Re: Extracting text from PDF

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wonderful! That's actually exactly what I need, as this is just a > one-time tool for internal use only to help me build a textual index of > a collection PDF files. Thank you for the help -- much appreciated. > > So gl

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

Martin Blackman wrote: silly question, but what does one do with a zero-width column ? Not silly at all. I got the idea from Ken Ray, and have been a strong advocate of it since. But when I first heard about it, I had the same question. :) Suppose you want to display records from a databa

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

I don't know about other programmers, but I would be able to display just the columns I wanted for the user without having to parse a table of data. For example: All data is in one table of 15 columns. Field "price" would use column 1,2,4,10 which could be [database id][inventory item num][descri

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

Hide data in-line in a column in a field row. Associating hidden data with a line can be very useful. Currently we have to hide any such data at the end of a row, out of view. sqb silly question, but what does one do with a zero-width column ? On 23/2/08 10:20 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

silly question, but what does one do with a zero-width column ? On 23/2/08 10:20 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But I do know this: Rev is already on the desktop, and to fully exploit > > the opportunities already before us we really need independent column > > alignment an

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

On 23/2/08 10:20 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I do know this: Rev is already on the desktop, and to fully exploit > the opportunities already before us we really need independent column > alignment and zero-width columns in fields. A lot of money is left on > the table u

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

On 23/2/08 9:26 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it may be best for Rev to keep focusing on honing the engine for the > business tasks currently asked of it, while the Handheld Platform Wars > play themselves out for at least another year. I agree that we need to play the wait

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

Andres Martinez wrote: Sorry Richard, but I disagree. I recently read (maybe from this same mailing list) that the iPhone has more penetration than Linux within internet-connected devices. If I remember correctly, measurement was taken from Google visitors. If this is correct, the iPhone

OT: New threat to our way of life: giant pythons

No on-topic content, but it's Friday on my planet and I just had to share this gem: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/21/MNABV5PP3.DTL -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.r

Re: Nasty Colours and Patterns Bug in 2.9

On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm using Enterprise 2.9.0 dp 4, on an Intel-based iMac, and I'd like to know if any of you have encountered this bug. If you try to change the colour of something (e.g., stack background, field gridlines) using the Colou

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: So it may be best for Rev to keep focusing on honing the engine for the business tasks currently asked of it, while the Handheld Platform Wars play themselves out for at least another year. Not to get in the way of other important features

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

Hello Sorry Richard, but I disagree. I recently read (maybe from this same mailing list) that the iPhone has more penetration than Linux within internet-connected devices. If I remember correctly, measurement was taken from Google visitors. If this is correct, the iPhone would be an import

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

Terry Judd wrote: If I were RunRev, long before I jumped on the iPhone bandwaqon I'd make an engine that runs on the Windows-based handhelds. Simpler API, and a much larger installed base. A Windows mobile version of Rev would be great (hey I think I even voted for one in BugZilla about three

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

> If I were RunRev, long before I jumped on the iPhone bandwaqon I'd make > an engine that runs on the Windows-based handhelds. Simpler API, and a > much larger installed base. A Windows mobile version of Rev would be great (hey I think I even voted for one in BugZilla about three years ago) but

Nasty Colours and Patterns Bug in 2.9

Hello Everyone, I'm using Enterprise 2.9.0 dp 4, on an Intel-based iMac, and I'd like to know if any of you have encountered this bug. If you try to change the colour of something (e.g., stack background, field gridlines) using the Colours and Patterns palette, you can only do it once. If

Re: Extracting text from PDF

Kay C Lan wrote: Probably no use to you Richard as I believe this is for personal use only as it requires PDF2RTFService from Devon Systems: http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html ... So in Rev: launch tFileName with "/yourHD/Applications/TextEdit.app" the 8 line

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Hi Dave, Hi, I don't have version 2.9 installed so can't test it. Does anyone know when 2.9 will be released? In the next couple of weeks :-) All the Best Dave Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mai

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Hi, I don't have version 2.9 installed so can't test it. Does anyone know when 2.9 will be released? All the Best Dave On 22 Feb 2008, at 14:31, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Dave, If you enter put the alternateLanguages in the message box and press enter, you will see a list of supporte

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Mark- > If you enter > > put the alternateLanguages ...on my Kubuntu linux box this returns an empty set... -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: iPhone javascript support has some nice features so you can build nice webapps for it. andre PS: who has not an iPhone and thus can't test anything. http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/ Not really an iPhone but seems to provide a 'frame' for

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: PS: who has not an iPhone and thus can't test anything. Perhaps you could try iPhoney . My brother Greg says it works OK and he used it a little while developing the iPhone interface to ScreenSteps Live

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

Lars Brehmer wrote: > ...do the rev developers themselves plan to make that platform > a standalone option? I guess that can't really be answered until > everyone has seen the SDK,but isn't it theoretically possible? > I am keeping my fingers crossed! Software is just lights dancing on a screen.

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

Lars, standalones would need an ARM targeted engine and that does not exist (I think). Best options for us is Web apps on iPhone. iPhone javascript support has some nice features so you can build nice webapps for it. andre PS: who has not an iPhone and thus can't test anything. On 2/22/08, Lars

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Hi Andre, Regarding Frontier, if that's true, it is a real shame. If the JavaScript OSA extension project has been abandoned it must have happened very recently, since the universal binary is still available for download here

beta 2.9

Hi, I signed up for beta testing of rev 2.9 and still haven't a password / login url. :( Eric Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/

Re: UI performance and large data set in Table Object

mfstuart wrote: As I mentioned in my previous listing, 20, 30, or 5 lines can be found, depends on the users search criteria. My example was 20,844 lines). The record length for the table is 255 (counting up the SQL definition lengths for all columns) On the stack I'm only using 8 of the 13 c

re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

I couldn't agree more! Personally I doubt I will ever learn to use/ code Apple's Xcode or the coming iPhone SDK, but I am sure some of you real cracks out there could develop a rev stack that can convert what is necessary to run a standalone on those devices. Or do the rev developers themse

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Hello Mark, I don't think Frontier is OSA anymore. It used to be, I can't tell you I am completelly sure, but I think that after Frontier 5 or something, it droped being OSA and focused on the web + database + server part of it. I have frontier here and it is not listed on OSA... The Javascript

Re: RunRev for iPhone/iPod Touch?

Luis, :-D There are many uses for RevOnRockets... The tutorials will rock! :D Andre On 2/22/08, Luis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless you ROR it via web apps. > > Cheers, > > > Luis. > > > > On 22 Feb 2008, at 15:19, Andre Garzia wrote: > > > As I said, it is not available... :-/ > >

Re: RunRev for iPhone/iPod Touch?

Unless you ROR it via web apps. Cheers, Luis. On 22 Feb 2008, at 15:19, Andre Garzia wrote: As I said, it is not available... :-/ silly apples... andre On 2/22/08, Luis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hiya, iPhone/iPod Touch SDK: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/ third_party_app

Re: RunRev for iPhone/iPod Touch?

As I said, it is not available... :-/ silly apples... andre On 2/22/08, Luis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya, > > iPhone/iPod Touch SDK: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/ > third_party_apps.php > > Cheers, > > > Luis. > > > > On 22 Feb 2008, at 15:00, Andre Garzia wrote: > > >

Re: RunRev for iPhone/iPod Touch?

Hiya, iPhone/iPod Touch SDK: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/ third_party_apps.php Cheers, Luis. On 22 Feb 2008, at 15:00, Andre Garzia wrote: Dave, I don't think the iPhone has a SDK yet So I don't think that is even doable. Not only it has no SDK but the cpu is ARM base

Re: RunRev for iPhone/iPod Touch?

Dave, I don't think the iPhone has a SDK yet So I don't think that is even doable. Not only it has no SDK but the cpu is ARM based and we only have engines for x86, PPC and Sparc. So if it means creating a new engine with no OS SDK, I think RunRev Team will focus on other more important thing

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Hi Klaus, No no, your no wasn't premature. Not completely at least. I assume that not all languages in the list returned by the alternateLanguages are useful. There are a few OSA languages around, e.g. the JavaScript OSA extension for Mac by LateNight software, which works great. Frontier

RunRev for iPhone/iPod Touch?

Hi All, I think it would be a spiffing idea to have RunRev generate apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch? Not sure if it will happen tho. All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscrib

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Did a quick test... It looks like these quoted language names don't make sense. I get "language not found" after trying to execute something, whatever I try. I wonder if this is a bug. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-t

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Hi Mark, Hi Dave, If you enter put the alternateLanguages in the message box and press enter, you will see a list of supported alternative languages. On my PC, this included "SignedJavaScript" including the quotes. It looks like you can do do "command.javascript.some" as (quote & Signed

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Dave wrote: My question is: Does it also support JavaScript? As in: do tJavaScript as "javascript" JScript is listed among the alternateLanguages on my Windows XP machine and executing: do "result = 1 + 1" as "jscript" answer the result displays "2" in the a

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Hi Dave, If you enter put the alternateLanguages in the message box and press enter, you will see a list of supported alternative languages. On my PC, this included "SignedJavaScript" including the quotes. It looks like you can do do "command.javascript.some" as (quote & SignedJavaScript

Re: RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Am 22.02.2008 um 15:24 schrieb Dave: ... My question is: Does it also support JavaScript? As in: do tJavaScript as "javascript" No. Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev

RunRev 2.9 Scripting Question

Hi All, I read the following in the RunRev Newsletter: Active Scripting A long standing feature of Revolution on Mac OS X has been the ability to easily execute AppleScript using the alternate language variant of the do command. This is can be extremely useful because Applescript is suppo

Re: Wait with messages

Hi Curry, There might be a problem caused by the fact that the script is currently running, but since I don't see how you change x, I am not sure about this. Usually, I use a custom property or the hilite of a button rather than a variable (which in your case seems to be set and read in t

Wait with messages

I have a loop with :- repeat . do something (takes about 250ms) wait 1 millisecond with messages if x=1 then exit repeat . do something (takes about 250ms) wait 1 millisecond with messages if x=1 then exit repeat end repeat I have a button that makes x =1 to exit 1 card and go to another

RevOnRockets website is up

And you can signup to be notified when tutorials are completed. Of course the signup form is a RevOnRockets cgi! www.revonrockets.com -Chipp and Andre ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, un

Re: mimicking awks fs and ofs

Hi put url InputFile into tData replace tab with comma in tData put tData into url outputFile assuming that you don't have tabs or/and comma IN your datas... Regards, Thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please v

Re: mimicking awks fs and ofs

Hi Peter, Le 22 févr. 08 à 12:11, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : How do you do this? Its super easy in awk. You just set the item delimiters for the input file and the item delimiters for the output file independently. Then if you write, for instance, items 1 and 2 to the output fie, they ma

Re: mimicking awks fs and ofs

Peter, put url InputFile into tData replace tab with comma in tData put tData into url outputFile Best, Mark On 22 Feb 2008, at 11:11, Peter Alcibiades wrote: How do you do this? Its super easy in awk. You just set the item delimiters for the input file and the item delimiters for the out

mimicking awks fs and ofs

How do you do this? Its super easy in awk. You just set the item delimiters for the input file and the item delimiters for the output file independently. Then if you write, for instance, items 1 and 2 to the output fie, they may have been tab separated in the input file but will now be | sepa

Re: Blocking control s

Hi Tom, To prevent other people from changing your stacks, you can set the cantModify to true after setting a password for your stack. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Convert colours betwe

Re: UI performance and large data set in Table Object

Hi, Hi Sarah, That sounds promising, especially reading prior threads on the same custom property concept. The data was there already. I actually MOVED it to custom properties rather than duplicating the data, so the overhead was no worse than it had been and quite acceptable. The stack

Re: UI performance and large data set in Table Object

Hi Mark, use scrolling field object with vgrid and hgrid set to true (table to false), so you will get it formatted correctly without all the overheads of the table object. I always use this when I need table and it for me handles a few thousand records without any slowing downs. One more op