Re: Trying to control OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer

2007-05-27 Thread Stephen Barncard
Pour through the manual and see if you can find anything about how the printer uses tabs. Also try and select a monospaced font. A Web browser would make a lousy print layout tool. Your workflow description is not clear; what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Say, I'm writing an app

Re: Abode Tools Died -- Back To RunRev!

2007-05-27 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Swami, It seems with the upgrade to CS3, as some are saying over at the Adobe forums, we have paid for a downgrade Specifically, Adobe dropped ImageReady and it is no longer possible to create and share droplets for photo processing. Sure you can buy Fireworks and learn it's powerful

Re: Relative folder paths

2007-05-27 Thread Bob Hartley
On 26/05/2007 03:09:07, Bill Vlahos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Richard, This doesn't seem to do anything useful to me. How would I get a list of files in the DataFileFolder and then get a list of files in the Preferences folder? Hi Billl Have a look on my rev user space under nijinsky

Re: altID

2007-05-27 Thread David Bovill
Hmmm Ill have to do another test - when I tried it last week it failed? On 26/05/07, Dick Kriesel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put the id of it into tGroupID2 Will get back. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: altID

2007-05-27 Thread David Bovill
I agree Richard On 26/05/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But while it could be easier, I haven't seen anything yet which makes such gadgets prohibitively difficult in Rev today. As one example I have a table object I use in a number of apps, and a couple other developers have

Ask Answer

2007-05-27 Thread LunchnMeets
Hi everyone, I put the following script in the button of another stack. on mouseUp show stack Test modeless stack Test toplevel stack Test beep end mouseUp I thought the beep shouldn’t sound in this case, but it does. I’m trying to make my own custom ask and answer dialog boxes in a

Re: Ask Answer

2007-05-27 Thread Björnke von Gierke
You want modal not modeless. But before you do that, make sure that there is a button on your test stack that closes it, otherwise you're stuck. On 27 May 2007, at 13:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I put the following script in the button of another stack. on mouseUp show stack

How to dismiss a modal dialog (was: Re: Ask Answer)

2007-05-27 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Björnke, You can always use the IDE contextual menu (ctrl+ shift click on Win and Command+ctrl+ shift click on Mac) and toplevel the window by changing its style in this menu. So you are never stuck :-) Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Le 27 mai 07 à 14:39, Björnke von Gierke a

Re: How to dismiss a modal dialog (was: Re: Ask Answer)

2007-05-27 Thread LunchnMeets
Hi again everyone, OK, so I’ve created a modal stack that ignores everything else. That’s good. Now how do I transfer data from that modal stack to the continuing script that opened the modal stack? Maybe dialogData has something to do with that but I don’t understand that command. Joe

How to rotate an oval graphic ?

2007-05-27 Thread jbv
Hi list,, I've tried every possible way to do that, but no luck... Any help would be greatly apreciated... Thanks in advance, JB ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: How to dismiss a modal dialog (was: Re: Ask Answer)

2007-05-27 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Joe, Hi again everyone, OK, so I’ve created a modal stack that ignores everything else. That’s good. Now how do I transfer data from that modal stack to the continuing script that opened the modal stack? Maybe dialogData has something to do with that but I don’t understand that

Character set conversion from/to MySQL

2007-05-27 Thread Torbjörn Nordlindh
Hi, I'm going to make a database browser/editor for my MySQL databases. All my MySQL databases and tables are set up to use UTF-8 only. Still everything is delivered in ISO-8859-1 when I read data into Revolution (2.8.1). I can't find how to tell Revolution what character set it should

Re: How to dismiss a modal dialog (was: Re: Ask Answer)

2007-05-27 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Joe, Le 27 mai 07 à 17:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : OK, so I’ve created a modal stack that ignores everything else. That’s good. Now how do I transfer data from that modal stack to the continuing script that opened the modal stack? Maybe dialogData has something to do with that but

OSAX: Scripting Additions OSX

2007-05-27 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, there are AppleScript scripting-additions called OSAX, XMAIL.osax for instance; is it possible to use OSAXes from Revolution on OSX (and how)? Thank you for your help. Richard ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: OSAX: Scripting Additions OSX

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richard, You can use OSAXen exactly the same way you do with AppleScript. They have to be installed to be available. 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

Re: Error in docs about file creation date

2007-05-27 Thread Jim Sims
On 23 May 2007, at 09:17, Ian Wood wrote: Obviously this isn't a problem for images that have been 'saved as' with the EXIF data stripped out because they will have a new valid creation date being new files, but people do it to original files as well (or copies if they know what's good for

[ANN] id3libv1.0.0

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Smith
I've got a new version of id3lib working that writes id3 tags as well as reads them. It doesn't yet have all the features that I want it to, but the basic writing of text frames is covered, and support for picture and comment frames is coming 'rsn'. You can download it from

Re: [ANN] id3libv1.0.0

2007-05-27 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, I've got a new version of id3lib working that writes id3 tags as well as reads them. It doesn't yet have all the features that I want it to, but the basic writing of text frames is covered, and support for picture and comment frames is coming 'rsn'. You can download it from

Re: Character set conversion from/to MySQL

2007-05-27 Thread Bill
Check out Trevor's library of database functions for this as I remember seeing lots of UTF conversion functions there that I ignored. On 5/27/07 11:13 AM, Torbjörn Nordlindh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm going to make a database browser/editor for my MySQL databases. All my MySQL

Re: Trying to control OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer

2007-05-27 Thread rgould8
Well, what I'm trying to do is create a tool that allows a shipping company to print their shipping forms, but use data from a host-based database. I would have thought that Microsoft Excel would be a lousey print-formatting tool too, but somehow they use it.? If I can create a tool that can

Compact Stack

2007-05-27 Thread Bill Vlahos
The dictionary entry for compact stack says it is used to reclaim space when a card is deleted. I'll be making plenty of changes to the content of data stacks but won't be changed the number of cards in them. Is this function only usefull for card deletions or is it also generally useful for

Re: How to rotate an oval graphic ?

2007-05-27 Thread Jacques Hausser
Hi list,, I've tried every possible way to do that, but no luck... Any help would be greatly apreciated... Thanks in advance, JB Hi JB Would be nice actually... I had the same problem, and I made my oval myself, on a preexisting graphic, style polygon (which can be rotated) something like:

Problems extracting files from a zip archive

2007-05-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi All, I've been experimenting with the revZip commands, mostly successfully. However I have found that once a zip archive file has been edited either by adding or deleting a file, I am unable to extract any files from it, either to a file or to a variable, Extracting to a file creates the

Re: [ANN] id3libv1.0.0

2007-05-27 Thread Scott Kane
From: Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a new version of id3lib working that writes id3 tags as well as reads them. It doesn't yet have all the features that I want it to, but the basic writing of text frames is covered, and support for picture and comment frames is coming 'rsn'.

Re: Character set conversion from/to MySQL

2007-05-27 Thread Torbjörn Nordlindh
On 2007-05-27 19:21+02:00 Bill wrote: Check out Trevor's library of database functions for this as I remember seeing lots of UTF conversion functions there that I ignored. I have, and it works with some tweaking but it seems to be even more overhead compared to what I've already done.

Re: Stack version?

2007-05-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill Vlahos wrote: On Saturday, May 26, 2007, at 06:32PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Bill Vlahos wrote: I was wondering how others deal with versionioning their stacks. I don't mean the standalones which already have version information but regular stacks. The ECMI spec at the Rev

Re: altID

2007-05-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: By using properties to drive the control, the getProp and setProp handlers just refer to the target to find the object being acted on, so there's no need to hard-wire IDs anywhere in the scripts I've found that I've had to be very careful about using the target for groups