Re: Property Profiles - differences on Mac and Windows (language issues)

2008-08-19 Thread Christian Langers
Hi there, actually it wasn't as difficult as I thought : time to give back to the community ! This did it for me : - created a stack with a button, 2 flds (+1 fld as result output) - in fld sta (stacks) : list of the project's mainstacks (1 short name per line) - in fld Langs : list of

error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

2008-08-19 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, Win XP, Rev 2.9. I just detected that revdb_connect has problems with special chars in the db path. When having a special sign - in my case german umlaut - the revdb_connect fails. A path with standard chars works perfect. I coded: put revdb_connect(sqlite,gPfadDB lexikon.db) into

Re: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

2008-08-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Tiemo, I don't know whether this will work, but you might try unidecode(uniencode(gPfadDB),UTF8) and keep your fingers crossed. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz

AW: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

2008-08-19 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Noop, good idea, but didn't worked :( I think this issue must have come up a hundred times with all german, french, and other special sign rev programmers if this is not a current bug!? Thanks Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL

scanners and Rev

2008-08-19 Thread viktoras didziulis
is there any way to communicate with scanners in Revolution ? I would need my app to be able to invoke a default scanner dialog window and then put the scanned image into an image object. Dictionary says nothing about scanners... Viktoras ___

Re: AW: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

2008-08-19 Thread Ian Wood
I bought this up a few months ago on the list, it's a reported bug which is said to be fixed in 3.0.0. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6429 Ian On 19 Aug 2008, at 08:56, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Noop, good idea, but didn't worked :( I think this issue must have come up a

Re: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

2008-08-19 Thread viktoras didziulis
Hi, if the folder is one of the special folders might the specialFolderPath() help? On Windows it can be used in combination with folder ids' as listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494.aspx Best wishes Viktoras Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, Win XP, Rev 2.9. I

AW: AW: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

2008-08-19 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Ian, I looked up the quality center before, but didn't find your report (it's always hard to get the right search items :) Thanks for the hint. I want to switch from sqlite to valentina. Do you know if this is an issue only of sqlite? I even don't know yet if you will use revDB_ with valentina,

AW: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

2008-08-19 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Viktoras, could be, but must not. Thanks for your hint Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von viktoras didziulis Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. August 2008 10:08 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: error in

Re: AW: error in revdb_connect with special chars in path

2008-08-19 Thread viktoras didziulis
possible workaround would be using relative path instead of absolute and then put lexikon.db into dbPath put revOpenDatabase(sqlite,dbPath) into dbId When working in IDE first change your defaultFolder to be applications folder. Or alternatively you might set your default folder to

Re: Foreign Keyboards

2008-08-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Ron, I am able to use Arabic input methods, but it takes a little hack to make the text go from right to left. I would expect it to be possible to enter Japanese characters in Revolution. What happens if you click in a field first and then use the mouse to choose a Japanese input

Help menu issues (Mac)

2008-08-19 Thread Graham Samuel
Folks, I'm just beginning serious RR work after a long gap, and I've started by looking at stuff I did earlier. I'm now using RR 2.9.0 for most of my work. I've returned to an app I created as a standalone I think with RR2.8.1 (it was a long time ago) and I'm running it on a Mac with

Re: Help menu issues (Mac)

2008-08-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Graham, Did you use the menu builder to create the menubar? Which handlers does your Help menu script have? AFAIK, you can't suppress the search field --it annoys me too. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: Help menu issues (Mac)

2008-08-19 Thread Ian Wood
No idea about the permanently-highlighting menu bar. On 19 Aug 2008, at 11:41, Graham Samuel wrote: Also by Mac convention (presumably), the Help menu now contains a search field as well as the 'Help' item which I programmed. Can I do anything to suppress this? I think it will just confuse

Re: Valentina DB, German umlauts in db Path for revdb_connect().

2008-08-19 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/19/08 11:13 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tiemo, Hi Ian, I looked up the quality center before, but didn't find your report (it's always hard to get the right search items :) Thanks for the hint. I want to switch from sqlite to valentina. Do you know if this is an

AW: Valentina DB, German umlauts in db Path for revdb_connect().

2008-08-19 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks Ruslan, I'll get back to you (Valentina) later :) Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Ruslan Zasukhin Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. August 2008 14:07 An: use-revolution; Thorsten Hohage; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scanners and Rev

2008-08-19 Thread Mikey
Do you mean a barcode scanner, or a document scanner? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: scanners and Rev

2008-08-19 Thread viktoras didziulis
Hi Mikey! document scanner, not a barcode scanner. This application is a frontend for the taxonomic database of species including images of plants scanned with scanner. Mikey wrote: Do you mean a barcode scanner, or a document scanner? ___

Re: scanners and Rev

2008-08-19 Thread Klaus Major
Am 19.08.2008 um 14:25 schrieb Mikey: Do you mean a barcode scanner, or a document scanner? A barcode scanner is just like another input device like a keyboard and will work right out of the box with Rev. At least does here in our current project. Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL

Re: Foreign Keyboards

2008-08-19 Thread ron barber
Hi Mark,Thanks for the reply. I am able to input Japanese with no problems using english keyboards. The problem is that the Japanese keyboard on Windows has a slightly different layout and some of the keys do not do what they are supposed to do. I am wondering if there is anyone who uses a

Rev browser exporting pdf

2008-08-19 Thread paolo mazza
How can I export a web page as PDF using the internal browser of Revolution? I tryed with Quartam PDF Library for Revolution but I could not find a solution. Have you a clue? Thanks Paolo ** Paolo Mazza NEOL SRL Società partecipata da Università di

Re: Foreign Keyboards

2008-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 19, 2008, at 8:19 AM, ron barber wrote: PS could you write me (offlist?) about the little hack you use for right to left Arabic? I would like to try it for Hebrew. Thanks Or maybe even on-list? :-) I'd be very interested. Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support

Re: Foreign Keyboards

2008-08-19 Thread Kenji Kojima
Ron, When you set a Japanese Unicode font on a text field. You can type Japanese and English text correctly. Even if you use a Japanese layout keyboard. When you use a default text field that is set an English font, you can type Japanese characters, but wrong symbols. I do not have a

Re: Rev browser exporting pdf

2008-08-19 Thread viktoras didziulis
try these tips: http://pad.olsonnetwork.com/faqs/MakePDF_HOWTO_Images.html paolo mazza wrote: How can I export a web page as PDF using the internal browser of Revolution? I tryed with Quartam PDF Library for Revolution but I could not find a solution. Have you a clue? Thanks Paolo

Re: scanners and Rev

2008-08-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello we have made an App in revolution interacting with scanservers of Axis. But because these scanservers are expiring it is not the right point to start with. But there are similar techniques on the market. Then you just get the scan by http. Another application uses scanners which scan

revBrowser on Windows

2008-08-19 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello my friends, I am back from vacation/holiday and am trying to figure out my revBrowser problems again. So far, I seem to have fixed the MaxOSX issues for revBrowser and am fixing my path problems. And on windows I have the path fixed but still have a naming issue i.e. a .png is

Re: revBrowser on Windows

2008-08-19 Thread Andres Martinez
Hello Tom I have faced and solved both your problems. These are the workarounds I found... - To see the revBrowser in Win stand-alones that use custom shaped windows, you need to re-create the window shape PNG and take out all semi-transparencies. What I mean is that all pixels need to

Re: scanners and Rev

2008-08-19 Thread viktoras didziulis
Franz, thank you for the hint! Best regards Viktoras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello we have made an App in revolution interacting with scanservers of Axis. But because these scanservers are expiring it is not the right point to start with. But there are similar techniques on the market. Then

A Simple Question: How do I draw a vertical line?

2008-08-19 Thread len-morgan
This would seem to be an easy thing to do with a GUI IDE but I can't seem to get it right. I want to draw some vertical lines on a form that are thicker than one pixel (this is where I'm having problems). I can't do it (accurately) with the mouse so I'm drawing a pretty close approximation of

Re: A Simple Question: How do I draw a vertical line?

2008-08-19 Thread Mark Smith
Len, hold the shift key down when drawing - it constrains the angle to 22.5 degerees. Best, Mark On 19 Aug 2008, at 21:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would seem to be an easy thing to do with a GUI IDE but I can't seem to get it right. I want to draw some vertical lines on a form that

Re: A Simple Question: How do I draw a vertical line?

2008-08-19 Thread Chris Sheffield
Len, First off, if you hold down the shift key while drawing your line, you should be able to make it perfectly vertical. Second, after your line is drawn, simply adjust the lineSize property, which is under Border - Size on the first pane of the property palette. You can also adjust the

Linux touch equivalent for Windows?

2008-08-19 Thread Phil Davis
Is there a Windows shell command that lets you change the mod dates of files the way touch lets you do it in Linux? Thanks - -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Foreign Keyboards

2008-08-19 Thread Nicolas Cueto
What Kenji advises (set field to Japanese Unicode font) works on my set up -- Japanese Win2K, Japanese keyboard, Rev 2.9. By work I mean the inputting not only of Japanese characters but also of non-alpha-numeric characters, especially shift-key chars for punctuation, quote marks, brackets, etc.

Re: Linux touch equivalent for Windows?

2008-08-19 Thread Ken Ray
On 8/19/08 4:13 PM, Phil Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a Windows shell command that lets you change the mod dates of files the way touch lets you do it in Linux? No, I don't think so - there are several command-line apps you can buy that will do this though (although that may not