Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread RunRevPlanet
Hi All, Trying to gauge the potential interest in a Revolution Externals SDK that could allow you to develop externals in Lazarus/Free Pascal. Instead of requiring some form of C/C++ wrapper, which is the only language that is currently supported by the official Externals SDK. To be able to

Re: App deployment on Windows

2010-07-05 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, This complements Mark's mail ... This should be X:\program files, where X is the start-up drive. I needed to build file paths on Mac OSX and on Windows, in my cross-platform SplashStack, so I needed the system Disk ID for Windows (which MAY NOT be C). On

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread planix
Hi Scott, I would be interested. I used to program in Delphi a fair bit- though I am purely an amateur. I would certainly rather write externals in pascal than C. Like you I don't have a lot of time, and I doubt I have the expertise, but I would be interested in helping where I can. cheers

Re: App deployment on Windows

2010-07-05 Thread G. Wolfgang Gaich
There is a simple way: put char 1 of $SystemDrive Wolfgang Am 05.07.2010 11:12, schrieb Francis Nugent Dixon: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, This complements Mark's mail ... This should be X:\program files, where X is the start-up drive. I needed to build file paths on Mac OSX and

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread -= JB =-
I would be interested in programming externals in Pascal but I am not familiar with the pascal you mentioned so I can't comment on the choice of pascal. -=JB=- On Jul 5, 2010, at 1:49 AM, RunRevPlanet wrote: Hi All, Trying to gauge the potential interest in a Revolution Externals SDK that

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Scott, Been there as well. I remember many many many years ago talking about this exact topic with members of the community and with if I recall, there were some troubles in the way FPC generated the libraries, some linker stuff which might not be a problem these days. It would be a wonderful

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread RunRevPlanet
Alistair, Thank you for the offer. Nice to hear from another Delphi familiar. If I start the project I will certainly let you know, if I need assistance. -=JB=-, Free Pascal is a cross platform Pascal compiler that does standard Object Pascal plus more. It is also largely compatible with

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread -= JB =-
Thanks for the info. I hope the problems can be resolved. -=JB=- On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:05 AM, RunRevPlanet wrote: Alistair, Thank you for the offer. Nice to hear from another Delphi familiar. If I start the project I will certainly let you know, if I need assistance. -=JB=-, Free

Re: [BUG] Confirmed, can't capture screen from second monitor (Was Re: [BUG?] Can anyone here confirm that RevBrowserSnapshot works?

2010-07-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 02/07/2010 00:08, Andre Garzia wrote: I consider that a bug and you? will fill a bugzilla report after dinner... Is this a different issue from: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3926 ? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: [BUG] Confirmed, can't capture screen from second monitor (Was Re: [BUG?] Can anyone here confirm that RevBrowserSnapshot works?

2010-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Ben, I think it is the same bug... damn that bug is old... On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Ben Rubinstein benr...@cogapp.com wrote: On 02/07/2010 00:08, Andre Garzia wrote: I consider that a bug and you? will fill a bugzilla report after dinner... Is this a different issue from:

Re: [BUG] Confirmed, can't capture screen from second monitor (Was Re: [BUG?] Can anyone here confirm that RevBrowserSnapshot works?

2010-07-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
All are invited to pile in with comments on this bug report, in the interests of adding useful details ((and raising the activity level) that may help it make that difficult move from Unconfirmed to New! On 05/07/2010 14:51, Andre Garzia wrote: Ben, I think it is the same bug... damn that

Re: [BUG] Confirmed, can't capture screen from second monitor (Was Re: [BUG?] Can anyone here confirm that RevBrowserSnapshot works?

2010-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
added comments and votes. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ben Rubinstein benr...@cogapp.com wrote: All are invited to pile in with comments on this bug report, in the interests of adding useful details ((and raising the activity level) that may help it make that difficult move from

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Things may have changed with Delphi, but I fear you may run into the problem I had back in 2004 when I attempted this. See bug #1526. The issue was the inability to coax Borland compilers into the proper combination of compiler options to export symbols that the runrev engine would

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Argh! I remember that bug in 2005... just commented and voted on it again. argh! On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Scott- Things may have changed with Delphi, but I fear you may run into the problem I had back in 2004 when I attempted this. See bug

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2010-07-05 Thread mark . hausmann
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Re: [BUG] Confirmed, can't capture screen from second monitor (Was Re: [BUG?] Can anyone here confirm that RevBrowserSnapshot works?

2010-07-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, I do not have a computer with multiple monitors, but reading the documentation about export snapshot, i noticed: To export a snapshot for a portion of a stack you use the form: export snapshot from rect[angle] of window windowId to ... Where windowId is the windowId property of the

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Scott, Hopefully, you could find help among the Free Pascal developers and programmers to workaround the problems that Mark Wieder reported in 2004: -- http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=1526 Presently only external libraries in

Re: [BUG] Confirmed, can't capture screen from second monitor (Was Re: [BUG?] Can anyone here confirm that RevBrowserSnapshot works?

2010-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Alejandro, Tried that, didn't work... Cheers andre On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I do not have a computer with multiple monitors, but reading the documentation about export snapshot, i noticed: To export a snapshot for a portion

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Monday, July 5, 2010, 8:35:01 AM, you wrote: Argh! I remember that bug in 2005... just commented and voted on it again. argh! I wouldn't bother wasting votes on this. I finally pulled my votes away and put them to better use on other bug reports. It's A) filed as an enhancement, so

Recording user actions in the IDE

2010-07-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, I have been trying, without sucess, to record my actions inside the IDE, with the purpose of creating an History Palette, like you could see in Photoshop: http://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=22789seqNum=6 The History palette, at its most basic, remembers what you've done

Re: Build settings for Mac OSX

2010-07-05 Thread Steve King
Hi David I actually have Icofx installed but never realised it created Mac icons as well. I've created some, I'll saee if they work when I try and install this app later in the week. Thanks to everyone else who suggested tools. In the meantime, does anyone have any further guidance on what I

Troubleshooting/Supporting Your Software

2010-07-05 Thread Scott Rossi
I just caught this link on another mail list and thought it might be useful for folks here who need to get system specs from their customers/clients: http://www.supportdetails.com/ Nice page of info at a single glance. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design

Re: Troubleshooting/Supporting Your Software

2010-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
that is cool and well designed. :-D On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: I just caught this link on another mail list and thought it might be useful for folks here who need to get system specs from their customers/clients: http://www.supportdetails.com/

Re: Build settings for Mac OSX

2010-07-05 Thread Richmond
On 07/05/2010 09:03 PM, Steve King wrote: Hi David I actually have Icofx installed but never realised it created Mac icons as well. I've created some, I'll saee if they work when I try and install this app later in the week. Thanks to everyone else who suggested tools. In the meantime, does

Re: Troubleshooting/Supporting Your Software

2010-07-05 Thread Richmond
On 07/05/2010 09:38 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: that is cool and well designed. :-D On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Scott Rossisc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: I just caught this link on another mail list and thought it might be useful for folks here who need to get system specs from their

List field with inset images

2010-07-05 Thread Simon Lord
Anyone have a practical example of a list field with an image set to char 1 whose aspect ratio scales proportionately when the field's width is modified? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Troubleshooting/Supporting Your Software

2010-07-05 Thread Richmond
I just caught this link on another mail list and thought it might be useful for folks here who need to get system specs from their customers/clients: http://www.supportdetails.com/ Of course naughty Richmond tried to send details of his Linux box to the use-list via this website . . .

Re: List field with inset images

2010-07-05 Thread Shao Sean
You would need to load the images into Rev, scale them, then set the imageSource of the char in the field.. When the width of your field changes, you would rescale the images that you imported and then re- set the imageSources again (do not think the images auto-update in the field)..

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread RunRevPlanet
Thanks for the extra tips. At this stage I have only done a quick read of the documentation of the Free Pascal Compiler, but from what I have read it appears more flexible than the Borland compilers in terms of the libraries it can produce. But I won't really know what it is capable of until

Re: Writing Externals in Pascal?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hi Scott I am also be interested in being able to develop externals in Free Pascal. At the moment, I am testing calling a dynamic load library written in Free Pascal from Rebol (a language written in C) using C calling conventions. It is impossible to get the level of granularity of compiler

Re: Build settings for Mac OSX

2010-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
Steve King wrote: In the meantime, does anyone have any further guidance on what I have to put in the various OSX standalone builder screen fields (if anything) It's a long answer which is why you probably didn't get immediate replies. There are lots of uses for plist (property list) files

Re: Build settings for Mac OSX

2010-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
J. Landman Gay wrote: The document type does not need to be registered. You can make up your own, or use an existing type. One more thing about this: if your app creates common document types that the Mac already knows about, like jpg, rev, txt, etc. then you can leave the document type

Re: Build settings for Mac OSX

2010-07-05 Thread stephen barncard
In the early 90s I registered a creator code BARN and a document code rtfd I know the document codes are not registered anymore (and Apple uses *rtfd*now). But my question is : Do I own my creator code forever? Is there no way to verify that I still own it? It was a long time ago. On 5 July 2010

Problem saving files

2010-07-05 Thread David C.
I've run into a bit of a head scratching problem with saving files that maybe someone can help me sort out. My code: on SaveTheFile ask file Save project as: with filter MYFL file,*.myfl if it then put it into tfile put fld save list into tFiletoSave put tFileToSave into

Re: Build settings for Mac OSX

2010-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
stephen barncard wrote: In the early 90s I registered a creator code BARN and a document code rtfd I know the document codes are not registered anymore (and Apple uses *rtfd*now). But my question is : Do I own my creator code forever? As forever as your memory allows: creator codes were

Re: Problem saving files

2010-07-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:22 PM, David C. davidoco...@gmail.com wrote: I've run into a bit of a head scratching problem with saving files that maybe someone can help me sort out. My code: on SaveTheFile   ask file Save project as: with filter MYFL file,*.myfl   if it then      put it into