Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Shao Sean wrote: > Have you tried setting the unicodeTitle of the stack window? Yes, and that doesn't work either. I finally solved it by using Scott's suggestion and putting the player into a separate stack but this is a very kludgy work-around, so the problem r

AW: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
I just don't have a machine on hand, which reproduces the problem, perhaps somebody else can check? In my case it is a videoplayer, which I can't switch easily to a substack without bigger redesign... Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailt

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
I think it is important to continue to support Linux for a few reasons. First, it makes a great statement about the ability for Rev to be truly multi-platform. I remember a rep from Borland a long time ago claiming they were multi-platform because they supported a couple of flavors of Windows. T

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Regardless of the opportunities or lack thereof one may see with the world's fastest-growing OS Here's a good point, RunRev should put effort into OSes based on how fast they are growing. For example: Linux grew from

Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Shao Sean
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Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Regardless of the opportunities or lack thereof one may see with the world's fastest-growing OS Here's a good point, RunRev should put effort into OSes based on how fast they are growing. For example: Linux grew from zero to >30 mill

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: How many users of this list think that RunRev are wasting their time, effort and limited resources continuing development of a Linux version ? Count me among them. In the "iPadding arou

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > BSD Unix is no longer BSD, although the first renditions were. > I don't believe there are any more bits and pieces of BSD in > Apple's most recent offerings. True, but how far do you think NeXT would have gotten if they had to write it from scratch? Which do we Mac folks

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Pierre Sahores
Sarah, I never used Rev under the Linux platform to code desktop GUI apps and can't say more on this subject. On the other hand, i had to deliver abour 20 production web / ria application's servers over the last 15 years and, appart one deployed under OS X 10.3.9 and two under Solaris 9 a

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > As usual I have managed to offend more than one group of people at a time. I > don't suppose you know molecular biology too? That would be a double-dipper! > ;-) My grand goal in life is to offend ten distinct groups of people in one > sent

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Andre Garzia
well, linux has gone to many places including mobile appliances, servers and many desktops. I am at a conference with 6.000 most of them running free software... My goverment is using free software to power our elections, the source code of the eletronic machines is available, that adds a lot of

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Bruce Robertson
On Jan 28, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Bob, > > Linux has something very big to offer, freedom and source code. Never > underestimate the power of that combination. Why not? Hasn't gone anywhere yet. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-re

Last Chance to Pick up Valentina Reports for Free With Upgrade

2010-01-28 Thread Lynn Fredricks
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Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Bob, uhuahuaahuhau I am not offended at all!!! Did I sound offended? Sorry, it is 10:40 PM and I am camping at Campus Party IT event with 6.000 geeks who do not take showers and make noise all time, sorry if I sound tired! :D Cheers andre On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >

Re: DataGrid DragDrop vs DragMove

2010-01-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Part of why it's a bit tricky to wrap your brain around datagrids, at least initially, is because their internal workings are not immediately obvious, and so we don't "see" why the code we use to work with them does what it does. A normal Revolution object is just an object with certain propert

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 29 Jan 2010, at 01:17, Andre Garzia wrote: > Now, on the BeOS front, check out http://haiku-os.org if you feel inclined > download the Alpha 1 to run on VMWare or VirtualBox and check the network > panel (preflet), I was the coder for that thing! :D I'll install it as soon as there's a Rev en

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
As usual I have managed to offend more than one group of people at a time. I don't suppose you know molecular biology too? That would be a double-dipper! ;-) My grand goal in life is to offend ten distinct groups of people in one sentence! Bob On Jan 28, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Bob, Linux has something very big to offer, freedom and source code. Never underestimate the power of that combination. If apple goes the way of the dodo, we're all lost no matter how many developers we get, we don't have the source to Mac OS X or the freedom to change it to suit our needs. Now,

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
>> Lest we forget, where would we be without publicly-funded software? OS X is >> BSD at its core, created at publicly-funded UC Berkeley. And the first web >> browser, Mosaic, which spawned Navigator and ultimately Mozilla's Firefox, >> began life at the publicly-funded NCSA. > > I think I mus

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I side with Sarah. Linux is and has always been faced with that odd paradox of any OS, and that is how to get enough developers on board developing for an OS that may or may not succeed. People will not use an OS that doesn't have the apps they need. Developers will not develop for an OS that do

Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > >> Has anyone managed to find a work-around to the problem with a stack's >> title being reduced to a single character under Windows, if there is a >> player on the card? This is proving a real blocker for me a

Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Thanks Chris, this was in one of the bug reports and I did try in, but not in a startup handler, so I'll give it a go there. Cheers, Sarah On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > I believe this is the workaround we used: > >        set the revruntimebehaviour to

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Richmond Mathewson wrote: >> >> How many users of this list think that RunRev are wasting their time, >> effort and limited >> resources continuing development of a Linux version ? > > Count me among them. In the "iPadding around" thread, y

Re: DataGrid DragDrop vs DragMove

2010-01-28 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/1/28 Trevor DeVore : > You need to specify that the field can accept the drop. Try adding the > following code to the field script after commenting out the > dgTrackDragReorder code: > > on dragEnter >    if  line 1 of the dragData["private"] is "MyData" then >        set the dragAction to "c

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
>> Talking in purely commercial terms, I think this would be a much more >> logical direction for RunRev than continuing to try to support Linux >> with all it's multiple varieties and it's general ethos for open >> source and mainly free software. > > Those of use who have been waiting for (and pa

Re: MS Word document export

2010-01-28 Thread BNig
Hi François, in RevOnline (3.5 and up) there is a very nice little stack "Shell Command Help" by Phil Davis which gives you the man (help) pages for any shell command you want the man for. regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/MS-Word-document-export-tp1290060p1401

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Honestly, I wish that were the case, but I don't think so. This is the same build of our app that has been running for nearly a year now (updated last April). We've had no reports of this problem until just recently, which makes me think some security update changed something in parental control

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Jacque, > > Here's some more info from our end. Not sure if everyone is experiencing this > same behavior or not, but in our case, the executable inside the app bundle > is actually getting damaged. We compared an app that had been launch

Re: MS Word document export

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
Le 28 janv. 2010 à 22:52, François Chaplais a écrit : > rev online is back. The stack is "Textutil" in the "Text" category. Works > really cool I tested Doc (basic text) and webarchive import. The text is > there. The links in the webarchive are lost, but h**l, it's a freebie! > > Le 28 ja

Re: MS Word document export

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
rev online is back. The stack is "Textutil" in the "Text" category. Works really cool I tested Doc (basic text) and webarchive import. The text is there. The links in the webarchive are lost, but h**l, it's a freebie! Le 28 janv. 2010 à 19:11, stephen barncard a écrit : > The shell is your

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks for the suggestions Scott. I think we're already doing the permissions part, as our installer is taking care of that. But I will verify. As for selecting our app in Parental Controls, that part is also being done. What's strange is, the corruption does not occur *until* we try to run the

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Awfully sorry, should have given you a few references at the end of my previous reply: http://www.macgeekery.com/hacks/hardware/make_any_mac_a_netboot_server sorry only one; but should suffice. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.ru

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 22:09, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Chris Sheffield wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has run into this problem and, if so, what the possible fix would be. We have several customers (schools) reporting a problem with our Rev-built application when trying to implement parental con

Re: Export locations

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 18:28, J. Landman Gay wrote: Or if you don't need a permanent record, just set a custom property. Or set the defaultfolder. Much much better than dumping text documents all over other people's data storage! Thank you so much. However, being, either a slow learner, or, just f

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Chris Sheffield wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has run into this problem and, if so, what the > possible fix would be. We have several customers (schools) reporting a problem > with our Rev-built application when trying to implement parental controls on > managed student accounts. Here

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 21:50, Bob Sneidar wrote: But if the touch screen interface really takes off, I think we will see a full blown laptop with a touch screen interface within 2 years. Probably Apple have misfired and a "full blown laptop with a touch screen interface" is what they should hav

[ANN] ListMagic 1.1.4 Maintenance update

2010-01-28 Thread Jim Bufalini
Due to a recently reported problem where specifying either the column number or column name of which column of a list to search with LMFind caused incorrect results, ListMagic 1.1.4 Maintenance release has been posted. This release: - Corrects the issue with specifying a column number or name to r

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
On Jan 28, 2010, at 2:51 AM, René Micout wrote: > "It's basically a big iPhone without the phone" > then it is a BIG iPod > Touch... ;-) Honestly, does anyone seriously watch video, like movies and tv shows on their iTouch? Really?? You could look at this from the other angle: This is what the

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Well, I don't share Richard's admiration for either Gnome or Ubuntu - especially not for Ubuntu. And not for Gnome in its increasing incarnation of the school of taking out all the useful functionality in order to make it easier to use. But the question is, if you think it is taking excessive w

Re: [BUG] Stack opens in 4.0-dp-4 but not in 4.0-rc-1 or 4.0-gm-1 or 4.5-dp-1

2010-01-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Folks, I have a stack application that opens fine in 4.0-dp-4 but it refuses to open saying it is corrupted in the following versions: 4.0-rc-1 4.0-gm-1 4.5-dp-1 It works fine in 4.0-dp-4 though. Any clue, how we ring support on this one? It appears to be some regress

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Chris Sheffield wrote: Jacque, Here's some more info from our end. Not sure if everyone is experiencing this same behavior or not, but in our case, the executable inside the app bundle is actually getting damaged. We compared an app that had been launched with parental controls enabled for it an

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread Judy Perry
Stephen, Yes, the EFF is aware of the situation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/fighting-internet-censorship-australia Judy On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, stephen barncard wrote: Sarah, that's a troubling issue. Has the EFF "Electronic Frontier Foundation" gotten involved? I know the founder Jo

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
One more strange piece of information. After allowing our app to be run through Parental Controls, a "_CodeSignature" folder gets created inside the app bundle in the Contents folder. Inside this is a CodeResources folder, which appears to be a plist-style file, except no .plist extension on it

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I see no evidence that, for Rev as presently distributed, supporting multiple distros is even a small part of the problem. The problem is not that rev Browser fails to work on Slitaz. It is that it doesn't exist. The problem with revPrintField is common to all distros that I have tried. The fa

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 18:41, J. Landman Gay wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hi All, I would like to apologise for any inconvenience, but anyone visiting my web site over the next week will see a blackout message in protest against the Australian government's planned compulsory internet filtering. I was

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Jacque, Here's some more info from our end. Not sure if everyone is experiencing this same behavior or not, but in our case, the executable inside the app bundle is actually getting damaged. We compared an app that had been launched with parental controls enabled for it and one that hadn't, and

[BUG] Stack opens in 4.0-dp-4 but not in 4.0-rc-1 or 4.0-gm-1 or 4.5-dp-1

2010-01-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Folks, I have a stack application that opens fine in 4.0-dp-4 but it refuses to open saying it is corrupted in the following versions: 4.0-rc-1 4.0-gm-1 4.5-dp-1 It works fine in 4.0-dp-4 though. Any clue, how we ring support on this one? It appears to be some regression or something. Che

Re: MS Word document export

2010-01-28 Thread stephen barncard
The shell is your friend. Check out textutil in the shell. (man textutil) Mac OSX 10.4. and onward has document conversion routines built into the system. RTF, HTML, DOC, DOCX, WEBARCHIVE, ODT are some of the formats. Someone (please identify one's self in one's demo stacks!) has uploaded to R

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks for the suggestions, Jacque. I'll forward this info to our support team. Chris On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:25 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Chris Sheffield wrote: >> After logging in with the student >> account, attempting to launch the app results in the infamous >> bouncing icon in the dock b

Re: AW: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
As far as we know the problem only occurs when customers are using parental controls to control access to our app. If they leave our app deselected in parental controls, which I know doesn't really make sense, then things seem to work okay. It's almost like there's a conflict between file permis

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Chris Sheffield wrote: After logging in with the student account, attempting to launch the app results in the infamous bouncing icon in the dock but then the app shuts down problem. What's even stranger, though, is that after attempting this and then logging back in with the admin account and att

AW: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Chris, I also had some permission issues with weird behaviours on different user accounts. are you sure it is only related with a parental control system, or do you also have customers without such a control experiencing it? Are you developing on Mac or Win? Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachr

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
answer below René's post... Le 28 janv. 2010 à 17:20, René Micout a écrit : > Francois, > I do not think the Hadopi law is comparable to what is happening in Australia > (if I understand my English being what it is ...). > In Australia, it seems that the government wants to censor access to some

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hi All, I would like to apologise for any inconvenience, but anyone visiting my web site over the next week will see a blackout message in protest against the Australian government's planned compulsory internet filtering. I was reading about this elsewhere and I'm dumbfou

parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
I'm wondering if anyone has run into this problem and, if so, what the possible fix would be. We have several customers (schools) reporting a problem with our Rev-built application when trying to implement parental controls on managed student accounts. Here's what's happening. When installing th

AW: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Chris, I tried this workaround a year ago and it helped indeed on some machines, but not on all(weired!), so I didn't used it. Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Chris Sheff

Re: Export locations

2010-01-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 28/01/2010 15:34, Phil Jimmieson wrote: Hi Richmond, After I've saved a document I write a little text file to the user's preferences folder - the text file contains the last save path. Just before I put up a save box in my program, I test to see if that little te

Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chris Sheffield wrote: > I failed to mention that I have this line of code in my startup > handler. Not sure if that's required or not. Might be okay to have > it in preOpenStack as well. > > On Jan 28, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > >> Hi Sarah, >> >> I believe this is the workaround

AW: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Sarah, One of those QCC reports was opened by me I think almost one and a half years ago and it really is annoying that nothing happens. Selling a professional software without a title really looks unprofessional, especially, when minimizing to the task bar In my case I actually experienced an

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread René Micout
Francois, I do not think the Hadopi law is comparable to what is happening in Australia (if I understand my English being what it is ...). In Australia, it seems that the government wants to censor access to some sites to protect children (?!), in France, the government would allow the possibilit

Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
I failed to mention that I have this line of code in my startup handler. Not sure if that's required or not. Might be okay to have it in preOpenStack as well. On Jan 28, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > I believe this is the workaround we used: > > set the revrun

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 17:38, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Fortunately, given how far along the Rev Linux engine is, it doesn't seem it'll come to that. Regardless of the opportunities or lack thereof one may see with the world's fastest-growing OS, Rev is already so close to having a really good engine for Lin

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 15:57, Colin Holgate wrote: I think people have some wrong ideas with regard to the iPad: It's not a development platform, it's a playback one. I would strongly emphasise the 'play' in 'playback'! This does indeed seem to be the case; iPad seems to be another toy for those who

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond Mathewson wrote: How many users of this list think that RunRev are wasting their time, effort and limited resources continuing development of a Linux version ? Count me among them. How many people who favour continued Linux development think it might be sensible of RunRev to concentr

RE: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Fortunately, given how far along the Rev Linux engine is, it > doesn't seem it'll come to that. > > Regardless of the opportunities or lack thereof one may see > with the world's fastest-growing OS, Rev is already so close > to having a really good engine for Linux that it would cost > them

Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Hi Sarah, I believe this is the workaround we used: set the revruntimebehaviour to 4 I honestly don't remember the details behind this. It might be documented in the bug ticket (7290 or 6343). I think this is an undocumented property, and I'm not entirely sure what the value 4 means. S

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
There have been some attempts at that in France. Until now, they have been thwarted by the Constitutional Council who has asserted that the right to access the internet is part of the fundamental right to access information and (implicitly) is guaranteed by the constitution. Of course the govern

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Bernard Devlin
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: > I certainly would appreciate having a list of distros being known to work > without major flaws. > If it is branded "Linux" I expect *any* distribution (as far as that may be > possible) to work. > If it was to say, works on UBUNTU and

Re: DataGrid DragDrop vs DragMove

2010-01-28 Thread RevList
Trevor DeVore on January 28, 2010 at 6:21 AM -0800 wrote: >Does that work? Like a charm. As usual. Many thanks. Also, your sessions at RunRev 09 that I am watchin on DVD right now are outstanding. I finally think I understand how Data Grids function. ***

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: While I have no idea of the market for Rev and how it is divided among the platforms, I would suggest that there is far more commercial sense in expanding Rev to the iPhone/iPad market, perhaps at the expense of the Linux market. Fortunately, given how far along the Rev Li

Re: DataGrid DragDrop vs DragMove

2010-01-28 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/1/28 RevList : > I have been looking at Trevors stack from the RunRev 09 session that > supports dragreorder and dragging and dropping data from a DataGroup to > another. > I want to drag and drop data from a data group to a text field, not > another data group. > The following works > > For

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:03 AM, René Micout wrote: Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology (Technical Specifications) of iPad I think the hardware can support a Bluetooth mouse, but I'm not sure if the software would then show a cursor. ___ use-revolution

Re: DataGrid DragDrop vs DragMove

2010-01-28 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:59 PM, RevList wrote: On the field script I have this On DragDrop if line 1 of the dragData["private"] is "MyData" then put line 2 of the dragData["private"] into me end if end DragDrop The trouble with the above is that I do not want to allow reordering of th

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread René Micout
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology (Technical Specifications) of iPad Le 28 janv. 2010 à 15:00, Colin Holgate a écrit : > About the keyboard, do you know that the iPad has Bluetooth? If you can find > your own way to prop it up, you should be able to use an existing Bluetooth > keyboard. Not sure a

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 15:47, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: Richmond wrote: How many people who favour continued Linux development think it might be sensible of RunRev to concentrate their efforts on one 'family' of Linux distros (e.g. Debian derivatives) ? I certainly would appreciate having a lis

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Colin Holgate
About the keyboard, do you know that the iPad has Bluetooth? If you can find your own way to prop it up, you should be able to use an existing Bluetooth keyboard. Not sure about mouse support. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.r

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Colin Holgate
I think people have some wrong ideas with regard to the iPad: It's not a development platform, it's a playback one. You can't develop Xbox games on an Xbox, so don't worry if an iPad lacks some full OS features, use your computer for doing the development. A lot of the 140,000 Apps in the A

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
;-) René , I guess some might consider it a necessary accessory. I got to use a wacom touch screen a few years ago with built in computer screen and would lay it on my lap and found that using the keyboard was not as desirable or productive as just popping up an onscreen keyboard. But I

Re: Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Richmond wrote: > How many people who favour continued Linux development think it might be > sensible > of RunRev to concentrate their efforts on one 'family' of Linux distros > (e.g. Debian derivatives) ? I certainly would appreciate having a list of distros being known to work without major f

Re: Export locations

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 15:34, Phil Jimmieson wrote: Hi Richmond, After I've saved a document I write a little text file to the user's preferences folder - the text file contains the last save path. Just before I put up a save box in my program, I test to see if that little text file exists. If it does,

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dear Sarah et al, "My last wild guess is that this is another blow to the PC manufacturers and to Microsoft. The iPhone has been adopted by millions of people, regardless of whether they use Macs or PCs. But the iPad will be creating and editing iWork documents. I wonder will the iPad versions

Re: Export locations

2010-01-28 Thread Phil Jimmieson
Hi Richmond, After I've saved a document I write a little text file to the user's preferences folder - the text file contains the last save path. Just before I put up a save box in my program, I test to see if that little text file exists. If it does, I read it in and use the path it contains as

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread René Micout
By this point I followed the blog of Sarah : "Numbers and Pages will make this a working computer, rather than just a portable communication device". I think that for a "working computer" the keyboard accessory is necessary (not only accessory ;-) René Le 28 janv. 2010 à 14:26, Thomas McGrath II

Re: Export locations

2010-01-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richmond, > Having exported a file from my merry Sanskrit Typewriter standalone to my > location of choice, > I find, on attempting to save a second file the standalone has not remembered > my previous choice > so I have to click around all over again, and again, and again to find my > locat

Linux deployment . . .

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Here we go again: How many users of this list think that RunRev are wasting their time, effort and limited resources continuing development of a Linux version ? How many people who favour continued Linux development think it might be sensible of RunRev to concentrate their efforts on one 'fam

Export locations

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Having exported a file from my merry Sanskrit Typewriter standalone to my location of choice, I find, on attempting to save a second file the standalone has not remembered my previous choice so I have to click around all over again, and again, and again to find my location. Not Good. Any brig

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
You do not need to add the keyboard dock accessory since it has the almost full size touch keyboard! And trying to push the iPad to be a laptop is not the same thing as either a netbook or a laptop. On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:51 AM, René Micout wrote: Hello Sarah, Le 28 janv. 2010 à 11:33, Sara

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Thank you Sarah, This is just the beginning of a huge advantage for runrev developers. Touch screens have been around for a long time but with no real customer base. The size and features of the iPad and the exposure to 75 Million people is enticing enough for me. I have been writing my f

Re: MS Word document export

2010-01-28 Thread Brent Summerton
Me too. If I can help. I am using Mac OS. Kind regards from, Brent Summertons' iPhone On 28/01/2010, at 3:14 PM, dr.alist...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Curry, I'd be interested in having a look at the beta of the word export. I am currently using merge() to create reports for an application that

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2010-01-28 Thread Pierre Sahores
The simplest way to deploy first class well maintened entrainment or B2B apps to all of those mobile devices at once and without caring about having to compose with iStore religious and proprietary compliance : web apps maked simple trough the final release of the irev / revServer, perhaps,

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2010-01-28 Thread viktoras d.
I see these "slate computers" as perfect means for "out of office" data collection/retrieval/on-site analysis in science (field works, expeditions), medicine, surveys, etc... Add GPS and Wifi/GPRS/etc.. connectivity and it looks like a platform worth to be taken seriously :-) Viktoras BNig wr

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi Sarah On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: >> As for Rev, far more important to get the basics working properly on all >> three platforms than move into trying to support yet another, and one whose >> market significance is doubtful. > > While I have no idea of the market fo

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread BNig
Sarah, I aggree that the iPad offers an opportunity for Rev developers once RevMobile is there and working. As you mentioned the in-house market and the vertical market will have a device that can change a lot of workflows. Just consider connecting a bar-code scanner to the iPad and you have an

Re: [Ann] Build your own games

2010-01-28 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Hi all, thanks for all the feedback I have received both on- and off-list! I have taken the top question into account and re-uploaded the sources. The question was: "The nice soundtrack original drops had is not in there, is it?" Yes, it is. :-) You just had to make a code change to make it pla

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread René Micout
Hello Sarah, Le 28 janv. 2010 à 11:33, Sarah Reichelt a écrit : > > P.S. If you want my thoughts on the iPad, which are very different to > Peter's & Richmond's, then have a look at my blog > "It's basically a big iPhone without the phone" > then it is a BIG iPod Tou

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread viktoras d.
hey, many alternatives are coming soon: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/186247/hp_slate_lowers_the_bar_for_apples_tablet_pc.html Some of them run Windows 7, so I guess, we should be able to create apps for these. Viktoras ___ use-revol

Re: Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > Has anyone managed to find a work-around to the problem with a stack's > title being reduced to a single character under Windows, if there is a > player on the card? This is proving a real blocker for me at the > moment, despite several bug reports, one of which s

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> As for Rev, far more important to get the basics working properly on all > three platforms than move into trying to support yet another, and one whose > market significance is doubtful. While I have no idea of the market for Rev and how it is divided among the platforms, I would suggest that th

Windows title reduced to a single character

2010-01-28 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Has anyone managed to find a work-around to the problem with a stack's title being reduced to a single character under Windows, if there is a player on the card? This is proving a real blocker for me at the moment, despite several bug reports, one of which says it was fixed in Rev 3.0. I'm using Re

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-28 Thread René Micout
Le 28 janv. 2010 à 10:33, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : > more functional because more open, > > As for Rev, far more important to get the basics working properly on all > three platforms than move into trying to support yet another, and one whose > market significance is doubtful. I agree on thi

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