Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Guess Apple needs to implement voice input someway. Perhaps not. There's a vibrational technology that sounds very promising for this and other cell phones. It uses the built-in vibration mode of the phone combined with a split second timing algorithm that

type ahead search and typing speed - thanks!

2007-07-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Guys (Jacque and Ken) - Thanks so much for immediately sending an 'classic' version. Its typical of what makes the list such a pleasure! Peter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Ian Wood
On 1 Jul 2007, at 02:39, Chipp Walters wrote: (Side note: there WILL be a huge market in 3rd party styluses for this thing.) Given that the touch screen is working off skin conductance it might not be as straightforward as that. Simply tapping the screen with a solid object doesn't

Re: Deleting files on Vista

2007-07-01 Thread Dave Cragg
A little more to add... It seems I've also been hit by Vista Virtual Store issue. I don't think my situation is quite the same as others have described. The app is for use in corporate envionments. It writes user-specific settings to the appropriate AppData folder on the user's account.

Re: Deleting files on Vista

2007-07-01 Thread Scott Kane
- Original Message - From: Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] If anyone can suggest a solution, I'd be grateful. The solution is not to use the Program Files folder for writing data *ever*. Short of turning off everything in Vista there is no solution here. Your users are *never*

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-01 Thread Dave
On 29 Jun 2007, at 13:52, Ken Ray wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:31:31 +0100, Dave wrote: That's why I can't see the argument that's it's more typing, it really isn't, and the bugs that can be caused by not declaring your locals are so hard to find that I really can't see any reason not to

Re: help with replacetext

2007-07-01 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jim, Mark and Peter, Am 30.06.2007 um 20:36 schrieb Jim Ault: I did my first answer without the right before the suffix part \d means digit [^\d] means non-digit [^\d\n\.] means non-digit, not linefeed and not period Using replaceText makes the task a bit difficult but here is a

Re: Deleting files on Vista

2007-07-01 Thread Dave Cragg
On 1 Jul 2007, at 11:24, Scott Kane wrote: All Users is the only folder (under My Documents) that is readable by all and can be set by the admin. It seems the All Users folder is now the ProgramData folder. I say seems, as I've read it is in some way linked to the Users/Public folder.

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Marian Petrides
That's correct. A neighbor kept trying to tap mine with his fingernail no response. On Jul 1, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Ian Wood wrote: On 1 Jul 2007, at 02:39, Chipp Walters wrote: (Side note: there WILL be a huge market in 3rd party styluses for this thing.) Given that the touch screen

Re: ³ Wild Characters ² in search

2007-07-01 Thread Jim Ault
On 6/30/07 7:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, Is there a way to do a search for a year in a date in the find and replace dialog box? I was thinking along the lines of using ³??/06² figuring the question mark was any character. Obviously that doesn¹t work.

Re: 3 Wild Characters 2  in search

2007-07-01 Thread LunchnMeets
Thanks Jim, I never knew what the Reg. Expression in that dialog box was used for. Joe ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

revzip - don't understand how to use it...

2007-07-01 Thread runrev260805
Hi, can someone help me with revzip? I want to update a file to an existing archive or, if the archive does not exists, create the archive and add the file. I read the documentation about revzip, but don´t understand what exactly i have to do. Regards, Matthias

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Stephen- Saturday, June 30, 2007, 3:16:04 PM, you wrote: Not me. I'm not an 'early adopter' at all. With Apple's viral marketing around the iPhone, I think people have forgotten the cardinal rule never buy v1.0 of *anything*. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread jbv
Mark , Stephen- Saturday, June 30, 2007, 3:16:04 PM, you wrote: Not me. I'm not an 'early adopter' at all. With Apple's viral marketing around the iPhone, I think people have forgotten the cardinal rule never buy v1.0 of *anything*. Mmmh... I think that rule works only with gear that

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Andre Garzia
I have a macbook v1.0, no hardware ever gave me as much trouble as this machine... even my old g3 iBook thats seven years old, or my newton that is more than 10 years old, never gave me such trouble as that machine. :-/ On 7/1/07, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen- Saturday, June

Re: Deleting files on Vista

2007-07-01 Thread Ken Ray
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:17:30 +0100, Dave Cragg wrote: But there are a few settings that are intended to work globally for all users on the computer and these settings should only be made by someone with admin rights on the computer. admin rights are considered to be anyone who can write to

which one is faster marking cards or custom prop + lineoffset?

2007-07-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Friends, I have a questions, I have a database made with cards, each card is a record. To query this database, I use the following procedure: I have a custom property with a cache of the fields I'd like to query, for example in a phone book, I have a custom prop named name that holds names and

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Ken Ray
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:39:57 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote: - Absolutely could not type on the keyboard. Very difficult. Perhaps my fingers are too large. Where's the stylus when you need one? (Side note: there WILL be a huge market in 3rd party styluses for this thing.) My guess is

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Mark Wieder
jb- Sunday, July 1, 2007, 9:15:11 AM, you wrote: Mmmh... I think that rule works only with gear that you want to use, not with stuff that you just want to show off with... rotfl. I do indeed stand corrected... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
This is going to make the keyboard highly english dependent, I should think. I haven't even been concerned with localizing my projects, but for the iPhone to have truly universal appeal that is probably a must concern for its software. Joe Wilkins On Jul 1, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Ken Ray

implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-01 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, Chipp, I am sure that we ALL have our own flawed programming practices. I have always been amazed by the different opinions of everybody, on a subject where the correct solution seems so obvious . to each of us ... ! I came from 1401 Autocoder, through

Re: which one is faster marking cards or custom prop + lineoffset?

2007-07-01 Thread Jim Ault
In my very limited experience, the key question is what kind of searching do you want? Simple partial word match with correct spelling, or compound words that continually narrow the search (and even booleans such as FIND('Tom' or 'Thomas') and FIND('Jackie' or 'Jacquie' or 'Jaci' or 'Jacqi')

type ahead search and typing speed

2007-07-01 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, Devin, I would just love to take a look at the type ahead and search stack, but I get an error message no such card when I execute your command from the message box. Is it because I run an olde version of Rev (2.6.1) ? Best Regards -Francis Nothing should ever be done for the

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Finally You're my hero. Joe Wilkins On Jul 1, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Paris, Chipp, I am sure that we ALL have our own flawed programming practices. I have always been amazed by the different opinions of everybody, on a subject where the correct solution

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Stephen Barncard
Though I must add that I'm very trusting of Rev and use the latest versions now! Stephen- Saturday, June 30, 2007, 3:16:04 PM, you wrote: Not me. I'm not an 'early adopter' at all. With Apple's viral marketing around the iPhone, I think people have forgotten the cardinal rule never

Re: type ahead search and typing speed

2007-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Paris, Devin, I would just love to take a look at the type ahead and search stack, but I get an error message no such card when I execute your command from the message box. Is it because I run an olde version of Rev (2.6.1) ? Yes. I've just sent you a copy

Re: problems with drawer

2007-07-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Martin Meili wrote: hi I've got two stacks. From the first stack I open the second stack as a drawer. The drawer stack generates a psssword. As long as the two stacks are just stacks (not standalones) they work perfectly. If I make a standalone of the first stack, I can still open the second

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Ken Ray
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:08:22 -0700, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: This is going to make the keyboard highly english dependent, I should think. I haven't even been concerned with localizing my projects, but for the iPhone to have truly universal appeal that is probably a must concern for its

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Well, what Apple has already done is pretty extraordinary; but handling the anticipation/substitution/completion factor to the keyboard selections with all of the various languages has got to be much harder by a factor of really huge. I wish them luck. I think I'd been inclined to

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Stephen Barncard
Chipp, My Japanese-speaking son wanted to know if the iPhone displays UNICODE!! sqb -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Ken, Well, I was trying to type in Dripping Springs, TX into the Map app, and it was very, very hard. It couldn't figure out the Dripping part at all. From what I've read in some of the forums, the predictive typing is a mixed bag of blessing and curse. Of course the video from Apple shows

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Chipp Walters
BTW, I did watch the video. At the beginning, it shows 1 finger covering 4 characters. That's a fat finger! (Probably mine). And, that's the problem I have. When a single finger covers that many keys, it not only makes it difficult to figure out which key you are typing, but also it hides 3

Re: implicitVars [Was: Re: Best Practices in Rev development]

2007-07-01 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Francis, I have no doubt each of us has their own style of programming. I can't imagine not using a debugger. You don't like not declaring vars. Doesn't mean either of us is right or wrong, just that we both have different ways of programming in Rev. -Chipp

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread SimPLsol
Chipp, According to a current rumor on Apple Insider, the next gen iPhone will have the keyboard in landscape mode (instead of portrait). Should make more finger room. Glad you waited? Paul Looney ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Bill Vlahos
I tried typing using the on-screen keyboard and it worked very well. My fingers are not small. As others pointed out, a standard stylus won't give the conductance needed. However, I suspect that it won't take long for someone to come out with an imitation finger as a stylus and will

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Bill Vlahos
Been a Mac user too long. I meant to say, ...using my finger... Bill On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Although after using my finder I'd say it works pretty well and isn't something I'm likely to lose. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: AW: The Art of Dissolving Splash Screens

2007-07-01 Thread Sivakatirswami
Stephen Barncard wrote: One of the neatest features of working with the splash screen method is that in MacOSX, you can create the splash screen standalone once, and from then on one can work in the IDE with the code INSIDE the standalone package. This is interesting, but I'm not sure I

ANN: Snapper Screen Recorder for Mac OS X

2007-07-01 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear List, It is a pleasure to announce Snapper for Mac OS X, a simple utility to capture your on-screen work into movies. You can read about it at and download it from http://snapper.economy-x-talk.com. This project would not have been possible without Trevor's wonderful EnhancedQT

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
No iPhone for me. I'm holding out for a device with: - Phone - Still camera (5mpx or greater - Video (HD) - Voice recorder - MP3/OGG player - GPS - AM, FM, NOAA/weather band, and most importantly Shortwave radio - Internet/web/email - Optional satellite phone service module - OPEN ARCHITECTURE

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Chipp Walters
Well, Let's see how many of your checklist iPhone satisfies... On 7/1/07, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No iPhone for me. I'm holding out for a device with: - Phone Check - Still camera (5mpx or greater Check (but not 5mpx) - Video (HD) Check on Video Playback, No check

Re: [OT] iPhone anyone?

2007-07-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: On 7/1/07, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: No iPhone for me. I'm holding out for a device with: ... - Video (HD) Check on Video Playback, No check on Video record Yes, should have clarified: not just video playback, but needs to also be a

Re: AW: The Art of Dissolving Splash Screens

2007-07-01 Thread Stephen Barncard
Stephen Barncard wrote: One of the neatest features of working with the splash screen method is that in MacOSX, you can create the splash screen standalone once, and from then on one can work in the IDE with the code INSIDE the standalone package. This is interesting, but I'm not sure I