2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

2008-02-23 Thread Peter Alcibiades
OK, all good things come to an end. So where do I get the next one? Peter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: 2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

2008-02-23 Thread Horst
Hi RunRev, why don´t all 2.9 testers get dp-4? Is there a selection or is it just a mistake? best regards Horst Peter Alcibiades wrote: OK, all good things come to an end. So where do I get the next one? Peter ___ use-revolution

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

2008-02-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 22, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/21/MNABV5PP3.DTL Well, arguably Python is in competition to Rev, so it's remotely on topic! ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Kay C Lan
Stop the Presses I'm over the moon, I can't believe I missed this before, I can't believe how many circles I've run, but I thought I'd have another go at trying to eliminating the step of creating an extra document, I want AppleScript to talk directly to Rev, and I'VE FOUND IT :-) Read the

Re: 2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

2008-02-23 Thread viktoras didziulis
i did not receive it too :-( or at least cant't find it in my inbox - the latest message is about dp3... Viktoras Horst wrote: Hi RunRev, why don´t all 2.9 testers get dp-4? Is there a selection or is it just a mistake? best regards Horst Peter Alcibiades wrote: OK, all good things

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Jim Ault
You might want to look at Kenny Ray Vaughn's site at sonsOthunder.com for his scripting solutions for both Win and Mac. This will add to your power and show the way to build cross-platform handlers. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 2/23/08 1:48 AM, Kay C Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop the

2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

2008-02-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Is there a selection or is it just a mistake? Surely that question has already answered itself? As a Runtime Revolution user of extremely slender income who uses a licensed version of DreamCard 2.6.1 I assume I, at least, have been excluded from Beta 4 (or is it 11 ???) because I do not have a

Re: 2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

2008-02-23 Thread Neal Campbell
I thought it happened to me when I upgraded to an enterprise license. But, if the official release is coming in days rather than weeks I am happy to wait. Neal On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:56 AM, viktoras didziulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did not receive it too :-( or at least cant't find it in

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

2008-02-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 23 Feb 2008, at 02:27, Richard Gaskin wrote: Suppose you want to display records from a database in a multi- column list field. You'll want to keep track of the ID field, but that's just noise to the end-user so you don't want to display it. Currently, you'd have to parse out that

Re: 2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

2008-02-23 Thread Stephen Barncard
What happens when you use check for update? Hi RunRev, why don´t all 2.9 testers get dp-4? -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: 2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

2008-02-23 Thread Neal Campbell
Mine will not start it aborts immeditely with expired trial date message. Neal On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens when you use check for update? Hi RunRev, why don´t all 2.9 testers get dp-4? -- stephen barncard s a n f

Re: Wait with messages

2008-02-23 Thread Camm29
Thanks for that , 1 is put into x within a button script on mouseup . Why do i check (x=1) 2 times ? Well I actually check for(x=1) 10 times ?! I think I've missed the concept of messages I thought if not checking for x after each function in the loop it would mean 10 x 250ms wait to exit

Re: 2.9 dp-3 for linux has expired...!

2008-02-23 Thread viktoras didziulis
We can't, dp-3 has already expired... v.- Stephen Barncard wrote: What happens when you use check for update? Hi RunRev, why don´t all 2.9 testers get dp-4? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Wait with messages

2008-02-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Oh... Camm, not Curry, so sorry for that. It is really friendly of you to thank me(?) in advance, but do you have any more questions or are you going to try to change your repeat loop now? I don't get what you want to say by I thought if not checking for x after each function in the loop

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Kay C Lan wrote: So in Rev: use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit use do to run this AppleScript: tell application TextEdit set tText to the text of document 1 end tell put the result into myVariable --is now full of your pdf's text :- Wow. Very cool! --

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Thanks Richard, I have only tried to give back what has been so freely given to me: The members of this list have always given me their time and patience freely and with out limit. Update on me: I had to abandon a PDF project due to other work and have not been able to finish it. I have

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
That was an awesome reveal. I wonder where else that would work. Safari ??? HH Thanks Tom On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: Stop the Presses I'm over the moon, I can't believe I missed this before, I can't believe how many circles I've run, but I thought I'd have

[ANN] Multi-Browser pre-alpha test release

2008-02-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I am releasing Multi-Browser, a Research tool for doing multiple web browsing in one window developed with Revolution as a public pre-Alpha release. I would appreciate any feedback from other Revolution developers. Please email me with comments and suggestions. There is more information on

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/23/08 12:23 PM, Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use the do as OSALanguageName form, any result returned by the script language is placed in the result. ANY result from AppleScript will be placed in Rev's 'the result' That was an awesome reveal. I wonder where

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit use do to run this AppleScript: tell application TextEdit set tText to the text of document 1 end tell Maybe this is another Leopard thang, I dunno, I haven't set up my test stack for this yet, but in Tiger I

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

2008-02-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: On 23 Feb 2008, at 02:27, Richard Gaskin wrote: Suppose you want to display records from a database in a multi- column list field. You'll want to keep track of the ID field, but that's just noise to the end-user so you don't want to display it. Currently, you'd

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

2008-02-23 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Getting to this thread a bit late... A Windows mobile version of Rev would be great (hey I think I even voted for one in BugZilla about three years ago) but if I could only have one mobile Rev platform then it would be for the iPhone/iPod Touch. These are the first handheld

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit use do to run this AppleScript: tell application TextEdit set tText to the text of document 1 end tell Maybe this is

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit use do to run this AppleScript: tell application TextEdit set tText to the text of document 1 end tell Maybe this is another Leopard thang, I dunno, I haven't set up my test stack for

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/23/08 2:47 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit use do to run this AppleScript: tell application TextEdit set tText to the text of document 1 end tell Maybe this is another Leopard thang,

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:43 AM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit use do to run this AppleScript: tell application TextEdit set tText to the text of document 1 end

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

2008-02-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Richard, a lot of the people who say they don't like the iPhone keyboard are won over as soon as they actually use one. In my case it was the other way around. After all, it's rare that Apple does something as completely baseless as the hockey-puck mouse, so I was

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

2008-02-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
You complain that my handler deletes the data, so it seems I wasn't clear enough. Obviously there's a custom property, called data. This is what you use to show later parts of, or sorted stuff of, in the field. That is why I said less memory efficient, because there's an additional

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Stephen Barncard
Works perfectly for me, Richard 10.5.2 Maybe this is another Leopard thang, I dunno, I haven't set up my test stack for this yet, but in Tiger I can't get Text Edit to open a PDF in any meaningful way; that is, it just shows the raw PDF data but doesn't render it. So my question is

Re: Extracting text from PDF

2008-02-23 Thread Luis
Hiya, Been there, done that... :) Best tool for the job: Pacifist from http://www.charlessoft.com/ Download the latest OS X update (or the one containing Safari v3) direct from the Apple site, run Pacifist over it and slide Safari out of the update package. Cheers, Luis. Jim Ault

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

2008-02-23 Thread Luis
Just stick some bubble-wrap over the screen! Cheers, Luis. Richard Gaskin wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: Richard, a lot of the people who say they don't like the iPhone keyboard are won over as soon as they actually use one. In my case it was the other way around. After all, it's rare that

Re: RunRev for iPhone and iPod Touch

2008-02-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: You complain that my handler deletes the data, so it seems I wasn't clear enough. Obviously there's a custom property, called data. This is what you use to show later parts of, or sorted stuff of, in the field. That is why I said less memory efficient, because

Rev blog

2008-02-23 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi everyone, I wanted to experiment with creating a blog and what better subject than our favourite development tool :-) Please have a look at my new Rev blog at http://sarahrev.blogspot.com/. Feel free to leave comments, ask questions or suggest articles. I hope to create a reasonably active