OT: HIG and Usability - KDE 4.3

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Anyone with an interest in app usability and the desktop should take a look at the latest KDE release. The Kubuntu live version is a reasonable source. It is very different indeed. Easy to use once learned, not necessarily instantly inutuitive ways of working. But what is funny is, once

Re: OT: HIG and Usability - KDE 4.3

2009-10-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Anyone with an interest in app usability and the desktop should take a look at the latest KDE release. The Kubuntu live version is a reasonable source. It is very different indeed. Easy to use once learned, not necessarily instantly inutuitive ways of working. But

Re: How to filter a big list

2009-10-23 Thread Jérôme Rosat
David, Yes, it is right. But I have noticed that the display of the list in the field takes time. I made tests by displaying the result of the filtering only after having typed the third letter and it is enough fast for not slow down the typing of the user. Jerome Rosat Le 21 oct. 2009

Getting mouseColor from outside the app window

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Stallibrass
Hi, I want to sample the color under the cursor and am using set the cursor to cross repeat until the mouseClick set the backgroundColor of graphic sample to the mouseColor put the mouseColor into fld rgb end repeat set the cursor to arrow This works fine within

Re: Getting mouseColor from outside the app window

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Kevin, It is a bit slow, but it works: function screenMouseColor theH,theV if number of items of theH is 2 then put item 2 of theH into theV put item 1 of theH into theH end if lock screen import snapshot from rectangle the screenrect put the long

Re: Getting mouseColor from outside the app window

2009-10-23 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Timers are your friend. This works on my mac: In a button: on mouseUp set the uPoll of me to not the uPoll of me if the uPoll of me then pollColor end mouseUp on pollColor put the mousecolor if the uPoll of me then send pollColor to me in 40 millisecs end pollColor Click to start,

Re: Getting mouseColor from outside the app window

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
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Re: Getting mouseColor from outside the app window

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Right, how can I forget about the mouseColor... Must be friday afternoon. Thanks Malte! Btw, I haven't said this yet: congratulations with AE3! Very impressive as always! I really love what you do with the bouncing effect (or is it called gravity effect) in your demos. -- Best regards,

Re: How to filter a big list

2009-10-23 Thread DunbarX
Yesterday I went back to an old HC stack that filtered just such a list. I tried a Rev version of it on a list of 400,000 lines and it seems to run reasonably responsively. If this has already been dealt with better, then just ignore... There is a search field and another field named results.

DataGrid Question

2009-10-23 Thread Charles Szasz
Using the RevList and Rev tutorials I have gone through examples of a DataGrid being used to display information from a file. I have not seen any examples of where the user enters the information in an app to get it displayed in a DataGrid. If anyone has any simple examples of using DataGrid in

[ANN] tRev Feature Friday - 5 new features; video

2009-10-23 Thread Jerry Daniels
If it's a Friday it's... FEATURE FRIDAY! - Object Browser has buttons beneath each column (Go To, Close, Delete, Visible) - Object Browser has short short-cuts (g,c,d,v--no mod key needed) - Object Browser shows line totals beneath each column - Auto-complete is case-insensitive - All Rev

Re: How to filter a big list

2009-10-23 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Jim, Le 22 oct. 2009 à 05:41, Jim Ault a écrit : your asking a lot of a chunking function to scan a large body of text between key strokes. Start with the following steps to see if these help. -1- Showing a list of more than 50 hits may not be useful Good idea. -2- Doing an filter

Re: How to filter a big list

2009-10-23 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Alex, Thank you for your message. I'm not very at ease with messages and the command send but I will test your code. I think it is the good way to not slow down the typing of the user. Jerome Rosat Le 23 oct. 2009 à 00:33, Alex Tweedly a écrit : Would it be practical to break your list

Applescript, do command and ten statement problem

2009-10-23 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, With rev 2.9.1 I write an applescript to import pictures on an xpress file (i've thousand of pictures to put in it, in different pictures box). It's in a fld and with Rev i change some values to make a loop and import all pictures. The script works but after nine loops it fail

Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Heather Nagey
Dear Folks, Thought you might all enjoy this: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46237 Feel free to vote and comment on it, I'm sure the author would be pleased. Warm Regards, Heather Heather Nagey Customer Services Manager Runtime Revolution Ltd http://www.runrev.com follow me

Re: How to filter a big list

2009-10-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jérôme Rosat wrote: Alex, Thank you for your message. I'm not very at ease with messages and the command send but I will test your code. I think it is the good way to not slow down the typing of the user. IMO well worth the time to try it. Alex Tweedly regularly comes up with non-obvious

Re: how to preserve character set encoding when creating a text file?

2009-10-23 Thread Devin Asay
On Oct 22, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote: Thanks Joe, we will peruse that, I wonder who wrote it? These lessons don't have bylines. When we figure out I will post the solution so nobody ever has to go through this hassle again. On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Joe F. wrote: They've

Re: How to filter a big list

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Jérôme- Friday, October 23, 2009, 8:51:18 AM, you wrote: If some body in the list is looking for a file with names and address (400K lines), I create a file with french name, French, Spanish, Italians, Portuguese first name and address of Geneva in Switzerland. It is possible to download

Re: How to filter a big list

2009-10-23 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Mark, My text file is a raw file. When I open a stack, I create a simpler tab list. Your code is much better for the 1 to 3 chars. But, if the name you search is at the end of the list (for example rosat) it takes more time than my code. Jerome Rosat Le 23 oct. 2009 à 19:13, Mark

Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread DunbarX
Richard. I have a field with this in its script: on keydown var dispatch keydown to this stack with var end keydown If I type into the field, no text appears. Just like my issue with send, keyDown is not passed to the engine. How did you make yours work? Craig

FTP Files To Server

2009-10-23 Thread Warren Kuhl
I am running into a weird situation. I have been uploading a backup of a database to a server and everything was working file. I decided to change my host to hostgator.com and updated my program to reflect the changes. Now, instead of my database backup, I am getting the path of the datafile

Re: FTP Files To Server

2009-10-23 Thread Jim Ault
try put url (binfile: gInitialFolder / az.bk) into url turl On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Warren Kuhl wrote: I am running into a weird situation. I have been uploading a backup of a database to a server and everything was working file. I decided to change my host to hostgator.com and

Re: FTP Files To Server

2009-10-23 Thread Warren Kuhl
Jim, Thanks...this worked! Appreciate your help! Warren On 10/23/09, Jim Ault jimaultw...@yahoo.com wrote: try put url (binfile: gInitialFolder / az.bk) into url turl On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Warren Kuhl wrote: I am running into a weird situation. I have been uploading a

Re: Applescript, do command and ten statement problem

2009-10-23 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 23 oct. 2009 à 18:10, Ludovic Thébault a écrit : Hello, With rev 2.9.1 I write an applescript to import pictures on an xpress file (i've thousand of pictures to put in it, in different pictures box). It's in a fld and with Rev i change some values to make a loop and import all

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richard. I have a field with this in its script: on keydown var dispatch keydown to this stack with var end keydown If I type into the field, no text appears. Just like my issue with send, keyDown is not passed to the engine. How did you make yours work? Craig

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread DunbarX
Richard and Richmond: The R word notwithstanding, I am working with the send and dispatch commands as they pertain to the keyDown message. I have had no luck getting these messages to the engine, however hard I try. I am trapping keyDown for other purposes, but then want to pass it along so it

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:57 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: send keydown tKeyJustPressed to this stack dispatch keydown to this stack with tKeyJustPressed Might there be potential security issues if those could work? Meanwhile, can you not just do a pass keydown?

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Craig- Friday, October 23, 2009, 11:15:13 AM, you wrote: If I type into the field, no text appears. Just like my issue with send, keyDown is not passed to the engine. Of course it is. Place a keydown handler in the stack and you'll see. But how do you expect text to get into the field?

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread DunbarX
Hi Colin. Passing works just fine, but terminates the handler. I wanted to send keydown to the engine pretty much in the first line, which would make it write the char to the field. and then proceed with the remainder of the handler, working with the already visible text in that field. This

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread DunbarX
Mark. Thanks for the reply. No problem with passing keydown, wherever it appears. Or explicitly putting the character after the field. I just wanted to understand why explicitly sending the message fails. Purely academic at this point. Craig Newman In a message dated 10/23/09 3:03:33 PM,

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I thought I would be 'clever' having read what the Documentation says about DISPATCH and did this: on keyDown var dispatch keydown with var end keyDown and fell foul of a recursion problem. I quote from a user-note contributed by somebody called OLIVER (Hello, Oliver, are you reading this?

Re: How to filter a big list

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Jérôme- Friday, October 23, 2009, 10:55:26 AM, you wrote: Your code is much better for the 1 to 3 chars. But, if the name you search is at the end of the list (for example rosat) it takes more time than my code. Well, of course. There's no rosat in the data set, so you have to go through the

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
DunbarX wrote: No problem with passing keydown, wherever it appears. Or explicitly putting the character after the field. I just wanted to understand why explicitly sending the message fails. Purely academic at this point. As I wrote earlier, there is an inconsistency with the way send and

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Craig- Friday, October 23, 2009, 12:13:13 PM, you wrote: No problem with passing keydown, wherever it appears. Or explicitly putting the character after the field. I just wanted to understand why explicitly sending the message fails. Purely academic at this point. If you mean explicitly

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Heather- Friday, October 23, 2009, 9:22:53 AM, you wrote: Dear Folks, Thought you might all enjoy this: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46237 Feel free to vote and comment on it, I'm sure the author would be pleased. ROTFL. I just read Colin's comment... -- -Mark Wieder

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Jerry Daniels
Great article, but almost impossible to read with those colors...others find that? Or am I going blind? Best, Jerry Daniels Watch tRev - The Movie http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie On Oct 23, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Heather- Friday, October 23, 2009, 9:22:53 AM, you wrote:

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jerry Daniels wrote: Great article, but almost impossible to read with those colors...others find that? Or am I going blind? That's sort of how I feel about colorized scripts. :P At any rate, except for the links which are blue, the text is black on a white background for me in Firefox. What

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
I would comment on this as the most visually challenged individual on this or probably ANY list, but I read it with my normal difficulty without noticing where this one was worse than all of the others I encounter. Of course I always magnify things so that they fill my large screen, which

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Jerry Daniels
Blue on blue in Safari. Best, Jerry Daniels Watch tRev - The Movie http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:56 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Jerry Daniels wrote: Great article, but almost impossible to read with those colors...others find that? Or am I going blind? That's

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Jerry Daniels
The HC heritage does not help sales of Rev, IMO. In some quarters it could hurt as HC was regarded as light-weight by many developers and tech journalists in its time. Best, Jerry Daniels Watch tRev - The Movie http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie On Oct 23, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Joe Lewis

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Jerry Daniels
OK...I just checked the article again and it's as my friend Jacque described it. Now readable. I must have caught the site between refreshes or something. Best, Jerry Daniels Watch tRev - The Movie http://reveditor.com/trev-the-movie On Oct 23, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: Blue

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins pepe...@cox.net wrote: I would comment on this as the most visually challenged individual on this or probably ANY list, but I read it with my normal difficulty without noticing where this one was worse than all of the others I encounter. Of

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Jim Ault
Funny perturbation effect... once Colin's comment is added to the web page, his script no longer works.. why? Because his script posting becomes the first 'hit' in the offset() function, which does not contain the captcha string of words He needs to change the posted script to something so

Re: Nice article series in NetWorkWorld

2009-10-23 Thread Colin Holgate
That is pretty funny! We could take forever to solve that. Aside from trying to be cute, it was meant to show how near English handling URLs and strings could be. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

RevMedia Portable

2009-10-23 Thread capellan
Hi all, Reading news about RevMedia launching in November, I will repeat the same question from days ago: When RunRev will launch RevMedia as a portable application, that run from a PenDrive or CD, without installation? Notice that some third party developers, devote themselves to create