Re: Identify Intel processor under 2.6.1

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Morrow wrote: Is there a way to query for an Intel Mac when running under rev 2.6.1 without using the processor function which seems to report incorrectly? Any chance you could use Rev 2.8.1 for your OS X build? The current version shows x86 for processor() on an Intel Mac, as

Problem with FTP Upload on Standalones

2007-10-30 Thread Dave
Hi, I have an Application that uses FTP to upload a file to a server. It works well when running under the IDE in Windows and Mac. When I run it a a standalone I get an FTP error again on Windows and Mac. I'm using the libURLftpUploadFile command with a call back, the call back gets

The formattedwidth and italic fonts

2007-10-30 Thread jbv
Hi list, the following command : set width of fld 1 to the formattedwidth of fld 1 truncates a few pixels on the right when the font is italic... Is there a way to bypass this problem ? I'm using Rev 2.5 on Mac Classic, and need to know precisely the width of large characters (100 pixels

Re: Identify Intel processor under 2.6.1

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Smith
Scott, you can test for 'endianness; function isIntel return (char 1 of (binaryencode(I,1)) is not null) end isIntel Best, Mark On 30 Oct 2007, at 06:32, Scott Morrow wrote: Is there a way to query for an Intel Mac when running under rev 2.6.1 without using the processor function

Re: Problem with FTP Upload on Standalones

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dave, The source of the problem could be anything. Try setting a log field with the libURLSetLogField command and let us know what it reports. Posting your script might help as well. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering

Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Klaus Major
Hi friends, today we installed OS X 10.5 on one of our machines and did some tests with our new project, which uses a lot of metal windows. Result: The app is completely unusable! All windows/stacks go empty when suspending and most of the time stay blank/empty when resuming or even open blank.

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Klaus, I don't have leopard in here but as far as I know, metal has been removed from leopard, they have a unified UI now, both aqua windows and metal windows appear as this new unified ui. Maybe since Rev used some emulated controls on top of metal, this is broken. Can you try to use acqua?

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Andre, Klaus, I don't have leopard in here but as far as I know, metal has been removed from leopard, they have a unified UI now, both aqua windows and metal windows appear as this new unified ui. Maybe since Rev used some emulated controls on top of metal, this is broken. Can you try to

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Miller
On 30/10/07 12:00, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: today we installed OS X 10.5 on one of our machines and did some tests with our new project, which uses a lot of metal windows. Result: The app is completely unusable! All windows/stacks go empty when suspending and most of the time

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready! METAL LOOK

2007-10-30 Thread Stephen Barncard
Well, Rev is not yet spec'd for Leopard. You are not alone. There are so many apps that I use* that are not ready, that I've put off installing Leopard indefinitely, even though I just bought the 'family pack'. My opinion: metal mode has been so unstable for so long that it deserved to be

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Stephen Barncard
All bets are off when there is a major change in the OS version and it's been days since the rollout. Perhaps you are being a bit unfair to Rev expecting your 2.8.1 stacks to work perfectly in the new environment. It is not because metal does not work, it is because the stacks (metal or not)

Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
This only matters if: 1. You intend to develop software for Mac OS 10.5 2. You have installed Mac OS 10.5 on your machine. Two things occur to me about this: 1. The number of people who use Macintosh computers is small. 2. Is it worth investing the money for:- Mac OS 10.5 Waiting

Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Stephen Barncard wrote: the new environment Really? Since when was a POINT upgrade a new environment ? Microsoft made it extremely clear that Vista was a the new environment; Apple did nothing of the sort. I am prepared to bet that Runtime Revolution will not claim that RR 2.9 is a new RAD,

[OT] This is worth a look.

2007-10-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://myownapp.com/ especially Schnippselchen These are Macintosh applications. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Stephen Barncard
1. The number of people who use Macintosh computers is small. current mac market share is now estimated at 8%. This is important if your customers use Macs. That is to say: a lot more processor-hungry eye-candy at the price of all sorts of applications needing pricey upgrades, plus merry

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Stephen Barncard
Um, regardless of what you think about the designation, it's a change, a new environment, otherwise why would metal not work? I know of no such rules regarding 'point' versions. Sorry I offended you with my semantics. Stephen Barncard wrote: the new environment Really? Since when was a

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Stephen, All bets are off when there is a major change in the OS version and it's been days since the rollout. Perhaps you are being a bit unfair to Rev expecting your 2.8.1 stacks to work perfectly in the new environment. I exspect them to WORK, not perfectly, but usable! It is not

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Luis
Besides, don't Rev get developer seeds to test on? I reckon this should have been fixed for 2.8.1 gm3, not for 2.9. Cheers, Luis. On 30 Oct 2007, at 15:21, Stephen Barncard wrote: Um, regardless of what you think about the designation, it's a change, a new environment, otherwise why

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Kevin, On 30/10/07 12:00, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: today we installed OS X 10.5 on one of our machines and did some tests with our new project, which uses a lot of metal windows. Result: The app is completely unusable! All windows/stacks go empty when suspending and most of

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Ken Ray
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:03:15 + (GMT), Richmond Mathewson wrote: Stephen Barncard wrote: the new environment Really? Since when was a POINT upgrade a new environment ? Ever since 10.0 was released... or haven't you noticed? Of course it depends on what you mean by new environment,

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Ken Ray
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:56:44 + (GMT), Richmond Mathewson wrote: This only matters if: 1. You intend to develop software for Mac OS 10.5 2. You have installed Mac OS 10.5 on your machine. Don't be ridiculous, Richmond... most people are developing software that doesn't use metal

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Friends, anyone tried 2.9 in Mac OS X 10.5? With every release, Apple, fix their UI. What was once aqua with a unified pinstripe-happy solid UI, changed into a collection of strange elements during the latest releases. We got like 10 types of buttons, metal, aqua, paladium windows. With no rule

Re: Identify Intel processor under 2.6.1

2007-10-30 Thread Ken Ray
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:47:02 +, Mark Smith wrote: Scott, you can test for 'endianness; function isIntel return (char 1 of (binaryencode(I,1)) is not null) end isIntel Wow, Mark... that's a lot easier than what I was doing: function isIntel put shell(system_profiler

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Miller
On 30/10/07 15:41, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not really surprising that Rev 2.8.1 doesn't run perfectly on Leopard given that it shipped many months before that OS. ...which came out surprisingly last friday? Right, 4 days ago. There are dozens of applications that do not

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Only in Revolution we can solve this issues using our own language itself! :-) try that in a glitch with something like RB... On 10/30/07, Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/10/07 15:41, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not really surprising that Rev 2.8.1 doesn't run

Rev will be Leopard ready

2007-10-30 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Well first of all, many people have the I'll wait until Service Pack 1 is out (Windows) or I'll wait until 10.x.1 is out (Mac) attitude, and this is a legitimate perspective. I have Leopard installed on an external drive at the moment to do testing, etc., but I'm not going to upgrade

Re: Rev will be Leopard ready

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Talluto
On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Well first of all, many people have the I'll wait until Service Pack 1 is out (Windows) or I'll wait until 10.x.1 is out (Mac) attitude, and this is a legitimate perspective. I have Leopard installed on an external drive at the moment to do

Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Problems is new machines will now be shipped with Leopard and if you are in the education market here in the states there a lot of macs and the new machines are the ones that they want to run the multimedia apps on that i do with rev. Have others tried other rev 2.6-2.8 standalones in

We are not alone - Latest Java and Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Lynn Fredricks
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/29/no_java_for_leopard/ I guess Sun is having their issues too... Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server

Re: We are not alone - Latest Java and Leopard

2007-10-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Their issue is way bigger than Revolution... No java 6 in leopard, and Apple broke java 5 in this release. I feel sorry for all the coders and support people that will need to stay awake forever to solve this for enterprise clients... :-/ On 10/30/07, Lynn Fredricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Rev will be Leopard ready

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
FWIW, I took a little cruise on the 'net this morning and found a number of other development systems with Leopard issues, including, RealBASIC, Java, and even the work of the most dedicated Mac programmer I know, SuperCard. When other systems have problems with an OS X upgrade I usually

Leopard Compatibility Page at STS Site

2007-10-30 Thread Ken Ray
Just FYI, I've updated my site to keep track of the items that have been found relative to the changeover to Leopard: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/compatibility.htm As more are discovered I'll update the list there, but at least this gives a starting point for all the

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Kevin, On 30/10/07 15:41, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not really surprising that Rev 2.8.1 doesn't run perfectly on Leopard given that it shipped many months before that OS. ...which came out surprisingly last friday? Right, 4 days ago. There are dozens of applications that

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Kevin, I would be more confident in Rev 2.9... if your response had been : the needed patch is/will be available soon to our current customers at www.runrev.com. Regards, -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com Le 30 oct. 07 à 15:25, Kevin Miller a écrit : On

Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ken Ray wrote: Don't be ridiculous, Richmond.. and why on earth not? It sure stimulated the debate! Of course it is worth developing for 10.5; and as time goes on it will get easier - however it will involve both a financial and a mental investment (Um, what new thing doesn't ?) - and the

Re: Identify Intel processor under 2.6.1

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Smith
Thanks! I think it's quite interesting that the solutions we find often reflect the kind of things we've been doing. Because I've been doing a lot of playing around with binary data (audio files, iPod dictionaries, id3 tags), the question of endianness has been quite prevalent. So I saw

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Sarah Reichelt
As a long-time Mac Fan I am beginning to wonder if Mac have not done A Vista with Leopard . . . That is to say: a lot more processor-hungry eye-candy at the price of all sorts of applications needing pricey upgrades, plus merry blue-green screens. Actually, Leopard has some great features.

SQLIte, Result from revExecuteSQL

2007-10-30 Thread Dave
Hi, I am using revExecuteSQL to execute a INSERT INTO SQL statement, as in: revExecuteSQL theDatabaseID,mySQLCode put the result into myResult When the command returns the result is set to 1. I've looked in the docs but it I can't seem to find anything that tells me what that

Re: SQLIte, Result from revExecuteSQL

2007-10-30 Thread Kay C Lan
On 10/31/07, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the command returns the result is set to 1. I've looked in the docs but it I can't seem to find anything that tells me what that means? Anyone know The command was successful, otherwise you'd have an SQL error message in 'the result'. I

Re: SQLIte, Result from revExecuteSQL

2007-10-30 Thread Dave
Hi, The other database handlers return empty to mean ok. I had a problem executing a CREATE TABLE SQL statement and it returned a 1 and didn't work correctly. When I found and fixed the problem it then returned empty, so I am wondering if a similar problem exists here - it doesn't seem

Re: SQLIte, Result from revExecuteSQL

2007-10-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Dave, I think that 1 means 1 record successfully inserted. Try a query to insert 2 records in the same query and check if it returns 2... Andre On 10/30/07, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using revExecuteSQL to execute a INSERT INTO SQL statement, as in: revExecuteSQL

Re: proof-of-concept Revolution Online Open Dictionary at revcoders.org

2007-10-30 Thread Josh Mellicker
Just FYI: changed the theme, search box now works with things like $, @, etc. http://revcoders.org Also, I put a stack here: http://revcoders.org/resources/revcoders_db_api.rev.zip that just begins to show how to integrate a local stack with the remote database. (it will improve over the

Re: proof-of-concept Revolution Online Open Dictionary at revcoders.org

2007-10-30 Thread Ken Ray
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:55:58 -0700, Josh Mellicker wrote: Just FYI: changed the theme, search box now works with things like $, @, etc. http://revcoders.org Just curious Josh, everytime I have gone to the site, it looks like I'm always looking at the last page of the entries (in fact I

Re: Rev 2.8.1 NOT Leopard ready!

2007-10-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Actually, Leopard has some great features. Spaces alone will make my Rev work much easier. I also get the feeling that it is faster than Tiger. Ditto that... confirmed... much faster than tiger though after trying Mail.app for 1/2 hour I immediately went back to

Re: Identify Intel processor under 2.6.1

2007-10-30 Thread Scott Morrow
Mark, This solution works brilliantly in 2.8.1 - unfortunately for some reason it always seems to return false in 2.6.1 no matter the processor. I don't understand the logic behind it so I'm no good to trouble shoot here. Thanks, Scott On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Mark Smith wrote: