Re: Rev on Ubuntu

2009-01-12 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Rev runs on everything I've tried it on, including such oddities as Scitaz or DSL. The apps run as well. However, the relation between the fonts and the objects on the windows may not be the same, and what fonts are present may also be different, and certainly will be different from Mac or Windo

Re: cipherNames, Encrypt and Decrypt

2009-01-12 Thread Bill Vlahos
I created a demo stack called "Encryption Demo Stack" a while ago under the name "Vlahos". Bill Vlahos On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Dave wrote: Hi All, I have a need to encrypt some data before sending it to a server. I looked at the encrypt and decrypt documentation but don't understand

Standard Save Dialog

2009-01-12 Thread Bill Vlahos
The standard save dialog box used by Macs looks a little different than an Answer dialog built into Rev. The standard save dialog has 3 buttons left to right "Don't Save" "Cancel" and "Save" with extra space between the "Don't Save" and "Cancel" buttons. Rev uses this dialog box for its own

Re: Rev on Ubuntu

2009-01-12 Thread Marty Knapp
Thanks to all who gave me input on using Rev on Ubuntu, I appreciate it. Richmond, could you elaborate on these two point: 3. Never churn out generic Linux standalones from a version of Runtime Revolution working on another platform. 4. Always compile standalones on the target platform. I've

Re: Two Questions About My Search Field

2009-01-12 Thread BNig
hi Gregory, try this in the script of your search field: on keyDown pKey if pKey = "tDelete" then put char 1 to -2 of me into searchString put searchstring into me select after text of me if searchstring = "" then put "" into field "Number of Recor

Re: revCopy file in OSX doesn't work

2009-01-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote: > I've searched the archives and see this problem has been discussed before, > but none of the advice therein helped me. Any idea why this code works for > me in OSX... > > if there is a file "1-meet data/ABC affils" then put "found" > > But t

Re: revCopy file in OSX doesn't work

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Sieg, I have never understand why people use the revCopyFile command. Just use the read and write commands or use the cp or mv shell commands to copy a file. You could even write your own AppleScript snippet. Of course, any specific solutions will need their Windows and Linux counter p

Re: Two Questions About My Search Field

2009-01-12 Thread Terry Judd
On 13/01/09 9:41 AM, "Gregory Lypny" wrote: Hi Gregory, Perhaps you should look at implementing a rawkeydown handler as well or instead of the keydown handler. That way you should be able to trap for any key. On the second issue - I think all you need to do is set the lockloc of the image to tr

revCopy file in OSX doesn't work

2009-01-12 Thread Sieg Lindstrom
I've searched the archives and see this problem has been discussed before, but none of the advice therein helped me. Any idea why this code works for me in OSX... if there is a file "1-meet data/ABC affils" then put "found" But the following does not? on mouseUp -- "1-meet data" is the folder co

Two Questions About My Search Field

2009-01-12 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, I've created a search field that takes a phrase typed into it and searches a data field for lines containing the phrase. It works in the usual way where the search becomes narrower the more you type. What I haven't been able to do is go backwards, that is, make th

Re: What is Revdb_commit() for anyway?

2009-01-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Bob Sneidar wrote: > Hi all. > > I have always been a bit confused at this. So far as > I can tell, I > cannot get data back INTO a cursor, I can only read > data FROM the > cursor. In order to write data back to the database, > I have to execute > an SQL query. So what is Revdb_commit(

Re: New on this list

2009-01-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> The first thing i did after installing RM was taking a peek at the tutorial > movies on the rev-site. Even after installing the video codec on my mac osx > 10.5 i still can't see them (only audio) :( Try a restart. The codec installer doesn't ask you to restart, but I think it is necessary. An

Re: Script Editing Frustration

2009-01-12 Thread Jerry Daniels
Richard, The way GLX2 does no-click inspection (the code is accessible to all our customers in the "inspection" folder of the GLX2 frontscript) is called "staggered messaging" or "peppering." It is polling with a very limited lifespan and does NOT degrade performance of the IDE. It's been

Re: Imported Images As Controls

2009-01-12 Thread SteveTheWhelk
Hi, How about setting the dimensions of the image in a preOpenCard handler? That way, if they were to return back to the default size, the handler would stretch them out again. Steve J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Mark Swindell wrote: >> I've always had Rev's align palette change size and locatio

Re: Converting from Exponential Form

2009-01-12 Thread DunbarX
Cool that rev understands this numberformat. HC certainly could not. So the one-liner is pretty sleek. But as a matter of old fashioned data crunching, do you see that the fun part about hacking this into manageable pieces? It will stand you in good stead all the time: To separate the exponent

Re: New on this list

2009-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
No backplane! "Well of course, how can one build stuff to plug into it?" Wonderful. 2009/1/12 Paul Looney > Stephan, > In 1983 I was designing the financial planning system for Digital Research > and Steve Jobs had given Gary Kildall a 128 Mac prototype (hoping he'd write > some "insanely great"

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Thierry
Halo Klaus, You are my Hero for the day ! To be honest, Scott Rossi also mentioned this one in his post, in smaller fontsize maybe but with nicer graphics :-D Yep ! you are right. I was too shy to call everyone my Hero... :-) by now, I've a nice smiling Clown in multi-colors :-) Hip, Hip

Rev on Ubuntu

2009-01-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
All my stacks have been run successfully on Ubuntu 5.10 - 8.04. Mind you, most of them are 'bread-and-butter' stuff. Experience has taught me: 1. No movies. 2. No embedded sound files. 3. Never churn out generic Linux standalones from a version of Runtime Revolution working on another platfor

import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Macintosh Recipe: One of the ways to "sort out" an animated gif so that it will behave in Runtime Revolution is to open it as a movie using Quicktime. The save it as an image sequence. The import those images into Pixen http://opensword.org/Pixen/ and produce an animated GIF where all the fram

Richmond's Website.

2009-01-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, Well, Well . . . Finally re-did my website after 3 years: http://mail.maclaunch.com/richmond/ if you click on the "SCHOOL" link you can see 3 pictures of my "KEYER" in use in the relevant context. I will try (???) to update things a bit more often so that those of you who are interested c

Re: revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Ben Rubinstein wrote: Accessing PostgreSQL database on Linux. Works in IDE; using standalone, throws error in revOpenDatabase. (219: Function: error in function handler). Works in both 2.9 and 3.0 in IDE; fails in standalone built from either. Just for the record/benefit of a future stumble

Re: New on this list

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Looney
Stephan, In 1983 I was designing the financial planning system for Digital Research and Steve Jobs had given Gary Kildall a 128 Mac prototype (hoping he'd write some "insanely great" software for it). I can't remember Dr. Kildall mentioning the Mac without saying, in the same sentence, "No

Re: New on this list

2009-01-12 Thread andre
Be welcome! Just a reminder, there is also a forum on the runrev website. Enviado de meu iPhone Em 12/01/2009, às 12:58, Adri escreveu: Hi, I'm a Mac user since november 2006 and with the magazine MacFormat came Revolution Media 3.0 with a free full license. The first thing i did after

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Klaus Major
Bonsoir Thierry, Le 12 janv. 09 à 19:25, Klaus Major a écrit : but really, i've done nothing but Import a file as an image and nothing more. the animation is active , but the effect is really bad, and more not at all the same as on a browser Ideas ? you can try to: ... set the constant

Re: Script Editing Frustration

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: If you are using GLX2 you don't need to click. Just point and hit option+command. How? I've been looking to add a similar capability to my own editor, but given how the key messages currently work I've been unable to come up with anything that didn't involve constant poll

Re: New on this list

2009-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
Since 1983? that would make you a former Apple Employee or an Apple Developer in 1983.Me too. Had one on my desk at Datamost. With one floppy drive, it was lunacy for loading and saving but. GRAPHICS 2009/1/12 Paul Looney > Adri, > Welcome aboard, look forward to a fun trip! > Paul Looney (M

Re: Script Editing Frustration

2009-01-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Scott. If you are using GLX2 you don't need to click. Just point and hit option+command. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Hi List: Does anyone else find in Rev 3 that command+option clicking (or alt + control) a c

What is Revdb_commit() for anyway?

2009-01-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I have always been a bit confused at this. So far as I can tell, I cannot get data back INTO a cursor, I can only read data FROM the cursor. In order to write data back to the database, I have to execute an SQL query. So what is Revdb_commit() for? Commit what? I just wrote the da

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Thierry
Le 12 janv. 09 à 19:25, Klaus Major a écrit : but really, i've done nothing but Import a file as an image and nothing more. the animation is active , but the effect is really bad, and more not at all the same as on a browser Ideas ? you can try to: ... set the constantmask of img "your a

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Thierry
Le 12 janv. 09 à 19:19, J. Landman Gay a écrit : Thierry wrote: But really, i've done nothing but Import a file as an image and nothing more. the animation is active , but the effect is really bad, and more not at all the same as on a browser Ideas ? How is it bad? Can you describe wha

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Klaus Major
Bonsoir Thierry, Thierry wrote: But really, i've done nothing but Import a file as an image and nothing more. the animation is active , but the effect is really bad, and more not at all the same as on a browser Ideas ? you can try to: ... set the constantmask of img "your animated gif h

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Thierry wrote: > I wanted to import > an animated gif in Revolution, > > The imported animation is ugly but nice on a web page. > > I've never try this before... > > Could some of you validate it should work and if yes, > some hint to make it work ? Thierry: You don't really explain

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thierry wrote: But really, i've done nothing but Import a file as an image and nothing more. the animation is active , but the effect is really bad, and more not at all the same as on a browser Ideas ? How is it bad? Can you describe what is wrong? Some gifs use a method where only the

Re: Converting from Exponential Form

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Thierry- Monday, January 12, 2009, 8:47:02 AM, you wrote: > put "1.0139648E+9" into x > put x * 1 > Does it works ? Ah. Now I see what Dave's trying to do. That's actually *de*normalizing the scientific notation, and Thierry's one-liner does indeed do the trick (within the acceptable margi

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Thierry
Le 12 janv. 09 à 19:03, J. Landman Gay a écrit : Thierry wrote: Hi, For fun and for some children, I wanted to import an animated gif in Revolution, The imported animation is ugly but nice on a web page. I've never try this before... Could some of you validate it should work and if yes, some h

Re: unicode in "ask" and "answer"

2009-01-12 Thread Devin Asay
On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Viktoras, This is currently impossible, AFAIK (but there might be a trick I don't know about). You will need to create your own file dialog if you want to use a unicode string in the prompt. Just to echo Mark, I don't know of a way to

Re: import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thierry wrote: Hi, For fun and for some children, I wanted to import an animated gif in Revolution, The imported animation is ugly but nice on a web page. I've never try this before... Could some of you validate it should work and if yes, some hint to make it work ? It works very well and y

Re: Scrolling to a line in a field

2009-01-12 Thread David Bovill
Thanks - I'll select the line! 2009/1/12 Devin Asay > > On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:15 PM, David Bovill wrote: > > I have this old command - and just found that it is not accurate for a >> field >> of text with large line numbers. Can anyone make it more accurate? >> >> on field_ScrollToLine lineNum,

import animated gif

2009-01-12 Thread Thierry
Hi, For fun and for some children, I wanted to import an animated gif in Revolution, The imported animation is ugly but nice on a web page. I've never try this before... Could some of you validate it should work and if yes, some hint to make it work ? Thanks Thierry _

Re: unicode in "ask" and "answer"

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Viktoras, This is currently impossible, AFAIK (but there might be a trick I don't know about). You will need to create your own file dialog if you want to use a unicode string in the prompt. I am working on a fully Unicode-compatible file browser for Revolution, but I haven't had much

Re: How to click the mouse on another application

2009-01-12 Thread Generic Email
Awesome. Please excuse my anxiousness. Bert On Jan 12, 2009, at 12:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Generic Email wrote: I have emailed my external requirements to this list, altuit.com, swcp.com, and hyperactive software, and I have recieved 0 replies. Is this normal? Am I doing something wron

Re: Converting from Exponential Form

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Monday, January 12, 2009, 7:49:10 AM, you wrote: > I have the string "1.0139648E+9" and I'd like to convert it to: > "1013964800" > Any ideas on how I can easily do this? ...off the top of my head... function normalize pString set the itemDelimiter to "E" replace "." with "" in item

Re: unicode in "ask" and "answer"

2009-01-12 Thread viktoras d.
Thanks Mark, Devin ! Now I have my text in answer ask but can't get it in ask file or answer file. If I do answer file (the htmlText of "mySecretField1") then it displays the text with all the html tags visible in answer file window header. But if I do answer file (the unicodeText of "mySecretF

Re: How to click the mouse on another application

2009-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Generic Email wrote: I have emailed my external requirements to this list, altuit.com, swcp.com, and hyperactive software, and I have recieved 0 replies. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? I just responded. Your mail came in on a Saturday and I try not to work on weekends. -- Jacq

Re: New on this list

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Looney
Adri, Welcome aboard, look forward to a fun trip! Paul Looney (Mac user since 1983 ;-) ) On Jan 12, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Adri wrote: Hi, I'm a Mac user since november 2006 and with the magazine MacFormat came Revolution Media 3.0 with a free full license. The first thing i did after installi

Re: Rev on Ubuntu

2009-01-12 Thread Ken Ray
> Well, I've been thinking about tinkering with Linux + Revolution for a > while and recently ran into an old friend who's a big Linux fan. He > recommended that I install Ubuntu (I'm using Parallels on an Intel iMac) > and the K Desktop Environment. I haver successfully installed Ubuntu but > thou

Re: How to click the mouse on another application

2009-01-12 Thread Generic Email
I have emailed my external requirements to this list, altuit.com, swcp.com, and hyperactive software, and I have recieved 0 replies. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Any advice would be appreciated. Bert On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Generic Email wrote: I believe these are my requ

Re: Converting from Exponential Form

2009-01-12 Thread Thierry
Le 12 janv. 09 à 16:49, Dave a écrit : 1.0139648E+9 try this one : put "1.0139648E+9" into x put x * 1 Does it works ? Regards, Thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

Re: the focusedObject

2009-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
william humphrey wrote: It's funny. I read all the emails in this list and must learn something but when it is a problem I'm working on and then you guys answer I really do learn something. I know exactly what you mean. I think it happens to all of us. I like the idea of trapping the "close f

Re: unicode in "ask" and "answer"

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Sims, Normally, you shouldn't have to specify a font for unicode, as long as the default font contains the glyph you want to use. If the default font doesn't have this glyph, you need to specify the font explicitly. There are still a few bugs in Revolution that make this a little probl

Converting from Exponential Form

2009-01-12 Thread Dave
Hi All, I need to convert a string that is in Exponential Form into a it's normalized decimal equivalent, e.g. I have the string "1.0139648E+9" and I'd like to convert it to: "1013964800" Any ideas on how I can easily do this? Thanks in Advance All the Best Dave

Re: unicode in "ask" and "answer"

2009-01-12 Thread Devin Asay
On Jan 12, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Jim Sims wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Set the unicodeText of a field to your unicode string and use the htmlText of that field for the answer/ask prompt. Just curious, I noticed that you did not include a font. Does the unicodeTex

Re: Scrolling to a line in a field

2009-01-12 Thread Devin Asay
On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:15 PM, David Bovill wrote: I have this old command - and just found that it is not accurate for a field of text with large line numbers. Can anyone make it more accurate? on field_ScrollToLine lineNum, fieldObject -- does not seem accurate for large line numbers (it'

Re: unicode in "ask" and "answer"

2009-01-12 Thread Jim Sims
On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Set the unicodeText of a field to your unicode string and use the htmlText of that field for the answer/ask prompt. Just curious, I noticed that you did not include a font. Does the unicodeText take care of that? Does the htmlText take

New on this list

2009-01-12 Thread Adri
Hi, I'm a Mac user since november 2006 and with the magazine MacFormat came Revolution Media 3.0 with a free full license. The first thing i did after installing RM was taking a peek at the tutorial movies on the rev-site. Even after installing the video codec on my mac osx 10.5 i still can't s

AW: Any idea for a workaround of a brush tool crash? - Solved

2009-01-12 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
... it was a bad combination of the brush tool with mousedown leaving the window and a "set the cursor to arrow", which wasn't needed anyway at another issue. Thanks Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- > boun...@lists.run

Re: cipherNames, Encrypt and Decrypt

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Smith
Dave, I've done an RC4 implementation, though it might be a bit slow on big chunks of data - http://futsoft.futilism.com/revolutionstuff.html Also, you might look into what's available on the command line - openSSL, perhaps. Best, Mark On 12 Jan 2009, at 13:59, Dave wrote: HI, Thanks f

Re: unicode in "ask" and "answer"

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Viktoras, Set the unicodeText of a field to your unicode string and use the htmlText of that field for the answer/ask prompt. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Dutch forum: http://runrev.in

Re: cipherNames, Encrypt and Decrypt

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dave, If it doesn't have to be as sophisticated as blowfish --or if you want to put a lot of effort into it-- you can write your own encryption funciton. For a client of Economy-x-Talk, I made a simple encryption/ decryption function, which is easily portable to other programming langua

unicode in "ask" and "answer"

2009-01-12 Thread viktoras d.
Thanks to all who replied to my [OT] post, - Sara, Luis ! Now, back to Revolution, I am trying to ask and answer something with unicode characters and it displays everything (sticks, broken corners and empty spaces) except for the characters I need... Is there any way to put unicode text in ask

Re: cipherNames, Encrypt and Decrypt

2009-01-12 Thread Dave
HI, Thanks for this! Is there really no way to en/de-crypt a string of data in RunRev studio?? I guess I could ways write an External Command to do it??? Is there one available already? All the Best Dave On 12 Jan 2009, at 13:38, Eric Chatonet wrote: Bonjour Dave, Just two thoughts:

Re: cipherNames, Encrypt and Decrypt

2009-01-12 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonjour Dave, Just two thoughts: 1. You misspelled cipherNames (adding a 's'). 2. You need Rev Enterprise to access encryption. Le 12 janv. 09 à 12:57, Dave a écrit : I have a need to encrypt some data before sending it to a server. I looked at the encrypt and decrypt documentation but don't

AW: Any idea for a workaround of a brush tool crash?

2009-01-12 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Update: The problem doesn't seems to be the brush tool. I created a fresh main and substack for testing and there the error doesn't appear. So the problem must be somewhere else in my scripts doing something weird. I have to dig deeper. Thanks Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-r

Re: cipherNames, Encrypt and Decrypt

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dave, There is a type in your line "put the ciphersNames", but that would cause an error rather than return an empty string. Which license do you have? Encryption works with Entrprise only. I have uploaded a very simple encryption example to RevOnline, user name Mark. Do you decrypt the

Re: the focusedObject

2009-01-12 Thread william humphrey
It's funny. I read all the emails in this list and must learn something but when it is a problem I'm working on and then you guys answer I really do learn something. I like the idea of trapping the "close field" (you got the idea -- I'm trying to run the next code call without the user having to re

cipherNames, Encrypt and Decrypt

2009-01-12 Thread Dave
Hi All, I have a need to encrypt some data before sending it to a server. I looked at the encrypt and decrypt documentation but don't understand how to make it work. There is a property called "ciptherNames" which is supposed to contain a list of ciphers. However, when I do the following:

Re: revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Ah, I see what you mean now - unfortunately this is already what I do. But good to know that you've at least got MySQL working in standalones on Linux. thanks, Ben Riccardo wrote: Hi Ben In standalone settings you have to unselect the "search for required inclusions ..." option and so yo

Any idea for a workaround of a brush tool crash?

2009-01-12 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I am a little bit at a loss of this nasty crash scenario. I have a substack with an image, where the user can paint with the brush tool within this image of the substack. Everything works fine, so far, as you leave the window of the substack with pressed mousebutton (brush). Now Rev crashes

Re: revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-12 Thread Riccardo
Hi Ben In standalone settings you have to unselect the "search for required inclusions ..." option and so you have to select the "select inclusions ..." option. Then you check the database support and you select all the drivers. You have to select the other libraries too. Riccardo Inviat