Re: Richard the Mac Classic build ???

2010-03-29 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Richmond, sorry im a mid level dyslexic and i tend to bung up names like that when i type. apologies. (and no richard gaskin i did not mistake you for richmond!) I think there was reoccurring hope that one last classic build was going to happen at some point, but just ended up sticking

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Here is what happened. I changed the distribution that an application is running on from Mandriva to Debian. Because revPrintField doesn't work properly, it resorted to getting prints out by using print card. After the change in distribution, print card worked, but it did not print the card in

Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread David Bovill
I'd like to set up an automatic build for a project, so that rather than manually exporting the stack as a standalone, I would create an interface that allowed the stack to be compiled as a revWeb stack (possibly other standalones). and then ftp'd up to the web server together with the appropriate

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, David Bovill da...@architex.tv wrote: I'd like to set up an automatic build for a project, so that rather than manually exporting the stack as a standalone, I would create an interface that allowed the stack to be compiled as a revWeb stack (possibly other

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread stephen barncard
Check out Trevor's application framework, that supports builds and much more. On 29 March 2010 00:43, David Bovill da...@architex.tv wrote: I'd like to set up an automatic build for a project, so that rather than manually exporting the stack as a standalone, I would create an interface that

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread David Bovill
Hi Sarah - I've not done much more than experiment with revWeb yet, but now with the do as JavaScript feature, and a client that can use that, I'm looking to set up an agile deployment prototyping the eventual AJAX front end in revWeb. As the app will be deployed to the test site every 2 weeks to

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread David Bovill
OK _ I just checked out the latest glxApp tutorialshttp://revolution.screenstepslive.com/spaces/revolution/manuals/glxapp/lessons/5668-How-Do-I-Package-My-Application-For-Use-With-An-Installer-Or-Auto-Update- it seems that you need to use the Rev IDE to create the standalones: *Note:

revWeb: strategies for loading large stacks

2010-03-29 Thread David Bovill
Given that it is really important to have a web app load FAST - what strategies can we use to incrementally download an app - providing interactivity immediately to the user whith content downloading in the background? 1. Images, and other media loaded with a load url call as / when /

Re: Richard the Mac Classic build ???

2010-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/03/2010 09:15, Jeff Reynolds wrote: Richmond, sorry im a mid level dyslexic and i tend to bung up names like that when i type. apologies. (and no richard gaskin i did not mistake you for richmond!) No Worries; Geoff . . . :) However; although Mac OS 9 is about 8-9-10 years in the

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:39 PM, David Bovill david.bov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sarah - I've not done much more than experiment with revWeb yet, but now with the do as JavaScript feature, and a client that can use that, I'm looking to set up an agile deployment prototyping the eventual AJAX

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: I'd like to set up an automatic build for a project, so that rather than manually exporting the stack as a standalone, I would create an interface that allowed the stack to be compiled as a revWeb stack (possibly other standalones). and then ftp'd up to the web server

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread David Bovill
On 29 March 2010 11:51, Sarah Reichelt sarah.reich...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, at least that is what I would try. Sub-stacks cannot open in a separate window, but I believe that they can open in the same window. So you could have your splash screen stack ( main app) open, then it could use: go

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread David Bovill
On 29 March 2010 12:10, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: A savingStandalone message is sent just before the standalone/revlet is generated, and a standaloneSaved message is sent after. You could use the standaloneSaved message to scoop up the resulting revlet stack file and

Re: Rev standalone app stays in memory on my Xubuntu 9.10

2010-03-29 Thread Len Morgan
It sounds to me like you've got an open socket or file laying around in the program that is preventing it from closing. Check your sockets and open files when you quit (handle the quit stack message). Maybe a driver on one machine is not releasing the socket and so your program stays around

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread David Bovill
On 29 March 2010 12:10, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: A savingStandalone message is sent just before the standalone/revlet is generated, and a standaloneSaved message is sent after. You could use the standaloneSaved message to scoop up the resulting revlet stack file and

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Well, it gets worse. The problem is, when installed, the print card into does not work on a real printer the way it does on cups-pdf. It must be that it varies with the printer being installed, and also with the distribution, and maybe also with the screen resolution. I am really at my wits

Re: dragging a stack around

2010-03-29 Thread Mark Swindell
Thanks to all who offered help. Much appreciated. Mark On Mar 27, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Both scripts do essentially the same thing, though I like my one more! One interesting thing, I did first try typing on mouseMove, but that doesn't get colorized, making me think it

Re: Automatic Builds

2010-03-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 29, 2010, at 4:56 AM, David Bovill wrote: OK _ I just checked out the latest glxApp tutorialshttp://revolution.screenstepslive.com/spaces/revolution/manuals/glxapp/lessons/5668-How-Do-I-Package-My-Application-For-Use-With-An-Installer-Or-Auto-Update- it seems that you need to use

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 29/03/2010 16:43, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Well, it gets worse. The problem is, when installed, the print card into does not work on a real printer the way it does on cups-pdf. It must be that it varies with the printer being installed, and also with the distribution, and maybe also with

Re: Updating running apps

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Have you thought of writing a shell script (the solution to most Rev deficiencies...!). You could fire the script up up and quit the current version, then from the script, download, name the old files to something safe, copy in the new files, fire up the new version, and quit the shell? --

Front Scripts vs Behaviors

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I have several event handlers for common events such as mouseUp, openCard, menuPick, closeField which are installed as front scripts. The reason for this is to grab these events as soon as possible in order to handle any updating of the SQLite database I use to store the data for my app.

Re: Richard the Mac Classic build ???

2010-03-29 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Richmond, I totally agree and they can continue to be supported via the classic products like rev 2.6.1. its just that if you force the modern cutting edge stuff to be all backwards compatible with the stuff over a decade old, the cutting edge will be pretty dull and pretty expensive and

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Well, it gets worse. The problem is, when installed, the print card into does not work on a real printer the way it does on cups-pdf. It must be that it varies with the printer being installed, and also with the distribution, and maybe also with the screen resolution.

Re: Updating running apps

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sarah Reichelt wrote: I have some apps that when checking for updates, then offer a Install Relaunch option. This seems really cool to me, but I haven't worked out how to do it in my Rev apps. If I am only updating separate sub-stacks, then I can work it out, but if I want to update the actual

Daft idea for commercial software ???

2010-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have been thinking about all the cafuffle about registration numbers and so forth; and wonder, given the fact that some level of pirating will go on if a piece of software is worth anything, if it is really worth all the mucking around. So: I should like to float this idea and welcome all

Re: Rev standalone app stays in memory on my Xubuntu 9.10

2010-03-29 Thread hmspotato
Hello Len, Thank you for responding to my question. I hope I am a little better than an average computer user, but I have a very long way to go before qualifying to be a geek. Could you explain what it means to have an open socket in the program? I am a mere teacher, and my program is a simple

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
If the engine is the same and the variance lies with the drivers, it would seem you've found your answer. Yes. But what I don't understand is, why is Rev the only app that has these problems? Open Office prints identically to my home printer, to cups-pdf, to the office printer, on Mandriva or

Re: Printing in Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Now I'm less sophisticated than Peter Alcibiades and Richard Gaskin when it comes to computery stuff; but what I do know is that every other program I have ever downloaded onto my Ubuntu box that does text or images allows me to print to my printer (whether it be connected directly to the Ubuntu

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Anyone? -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Crystal-Reports-tp1692831p1695638.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Andrew- Monday, March 29, 2010, 2:16:21 PM, you wrote: Anyone? Never done the Crystal Reports thing, but have you checked out Quartam Reports? My guess is that will get you where you're going via the most painless route. Other than that, how's your C coding? Crafting externals isn't that hard

[ANN] The Slug is now on the road with the Step by Step collection

2010-03-29 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear list members, I'm happy to announce the availability of a new downloadable section in my website. In this section you will reach the first Step by step stack devoted to palettes. The subject of this first part is : palettes with an orientable titlebar. This stack explains : - How to create

RE: Crystal Reports

2010-03-29 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Anyone? Paradigma Software has developed Valentina Reports, which works with Valentina DB. Valentina DB is an extremely fast, columnar database, which has native drivers for every major development system on Windows, OS X and Linux (including .net and Revolution, iPhone among others). Valentina

Re: Crystal Reports

2010-03-29 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/3/26 Andrew Kluthe and...@rjdfarm.com: Has anyone attempted an External or know anything about interfacing RunRev with a Crystal Report? I need to come up with a versatile reporting solution and they already have so many reports made in crystal reports that it would be perfect to

DataGrid Forms, checkboxes and Pull-Down buttons?

2010-03-29 Thread John Patten
Hi All... I'm using datagrids to display some data out of a mySQL database. I created a check box and a option button in the template for my data grid row. I would like to be able to check if data row checkbox hilite is true or not and would like to store data in my db based on the

Re: Rev standalone app stays in memory on my Xubuntu 9.10

2010-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
hmspot...@googlemail.com wrote: My program works (i.e. quits cleanly) on other computers running Xubuntu 9.10, Mac OS X or Windows. The anomaly occurs only on my laptop running Xubuntu 9.10. I would think that my coding in Revolution must be ok, but something is not right on my laptop, on which

ANN: Clipboard Link

2010-03-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello, Economy-x-Talk has released a new little gem: Clipboard Link. Clipboard Link enables you to share the contents of the clipboard of your computer with other computers on the same local network. Copy a text or picture on one computer and paste it on any computer connected to your

Re: ANN: Clipboard Link

2010-03-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Grrr... you probably want to know where you can download this little app: http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 30 mrt 2010, om 01:27 heeft Mark Schonewille het volgende geschreven: Hello, Economy-x-Talk has released a new little gem: Clipboard Link. Clipboard Link enables you to

Re: ANN: Clipboard Link

2010-03-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Thats really useful Mark, congrats! I had a homegrown solution for my computers, but your general purpose one is really cool! Cheers andre On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Grrr... you probably want to know where you can download this

Data grids in standalones

2010-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I have an app that uses data grids, but as one of the stacks is password protected, I am selecting the inclusions for the standalone manually. I think this is stopping the data grid library from being imported automatically into the standalone, so when I try to display any data in a data grid, I

Standalone issues

2010-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I have an app that uses a separate protected stack file. I do not want this stack file bundled into the standalone. In use, I install this stack and then set the mainStack's stackFiles to include this separate stack file. In Standalone settings, I cannot get them to ignore this separate stack

Re: Standalone issues

2010-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Sarah Reichelt sarah.reich...@gmail.com wrote: I have an app that uses a separate protected stack file. I do not want this stack file bundled into the standalone. In use, I install this stack and then set the mainStack's stackFiles to include this separate

Re: Data grids in standalones

2010-03-29 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Sarah Reichelt sarah.reich...@gmail.com wrote: I have an app that uses data grids, but as one of the stacks is password protected, I am selecting the inclusions for the standalone manually. I think this is stopping the data grid library from being imported

Re: ANN: Clipboard Link

2010-03-29 Thread stephen barncard
There used to be a little app called SPIKE that did this that was released by a company called Soapdog. I thought once it could have been a teenage Andre Garzia! On 29 March 2010 16:35, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Thats really useful Mark, congrats! I had a homegrown solution

RevTalk as a Server

2010-03-29 Thread Shani
hi, is there is any program in which Revtalk working as a server (GUI) for any other Program through Socket Programming. Regards, SHANI ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Revtalk communication

2010-03-29 Thread Shani
Hi, How RevTalk communicate with Client Though Socket Programming. Regards, Shani ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Open Socket

2010-03-29 Thread Shani
Hi, I want to communicate with Other program Client (JAVA or JADE) from RevTalk through Socket. open socket to (filename : (port#)) with message Server connected ## http://docs.runrev.com/Command/open-socket what i give command on client side. Regards, SHANI

Re: Revtalk communication

2010-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Shani wrote: Hi, How RevTalk communicate with Client Though Socket Programming. This may help: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user/33316 If you use Gmane to search the mail list archives for socket you will find other examples. Also, there is a chat server example

Re: RevTalk as a Server

2010-03-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Shani, Perhaps would this tutorial help : http://www2.sahores-conseil.com/insead/index.html Cheers, P. Le 30 mars 10 à 04:43, Shani a écrit : hi, is there is any program in which Revtalk working as a server (GUI) for any other Program through Socket Programming. Regards, SHANI

Re: Standalone issues

2010-03-29 Thread Joe F.
No apologies necessary Sarah- It's quite reassuring to know you also go through these episodes of agony. I just went thru a similar thing trying to figure out why datagrids weren't working in a stack that I now want to make into a separate unit of a standalone. I'm curious how you go

Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-29 Thread Joe F.
Does anyone know of a way to identify the Windows machine of a certain user in a reliable way. I want my app to download a stack file which will only run on one user's machine. Is there a way to access something like a MAC number or some unique identifier on Windows machines. Bonus

Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-29 Thread Monte Goulding
On 30/03/2010, at 2:51 PM, Joe F. wrote: Does anyone know of a way to identify the Windows machine of a certain user in a reliable way. I want my app to download a stack file which will only run on one user's machine. Is there a way to access something like a MAC number or some unique

Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Don't bother. All they have to do is install in a VM, or even in Wine. Then if they move the VM, or the Wine folder, the machine ID stays the same. So you don't achieve anything, all you do is annoy your less sophisticated customers, who will find someone who knows how to defeat it. But it