Re: ANN: New USB Drive Library

2007-06-25 Thread Ken Ray
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:22:11 -0700, Phil Davis wrote: I finally have something to give back to this great list. It's a freebie! Enjoy! Cool stuff, Phil! Thanks for contributing this! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Re: Fastest memory based search technique (was: Adding 1 to an array)

2007-06-25 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 6/24/07 10:51 AM, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So whats wrong with the idea of creating arrays and then making unions of these arrays to get a fast in memory result equivalent to SQL join? You'd need to update your arrays when you recompile anything, when you rename almost any

Looking for known Win98 CD-ROM issues

2007-06-25 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I am testing the compatibility of my new application build on WinXp with 2.8.1. running from CD. Running the standalone on Win 2000 and XP and Mac OS X works as expected. When testing Win 98, the exe is loaded into memory, but the program doesn't start, no window comes up. I just can see

Re: Colorizing List Fields

2007-06-25 Thread Pamela Crossley
ken that is a great idea! it may be a solution to many problems i've had (including displaying unicode text but searching aasci text in a clickable list field). On Jun 23, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Right - to fill a complete line, my recommendation is to use two list fields; the one

convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Torbjörn Nordlindh
I need to convert some text into UTF-8 This is the easiest way I have found so far: function utf8Encode theString return uniDecode(uniEncode(theString),UTF8) end utf8Encode Is there any better way to do this? Torbjörn ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Looking for known Win98 CD-ROM issues

2007-06-25 Thread Scott Kane
- Original Message - From: Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] My question, are there any known issues, what could happen on Win 98, running from CD, or if not, is it just my test system or my CD drive? Has anybody experienced a different behaviour between running from HD or CD?

Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Smith
Torbjörn, it's the only way, I think, but it seems to be quite efficient, in my experience - it's never been any kind of bottleneck... Best, Mark On 25 Jun 2007, at 08:34, Torbjörn Nordlindh wrote: I need to convert some text into UTF-8 This is the easiest way I have found so far:

Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Smith
Mark, is that really so? I thought the uniEncode function will convert all single-byte characters to double-byte characters - not UTF8. Is that not what happens? Best, Mark On 25 Jun 2007, at 11:11, Mark Schonewille wrote: If the original string is plain text, you can use

Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Torbjörn Nordlindh
Mark Schonewille Wrote If the original string is plain text, you can use uniEncode(theString) uniEncode returns a double-byte unicode string, not UTF-8. That is the reason for my use of the encode/decode combination. I just wanted to be sure that I'm not doing something stupid, because

AIR (Addobe Integrated Runtime) example done in Rev

2007-06-25 Thread Terry Judd
I was looking through the example AIR applications on the Adobe Labs website and thought some of these should be easy enough to do in Rev. Anyway, the 'Pixel Perfect' example seemed like a good starting point (although I really should have been working on my poster for that workshop next week) and

Re: arrowkey and selectionchanged in a list field

2007-06-25 Thread David Glasgow
On 24 Jun 2007, at 2:12 pm, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi David, Mark, Richard, etc. Le 23 juin 07 à 17:43, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Mark Smith wrote: On 23 Jun 2007, at 11:15, David Glasgow wrote: Unfortunately, selectionchanged is not sent if the selection is changed via arrow keys.

Re: convert to UTF-8

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mark, You are right that uniencode converts all characters to double-byte, while UTF8 does so only where necessary. Using uniencode() only work with most, if not with all, unicode-compatible text editors though, until you start editing the text in the text editor and find out that the

Re: Looking for known Win98 CD-ROM issues

2007-06-25 Thread Dave Cragg
On 25 Jun 2007, at 08:09, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: My question, are there any known issues, what could happen on Win 98, running from CD, or if not, is it just my test system or my CD drive? I've often heard of problems on Windows of running an executable from the top level of a CD. Is the

AW: Looking for known Win98 CD-ROM issues

2007-06-25 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Good to know. I have to think about if I will still support win 98 either. Thank you Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Scott Kane Gesendet: Montag, 25. Juni 2007 11:02 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: Looking for known

AW: Looking for known Win98 CD-ROM issues

2007-06-25 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Yes it is at the top, I'll give it a try. Thank you Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Dave Cragg Gesendet: Montag, 25. Juni 2007 14:14 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: Looking for known Win98 CD-ROM issues On 25 Jun

WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Has any one been looking into some WEB 2.0 dev with Rev for the new iPhone? I would love to be able to develop an app for the iPhone using Revolution. Thanks, Tom McGrath ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

RE:ANN: New USB Drive Library

2007-06-25 Thread Len Morgan
I can't seem to get any of the drive letters to show up (I've tried three different drives). Is this normal? If I can't access a USB drive as a drive letter (or useable name on Windows), what is the purpose of the library? Also, is it possible to turn off a device? I ask because I'm trying

RE: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Jeff Honken
I'm also interested in trying this. It's my understanding it's running OS X -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas McGrath III Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 9:51 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev Has any one been

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Tom, You can't do this, unless you find a way to translate a Revolution stack into a widget that can run inside Safari (i.e. Web 2.0 + AJAX, as Steve Jobs explained at the WWDC). Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering

clipboarddata: a mind bending bug tracking excersize....

2007-06-25 Thread David Bovill
I cant for the life of me track this one down - i am trying to copy text onto the clipboard so it can be pasted into a browser. The last lines of the script are: set the clipboarddata [text] to someHandler put the clipboarddata [text] Tow basic points: 1. The script works fine as is and

Re: clipboarddata: a mind bending bug tracking excersize....

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
David, Could you please post the actual script? If it is very long, you might want to make a demo version that illustrates the problem. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http;//www.salery.com Quickly extract

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Dave
I wonder if a widget could launch a regular app? All the Best Dave On 25 Jun 2007, at 15:38, Mark Schonewille wrote: Tom, You can't do this, unless you find a way to translate a Revolution stack into a widget that can run inside Safari (i.e. Web 2.0 + AJAX, as Steve Jobs explained at the

character to justify text

2007-06-25 Thread -= JB =-
When Apple and others full justify text what character is used. It must be invisible and about 1 pixel. Is this a special character or font and can I access it from Revolution. It appears it can be used with any font size and style and still remain 1 pixel. thanks, -=JB=-

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear Dave, A widget might be able to launch a regular app under Mac OS X, but not on an iPhone. Maybe, on an iPhone, a widget could launch another widget, but certainly not a Revolution stack. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering

Re: clipboarddata: a mind bending bug tracking excersize....

2007-06-25 Thread David Bovill
I wouldn't want to inflict it on anyone :) I've got round the problem, if anyone else had had the same problem I'd look into it more deeply. There were no similar bugs reported in Bugzilla - so let sleeping dragons lie. On 25/06/07, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, Could you

Re: character to justify text

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi JB, Apple doesn't use any character whatsoever. Apple's text engine actually positions the text in a field. Revolution doesn't use this text engine and thus cannot justify text. The same applies to the text engine used in Windows. I really hope that RunRev will soon replace the

Re: character to justify text

2007-06-25 Thread -= JB =-
Hi Mark, Thanks for the info! It explains a lot. I am really new to OS X and Revolution so this is a great help. -=JB=- = On Jun 25, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi JB, Apple doesn't use any character whatsoever. Apple's text engine

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Mark, Dave, I was wondering if perhaps a stack could be used to help in the dev of a WEB 2.0 App. Maybe some GUI help and then some functionality help etc. to then be put into/ converted to a widget etc. I tried playing around with widget dev but was disappointed with the results. Maybe

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Andre Garzia
for all in this thread, you can code web apps using Revolution, you just can't use revolution user interface controls to build your web application. You can fetch my RevOnRockets package and see some examples of AJAX applications done in Rev. http://www.andregarzia.com/RevHTTP.zip you can

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread jbv
Andre Garzia a *crit : 1) The client side which is HTML + CSS + Javascript. This is your interface and the logic that binds itself with a server. You can't do that in Rev, but you can create tools in Rev to help you build and testproof your javascript + HTML + CSS stuff. Javascript is a

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Andre Garzia
Yes JB, Desktop apps will always be better than web applications. Web applications are a step back in computing since we went the last decade in a direction and now we're reversing it. For remote computing we have X11 and NX, much better protocols than anything AJAX and Web have ever granted us.

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread jbv
Andre, A good compromise would be to have transcript implemented inside a browser; then HTML + CSS + Transcript would be a much more exciting approach... For years I've been (naively) dreaming of Transcript be be available in a browser. I know this will never happen, but (although it's been

Re: arrowkey and selectionchanged in a list field

2007-06-25 Thread Ken Ray
Now, should I feel irritated I wasted time on an unnecessary handler, or happy that Rev does what I thought it ought to do in the first place *and* this list once again comes up trumps? I think this list tips the scale towards happy :-)) Also, don't forget to log this as a documentation

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Andre Garzia
unfortunately the web browsers will only run javascript (which is ECMAScript + DOM), and it is a nice language, there's no way we could port transcript to the browser, unless we build a transcript-to-javascript gizmo. andre On 6/25/07, jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre, A good compromise

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread jbv
Andre Garzia a *crit : unfortunately the web browsers will only run javascript (which is ECMAScript + DOM), and it is a nice language, a nice language ? just curious : for example, how do you code delete last char of first word of line 3 of myVar in javascript ? JB

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: A good compromise would be to have transcript implemented inside a browser; then HTML + CSS + Transcript would be a much more exciting approach... In principle, yes. In practice, maybe not so much: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2006-November/089327.html --

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Andre Garzia
well I don't do that kind of line always, but, I use closures for example and I can do those in Javascript. What I think cool about javascript is that it has lots of features I like and I don't have features I don like... of course xTalk is way better than any of those languages, may they be C,

Re: ANN: New USB Drive Library

2007-06-25 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Len, Len Morgan wrote: I can't seem to get any of the drive letters to show up (I've tried three different drives). Is this normal? It's normal on some computers and not on others. I see it doesn't appear in libUsbdrive's output on XP, but does on Mac OS X. That's why I marked it an

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread chris bohnert
myVar.line[3].word[1].thechars.splice(thechars.length,1); objects references are good things..really they are. -- cb On 6/25/07, jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre Garzia a *crit : unfortunately the web browsers will only run javascript (which is ECMAScript + DOM), and it is a nice

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Somehow I doubt that there's a cgi folder inside the iPhone. Or at least one that's accessible to install a rev Darwin engine. -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Best Practices in Rev development

2007-06-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: So given the freedom of not using explicitVars while fleshing out algorithms, is it really a valuable thing and I'm just lazy? Sorry I'm late to the party, but Ive been busy - and I would like to speak up in support of explicitVars. In fact, I

Exporting card with fields

2007-06-25 Thread Charles Szasz
I have a card in my project that has a summary of calculations on it. It also has a small .jpex image at the top of the card. How do I export the card so it that it can be read by my application when I open the file with my application? -- View this message in context:

Re: ANN: New USB Drive Library

2007-06-25 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 6/25/07, Phil Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something that some of you may find useful: a Revolution library that enables your apps to detect and manage any USB drives (flash drives and others) attached to your system. You can open it from the message box with: go url

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Wieder
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implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-06-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: So given the freedom of not using explicitVars while fleshing out algorithms, is it really a valuable thing and I'm just lazy? For the record, I don't like explicitVars because: snip - some good reasons omitted In particular, I agree with J's

Re: ANN: New USB Drive Library

2007-06-25 Thread Ken Ray
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:54:41 -0700, Phil Davis wrote: If I understand correctly, you're talking about the difference between unmounting the drive and unplugging it. The ability to unmount a drive would be nice. When I learn how to unmount a device from the command line on Win Mac, I'll

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Stephen Barncard
perhaps, but it sure is ugly. myVar.line[3].word[1].thechars.splice(thechars.length,1); objects references are good things..really they are. -- cb -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution

Re: WEB 2.0 and iPhone Dev

2007-06-25 Thread Andre Garzia
thats why our apps will only run when the iPhone is connected to a data network, may it be wifi, bluetooth, edge, gsm or whatever only services, no apps... maybe with google gears we will have some kind of hope... I don't know. I think without a proper SDK, I'll don't try developing for it.

Re: character to justify text

2007-06-25 Thread -= JB =-
Hi Mark, So does Apple's text engine use QuickDraw GX or is that only for text in the graphics environment. I was at Apples Developer site and found a good link that describes text justification with QuickDraw GX. http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/Tools/tooldir/TrueEdit/

Re: ANN: New USB Drive Library

2007-06-25 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks Ken - I'll add this in the next release. Hopefully I can come up with a Windows solution too. (Or someone can volunteer one!) I would like to avoid functional disparity between platforms as much as possible, but we're limited to what we're able to discover. That's why communities are so

Re: ANN: New USB Drive Library

2007-06-25 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks Sarah. I'll see about getting those things into the next release. Phil Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 6/25/07, Phil Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something that some of you may find useful: a Revolution library that enables your apps to detect and manage any USB drives (flash drives

Re: character to justify text

2007-06-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
-= JB =- wrote: I figure Revolution will finally upgrade to the Apples current text engine so I want to learn everything I can about it now. Actually, they probably won't use Apple's text engine. All the code in Revolution has to go seamlessly cross-platform, so Rev uses its own

Re: Last Post

2007-06-25 Thread Mark Talluto
On Jun 17, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: you should take that page of before google index it or you'll see all hell breaking loose when someone queries google on revolution and maybe my name andre garzia and get to your page complaining about something I don't trully understand.