Re: Czech text

2010-06-06 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Just for the archives in case anyone else stumbles upon the same problem. The issue is a matter of display. The output field requires mixed font settings. If you set the textfont to a polish variant, it sort of works, howwever you end up with some japanese characters for certain character combi

Re: [ANN] Rodeo IDE preview video

2010-06-06 Thread Robert Mann
was meant to be a private post, sorry about that. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-Rodeo-IDE-preview-video-tp2234453p2244992.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: To keep the selection of a textfield visible while the focus is onanother control?

2010-06-06 Thread jonathandlynch
Rather than simulating text highlighting, try simulating the change in focus. The actual focus would always stay on the field. However, you could use a custom prop to define a pseudofocus. When that property is set to a different object, like the combo box, then text gets diverted (using key do

Re: Avoiding Global Variables - revUp 93

2010-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Earp wrote: I'm concerned that readers of the article, especially new people to Rev and scripting, will now stay away from global variables, which would be a shame as they are extremely valuable. I believe the crux of the Olivers concerns about global variables is one of scripting pract

Re: Avoiding Global Variables - revUp 93

2010-06-06 Thread Jeff Massung
Global variables are far from bad. Ages ago, back in the 8-bit and 16-bit CPU days, global variables were cursed because they required crossing segment boundaries (64K each), which causes numerous performance hitches. No such problem exists today. In fact, global variables can actually be a perfor

Changing environment variables

2010-06-06 Thread Jeff Massung
Is there a way for me to change the environment variables my Rev app is running with? Note: shell() doesn't work because it will only modify the environment for that spawned shell process. If there is no way to do this, *please* let this be a feature in 4.5 or 5.0. It's very useful. ;-) Jeff M. _

Re: Avoiding Global Variables - revUp 93

2010-06-06 Thread Jim Ault
My experience with people who are new to a language or new to programming tend to simplify or "round off" their efforts and produce the following: Use globals as a short cut to passing parameters because it is simpler Develop programming patterns that mean they use the same global names For

Re: Changing environment variables

2010-06-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: Is there a way for me to change the environment variables my Rev app is running with? Note: shell() doesn't work because it will only modify the environment for that spawned shell process. I'm not sure if this will help or not, but you can define any new environment variabl

Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread charles61
I have a series of marked cards that have many checkboxes. I want to reset the checkboxes to true when the user before an user enters new data. Any scripting suggestions about how to reset checkboxes on marked cards to true? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.na

Re: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Charles, I didn't test it but what you need should look like this: repeat with x = 1 to number of marked cards set the hilite of btn "foo" of marked cd x to false end repeat -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.

[ANN] Rodeo pre-released; has its own list now!

2010-06-06 Thread Jerry Daniels
Dudes and Dudettes... I promised we'd get our own list so we wouldn't harsh any Zen here in revLand, so you'll see a link to our discussion list below. We've also officially pre-released Rodeo via our completely re-vamped site! Check out the links directly below for the deets. http://

Re: REALBasic vs Revolution (Michael Kann)

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for all the input. As usual, sounds like it comes down to a matter of the application and personal preferences. I've spent perhaps 30 minutes looking over Real Studio and what has caught my eye so far is the report writer, as previously mentioned, what looks like very well organise

Re: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread charles61
Hi Mark! Thanks! I used your suggestion to come up with the following to loop through the cards and buttons: on mouseUp repeat with x = 1 to number of marked cards repeat with y = 1 to number of buttons if the hilite of button y is true then set the hilite of btn y

Re: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread DunbarX
Mark probably missed the fact you have many checkboxes on each card. repeat with y = 1 to the number of marked cds repeat with u = 1 to the number of btns of marked cd y if the style of btn u of marked cd y = "checkBox" then set the hilite of btn u of marked cd y to "false" end repeat

RE: REALBasic vs Revolution (Michael Kann)

2010-06-06 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Thanks for all the input. As usual, sounds like it comes > down to a matter of the application and personal preferences. > I've spent perhaps 30 minutes looking over Real Studio and > what has caught my eye so far is the report writer, as > previously mentioned, what looks like very well or

Re: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Charles, You can simply delete that if-then structure. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Economy-x-Talk is always looking for new projects. Contact me for a quo

Re: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread charles61
Dunbarx Thanks! Your suggestion is better than the one I posted a few moments ago. My script only work on one card because I did not add clarity for the buttons being on the marked cards. Thanks Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On Jun 6, 2010, at 3:55 PM, dunbarx [via Runtime Revolution] wro

Re: Changing environment variables

2010-06-06 Thread Jeff Massung
Jacque, that's perfect. Thanks. Sadly, it doesn't fix my problem, but it's a closer step. ;-) Jeff M. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferenc

Saving Data in Standalones

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
Not again, I can hear some people saying! I've just run into this long standing issue in the context of needing to save the filepath to my database across runs of Revolution and also various other settings I need to save which are currently in custom properties. I'm not concerned about sa

Re: Saving Data in Standalones

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Peter, Just make sure that you write to a directory for which you have permissions. Not the system directory or the application directory, but preferably the documents directory or the preferences directory. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineer

Re: Resetting checkboxes to true on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread Scott Rossi
Also, I believe you can write: unhilite btn foo Instead of: set the hilite of btn foo to false Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Jun 6, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Charles, > > I didn't test it but what you need should look like this: > > repeat

Re: Abysmal Sound on Windows?

2010-06-06 Thread Robert Mann
What format are the original audio files? I use mp3 that I import as videoclips instead of audio clips But I have not tested this on vista... Some windows platform might not treat aiff files as naturally as wave. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com

Re: Abysmal Sound on Windows?

2010-06-06 Thread Scott Rossi
As far as I know, Rev will not be able to play those imported files unless QuickTime is installed. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Jun 6, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Robert Mann wrote: > > What format are the original audio files? > > I use mp3 that I import as vi

A problem with clearing fields on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread charles61
I have the following script to clear fields on marked cards: on mouseUp repeat with y = 1 to the number of marked cards repeat with u = 1 to the number of fields of marked card y if the short name of field u CONTAINS "field" then put empty into field u end repeat end

AUTO: Mark Hausmann/jl1 ist außer Haus. ( Rückkehr am 02.07.2010)

2010-06-06 Thread mark . hausmann
Ich bin bis 02.07.2010 abwesend Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an meinen Kollegen Horst Strohkirch, email: horst.strohki...@pdap.de Hinweis: Dies ist eine automatische Antwort auf Ihre Nachricht "Re: Saving Data in Standalo

Re: A problem with clearing fields on marked cards

2010-06-06 Thread Scott Morrow
I think you just need to specify the card that the target field is on: if the short name of field u of marked card y CONTAINS "field" then put empty into field u of marked card y Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email

Re: Saving Data in Standalones

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Sunday, June 6, 2010, 2:53:37 PM, you wrote: > Help! You covered a lot of issues there. I see Mark S. has addressed one of them already. Here's some more. One of these is easy: if you want to prevent a rev script from being loaded, poked into, and modified then set a password on the stack

Silly Problem

2010-06-06 Thread David C.
Hey folks, I know that I can center my application stack like this: set the loc of me to the screenLoc ...but what's the proper way of centering a sub stack (about box, preference stack, etc) to the position of my main stack, wherever it may be on the screen? I'm pretty sure I've been down this p

Re: Silly Problem

2010-06-06 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:23 PM, David C. wrote: > Hey folks, > I know that I can center my application stack like this: > > set the loc of me to the screenLoc > > ...but what's the proper way of centering a sub stack (about box, > preference stack, etc) to the position of my main stack, wherever i

Re: Saving Data in Standalones

2010-06-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I'm not concerned about saving my applications data across runs because I'm > using an sqlite database for that. The stuff I need to preserve is more in > the way of internal settings. I'd prefer to leave them in custom properties > if I c