Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread SparkOut
You wouldn't mind pointing to the tutorial itself? I'd be interested to look, and I can't seem to track it down. Thanks Derek Bump - Dreamscape Software wrote: > > Did anyone attempt the "PayPal Integration with On-Rev" tutorial by Mark > Wieder? Was anyone able to get it to work with PayPal S

Re: Challenge: How can we set the rect of a polygon to its visual rect?

2009-08-17 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Mon Aug, 2009, dfepstein at comcast.net dfepstein at comcast.net wrote: It appears that Rev defines the rect of a regular polygon to be the rectangle that encloses all possible rotations of that polygon. This seems like a useful enough feature that I wouldn't call it a bug. David Epstein

ANN: Economy-x-Talk releases the word game TwistAWord

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello, Economy-x-Talk has released a brand new game called TwistAWord. Goal of the game is to create sentences from jumbled words, which form a saying or expression. While this game is just fun to play, it also helps you improve your language skills in eight different languages. TwistAWor

Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread Derek Bump
The article is available here: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/august/issue76/newsletter2.php?=NW0076S36140 I have 2 concerns though about using PayPal's Buy Now buttons... 1. The initial ordering interface can be daunting for first time users. The option to purchase *without* setting up a Pa

Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread SparkOut
Thanks for that. For some reason I hadn't got a notice email about issue #76. I know what you mean about processing the thing through Paypal, but it can definitely be another string to the bow. Thanks. Derek Bump - Dreamscape Software wrote: > > The article is available here: > http://www.runr

Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread Nicolas Cueto
> In the end I think I'm going to forgo this idea and stick with what I > have.  It may take a little longer to process orders, but it still > passed the "Mom Test".  Thanks! Hello Derek, You are right about the "Mom Test", and that PayPal is not as straightforward as they'd like us to think. So

Is there a way to edit scripts in Rev 3.5 besides

2009-08-17 Thread Jim Ault
The combined window that has the script editor window sharing the space with the code and the variables? This is very inconvenient. I cannot switch to older versions of Rev since I am using multidimensional arrays. Drilling down into arrays is painful. The worst part is to have massive scr

Re: datagrid problem resolved

2009-08-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Yves COPPE wrote: if you have a fld in a datagrid ( Form style) and this fld (let us name him : "body") contains from row to row a variable text, you will use a layout script in the following form : put item 2 of theRect + the formattedHeight of field "Body" of m

Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread Derek Bump
Nicolas Cueto wrote: > You are right about the "Mom Test", and that PayPal is not as > straightforward as they'd like us to think. So I had a look at your > webstore to see how you handle payments, and was curious about how you > enable Visa card payments. I've got a merchant account that allows m

Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Nicolas Cueto wrote: You are right about the "Mom Test", and that PayPal is not as straightforward as they'd like us to think. So I had a look at your webstore to see how you handle payments, and was curious about how you enable Visa card payments. Agreed: for non-PayPal transactions, PayPal ca

Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread Derek Bump
Richard Gaskin wrote: > Once I added a PayPal option my sales when up about 8%. Sounds like a market that needs to be tapped. I think I will go ahead an add a "Buy with PayPal" option on my online store. If it results in a few more sales then it's worth the time to setup. If I can't get the POS

Re: datagrid problem resolved

2009-08-17 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 17 août 09 à 15:46, Trevor DeVore a écrit : To sum up, Yves had a field in his data grid template whose height was adjusted to fit the text contents. His original code was setting the rect of the field in one pass. The problem with setting the rect in one pass when the field is being

[ANN] SQL Yoga: A Flexible Database Library for Revolution

2009-08-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
In September Blue Mango Learning Systems will be releasing a database library that will change how you work with databases in Revolution. Join us Wednesday for a webinar where we will introduce SQL Yoga and announce the public beta leading up to release. Find out more on our Releasable Revo

Re: datagrid problem resolved

2009-08-17 Thread Robert Maniquant
Hi! I had very positive exchange with Trevor too. I had some empty spaces while xcrolling fast a datagrid form list. he pointed out that the layout procedure I used could be source of these artefacts. it was. So let me share the lesson I derived from that : Lesson 1 was : do not try and do witho

Why is Put not Putting?

2009-08-17 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, I use the simple handler below to process large amounts of text. Because it can take anywhere from a couple of seconds to ten minutes to run, I like to know that something is happening, so I put the very first statement in the handler, "Preparing for search..." whi

Re: Why is Put not Putting?

2009-08-17 Thread Ian Wood
On 17 Aug 2009, at 16:53, Gregory Lypny wrote: I use the simple handler below to process large amounts of text. Because it can take anywhere from a couple of seconds to ten minutes to run, I like to know that something is happening, so I put the very first statement in the handler, "Prepa

Re: Is there a way to edit scripts in Rev 3.5 besides

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Monday, August 17, 2009, 6:04:28 AM, you wrote: > I know about tRex (I need debugging, which is a feature coming soon) That's why I use glx2 instead of tRex. I absolutely need that debugger. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revol

Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Derek- Monday, August 17, 2009, 5:40:56 AM, you wrote: I think these are both valid concerns. > 1. The initial ordering interface can be daunting for first time users. > The option to purchase *without* setting up a PalPal account is a > little buried, and I don't like the idea of my customers

Re: Importing gMail

2009-08-17 Thread James Hurley
Message: 12 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:33:36 -0700 From: Mark Wieder Subject: Re: Importing gMail To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <31177063531.20090816143...@ahsoftware.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jim- ...and speaking of squaring the circle, I just came across Bradf

Putting Stuff Before the Message Box

2009-08-17 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello again, I apologize in advance. Maybe it's the meds. I created a list with three lines: put "One" & return & "Two" & return & "Three" into theList I want to have the message box display 3 One Two Three Why does put theList put the number of lines in theList

Re: Why is Put not Putting

2009-08-17 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thank you, Ian. Worked like a charm! Gregory On Mon, Aug 17, 2009, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 9 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:56:45 +0100 From: Ian Wood Subject: Re: Why is Put not Putting? To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <6d8b9f11-c84f-

Re: Why is Put not Putting?

2009-08-17 Thread DunbarX
Why? The loading of the text is at the first line of the handler. I made a stack with a lot of data and everything runs fine; the fields show what they ought to. I also assumed that there was a little navigation in getting the data from another card, per my reading of the script, which I put in,

Re: Why is Put not Putting?

2009-08-17 Thread DunbarX
OK. With a much larger amount of data, the field does not, in fact, load the text until the end of the handler. The "wait with messages" works like a charm. So is Gregory right? Does Rev blanch at the task upcoming, even though it has not accessed the data yet, and so could not possible know ho

Re: [ANN] SQL Yoga: A Flexible Database Library for Revolution

2009-08-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Trevor, what are the system requirements? Peter Trevor DeVore wrote: > > In September Blue Mango Learning Systems will be releasing a database > library that will change how you work with databases in Revolution. > Join us Wednesday for a webinar where we will introduce SQL Yoga and > an

Re: [ANN] SQL Yoga: A Flexible Database Library for Revolution

2009-08-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Aug 17, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Trevor, what are the system requirements? SQL Yoga sits on top of RevDB. It will require at least version 3.5 of Revolution. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems ScreenSteps: http://www.screensteps.com Developer Resources: http:/

Re: [ANN] SQL Yoga: A Flexible Database Library for Revolution

2009-08-17 Thread viktoras d.
sorry for impatience, is it anything like "visual query builder" tool? :-) All the best! Viktoras Trevor DeVore wrote: On Aug 17, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Trevor, what are the system requirements? SQL Yoga sits on top of RevDB. It will require at least version 3.5 of Revol

RE: Why is Put not Putting?

2009-08-17 Thread Randall Reetz
i'm sure I am not the first to say so, but you are vastly over estimating the sophistication of the interpretor. It does not forward to predict and then anticipate the intention of your script. That is the HAL stuff of science fiction (for now). If you have two put statements in the same l

Re: [ANN] SQL Yoga: A Flexible Database Library for Revolution

2009-08-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Aug 17, 2009, at 2:20 PM, viktoras d. wrote: sorry for impatience, is it anything like "visual query builder" tool? :-) I'm not familiar with "visual query builder" but there are features the will build queries for you. There are no visual components to SQL Yoga though, it is a library

Re: Firefox works for revlet but not IE?

2009-08-17 Thread Sadhu Nadesan
Yes, this issue seems to be at least some what 'user-environment' related. I tried a revlet app on my home web server (CentOS), from my home PC, which is running Windows XP home, and both IE and Firefox worked ok. Meanwhile on my work computer, within the company network, and using Windows

The 'window is behind the browser' problem

2009-08-17 Thread Sadhu Nadesan
Seems to me I recall seeing mention of the problem on this list, but anyway, this is basically a success story. This weekend I tried a more complex application as a Revlet - a DB app. My normal is a client server model, postgreSQL on the server, and Rev on the desktop, using the database libr

naming duplicate objects

2009-08-17 Thread bar...@libero.it
Hello all! I have a short handler in an image object which does something if it intersects two graphics, called "circle1" and "circle2", overlaying each other - it should not do anything if only one graphic is present. To my stupefaction it works BUT only with the two original grcs, nothin

Re: PayPal Integration with On-Rev

2009-08-17 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, you're again completely correct, I just bought myself a new board game because the shop accepted paypal and I could not help myself... :D On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Nicolas Cueto wrote: > >> You are right about the "Mom Test", and that PayPal is not as >>

Re: naming duplicate objects

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Barry, Immediately after copying an object, you can store the long id of it in a variable and change the name of the object. copy grc x to this cd put the long id of it into myObject set the name of myObject to "New Graphic 1" Does that help? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-

Re: [ANN] SQL Yoga: A Flexible Database Library for Revolution

2009-08-17 Thread william humphrey
Hi Will it also work with Valentina? Bill On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Aug 17, 2009, at 2:20 PM, viktoras d. wrote: > > sorry for impatience, is it anything like "visual query builder" tool? :-) >> > > I'm not familiar with "visual query builder" but there are feat

Re: [ANN] SQL Yoga: A Flexible Database Library for Revolution

2009-08-17 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Aug 17, 2009, at 3:17 PM, william humphrey wrote: Will it also work with Valentina? Before release, yes. I have all of the Valentina code for connections, etc. included but I have yet to add Valentina to the Unit Testing stack. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems ScreenSteps

Re: [ANN] SQL Yoga: A Flexible Database Library for Revolution

2009-08-17 Thread william humphrey
Great. I want to test Valentina on a stack I used your old database library for with SQLite and which needs to be converted to Valentina. Sounds like fun! On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Aug 17, 2009, at 3:17 PM, william humphrey wrote: > > Will it also work with Valen

odd number and even numbers

2009-08-17 Thread william humphrey
Don't kick me but what is the simple way to tell in a repeat function x = 1 to total number put x and x + 1 when x is even do this or when x is odd do this ?? I started using mod and all kinds of weird math and I know there must be a simple way. ___ us

Line wrapping

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Could anyone think of a way to make long lines in the script editor wrap? This really drives me nuts. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Download Snapper Screen Recorder at http://snapper.economy-x-talk.com __

Re: odd number and even numbers

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi William, Here's one of many possibilities: function even theNr return (trunc(theNr/2)*2 is theNr) end even function odd theNr return not even(theNr) end odd Actually, believe mine is a bit clumsy, but ut works. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Re: odd number and even numbers

2009-08-17 Thread william humphrey
Thanks. That was so quick and I will use it right now. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi William, > > Here's one of many possibilities: > > function even theNr > return (trunc(theNr/2)*2 is theNr) > end even > > function odd theNr >

Re: odd number and even numbers

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
william- Monday, August 17, 2009, 12:37:42 PM, you wrote: > I started using mod and all kinds of weird math and I know there must be a > simple way. if x mod 2 is 1 then put "I'm odd" else put "I'm even" end if -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: odd number and even numbers

2009-08-17 Thread Colin Holgate
Another approach is to use Step in your repeat loop. See this: on test repeat with a = 1 to 10 step 2 put return & a*3 after msg put return & sqrt(a+1) after msg end repeat end test For odd numbers a*3 will be put, and for even numbers the square root of the number will be pu

Re: odd number and even numbers

2009-08-17 Thread william humphrey
That's even better. Thanks. Never heard of step. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Another approach is to use Step in your repeat loop. See this: > > on test > repeat with a = 1 to 10 step 2 > put return & a*3 after msg > put return & sqrt(a+1) after msg > end

Re: Why is Put not Putting?

2009-08-17 Thread Randall Lee Reetz
put (the number of words in txtToProcess) into TotWrds put 100 into Batches put (round(TotWrds/Batches)) into WrdsPerBatch repeat with PrcessChunkCnt 1 to (Batches+1) put "Now processing word "&((PrcessChunkCnt-1)*WrdsPerBatch) & " to " &(PrcessChunkCnt*(WrdsPerBatch) & " of " & TotWrds &"."

Re: Line wrapping

2009-08-17 Thread DunbarX
Mark: I see your point. But if this feature was implemented, you would have to be very careful to make sure your logical lines conformed to your visible lines, so you would know where to put line break chars. Craig In a message dated 8/17/09 3:40:12 PM, m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com writes

Re: Line wrapping

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Craig, It was implemented before and I used it a lot. That made it unnecessary to use line break chars. Hence my frustrations now. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Download Snapper Screen Recorder at http://sn

Re: Line wrapping

2009-08-17 Thread DunbarX
Mark. In an earlier Rev? So the line wrap automatically added a "\" at compile time? That reallyt would be useful. Craig In a message dated 8/17/09 4:40:50 PM, m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com writes: > Hi Craig, > > It was implemented before and I used it a lot. That made it  > unnecessary

Re: The 'window is behind the browser' problem

2009-08-17 Thread Derek Bump
Has the 'window behind the browser' problem been solved yet? My program uses a lot of dialog boxes, so they all appear behind the browser window, and I can't utilize the web feature until that's been fixed. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com ___

Re: The 'window is behind the browser' problem

2009-08-17 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Derek Bump wrote: > Has the 'window behind the browser' problem been solved yet? > > My program uses a lot of dialog boxes, so they all appear behind the > browser window, and I can't utilize the web feature until that's been fixed. RunRev put in a hack that makes

Re: Firefox works for revlet but not IE?

2009-08-17 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Sadhu Nadesan wrote: > > Yes, this issue seems to be at least some what 'user-environment' related. >  I tried a revlet app on my home web server (CentOS), from my home PC, which > is running Windows XP home, and both IE and Firefox worked ok.  Meanwhile on > my wor

Re: ANN: Economy-x-Talk releases the word game TwistAWord

2009-08-17 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> Economy-x-Talk has released a brand new game called TwistAWord. Goal of the > game is to create sentences from jumbled words, which form a saying or > expression. While this game is just fun to play, it also helps you improve > your language skills in eight different languages. > > TwistAWord is

Re: Line wrapping

2009-08-17 Thread stephen barncard
It's better for one to do one's own wrapping. for instance put field "myField" of cd "myCard" of stack "myStack" into field "myField2" of cd "nextCard" of stack "otherStack" is a horrible jumble of garbage to the eyes, but put\ field "myField" \ of cd "myCa

Rev Web plugin and new version of Firefox.

2009-08-17 Thread Alex Tweedly
Firefox is ready to update (to 3.5.2), but warns me that "This update will cause some of your extensions and/or themes to stop working until they are updated." Clicking "Show List" shows that "Revolution Web Plugin 0.1a.20090204" will be disabled. Is there a newer version available ? Which

Re: Line wrapping

2009-08-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Mark. In an earlier Rev? So the line wrap automatically added a "\" at compile time? Nope. All it did was turn off the "dontwrap" property of the script field. The display could become pretty messy, but you could see all of the text of long lines. I'm inclined to th

Re: Why is Put not Putting?

2009-08-17 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, On Mon, Aug 17, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Craig Newman wrote: OK. With a much larger amount of data, the field does not, in fact, load the text until the end of the handler. The "wait with messages" works like a charm. So is Gregory right? Does Rev blanch at the task upcoming, even

Re: Rev Web plugin and new version of Firefox.

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Monday, August 17, 2009, 5:04:19 PM, you wrote: > Is there a newer version available ? Which is compatible with FF 3.5.2 ? > If so, how do I get the updated version ? Works for me with 3.5.2. I never got that warning about the incompatibility, but maybe I picked up the plugin after updatin

Re: The 'window is behind the browser' problem

2009-08-17 Thread Sadhu Nadesan
Hi Sarah, Ok, thank you! Well, at least it's a known problem. I have a couple of apps which are currently deployed here at work as Windoz programs, but the users prefer browser apps - so sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for this to be addressed, so they can be wow'd. I did download th

Re: Firefox works for revlet but not IE?

2009-08-17 Thread Sadhu Nadesan
No solution, but for diagnostic purposes: Are you an admin user on both systems? If not, can you switch to admin to install the plugin? What happens if you access your home server's revlet from your work computer? And off-topic, an IT department not supporting Firefox is analogous to an IT depa

Re: Firefox works for revlet but not IE?

2009-08-17 Thread Sadhu Nadesan
Result: same thing, whether installed as admin, or used as admin, IE wants to re-download the plug in every time, so the revlet never runs, while Firefox just works 1) Am admin user on home PC, but not on work PC. Yes, I can try that. I ___ use-r

Text number conversion

2009-08-17 Thread Len Morgan
I'm talking to a microprocessor device using sockets and it returns a string like the following: 0,0x7BCC The first item is a status code and the number after the comma is the hex value expressed as ASCII characters. It will always be 4 digits. I can't seem to convert this into a number (us

Re: Text number conversion

2009-08-17 Thread stephen barncard
the x is just to show that it's a HEX 16 bit number just do a baseconvert on the 7B66 part. - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/8/17 Len Morgan > I'm talking to a microprocessor device using sockets and it returns a > string like the following: >

Re: Text number conversion

2009-08-17 Thread stephen barncard
put baseConvert("7B66",16,10) 31590 - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/8/17 stephen barncard > the x is just to show that it's a HEX 16 bit number > just do a baseconvert on the 7B66 part. > > - > Stephen Barncard > San

Radio buttons that don't look like radio buttons

2009-08-17 Thread David Glasgow
Revolutionaries, I have several cards containing many radio buttons, and want to have a summary screen which consists of an array of colour indicators reflecting the status of the scattered radio buttons. I remembered that many years ago I made some radio buttons that didn't look like ra

Use Of The Scroll Ball On The Mighty Mouse

2009-08-17 Thread Roger Guay
Does anyone know of a way to the use the scroll ball feature of the Apple Mighty Mouse and scroll wheels on other mouses (mice?) in RevTalk? TIA and cheers, Roger Guay ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Line wrapping

2009-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
stephen barncard wrote: It's better for one to do one's own wrapping. for instance put field "myField" of cd "myCard" of stack "myStack" into field "myField2" of cd "nextCard" of stack "otherStack" is a horrible jumble of garbage to the eyes, but put\ field "myField" \

Re: Line wrapping

2009-08-17 Thread stephen barncard
Somehow the mailer put spaces between each line of code. Obviously that won't compile but it does look right in the editors. - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/8/17 Richard Gaskin > stephen barncard wrote: > > It's better for one to do one's own

Re: Use Of The Scroll Ball On The Mighty Mouse

2009-08-17 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Roger Guay wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to the use the scroll ball feature of the > Apple Mighty Mouse and scroll wheels on other mouses (mice?) in RevTalk? Not sure about the Mighty Mouse but I think you want to trap the rawKeyDown message, yes? 65309 = scroll up (decrease scrol

[ann] Dictionary Plugin for Third Party Developers

2009-08-17 Thread Shao Sean
Well after zero beta testing I am ready to announce the release of the Dictionary Plugin for Third Party Developers. This plugin allows developers of third party add-ons to Runtime Revolution have their documentation displayed in the built-in Dictionary in a "Third Party" category. All thir