Re: web browser and Rev interactivity, help

2009-03-22 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi Andrew, I'm a bit confused by your description, but I'm assuming you are talking about a page displayed in a revBrowser control. According to the Rev dictionary it says that using revBrowserGet one should be able to get the htmlText of a page displayed in a browser control (htmltext : The

Re: Creating htpasswd compatible passwords

2009-03-22 Thread runrev260805
Hi Marty, i was looking also for a solution some time ago. As far as i know, Revolution cannot create such passwords on without external help. Please anyone correct me, if i am wrong. For a customer i created an app, which helps him to create and protect folders. The complete app

Re: Creating htpasswd compatible passwords

2009-03-22 Thread Marty Knapp
Thanks Matthias, Sarah and others. I'm going to be away from the office (and email) for a week, so I'll give this some more attention when I return. Perhaps there'll be some more input by then as well. Marty Hi Marty, i was looking also for a solution some time ago. As far as i know,

Re: Creating htpasswd compatible passwords

2009-03-22 Thread Mark Smith
If the sha1 type is acceptable, you can use either my sha1 implementation or the openssl command line to generate a sha1 digest of the password to end up with this form: username:{SHA}W6ph5Mm5Pz8GgiULbPgzG37mj9g= (simple) username:{SSHA}sVp7Y6h1ZtYAvp3UbsbZlQYACaU= (salted, more secure) if

storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Brigham MD
Is there a way to store a background group of buttons as a customProperty of a stack? I am trying to cover the possibility (in a utility) that a user in the IDE might do a select all and delete all controls on a card, and I want to ensure that I can easily place the deleted buttons back on

Re: storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Peter, You can store the group in a stack and store the stack file in a custom property. When you need the group, go stack (the cGroupInCustomProp of this cd), copy the group and delete the stack when done. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Re: Creating htpasswd compatible passwords

2009-03-22 Thread Mark Smith
In fact, ignore the previous (I got the salting stuff wrong). I've now updated libHash-Hmac with corrected versions, (and a verify function). It's at: http://futsoft.futilism.com/revolutionstuff.html best, Mark On 22 Mar 2009, at 14:53, Mark Smith wrote: If the sha1 type is acceptable,

Re: storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Brigham wrote: Is there a way to store a background group of buttons as a customProperty of a stack? I am trying to cover the possibility (in a utility) that a user in the IDE might do a select all and delete all controls on a card, and I want to ensure that I can easily place the

Re: Linux can't disable menuItems?

2009-03-22 Thread Bill Vlahos
Peter, Thanks for confirming the problem and coming up with a workaround. I've created bug report #7832 for this bug. Does anyone know if there are any consequences in using the button syntax instead of menu? Menu works fine on Mac and Windows so I don't want to break any of my existing

Re: Linux can't disable menuItems?

2009-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill Vlahos wrote: Does anyone know if there are any consequences in using the button syntax instead of menu? Menu works fine on Mac and Windows so I don't want to break any of my existing code. I tend to prefer using button over menu, because it's more specific: The option to use menu was

Re: storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Brigham wrote: Is there a way to store a background group of buttons as a customProperty of a stack? I am trying to cover the possibility (in a utility) that a user in the IDE might do a select all and delete all controls on a card, and I want to ensure that I

Re: Linux can't disable menuItems?

2009-03-22 Thread Bill Vlahos
Thanks Richard. It sounds like converting to button will be a safe thing to do for me. Too bad. I like the syntax menu. Bill On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Bill Vlahos wrote: Does anyone know if there are any consequences in using the button syntax instead of menu?

Re: Linux can't disable menuItems?

2009-03-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Vlahos wrote: Peter, Thanks for confirming the problem and coming up with a workaround. I've created bug report #7832 for this bug. Does anyone know if there are any consequences in using the button syntax instead of menu? Menu works fine on Mac and Windows so I don't want to break

Re: Navigation Perplexity

2009-03-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunbarx wrote: Reposting this: I thought I knew how these things worked. Even HC does this, I just found out. Two stacks, A and B. In a button handler on A: on mouseUp wait 200 go stack A -- remember, the button is in A end mouseUp During the wait period, if I click anywhere on stack

Re: Navigation Perplexity

2009-03-22 Thread dunbarx
I thought that, too. I don't know why my whole life I believed that the event queue was suspended during wait. It certainly makes sense, in hindsight, that a repeat loop would work that way. Sorry I mentioned it. After all, I have interrogated the mouse during loops as a matter of course.  Who

Hypercard data

2009-03-22 Thread tom owens
I am a technologically-challenged new user of Runtime Revolution. I bought it to transfer my Hypercard files from an older iMac to an iMac running System X. I have figured out how to open my files in Revolution, but can't figure out how to go to a specific word or phrase in the data. On my

Re: Hypercard data

2009-03-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Owens, Are you new to this mail list? If so, welcome... Revolution's Find Replace window is very different from HyperCard's find function. Fortunately, you can still use the find command in Revolution. There are at least two ways to do this. You can open the message box and type

Re: Hypercard data

2009-03-22 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Owens, Until someone much more knowledgeable than I am about Hypercard conversion steps in, here's a couple of thoughts. In the Find and Replace window (the one that comes up when you click on Rev's Toolbar's Edit menu), there are checkboxes labelled Name, Script, etc. Have you tried starting

Re: storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Brigham MD
But if a group's cantDelete property is true, it protects the group from being deleted but not its contents. Doing a select all and then hitting the delete key deletes the objects themselves, no matter if the group's cantDelete property is true or false. And in that case the group is not

Re: storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread Terry Judd
If you set each of the controls' cantselect to true then you can select the group but not the individual controls (even with the selectgroupedcontrols set to true). So long as the cantdelete of the group is set to true then the controls will be 'protected' from a delete. Terry... On 23/03/09

Docking Panes

2009-03-22 Thread Mark Stuart
On Mar 19, 2009 - 6:45 PM, mfstuart wrote: Hi all, Has anyone been able to build a RunRev application with the concept of docking panes? Hmmm.not interested? No time? Don't even know what I'm talking about? There's gotta be ONE person with an interest? Mark Stuart

suddenly not working -- Rev cgi plus mysql on webhost (DreamHost)

2009-03-22 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello List, As the subject line says, a working-perfectly setup of Rev-based cgi-scripts which connect to mysql databases, all hosted by my web-host (DreamHost), suddenly ain't so perfect. One very likely reason is my web-host only last week moved my account to a new server. They had emailed me

FORMalizer, again

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Brigham MD
If anyone has tried this utility and found that it did not work properly, I have cleaned it up and made it Windows and Rev 2.8 - 3.0 compatible (I'm 99% sure), so you can try it out again. let me know if there are any further bugs, or enhancements wanted. To refresh your memory of what it

Re: storing a group as a customProperty

2009-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Brigham MD wrote: But if a group's cantDelete property is true, it protects the group from being deleted but not its contents. Doing a select all and then hitting the delete key deletes the objects themselves, no matter if the group's cantDelete property is true or false. And in that

Re: Docking Panes

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Mark, I have an interest. But haven't done anything about it yet. Why? 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 Mar 22, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Mark

Re: suddenly not working -- Rev cgi plus mysql on webhost (DreamHost)

2009-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Nicolas, one of the things I love about Dreamhost is the easy access to the error log. If the problem is just a Rev script error (as opposed to permissions, badn engine file, bad line endings in the script, etc.) the engine will write the Rev error info to stdout, which you can find on a