Thanks, Devin, for the honorable mention!
Best,
Jerry Daniels
Makers of Galaxy
http://www.daniels-mara.com
On Jun 19, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Devin Asay wrote:
Hello list,
During the summer I have time to rethink some of the materials in
my beginning programming course. For those of you not
By the way, and this is off-topic, except that it is about the coming Perl 6
programming language, the interesting citation:
the vision for Perl 6 is more than simply a rewrite of Perl 5. By separating
the parsing from the compilation and the runtime, we're opening the doors
for multiple
By the way, the snapshot of Perl 6 technology (called Parrot) can be
downloaded from http://www.parrotcode.org/
Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute
bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language
implementations in various stages
www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk
or www.ssBk.co.uk
UPDATE AVAILABLE
Thanks to feedback and feature requests, a major incremental update has been
uploaded and is now available. The following are some of the main
improvements. For full release notes including all bugfixes see
Hello Folks,
I know that Rev Media tags the stacks it saves as belonging to itself. Can
it be used to create legacy stacks for CGI use?
Andre
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Cool Web Resources for Runtime Revolution
developershttp://andregarzia.com/blog/files/articles/webapp_resources.html
A list with useful web app development resources for you all.
Cheers
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Andre, most of the links from the following cited site cannot be
found. At least that is the result I'm getting.
Joe Wilkins
On Jun 19, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Hello Friends,
Cool Web Resources for Runtime Revolution
developershttp://andregarzia.com/blog/files/articles/
Hi All,
I was hoping someone could help me to solve a dilemma. I can't seem to
get my application made in Rev to respond to speakable items placed in
the appropriate folder in the Application Speakable Items folder. I
noticed an earlier poster also had trouble with this. The same
AppleScript
Hey, when you guys report things like this, it would be very helpful
if we knew what you're using. Computer and OS and Rev version.
Joe Wilkins
In my case this has occurred on two computers:
MacPro Macintel 10.4.7 running a standalone built with 2.8.1. The
standalone was built as a
My bad, my bad,
link is wrong, it's here
http://andregarzia.com/blog/files/webapp_resources.html
:-/
sorry for the inconvenience. can you try again?
Andre
On 6/19/07, Joe Lewis Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andre, most of the links from the following cited site cannot be
found. At least
Hi Shari,
Now that I know we're running somewhat similar environments, you've
got my interest. First, this pList that you refer to: is this one
that you created manually, or was it generated by RR from the objects
and stuff that you've created. I'm assuming this is probably a
game of
Atta boy! Great scenery. Just wish I had time to check it all out.
Joe Wilkins
On Jun 19, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
My bad, my bad,
link is wrong, it's here
http://andregarzia.com/blog/files/webapp_resources.html
:-/
sorry for the inconvenience. can you try again?
Andre
On
My apologies for not stripping all the stuff at the bottom the last
couple of times.
Joe Wilkins
On Jun 19, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
Atta boy! Great scenery. Just wish I had time to check it all out.
Joe Wilkins
On Jun 19, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
My bad,
Joe,
Every Mac OSX app has a pList file. Rev creates one in the
standalone, however, to customize your application you must change
it. So I use a custom pList file, simply replacing the Rev generated
one. I've been replacing the Rev created one for years without any
problems until now.
Shari,
If I were developing RR, I'd probably - sometimes - forget that some
might be using a different IDE; consequently, some problems might
crop in unexpectedly. They're probably not as ab sent minded as I
might be, but as you update your programs to the latest RR, I'd
consider
Shari wrote:
As I use a different IDE to build the standalone, I do not know if the
actual Rev standalone builder customizes it now so that we don't have
to.
Rev has created customized plist files for quite a while now. You
shouldn't have to do anything except set the info in the Standalone
Looking at the crash log you posted, there does seem to be a problem
with an image display, but I'm no expert on crash logs. Really what
you need to do is run this past the team via a bug report. Crashes
are never the fault of your script, all crashes are engine-related
and need to be fixed.
If I were developing RR, I'd probably - sometimes - forget that some
might be using a different IDE; consequently, some problems might
crop in unexpectedly. They're probably not as ab sent minded as I
might be, but as you update your programs to the latest RR, I'd
consider abandoning the other
On 6/20/07, Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like this technique, but there are lots of times when I've created
a button, given it a name and label, then down the road decided that
the label isn't exactly right and needs to be changed for clarity's
sake. Often in these cases I have already
On 6/20/07, Shari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to post this earlier, but it got caught in the moderator's
web and they never did post it or tell me they weren't going to. So
I've deleted the crash log from the email and posted it here:
Although I've seen 1 or 2 text file attachments
The behavior is as described in the docs (see the Dictionary entry
for repeat).
Please consider closing the bug report. ... The larger BZ is the
harder it gets to wade through. Thanks.
Sounds like just the right time to throw it away and put in a better
way of reporting, monitoring and
Andre Garzia wrote:
Hello Folks,
I know that Rev Media tags the stacks it saves as belonging to itself.
Can
it be used to create legacy stacks for CGI use?
No, Media stacks are 2.7 only.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software |
Although I've seen 1 or 2 text file attachments make it onto the list I
believe the general rule is all posts with attachments are rejected. If you
need to send logs to the list, copy and paste the text is your best bet. For
screen shots or images, for those like you who are fortunate to be able
kevin wrote:
Hi All,
I was hoping someone could help me to solve a dilemma. I can't seem to
get my application made in Rev to respond to speakable items placed in
the appropriate folder in the Application Speakable Items folder. I
noticed an earlier poster also had trouble with this. The
From: Shari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Actually I did insert it as text, and not an attachment, but the filter
catches the size of the email apparently. I never was officially rejected
or accepted. I just got an automated post that a moderator would make the
decision and let me know. I didn't know
The list is at http://revolution.byu.edu/design/bestpractices.html
I'm interested in anyone's thoughts about them.
Are they helpful?
Could some of them inadvertently cause problems down the road?
Have I left something important out?
on Thoughts
Name all objects: Absolutely! Even using an
I believe the term used here is List Mom and that role seems to
usually go to Heather N. She's to nice to yell - quite different to
how I do things - and her way is probably much nicer for all. ;-)
Scott
Scott,
I've never seen you yell at anybody unless they were awful bad
kiddies.
From: Shari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Shari,
I've never seen you yell at anybody unless they were awful bad kiddies.
Rotten little buggers who deserved to be yelled at :-) If you've ever
read the message boards for various stocks, now THEY could use a heavy
hand!
LOL! It was very different in
Hi,
i need to create several fields, 3 at a line, from a script. The number of
fields depends on the number of lines a textfile contains. Each field then must
contain an item of the text file. Excatly said, 3 items of each line of the
text file have to be put into the 3 fields.
Creating the
On 6/19/07, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just been through this on the kids Windows boxes.
It's not written in Rev else I'd share the code.
Fortunately the whole issue has been solved with OSX and it's Admin (Dad)
and User (Child) accounts, Parental Control features, a router
Hi Matthias
You could try the the following
Create your three fields, size them and apply any formatting you need.
Name each field X_1; X_2; X_3 as 'X' will contain your line number
Correctly position the fields relative to each other, as they would
appear on your card, and group them.
Now hide
Hi,
Further to the problems I was having with Opening a Library stack
from within a function inside the same library. I found that having a
player object inside the stack caused RunRev to Crash when the go
stack command is executed. The object I removed had a fileName set,
when I
Oops. Pressed send too early
On 19/06/07, Ian McKnight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Matthias
You could try the the following
put the number of lines in myTextFile into tNumberOfLines
put 20 into theDistanceBetweenLines -- this value is determined by the
height of your field and the distance
I do this like that (just copied from an existing app):
lock screen
create group gLegendKeeper in group gLegend of card mainCard
repeat with i=1 to 100
put f i into gName
create field gName in group gLegendKeeper of group gLegend of card
mainCard
set the left of field fName of card
whoops, omitted a typo - it should be :
lock screen
create group gLegendKeeper in group gLegend of card mainCard
repeat with i=1 to 30
put f i into fName
create field fName in group gLegendKeeper of group gLegend of card
mainCard
set the left of field fName of card mainCard to (myLeft +
Hi Dave, you wrote:
breakpoint
put the short name of this stack into myCallingStack
show me
go stack the (short name of me)
set the fileName of player PlayerThumbnail of me to
theMovieFilePathName
The file is valid and plays find in another player object.
Any ideas on how to
On 19 Jun 2007, at 10:10, Michael Binder wrote:
Hi Dave, you wrote:
breakpoint
put the short name of this stack into myCallingStack
show me
go stack the (short name of me)
set the fileName of player PlayerThumbnail of me to
theMovieFilePathName
The file is valid and plays
Hi everyone,
anyone having problems with the 2.8.1 installer?
I had a previous install of 2.8 (gm1, 2, 3, 4 - all too buggy to be used)
and decided to test the 2.8.1.
First the custom install path c:\app doesn't work.
second the default path c:\app\revolution enterprise wont work either! It
Hi Dave,
Le 19 juin 07 à 09:15, Dave a écrit :
Further to the problems I was having with Opening a Library stack
from within a function inside the same library. I found that having
a player object inside the stack caused RunRev to Crash when the
go stack command is executed. The object I
Jim Ault wrote:
Seems like a bug to me.
But if you use this form it works as expected.
put 123456.7890 into a
put 123456.7890 + 0 into b
split a using cr and .
split b using cr and .
-- or
split b using tab and .
split b using null and .
That's interesting...
Anyway, here's the
Hi,
Further to this problem! I found that if I turn off always buffer
in the property inspector for the Player Object, IT DOES NOT CRASH!!!
So, why should it crash if the always buffer is set true? Also, by
setting it false, what implications does this have on movie playback
and my
Hi,
In 2.8.1 annoucement it warned:
..I recommend you do a full install from the downloads page rather than
using your update button inside the program, as this version corrects a
number of issues with the installer/uninstaller, and you will not see the
benefit of this unless you do a full
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Well, you beat me by 20 years! I started in 1973, working on Key-to-
Disk system to replace paper tape and punched cards!
Out of interest:
What is the thing that most impresses you about modern computer
technology?
What
I didn't see any announcement or read me in the download page! What's a
newbie to expect?
At least this version now works better than 2.8!
cheers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19/06/2007 12:15:07:
Hi,
In 2.8.1 annoucement it warned:
..I recommend you do a full install from the downloads
On Jun 18, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Cal Horner wrote:
A Challenge to the list members.
On June 14, 1957 I entered into my life long love affair with the
computer.
Back then it wasn't called IT. It was simply DP. COBOL and Basic
didn't
exist. Fortran was only a baby.
My first computer was peg
Hello everyone,
I'm a little rusty here. Does it matter much where I place handlers
that trap openCard, closeField, and such messages? In a simple
stack, I put them all in the stack script, but I guess I could put
them in group script. I'm interested in speed as opposed to which
Hi Greg,
Le 19 juin 07 à 14:36, Gregory Lypny a écrit :
I'm a little rusty here. Does it matter much where I place
handlers that trap openCard, closeField, and such messages? In a
simple stack, I put them all in the stack script, but I guess I
could put them in group script. I'm
Congratulations Cal!
I'm maybe closer than the average member of this list, but not too
close: I think I saw a digital computer in late 57 as an
undergraduate in Manchester, UK. It would have been something to do
with Professor Tom Kilburn in the Electrical Engineering department.
As a
Cal,
I started programming in 1962, so you've got 5 years on me. :-(
Look at My Computing Experience on my UH web page below for a
rundown of what I've been upto over the years.
Congrats and happy anniversary,
Glenn
On June 18, 2007 7:19:50 PM CDT Cal Homer wrote:
A Challenge to the
Gosh, I don't stand a chance: born in 1962, sent off
Hollerith cards to Imperial College in 1974, worked
with a Research Machine 1976.
Graham Samual wrote:
The sheer intellectual drive and sense of fun
and it seems to have gone; to be replaced by people
who are deadly earnest and wouldn't know
This seems urgent enough to send out an alert. If you
use the for each loop to manipulate text this bug
will be of interest.
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5157
Luggage? GPS? Comic
Hi Michael,
Using repeat for each *must not* modify the variable used:
Here tPerson is modified when running:
repeat for each line tPerson in tpeople
put s after tPerson
put tPerson return after holder
end repeat
This leads to unexpected results.
Instead try:
repeat for each
Eric Chatonet wrote:
Using repeat for each *must not* modify the variable used:
Here tPerson is modified when running:
repeat for each line tPerson in tpeople
put s after tPerson
put tPerson return after holder
end repeat
This leads to unexpected results.
Instead try:
On 19 Jun 2007, at 15:51, Richard Gaskin wrote:
The behavior is as described in the docs (see the Dictionary entry
for repeat).
Please consider closing the bug report. Somewhere between a
fourth and a third of all entries in Bugzilla are noise, either
reports submitted in error, or
Has anyone else noticed an I-beam artifact when locking a field?
Try this in a field on Win32...
on mouseLeave
set the locktext of me to true
end mouseLeave
on mouseEnter
set the locktext of me to false
end mouseEnter
Not affected on OSX.
/H
Dave wrote:
On 19 Jun 2007, at 15:51, Richard Gaskin wrote:
The behavior is as described in the docs (see the Dictionary entry
for repeat).
Please consider closing the bug report. Somewhere between a
fourth and a third of all entries in Bugzilla are noise, either
reports submitted in
On Jun 19, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm a little rusty here. Does it matter much where I place
handlers that trap openCard, closeField, and such messages? In a
simple stack, I put them all in the stack script, but I guess I
could put them in group script.
Hello list,
During the summer I have time to rethink some of the materials in my
beginning programming course. For those of you not familiar with it
(probably most of you) this course is part of a larger curriculum for
teaching applied computing skills to non-techies--our Computers and
Thanks Eric,
That's what I figured. I'll look into the private commands.
Regards,
Gregory
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007, at 10:52 AM, use-revolution-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Greg,
Le 19 juin 07 à 14:36, Gregory Lypny a écrit :
I'm a little rusty here. Does it matter much where I
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:07:25 +0200, Torbjörn Nordlindh wrote:
Anyway, here's the real puzzle:
If you
put 1 into a
put 1 + 0 into b
Then a is a number and b is a number and a is an integer and b is an
integer and a=b.
Split treats them differently:
split a by comma gives an array
Devin Asay wrote:
One of the things I introduced last Fall was a list of Best
Practices for beginning Revolution developers. It was inspired in
part by an excellent presentation by Jerry Daniels at RevCon 06.
It was a good year for Best Practices sessions; Ken and I did our
second
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone else noticed an I-beam artifact when locking a field?
Try this in a field on Win32...
on mouseLeave
set the locktext of me to true
end mouseLeave
on mouseEnter
set the locktext of me to false
end mouseEnter
Not affected on OSX.
/H
You mean that if
Hi Hugh,
Le 19 juin 07 à 16:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Has anyone else noticed an I-beam artifact when locking a field?
Try this in a field on Win32...
on mouseLeave
set the locktext of me to true
end mouseLeave
on mouseEnter
set the locktext of me to false
end mouseEnter
Just
On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Devin Asay wrote:
One of the things I introduced last Fall was a list of Best
Practices for beginning Revolution developers. It was inspired
in part by an excellent presentation by Jerry Daniels at RevCon 06.
It was a good year for
I wrote:
Has anyone else noticed an I-beam artifact when locking a field?
Try this in a field on Win32...
on mouseLeave
set the locktext of me to true
end mouseLeave
on mouseEnter
set the locktext of me to false
end mouseEnter
Not affected on OSX.
Martin Baxter wrote:
You
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:18:26 -0600, Devin Asay wrote:
Are they helpful?
Very nice, Devin!
Could some of them inadvertently cause problems down the road?
Have I left something important out?
Well, I don't know if this is *important*, but it works for me - it's
along the lines of Use
Is there a quick way to sort array? Or do I have to get the elements
of each and sort them?
I want to sort an array in which each element is a numeric value, and
I want the keys sorted accordinlgly.
The best i can come up with is this:
function array_GetSortByNumber someArray
combine
On Jun 19, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:18:26 -0600, Devin Asay wrote:
Are they helpful?
Very nice, Devin!
Could some of them inadvertently cause problems down the road?
Have I left something important out?
Well, I don't know if this is *important*, but it
Devin Asay wrote:
On Jun 19, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
I generally don't give names to label
fields, but if I do need to, I follow the rule above and add lbl in
front of it (so the label field I describe above would be called
lblFirstName if I needed to address it).
Yep, I do the
Do you mean the flashing insertion bar gets stuck in the field when you
set locktext to true? This is already bug #4840
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4840
You can work around it by adding a *type tab* before you set the
locktext to true. This defocusses the text filed
I've put a few handlers together to parse JSON data - http://www.json.org/
It is not exactly a library, but my aim is to put together some useful
and fast handlers to dig out the data people most need from JSON
feeds. My approach at the moment is to construct tables that can
easily be converted
All-
While I've never particularly liked lines-of-code metrics as benchmarks of
programming efficiency (tends to reward obfuscation by cramming too much
code into single lines), here's an interesting look at coding a spelling
corrector in Python and then in several alternative languages for
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