Differences in handling german Umlaute of Runrev

2007-07-09 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello german Umlaute a, o, u are handled very different, when comparing and searching the Umlaute. There are differences in handling between: 1. the Umlaute a / o / u themselves 2. if you compare the Umlaute with = or offset() 3. If you use ISOTo Mac or let the standalone convert the charset 4.

Re: Re: Re: re: XML Headaches

2007-07-09 Thread David Bovill
Is the text actually UTF8 encoded - saying that it contians an an accented e (é) - and reading docs / doing this by hand may be a bit error prone? The first thing I'd do is check the XML with a validator and make sure that works - before looking for bugs? I've got some documentation with links

Re: Re: Re: Re: XML Headaches

2007-07-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi David, yes, the text is UTF-8 encoded. It appears to be a BOM issue. I received the following tip that appears to do the job: Instead of unidecode(uniencode(myXML,UTF8),ANSII) for the whole XML data I have the following script now: -- Remove byte order mark from UTF8 text if

Re: Save As

2007-07-09 Thread Ian Wood
On 8 Jul 2007, at 17:36, J. Landman Gay wrote: Charles Szasz wrote: How do I enter the symbol for shift key as a shortcut in the menu builder tool? I don't think you can. I've often needed that too. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3147 Please add your votes for this

Re: Re: Re: Re: XML Headaches

2007-07-09 Thread David Bovill
On 09/07/07, Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the text is UTF-8 encoded. It appears to be a BOM issue. BOM might be an acronym or abbreviation for: #Bergen Ocean Model#Bid-O-Matic#Bill of Materials#Board of Medicine#Book of Mormon#Bureau of Meteorology, Australia#Byte Order Mark#Body of

Austin Deadline Approaching

2007-07-09 Thread Michael Kann
If anyone is interested in the SXSW Interactive gathering in Austin, the deadline for submitting a panel idea is coming up soon -- July 20. Half of the panels are selected on the basis of who you know, the other half are picked by the masses. If you get selected you get a pass to the SXSW

Open mail on Windows

2007-07-09 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
On Windows NT, with latest engines and MetaCard 2.8.1, the following script does not work any more. Suggestions? put Mailto: hvor into tEmailAddress if Mac is in platform() then put open location quote tEmailAddress quote into s do s as AppleScript end if if the platform =

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:XML Headaches

2007-07-09 Thread Malte Brill
BOM in this case Byte order Mark (I think) I am completely unsure about that UTF-8 stuff though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark replacing anything inside the node contents would render the whole purpose of using UTF-8 encoding useless, wouldn´t it? All the best, malte

Problem Creating an Alias

2007-07-09 Thread Dave
Hi, I have the following on a button: on mouseUp local myFilePathName local myAliasFilePathName put /Users/Dave/Desktop/DavesTest/frame_test_mjpeg.mov into myFilePathName put /Documents/HFPA-Server/HFPA-JobInput/frame_test_mjpeg.mov alias into myAliasFilePathName create alias

Re: Problem Creating an Alias

2007-07-09 Thread Ian Wood
On 9 Jul 2007, at 15:44, Dave wrote: A file gets created, but it's NOT an alias file. According to the Finder Get File Info command it's a 4K QuickTime Movie. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=1059 For some reason this is still listed as an enhancement request and not a

Re: XML Headaches

2007-07-09 Thread Mark Smith
I'm pretty sure that if it really is UTF8, then there should be no BOM...is it possible that the actual encoding differs from the stated encoding? Best, Mark On 9 Jul 2007, at 14:57, Malte Brill wrote: BOM in this case Byte order Mark (I think) I am completely unsure about that UTF-8

Re: XML Headaches

2007-07-09 Thread Mark Smith
I take that back - this is from the wikiPedia: While UTF-8 does not have byte order issues, a BOM encoded in UTF-8 may be used to mark text as UTF-8. It only identifies a file as UTF-8 and does not state anything about byte order.[1] Quite a lot of Windows software (including Windows

Re: Problem Creating an Alias

2007-07-09 Thread Dave
On 9 Jul 2007, at 16:01, Ian Wood wrote: On 9 Jul 2007, at 15:44, Dave wrote: A file gets created, but it's NOT an alias file. According to the Finder Get File Info command it's a 4K QuickTime Movie. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=1059 For some reason this is still

Re: XML Headaches

2007-07-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Mark, additionally it seems the header of my document was wrong: Interesting fact: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Works as expected (unless there is more to it) ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? (Mind space before does not. However, the parser does not complain and builds the tree.

Re: Starting at square one with image processing

2007-07-09 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sun Jul 8, James Hurley jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net wrote: Second: It is also clear, on closer inspection, that Run Rev is not fast enough for user created paint tools such as a pencil or brush. The poor man's pencil I described earlier is hit and miss if the pencil is moved too fast.

Re: for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Interesting video and screenshots, but the idea of a forced paypal donation before trying a live cd is enough of a disincentive for me. and originating in the country which gave us Magritte ...thanks. I'll stick with Magritte for now... -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XML Headaches

2007-07-09 Thread David Bovill
On 09/07/07, Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Works as expected (unless there is more to it) ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? (Mind space before does not. However, the parser does not complain and builds the tree. Just it looses data then. Seems like

for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
a forced donation is not a donation at all: a spade is a spade, and FREE something is FREE and something you PAY for is something you PAY for. somebody is being a bit disingenuous. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the

Why does setting the alpha data alter the image data?

2007-07-09 Thread James Hurley
To see this effect take a look at this stack below. In the message box: go url http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ImageDataControls.rev; Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: PDF files handling

2007-07-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Bryan McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, This may have been answered long ago. Maybe not. What I have is a collection now approaching thousands of academic papers. I would like to be able to read the titles of these papers (usually nicely isolated on page 1) into rev and

for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-09 Thread Peter Alcibiades
The direct download link, or one of them, is: ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/Elive/.jeacmuvUch0/Elive_1.0_Gem.iso I agree to some extent - the request for donation or contribution could be done rather better, and there's been some correspondence about this on distrowatch and OSNews. But I

Problem with wait with messages

2007-07-09 Thread Dave
Hi All, I have a handler that gets called on a regular basis via the send xxx in N seconds command. The handler then does some processing, but but wait for a task to complete, to do the wait I use: if TaskNotDone = true then wait 1 second with messages end if I thought that this

Re: Why does setting the alpha data alter the image data?

2007-07-09 Thread Chipp Walters
I don't know. I've seen this too. I always reset the alphaData then the imageData in that order. I documented this years ago in this stack: go URL http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/testComposite.rev; best, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list

OT - shell script to kill a process

2007-07-09 Thread Chris Sheffield
My Unix scripting knowledge leaves a bit to be desired, so I thought I'd ask here for some help. I have a Vise installer for OS X that needs to check for and kill our own process if it's running. The installer will be authenticated when running. I need a shell script that I can execute

Re: Problem with wait with messages

2007-07-09 Thread Mark Smith
Assuming the handler is called doProcess : on doProcess if taskNotDone then send doProcess to me in 1 second end doProcess Best, Mark On 9 Jul 2007, at 21:41, Dave wrote: Hi All, I have a handler that gets called on a regular basis via the send xxx in N seconds command. The handler

Re: Austin Deadline Approaching

2007-07-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks for mentioning this. Being in Austin, I've been involved in many panels at SXSW Interactive. In fact, I gave the very first keynote back in the 90's when it started. I'm hoping to do a panel with Jerry on Case Studies and RAD. Hoping to get Rev to throw in a few free copies of RevMedia.

Re: Problem with wait with messages

2007-07-09 Thread David
I am not clear what you need to do: but it sounds like you want to use the wait with messages form: http://handlers.rev-co.de/wiki/wait On the other hand I have never had the need to use it - and I cannot get wait for messages to work properly. Does anyone have an example of how you can use

Re: for anyone curious about Linux byond Ubuntu...

2007-07-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Anyway, the above link was published by Distrowatch with Elive's approval, so if curious, I would use it, and if you think it deserving, give it a few dollars. I have no problem with that approach, just the cart-before-the-horse idea... ...and thanks for the link - I'm off to try it

Re: Problem with wait with messages

2007-07-09 Thread Jim Ault
You might want to do something to sniff out invisible conditions that your events have unwittingly created: From the docs: - Use the waitDepth function to determine how many wait commands are currently awaiting completion. Value: The waitDepth function returns a

Re: Base64 conversion

2007-07-09 Thread Javier Miranda V.
Yes Ken, I beleive you it's a rich language and being aware of all it's functions, commands and messages may be very difficult. Regarding RC4, its a propietary encryption algorrithm whose that suddenly appeared published in the internet claiming to be the original code, now the algorithm

Re: OT - shell script to kill a process

2007-07-09 Thread Ken Ray
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:46:32 -0600, Chris Sheffield wrote: My Unix scripting knowledge leaves a bit to be desired, so I thought I'd ask here for some help. I have a Vise installer for OS X that needs to check for and kill our own process if it's running. The installer will be authenticated

Re: OT - shell script to kill a process

2007-07-09 Thread chris bohnert
killall ProcessName should do what you want -- cb On 7/9/07, Chris Sheffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Unix scripting knowledge leaves a bit to be desired, so I thought I'd ask here for some help. I have a Vise installer for OS X that needs to check for and kill our own process if it's

Re: Problem with wait with messages

2007-07-09 Thread Ken Ray
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:41:45 +0100, Dave wrote: Hi All, I have a handler that gets called on a regular basis via the send xxx in N seconds command. The handler then does some processing, but but wait for a task to complete, to do the wait I use: if TaskNotDone = true then wait 1

Re: OT - shell script to kill a process

2007-07-09 Thread Ken Ray
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:06:23 -0500, chris bohnert wrote: killall ProcessName should do what you want Oh, man! I could have been doing it the EASY way... :-D Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Re: Base64 conversion

2007-07-09 Thread Mark Smith
Javier, there's a complete implementation (in pascal, I think) here: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/code/rc4.inc.html It looks like it would be quite doable in Revolution. The only bit-twiddling seems to be an xor - see bitXor in the docs. Best, Mark On 9 Jul 2007, at 22:44, Javier

Re: Why does changing the alpha data also change the image data

2007-07-09 Thread James Hurley
Sorry. I forgot to Save the changes before uploading. This version should actually work. go url http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ImageDataControls.rev; Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: PDF files handling

2007-07-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
Jan, this file doesn't seem to be a complete stack -- the 'bang' and other header stuff isn't there and go URL http://www.quartam.com/tutorials/pdfmetadata.rev; or go URL http://www.quartam.com/tutorials/pdfmetadata.legacy.rev; gets rejected by Rev with a 'no such card' error... sqb - Hi

Re: PDF files handling

2007-07-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Stephen Barncard wrote: Jan, this file doesn't seem to be a complete stack -- the 'bang' and other header stuff isn't there and go URL http://www.quartam.com/tutorials/pdfmetadata.rev; or go URL http://www.quartam.com/tutorials/pdfmetadata.legacy.rev; gets rejected by Rev with a 'no such

Re: Problem with wait with messages

2007-07-09 Thread David Bovill
Ken - what you suggest works... but does wait with messages or wait for messages actually work? I have never got it working - nor have I seen any example scripts with it working - and the docs etc all point to doing it another way :) On 09/07/07, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul

Re: Problem with wait with messages

2007-07-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Bovill wrote: Ken - what you suggest works... but does wait with messages or wait for messages actually work? I have never got it working - nor have I seen any example scripts with it working - and the docs etc all point to doing it another way :) I've used it with success. In one

Re: Problem with wait with messages

2007-07-09 Thread Jim Ault
On 7/9/07 5:57 PM, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken - what you suggest works... but does wait with messages or wait for messages actually work? I have never got it working - nor have I seen any example scripts with it working - and the docs etc all point to doing it another way :)