specialFolderPath() on Linux?

2009-10-05 Thread Phil Davis
The docs say these specialFolderPath() keywords are valid for Unix: Home: The current user's home directory (e.g. /home/fred) Desktop: The current user's desktop (e.g. /home/fred/Desktop) Temporary: For storage of temporary files (typically /tmp) Can anyone please tell me:

Re: specialFolderPath() on Linux?

2009-10-05 Thread Ian Wood
I thought Linux didn't have a specific location for preferences in that way? Ian On 5 Oct 2009, at 07:48, Phil Davis wrote: I'm looking for a Linux equivalent to Mac's specialFolderPath(preferences). ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: specialFolderPath() on Linux?

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Ian Wood-3 wrote: I thought Linux didn't have a specific location for preferences in that way? No, it does not. They are per user. Put them in /home/user/.myapp the dot to keep invisible. Have a look at /home/user/.kde for an example. Peter -- View this message in context:

Richmond's Sanskrit Typewriter

2009-10-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I am well into my Beta 2 cycle, and, for those who are interested, there are a couple of screenshots here: http://mathewson.110mb.com/midmad.html Having got over the hurdles associated with unicode I am just churning my way through boring, repetive code. Just as soon as we see a fully

Is RevWebPlayer *PPC* rotten?!

2009-10-05 Thread Dom
It's in the title ;-) More thoroughly: I downloaded RevMedia4 (at least) and tried to upload on the web a little didactic stack (International Units) I had a number of woes with revwebplayer *PPC* sometimes (rarely) it worked*, and afterwards I was unable to read the web page... Safari was

Re: Is RevWebPlayer *PPC* rotten?!

2009-10-05 Thread Ian Wood
On 5 Oct 2009, at 11:38, Dom wrote: pointed out that there were _several_ instances of revwebplayer running simultaneously -- and it was the reason why it crashed! From what I can remember from comments on this list, multiple instances of the plugin running tends to mean that you had an

Re: Re: set the textStyle to not bold

2009-10-05 Thread Beat Cornaz
Thanks for all your input. Interesting to get to know some more about HTML. But I think I have to approach what I want from a different angle. I want to mark some parts of a formatted text and be able to get the star- and end character positions of these parts of the text. When I delete

it would be nice... to hear from runrev!

2009-10-05 Thread Robert Maniquant
I wonder whether it is the nature of things, dealing with computers and programs, but, runrev communication is a little bit like apple.. in the bad sense of it. Ok we're a month behind announced launch, this is understandable, but it would be nice to have some news from runrev so that we can

Re: Is RevWebPlayer *PPC* rotten?!

2009-10-05 Thread Dom
Ian Wood revl...@azurevision.co.uk wrote: From what I can remember from comments on this list, multiple instances of the plugin running tends to mean that you had an old copy of the plugin installed and didn't get rid of it before installing the current 'beta' version. Nope. before

Re: set the textStyle to not bold

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Beat wrote: Thanks for all your input. Interesting to get to know some more about HTML. But I think I have to approach what I want from a different angle. I want to mark some parts of a formatted text and be able to get the star- and end character positions of these parts of the text.

Re: set the textStyle to not bold

2009-10-05 Thread Björnke von Gierke
for links that got clicked, there is a message: linkClicked and it gets the content of the link's name as parameter, so for example: on linckClicked theLink if theLink begins with http then revgourl theLink else beep end if end linkClicked On 5 Oct 2009, at 16:42, Richard Gaskin

3D in Revolution Needs Your Help

2009-10-05 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hello all, Several months ago we set up a team to create Franklin 3D, after talking with quite a few Revolution users about a founder's program. Franklin 3D adds a powerful 3D game engine to Revolution. This is all following conversations Ive had over the last several years (quite a bit at the

No returns in my text file

2009-10-05 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I create a password file, I put a list of passwords, one password per line (with returns). I call it genuine file name on my on-rev server Running my first irev (on-rev) routine, I execute the command : put URL genuine file name on my on-rev server into GVPassTable Instead of

Re: No returns in my text file

2009-10-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Francis, Windows and Unix use different line endings. Probably, you need to do one of the following: replace cr with crlf in GVPassTable replace numToChar(13) with cr in GVPassTable or a variant of one of these lines. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and

Re: specialFolderPath() on Linux?

2009-10-05 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks gentlemen! That's what I needed. Phil Peter Alcibiades wrote: Ian Wood-3 wrote: I thought Linux didn't have a specific location for preferences in that way? No, it does not. They are per user. Put them in /home/user/.myapp the dot to keep invisible. Have a look at

No RETURNs in your text file

2009-10-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Look up CR and CRLF in the Built-in documentation. You will find that your problem basically revolves around a conflict between whichever Operating system the document was authored on and which Operating system RunRev is working on when the document is read into your stack.

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: http://www.ovomaltineforever.com.br/ Cripes, I am getting cheesed-off with the ubiquitous Flash. I don't mind Flash, but splash pages went out with 2002 and that one runs wy too long even by 20th century standards. Jared Spool of UIE offers a

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: http://www.ovomaltineforever.com.br/ Cripes, I am getting cheesed-off with the ubiquitous Flash. I don't mind Flash, but splash pages went out with 2002 and that one runs wy too long even by 20th century standards. Jared Spool

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, can you show us a shot of your welcome screen? I like screen shots... cheers andre On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Richmond wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: http://www.ovomaltineforever.com.br/ Cripes, I am getting

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, can you show us a shot of your welcome screen? I like screen shots... I don't know about Richard's welcome screens: here's one of mine: http://mathewson.110mb.com/welcome.html cheers andre On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Richard Gaskin

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Andre Garzia
I like that texture! and the graphics are really cool! way to go Richmond! :D On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, can you show us a shot of your welcome screen? I like screen shots... I don't know about

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, can you show us a shot of your welcome screen? I like screen shots... Personally I don't like the ones in my shipping products, and the good ones are in either alpha or beta and can't be shown publicly for a few more weeks. I'll drop you an email offline so you

Re: Telnet Shell Help

2009-10-05 Thread RevList
Tariel Gogoberidze tar...@mac.com on October 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM -0700 wrote: Stewart, I'm attaching Telnet stack written many years ago by Scot Roney (the person from whom Rev bought the engine). It may or may not work for you, but it would give you some ideas Thanks. The stack works great so

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Ha! Timing is everything! I am doing an extreme makeover here on my most used application! I will let you know more as I finish it. Cheers andre On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, can you show us a shot of your

Re: No returns in my text file

2009-10-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Hi from Paris, I create a password file, I put a list of passwords, one password per line (with returns). I call it  genuine file name on my on-rev server Running my first irev (on-rev) routine, I execute the

Re: Is RevWebPlayer *PPC* rotten?!

2009-10-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I downloaded RevMedia4 (at least) and tried to upload on the web a little didactic stack (International Units) I had a number of woes with revwebplayer *PPC* sometimes (rarely) it worked*, and afterwards I was unable to read the web page... Safari was totally blocked, mandatory force-quit

MacTech bundle

2009-10-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Congratulations to RunRev on getting involved with MacTech https://www.mactech.com/phpq/fillsurvey.php?sid=120 Hopefully this will lead to a new bunch of Rev users. Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

RE: Telnet Shell Help

2009-10-05 Thread Jim Bufalini
Don't know specifically about telnet but the way to issue multiple lines of commands in shell is to use So... Shell(Telnet 192.168.168.19 333 ...each line of the shell followed by ... ... From Rev the must be in quotes. So you might need quotequote in your shell command. Aloha from

RE: Revolution on 64 Bit Windows

2009-10-05 Thread Jim Bufalini
Did you try right-clicking and running it as administrator? If that works, change its rights. -Original Message- From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of RevList Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 8:44 AM To: How to use

Re: 3D in Revolution Needs Your Help

2009-10-05 Thread Judy Perry
It sounds interesting, Lynn, but as a Mac user (and a currently unemployed one at that!), I'm kinda hard-pressed to pre-order something that I'm unable to kick the tires on. Perhaps others have similar dilemmas? Best regards for the project! Judy On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Lynn Fredricks wrote:

Re: Is RevWebPlayer *PPC* rotten?!

2009-10-05 Thread Shao Sean
When I was on my older Mac running Tiger PPC, the plugin worked without a hitch.. I moved over to a less older Mac running Leopard and the plugin did not work.. Clean install, plugin never installed, both Macs running Safari 4.. -Sean www.RevDevelop.com - post your Rev site or software

RE: 3D in Revolution Needs Your Help

2009-10-05 Thread Lynn Fredricks
It sounds interesting, Lynn, but as a Mac user (and a currently unemployed one at that!), I'm kinda hard-pressed to pre-order something that I'm unable to kick the tires on. Perhaps others have similar dilemmas? Hi Judy, Those who I originally talked with were fine with the Windows

Re: 3D in Revolution Needs Your Help

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Yennie
Lynn, Perhaps it would be worth re-thinking the founders formula based on how far the product is from release. Hearing that a Mac release only compiles tells me that the product is more like an early alpha at this point than a beta. Don't get me wrong - I'm sure the work to date is a