Re: Salivating . . .

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Marriott
The birds were outside *my* window :) And, for an 'exiled' Scot, the best bit of the Webinar was the sound of birds tweeting outside RunRev's offices in Edinburgh! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Marriott
Hi folks, There will be a more official mail going out on this direct to your inbox shortly, but I wanted to give you the link to the video from today's Webinar conference: http://www.runrev.com/offers/webinar-2009-06-23/Rev4-Preview-Webinar.wmv We don't have a lot of choices when it comes

Re: Salivating . . .

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The tragedy of the 'exiled' Scot is that he has been away so long he cannot tell if the birds have Scots accents or not. :) Bill Marriott wrote: The birds were outside *my* window :) And, for an 'exiled' Scot, the best bit of the Webinar was the sound of birds tweeting outside RunRev's

Re: Staying in Edinburgh

2009-06-24 Thread Peter Alcibiades
We used to find Festival BBs through the Festival Office, which ran a sort of clearing house. Scottish landladies in immaculate houses serving enormous breakfasts with bacon and eggs and oatcakes. Don't know if the Festival Office still does that. It would also be worth going outside

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Bill, Thanks for posting this so quickly. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Snapper Screen Recorder 2.1 http://snapper.economy-x-talk.com If you sent me an e-mail before 25 May and haven't got a reply yet, please

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yes, Thanks a lot, Bill; now able to catch up on the part of the Webinar I missed; and run it through several times so I can extract the juice from it - and there is a lot of juice there. I was also happy to have my vocabulary enlarged, learning the word 'Olve' (as in 'revOlve'); although, for

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Jan Schenkel
Thanks for the quick post, Bill - I unfortunately got called into an unscheduled meeting and thus missed the webinar itself. Looking forward to gazing in awe at the goodies, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for Revolution http://www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow

moving multiple stacks - slight stutter

2009-06-24 Thread John Craig
I saw rocketdock mentioned recently a couple of times and it's reminded me of a small problem (more of an annoyance) I encountered. I wrote a dock using rev and used individual stacks for each icon to get the transparency effect. The stacks are lined up next to each other and moved/resized

Re : Allowing other users to access my cpanel on rev-online

2009-06-24 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Brittany, Thomas, Use cPanel File Manager to create a folder that you will open to your other user. Then use cPanel FTP Accounts to create an account for your user, and specify that he has access to that folder only. Download FileZilla and create a site with these account details. Tell

Wonky revTools on Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
A bit odd, see: http://mathewson.110mb.com/rrprobs.html and, err, yes, my website has mived again: http://mathewson.110mb.com/default.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Wonky revTools on Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Marriott
Richmond, I see from your site that you're into graphics software, especially free graphics software, and stuff for Linux. You should look into Xara Xtreme for Linux: http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote in message

Re: Aggregate values for columns

2009-06-24 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Josep wrote: Yes, this is correct. After edit some value is good with CloseFieldEditor, but where call the function to control de datagrid draw? The user can (1) load entire rows from the database and need calculate the totals and The first call would come

Re: EduTainment Titles

2009-06-24 Thread Judy Perry
Richmond, Your rant is somewhat unfair and ignores the bulk of instructional design research that has taken place over the years. Yes -- FORCE them to do it, and make it as unintuitive and boring as possible -- and some WILL still learn regardless. The main idea behind EduTainment done

Re: Re : Allowing other users to access my cpanel on rev-online

2009-06-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Francis, Thanks for this. It will help a lot and yes I would be interested in a detailed workflow. Feel free to send your Word file to me. Thanks again. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page:

Re: sorting question

2009-06-24 Thread DunbarX
J. His text might already have returns in it, so when you filter them, you will reformat pretty drastically. I think it better to use an unlikely char. In HC, I always used numToChar(8), which was invisible and took no space. But there are plenty of others, and you never see them while

challenge to Kevin and Bill

2009-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
There were so many questions in the webinar that Bill only managed to cover a small percentage of them. Would it be possible to take the time to go through the other questions, and answer those too? My three questions happened to be amongst the ones that were past over, and there's no

Re: sorting question

2009-06-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: J. His text might already have returns in it, so when you filter them, you will reformat pretty drastically. I think it better to use an unlikely char. In HC, I always used numToChar(8), which was invisible and took no space. But there are plenty of others, and you

error list to read bottomup or topdown?

2009-06-24 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, when you run into an error and you get an error list in a standalone I am sometimes unsure if I have to read it bottom up or top down, so if the first cause what is going wrong is the top most or bottom most? Thanks Tiemo ___ use-revolution

[On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Dom
Hi! I am running up against a problem... My goal: - given a number of shots, automatically construct a table with photos thumbnails (Done) - by clicking on a thumbnail, to go to a larger image, in the same page or in another page (more or less done) - the page with the larger image being rebuilt

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread stephen barncard
typo? ...src='Thumbnails/ L '/a afterttable shouldn't that be 'after ttable? - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/6/24 Dom mcd...@free.fr Hi! I am running up against a problem... My goal: ___

AW: scrollbar with a scale below only on Win2000

2009-06-24 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Don't halloo till you're out of the wood! Now that I found a solution for Win it shows me on the Mac the Value AND the scale :( where I actually didn't wanted any of both Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Dom
stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: shouldn't that be 'after ttable? Eeeer... I am baffled ;- You are absolutely right! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
would be more readable in splitting clearly the .irev call and the html code : ?rev get yourfunction(p1,p2,...) a href= quote it quote and it's always easiest to take care to quote the result of the right part of an = and verify that your css or html editor don't apply unwanted

Re: EduTainment Titles

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
udy Perry wrote: Richmond, Your rant is somewhat unfair and ignores the bulk of instructional design research that has taken place over the years. Um, Yes; probably slanted too much in one direction; but mainly as a reaction to too much in the other. To be fair; I gave warning, and

Re: sorting question

2009-06-24 Thread Paul Gabel
Thanks Jacque and Craig. Your ideas have helped me out. I wonder why runrev can embed stacks/revlets in web pages but can't come up with a sort text by char command. (It's sort of like the proverbial We can go to the moon, but we can't ... question.) Maybe string sorting is useless except

Re: sorting question

2009-06-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Gabel wrote: I wonder why runrev can embed stacks/revlets in web pages but can't come up with a sort text by char command. (It's sort of like the proverbial We can go to the moon, but we can't ... question.) Maybe string sorting is useless except in my situation. In my experience

Re: challenge to Kevin and Bill

2009-06-24 Thread Bernard Devlin
I agree. I don't envisage the answer to the question I asked affecting me, but I would hate to see RunRev make a mistake in not anticipating the problem it addressed. At the very least it is important to set people's expectations appropriately. Turning the questions and answers into a FAQ would

Re: Wonky revTools on Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thank you for the recommendation; I do have Xara Xtreme installed on my P4 and when I manage to find the time I intend to get to grips with it. For quite a few years I relied on demo software and the merry 'application dance' between many little free programs; but with Open Source really coming

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-24 Thread Devin Asay
On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:29 AM, jim sims wrote: Anyone know the OS X proper name for control-click, option-click, command-click events? Keyboard shortcuts doesn't seem correct to me, but that's all I can think of. I need to have the real deal term in order to satisfy hardcore Mac users. Also,

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
And, Jim, just to fill you with the full nausea: http://rixstep.com/2/20040510,00.shtml here is a fairly exhaustive (and exhausting) list of Mac OS keyboard shortcuts. Devin Asay wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:29 AM, jim sims wrote: Anyone know the OS X proper name for control-click,

about the new logo...

2009-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
One of my questions in the webinar was about the logo, and whether it was possible at this point for it to be tweaked. My main worry was that the two Rs were different to each other, but also I could see potential for the letters to exactly match each other in a way that could lead to some

Unwanted characters from pasted-in text.

2009-06-24 Thread stephen barncard
I have a wordpress blog that has survived many upgrades. Some text was entered by users by pasting text into the earlier simple Wordpress entry fields in the early years. The text was readable and correct at the time. I'm guessing that Wordpress changed their MySQL character encoding. In the

Re: challenge to Kevin and Bill

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Marriott
Colin, You asked, Is the logo final? It's mildly troubling that the two Rs are different to each other. Also, is the U an exact vertical flip of the N, and a horizontal flip of the V? That would be neat. Yes it's final. The R's actually look better this way than if they were identically

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-24 Thread Jim Sims
On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Apple calls them keyboard shortcuts. The standard way of expressing them seems to be Command-Option-L, with caps and hyphens. Thank you Devin. I'm trying my best for all out precision on this on, the app is for Mac fanatics and developers so

Re: challenge to Kevin and Bill

2009-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Bill Marriott wrote: Yes it's final. The R's actually look better this way than if they were identically shaped. Those crazy designers, what do they know! I hope you at least liked my version a little bit. ___

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Michael
Hi: We don't have a lot of choices when it comes to video format Really? I think you should forego foisting MS POS formats on everyone and use mp4 for distribution instead. I can explain how if necessary. m ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jun 24, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Michael wrote: Really? I think you should forego foisting MS POS formats on everyone and use mp4 for distribution instead. I can explain how if necessary. You'll have noticed that Bill uses a PC and Kevin uses a Mac. I'm not sure there are as many built in

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
One could, of course, go for something Open Source which everybody could watch, trouble-free (and 'tooth-sucking-free' whether about Microsoft or Apple) with VLC: http://www.videolan.org/ Colin Holgate wrote: On Jun 24, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Michael wrote: Really? I think you should forego

Re: about the new logo...

2009-06-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Colin, Your polished interpretation don't make it less serious and, perhaps , some more friendly ;-) -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com Le 24 juin 09 à 20:41, Colin Holgate a écrit : One of my questions in the webinar was about the logo, and whether it was

Re: challenge to Kevin and Bill

2009-06-24 Thread David Bovill
Bill, I'm dying to get an answer to the questions I've asked - I asked them several times now, in all the right places I believe :) Answers to these questions would really help with meetings next week. If you have any quick answers - would be great: 1. Will the XML built ins work in the plugin

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Dom
Pierre Sahores psaho...@free.fr wrote: would be more readable in splitting clearly the .irev call and the html code : sure, I will apply (later) it was a first (alpha ;-)) version! Merci, Pierre ! c'était juste un premier jet :-) c'est là où on voit la puissance de Revo appliquée au web

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Sarah Reichelt
My goal: - given a number of shots, automatically construct a table with photos thumbnails (Done) - by clicking on a thumbnail, to go to a larger image, in the same page or in another page (more or less done) - the page with the larger image being rebuilt upon demand My test photos page

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: My test photos page http://troz.on-rev.com/photos.irev uses irev to construct a grid of thumbnails... Are these thumbnails pre-generated, or are you making them on the fly from the Rev server engine? That is, does iRev have the same no-GUI limitation as the CGI engine,

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Richard Gaskinambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: My test photos page http://troz.on-rev.com/photos.irev uses irev to construct a grid of thumbnails... Are these thumbnails pre-generated, or are you making them on the fly from the Rev

Re: about the new logo...

2009-06-24 Thread william humphrey
I'm glad they're going with runrev as it is such a nice unique web search term. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Where to Send On-Rev Questions

2009-06-24 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, Is it okay to post On-Rev questions here or should they be directed only to the On-Rev web forum? Regards, Gregory ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Where to Send On-Rev Questions

2009-06-24 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Is it okay to post On-Rev questions here or should they be directed only to the On-Rev web forum? There were some complaints initially about On-Rev posts to this list, but Bill Marriott made it very clear that RunRev see On-Rev as a fully integrated part of Revolution, so either place is fine.

Re: sorting question

2009-06-24 Thread DunbarX
Of course, it occurs to me that when the text is sorted, the returns will be scrambled. Typical; quick, down and dirty, and wrong. More scripting would be required. Hopefully, he really only needs single words, since spaces, too, are lost. Craig In a message dated 6/24/09 10:47:40 AM,

Re: Where to Send On-Rev Questions

2009-06-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: I always like to know that whenever I finally need to use any feature of Rev, if I search the mailing list archives, I will find some help. I hope non-On-Rev users fell the same way about On-Rev discussions here. I'm with you. I hardly ever get time to visit the forums

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Marriott
Michael, Really? Really. I think you should forego foisting MS POS formats on everyone and use mp4 for distribution instead. I can explain how if necessary. Be my guest. We've already spent dozens of hours trying to work around this. The GoToWebinar software we use for our webinars records

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Marriott
Richard, It's our intention to have the ability to export rendered card images and also have an interface to ImageMagick down the road, but it's not in the current (pre-release) version of revServer. (revServer will also have the ability to use stack files, not just .irev files, for scripts

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I agree, but a good way around this is to use something like VLC (www.videolan.org) to view videos on both mac pc. ps. although it was freezing cold and 3:30am here in Alice Springs(Australia) it was good to experience my first rev webinar! regards alex Bill Marriott wrote: Michael,

Re: Wonky revTools on Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Marriott
We use the Windows version of Xara Xtreme for probably half of our marketing production. It's a lot of fun, an easy UI, and quite a bit faster than Inkscape on Linux. It has capabilities that rival or exceed Illustrator (and is also an order of magnitude faster). And the full commercial version

characters pasted from word processor

2009-06-24 Thread stephen barncard
Hello Everyone, I would like to find a recipe to recover the original character of character strings like this: ÂΩ Âº ‘ ‶ (typical text block with imbedded problem text:) *comparison, Wally’s machine was “stock†, straight out of the catalog. Part of this was due to the anticipated

test

2009-06-24 Thread jim sims
ice cream cone on a hot sidewalk - meltdown same as my internet 'stuff' not in the mood for making this a haiku :-P TEST sims ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: EduTainment Titles

2009-06-24 Thread Sivakatirswami
Judy: I second your motion that it is possible to make something fascinating enough to encourage young people to go swimming in the knowledge pool, and then want dive in again tomorrow. Richmond: It is perfectly possible to present educational materials in an interesting and absorbing fashion

Re: Where to Send On-Rev Questions

2009-06-24 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks Sarah, I'm pleased as I don't think you can separate the two. Regards, Gregory On Wed, Jun 24, 2009, at 11:25 PM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: There were some complaints initially about On-Rev posts to this list, but Bill Marriott made it very clear that

Re: characters pasted from word processor

2009-06-24 Thread Dom
stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: any ideas are welcome. Hmmm... seems to be a charset issue such as mine, with UTF-8 web pages translating accented characters ;-) see what Mark Smith told me, in the Charset problem (Was: Re: Weather reporting in Rev) message... -- the

Re: [On-Rev] Photo Gallery problem

2009-06-24 Thread Dom
Sarah Reichelt sarah.reich...@gmail.com wrote: My test photos page http://troz.on-rev.com/photos.irev uses irev to construct a grid of thumbnails and each one gets an onclick link that calls a JavaScript function. The JavaScript then loads the larger image into the specified div on the page.