AW: How to launch an app on top of the finder?

Thank you Terry, that did it Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Terry Judd > Gesendet: Montag, 16. Februar 2009 22:31 > An: How to use Revolution > Betreff: Re: How to launch an

Can a modal stack has a close box?

Hello, Is there any option to give a modal stack a close box in the title bar? Or is it the only choice to close a modal stack by my own close button? As far as I experience it, all stack controls are ignored at a modal stack. Thanks Tiemo _

Re: Can a modal stack has a close box?

--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > From: Tiemo Hollmann TB > Subject: Can a modal stack has a close box? > To: "'How to use Revolution'" > Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:52 AM > Hello, > > Is there any option to give a modal stack a close box in > the title bar? Or > is it t

AW: Can a modal stack has a close box?

Hi Jan, hmmm, perhaps I took the wrong approach. What I wanted to do is a welcome screen with some basic infos on first start. The User should read the infos first, before going on, that’s why I wanted modal. And this welcome window just has 1 only button "close". The close box in the title bar act

Re: way to inform rev apps to get something from web server

Thanks again for the replies & suggestions :-) Tourism here and around the world has disappeared so I'm trying to expand my computer work to supply my tomatoes and wine. Thanks for the help. :-) The main concern from the person I talked to was cost of bandwidth, my question to this li

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

Richard Gaskin wrote: Thanks for the ideas, folks. I've long believed it should be possible to make a really good editor for Transcript, and since Ken and I have been using ROSE for some time maybe I'll be able to add more of these at it continues to evolve. ... My long term goal is to sepa

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

Robert Brenstein wrote: Regex is indeed a built-in option for global search and that search finds all objects that contain the search string. However, I was referring to searching within a single script, a script I am editing. Right now, one can search in the editor by hoping from instance to

Re: Music duration

Bonjour Kurt, I hardly work this week-end (see my exercices in PDF file joined > off-list...). I have many questions > ? The most important are lines 22, 30, 38 46 about note data, by example line 22 : 903C648400803C I think 03C is the pitch (!?) and 64844008 is the duration (!?) Where

Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

I know that this must be an FAQ, but I've not been able to find that handy list I'm looking for. It's that time again: considering what development approach to take on a new project, which requires a cross-platform well connected desktop app with a slick UI, for a wide consumer audience. The

how to change the font of stacks title bar?

Hello, Still trying to workaround the title corrupt bug. the textfont in the properties of my stack is empty. Which font is taken? Is Tahoma Revs standard, if no font is specified? When changing the textfont of the stack the font of the titlebar seems to stay, as it was - probably Tahoma. Can yo

Re: how to change the font of stacks title bar?

--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > From: Tiemo Hollmann TB > Subject: how to change the font of stacks title bar? > To: "'How to use Revolution'" > Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 5:53 AM > Hello, > > Still trying to workaround the title corrupt bug. > > the textfont in the pr

AW: how to change the font of stacks title bar?

Oh, didn't knew that. So again a dead end for a workaround on this side. Thank you Jan > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Jan Schenkel > Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 15:30 > A

My link about the client/server recommendations with Valentina

Thanks everyone for responding to my question about the client/server recommendations. I think i may have to go with Valentina Office. But i was also wondering if anyone had any experience with using a rev app as a full time application server. Whats the uptime like is it prone to crashes, memory h

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Hi Ben, Read Naturally was fully developed in Revolution (www.readnaturally.com). I work for Read Naturally (that's the name of the company as well as the name of our flagship product) as the primary developer. I don't know that I would go so far as to say it has "an impressive modern use

keeping focus in a field

there is a field and a menu button on my stack. If I write some text in the field and select portion of it, then go to menu and choose whatever I wish from the pull down list, it keeps focus on the selection of text in the field. But if I create a context menu using popup button, the selected

[OT] NVIDIA Personal Supercomputer

just have a look at this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html They say it is accessible e.g. programmable with C. I feel Revolution apps can also jump in into this "train" easily. Well, rev has no real threading at the moment, but one could get running up to 960 instances

Re: McAfee virus detection deletes valid file

Ken Ray wrote: However there is a light at the end of the tunnel if all else fails... if the VBA module can be compiled into an actual DLL with Visual Basic (or the equivalent), then you can run a script that *calls* on the DLL to do it's functionality and Norton and McAfee won't block it since

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

On 17.02.09 at 12:18 + Ben Rubinstein apparently wrote: Perhaps I've missed something, but I think that both these excellent facilities are indeed available in 3.0. If you click on the "+" button at the bottom right of the script editor "Find and replace", it supports grep. And the "Find

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Ben, "Good looking" is in the eyes of the beholder. But you might go to our website: Ahsomme.com. There you can download a 330 page PDF operating manual that has pictures of the 22 databases, 50 Editors and List Programs, and some of the 100+ unique report templates (as well as pictures of t

Re: Music duration

René, I'll reply to you either later today or tomorrow (I have a long music rehearsal this evening). I can also cc to the list if anyone else expresses an interest in the subject (anyone?). -Kurt --- On Tue, 2/17/09, René Micout <[]> wrote: > From: René Micout [] > Bonjour Kurt, > I hardly

Re: Can a modal stack has a close box?

Actually most users would click on the window to dismiss, if it's just a message before going on...Like the behavior of most 'about' screens. Stephen Barncard - San Francisco 2009/2/17 Tiemo Hollmann TB > Hi Jan, > hmmm, perhaps I took the wrong approach. What I wanted

Creating a callback mechanism for externals.

Hello Friends, Here I come with a topic that is hot here on my mind. I know we all love transcript, but for building externals, we need to do it in C/C++, so I apologize for the the amount of dirty C code that I'll post on this message. Right now with the ExternalEnvironmentV3 and libexternal, we

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Hi Ben, At Dam-pro, we are working on Windows; in our laboratories, our applications in development looks really modern with a Windows Vista/7 UI. (The new ParentScript feature of Rev 3.5 is lovely). Actually released, designed for Windows XP, there is NativeSpeak Translate, not the best mode

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Run, don't walk to the tactile media site - you want modern, slick, good looking - that's Scott Rossi... um, I mean, well, I'm sure Scott's a fine looking fellow, but I meant...oh never mind :) Best, Mark On 17 Feb 2009, at 13:12, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I know that this must be an FAQ, but

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Wowmatrix was produced with Runtime Revolution. It is a handy app that scans the World Of Warcraft addons folder, then connects to each addon site (there are many) and checks to see if your addons are up to date. It also can search for new addons (there are many) and install them for you. I

Re: Creating a callback mechanism for externals.

Andre- As you've noted, EvalExpr() isn't really designed to send messages. My take is that it's less like a "do" command and more like the engine running a line of code, evaluating the expressions along the way to return a result. So here are two ideas off the top of my head (both untested): 1. c

Re: Can a modal stack has a close box?

stephen barncard wrote: Actually most users would click on the window to dismiss, if it's just a message before going on...Like the behavior of most 'about' screens. That's what I thought too until recently. I thought the behavior was so universal that I didn't think twice about putting a "clo

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Mark Smith wrote: Run, don't walk to the tactile media site - you want modern, slick, good looking - that's Scott Rossi... um, I mean, well, I'm sure Scott's a fine looking fellow, but I meant...oh never mind :) I've met him. He is. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperacti

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

I always thought there weren't enough list romances on this list. Finally we see the first seedy tidbits of one. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.h

Re: ListMagic Printing

Bob, Jim... GLX2 v2.4b33 is now available. Problem with execution errors within locked stacks fixed. General handling of execution errors much improved. Best, Jerry Daniels Daniels & Mara, Inc. Makers of GLX2 http://www.glx2.com On Feb 15, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote: Hi Bob, T

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

> So, here's that question again: I'm looking for examples of actual > applications (not just sample stacks, tool stacks etc), built in Rev, that can > be pointed to as demonstrating that people have used Rev to distribute > products with an impressive modern user interface. I'm sure that they'r

AW: Can a modal stack has a close box?

Good idea Stephen and thanks Jacqueline, I'll give them both :) Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von J. Landman Gay > Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 19:30 > An: How to use R

RE: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Hi Ben As has been said, 'impressive' may be in the eye of the holder. The Scripter's Scrapbook (www.ssBk.co.uk) was carefully designed to honour (or at least not fly in the face of) both Win and Mac HIG guidelines (insofar as is possible). I'm not sure what 'modern' means... Vista? Aqua? Eye cand

Re: AW: Can a modal stack has a close box?

> hmmm, perhaps I took the wrong approach. What I wanted to do is a welcome > screen with some basic infos on first start. The User should read the infos > first, before going on, that¹s why I wanted modal. And this welcome window > just has 1 only button "close". The close box in the title bar ac

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

> We already have two major editors in the Revolution world, plus the MC > options. Rather than putting more effort into creating a third, could we do > better, as Robert suggested, to hook into all the work that's already gone > into the external editors? We have that with the STS/MLXEditor:

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

Ben Rubinstein wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: My long term goal is to separate debugging from editing Robert Brenstein wrote: You may want to fetch TextWrangler, a free sibbling of BBEdit, from BareBones website. Most of those things are there, so you can just try them out. Which somewhat ma

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Ok, sorry this was meant as a funny. I wasn't suggesting anything! Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Feb 17, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Thomas Mc

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

Ken Ray wrote: We already have two major editors in the Revolution world, plus the MC options. Rather than putting more effort into creating a third, could we do better, as Robert suggested, to hook into all the work that's already gone into the external editors? We have that with the STS/MLX

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

On 2/17/09 2:58 PM, "Ben Rubinstein" wrote: > Ken Ray wrote: >>> We already have two major editors in the Revolution world, plus the MC >>> options. Rather than putting more effort into creating a third, could we >>> do >>> better, as Robert suggested, to hook into all the work that's alread

Re: keeping focus in a field

> But if I create a context menu using popup button, the selected text in > field looses focus at the moment the popup is called. Is there any > simple trick (I already know complex ones :-)) to force the selection to > persist, so I could handle it from the context menu ? Yes, set the "traversalO

Re: Getting a browser url on Windows

> I use Applescript to get the url of the active window in Safari and Firefox > on a Mac but is there any equivalent (VB?) that would allow me to do the > same for IE and Firefox under Windows? Or is that a job for an external? Sorry it took so long for me to respond, Terry, and if you already ha

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Thomas McGrath III wrote: Ok, sorry this was meant as a funny. I wasn't suggesting anything! I knew that. But careful, lest you be next. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

Richard Gaskin wrote: MC also has a built-in profiler, which although still bound to other parts it could be extracted and would make a nice addition to scripting in any Rev-based IDE. I did that back in ought-six. It's here: --

[ANN]: "Word Match" (language tool + dynamic labels on icon images)

The primary purpose of this stack is to present a practical example how - as one of several options - the results and proposals of the discussion in the recent thread "Dynamic labels for buttons with (oddshaped) icon images?" could be applied. Part

Re: ListMagic Printing

Jerry! Good job! I think you also nailed the problem with the Visual Application Browser losing track of which card was the present one. The error I was getting before is no longer occurring. WOOT! Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Jerr

Re: [ANN]: "Word Match" (language tool + dynamic labels on icon images)

Hi Wilhelm, In the stack Spanish to English, it appears that the lists you're using are out of sync by one. Maybe something I did, but I don't think so. Otherwise, great job. Joe Wilkins On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: The primary purpose of this stack

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Here are a few from Altuit: http://www.buttongadget.com/buttongadget2/default.htm http://www.altuit.com/webs/vuetoolbar/GridModelerCover/default.htm ThoughtOffice: http://www.thoughtoffice.com/ and http://www.altuit.com/webs/clients/JollyDesign/ThoughtOfficeScreens_big.jpg Matrix Emergency Task

Re: ListMagic Printing

We aims to please. Best, Jerry Daniels Daniels & Mara, Inc. Makers of GLX2 http://www.glx2.com On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Jerry! Good job! I think you also nailed the problem with the Visual Application Browser losing track of which card was the present one. The error

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

I was just being a little mischievous today.. On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thomas McGrath III wrote: Ok, sorry this was meant as a funny. I wasn't suggesting anything! I knew that. But careful, lest you be next. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac..

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

I know they can't compete with Scott Rossi's amazing interfaces, but there are a number of free educationally useful downloads of MedMaster medical applications at http://medmaster.net/freedownloads.html. All were built with Revolution. Stephen Goldberg, President MedMaster Inc www.medmaster.n

Re: keeping focus in a field

Ken Ray wrote: > >> But if I create a context menu using popup button, the selected text in >> field looses focus at the moment the popup is called. Is there any >> simple trick (I already know complex ones :-)) to force the selection to >> persist, so I could handle it from the context menu ? >

Re: Getting a browser url on Windows

Thanks Ken - that's really helpful. Terry... On 18/02/09 8:54 AM, "Ken Ray" wrote: > >> I use Applescript to get the url of the active window in Safari and Firefox >> on a Mac but is there any equivalent (VB?) that would allow me to do the >> same for IE and Firefox under Windows? Or is that

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

I'm assuming 'seedy' from 'seed', rather than 'seedy'... Cheers, Luis. Thomas McGrath III wrote: I always thought there weren't enough list romances on this list. Finally we see the first seedy tidbits of one. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite -

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > So while these various different parts are technically in the same file, > this is merely a clever trick of the legacy file system which still supports > resource forks. As such, it's just one level of misdirection away from > being more

Music duration

René, You need first of all to understand what you are seeing in the Hex Editor. All of the MIDI data (including the data that is not printable in ascii text) is represented in Hexadecimal notation. It would be a good idea to practice a some conversions from Decimal to Hexadecimal (and t

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > On 17.02.09 at 12:18 + Ben Rubinstein apparently wrote: > >> Perhaps I've missed something, but I think that both these excellent >> facilities are indeed available in 3.0. > > > Hey, Ben, you are right. Amazing! These things are in

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

Kay C Lan wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: So while these various different parts are technically in the same file, this is merely a clever trick of the legacy file system which still supports resource forks. As such, it's just one level of misdirection away from b

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > I always thought there weren't enough list romances on this list. Finally > we see the first seedy tidbits of one. > > That's because the root of the problem is with dateItems ;-) ___ use-revol

Re: Arrays and Custom Props

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > See the Dictionary: > getResources > getResource > setResource > Which I have. Thanks again to this List, I don't think there would be any other way I'd ever have conceived as to why I'd ever look these up. > > Good for as long as Apple c

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

Kay C Lan wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I always thought there weren't enough list romances on this list. Finally we see the first seedy tidbits of one. That's because the root of the problem is with dateItems ;-) Does that mean I have to convert for him?

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

On 18 Feb 2009, at 02:23, J. Landman Gay wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I always thought there weren't enough list romances on this list. Finally we see the first seedy tidbits of one. That's because the root of the problem is with dateI

How to compare bettwen .rev file

Dear all, Is there any one who can help answer this question? My group are developing a project and how can we compare the difference between .rev file to know what each one does on the same file because we usually copy the same file to each one's computer and modified. Thanks so much,

Re: How to compare bettwen .rev file

HI Tran, This is a fascinating problem; and, probably, not all that difficult to resolve. Write a handler that you attach to a button on each stack that creates a numerical list of all the items in the stack, including the number of characters in each of the handlers in each of the script

Re: How to compare bettwen .rev file

Joe, Tran, Building on this - instead of counting characters, you could run the scripts through md5Digest(). Using a hash value is a common approach to detecting changes that works very well for almost all cases. It all really depends on the level of changes you need to see - but if it's

Re: How to compare bettwen .rev file

Tran- I usually store the version number and date in a custom property of the stack. Then I can query the custom property to see what I've got. Something like: set the uVersion of this stack to 3.14 set the uDate of this stack to "17 February 2009" --then if there is a file tFileToUpdate then

AW: AW: Can a modal stack has a close box?

Hi Ken, yup, thanks for you 2 cents Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Ken Ray > Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 21:21 > An: Use Revolution List > Betreff: Re: AW: Can a mo

Any chance to identify if the title of a stack is corrupted by QT?

Hello, still trying to find a workaround for the bug corrupting the title bar (QCC 6235) Because it happens at a minority of my betatests I wanted to figure out, if I have a chance to identify, if the title is still ok or corrupted. If it is corrupted, I wanted to set it to empty - an empty title