Re: tRev and Win Vista

2010-07-24 Thread Martin Blackman
works fine for me on Vista and Win 7 Mark Same for me here... Vista or Win 7 is a no go. Thanks for trying to resolve it Jerry. Keep us posted if you have any sucess. :) My experience is the same. Fortunately, glx2 keeps on tickin'... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: tRev and Win Vista

2010-07-24 Thread Martin Blackman
Actually my bad, it doesn't work on Win 7 (64 bit) for me, only on vista (32 bit, no service packs installed) For some reason on Win 7 the user account control asks me if I want to allow tRev to make changes to the system when I run it, I don't get that on Vista On 24 July 2010 14:35, Martin

Re: tRev and Win Vista

2010-07-24 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Thanks everyone for the feedback (especially Jerry). Martin, that might be a clue. The Vista box it fails on in my place is a 64 Bit version. MAybe Rev does not especially like those editions in some areas? MAybe I am totally wrong on this. I got no test machine with a 32 bit version I am

Re: OT: Mac vs Win partisanship is unnecessary

2010-07-24 Thread Steve King
Joe Can you not use windows magnifier, from the accessories menu? This will work on anything displayed on the screen so is application independent. Cheers Steve - Joe wrote Gentlepeople, I have to take exception to this. Visually challenged as I

Re: OT: Mac vs Win partisanship is unnecessary

2010-07-24 Thread Peter Alcibiades
There is Gnome-Mag in Linux. Never used it, but it was part of Gnome's effort to be visually impaired compliant. It seems to install automatically as part of the Debian distro, so its probably in Ubuntu also, if not, must be in the repositories. -- View this message in context:

Re: Unable to save prefs in Windows/Mac standalones

2010-07-24 Thread charles61
Richmond, Apparently you only read the header of my posting and my script. I am NOT saving preferences in a standalone. If you look at my script you will see that I am trying to save my preferences as a separate file. The Preferences are read into the program each time it is launched. With this

Unable to get saved preferences file into a standalone at launched

2010-07-24 Thread charles61
I have two stacks: a splash and an app stack (S504). I have a stack prefs which is part of the app stack. The Prefs stack is not moved out as a separate stack when the standalone is made. I used an installer to install my program in the AllUsersAppData directory for windows Xp. When I run the

[ANN] revIgniter v1.3.8b released

2010-07-24 Thread Ralf Bitter
This is just another maintenance release including two bug fixes. Info and download at: http://revigniter.com/ Best regards Ralf ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Datagrid Decimal Alignment

2010-07-24 Thread Glen Bojsza
Hello, I have tried implementing Decimal Alignment from the sample given with Datagrid. Problem is that the negative sign doesn't show? If you double click and add a negative sign in from of the number it doesn't show. Also if you double click and enter a new number with a negative sign then

Re: OT: Mac vs Win partisanship is unnecessary

2010-07-24 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Steve, I spend so little time on Windows via Fusion, that I was not even aware there is an accessory called magnifier. I'll give it a try. Thanks. Joe Wilkins On Jul 24, 2010, at 1:13 AM, Steve King wrote: Joe Can you not use windows magnifier, from the accessories menu? This will work

Re: Unable to save prefs in Windows/Mac standalones

2010-07-24 Thread Richmond
On 07/24/2010 05:31 PM, charles61 wrote: Richmond, Apparently you only read the header of my posting and my script. I am NOT saving preferences in a standalone. If you look at my script you will see that I am trying to save my preferences as a separate file. The Preferences are read into the

Re: Unable to get saved preferences file into a standalone at launched

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Bonner
After glancing through your description of the problem, I believe you gave yourself the answer. You said that when you launch your app, the prefs aren't loaded until you manually open and then close the prefs stack. This is because you have the call to do so in the prefs stack itself and unless

Re: Unable to save prefs in Windows/Mac standalones

2010-07-24 Thread charles61
Richmond, The prefs appear in the Prefs stack of the standalone but they do not appear in the app itself. I am puzzled why they do not appear in the app. Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On Jul 24, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Richmond Mathewson-2 [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: On 07/24/2010 05:31

Re: Unable to get saved preferences file into a standalone at launched

2010-07-24 Thread charles61
Mike, Thanks for your explanation and suggestion. I will take a look at this and see what modifications I need to make it work. Thanks again! Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On Jul 24, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Mike Bonner [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: After glancing through your description of

Re: Unable to save prefs in Windows/Mac standalones

2010-07-24 Thread Richmond
Let's suppose you have a, possibly invisible, stack containing a field in which you are saving the prefs: Let's call that stack Preffs and make it a substack of your main stack, here called Mane. Now, I suppose the first thing Mane ought to do on opening is read the prefs from the field in

[ANN] Point and click to modify your breakpoints in tRev!

2010-07-24 Thread Jerry Daniels
Cool video; cool new Breakpoint Editor: http://reveditor.com/point-click-to-modify-your-breakpoints-in-tre Best, Jerry Daniels Use tRev's buy link during your 7 day free trial to get 20% off: http://reveditor.com/tag/shouldiswitch ___ use-revolution

Re: Estimate/Quotation program, help me please.....

2010-07-24 Thread Ted Mills
Al, Here's some basic screen shots showing what it would look like: Step 1 http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/file/n2301179/Step1.png Step 2 http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/file/n2301179/Step2.png Step 3

replaceText -- Regex question

2010-07-24 Thread Glen Bojsza
This should be easy for the Regex experts ... or maybe I can do it another way? I have to change the beginning of a string. The original string is ALWAYS proceeded by _parm For example NetlistOf6Port_parm01.zip I need to change NetlistOf6Port_parm to Study4 and should result in the string now

Re: replaceText -- Regex question

2010-07-24 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 24 juil. 2010 à 19:39, Glen Bojsza a écrit : This should be easy for the Regex experts ... or maybe I can do it another way? I have to change the beginning of a string. The original string is ALWAYS proceeded by _parm [...] I have thousands of beginnings that need changing so I am

Re: replaceText -- Regex question

2010-07-24 Thread Glen Bojsza
Perfect. thank you! On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ludovic Thébault ludovic.theba...@laposte.net wrote: Le 24 juil. 2010 à 19:39, Glen Bojsza a écrit : This should be easy for the Regex experts ... or maybe I can do it another way? I have to change the beginning of a string.

How can I delete an object when clicked?

2010-07-24 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have an object (in this case an image) on a card that I want the user to delete. If I put the following script into the image, Rev complains that the script is still executing so it won't complete. on mouseUp delete me end mouseUp Error: (Object: stack locked, or object's script is

Re: [OT-Rodeo] Still waiting for the aha moment

2010-07-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Stephen, I think the issue is one of perspective. I know of several professionals running Windows on a virtual machine inside a Mac to do billable work when necessary. I see no reason of others working the other way around. While I wouldn't personally recommend it, one fella has a Mac but works

Re: How can I delete an object when clicked?

2010-07-24 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Bill, Try this: on mouseUp send (delete the long name of me) to this card in 0 secs end mouseUp That will: 1) allow the current handler to quit executing before the delete is attempted. 2) let the delete be done by an object not being deleted. Phil On 7/24/10 12:59 PM, Bill Vlahos

Re: [OT-Rodeo] Still waiting for the aha moment

2010-07-24 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Somehow statements about how ultimately more practical and economical it is to have an Intel Mac ( any Intel Mac* ) be one's main machine rather than a PC and a Hackintosh has turned into some kind of discourse about 'class struggle' between the rich Macintosh fanboys and the poor struggling

Re: Datagrid Decimal Alignment

2010-07-24 Thread zryip theSlug
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Glen Bojsza gboj...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have tried implementing Decimal Alignment from the sample given with Datagrid. Problem is that the negative sign doesn't show? If you double click and add a negative sign in from of the number it doesn't show.

RE: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Schaubeck
I am having the same issue with revlets. They work 100% in IE but maybe 85% in Firefox. Is there a certain discipline I should be using when writing code for revlets so they work in revlets supported browsers? jim schaubeck 714.321.4499 -Original Message-

Re: How can I delete an object when clicked?

2010-07-24 Thread Bill Vlahos
Phil, This script doesn't do anything. Bill On Jul 24, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Bill, Try this: on mouseUp send (delete the long name of me) to this card in 0 secs end mouseUp That will: 1) allow the current handler to quit executing before the delete is attempted.

Re: How can I delete an object when clicked?

2010-07-24 Thread zryip theSlug
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: Phil, This script doesn't do anything. Bill On Jul 24, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Bill, Try this: on mouseUp   send (delete the long name of me) to this card in 0 secs end mouseUp Hi Bill, In the

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Bill Vlahos
OK. I wasn't specific about all the details because it wasn't material to the question but since people keep trying to solve the wrong problem I will now say the whole story. A company I work at has this terrible time card software program. For some inexplicable reason this web page actually

Re: How can I delete an object when clicked?

2010-07-24 Thread Bill Vlahos
As Richard Gaskin would say, Works a treat. Thanks. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:51 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Bill

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Andre Garzia
Bill, can't you do something akin to shell(iexplorer.exe the url) ? On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: OK. I wasn't specific about all the details because it wasn't material to the question but since people keep trying to solve the wrong problem I will now

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Bonner
Yeah, that was suggested as well as launch whattolaunch with program. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Bill, can't you do something akin to shell(iexplorer.exe the url) ? On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: OK. I

Re: Datagrid Decimal Alignment

2010-07-24 Thread Glen Bojsza
Yes, this did the trick! Also, this shows how much there is to learn with DataGrid. thanks. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:36 PM, zryip theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Glen Bojsza gboj...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have tried implementing Decimal

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Ault
On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: However, it sounds like there isn't a good way to open a specific browser in Windows. Bill Vlahos For me, if there was a program or operation that opened a browser in the manner you are describing, I would be unpleasantly surprised and

Datagrid custom sorting for a column

2010-07-24 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Seems I am a bit too dumb for this... If I wanted to sort the data for a datagrid ascending numeric by word 2 of each line of column 2, how would I do this? I *think* I need the SortDataGridColum message, but what would I need to do with it? All help greatly appreciated. All the best, Malte

Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Ted Mills
I am trying to set the contents of a label field based upon a selection from a 2 button radio button group, this is what I have but it doesn't work: if the hilite of btn Radio3 of group 1223 is true then set the contents of Label Field 40 to Yes else set the contents of

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Bonner
set the label of field 40 to Yes On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Ted Mills tm1...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to set the contents of a label field based upon a selection from a 2 button radio button group, this is what I have but it doesn't work:    if the hilite of btn Radio3 of group

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Ted Mills
Does it matter if the radio group is on one card and the field is on another? For some reason that did not work. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Setting-the-contents-of-a-field-tp2301363p2301365.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Bonner
Actually when I answered it, I was spacing out. Just use put in this case. As long as the name of the field is unique, it shouldn't matter as long as its on the same card, so you can put Yes into field 40 and it should work. Sorry about the first answer, just one of those senior moments. On

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Ted- Saturday, July 24, 2010, 7:42:00 PM, you wrote: Does it matter if the radio group is on one card and the field is on another? For some reason that did not work. ...A) it's probably bad form to give your objects numeric names. Just confuses the poor compiler and makes extra work for it.

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Ted Mills
Thanks for the advice on using numeric names with objects. I am extremely new and trying to learn how to use Runrev on my own. Regarding the scripting this is what I have now using your B example: if the hilite of btn Radio3 of group id 1223 is true then put Yes into Field fldCompreq of card

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Martin Blackman
I don't think you want the quotations around those id numbers Also you can drop the 'is true' On 25 July 2010 11:04, Ted Mills tm1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the advice on using numeric names with objects. I am extremely new and trying to learn how to use Runrev on my own. Regarding the

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Ted- Saturday, July 24, 2010, 8:04:04 PM, you wrote: For some reason this is still not working. Is it possible that there is something wrong with my cards? Well, let's step back a bit - what do you mean by not working? Are you getting a runtime error? Does anything show up in the field of

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Ted Mills
I am not getting a runtime error but the field on card id 1176 is not changing either but is placed on the field on card 1176. I do not have it on a mouseup handler either. Should it be? And should the code be placed on the radio button group instead? -- View this message in context:

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Ted- Saturday, July 24, 2010, 8:18:17 PM, you wrote: I am not getting a runtime error but the field on card id 1176 is not changing either but is placed on the field on card 1176. I do not have it on a mouseup handler either. Should it be? And should the code be placed on the radio button

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Ted Mills
Mark- Thank you so much for your help. That worked perfectly. As I am trying to teach myself I am reading all over the web and pdf documents as well as using the sample scripts I come across, but not knowing the terminology is hanging me up. Thanks again for your help, now it's time to move on

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Ted- If you haven't seen it yet, check out Richard Gaskin's guide to the message path: http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/revolution_message_path.html -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread Ted Mills
I had not seen it, but looks like it will definitely be a good resource in my quest to learn to program. Thanks again for your patience... -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Setting-the-contents-of-a-field-tp2301363p2301389.html Sent from the

Re: [HELP!] Rev Externals: running a loop without disrupting the stack or inter thread communication

2010-07-24 Thread Shao Sean
Be nice once Rev gets back into the swing of updating their desktop offering and the external interface.. The sample they released at a Rev conference looks nice and has a sample of spawning a thread and returning back to Rev.. ___ use-revolution

Re: Setting the contents of a field

2010-07-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/24/10 10:48 PM, Ted Mills wrote: I had not seen it, but looks like it will definitely be a good resource in my quest to learn to program. Thanks again for your patience... We wrote the scripting conferences with you in mind, even though we hadn't met you yet. :) These walk you through

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/24/10 4:23 PM, Jim Schaubeck wrote: I am having the same issue with revlets. They work 100% in IE but maybe 85% in Firefox. Is there a certain discipline I should be using when writing code for revlets so they work in revlets supported browsers? Originally we were talking about web