Re: Exporting Images of Buttons ?

2008-03-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jim Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you produced a tutorial for printing that used > all the printing items > then you would be a heroic God.;-) > > sims > Hi sims, The new user guide PDF has a pretty thorough chapter on printing, including the new commands and properties. Defin

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Sims
Fortunately, since it's Debian under the hood, our Linux Rev apps will run just fine on the Eee PC. Seems the SDK is just for modding the OS or other such things, made available mostly to comply with the GNU license. Now that Rev 2.9 does Linux nicely, I'm tempted to try building some ap

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Sims wrote: On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: >> I'm considering an Eee PC. Priced at $399, it's hard to imagine >> it won't be a big seller. ... Anyone here have an Eee PC? Don't have one, but... They just released what appears to be a beta SDK

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Sims
On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: >> I'm considering an Eee PC. Priced at $399, it's hard to imagine >> it won't be a big seller. ... Anyone here have an Eee PC? Don't have one, but... They just released what appears to be a beta SDK for it. There is

Re: Exporting Images of Buttons ?

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Sims
On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:07 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: I'm finishing a new tutorial about drag and drop including 2.9 new features due to Easter time :-) You are heroic. When I'll have some time left (Rev counts about 1600 tokens at the moment) I'll write a kind of tutorial to know which words

Re: REV CGIs

2008-03-26 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks Richard! Great idea. Phil Richard Gaskin wrote: Phil Davis wrote: Turns out I had the wrong line endings in my script. So in TextWrangler (Mac) I changed them to "Unix (LF)" with the little menu at the bottom edge of the window, saved the script again and it worked! Yay. Rev's in

Re: REV CGIs

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Phil Davis wrote: Turns out I had the wrong line endings in my script. So in TextWrangler (Mac) I changed them to "Unix (LF)" with the little menu at the bottom edge of the window, saved the script again and it worked! Yay. Rev's internal line-ending is the same as for UNIX, so - If you m

Re: REV CGIs

2008-03-26 Thread Phil Davis
It could indeed be line endings. Take a look at the server's error log. You should be able to get to it via FTP. It may have some clues. I'm working on a "globals.cgi" script myself right now and just looked at error log. It says: [Wed Mar 26 18:38:20 2008] [error] [client 24.20.73.192] /home/

Re: REV CGIs

2008-03-26 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Phil, Thanks for offering these checks. So far - My permissions are the same for each file. - I made the first line the same for each cgi as well. - I tried renaming to the.mt format. No luck I am getting internal server errors. Could it be line endings?? Thanks, Tom McGrath On Mar 26, 2008, a

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
mfstuart wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: >> I'm considering an Eee PC. Priced at $399, it's hard to imagine >> it won't be a big seller. ... Anyone here have an Eee PC? > > Check out Wikipedia's web site for "a lot" of info on this device > and other similar models: A newer model coming in April 2

Re: REV CGIs

2008-03-26 Thread Phil Davis
Thomas McGrath III wrote: Actually, I did upload the linux engine but I can't seem to run any cgi's using it. Only the .mt file produces results. Tom I know this is obvious, but it sounds like you need to find out what's "right" about the .mt file, and apply it to the other script files.

Re: Exporting Images of Buttons ?

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Its a classic example of the difference. Someone wants to know how you order dinner in Spanish. You could hand him a dictionary, and he would maybe eventually figure it out. Or you could hand him "See it and say it in Spanish". We have a great dictionary. What we a

Re: [ANN] Online Wood Encyclopedia

2008-03-26 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hello Richard, Le 26 mars 08 à 23:21, Richard Miller a écrit : Finished this Rev cgi-based site a few weeks ago. It's the largest and deepest database available on the world's commercial wood species. I was very happy with the way Rev performed (as are the owners of the site). The url: h

[ANN] Online Wood Encyclopedia

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Miller
Finished this Rev cgi-based site a few weeks ago. It's the largest and deepest database available on the world's commercial wood species. I was very happy with the way Rev performed (as are the owners of the site). The url: http://www.thewoodexplorer.com Richard Miller __

Re: REV CGIs

2008-03-26 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Actually, I did upload the linux engine but I can't seem to run any cgi's using it. Only the .mt file produces results. Tom On Mar 26, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Tom, If you got the following back from your uploaded script without uploading a Rev engine, then it looks like yo

Re: Exporting Images of Buttons ?

2008-03-26 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hello Peter and all, Le 26 mars 08 à 22:58, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : Its a classic example of the difference. Someone wants to know how you order dinner in Spanish. You could hand him a dictionary, and he would maybe eventually figure it out. Or you could hand him "See it and say it i

Re: Exporting Images of Buttons ?

2008-03-26 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Its a classic example of the difference. Someone wants to know how you order dinner in Spanish. You could hand him a dictionary, and he would maybe eventually figure it out. Or you could hand him "See it and say it in Spanish". We have a great dictionary. What we are missing is the book of

Re: REV CGIs

2008-03-26 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Tom, If you got the following back from your uploaded script without uploading a Rev engine, then it looks like your script is working as is and apparently your web host has taken care of the Rev engine part. That's my take. Phil Davis Thomas McGrath III wrote: After the recent articles

REV CGIs

2008-03-26 Thread Thomas McGrath III
After the recent articles in the REV newsletter I have been trying to learn how to use REV in CGI calls. I have had some success on my local machine using revHTTP and am now trying to figure out how to get this on my remote server. The server is on MacHighway and they have set up a cgi-bin

Exporting Images of Buttons ?

2008-03-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
[I am obviously going mad; answering one's own questions on a Use-List surely must qualify one for the madhouse.] the 'secret' lies in the windowID: on mouseUp put the windowID of this stack into DOOR export snapshot from rect (the rect of btn "Button") of window DOOR to file "DUNNIT.png" as

Exporting Images of Buttons ?

2008-03-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I would like to modify the stack I have just uploaded to revOnline so, that as well as generating a series of buttons with labels drawn from a list field it can also export images of those buttons . . . Help gratefully received. sincerely,Richmond Mathewson _

Exporting Images of Buttons ?

2008-03-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
So, I thought I was being clever and did this:- on mouseUp export snapshot from rectangle (the rect of btn "Button") to file "DUNNIT.png" as PNG end mouseUp and . . . got an image of the section of my Desktop underneath the specified button . . . not much use! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

Printing Controls ?

2008-03-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
[This can be read as a variant on my previous posting.] If it is possible to print a CARD and a FIELD is there a possibility to print a BUTTON or any other CONTROL / OBJECT ? sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is bette

Fairly goofy utility stack number 99

2008-03-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just uploaded to revOnline "STUB.rev" a.k.a. "BUTTON COPIER" - find it under "Richmond". This utility will pump out buttons with labels from a list field. Just at the moment the list field is full of 80 irregular English verbs - sorry; just introducing the 9 - 12 years olds to some of the tougher

The Flasher's Mac . . .

2008-03-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
In line with a recent question on my rev-graphics-clever-tricks Yahoo group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RRgraphix/ [ Plug! Plug! ] I have uploaded "Flash2.rev" to revOnline. This Flashes an image by changing its INK settings rather than changing the colour of the Card as in "Flasher.rev

Re: Rev 2.9x and ADR

2008-03-26 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Bill, Yes, it now works correctly on Remote Desktop Protocol -- this was something specifically mentioned in the recent newsletter article on the 2.9 Open Beta: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/march/issue45/newsletter1.php Ah, I see, thank you! Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Vlahos
Len, Yes. I think what you suggest makes sense and would encourage you to add it to the request. Bill On Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at 07:45AM, "Len Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It would be nice if this could be under programmer control. I have an >app that can have changes made to i

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 mars 08 à 17:26, viktoras didziulis a écrit : now I understand what made Seagate angry and why they threaten to use their patents to keep the SSD prices up... http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/03/24/seagate-all-like-solid-state- drives-ours-idea-we-gonna-sue-you/ B.t.w. this is an an ordi

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread viktoras didziulis
now I understand what made Seagate angry and why they threaten to use their patents to keep the SSD prices up... http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/03/24/seagate-all-like-solid-state-drives-ours-idea-we-gonna-sue-you/ B.t.w. this is an an ordinary example of how patents can be used to promote rapid

Re: Visual effect issue with a tab panel button

2008-03-26 Thread Jerry Daniels
Guys (and gals), I have done some tests and this bug is either Rev IDE or Engine. It occurs even when GLX2 is absent. I have made a recipe stack and it is now (hopefully) in the hands of the best minds of our generation and a fix will be in the next version of Rev. GLX2 is not causing thi

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread mfstuart
Richard, Check out Wikipedia's web site for "a lot" of info on this device and other similar models: A newer model coming in April 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC Mark Stuart Richard Gaskin wrote: > > I'm considering an Eee PC. Priced at $399, it's hard to imagine it won't >

Re: Visual effect issue with a tab panel button

2008-03-26 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Le 26 mars 08 à 15:24, Thomas McGrath III a écrit : Andre, I tried the recipe you describe and I find the same thing. Something must be locking the screen always because I also tried entering the unlock screen in the message box and then trying the tabs with visual effects. No good. I on

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I second that "huh?!" The only think I can think of is that his family wouldn't allow a laptop, but did allow the Eee. Unless there is some international law against bringing laptops into/out of countries. Mark Schonewille wrote: Huh?! Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Con

Re: Combo Box Key Combination

2008-03-26 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: I have a combo box button in a series of fields. The user can tab into the field part of the combo box button and type what they want or they can mouse click the arrow part of the button and get the list of items to pick from. Usually the user

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-26 Thread Len Morgan
It would be nice if this could be under programmer control. I have an app that can have changes made to it that DON'T constitute a "change." For example, if you get a record from the database to display it, it changes the contents of the fields on the screen from what they were before but if

Re: Visual effect issue with a tab panel button

2008-03-26 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Andre, I tried the recipe you describe and I find the same thing. Something must be locking the screen always because I also tried entering the unlock screen in the message box and then trying the tabs with visual effects. No good. I only see two front scripts from GLX2 and I could not see

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Huh?! Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz A large collection of scripts for HyperCard, Revolution, SuperCard and other programming languages can be found at http://runrev.info On 26 mrt 200

Re: Rev 2.9x and ADR

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Marriott
Yes, it now works correctly on Remote Desktop Protocol -- this was something specifically mentioned in the recent newsletter article on the 2.9 Open Beta: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/march/issue45/newsletter1.php - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gma

Send to Radio Button Problem

2008-03-26 Thread Peter Jennings
David Are you the legendary David Burgun of Greenford, London UK. If so let me know. Very best regards Peter Jennings Peter Jennings Cubic Defence New Zealand Ltd Phone +64 9 379 0360 x857 Mobile 021 149 1072 ___ use-revolution mailin

Re: Visual effect issue with a tab panel button

2008-03-26 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonjour André, Hello Jerry, At first sight, if the screen is locked when your menuPick handler runs, I see one only possible reason: There is a front script that traps menuPick, locks the screen then passes the message: I suspect GLX2 to do it but I can't verify as I have not GLX2 installed.

Re: Visual effect issue with a tab panel button

2008-03-26 Thread Andre.Bisseret
Hi Jerry, (and Jacque, Éric) and all Thanks again for this idea. But, this morning, I made a new stack, a very simple one : 3 cards (named Tab 1, Tab 2 and Tab 3) On each of them, a tab panel button with 3 tabs : Tab 1, Tab 2, Tab 3. The tab panel is grouped with "behave like a background" set

Re: [OT] Eee PC - got one?

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 26/3/08 06:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I'm considering an Eee PC. Priced at $399, it's hard to imagine it won't > be a big seller. With Rev 2.9 making Linux deployment that much better, > I see opportunities ahead. > > Anyone here have an Eee PC? What do you like about it? What do you hate?

Re: Answer color

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Erc, You tell me. I doubt it though, unless Rev handles colour profiles by itself. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz A large collection of scripts for HyperCard, Revolution, SuperCard and

Re: Answer color

2008-03-26 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Mark, Could this be related to current screen's gamma? Le 26 mars 08 à 10:25, Mark Schonewille a écrit : I create an object with background colour 112,112,112 in Rev, save the stack and copy it from my Mac Intel to my Mac PPC. On the PPC I use the answer colour command in the message box:

Re: Answer color

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jim, Thanks for your reply. This has nothing to do with Photoshop. The problem appears to be as follows. I create an object with background colour 112,112,112 in Rev, save the stack and copy it from my Mac Intel to my Mac PPC. On the PPC I use the answer colour command in the message b

Re: Rev 2.9x and ADR

2008-03-26 Thread xavier . bury
Hi Klaus, I checked the early betas and the graphics problem was gone! Haven't had much time to check further... Cheers Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 26/03/2008 09:59:56: > Hi friends, > > I remember that the new version 2.9x should work on terminal servers > (again)? > Is that correct

Rev 2.9x and ADR

2008-03-26 Thread Klaus Major
Hi friends, I remember that the new version 2.9x should work on terminal servers (again)? Is that correct or was I dreaming? Rev 2.9x run from a terminal server (via ADR) still has the same graphical problems as before!? Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de