Re: revVideoGrabber: stop preview doesn't hide video window

2010-08-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks, Stephen and Richard. Because I'm selfishly focused on my immediate needs, can you clarify long grabs and problems? Are long grabs like Stephen's two hours, or would five minutes qualify? Are problems sync drift, or crashing, or memory leaks, or... something else? My application

Re: Harry Potter's magic button - a solution to another tricky group bug

2010-08-08 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sat Aug 7, 2010, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: For the main dictionary entry, use the Documentation specifier when filing the request in the RQCC. If the boundingrect of a group is such a powerful property I wonder why the default for groups isn't boundingrect not

Re: revVideoGrabber: stop preview doesn't hide video window

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Miller
Ben, We limit grabs to 3 minutes now, but I suspect we could go longer. It really depends on the processor and camera involved (and probably the audio input source as well)... tremendous variability. Only testing will tell. We sell a customized kiosk driven entirely by Rev. This kiosk now

Re: Rev/Linux update - for Richmond

2010-08-08 Thread Richmond
Here I am in London; just had time to sit down and look at this: On 06/08/2010 15:23, Richard Gaskin wrote: I got another update this morning from the team on the progress of the Rev engine for Linux, and this one's for Richmond: http://fourthworldlabs.com/rev/fontimprove.PNG With the

Re: revVideoGrabber: stop preview doesn't hide video window

2010-08-08 Thread Martin Koob
Ben Rubinstein benr...@... writes: Thanks, Stephen and Richard. Because I'm selfishly focused on my immediate needs, can you clarify long grabs and problems? Are long grabs like Stephen's two hours, or would five minutes qualify? Are problems sync drift, or crashing, or memory

Re: revVideoGrabber: stop preview doesn't hide video window

2010-08-08 Thread stephen barncard
On 8 August 2010 06:59, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote: I have dealt with the problem of stop preview window by using closevideograbber to get rid of the preview window. Huh? Doesn't that stop the capture? The other annoyance is the inability to turn off the audio while

Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Warren Kuhl
I need to check if a URL is valid and receive notification for invalid URLs. I don't want my program to open any browswers when checking. Is this possible? Thanks for any help! Warren ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Warren Kuhl wrote: I need to check if a URL is valid and receive notification for invalid URLs. I don't want my program to open any browswers when checking. Is this possible? In some cases it is. If the page you try to access doesn't exist, but the server traps

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Warren Kuhl
Thanks Colinthis is a great start. Appreciate it! Warren On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Warren Kuhl wrote: I need to check if a URL is valid and receive notification for invalid URLs.  I don't want my program to open

Re: revVideoGrabber: stop preview doesn't hide video window

2010-08-08 Thread Martin Koob
I have dealt with the problem of stop preview window by using closevideograbber to get rid of the preview window. Huh? Doesn't that stop the capture? Sorry I was not clear. I have the revgrabber window in a substack. This way I can hide the preview of the recording by hiding and

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Jeff Massung
I believe the result of your get will have an error message in it if the URL doesn't exist. Otherwise the result is empty. Jeff M. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Warren Kuhl warrenk...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Colinthis is a great start. Appreciate it! Warren On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jeff Massung wrote: I believe the result of your get will have an error message in it if the URL doesn't exist. Otherwise the result is empty. It does indeed contain: error 404 Not Found but it has the same limitation I mentioned, if you try a nonexistent page

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Jeff Massung
Ah, if you are curious about redirects, you should be able to use the HTTP headers returned from the site to know if what you got back was what you were actually asking for. Jeff M. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jeff

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Warren Kuhl
Colin/Jeff, The websites I are checking do not redirect so this is working perfect. Thanks for all your help! Warren On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jeff Massung wrote: I believe the result of your get will have an error

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 8, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Warren Kuhl wrote: The websites I are checking do not redirect so this is working perfect. Thanks for all your help! That's good. Given a choice, I would go with the way Jeff was suggesting: get url some maybe valid url if the result is not empty then

Re: Check If URL Is Valid

2010-08-08 Thread Warren Kuhl
Colin, I did use code similar to what you and Jeff recommended below and it is working great for my purposes. Colin/Jeff...Thanks again for all your help! Warren On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: On Aug 8, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Warren Kuhl wrote: The

Re: Copying binary files over a LAN using Rev

2010-08-08 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Many thanks Phil, Andre and Sivakatirswami for your answers! :-) Looks like it should be completely necessary that i start learning about sockets communications and TCP IP. This is a completely new area of knowledge for me and, if my guess is right, would require its own share of

Making clickable text links in Rev

2010-08-08 Thread tech1
Hi folks, I can’t find this in the docs. Let’s say there’s a scrolling field with a few thousand words. Is there a way to make some words into clickable links, as in html web pages, without using their position? Because the text will be lengthy, and changed at various times, I want to avoid

Re: Rev and Microsoft COM methods

2010-08-08 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Glen, The as VBScript will work very well with COM methods. If you find my LibITS stack on Rev that is how I made the Windows side. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net I Can Speak - Communication for the rest of us...

Re: Making clickable text links in Rev

2010-08-08 Thread Monte Goulding
Where there's a will there's a way. For starters look at htmlText in the dictionary. If pre-parsing the text you want to put in your field and adding the links won't work then you might try checking out the mouseText and clickText functions. For this method let's say you had a list of words

browser messages, Pass them?

2010-08-08 Thread Bob Cole
I use revBrowser in a stack and it works fine. I noticed that a message is sent when I click on a link in the browser window: browserBeforeNavigate 10:00:35 PM (11005) What does the number in parentheses mean? Process ID? I trap this message in a card handler so I can update a status

Re: Making clickable text links in Rev

2010-08-08 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Sandy, I think I have a tutorial up on the Buckets/Lessons thingy at RunRev's site on this topic... Here it is: http://lessons.runrev.com/spaces/lessons/buckets/784/lessons/7406-Creating-Hypertext-Links-in-Fields Unfortunately, it uses what you want to avoid. Maybe somebody else has a

Re: [ANNOYANCE] Custom protocols that are not registered do not trigger browserBeforeNavigate correctly on windows.

2010-08-08 Thread Terry Judd
What's really annoying is that you used to be able to grab data from form elements using browserBeforeNavigate - the values of the form elements would be reported in the url variable, even if no action was ascribed to the form. This was really useful as you could use a webform to capture some user