Rev php script question

2008-02-15 Thread jbv
Hi there, I'm using post myvar to url in a stack to access data stored in mysql via a php script. The php script ends with echo $myvar; and the strange thing is that it returns 2 empty lines before the value of $myvar ONLY when I access mysql in the script... when I post a similar content to

Re: Cgi and Database (stick to standards)

2008-02-15 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 15/2/08 12:14 AM, Hershel Fisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernard Devlin wrote: I'm not sure what kind of database requirements you have. SQL rdbms, and I was thinking to use sqLITE because its fast even with big bases and most hosting sites use mySql which slows down as the database

Re: (Rev 2.8.1) resume and defaultstack

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear Russell, This problem might be related to the following bug: http:// quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3412. If you apply the patch described in the bug, be aware that you might get trapped in a repeat loop. You might need to check the lockmessages. Best regards, Mark

Re: Inter-Application Communication on Windows

2008-02-15 Thread Dave
Hi, The problem with my Application is that whole Tables can be renamed or deleted. Just tried running two apps at the same time accessing one database and it instantly crashed and the database is in pieces! All the Best Dave On 14 Feb 2008, at 13:30, viktoras didziulis wrote: Hi Dave,

hostNameToAddress not working???

2008-02-15 Thread Dave
Hi All, I have the following function: -- -- -- Get the LAN IP Address of this Machine -- -- function IPMGetHostIPAddressLAN local myHostIPAddress put

Re: Inter-Application Communication on Windows

2008-02-15 Thread viktoras didziulis
Hi, I wonder whether it is because the instances change the schema of the database or because they do it simultaneously ? Maybe if you implement a simple locking mechanism it would work ?.. The simplest way, which I never tried in Rev, but many times in Perl when programming multiuser shared

Re: way OT bass players ... was filter without empty

2008-02-15 Thread J. Downs
Cool bass site! I believe Mark Wieder is also an earth shaker - any others here? Did both my undergrad and master's in music, so I was playing quite a variety of instruments. Played upright bass for a bit: poorly. :P Spent more time with the electric bass—some jazz, mostly rock—but

Re: Inter-Application Communication on Windows

2008-02-15 Thread Dave
Hi, I think it's easier to use TCP to communicate rather than try to hack something to together that wasn't really designed for the job. The problem is that I'd have to lock the database for very long periods (10 to 15 minutes or more), and so I'd lose whatever gain was to be had by

Re: hostNameToAddress not working???

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dave, The hostaddresstoname and hostnametoaddress function work fine. My tiny cgi script on Memebot works fine too. I bet your machine is connected to a local network using a router. It is also possible that you have additional gateways defined on your local machine, e.g. to

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Luis
Hiya, If the movies are short, what about re-implementing them as animated gif files? They will play in any browser. Not sure how to step though them though, although each frame can have it's own unique filename. There's a free converter here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/235 And

AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hmm, didn't thought about that yet. I have never compared quality and size against a video, but giving each frame a unique filename sounds to quite some work Thanks for the hint Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag

Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello all, I am about to plan my next project. It will be a Win Mac database driven app from DVD-ROM with about 17000 small video clips (each 1-4 sec). Now I have to decide very early which video format I am going to use, because I start with the video production. As I know up to now, the only

Re: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tiemo, Hmm, didn't thought about that yet. I have never compared quality and size against a video, but giving each frame a unique filename sounds to quite some work No need to use separate files for the frames! You can even control frames of animated gifs in Rev! Check framecount,

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
You could make them as H264 based movies (with AAC sound), either .MOV or .MP4. Both would play fine via QuickTime, and both can play in the current Flash player. You could build it now as QuickTime only, and then change your mind later if you were still worried about people installing

AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Colin, interesting aspect, I have to check, if my encoder supports H264 and how about size/quality. The only thing I have read about H264 is that it takes much processor power and could get into troubles on old machines. Up to now I wanted to use Sorenson Video3 Pro codec. Yes I thought about

Re: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: interesting aspect, I have to check, if my encoder supports H264 and how about size/quality. The only thing I have read about H264 is that it takes much processor power and could get into troubles on old machines. Up to now I wanted

Re: App over PDA with windows mobile or other

2008-02-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Josep, Err... no, you can't but there's a way. You can create a web application if your pda is connected all time, then, you can use a web application. Andre On 2/15/08, Josep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It's posible to run applications created with Revolution in a Windows Mobile PDA?

Re: hostNameToAddress not working???

2008-02-15 Thread Dave
Hi, Yes, I am using a router, actually it a different router then when first I tested this (about a year ago). From looking at the Network settings I have a LAN IP Address of 192.168.1.87 and my router address is 192.168.1.1 and my local address is 127.0.0.1 and the Public IP address is

Re: way OT bass players ... was filter without empty

2008-02-15 Thread Len Morgan
J. Downs wrote: Cool bass site! I believe Mark Wieder is also an earth shaker - any others here? Well I built a recording studio. Let's see...we've got a bass or two, a drummer... any guitarist and/or keyboard players? Maybe we can create a virutal gig using Rev? len morgan

Re: hostNameToAddress not working??? (Correction)

2008-02-15 Thread Dave
!Opps! Some typeo's crept in! It should read - however if I append .local to the machine name it returns the correct LAN address. So if I change my function as so: -- -- -- IPMGetHostIPAddressLAN --

Re: Is RevXML working in Linux!?

2008-02-15 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I have 2.9.0-dp-3 running as a CGI engine on Linux, I'd like to know if I can use RevXML commands in it. RevCreateXMLTree is returning an error. Must I load the external by hand? Isn't it inside the engine these days? I haven't used the CGI but

Re: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Russell Martin
What about sound? Aren't animated gifs silent? --- Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tiemo, Hmm, didn't thought about that yet. I have never compared quality and size against a video, but giving each frame a unique filename sounds to quite some work No need to use

Re: Rev php script question

2008-02-15 Thread Andres Martinez
Hello JB I use print instead of echo and it works fine. Please try it. Regards, Andres Martinez www.baKno.com On Feb 15, 2008, at 3:43 AM, jbv wrote: Hi there, I'm using post myvar to url in a stack to access data stored in mysql via a php script. The php script ends with echo

Re: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
The main arguments against animated gifs would be the lack of color range, and the file size. If there are 17000 files of 1-4 seconds each, so let's say 36000 seconds worth altogether, that's the same amount of time as five full length Hollywood movies, and with double layer discs being enough

AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Yes, in this case, I don't have audio at all... Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Luis Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 15:41 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: AW: Flash or Quicktime? Someone

Re: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Another issue you may wish to consider, is how powerful a machine the playback will be on. A recent cient of ours had to forgo the Flash solution in favor of QT because Flash is considerably more processor intensive than QT...by a lot. ___ use-revolution

AW: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
I have a video size of 384x288 with 25fps and try to get an average file size of 420kb, so that I get all on one double layer DVD-9 I've send you a test file off-list Thanks Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von

AW: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Interesting to hear, I didn't know that Thanks for sharing Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Chipp Walters Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 16:20 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Flash or

shortcut keys rarely working

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Swindell
Shortcut keys are becoming a thing of the past, far more than just copy, cut, paste. This is in the IDE using GLX2 (or not), Studio or Enterprise Beta. Do I need to do a complete reinstall to get thing back to normal? Are there files that need to be dumped? Please advise. Thanks, Mark

Re: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Luis
Someone had to spoil the party... :) Good point, but I had assumed that at 1-4 seconds per file that there really wasn't much sound to talk about (intentional pun..). Could be linked to fire off (if necessary) a separate sound file. Oh, and about the individual filenames per frame: This the

Re: Rev php script question

2008-02-15 Thread jbv
Andres, I already tried : same problem. Thanks anyway. Hello JB I use print instead of echo and it works fine. Please try it. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thank you for your points, Stephen Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Stephen Barncard Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 17:22 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: Flash or Quicktime? And another

Re: shortcut keys rarely working

2008-02-15 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 15, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Jerry Daniels wrote: Trevor has tracked down a very bothersome engine bug that seems to isolate the problem: FOCUS. Once a Rev application (the IDE is an application, btw) has a bunch of nested groups, the engine has to be coerced into knowing what the focused

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
And another thing to think about: Flash, Real, DIVX, whatever, eventually will complain if the user's system needs an update on the web, and they'll have to download and install something sooner or later. Example: I just installed Leopard 10.5.2, that masssive thing just released by Apple,

Re: shortcut keys rarely working

2008-02-15 Thread Jerry Daniels
Mark, Trevor has tracked down a very bothersome engine bug that seems to isolate the problem: FOCUS. Once a Rev application (the IDE is an application, btw) has a bunch of nested groups, the engine has to be coerced into knowing what the focused object (field) really is. This is where

RE: Cgi and Database (stick to standards)

2008-02-15 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I want again repeat one point for SqlLite fans. If db world was so simple that SqlLite engine in 300K beats mySQL then ask self why mySQL/Oracle/MS SQL/Sybase/DB2/Ingres/ Valentina developers bother self developing s complex DB systems???!!! May be tasks are not so simple when you

Re: shortcut keys rarely working

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Ault
I have posted a workaround for Mac OSX that I use, sometimes frequently, but most of the last 6 months, rarely. There is a program called Menu Master that quickly allows you to assign an alternate key combo. I use cntrl-C and cntrl-V. Normally Rev will like the command-C and -V. When it does

Re: revBrowser and htmltext of web pages

2008-02-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'd say this looks like a bug to me, so maybe you should file one, specifying the url, and how you used it. Alternatively send this mail and the url /use case to support? On 15 Feb 2008, at 07:33, Phil Davis wrote: I'm looking at a web page in revBrowser (XP in Parallels) that contains

Re: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Reynolds
its a bit more than throwing the qt installer on and sending them a couple copies of your disc. you must install qt with your product w.o the user being able to stop the qt installation. it was all a bit of hassle and it changes (another pain). in the past they have done things like your

Re: revBrowser and htmltext of web pages

2008-02-15 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks Björnke. The page in question is on a secured site (realtors' multiple listing service), but I'll see if I can find an equivalent public page and submit that with the bug report. Phil Björnke von Gierke wrote: I'd say this looks like a bug to me, so maybe you should file one,

Re: Valentina Valentine offer

2008-02-15 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 15/2/08 8:29 PM, -= JB =- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I signed up for the Valentina Valentine offer and the site said it confirmed my info but I have not received the license yet. The offer stated once you fill out the info and have been confirmed your license will be on the way. When

Re: hostNameToAddress not working???

2008-02-15 Thread Dave
It's ok, you just need to append .local to the return value of the hostName. All the Best Dave On 15 Feb 2008, at 18:36, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dave wrote: Hi All, I have the following function: -- -- -- Get the LAN IP Address

Re: shortcut keys rarely working

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Swindell
It's beyond copy, cut, paste at this point on my machine. Select all, commenting/uncommenting, saving, opening/closing message box, everything that should work more often than not doesn't. The only way I can get anything done is to use the menubar. All shortcuts seem to be

Re: hostNameToAddress not working???

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dave wrote: Hi All, I have the following function: -- -- -- Get the LAN IP Address of this Machine -- -- function IPMGetHostIPAddressLAN local myHostIPAddress

Re: Valentina Valentine offer

2008-02-15 Thread -= JB =-
Hi Ruslan, That is what I thought but just wanted to make sure. Thanks for taking the time to reply. -=JB=- On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: On 15/2/08 8:29 PM, -= JB =- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I signed up for the Valentina Valentine offer and the site said it

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Fascinating Richard, didn't know about Flip4Mac. Do the standard Rev calls work with WMV? CurrentTime, PlayStopped, etc? Didn't know that either. Good stuff. Regarding Linux, my Asus eee seems to play streaming WMV's just fine with the default installation of mPlayer. Perhaps a more savvy Linux

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
Yes, Flip has made WMV very Mac friendly. Often I forget it's not quicktime codecs, WMV's look pretty good. The more I think about it - Richard's suggestion about using Windoze Media for Windows, and QT with FlipForMac that's a great idea for cross platform movies-- shouldn't FLIP work in

Shakobox/PlayCommand Open Source

2008-02-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Some of you may know that my site has been the distribution point for the Shakobox PlayCommand Agent, written by Jonathan Bettencourt some years ago. This software allows Revolution to emulate the HyperCard play command on both Windows and Mac. HyperCard's play command is able to use scripted

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: Do the standard Rev calls work with WMV? CurrentTime, PlayStopped, etc? Didn't know that either. Good question. I had thought they did, but in v2.9dp3 there's a bug: When using a player with dontuseQT true, the currentTime property can be both read and set. But if you

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
I think you're going to make life harder for yourselves in terms of producing the WMVs, and you're willing to give up all Mac users with systems prior to 10.3.9, just to save a few people a bit of installing time. You would only be helping out people who don't have QuickTime and do have

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
At 1:41 PM -0800 2/15/08, Richard Gaskin wrote: By my math we're looking at the difference between the number of people running Windows vs. the number of Mac users running OS X versions prior to 10.3.9. No, that would be too one sided. You're really interested in the number of Windows users

Re: shortcut keys rarely working

2008-02-15 Thread Len Morgan
Add my vote but PLEASE work on a Windows version! Len Morgan Jerry Daniels wrote: I'll take that as a vote of confidence from San Francisco! On Feb 15, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: G L X 3 It's stuff like this that made me want to create a script editor in a separate

Re: shortcut keys rarely working

2008-02-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
G L X 3 It's stuff like this that made me want to create a script editor in a separate application space...which we did with the Concept Editor. I should have perhaps taken the idea beyond concept. Best, Jerry Daniels -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: Native, pure quicktime works really well by itself in its native formats. Except for the other 90% of the world that runs Windows or Linux. ;) There isn't a QT engine at all for Linux (please oh please tell me that's changed or will soon). And sure, Apple provides

Re: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Scott Rossi
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/iphone-adobe-flash-support-coming-275317.php Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design -Original Message- From: Terry Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:41:14 To:use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: AW: AW:

Valentina Valentine offer

2008-02-15 Thread -= JB =-
I signed up for the Valentina Valentine offer and the site said it confirmed my info but I have not received the license yet. The offer stated once you fill out the info and have been confirmed your license will be on the way. When should we expect to receive the license? thanks, -=JB=-

Re: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Terry Judd
Another issue you may wish to consider, is how powerful a machine the playback will be on. A recent cient of ours had to forgo the Flash solution in favor of QT because Flash is considerably more processor intensive than QT...by a lot. This is apparently one of the reasons the iPhone doesn't

Re: shortcut keys rarely working

2008-02-15 Thread Jerry Daniels
Mark, It wouldn't hurt to try a fresh re-install. I don't know what other plugins, or anything else may have affected your keystrokes so dramatically. When i made my previous comments, I was not limiting the focus problem with keystrokes to just cmd+c,x,v, btw. It's stuff like this that

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
At 2:08 PM -0800 2/15/08, Richard Gaskin wrote: But I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all solution to video playback at this time. I can agree with this, but would argue to have QuickTime and WMV versions, and not require Mac users to have to adapt to WMV. The Flash option does have

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: At 1:41 PM -0800 2/15/08, Richard Gaskin wrote: By my math we're looking at the difference between the number of people running Windows vs. the number of Mac users running OS X versions prior to 10.3.9. No, that would be too one sided. You're really interested in the

Re: App over PDA with windows mobile or other

2008-02-15 Thread Josep
That's what I will suppose... Thanks, Josep M Andre Garzia-3 wrote: Josep, Err... no, you can't but there's a way. You can create a web application if your pda is connected all time, then, you can use a web application. Andre On 2/15/08, Josep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: At 2:08 PM -0800 2/15/08, Richard Gaskin wrote: But I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all solution to video playback at this time. I can agree with this, but would argue to have QuickTime and WMV versions, and not require Mac users to have to adapt to WMV. Good for

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: At 3:00 PM -0800 2/15/08, Richard Gaskin wrote: What was the Motion Picture Group supposed to be working on? That would be H264, which is where we started the conversation. Right. I guess the nice thing about working at MPG is that they buy nice computers. ;) --

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
At 2:08 PM -0600 2/15/08, Chipp Walters wrote: It shows QT at 68.4% and Flash at 98.8%. It also shows Windows Media Player at 83%. I'm not sure how much I would worry about those figures when doing something in tools like Revolution, because you know that 100 percent of your users are going

Re: Cgi and Database (stick to standards)

2008-02-15 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
FYI PostgreSQL is free. Sadhu From: Hershel Fisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cgi and Database (stick to standards) To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Bernard Devlin wrote: I'm not sure what kind of database requirements you have. SQL rdbms, and I

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Chipp Walters
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Colin Holgate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be H264, which is where we started the conversation. Which still doesn't answer the Flash vs QT vs WMV issue. Not to mention one needs a serious processor indeed to be able to run H264. For someone concerned

Re: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Luis
If you want to stick to a 'movie' format: You could package up the Theora codecs with your installer (for each OS) but you'd have to re-encode them for Theora (there's plenty of free apps that will do this). Theora may be 'new/beta'ish' but has been in solid use in some large projects for a

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 15, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: For someone concerned about enabling a Mac user 14 revs off the OS, you may have successfully shot yourself in the foot here To be fair, it was an unlucky ricochet off of Richard forehead. I would argue though that if current machines can

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Reynolds
except making a nicely compressed and good quality wmv file is pretty much an oxymoron... my old compression guru (been in the biz forever and a real artist) still snarls at me when i request wmv files... they never come out as nice or as small and the clients always ask why it doesnt look

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: except making a nicely compressed and good quality wmv file is pretty much an oxymoron To be fair, WMV9, On2VP6, and H264 are all comparable for quality, data rate, and CPU requirements. ___

Re: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Chipp Walters
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Jeff Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: except making a nicely compressed and good quality wmv file is pretty much an oxymoron... my old compression guru (been in the biz forever and a real artist) still snarls at me when i request wmv files... they never

Re: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Terry Judd
From: Scott Rossi Subject: Re: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime? http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/iphone-adobe-flash-support-coming-275317.php More opinion... http://daringfireball.net/2008/02/news_flash_no_flash http://daringfireball.net/2008/02/flash_iphone_calculus Terry...