sqlite tksqlite sqlite browser

2007-12-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Sorry, sqlite browser will not import a 15k record csv file. Gave it about 10 minutes on a sempron 2G, with 1G memory, and it seemed to be frozen. However tksqlite did import it, almost instantly. Peter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@l

My Enterprise has been sold.

2007-12-16 Thread Andrew Meit
Just to let folks know. I hope in the year(s) ahead Rev can finally rethink cost of renewal for Studio so I wont have to be priced out of ownership like I had been with Enterprise. Just a plea. Shalom, Andrew {Choose Life, Create Hope, Nurture Love, Wrestle Faith...}

RE: Caricature challenge

2007-12-16 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
In supercard, if you set the "picturedata" of a polygon to an image's path on disc, that image assumes the dimentions of the rectangle that defines the smallest rectangle within which the polygon would fit. Reshape the polygon and the image rectangle stretches likewise to fit the new outer boun

Re: Kiosk Mode Goes away

2007-12-16 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> If I launch them into Safari... after closeing Safari, My stand alone > application comes back, this time with the menu bar appear at the top... > users can click "Quit" and are landed back inthe finder with access to > the local hard drive and everything... > > I think at the very least I can is

Re: Kiosk App to Move Back on Top

2007-12-16 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> If so, how exactly do we do that? Infact I want to actually close > Safari's Top window (so that the next user comes into Safari with a > default page) I suppose that will require a touch of applescript. > (of which I know virtually zero) Here are the Applescripts you will need. Assembe them

RE: Caricature challenge

2007-12-16 Thread Ken Ray
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:08:41 -0800, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: > Well, yes you are correct... Tht would be ideal (as a mode)... But so > long as the crop is to the outer (and not the inner) rectangle bounds > of the polygon, then you can still get a good effect. The more > triangles the better..

Kiosk Mode Goes away

2007-12-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
I'm using Andre Kiosk external, on Leopard now it seems to have issues. If I boot into my app an turn Kiosk mode on, then all appears as expected. If I launch them into Safari... after closeing Safari, My stand alone application comes back, this time with the menu bar appear at the top... user

Re: Kiosk App to Move Back on Top

2007-12-16 Thread Ken Ray
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:33:25 -1000, Sivakatirswami wrote: > My little Kiosk app (Mac OSX) is coming along nicely.. at one point > we invoke Safari to let the users sign up for web newsletters... > Safari comes to the front. > > Can I have a "send in 10 minutes" that will bring Revolution back u

Kiosk App to Move Back on Top

2007-12-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
My little Kiosk app (Mac OSX) is coming along nicely.. at one point we invoke Safari to let the users sign up for web newsletters... Safari comes to the front. Can I have a "send in 10 minutes" that will bring Revolution back up as the front most application? If so, how exactly do we do that

RE: Caricature challenge

2007-12-16 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
Well, yes you are correct... Tht would be ideal (as a mode)... But so long as the crop is to the outer (and not the inner) rectangle bounds of the polygon, then you can still get a good effect. The more triangles the better.. Remember that calculus is an average too! randall -Original Mes

import textfile into SQLite DB?

2007-12-16 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I did it with sqlitebrowser, in Linux. Create table, then do import. There is it. Simple. Mine was not very big, don't know how it would do with more than a few thousand records. Worth a try though. Peter > can anyone give me a hint, how I can import a big tab delimited file > into a SQLi

Re: Caricature challenge

2007-12-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Really, rev cant apply an image as fill for a polygon? Any workarounds? Rev can use an image as a fill for a polygon, but when the polygon is resized or reshaped, the image is cropped to fit rather than being distorted. That probably isn't the effect you are after.

import textfile into SQLite DB?

2007-12-16 Thread Till Bandi
can anyone give me a hint, how I can import a big tab delimited file into a SQLite Database? Thanks Till ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pre

Re: Bizarre Problems with Leopard+PowerPC

2007-12-16 Thread Shari
I can verify this issue, as I am also having this problem. However, mine fails also on Macintels too running Leopard, not just Powermacs. I've had SEVERAL user reports of this. No telling how many just fail without telling me. My customers are rumbling unhappily, those who paid for the softw

Re: Developer Dreams... Random Numbers

2007-12-16 Thread Bill Marriott
The only thing I want to add to this is a link that directly addresses the question, "are the numbers really random?" http://random.org/analysis/ Which basically states it's impossible to prove randomness. And, the following quote from the Kenny analysis paper: "Random.org passes the NIST test

Re: Developer Dreams... Random Numbers

2007-12-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richard, I didn't attend the process (for my research, I did exactly the opposite), but I believe it is save to assume that Mads Haar took the pattern out of the data, keeping the randomness. Since the way a coin flips is eventually determined by physics, you might be right that randomnes

Re: Developer Dreams... Random Numbers

2007-12-16 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Mark, No major point; just my own, personal observations as I seek to know without just accepting someone else's opinion. I guess what I was trying to point out was that even with "their" selection method(s), there is probably some discoverable methodology - a pattern of some sort, that

Re: Developer Dreams... Random Numbers

2007-12-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: The inability for computers to generate true random numbers is exactly why Random.org exists. The random numbers provided by that server are not generated by a computer but by mother nature. So, yes, Random.org is "really", _really_ and *really* random! Chaotic, yes

Re: Developer Dreams... Random Numbers

2007-12-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Joe, Could you please explain to me once more what point you are trying to make? Regarding te FAQ, I would write that too, if some space agency, secret service or hospital might held me responsible if my data appeared to be flawed. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Con

Re: Developer Dreams... Random Numbers

2007-12-16 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Mark, After reading a few of the site's FAQs, I can see that "they" have a very high degree of confidence in the "randomness" they are producing; however, as with all things in life, even "they" leave the door open for the, what they consider to be remote possibility, that even what th

Re: Setting MenuButton on openCard

2007-12-16 Thread Martin Blackman
OK. Btw, reversing the order by setting the label and then text works OK too. On 16/12/2007, Mark Schonewille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, > > I think this is a Rev bug and I also believe it has been reported > already. > > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > -- > > Economy-x-Talk Con

Re: Setting MenuButton on openCard

2007-12-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Martin, I think this is a Rev bug and I also believe it has been reported already. 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

Re: Setting MenuButton on openCard

2007-12-16 Thread Martin Blackman
A belated reply, but similar issue - I want to let the user create option menus on demand in my program. After creating an option menu button, it displays the name of the button as its label. Then I put some text into the button and try to set the label to line 1 of the text - to no avail, the nam

Re: Developer Dreams... Random Numbers

2007-12-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Joe, The inability for computers to generate true random numbers is exactly why Random.org exists. The random numbers provided by that server are not generated by a computer but by mother nature. So, yes, Random.org is "really", _really_ and *really* random! Best regards, Mark Schonew