Re: launching an OSX bundle

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Morrow
Hello Andre, Thanks for the lesson! -Scott Morrow On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Scott, using something like launch -a app name will free you from dealing with path references, for example: launch -a firefox will launch firefox no matter where firefox.app is located,

Re: Flexible Learning

2008-07-29 Thread Hugh Senior
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Re: quick question about splash stacks

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Richard Gaskin wrote: Corruption of a stack file per se is very rare with Rev Yes, and strictly speaking this is not what is happening. What seems to happen, single number of times a year on a stack in daily use, is that quitting produces an abortive save. The stack script calls for

Re: quick question about splash stacks

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Andre, This doesn't work. Opening a corrupted stack doesn't throw an error. You need to check the result. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Benefit from our inexpensive hosting services.

Re: property inspector - set external

2008-07-29 Thread Thierry
Le 29 juil. 08 à 06:07, Andre Garzia a écrit : Using the property inspector to do so, added path references that would not be mantained once you distributed your app. Doing it on the message box is easier and safer I think. Not the case in my context. Debugging Externals, I was wandering

Re: Re insert file type and creator

2008-07-29 Thread Jim Ault
A couple of Applescript tips and a working script [1] Remember, File type and creator codes are always 4 characters long. [2] The Finder uses an indirect syntax to refer to a file on the hard drive as string = Macintosh HD:Users:sivakatirswami:Desktop:_temp:a tst creator:image.tiff as alias

Re: off topic : Parallels alternative : VirtualBox

2008-07-29 Thread Jim Ault
VMWare allows multiple shared folders, just go to preferences for each virtual machine. This means that the folder is visible/read/write for both Mac and Win. This should be the same for Parallels. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 7/28/08 9:51 PM, Bill Vlahos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Parallels you

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Andre - but destroystack is not the issue. For instance: delete stack test closes and removes a stack from memory (for a mainstack not substack) regardless of the destroystack/window status or whether the stack is used as a library. The issue is that it does not always work - and I could

Re: Re insert file type and creator

2008-07-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sivakatirswami, check your In Box. I semt you a stack yesterday afternoon in an email titled File Typer which I use here for getting and setting file types. Since this thread persists I'm guessing you haven't gotten it yet -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal

Re: quick question about splash stacks

2008-07-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: What seems to happen, single number of times a year on a stack in daily use, is that quitting produces an abortive save. The stack script calls for save this stack on close. The stack itself is not corrupted, it is saved as eg stack.rev~. Your handling of that

Re: property inspector - set external

2008-07-29 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Not sure, But I think the property inspector will not 'see' the bundle that is in the OSX package. When building a standalone I have been having trouble get my app to work until I copied the external outside of the package and use the set the externals of stack . to get it to work.

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jul 29, 2008, at 6:46 AM, David Bovill wrote: closes and removes a stack from memory (for a mainstack not substack) regardless of the destroystack/window status or whether the stack is used as a library. The issue is that it does not always work - and I could not track down why. Thought

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread David Bovill
2008/7/29 Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jul 29, 2008, at 6:46 AM, David Bovill wrote: Every time the engine checks for the existence of a stack, accesses a property or issues the go command using the filename of a stack the stack is loaded into memory. In your Galaxy example what is

Re: quick question about splash stacks

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Richard Gaskin wrote: Your handling of that sounds good, but I'm curious: have you pinned down what's causing these saves to be interrupted? I think it must be something to do with the on/off switch. Maybe when they switch off using that, if they hold it down long enough, it just

settings of the control

2008-07-29 Thread -= JB =-
Here is a question that if it can't be done easily now might be a good idea for a simple improvement to Rev; Let's say I have a stack that uses many different buttons groups the state of these controls changes during using the program but when I quit and restart I want the original control

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jul 29, 2008, at 11:05 AM, David Bovill wrote: 2008/7/29 Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every time the engine checks for the existence of a stack, accesses a property or issues the go command using the filename of a stack the stack is loaded into memory. In your Galaxy example what is

Re: settings of the control

2008-07-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
JB, Why don't you report the objects hilite state to a preference stack you can save and retrieve by a simple start using stack prefrences.rev each time your standalone starts up ? I use this way all the time at start time of my Win32 and OSX standalones, to save texts and buttons

Re: Which engine?

2008-07-29 Thread Ken Ray
I always get the generic 500 server error. I don't have access to the error logs, but a copy that was sent to me had no script errors in it at all, only the generic premature end of headers statement. Is it possible that there's a missing library on the server? I ran into this a long time ago,

Re: quick question about splash stacks

2008-07-29 Thread Chipp Walters
If there is a stack C:/myStack.rev then else end if ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: settings of the control

2008-07-29 Thread -= JB =-
Thanks, it looks like I will take your good advice. But it would be nice to be able to just make it a selection with the other control settings. -=JB=- On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: JB, Why don't you report the objects hilite state to a preference stack you can save

Re: settings of the control

2008-07-29 Thread Mark Smith
For one project I've been working on that includes many form fields and suchlike, I've been giving each control a custom property initialState that may contain text (or empty) for fields, true| false for checkboxes etc, and so on. Then I have a handler that loops through all the controls in

Re: quick question about splash stacks

2008-07-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Your handling of that sounds good, but I'm curious: have you pinned down what's causing these saves to be interrupted? I think it must be something to do with the on/off switch. LOL. Yep, that'll do it. :) Linux doesn't provide shutdown

Re: settings of the control

2008-07-29 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonsoir JB, On any platform, you can't modify a standalone: So the best way, even for a simple stack, is to always save it in the right state. And it will open as you wish the next time. To ensure that, all my stacks have a 'CleanStack' handler I feed along my project gets ahead. It sets

Re: settings of the control

2008-07-29 Thread -= JB =-
Thanks, that info helps a lot. I am still fairly new to Rev and have never even made one of my stacks into a standalone yet so you provided me a better understanding. thanks again to everyone who replied. -=JB=- On Jul 29, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Bonsoir JB, On any

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Trevor DeVore wrote: Polling is entirely possible. delete stack is very reliable. Like I said, I've never had it fail. When it *appears* to fail it is usually because something is going on in the background that brings the stack right back into memory. If the stack has any pending messages

Re: Which engine?

2008-07-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: I always get the generic 500 server error. I don't have access to the error logs, but a copy that was sent to me had no script errors in it at all, only the generic premature end of headers statement. Is it possible that there's a missing library on the server? I ran into this a

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Trevor DeVore wrote: Polling is entirely possible. delete stack is very reliable. Like I said, I've never had it fail. When it *appears* to fail it is usually because something is going on in the background that brings the stack right

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Trevor DeVore wrote: Polling is entirely possible. delete stack is very reliable. Like I said, I've never had it fail. When it *appears* to fail it is usually because something is going

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Trevor DeVore wrote: Polling is entirely possible. delete stack is very reliable. Like I said, I've never had it fail. When it *appears* to fail it is usually because

Re: Delete a stack from memory - fails?

2008-07-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: No, you're right, it closes and is removed. What I was thinking is that since pending messages prevent quitting, they also prevent closing -- but they don't. So scratch that. Like you, I've always found delete stack to be reliable. The

Re: How to create a table field by a script?

2008-07-29 Thread Reinhold Venzl-Schubert
Merci beaucoup, Eric! templatefield is very smart. First creating the properties and later the field. I did not know it before. I think I will change some of my scripts ;-) Reinhold Am 28.07.2008 um 19:00 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can't set the style of a field to 'table': it would

Re: Re insert file type and creator

2008-07-29 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha, Richard: Not yet... means Postini or Google blocked it. our domain is actually having it's email hosted on google now... I will go on line and check our quarantines Or you could post to Rev Online; or I can let you on our wiki and you can upload there... Meanwhile we are

Re: Re insert file type and creator

2008-07-29 Thread Sivakatirswami
Sarah Reichelt wrote: In my tests, using the or not made no difference, but file references are a bit strange in AppleScript. Try using: set creator type of alias Macintosh HD:Users:sivakatirswami:Desktop:_temp:a tst creator:image.tiff to 8BIM and add the alias keyword to the file type line

Re: Re insert file type and creator

2008-07-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sivakatirswami wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I sent you a stack yesterday afternoon in an email titled File Typer which I use here for getting and setting file types. Aloha, Richard: Not yet... means Postini or Google blocked it. our domain is actually having it's email hosted on google

Re: Re insert file type and creator

2008-07-29 Thread Sivakatirswami
Richard Gaskin wrote: I sent you a stack yesterday afternoon in an email titled File Typer which I use here for getting and setting file types. I just dropped it in RevNet - in Rev, see Development-Plugins-GoRevNet Once it loads, see the Stacks section. got it, thanks!

Re: Stacks inside OSX Package

2008-07-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: get shell(touch tFile) where tFile is the path of the app bundle. and then backup solution, time machine and everything start working again Just to reiterate, as tested by myself and Sarah. TimeMachine already looks

when is an integer not an integer?

2008-07-29 Thread John Vokey
The statement: set the randomseed to x is not consistent. In both the Rev and MC documentation, x must be an integer. So, for example, set the randomseed to the seconds works in the sense that a new and different sequence is subsequently generated by random and any statements. But set