" it says: Examples: on openField -- when clicking in the field, select all its text