Re: The State of the Art of Auto Upgrading - How do You Do It?

2010-08-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Sivakatirswami, Send me a private email and I can get you the latest. I'm really busy right now and don't have time to update the files or site. On Wednesday, August 25, 2010, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: >  Chipp, I see last mod dates of 8/25... did you update the pages/files? > > On 8/25

Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

2010-08-25 Thread Jonathan Lynch
In case anyone needs to do this, I figured out how. Create an image, with the desired label text and place it over the the pulldown menu button. Then set the disabled of the image to true. The image is not altered when it is disabled, so the button still appears to have a standard font - actually

Re: Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread Jim Ault
In HTML, these two chars work the same "' dbl single if you start a string with a single quote, it continues until the next single quote if you start a string with a dbl quote, it continues until the next dbl quote so var = 'a phrase containing a " char is kept intact'

Re: The State of the Art of Auto Upgrading - How do You Do It?

2010-08-25 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
Chipp, I see last mod dates of 8/25... did you update the pages/files? On 8/25/10 5:04 AM, stephen barncard wrote: Thanks, Chipp, btw, The download inks there are broken. sqb On 25 August 2010 03:52, Chipp Walters wrote: Here's a very old website which describes how MagicCarpet works: htt

Re: The State of the Art of Auto Upgrading - How do You Do It?

2010-08-25 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
Hmmm... you refer to MagicCarpet, but are you really talking about altSplash? Can we get the latest version you are using? I have your 2003 version and your stack script documentation was so thorough that anyone could use it. (thanks for that!) you talking about altSplas?On 8/25/10 12:42

Re: Converting to title case

2010-08-25 Thread Andre Garzia
jim, why not this: put fld "list" into tContent repeat for each word tName in tContent replace tName with (toUpper(char 1 of tName) & toLower(char 2 to -1 of tName)) end repeat This will capitalize all your names right? -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. __

Converting to title case

2010-08-25 Thread James Hurley
I do a lot of election database work for local candidates. The DB comes from the county and is quite large. All the data is upper case which I find ugly on a campaign mailer label. I have a stack (below) which converts a text field to Title Case which, for my purposes, is a capital letter

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread william humphrey
Thanks. Setting the default stack solved the problem. Without doing that first it didn't do anything. I like the drawer stack effect a lot. I also think the dictionary is pretty important and should be updated and consideration should be made for the percentage of windows and Mac OS X users compa

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi all, Am 25.08.2010 um 18:13 schrieb Éric Miclo: > Hello, > > It was filled as bug #6843 on 2008-07-26 for version 3.0 and is still > unconfirmed 2 years after and the dictionary for version 4.0 has not been > modified. > The correct syntax is : > drawer stack nameOfTheStack at bottom -- lef

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread Éric Miclo
Hello, It was filled as bug #6843 on 2008-07-26 for version 3.0 and is still unconfirmed 2 years after and the dictionary for version 4.0 has not been modified. The correct syntax is : drawer stack nameOfTheStack at bottom -- left or right If you add the parent's stack reference is does not o

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread stephen barncard
Hey - drawers are cool - I've got a stack where I use 3 of them (side and bottom) and they interoperate just fine. They sometimes need a little handholding on startup or closestack to get the open/close state correct, but they've worked great for making available info that isn't always needed and

Re: RunRev Specs - Upgrading System

2010-08-25 Thread Andre Garzia
Ray, I am also experiencing chokes but not specific to Revolution. My machine has 2GB of RAM as well. I believe Mac OS X no longer thinks 2GB of RAM is enough. I suspect I need at least 4 GB for smooth work. Andre On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: > André, Mark, > > Thanks f

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Mark, > Hi Klaus, > > At first sight, drawers may seem to work fine, but they are very buggy. I'd > avoid them. buggy or not, that was not the question :-) At least the drawer should open, which does here! > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.ma

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi William, > I did this: "drawer stack "consignees" at right of stack "Clients" > aligned to top" hmmm, correct, should work and works here??? > but you can go stack "consignees" or open stack consignees and that > works. Funny that RunRev has to still be compatible with Mac OS 9. I I think th

Re: RunRev Specs - Upgrading System

2010-08-25 Thread Ray Horsley
André, Mark, Thanks for these suggestions. I've worked on Macs for years but I'm thinking of switching to Windows 7. I understand it's been received more warmly than Vista and as I'm spending more time switching back and forth to make sure colors and fonts look reasonably the same in my

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread william humphrey
I will avoid the drawer. Thanks for the advice. I was just fooling around. I do think that "ALL" the dictionary notes should be changed to say "MAC OS 9" or "MAC OS X" and not just MAC OS as that is very confusing. Maybe I'll take all the controls on my stack and make it a group or something so tha

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Klaus, At first sight, drawers may seem to work fine, but they are very buggy. I'd avoid them. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 From 15th August

Re: The State of the Art of Auto Upgrading - How do You Do It?

2010-08-25 Thread stephen barncard
Thanks, Chipp, btw, The download inks there are broken. sqb On 25 August 2010 03:52, Chipp Walters wrote: > Here's a very old website which describes how MagicCarpet works: > http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/MagicCarpetAAA/default.htm > > The files are old-- I should update with newer files.

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread william humphrey
I did this: "drawer stack "consignees" at right of stack "Clients" aligned to top" but you can go stack "consignees" or open stack consignees and that works. Funny that RunRev has to still be compatible with Mac OS 9. I wonder how much of an advantage that is? On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Kl

Re: drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi William, > I was just trying to open a drawer stack on my mac OS 10.6.4 system > and noticed it did nothing at all (stack doesn't even open when using > the drawer command) and then I read this in the dictionary: > > Cross-platform note: On Mac OS, Unix, and Windows systems, drawers >

drawer stack

2010-08-25 Thread william humphrey
I was just trying to open a drawer stack on my mac OS 10.6.4 system and noticed it did nothing at all (stack doesn't even open when using the drawer command) and then I read this in the dictionary: Cross-platform note: On Mac OS, Unix, and Windows systems, drawers are not supported, so th

Re: Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread Andre Garzia
William, Merge is king! Another cool command is "format" which is like C printf() function. It can be used like this: put format("my title%s", fld "link", fld "link") into tHTML keep notice that you can use " inside a quoted format string if you escape them like \" You can use %s place holders

Re: RunRev Specs - Upgrading System

2010-08-25 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, I don't think Rev would benefit from being 64 bits. We're not doing manual memory allocation and raw data structures and things like that. That is my opinion only, instead of 64 bits, I'd like some sort of thread support. Like running a handler with no side effects on a different thread. Tha

Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

2010-08-25 Thread jonathandlynch
Sending mouseup to a pulldown menu does not make the menu appear. Using popup on a pulldown menu messes up the appearance of the button. This is on an older version or Rev that I use at work. If you disable a field, you can click through it - but the text in the disabled field will be grey. Th

Re: RunRev Specs - Upgrading System

2010-08-25 Thread Andre Garzia
Ray, I don't think Rev is optmized for 64 bits or multiple cores. If the host system does some optimizations then it will benefit but then again, everyone will benefit. I don't know if you're talking about windows, mac or linux on this post but double check if there is no issue with Windows 64 bi

Re: RunRev Specs - Upgrading System

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Ray, RunRev doesn't use multiple cores and is 32 bit. There are very many factors affecting network performance. What are the symptoms you're struggling with? Some time ago, I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) which is entirely 64 bit. I can clearly notice the speed bump. I hope tha

RunRev Specs - Upgrading System

2010-08-25 Thread Ray Horsley
Greetings, Anybody know if Revolution uses 64 bit processing? Also, does Revolution make use of multiple cores? In other words, would Revolution take advantage of features like an i7 3.33 gig processor? Please make any other suggestions regarding the optimal system for speed when worki

Re: Datagrid: simple (non-3D) column header dividers?

2010-08-25 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Aug 25, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Terry Judd wrote: Well it's a good start (how come it isn't in my datagrid user guide?) but you still get left with a light coloured one pixel wide line (leftHilite) to the left of each column header that 'spoils' the vanilla effect I'm looking for. If there wa

Re: Datagrid: simple (non-3D) column header dividers?

2010-08-25 Thread Terry Judd
Excellent - thanks! Terry... On 25/08/2010, at 9:48 PM, "zryip theSlug" wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Terry Judd wrote: >> Well it's a good start (how come it isn't in my datagrid user guide?) but >> you still get left with a light coloured one pixel wide line (leftHilite) to >> t

Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

2010-08-25 Thread DunbarX
When you say graying out the text, have you set the blendLevel of the field to some number, like 50? If so, you can see the underlying object, but the text is grayed. Try setting the "transparent" of the field instead. Then the text remains sharp, and only the white space is removed. As for let

Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

2010-08-25 Thread DunbarX
When you say graying out the text, have you set the blendLevel of the field to some number, like 50? If so, you can see the underlying object, but the text is grayed. Try setting the "transparent" of the field instead. Then the text remains sharp, and only the white space is removed. As for let

Re: Datagrid: simple (non-3D) column header dividers?

2010-08-25 Thread zryip theSlug
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > Well it's a good start (how come it isn't in my datagrid user guide?) but > you still get left with a light coloured one pixel wide line (leftHilite) to > the left of each column header that 'spoils' the vanilla effect I'm looking > for. If the

Re: The State of the Art of Auto Upgrading - How do You Do It?

2010-08-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Here's a very old website which describes how MagicCarpet works: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/MagicCarpetAAA/default.htm The files are old-- I should update with newer files. But the theory is the same. Plus, I've added a new plugin to make configuration a bit easier. ___

Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

2010-08-25 Thread jonathandlynch
What is the best was to achieve the effect of having a menu button, that is part of a group used as a menu bar, that has or appears to have a label that uses a standard font and menu items that use wingding characters? Is there a field setting that would allow mouse clicks to pass through to the

Re: The State of the Art of Auto Upgrading - How do You Do It?

2010-08-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Sivakatirswami, Yes, I still use MagicCarpet for all my projects. It does have Proxy support for NTLM and Basic Authentication. Chris wrote the NTML.dll for Windows. It also has an updatable plugin architecture, along with support for updating externals, and virtually any file. It also can upd

Re: Datagrid: simple (non-3D) column header dividers?

2010-08-25 Thread Terry Judd
Brute force method... on toggleDGHeaderLeftHilite pDGname, pVis put the long id of grp "dgHeaderComponents" of grp pDGname into tObj repeat with i = 1 to the number of controls of tObj if the short name of control i of tObj = "leftHilite" then set the visible of control i of

Re: windows, copy, past and right mouse button

2010-08-25 Thread jonathandlynch
Interesting - for one of the apps I made at work, it pops up a copy/cut/paste menu when the user right clicks into certain fields So, fear not - for future apps that you make, it can be done. J Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Sender: use-revolution-bou

Re: Datagrid: simple (non-3D) column header dividers?

2010-08-25 Thread Terry Judd
Well it's a good start (how come it isn't in my datagrid user guide?) but you still get left with a light coloured one pixel wide line (leftHilite) to the left of each column header that 'spoils' the vanilla effect I'm looking for. If there was some way to target this graphic through the dgProps (e

Re: Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread sales
William, Thanks, I'll try to remember that. Boy I have a lot to learn. I think I need an extra terabyte HD in my head. Bruce - Original Message - From: "William de Smet" To: "How to use Revolution" Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:37 AM Subject: Re: Create HTML file from rev app

Re: Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread William de Smet
Thanks Richard, That looks so much easier. I never used 'merge' before. I will definitely use this. Greetings, William 2010/8/25 Richard Gaskin : > William de Smet wrote: > >> It's been a while since my last question but working hard on some apps. >> For my daily job I needed a quick app to c

Re: Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
William de Smet wrote: It's been a while since my last question but working hard on some apps. For my daily job I needed a quick app to create a HTML file. In the app I have some fields and in one of them I put a URL (just www.domainname.com). In some hidden fields I put the needed HTML and the

Re: windows, copy, past and right mouse button

2010-08-25 Thread sales
Johathan, Mark helped me quite a bit on the forum page. I did try to implement that script in my stack. I modified a copy of the Rev 'ask' stack but wasn't sure how to merge it into my stack to use in place of the default stack. What I did was a little against the rules and worked around using t

Re: Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread William de Smet
Hi Mark, Now it works! You're helpful as always. @Bruce: in HTML you use "e; to get ". I thought I had to use this in Rev as well. groeten, William 2010/8/25 Mark Schonewille : > Hi William, > > You got it almost right: > > "http://";  & fld "link" & quote & " target=" & quote & > "_blank"

Re: Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread sales
I'm reletivley new to Rev, but I tried putting answer "This is a quote symbol "" into the msg box and the result was ' This is a quote symbol quot ' whereas when I put answer "This is a quote symbol ""e into the msg box the result was ' This is a quote symbol " ' could be you just nee to add the

Re: Datagrid: simple (non-3D) column header dividers?

2010-08-25 Thread zryip theSlug
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Terry Judd wrote: > I'd like to be able to have simple lines (i.e. no 3D effect) of a specified > color between my datagrid column headers. Is this doable? > > Terry... Hi Terry, Is the: set the dgProps["header divider color"] of tMyDatagrid to tMyNewColor do t

Re: Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi William, You got it almost right: "http://"; & fld "link" & quote & " target=" & quote & "_blank" & quote & " >" & fld "link" &"" after tData -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.c

Create HTML file from rev app

2010-08-25 Thread William de Smet
Hi there all, It's been a while since my last question but working hard on some apps. For my daily job I needed a quick app to create a HTML file. In the app I have some fields and in one of them I put a URL (just www.domainname.com). In some hidden fields I put the needed HTML and the all come to