Re: [OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-07 Thread Peter Alcibiades
All this is a reason for going with Debian proper rather than Ubuntu. You get continuous upgrades. Whereas Ubuntu, you have Debian in the background, but you have to do clean re-installs every time you do a major upgrade. So with Ubuntu, you have all the disadvantages of Debian and none of the

Re: variable storage

2008-12-07 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I made an enhancement request: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7518 I also filed a docu bug, as the dictionary is wrong about what the properties will return: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7519 Björnke On 5 Dec 2008, at 15:25, Thomas McGrath III

Re: Rinaldi and Rev Speed wuz Re: Newbie

2008-12-07 Thread René Micout
... and Leonard Buck Windowscript... :-) René from Paris Le 7 déc. 08 à 08:57, Ken Ray a écrit : The speed thing is really true with Rev. When I started experimenting with Rev in late 2001 on Mac OS9, I wasted a whole lot of time worrying if my old XCMDs would run in the environment. I

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-07 Thread GIRARD Damien
Personnaly, I hate Ubuntu. As Linux user, my favorites distributions are those: - Centos (Redhat Enterprise Linux Free) - Debian As Centos is RHEL, everything is working fine, it does not have the latest technology as other distributions but it is really stable. And updating works! Debian is

[OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I don't hate Ubuntu. Ubuntu has served extremely well, breathing life into a few extremely low-spec Pentium IIIs in my EFL school. Those computers have been running Ubuntu 5.10 since that distro was released; no crash, no smash, and always does what it is meant to do. Having spent days

Vista external: Progress

2008-12-07 Thread Damien Girard
Hi all, I worked a bit on the Vista External, and I am starting to have few things interesting. I will continue to search in order to have cool features for Revolution on Vista. Here is a screenshot of what I did: http://www.dam-pro.com/devel/Vista_Rev/Screenshot2.png Best, Damien Girard

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-07 Thread Mikey
Sorry, Richard, I was just trying to help you get around it. There are other issues as well. For example, in a clean 8.1 install, I have HPLIP (a sophisticated manager for HP printers). I decided to uninstall it to try something, except when it uninstalled, it took all my network services with

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-07 Thread Mikey
Trying to get the responses all in one: 1) I really hate Solaris, period. I hate it on our Sun boxes, too. Maybe that's because the commands seem very clunky compared to HP-UX. I hate the interfaces. I haven't tried OS, but I can't imagine that it's shed its legacy. 2) On a client, why is

Returning the Keys

2008-12-07 Thread Marcus Lindley
How do I put a lineOffset into an array and return them with other keys? I've tried this: function myFunction myVariable repeat for each line thisLine in myVariable put lineOffset(myline,myVariable) return into myArray[linenumber] -- trying to return the lineOffset for the unique

Re: Rinaldi and Rev Speed wuz Re: Newbie

2008-12-07 Thread Stephen Barncard
Totally right, Ray, got them switched. I heard John Nairn was a gardener by day and wrote that XCMD by night. True; one minor correct, though... Tom Pittman was the author of Compile-It, while John Nairn was the author of PrintReport (IIRC). Boy, that brings back memories... :-) Ken Ray

Re: Returning the Keys

2008-12-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Marcus Lindley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I put a lineOffset into an array and return them with other keys? I've tried this: function myFunction myVariable repeat for each line thisLine in myVariable put lineOffset(myline,myVariable) return into myArray[linenumber]

Re: variable storage

2008-12-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke wrote: I made an enhancement request: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7518 I also filed a docu bug, as the dictionary is wrong about what the properties will return: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7519 Thank you. It's my understanding that

[OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mikey wrote: Sorry, Richard . . . Who is 'Richard' ? Sure hope he appreciated your apologies. Love, Richmond :) A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

2008-12-07 Thread Andre Garzia
Stephen, Sorry for being late on this thread. And thanks for your support of Rev On Rockets initiative. The error you're having is a permission error. You must be sure you set the correct permissions on the file and also the correct user and group with chown command. chown user:group filename

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-07 Thread Mikey
Uh, Richmond, yeah. Oops. Just making up for the fact that half the list calls me Mickey for some reason. I can understand the other half calling me ignorant, but I digress... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost -FOLLOW UP

2008-12-07 Thread Andre Garzia
Stephen, Yes, I use TextMate and Interarchy. I am uploading a new *ALPHA* copy of RevOnRockets to the web today with the patches and some brand new stuff. As for the presentation, don't blame the video guys. IIRC my machine stopped recording the screen and we lost the screen video (it failed

Re: variable storage

2008-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
I did a project awhile ago and also found these properties of an object were also not stored when using the properties of an object: id visited layer armed htmlText I'll add these to Björnke bug report. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Vista external: Progress

2008-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Looks cool. I was wondering if you were going to be able to keep fields opaque with the window background transparent. That's something difficult to do in Rev basic-- unless you just want the window to stay a static size. Nice job. ___ use-revolution

Re: variable storage

2008-12-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: I did a project awhile ago and also found these properties of an object were also not stored when using the properties of an object: id visited layer armed htmlText I'll add these to Björnke bug report. Good catch. Thanks for adding those. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: Vista external: Progress

2008-12-07 Thread Damien Girard
I found a bug with Revolution that remove the highest interest of having glassed window: - Setting the opaque of a field to false and the blendlevel to 1 (In order to have the object having the Alpha channel information) lost antialiasing on Vista. This is heavily annoying, so please vote for

Database Basics

2008-12-07 Thread Tom Cole
Dear Revolutionaries, I made a sort of flat database with tons of redundancy in HyperCard to track all of the birds I have seen for many years. I love it, but it's time to move it to OSX and make it more efficient. I can easily convert most of the data to comma delimited records like the

Re: Database Basics

2008-12-07 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Tom, I did something with a bird stack about 20 years ago; but, since I wanted to have a picture of each one, I used a separate card for each bird. Only B/W with HC, however. That made sorting and arranging and doing all sorts of things real easy - even for HC; but I don't remember

Re: Database Basics

2008-12-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Tom, I made a very simple database example, which you can find in RevOnline, username Mark. It keeps all data in properties. I have also a much more complex version, which has no problems searching for a string in several tens of thousands of records, but I must admit that it takes

Re: variable storage

2008-12-07 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi Chipp That's funny, for what Object type did you need it? I do get all your examples for a field respectively for a button (htmltext and armed do not exist in every object)? I used this to look them up: put the properties of the mousecontrol into x; put the keys of x into x; sort x;

Re: variable storage

2008-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Björnke, Awhile back, I wrote a library which enabled the sharing of rev controls from one stack to another over the internet. I sent controls back and forth using the properties function wrapped in XML, and then after 're-making' a control, I compared checksums of the new control with the

Re: Database Basics

2008-12-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Tom, Here's my 2 cents on the subject. I'd stick with the one card per record which Joe suggested. But, during runtime, I'd keep the stack with the cards invisible, and pull information into your 'application' stack. The idea being the business logic in the application code in a standalone

Rev Scripting Conferences?

2008-12-07 Thread Mark Swindell
I was just reviewing Jeanne DeVoto's Menu Scripting Conference. Excellent tutorials... I downloaded several of them. Did those ever make it into the 3.0 documentation? I really think they should have... Googling runrev scripting conferences I found them at

Re: Rev Scripting Conferences?

2008-12-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Swindell wrote: I was just reviewing Jeanne DeVoto's Menu Scripting Conference. Excellent tutorials... I downloaded several of them. Did those ever make it into the 3.0 documentation? I really think they should have... Googling runrev scripting conferences I found them at

Re: [OT] Ubuntu 8.10: headaches and nothing else.

2008-12-07 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Mikey-3 wrote: 2) On a client, why is Debian better? For servers, you could make any argument for any distro and I'm sure it would make sense on one level or another, but I'm putting this on my lappie. Its better because you don't have the upgrade/reinstall problem in the same form.