Re: Windows menu bars

Ron wrote: If its not too late, don't forget about the advantage of behaviors when adding all those menus. Maintaining one menuset and then parentscripting all the others has saved me lots of time when I need to change something in one of the menus. What I've done is to have zero scripts in

Re: The seconds and time zones

On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Folks There is another issue when using the seconds for a time stamp. If you record the seconds in a month outside summer time and translate the seconds to another format in a month in summer time or visa versa your result is an hou

Re: Windows menu bars

Jacque I was hoping for a better answer from someone as well. I ended up doing what you did in a similar situation. If its not too late, don't forget about the advantage of behaviors when adding all those menus. Maintaining one menuset and then parentscripting all the others has saved me l

Re: Open Database On-Rev Examples?

Hi Sarah, Nevermind. Once I checked my email, I found the confirmation link required to validate the account. You would think they would have said a little something about that when one signs up. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm looking at the database script examples now. Rick On Jan 26,

Re: Open Database On-Rev Examples?

Hi Sarah, I signed up for Splash21. When I tried to login, it keeps giving me a login error. I've tried it at least 12 times or more. The site isn't working correctly for some weird reason. Thanks, Rick On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: >> Does anyone have a good example o

Re: Open Database On-Rev Examples?

Hi Pierre, I'll take a look at this! Thanks, Rick On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: >> >> function MySQL_idesk_lib >> tparam1,tparam2,tparam3,tparam4,tparam5,tparam6,tparam7,tparam8,tparam9 >> put revOpenDatabase ("mysql","localhost","user","db_name","password") >> in

Re: The seconds and time zones

Hi Folks There is another issue when using the seconds for a time stamp. If you record the seconds in a month outside summer time and translate the seconds to another format in a month in summer time or visa versa your result is an hour wrong. So the engine is not working out if the date

[datagrid] how to search and show the result?

I built a simple list using datagrids, all goes fine. I chose to store data in the dg cache. Except, that in any text application, you'd expect the find command to work and display the results. Currently, the standard IDE search finds a test word in the dg cache of the datagrid. that's about it.

Re: The seconds and time zones

"The seconds" is exactly what I wanted. I needed a reliable way to tell when the user changed the record so I can sync the most recent changes. This discussion has been great. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information w

Re: Question on RevMobile

You guys are just too kind :-) My wife wont have to worry about my birthday or next Christmas ;-) On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > wait for my books on BeOS and the NewtonOS... Revolution will be > ubiquitous... > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Bernard Devlin > wrote:

Re: Windows menu bars

zryip theSlug wrote: Here is what I could do to have this menu in each of my documents. This is purely theoretical. 1) Creating of a substack in my project (as a kind of library) where I could create the main menu 2) Creating a button with some script to handle my menu bar. 3) Creating a parent

Re: [ANN] tRev Gets Better PDF Docs, Enhanced Scratch Pad Editing (video)

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: > Kay, > > I don't know what link you are using,... > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Jerry Daniels >> wrote: >> >> tRev users, >>> >>> Here's the link to a page with links to the Quickstart guide >>> and the Shortcuts. >>> >>> http://re

Re: Looking for volunteers to create Wikipedia on CD application

Hi David, David Bovill-3 wrote: > > I use it to move articles around between MediaWikis and > provide additional tools that MediaWiki does not have. > According to your description, this code looks like the startpoint for a commercial application for wiki administrators. ;-) David, Could you

Re: Open Database On-Rev Examples?

> Does anyone have a good example of opening a MySQL database on On-Rev > using a Rev stack on a local machine? I use the scripts from the Splash21 web site . If you sign up, you can download all the files. Cheers, Sarah __

Re: Open Database On-Rev Examples?

Hi Rick, Should this example help ? function MySQL_idesk_lib tparam1 ,tparam2,tparam3,tparam4,tparam5,tparam6,tparam7,tparam8,tparam9 put revOpenDatabase ("mysql","localhost","user","db_name","password") into myDatabaseID if myDatabaseID is not a number then return "There

Re: The seconds and time zones

it would depend on how each system handled their dates & times internally. I was looking at the ANSI C time routines and they start from Jan 1, 1970 GMT and there are functions to convert from localized and non- localized times.. ___ use-revolutio

Re: The seconds and time zones

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Shao Sean wrote: > Would an external work to suit these needs? It does not look overly complex > and I can see about getting access to a Windows box to code for that > platform.. Anyone willing to give me remote access to a Linux box to build > an external for the

Re: The seconds and time zones

Would an external work to suit these needs? It does not look overly complex and I can see about getting access to a Windows box to code for that platform.. Anyone willing to give me remote access to a Linux box to build an external for there? [anyone have an old Intel-based Mac they would

[ANN] ssMacWindows 1.6.1

What is new --- - removed the automatic proxy menu support and added in custom handling this allows the proxy menu to be used in Rev 2.8 or greater (including 4.5.0-dp-1) allows for proxy icon drag and drop to be in Rev 2.8 or greater (including 4.5.0-dp-1) - added new callback

Re: Looking for volunteers to create Wikipedia on CD application

Hi Mark, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Yeah, that was the one case I thought of where it might be useful to > have a static, albeit somewhat outdated, snapshot of the data. Of > course, considering that Wikipedia doesn't for the most part require > broadband access where dialup would do, the following

Open Database On-Rev Examples?

Hi there, Does anyone have a good example of opening a MySQL database on On-Rev using a Rev stack on a local machine? I've looked at the documentation thus far, and found it to not be adequate. I just keep getting the following message, which I believe is telling me that it just didn't connect a

Re: Is a file an image?

Taking a quick glimpse at Wikipedia suggests this should be pretty straightforward: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29#Magic_numbers_in_files Cheers, Malte___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: The seconds and time zones

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > Hang on :-)  I seem to remember Jacques saying recently that she'd > found that the internet date was more reliable across time zones than > storing seconds. It all depends what you want :-) The seconds translates to a date & time that d

Re: The seconds and time zones

stephen barncard wrote: Lots of great example stories in the issues of revUp. Unfortunately, they are not indexed or searchable, and it's a bear trying to find an old article. I only found this as it was deep within my own bookmarks. You can get some hints at http://www.runrev.com/developers/

Re: Rev and SnoLeo

I call bull***t! Bob On Jan 25, 2010, at 11:25 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > "to save time, Snow Leopard doesn't quit programs the way it used to - it > kills them. It checks to see if they have unsaved documents or un-backed-up > preference setting changes first, of course. But if not, it issues a ki

Re: RevLive09 DVD Set & Session resources

jac...@hyperactivesw.com on January 26, 2010 at 11:33 AM -0800 wrote: >Stewart -- I've lost track of what the url should be and which files >were on the server. I don't have a copy of the DVD to check, so could >you contact me off list and we can figure it out? I know...I was an >idiot. Go ahead

Re: Re: [Ann] Build your own games

thanks JB! Hope you enjoy dissecting the sources. :-) All the best, Malte > Thanks Malte > > Showing every aspect of creating a commercial application in Rev > alone is worth the money > and then to provide the code, artwork & sounds too plus allowing > people to use it royalty free > to ma

Re: Windows menu bars

2010/1/26 J. Landman Gay : > I need to open multiple documents that share the same menu bar. On Mac I can > just set the default menubar. What do most of you do for Windows? > > I'm not too keen on putting up a toolbar like Rev does. Is there any other > way? I think the answer is "no" but maybe so

Re: Is a file an image?

I think you could write a XPlat solution by analyzing the first few bytes of the file. Those should contain some header information. Though I must admit I did not try that yet. Cheers, Malte___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.

Re: Is a file an image?

If you're going to be making the judgment based on the extension, why don't you just put the possibilities in a switch/case statement and take care of it locally? -- Alex Adams hawkVision ‹ tools for solving Wicked Problems (a)2 Technology Partners, Inc. 831-726-8013 a...@a2tecnology.com www.a2t

Re: The seconds and time zones

Did anyone comment on Mark Waddingham's time solution using iRev? http://runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue71/newsletter2.php I thought it was brilliant. Lots of great example stories in the issues of revUp. Unfortunately, they are not indexed or searchable, and it's a bear trying to find an old ar

Is a file an image?

I've just dug out this very old and pretty untested script for detecting whether a file is an image. Seems to sort of work on OSX - included here for insiration :) Does anyone know a better way to do this? function file_GetType filePath >switch the platform > case "MacOS" > put

Re: Looking for volunteers to create Wikipedia on CD application

2010/1/25 Alejandro Tejada > David Bovill wrote: > > > Not sure if it is any use - but I can offer code for reading and writing > to > > WikiPedia from Rev - it is not a complete library - but a good start. > > Your code reads and write to Wikipedia. > Did you use this code as an automatic bot >

Presumably . . . 4.5 dp-1 ???

Presumably while those who attended the Edinburgh developers' conference recieved Studio 4.0 as part of the package that did not include further updates and developer previews? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visi

Windows menu bars

I need to open multiple documents that share the same menu bar. On Mac I can just set the default menubar. What do most of you do for Windows? I'm not too keen on putting up a toolbar like Rev does. Is there any other way? I think the answer is "no" but maybe some of you have an ingenius solut

Re: RevLive09 DVD Set & Session resources

RevList wrote: What I am saying is that I got the DVDs today and have been watching some of the sessions. Many of them use sample files that are no longer available on the web site links that are referenced in the videos. I would like to have these so that I can look at the scripts just as they

Re: The seconds and time zones

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Bernard Devlin wrote: >> >> I'll be glad if Jacque (no s) confirms this. It will make my life easier. >> >> I was sure she had recommended internet date. > > Nope, it was Richard. But I guarantee that anything Sarah or Richard says > about t

Revlet updates don't clear the cache

When I update the Revlet and html files the browser (Safari on the Mac but maybe others too) still runs the old one in its cache even if I reload the page and quit Safari. The only way I can run the updated Revlet is the reset Safari cache from the Safari menu. Are there options to make this w

Re: The seconds and time zones

Bernard Devlin wrote: I'll be glad if Jacque (no s) confirms this. It will make my life easier. I was sure she had recommended internet date. Nope, it was Richard. But I guarantee that anything Sarah or Richard says about time calcs is correct. ;) Regarding the seconds: when I was hosting t

Re: stack corrupted, loads on 4.0 but not on 4.5

Richard Gaskin wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: anyone here has a clue on how to recover from a corrupted stack. Rev 4.5.0-dp-1 refuses to open it but Rev 4.0 loves it just like I do. don't want to revert to a previous version of the stack or of rev if possible, anyone knows how to solve this? I wo

AW: stack corrupted, loads on 4.0 but not on 4.5

Hi Andre, good to hear you have a not too old backup As having worked for years with Toolbook I can say that we are really lucky with RunRev where stack corruption almost is an exotic phenomenon - I havn't had any yet. But with the older (up to two years ago) versions of Toolbook file corruption al

Re: stack corrupted, loads on 4.0 but not on 4.5

It is not regression, it was working fine on 4.5 then, after a save, close and reopen, it stopped working saying it was corrupted. I tried loading on 4.0 to see if it was indeed corrupted, it worked fine but it stopped loading on 4.5. I use mercurial to manage my source code, so I reverted back to

is the platform on 64bit windows systems also win32?

Hi, I just wonder if this is actually so, as stated above? Actually I havn't thought about this up to now and just got a bit unsure, because I also haven't found an answer in the archives. Can anybody confirm my presumption because I don't have a 64Bit system on hand. Thank you Tiemo

Re: stack corrupted, loads on 4.0 but not on 4.5

Andre Garzia wrote: anyone here has a clue on how to recover from a corrupted stack. Rev 4.5.0-dp-1 refuses to open it but Rev 4.0 loves it just like I do. don't want to revert to a previous version of the stack or of rev if possible, anyone knows how to solve this? I would email it to support

Spinning whell

Hello, I have uploaded my first contribution for the community on RevOnline : Spinning wheel : a [white] Asynchronous Progress Indicator > Macintosh X interface... Bons souvenirs de Paris René___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.co

Re: stack corrupted, loads on 4.0 but not on 4.5

OMG, how funny it is that everybody has had the same issues at one point or another. I did the same thing...except I'm still using HC here for one application... On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:41, Kee Nethery wrote: > Long ago in Hypercard I built a stack that opens a damaged stack and pulls > as m

Re: stack corrupted, loads on 4.0 but not on 4.5

Long ago in Hypercard I built a stack that opens a damaged stack and pulls as much as possible out of it and into a second stack. I'd create each card, and then create each button and field, and grab each attribute and script. Very tedious but it created a brand new exact duplicate. Whatever was

Re: The seconds and time zones

Jacques Hausser wrote: Be careful with the spelling ! Jacques has a beard, smokes pipe, likes brussel sprouts (oups, sorry) and is definitively different from Jacque... I'm getting a beard too, but I pluck it out. No pipe though. It wasn't me that mentioned the internet time, I think it was R

Re: The seconds and time zones

On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: There is an unfortunate implication with this: because the engine needs to be restarted to update the GMT offset of its internal clock, this means that automatic changes to time zones like moving from PST to PDT will be ignored by the engi

stack corrupted, loads on 4.0 but not on 4.5

Hello Folks, anyone here has a clue on how to recover from a corrupted stack. Rev 4.5.0-dp-1 refuses to open it but Rev 4.0 loves it just like I do. don't want to revert to a previous version of the stack or of rev if possible, anyone knows how to solve this? Thanks in advance anre -- http://w

Re: The seconds and time zones

I'll be glad if Jacque (no s) confirms this. It will make my life easier. I was sure she had recommended internet date. Bernard On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:12 PM, wrote: > Yes. > > The seconds returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. And this is in > GMT, or standard universal time. So a

re: The seconds and time zones

Jacques Hausser (who is not Jacque) wrote: > But I can nevertheless say that I did set my computer (Mac OS X) > to different time zones and the seconds didn't change accordingly... > they seem trustable within a computer. The engine's internal clock is initialized when the engine starts up, so

Re: [Ann] Build your own games

Thanks Malte Showing every aspect of creating a commercial application in Rev alone is worth the money and then to provide the code, artwork & sounds too plus allowing people to use it royalty free to make their own version of the game is as good as it gets. You got my money! -=>JB<=-

Re: [Ann] Build your own games

Yes I figured it out when it appeared to me and I saw you grinning :D On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: > Andre wrote: > > for example, replace that damn cheating code that Malte put there so that > > you'd have a "special bonus oportunity" but it always happens with

Re: [Ann] Build your own games

Andre wrote: > for example, replace that damn cheating code that Malte put there so that > you'd have a "special bonus oportunity" but it always happens with the most > difficult colors and the ones you have less... Lol. You figured it out. :-) ___ use-re

Re: [Ann] Build your own games

for example, replace that damn cheating code that Malte put there so that you'd have a "special bonus oportunity" but it always happens with the most difficult colors and the ones you have less... On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Shao Sean wrote: > Nifty idea.. now people like me can see how th

Re: [ANN] tRev Gets Better PDF Docs, Enhanced Scratch Pad Editing (video)

Kay, Go to http://reveditor.com and click on the Quickstart link on the right side of the page. I don't know what link you are using, but I did have to change the URL once last week. Your page may need refreshing. You can also go to the docs from the help menu in the latest tRev. Best,

Re: [Ann] Build your own games

Nifty idea.. now people like me can see how things work and either put in features we always wanted or to get a piece of our own puzzle working.. -Sean ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscrib

Re: The seconds and time zones

Yes. The seconds returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. And this is in GMT, or standard universal time. So any computer anywhere will always read the same number of seconds, provided their own time is correct. With that you can perform identical calculations as needed. craig Newman _

[Ann] Build your own games

Hi all, As you know my company has been writing games for quite a while. Using our animationEngine, we have been able to create fast, fun, award-winning games using Revolution. However, recent changes in our business plan do not leave enough time to continue our game efforts. Most revenue comes

Re: The seconds and time zones

Be careful with the spelling ! Jacques has a beard, smokes pipe, likes brussel sprouts (oups, sorry) and is definitively different from Jacque... But I can nevertheless say that I did set my computer (Mac OS X) to different time zones and the seconds didn't change accordingly... they seem trusta

Re: Question on RevMobile

wait for my books on BeOS and the NewtonOS... Revolution will be ubiquitous... On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > This is like a "Kay Back Machine", right :-) I have some OS/2 books I > can send you so they can start working on Revolution for OS/2. > > http://www.archive.

Re: HTML Editor

I had to shout out "Thank you, Eric" last week (to the bemusement of the assembled company). I was trying to create a popup menu within a field, whilst maintaining the selection within the field, and it just seemed impossible. I searched the list and there was Eric with the surprisingly simple an

Re: Question on RevMobile

This is like a "Kay Back Machine", right :-) I have some OS/2 books I can send you so they can start working on Revolution for OS/2. http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Bernard On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > If anyone wants Rev 4.0 Linux or Classic engines please email me o

Re: The seconds and time zones

Hang on :-) I seem to remember Jacques saying recently that she'd found that the internet date was more reliable across time zones than storing seconds. I'm sure Jacques will be along soon to give us details or tell me (ever so politely) that I'm wrong. Bernard On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:25 AM,