Re: What does the 4.0 iPhone SDK mean for revMobile?

2010-04-10 Thread René Micout
Le 10 avr. 2010 à 05:57, Colin Holgate a écrit : It is quite possible that anything that is XCode based might start to behave properly if just recompiled under the SDK4, and that would indeed show an advantage of having used XCode. But what Apple could do is insist that all apps honor

Re: Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window

2010-04-10 Thread René Micout
Thank you Devin ! Very useful ! René Le 9 avr. 2010 à 19:15, Devin Asay a écrit : On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Not sure the correct term for this but I'm looking for a way to to implement windows that look like the Quick Look windows on a Mac. They explode out

Re: Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks, this sounds perfect. I am on 10.5 so will try this out. Pete Haworth http://www.mollysrevenge.com http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:55 PM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Not sure

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I broke out in a cold sweat when I saw this: Its a common reaction among C neophytes, its because you had failed to declare your variables. If it happens again, splash some cold water on your face, sit down, declare your variables, and you'll feel a whole lot better! -- View this message in

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/04/2010 11:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I broke out in a cold sweat when I saw this: Its a common reaction among C neophytes, its because you had failed to declare your variables. If it happens again, splash some cold water on your face, sit down, declare your variables, and you'll feel

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread René Micout
I love the Richmond's moods (or rant) ! ;-) But for a no-english person (like me) it is very difficult to understand (ans really appreciate !) ;-) + ;-) René Le 10 avr. 2010 à 11:12, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : On 10/04/2010 11:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I broke out in a cold sweat when I

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/04/2010 12:50, René Micout wrote: I love the Richmond's moods (or rant) ! ;-) But for a no-english person (like me) it is very difficult to understand (ans really appreciate !) ;-) + ;-) René You probably don't understand everything I have written exactly because I am NOT completely

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread René Micout
Richmond, Merci pour ces périgrinations culturo-linguistiques ! Bon souvenir de Paris René Le 10 avr. 2010 à 12:25, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : On 10/04/2010 12:50, René Micout wrote: I love the Richmond's moods (or rant) ! ;-) But for a no-english person (like me) it is very difficult to

Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread David Coker
Howdy folks, Ran across another head scratcher that I need some help with. Let's say I have put the following tongue twister into a variable called tContainer: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, then where's the peck of pickled peppers

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi David C., put Jones into word wordOffset(Piper,tContainer) of tContainer -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Share the clipboard of your computer with other

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread Michael Kann
put Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked again into fld 1 - -- use this script - on mouseUp put wordOffset(Peter,fld 1) into x put Jones into word x of fld 1 end mouseUp -- --- On Sat, 4/10/10, David Coker

Question about RevMobile

2010-04-10 Thread rand valentine
Hi, all. I'm somewhat dismayed by Apple's new agreement that seems to me to quite clearly lock out RevMobile at present. I have purchased it but not even received it yet! And it's not cheap, as you know. I've got a question about implementing anything on an iDevice-- say I write a cute little

Re: Question about RevMobile

2010-04-10 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Rand, Using revMobile you can just install an app right onto the iPhone(soon the iPad). I think you still need a provisioning profile from apple but you do not need to go through the App store. And, FWIW, don't take these recent discussions as the final word on anything about revMobile. Most

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread David Coker
Mark wrote: put Jones into word wordOffset(Piper,tContainer) of tContainer then Michael added: put Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked again into fld 1 - -- use this script - on mouseUp put wordOffset(Peter,fld 1) into x

Re: Question about RevMobile

2010-04-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10 April 2010 16:36, rand valentine jrval...@wisc.edu wrote: Hi, all. I'm somewhat dismayed by Apple's new agreement that seems to me to quite clearly lock out RevMobile at present. I have purchased it but not even received it yet! Send an email to support? AFAIK everyone gets an email

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, April 10, 2010, 3:25:56 AM, you wrote: Thanks for the transliterature. and Latin scholars might like to meditate on the origins of the word 'scrieve'; When I was at Apple we could put whatever title we wanted on our business cards. A friend of mine was a technical writer,

Re: Question about RevMobile

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
rand valentine wrote: I've got a question about implementing anything on an iDevice -- say I write a cute little program using RevMobile, and just want to run it on my own iPad (which I do not presently own :-)) -- is this not possible -- surely the only way to get anything on your iPad

Re: Question about RevMobile

2010-04-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Rand, The other way to go against all of this ? Just code more web apps directly targeted to mobiles devices. If this way will probably not feet all the expected needs in about Gaming softs, i'm confident in the fact that's will be the most productive response able to target 97% of the

RE: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread Lynn Fredricks
When I was at Apple we could put whatever title we wanted on our business cards. A friend of mine was a technical writer, so his title became Digital Scribe. I used to know a lady at Apple who had a critical misunderstanding and ended up with both a title and email address listed as Smirky

Re: Question about RevMobile

2010-04-10 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
On 4/10/10 5:36 AM, rand valentine wrote: And I must say, although I've owned Macs since first purchasing a new MacPlus, this latest draconian proclamation is the first time I've REALLY SERIOUSLY felt the need to reconsider my loyalty to such a company. rand Aloha, Rand: I would not slam

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richard, C++ is a great language, I'm sure everyone will love it once they get to know it. No, not really: I broke out in a cold sweat when I saw this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C I couldn't agree more, except that there was also a tendancy

printPaperRectangle

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I had agreed to try motif look and feel to see if it make any difference to the print card problem, and no, it does not. A card printed with look and feel set to motif looks identical to one with look and feel set to anything else. In the process of experimentation, it seemed reasonable to

Re: Modifiable IDE [Was: Question about RevMobile]

2010-04-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 10 Apr 2010, at 18:29, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: How would we all like it if RunRev allowed any third party developer to just upload stuff that was automatically incorporated into the IDE, which then broke the IDE? I know that's completely counter the point you tried to make,

Re: Modifiable IDE [Was: Question about RevMobile]

2010-04-10 Thread David Bovill
Me too - but only within the forthcoming modular IDE and ideally with versioning and other social features that fully supported this. Chaos needs to be organised :) 2010/4/10 Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com On 10 Apr 2010, at 18:29, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: How would we all like it

Re: Modifiable IDE [Was: Question about RevMobile]

2010-04-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10 Apr 2010, at 18:29, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: How would we all like it if RunRev allowed any third party developer to just upload stuff that was automatically incorporated into the IDE, which then broke the IDE? Well . . . I could point out that this happens all the time

[ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-10 Thread Jerry Daniels
Script and object editor oriented folk: We have a marvelous video of Build 319 of tRev for you today: http://reveditor.com/magic-menus-look-ma-no-hands It shows how the new tRev Magic Menus work. Some details... New Magic Menu: - We needed a pop up menu for tRev lists and code that could

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Apr 10, 2010, at 11:52 AM, David Coker wrote: Mark wrote: put Jones into word wordOffset(Piper,tContainer) of tContainer then Michael added: put Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked again into fld 1 - -- use this script - on

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread Jim Ault
This kind of search and replace has been discussed before, about 3 months ago on this list. Caveats are the definition of a word in Rev vs a programmer's or user's definition. Commas can be part of a word a,word,seen,as,one two words, Also be careful of the wordOffset hit rules. It may

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Peter, As David pointed out, you can do that easily with the replace command. I thought I'll mention this to avoid confusion. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer

Re: What does the 4.0 iPhone SDK mean for revMobile?

2010-04-10 Thread François Chaplais
could not this boil down to an small extra number of API that have to be enforced in revmobile in order to have proper multitasking? In another post about the new SDK conditions, there was mention of the new compiler structures (blocks) that have been added to implement Grand Central Dispatch

FTP directory listing showing seconds

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
The FTP 'LIST' command sucks. It only shows mod dates down to the minute, and only for those files modified within the last six months; earlier than that and you only get the day. On the desktop of course we enjoy being able to get time stamps down to the second. Nice. Is there some

Re: FTP directory listing showing seconds

2010-04-10 Thread Jerry Daniels
Richard, Why worry about keeping it client-side? You're calling the server regardless. CGI to get file names MUCH faster...it's HTTP! Best, Jerry Daniels Use tRev's buy link during your free trial to get 20% off: http://reveditor.com/tag/shouldiswitch On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Richard

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Meanwhile, on Planet Linux, we do not even have one editor that works. That's right folks, the built in editor, if you do cut and paste with it, freezes. You then close it down, and it crashes the IDE along with it, so you lose all unsaved work. How hard is it to make an editor that does cut

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Meanwhile, on Planet Linux, we do not even have one editor that works. That's right folks, the built in editor, if you do cut and paste with it, freezes. You then close it down, and it crashes the IDE along with it, so you lose all unsaved work. On Planet Ubuntu 9.10, I

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Brigham MD
Right, replace is the thing to use for a global replace task, but if you are doing a more sophisticated search/replace -- checking context of various matches and narrowing the search further -- the multiple offsets function is quite useful. Also, I need on occasion to find the *last*

Re: FTP directory listing showing seconds

2010-04-10 Thread Jim Ault
I not sure what you mean by 'keep it client-side'. You re sending the FTP LIST command to a server, so why not send a request to a CGI script that returns directory info by querying the operating system (such as Linux) It is probably faster and includes the info you are accustomed to on

Re: What does the 4.0 iPhone SDK mean for revMobile?

2010-04-10 Thread Colin Holgate
On Apr 10, 2010, at 3:26 PM, François Chaplais wrote: could not this boil down to an small extra number of API that have to be enforced in revmobile in order to have proper multitasking? I just did a test, to check a theory I had. An XCode project I have that was built for 3.1.3 shows the

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Here is the recipe. Open a stack with plenty of buttons and scripts. Now open any script in the editor. Use the property inspector to get the properties of a given field Select and copy the name of the field Paste it into the script. I think I used middle click, but think I have also used

Re: FTP directory listing showing seconds

2010-04-10 Thread Pierre Sahores
Bonjour Richard, This work fine for me : function FTP_Dir_Refresh active_path set cursor to watch libURLSetFTPListCommand NLST put FTP_Server_Address active_path / into tServer put URL tServer into tData replace crlf with cr in tData replace lf with cr in tData

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread Jim Ault
My point was to be careful of using (wordOffset + replace) because put wordOffset(happy, textBlockOfLines) into wordPosition replace word wordPosition of textBlockOfLines with sad can give undesired results such as- feel happy and safe feel sad and safe -- OK It is good to feel happy, yet

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Here is the recipe. Open a stack with plenty of buttons and scripts. Now open any script in the editor. Use the property inspector to get the properties of a given field Select and copy the name of the field Paste it into the script. I think I used middle click, but

Re: FTP directory listing showing seconds

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pierre Sahores wrote: Bonjour Richard, This work fine for me : function FTP_Dir_Refresh active_path set cursor to watch libURLSetFTPListCommand NLST put FTP_Server_Address active_path / into tServer put URL tServer into tData replace crlf with cr in tData replace lf

Re: FTP directory listing showing seconds

2010-04-10 Thread Sarah Reichelt
This work fine for me : function FTP_Dir_Refresh active_path   set cursor to watch   libURLSetFTPListCommand NLST   put FTP_Server_Address active_path / into tServer   put URL tServer into tData   replace crlf with cr in tData   replace lf with cr in tData   libURLSetFTPListCommand

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
David Coker wrote: There seems to be an easy consensus, so that's the direction I'll take my code... Up until now I have never attempted using the wordOffset function for the small things I've been building with Rev, so I guess it's time to work it into my coding routines for the future. Thank

Re: Question about RevMobile

2010-04-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
Richard Gaskin wrote: FWIW, I picked up a netbook a few months ago and have been very happy with it. It weighs only slightly more than an iPad, cost about $200 less, has a physical keyboard, the screen is self-supported so I don't need to hold it with one hand while typing with the other, it

Re: Question about RevMobile

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: I thought the reason that netbooks were so cheap was because they were under-powered, or under-spec'ed. Do you find them (or it) adequate for general use ? Does it run the full Rev IDE reasonably (I know you use a fairly minimalist one most of the time) ? It's not so

Re: Replace command

2010-04-10 Thread David Coker
Wow, this turned into quite the discussion while I wasn't looking! I really appreciate all of the insight, tips and examples that you folks have provided and will start working my way through it all, in hopes that it will become a matter of practical sense. Best regards, David C.

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Alcibiades
On the basis that maybe it could be something about all three of the systems it occurred on today, which admittedly are all running Debian, though with very different installation and use histories, I moved Rev to Slitaz running in Sun's non-free Virtual Box on one of them, and did the same

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Alcibiades
And in case anyone wonders, do I have the latest version, yes. At least, that is what check for updates says. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/ANN-tRev-Magic-Menus-contextual-mouse-free-menus-tp1835546p1835767.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-10 Thread Jerry Daniels
Changing the subject of this post would not hurt my feelings, since very comment to it is about problems with the Linux version of Revolution's script editor. Best, Jerry Daniels Use tRev's buy link during your free trial to get 20% off: http://reveditor.com/tag/shouldiswitch On Apr 10,

linux crashing (was Re: [ANN] etc)

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Saturday, April 10, 2010, 7:39:42 PM, you wrote: So, what are we going to suggest next? Is it the wrong kind of code? Is there something about the way I've written my app that can cause the IDE editor to crash during cut and paste? Is that really possible? Yes. Yes it is. Yes. I

Re: what form of split turns a tab-delimited variable into an array with the first line as keys?

2010-04-10 Thread Robert Cole
Take a look at my Calendar Lines stack which can be found at Rev Online (in the menu toolbar) The buttons call a function in the stack script which use split and the extents to transpose an array. HTH, Bob Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:06:28 -0700 Josh Mellicker wrote: Thanks for everyone's help.

RunRev and Linux

2010-04-10 Thread Vokey, John
I have been an Apple user since the Apple ][, and have purchased upwards of at least 100 machines from Apple in that time; but, lately, I have been playing with Ubuntu Linux. And, I must admit I am impressed. Most of my work on Macs is done with open-source software (mostly LaTeX and R), but

Re: What does the 4.0 iPhone SDK mean for revMobile?

2010-04-10 Thread Colin Holgate
More info: I've been trying out things with GameSalad and Unity too, and for both of those I am able to build using SDK4. In both cases doing that gives me an app that fast app switches correctly. I'm not sure how Rev makes its app files, but it doesn't seem to be able to make an SDK4 app,