Re: Polygonflow: clockwise or counter-clockwise?

2010-02-04 Thread Michael Kristensen
Thanks to Jeff and Alex for your replies Alex, your script worked perfectly. Thanks I needed to do the check in two cases: 1. I needed to calculate the area of multiple polygons by stringing them together in one superpolygon. If they did'nt have the same flowdirection the calculation would

More on Performance

2010-02-04 Thread Scott Rossi
I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for maximizing the responsiveness of controls during a tight send in... loop. I just discovered an odd (but perhaps expected?) relationship between the send command and locking the screen. It seems that placing send in... within a handler that locks and

Re: Rev for Linux (was Re: iPadding around?)

2010-02-04 Thread viktoras d.
Thank you Andre! That's what I call a community - one day one wrote wouldn't it be nice to have own Revolinux distro and the next day he is about to download it :-) It would be good to make it small enough to fit into a single CD/LiveCD. Thanks again and Best wishes! Viktoras Andre Garzia

Re: More on Performance

2010-02-04 Thread René Micout
I use a lot of loop-type send X in 0 millisec in my application Exagofon and I actually noticed that the process (music) was significantly faster when a window (Finder [Mac !] for example) hiding the application window, thus avoiding the screen refresh. However, I am not yet entered the phase

Linux, Rev and dependencies ?

2010-02-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Goofy types like myself just pop RunRev onto an already installed linux distro; and either it works or it doesn't. How can one work out what dependencies (if any) one requires if one is to do a home brew? Err . . . does www.runrev.com have a nifty little page where the dependencies are

Flash mouseclicks in Revbrowser

2010-02-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, I found that most of the time you need to doubleclick(!) Flash elements (e.g. the movie controls in Youtube videos) when in a Revbrowser, but the intended single clicks in a normal Browser like Safari or FireFox. Know what I mean? Anyone else experienced this? I'm on OS X 10.6.2,

Re: Flash mouseclicks in Revbrowser

2010-02-04 Thread Colin Holgate
The same issue comes up when using Director that has Flash elements, when used on a touch screen. For those cases I've had to modify the Flash code to work around the problem. I imagine that Flash in RevBrowser is a similar kind of embedding, where it's taking the first click to get the Flash

Re: Flash mouseclicks in Revbrowser

2010-02-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Colin, The same issue comes up when using Director that has Flash elements, when used on a touch screen. For those cases I've had to modify the Flash code to work around the problem. I imagine that Flash in RevBrowser is a similar kind of embedding, where it's taking the first click to

Re: Windows 'run as administrator' property of standalone

2010-02-04 Thread David Glasgow
On 3 Feb 2010, at 6:00 pm, Bernard Devlin wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:59 AM, David Glasgow da...@dvglasgow.wanadoo.co.uk wrote: I was wondering whether setting this before distribution might reduce the occasional permissions problems which arise. I was also slightly worried that user

open substack flickering despite lockscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I want to open a substack modal at the loc of the mouse. Everything works, beside there is a flickering, when opening the substack and positioning it at the mouse loc despide of having a lockscreen. For a moment of a second the stack appears at his default loc and then it appears at my

Re: Rev for Linux (was Re: iPadding around?)

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Indeed, this would be a great step forward, to have a gold standard linux distribution plus Rev installation, then we would know for sure how it was supposed to work and could work, and we'd know that any shortfalls were with our particular installation. A live USB distro might be the most

Re: open substack flickering despite lockscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tiemo, Hello, I want to open a substack modal at the loc of the mouse. Everything works, beside there is a flickering, when opening the substack and positioning it at the mouse loc despide of having a lockscreen. For a moment of a second the stack appears at his default loc and then it

AW: open substack flickering despite lockscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Klaus, I knew you would have an easy solution on this! Thanks, Tiemo :) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Klaus Major Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010 14:41 An: How to use

Re: Rev for Linux (was Re: iPadding around?)

2010-02-04 Thread viktoras d.
Hi, Peter, indeed, some time ago I used to deploy simple Revolution apps on Puppy. They worked. Apps were compiled using the old engine (2.6). However I have never tried that again with the new Rev 4.x, some day I will :-). Viktoras Peter Alcibiades wrote: Indeed, this would be a great

AW: open substack flickering despite lockscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Klaus, there is a saying don't halloo, before you are out of the wood When using just: set the left of stack lizenzinfo to tLocX set the top of stack lizenzinfo to tLocY modal stack lizenzinfo the setting of the loc seems to be ineffective, The stack just opens at the default center

Re: Getting data from a secure web page

2010-02-04 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Thanks for all this Trevor. I installed your custom libURL fine thanks. It now redirects but it doesn't get me where I want, instead I get: div class=errorYou must be logged in with a parent account to access this functionality./div If the

Re: AW: open substack flickering despite lockscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tiemo, Hi Klaus, there is a saying don't halloo, before you are out of the wood ??? I only understand station :-D When using just: set the left of stack lizenzinfo to tLocX set the top of stack lizenzinfo to tLocY modal stack lizenzinfo the setting of the loc seems to be

AW: AW: open substack flickering despite lockscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Ok, I could do following: Open invisible stack lizenzinfo set the left of stack lizenzinfo to tLocX set the top of stack lizenzinfo to tLocY modal stack lizenzinfo show stack lizenzinfo ... but is this the rev wanted approach? I think there must be a more straight forward way Thanks Tiemo

Re: AW: open substack flickering despite lockscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Phil Jimmieson
Hi Tiemo, Add a preopenstack handler to the stack that you want to display modally, and in this handler, set the location you want the stack to occupy. When the stack opens up, before you see it it positions itself in the location you supplied, so: on preopenstack global tLocX,tLocY --or

AW: AW: open substack flickering despite lockscreen

2010-02-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Ah ok, the preopenstack is the clue! Thanks Phil Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Phil Jimmieson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010 15:13 An: How to use Revolution

Re: parental control problems - Mac OS X

2010-02-04 Thread Chris Sheffield
For anyone interested in this, I'm not sure what changed between Rev 3.0 and Rev 4.0, but this problem seems to disappear when building our standalone with Rev 4.0. We first discovered that the problem only occurred when building for Universal Binary. An Intel-only build did not have the

Re: Windows 'run as administrator' property of standalone

2010-02-04 Thread Bernard Devlin
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, David Glasgow da...@dvglasgow.wanadoo.co.uk wrote: Just experimented, and you are dead right.  The flag becomes unset. Unfortunately I can't work out what is going on, because I have XP and Vista, and the former doesn't report that property.  Nevertheless, setting

Re: Linux, Rev and dependencies ?

2010-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Err . . . does www.runrev.com have a nifty little page where the dependencies are listed? Ah, I thought not! I only know three words in UNIX, and that's because I have to copy/paste them into the occasional tech support response. But...doesn't ldd work? That's

Re: Linux, Rev and dependencies ?

2010-02-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 04/02/2010 18:45, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Err . . . does www.runrev.com have a nifty little page where the dependencies are listed? Ah, I thought not! I only know three words in UNIX, and that's because I have to copy/paste them into the occasional tech support

[ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Folks, This was quick! Move your browsers to http://andregarzia.com/revlinux/ and check it out. So far I just put the VMWare Image out, the other images and LiveCD will follow shortly. This is a SuSe based distro with revEnterprise, revStudio, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache2, RevOnRockets

little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread runrev260805
Hi, is there anyone from germany here on the list, who has already received the Conference DVD set ? Regards, Matthias ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

AW: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Nooop :( Germany doesn't seems to be on the line in Edinburgh Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von runrev260...@m-r-d.de Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010 18:36 An:

Re: AW: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 04/02/2010 19:43, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Nooop :( Germany doesn't seems to be on the line in Edinburgh Tiemo Hey, guess what: Bulgaria is further away, both geographically and conceptually. However I have pencilled in 24 March 2013 as a suitable date to celebrate the DVDs' arrival

Re: AW: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread Marian Petrides
I could have sworn someone in New York reported getting their DVDs, but here in Missouri there's been no sign of them yet. In fact, it's been so long, I emailed support to check to see if a) they had been sent yet and b) that they were sent to the correct address. Still no reply. On Feb

Re: AW: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 04/02/2010 20:25, Marian Petrides wrote: I could have sworn someone in New York reported getting their DVDs, but here in Missouri there's been no sign of them yet. In fact, it's been so long, I emailed support to check to see if a) they had been sent yet and b) that they were sent to

Re: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Wood
Here in the UK my set arrived sometime last week. Ian On 4 Feb 2010, at 17:35, runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Hi, is there anyone from germany here on the list, who has already received the Conference DVD set ? Regards, Matthias ___

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Fantastic! What a guy! Not the least of the benefits is, we can find out by the downloads just how many people are serious about Rev on Linux. We may not like the answer, of course. But here's hoping! Peter -- View this message in context:

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Andre, should you not move it to ibiblio or someplace? Or maybe Rev can provide hosting? Or perhaps someone on the list has ideas. We must not let you get hit for bandwidth for this. Peter -- View this message in context:

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Andre, thanks for putting this together! I will surely check it out, once the water clears a bit over here. (Too packed atm). Peter makes a valid point about bandwidth. If this is / becomes an issue, give me a holler. I might still have a few MBs to share if a mirror is needed. How large is

Export Snapshot experts?

2010-02-04 Thread David Bovill
I'm looking into using the export snapshot functionality of Rev - which I use regularly on OSX - but have not tested on all platforms. Does anyone know of situations in which it does not work = platforms etc? how about with games that draw directly to the screen (which I know can cause issues with

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread viktoras d.
Cool! Now you/we need some work on a website with wording and structure like Ubuntu website i.e. a little of PR to make it as popular and as well known ;-). I am looking forward for the release of the liveCD. All the best! Viktoras Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Folks, This was quick! Move

Re: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:35 AM, runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Hi, is there  anyone from germany here on the list, who has already  received the Conference DVD set ? I guess there is no need to expect mine to arrive in Australia yet, if they haven't even made it to Germany... Cheers, Sarah

RE: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference

2010-02-04 Thread bar...@libero.it
Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:43:10 +0100 Tiemo Hollman wrote in response to Matthias Nooop :( Germany doesn't seems to be on the line in Edinburgh Tiemo Reminds me of an apparently true story here in Italy from the 2nd World War. The phone lines to the isle of Sicily were interrupted and the

Re: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:35 AM, runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Hi, is there anyone from germany here on the list, who has already received the Conference DVD set ? I guess there is no need to expect mine to arrive in Australia yet, if they haven't even made it to

Re-2: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread runrev260805
Hm, if it think of that the sets are now shipped since more than 3 weeks and there are so many not yet shipped ... Then how many sets were sold? There must be thousands and thousands or is the logistics company, which is doing the shipment for Runrev, a one person company, which is not able

Re: Export Snapshot experts?

2010-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Bovill wrote: I'm looking into using the export snapshot functionality of Rev - which I use regularly on OSX - but have not tested on all platforms. Does anyone know of situations in which it does not work = platforms etc? how about with games that draw directly to the screen (which I know

RE: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread Jim Bufalini
Bob and Sarah and anyone else using MySQL, I have used a MySQL database via On-Rev and it has seemed very fast for both reading writing, but I did all the setup through cPanel and phpMyAdmin first. The cPanel and phpMyAdmin is OK in that it works, but I find it very clumsy. Check out MySQL

Re: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
is there  anyone from germany here on the list, who has already  received the Conference DVD set ? I guess there is no need to expect mine to arrive in Australia yet, if they haven't even made it to Germany... Well, someone I know in California got his set. It takes longer to ship to

Re: More on Performance

2010-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: What strategies do you employ to get the best responsiveness out of your apps during tight repeat loops? You could try putting in a wait 1 millisecond with messages somewhere in the loop. It yields time to the interface so the controls can respond. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Jim Bufalini j...@visitrieve.com wrote: Bob and Sarah and anyone else using MySQL, I have used a MySQL database via On-Rev and it has seemed very fast for both reading writing, but I did all the setup through cPanel and phpMyAdmin first. The cPanel and

Re: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread stephen barncard
x86 INTEL ONLY. Burned again. Nothing for us G5 losers. there is nothing wrong with my machine, except it's a g5. - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev On 4 February 2010 15:44, Jim Bufalini j...@visitrieve.com wrote: Bob and Sarah and

Re: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Jim. Thanks for the info. I'm always in the hunt for a good mySQL utility. The original post was really about what happens when on-rev drops the connection due to an idle timeout. What happens is, the communication between Revolution fails, but it takes close to 10 minutes for Revolution

Re: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I feel your pain. We have about 7 or 8 towers here and they are still very viable for things like graphics, audio and video post, etc. Our primary router is a G5 tower running Vicomsoft Intergate! However, think of the Mac world if Apple never switched to Intel. No Parallels or VMWare. No PC

Re: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread stephen barncard
Bob, on my last project I had some time-outs issues - I thought at the time it was more 'economical' to keep the connection open for multiple queries and I spend a whole bunch of energy making a pinger to keep the connection open -- That was probably true for the 65 or so rapid fire queries I was

Re: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread stephen barncard
Yes, I laud the upgrade to Intel, it was totally a wise decision. It's just that the $$ I have in my two-screen media monster here is REALLY becoming depressingly obsolete. ProTools HD (original PCI cards) has stopped supporting G5s after the last version 8.01. It's been 9 years with

RE: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread Jim Bufalini
Sarah Reichelt wrote, Thanks Jim, that looks like a very useful tool...downloading now :-) Two other things I didn't mention: If you need an SSL connection to your DBs, definitely download the 5.2 version. Also, check out their plugins section and search for an SQLite plugin someone wrote. With

Re: Getting data from a secure web page

2010-02-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Thanks for all this Trevor. I installed your custom libURL fine thanks. It now redirects but it doesn't get me where I want, instead I get: div class=errorYou

RE: on-rev queries

2010-02-04 Thread Jim Bufalini
Bob Sneidar wrote: My fix of always connecting at the beginning of every script that needs access, and disconnecting at the end of every script that made the connection works for now. It's probably better to do this anyway... I think I commented on this thread early on saying I never saw

RE: Windows 'run as administrator' property of standalone.

2010-02-04 Thread Jim Bufalini
David Glasgow wrote Whilst trying to solve a problem of a customer, I noticed that on Vista, a standalone can have a 'run as administrator' property set, which presumably does what it says on the tin. My recollection is that Pre Vista this was a property which could be set on a shortcut, but

Re: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: is there anyone from germany here on the list, who has already received the Conference DVD set ? I guess there is no need to expect mine to arrive in Australia yet, if they haven't even made it to Germany... Well, someone I know in California got his set. It takes

RE: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

2010-02-04 Thread Jim Bufalini
Sarah wrote: I guess there is no need to expect mine to arrive in Australia yet, if they haven't even made it to Germany... And, if it's coming around the other way, you should know they haven't hit Hawaii yet either. ;-) Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Great news! :-D I hope that you found time to create Live CDs for some small Debian-based and Slackware-based distributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions Keep up your great work! Alejandro P.D. Does RevMedia works in OLPC computers? -- View this message in

Re: ANN: Hinduism Today Navigator - Alpha Test Open

2010-02-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
Amazing... we are all mac users here and somehow a recent change broke the site on IE. Working on it... some crazy thing where if there is an https link on a non-secure page, IE this the whole page should be secured. You can just download Hinduism Today Navigator directly from these links.

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Alejandro, I am using a SuSe based solution instead of a debian one, it is easier to build, point and click. As for RevWeb on OLPC, so far, there's no RevWeb or RevMedia for Linux so we can't test. :-/ Cheers andre On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Alejandro Tejada

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I've just added a USB Stick image and a LiveCD. http://andregarzia.com/revlinux Cheers andre On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Hello Alejandro, I am using a SuSe based solution instead of a debian one, it is easier to build, point and click.

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Peter, I am using Amazon S3 service to host the files, let us see how high it gets before me crying for help but I expect to pay like 10 USD or something for the bandwidth. Cheers andre On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Andre, should you

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Andre Garzia
Viktoras, Lol, the objective is not to win over ubuntu or any other linux, it is just to provide an environment to test and develop in revolution. I've made the LiveCD although I have not tested it, it is on the website, you can fetch it from there and tell me if it works or not. Cheers andre

Re: iPadding around? Video glasses (OT)

2010-02-04 Thread Kay C Lan
Marian, Whilst I'm sure 'effective' LCD 3D goggles would effect sales of massive home LCD TVs, I'm not sure what it's effect on mobile devices would be - other than make them more popular. Without goggles one of the attractions of the iPad must be screen size, but this is not only as an output,

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/02/2010 00:18, viktoras d. wrote: Cool! Now you/we need some work on a website with wording and structure like Ubuntu website i.e. a little of PR to make it as popular and as well known ;-). I am looking forward for the release of the liveCD. All the best! Viktoras Yes, I will

Re: [ANN] RunRev Community Linux Distro

2010-02-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Fantastic at least and so friendlt too ! Thanks Andre. Will go to the shop and catch a new eeepc to test some apps in using it ;-) Best Regards, P. Le 5 févr. 10 à 07:40, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : On 05/02/2010 00:18, viktoras d. wrote: Cool! Now you/we need some work on a website