Klaus' problem with focus

2007-11-04 Thread Peter Alcibiades
This is another classic example of what Ken expressed so clearly. I read the entry in the dictionary several times, and even knowing the answer, had to work hard at grasping that this what what to use when you wanted to to check for if the user wants to save changes before exiting a card. The e

Re-2: [ANN] Script Editor Modification

2007-11-04 Thread Shao Sean
Sorry, I was away for the weekend.. I did manage to test it on Windows XP before leaving and it did seem work.. Also, if you're having problems with the download links you may have cookies turned off in web browser but if you do require a directly email < support AT shaosean DOT tk > direct

Re: Newbie Questions

2007-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Ault wrote: --URL file: only works for 'text' files, not images or other binary code files. I misread this for a moment before I understood what Jim meant. In case anyone else did the same thing, the above means that the URL "file" specification only works on text files. It doesn't me

Re: Problem with FocusIn

2007-11-04 Thread Devin Asay
Hello Claus, On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Claus Dreischer wrote: Hi, on a side note: It's nice that some people are trying to improve the documentation (wiki, etc.), but on the other hand, there are people (me) who even can't read the existing documentaion =:-/ The solution to my problem

Re: Newbie Questions

2007-11-04 Thread Jim Ault
On 11/4/07 2:58 PM, "Jonathan Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a stack that is supposed to write out text files. When I use > the normal file writing procedure (as shown below): > > open file thisfile for write > write thisstuff to file thisfile > close file thisfile > --hint: it migh

Re: 32 Bit Hash Function?

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
I don't know of one, but couldn't you use the built in md5 and do something simple to reduce it from 128 to 32 bits (maybe average the four groups of 32 bits) ? Best, Mark On 4 Nov 2007, at 14:53, Dave wrote: Hi All, I have to generate a 32-bit hash value and before I re-invent the whe

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

2007-11-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I've had a look Josh. I started the stack and got this error: executing at 8:48:26 AM TypeChunk: can't find background Object termCommentMaker LinesetBottom the name of grp "comments" Hintstack "/Users/sarah/Downloads/revcoders_db_api.rev" However after that I could select a

Re: Newbie Questions

2007-11-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Welcome to the Revolution, Jonathan :-) And please don;t apologize for asking questions. I think a lot of people are too nervous to ask, so it is great when someone like you actually does. The information will be of use to a lot more than just you. > My name is Jonathan Scott. I was using

Re: Newbie Questions

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jonathan, Nice to see you here. Welcome to the Rev community. I am pretty sure that something is wrong with the path. Note that Rev paths don't use colons but slashes to delimit the components of the path. Do you see similar problems if you run the following script? on foo ask file "

Re: Leopard-Spotlight-Applescript

2007-11-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 11/5/07, Jim Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like I will not have a copy of Leopard very soon > (living on far & distant planets has pluses and minuses) > so could some kind soul please test the following Applescript > on Leopard for me? > > If it works it will open a spotlight search fo

Newbie Questions

2007-11-04 Thread Jonathan Scott
Hi, My name is Jonathan Scott. I was using SuperCard for quite a while. Hypercard before that. I recently moved over to RunRev. I'm sorry to bug you with simple stuff, but I don't seem to be able to find the answers on my own. I have a stack that is supposed to write out text files. W

Re: Option controls on Windows

2007-11-04 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 9:20 AM -0700 11/3/2007, Richard Gaskin wrote: Yes, the traversalOn is true (not sure how I'd be able to interact with it via the keyboard without that). For some reason, I was able to use the keyboard navigation even with traversalOn false (but menuPick wasn't getting sent when I pressed

32 Bit Hash Function?

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Hi All, I have to generate a 32-bit hash value and before I re-invent the wheel wondering if anyone had already written one? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

Re: Leopard-Spotlight-Applescript

2007-11-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi sims, Looks like I will not have a copy of Leopard very soon (living on far & distant planets has pluses and minuses) so could some kind soul please test the following Applescript on Leopard for me? If it works it will open a spotlight search for "bob". TIA sims tell application "Finder"

Leopard-Spotlight-Applescript

2007-11-04 Thread Jim Sims
Looks like I will not have a copy of Leopard very soon (living on far & distant planets has pluses and minuses) so could some kind soul please test the following Applescript on Leopard for me? If it works it will open a spotlight search for "bob". TIA sims tell application "Finder" set

Re: Re-2: [ANN] Script Editor Modification

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Hi, I just tried it again and still doesn't work. Could you tell me the URL for the actual download? Maybe I can get to it directly. Thanks a lot All the Best Dave On 4 Nov 2007, at 17:23, Mark Schonewille wrote: Dave, Works for me, on Mac running Safari. Sean, thanks! Best regards, Ma

Re: Re-2: [ANN] Script Editor Modification

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dave, Works for me, on Mac running Safari. Sean, thanks! Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-ta

Re: Re-2: [ANN] Script Editor Modification

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Are you on a Mac and Running Safari? Thanks Dave On 4 Nov 2007, at 16:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried it here, the download links work. Regards, Matthias Original Messageprocessed by David InfoCenter Subject: Re: [ANN] Script Editor Modification (04-Nov-2007 14:46) From:Dav

Re: Stripping html tags (was Re: Problem with revExecuteSQL - More)

2007-11-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave wrote: One word of warning on using a field to strip HTML text - it's VERY slow. When a field is on the current card, the engine makes the reasonable assumption that it may be used for editing, and does extra stuff to the object record to make sure it renders well. That extra stuff slo

Re: Problem with FocusIn

2007-11-04 Thread Mark Swindell
On Nov 4, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Claus Dreischer wrote: It's nice that some people are trying to improve the documentation (wiki, etc.), but on the other hand, there are people (me) who even can't read the existing documentaion =:-/ With the new and improved interactive mechanisms being explore

Re-2: [ANN] Script Editor Modification

2007-11-04 Thread runrev260805
Tried it here, the download links work. Regards, Matthias Original Messageprocessed by David InfoCenter Subject: Re: [ANN] Script Editor Modification (04-Nov-2007 14:46) From:Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Sean, I tried to download this, I can open the p

Re-2: [ANN] Script Editor Modification

2007-11-04 Thread runrev260805
Hi, tried it here on my XP machine. It does work without problem. I can resize. Regards, Matthias Original Messageprocessed by David InfoCenter Subject: Re: [ANN] Script Editor Modification (02-Nov-2007 15:31) From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I saw the png

Re: Problem with FocusIn

2007-11-04 Thread Claus Dreischer
Hi, on a side note: It's nice that some people are trying to improve the documentation (wiki, etc.), but on the other hand, there are people (me) who even can't read the existing documentaion =:-/ The solution to my problem is the closeField message, which is only sent when the content *has*

Re: Problem with FocusIn

2007-11-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
check the field locking. from the docs: If the control is an unlocked field or a button whose menuMode is "comboBox", the openField message is sent to it instead of the focusIn message. A locked field receives the focusIn message when the user tabs to it or otherwise makes it active (focuse

More - Problem with Accented Characters

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Hi, A bit more information, the string I am getting is this: Locationfile://localhost/Users/Dave/Music/iTunes/ iTunes%20Music/Beyonce%CC%81/Dangerously%20In%20Love/02%20Naughty% 20Girl.mp3 I assume that the %CC%81 is the accent data, as in: Beyonce%CC%81 Thanks a lot All the Best Dave Op

Problem with FocusIn

2007-11-04 Thread Claus Dreischer
Hi, i have problems with the focusIn message. What i want to achive is to remember the value of a field when the user is editing it (on focusIn). After that (on focusOut), i would like to check the new value against the remembered one. If they are different, the change has to be saved, so i ask

Problem with Accented Characters

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Opps! That should read: I am *now* getting rid of the HTML tags ok, Hi, I am not getting rid of the HTML and most tracks are ok now, however there is a problem with accented characters in File/Folder names. Beyonce (with an accent on the "e") is an example of the w

Problem with Accented Characters

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Hi, I am not getting rid of the HTML and most tracks are ok now, however there is a problem with accented characters in File/Folder names. Beyonce (with an accent on the "e") is an example of the where there occurs. When I do a check "is there a file" and a folder or file name has an acce

Re: Stripping html tags

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Hi, I am having a problem getting this to compile, do you think you could email it in a stack? Or post it somewhere and I'll download it. Thanks a lot All the Best Dave On 3 Nov 2007, at 15:53, Jim Ault wrote: The 'seriously detailed stripper' was written by Eric, and I made some adjustmen

Re: Stripping html tags (was Re: Problem with revExecuteSQL - More)

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Hi, I added this and the time went up to 99 seconds as apposed to 80 without putting it into a field, WAY better than 327 tho! Thanks All the Best Dave On 4 Nov 2007, at 14:12, Stephen Barncard wrote: Did you lock/unlock the screen? VERY important. Hi One word of warning on using a fiel

Re: Stripping html tags (was Re: Problem with revExecuteSQL - More)

2007-11-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Did you lock/unlock the screen? VERY important. Hi One word of warning on using a field to strip HTML text - it's VERY slow. When I ran the app on a 10,000 track database, without the put/get field, it took 80 seconds to complete, when I ran it with the put/get field the time went up to 327

Re: [ANN] Script Editor Modification

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Hi Sean, I tried to download this, I can open the page but none of the links work. Is the web site broken? Thanks a lot Dave On 2 Nov 2007, at 09:21, Shao Sean wrote: Personally I tend to use somewhat long handler names and as such they get truncated in the handler list of the script edi

Re: Stripping html tags (was Re: Problem with revExecuteSQL - More)

2007-11-04 Thread Dave
Hi One word of warning on using a field to strip HTML text - it's VERY slow. When I ran the app on a 10,000 track database, without the put/get field, it took 80 seconds to complete, when I ran it with the put/get field the time went up to 327 seconds!!! Will the template field be quick