Re: 01/01/1969 is a date = true on Mac but not on Windows?

2008-12-03 Thread G. Wolfgang Gaich
Hi Klaus, what's about put result = IsDate( quote 01/01/1969 quote ) into tvb do tvb as vbscript put the result best G.Wolfgang Gaich the subject says it all :-/ Please tell me that I am overlooking something obvious Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de

How to update a XMLNode?

2008-12-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, How do you update a XMLNode? I don't find a revUpdateXMLNode Is the only way to update a XML Node with deleting and adding it? If I can delete a Node, why can't I update a Node? Thank you Tiemo ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: 01/01/1969 is a date = true on Mac but not on Windows?

2008-12-03 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Wolfgang, Hi Klaus, what's about put result = IsDate( quote 01/01/1969 quote ) into tvb do tvb as vbscript put the result WOW! This is absolutely fantastic, thanks a lot! :-) Looks like this works for english and also german dates. I tested all these variations and got true:

Re: How to update a XMLNode?

2008-12-03 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How do you update a XMLNode? I don't find a revUpdateXMLNode Is the only way to update a XML Node with deleting and adding it? If I can delete a Node, why can't I update a Node? Thank you Tiemo How about the

AW: How to update a XMLNode?

2008-12-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Arggh, to be too fixed :) Thank you Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Jan Schenkel Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2008 13:28 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: How to update a XMLNode? --- Tiemo

Re: 01/01/1969 is a date = true on Mac but not on Windows?

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
Kind of sad that one has to go through VBScript to accomplish this. This should be trivial for Rev. WOW! This is absolutely fantastic, thanks a lot! :-) Looks like this works for english and also german dates. I tested all these variations and got true: 01/01/1969 31/01/1969 31-01-1969

OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

2008-12-03 Thread Jim Carwardine
Hi Folks... I know there is a problem creating a PC-compatible DVD on the Mac. The Mac creates a DVD-R MPEG2 file while the PC reads a DVD +R DVD. Is there an elegant solution to this with some magic piece of software or am I relegated to about a six step workaround every time I want to

Re: OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
Buy a drive that records DVD+R if you must. But this is totally moot. Yours is not a PC/MAC issue, but a choice of blank disc formats and/or video formatting. Both disc types will play on any platform. Why not just buy quality DVD-R blanks that the mac optical drive is designed for. The +/- is

Re: OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

2008-12-03 Thread Jim Carwardine
Thanks, Stephen... I'm using Panasonic DVD-R blanks and they didn't work in XP in Parallels. A good brand might be any of the more expensive brands? So, if I use an expensive DVD-R with iDVD, instead of Disk Utility) I will likely get a PC compatible DVD? I can't target my audience

External Creation. Obtains the Window Handler on Windows.

2008-12-03 Thread GIRARD Damien
Hi all, I am playing with externals, and I want to try to add GUI features to Rev. I know how to write externals to interface libraries with Rev, but working on the GUI of Rev, I do not know anything at all for now. What I want to do is to retrieve the Window handler (on Windows) in order to

Re: External Creation. Obtains the Window Handler on Windows.

2008-12-03 Thread Andre Garzia
Damien, check the windowID property of a revolution window. I think that on windows it returns the Window handle. Andre On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:49 PM, GIRARD Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am playing with externals, and I want to try to add GUI features to Rev. I know how to

Town Planning for 7-9 year old EFL pupils.

2008-12-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just uploaded a graphic-intensive stack (3.4 MB) to revOnline: LOCATION.rev - find it under 'Richmond' This is the seed of a stack I have developed for some of the EFL children I teach who are having quite some difficulty wrapping their brains round OPPOSITE, NEXT TO, BEHIND, ON THE RIGHT, ON

OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

2008-12-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I flung out the original Apple DVD drive from my G4 a few years ago (well it is 'enjoying' a second life in Razgrad, North Bulgaria in a COMPAQ Pentium 3 running Ubuntu) and replaced it with a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW that writes LightScribe CDs and DVDs - and I only use Hewlett Packard Lightscribe

Re: Town Planning for 7-9 year old EFL pupils.

2008-12-03 Thread Jim Carwardine
Richmond... Can you be more specific... I've never looked here before... Jim On 3-Dec-08, at 3:38 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Just uploaded a graphic-intensive stack (3.4 MB) to revOnline: LOCATION.rev - find it under 'Richmond' Jim Carwardine, President CEO OYF Consulting Ph.

Town Planning for 7-9 year old EFL pupils.

2008-12-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jim Carwardine wrote: Can you be more specific... I've never looked here before... Jim By 'here' do you mean 'revOnline' ? Start up your copy of Runtime Revolution, look under the 'Development' menu item and click on 'Revolution Online' and, assuming that computer has internet access, you

Re: OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
You didn't mention the parallels part, nor what it is you are trying to make, not to mention operating from the windows side. Several levels of complication here. Didn't work in XP in Parallels means that either windows,Parallels or whatever app you are using in windows lacks drivers or

DOS window and shell function

2008-12-03 Thread Devin Asay
I'm doing a project in which I need to call a DOS shell script. It all works great, but the DOS terminal window briefly appears and disappears. This doesn't happen in OS X--the shell script just executes silently. Does anyone know if there is a way to get rid of the annoying DOS terminal

Re: External Creation. Obtains the Window Handler on Windows.

2008-12-03 Thread GIRARD Damien
Andre, Thanks, that's working, I have my HWND and I can work on the window. But, I am not able to have the glass effect working now in a Rev Window, the engine display a white background on locations that must be transparent. I continue to search. Damien Andre Garzia a écrit : Damien,

Re: DOS window and shell function

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Sheffield
Set the hideConsoleWindows to true. :-) Chris On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Devin Asay wrote: I'm doing a project in which I need to call a DOS shell script. It all works great, but the DOS terminal window briefly appears and disappears. This doesn't happen in OS X--the shell script just

Re: OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

2008-12-03 Thread Jim Carwardine
Well... I guess I scared myself when it wouldn't work in Parallels... I have a DVD that was already burned on a PC that I want to dupe. I have an Intel MacBook running 10.5.5 on which I duped the DVD using Disk Utility. I tried the new DVDs in Parallels running XP to see if they would

Re: DOS window and shell function

2008-12-03 Thread Devin Asay
On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Devin Asay wrote: I'm doing a project in which I need to call a DOS shell script. It all works great, but the DOS terminal window briefly appears and disappears. This doesn't happen in OS X--the shell script just executes silently. Does anyone know if there is a way

Re: OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen Barncard
Don't just throw a MPEG2 file in a folder and burn; you need to set it up to be a DVD-video disk, then it will play anywhere, especially on component DVD systems. If you can make one that plays on a standard DVD video player, it should play on computers. Toast and Dragon Burn have been able

Rev on Vista - External Project

2008-12-03 Thread GIRARD Damien
Hi all, I announce that I start to write an externals that will brings enhanced features of Vista to Revolution. I hope that I will be able to achieve it. Of course it will be open-source (BSD license) and I will host it on Sourceforge. (If it work). Currently, I have a Transparent Blurry

Image problem or snapshot

2008-12-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Has anyone else had a problem with either the imageData or snapshot capabilities in RR3.0? I am trying to run this script: I have one grc with a fill , one image object and one field. on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo export snapshot from grc Fill 1 to grcVar set the imagedata of image TEST to

Re: OT: Creating a PC Compatible DVD...

2008-12-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jim, Don't assume that just cause it won't work on parallels that it won't work on a PC. Parallels is touchy. I have to put the disk in right at start up in order to get Parallels to recognize it. I do burn DVDs on the Mac for PC usage so things should be just fine. Just make sure it is

Re: DOS window and shell function

2008-12-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Devin, There is no reason to treat Devin so harshly!!! We need to show some compassion from time to time. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html

Re: Image problem or snapshot

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Tom, Yes, I am having exacty the same problem. My workaround is to export as PNG. The paint format doesn't work correctly. on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo export snapshot from grc Fill 1 to grcVar as PNG set the text of image TEST to grcVar set the imagesource of char 1 of line 1 of field

Re: Image problem or snapshot

2008-12-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Mark, Thanks that worked with just one correction: on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo export snapshot from grc Fill 1 to grcVar as PNG set the text of image TEST to grcVar set the imagesource of char 1 of line 1 of field Sample to the id of image TEST end mouseUp Thank you so much, Tom

Re: DOS window and shell function

2008-12-03 Thread Devin Asay
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Devin, There is no reason to treat Devin so harshly!!! We need to show some compassion from time to time. But he's just so thick sometimes! (BTW, he would like to thank Chris Sheffield, who just graciously give the answer without

Re: External Creation. Obtains the Window Handler on Windows.

2008-12-03 Thread Andre Garzia
Damien, I know nothing of windows programming, but if you're trying simple transparency, you can use the windowshape with a PNG file with different levels of alpha channel in it to give customizable transparency in selected areas. I've seen Scott using this to such marvelous effect that it still

Re: Rev on Vista - External Project

2008-12-03 Thread Neal Campbell
Truly beautiful (if anything on Vista can be!) Keep up the good work, Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911 - Try Spot for OS X, the intelligent DXCluster Client at

Re: DOS window and shell function

2008-12-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: Devin, There is no reason to treat Devin so harshly!!! We need to show some compassion from time to time. On the other hand, I was relieved to see that I'm not the only one who talks to themselves. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

launch URL with mailto yields inconsistent 'can't open file' error

2008-12-03 Thread Mark E. Powell
Could use some wisdom and a Scotch on this one. I am having problems with launch URL failing as the content string gets long. In my tests, when the total mailto argument resolves to between 1645 and 1980 characters, the launch fails with 'can't open file'. The character count varies, and no

Re: launch URL with mailto yields inconsistent 'can't open file' error

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mark, Is it possible that your text contains diacritics? I have posted a bug about it to the QCC, but this concerns Mac OS X. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Dutch forum:

Re: launch URL with mailto yields inconsistent 'can't open file' error

2008-12-03 Thread Mark E. Powell
Nope. I did testing by writing letter A's multiple times, with same result. Mark Hi Mark, Is it possible that your text contains diacritics? I have posted a bug about it to the QCC, but this concerns Mac OS X. Best regards, Mark Schonewille

Re: launch URL with mailto yields inconsistent 'can't open file' error

2008-12-03 Thread Mark E. Powell
Should also say that exactly the same thing happens with revMail. Once total character count gets upward of 1700, it returns the error 'can't open file' ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: launch URL with mailto yields inconsistent 'can't open file' error

2008-12-03 Thread runrev260805
Hi Mark, have you tried your mailto: string in the adressfield of your webbrowser? Or just try the large mailto within the RUN-box where you can enter a command into one line. Don´t know the exact name, because i am working with a german windows - here it´s called ausfuerhen... . You can