Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Mike If you're using the 3.5 engine you can use liburl via the following: http://www.lacscentre.com/liburl/releases.html regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe a

Re: Download Beta Test Franklin Audio External for LiveCode

2010-10-06 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Ruslan Personally, I have one project which audio playback and recording is central so having a cross platform (other than quicktime) solution is useful, particularly windows & mobile platforms. regards alex On 6/10/10 5:05 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: On 10/6/10 9:20 AM, "

Re: Download Beta Test Franklin Audio External for LiveCode

2010-10-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Lynn Also, will/is it compatible with revmobile? regards alex On 5/10/10 9:02 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Lynn, Really amazing. Even if i got exactly the same beta-glichies exposed by Bob, Franklin Audio seems very promising (OS X 10.6.4 MBP i7 15"). Will it be way to run it from within t

Re: tRev name change and site re-org

2010-09-21 Thread Alex Shaw
Thanks Jerry. Noticed only a OSX version for Remo (327), will you create a windows version? I still have major problems with tRev (325) on my Windows7 64bit machine. Is this a runrev or tRev problem? regards alex On 22/09/10 2:35 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: tRev users, Since Rev has change

Re: Copy field problem

2010-08-31 Thread Alex Shaw
rds alex On 31/08/10 8:17 PM, Richmond wrote: On 08/31/2010 12:37 PM, Alex Shaw wrote: Hi Jan Yes, that worked for me too. Fortunately, as a workaround, having 'sharedText' active for that particular field isn't going to cause any problems in this instance but I still think it&#x

Re: Copy field problem

2010-08-31 Thread Alex Shaw
" This works.. copy fld 1 of card 1 of stack "teststack" create stack "new" paste hmm.. strange regards alex On 31/08/10 6:30 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- On Mon, 8/30/10, Alex Shaw wrote: Hi Having a annoying problem with copying a field from a (specific) stack.

Copy field problem

2010-08-30 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Having a annoying problem with copying a field from a (specific) stack. See below for basic test stack with a single field with some content.. http://www.harryscollar.com/teststack.rev This unusual stack was initially created via code, stripped back of unneeded controls and saved. When I

Re: tRev and Win Vista

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Shaw
Hmm, been having same issue with tRev on a 64-bit windows7 desktop machine here plus many other issues. Which is a shame because it has the biggest monitor attached. Don't have 32-bit win7 but seems to work ok on 32-bit xp on a 64-bit machine (macbook via bootcamp). Back to 64-bit win7, tRev

Re: Smokescreen.rev

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Simon The code is available @ http://smokescreen.us/demos/js/smokescreen.0.1.3-min.js Would be handy but just can't get into javascript :) regards alex On 1/07/10 12:55 PM, Simon Lord wrote: The project is about 6 weeks old I think. Been keeping my eye on it. Very curious to get my hands

Re: Smokescreen.rev

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Here's a link to a good discussion on this i read recently.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395509 There is lots of good of debate on whether flash is dead/restrictive/etc and html5 is the future.. http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html Personally flash is just

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.3.3b released

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Ralf Keen to really get into revigniter a bit more seriously and like the documentation you've put together. Does it work with the newly available revserver or only with on-rev? regards alex On 1/07/10 6:51 PM, Ralf Bitter wrote: This version addresses issues related to XSS cleaning of

Re: RevMobile first impressions?

2010-03-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Sarah Thanks for the all the updates. For those who haven't seen it.. http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/05/revmobile-write-iphone-and-ipad-apps-without-knowing-objective/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Ftuaw+%28The+Unofficial+Apple+Weblog+%28TUAW%29%29 Hmm..

Re: iPadding around?

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Yes, true, and I'm excited about eventually creating i-apple-product-apps in runrev but one shouldn't assume automatic access to worldwide customers because you still have to go through the Apple shop.. http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html http://www.fsf.org/news/ibad_launch regards alex

Re: Interesting blog post - comments anyone?

2009-11-29 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Absolutely. I'd simply like Rev to become more popular so as to allow RunRev to provide a better product. btw.. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a9617/ask_does_anybody_use_runtime_revolution_here_how/ regards alex Petrides, M.D. Marian wrote: Worse still. Its bad PR.

Re: OSX drag & drop rev application?

2009-07-09 Thread Alex Shaw
Thanks Jacqueline! That and setting values for the standalone OSX settings: Document Type & Document Extension, solved things. kind regards alex J. Landman Gay wrote: Alex Shaw wrote: Hi No problems getting the global variable $1 working on a runrev windows standalone to determine

OSX drag & drop rev application?

2009-07-08 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi No problems getting the global variable $1 working on a runrev windows standalone to determine what data file was dropped on the application or double-clicked to launch the standalone but how do you do this on OSX? Discovered if the data file is really a renamed stack set to be opened by

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-25 Thread Alex Shaw
nrev plugin? regards alex Bill Marriott wrote: In the initial version 4.0 you can expect very little change from the version 3.5 video management capabilities. "Alex Shaw" wrote in message news:4a434746.5060...@harryscollar.com... Hi Bill The one question I asked during the webinar..

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-25 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Bill The one question I asked during the webinar.. Since rev is currently heavily dependant on quicktime for video and audio capture.. I assume it will still be a requirement for video playback and audio capture via the web plugin? regards alex Bill Marriott wrote: While we have used Fla

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I agree, but a good way around this is to use something like VLC (www.videolan.org) to view videos on both mac & pc. ps. although it was freezing cold and 3:30am here in Alice Springs(Australia) it was good to experience my first rev webinar! regards alex Bill Marriott wrote: Michael,

Re: OT: Increasing the volume in a movie clip

2009-05-17 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Ryno You can easily use something like audacity (free).. http://audacity.sourceforge.net .. import/select the faint region and apply the "amiplify" effect. Depending on how faint the original is you may want to apply a noise reduction filter too. It's fun playing with sound :) regards al

Re: [OT] Deciding about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Colin In this case, I'm not sure what you mean by "secure disk image access" but SSH is useful for debugging traditional scripting languages (bash, php, ruby etc). You could compile & debug on your own install of Linux and then upload to on-rev but as anyone who has used Linux knows, not

Re: [OT] Deciding about On-Rev

2009-04-20 Thread Alex Shaw
Thanks for that info George. I can understand not giving root access via SSH on a shared hosting environment but do you actually get any SSH access with on-rev? Can't find a reference on the website. regards alex George C Brackett wrote: I had a couple of questions that Heather answered, an

Re: CGI MySQL Drivers What next?

2008-12-17 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I call the following at the end of the startup handler: COMMAND cleanUp closeDB IF there is a stack "externals" THEN close stack "externals" wait 20 milliseconds END cleanUp COMMAND closeDB IF gConID is not "" THEN revCloseDatabase gConID END closeDB The 20 milliseconds del

Re: CGI MySQL Drivers What next?

2008-12-17 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Jim I don't use MySQL but this works for me on linux with SQLite.. Assuming you have your script in cgi-bin. First, upload the entire linux "Externals" folder from your "Runtime/Linux/x86-32" folder to "cgi-bin" Then call this function near the beginning of startup: COMMAND loadExternals

Native Client

2008-12-08 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Has anyone had a chance to play with Google's Native Client? I'm not a python expert but it seems an interesting way of getting native (possibly rev) apps running in a browser. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10118792-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 http://code.google.com/p/

Re: revbrowser useragent

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Jim See: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5872 regards alex Jim Sims wrote: I'd like to use revbrowser to access a web based chat. When I try to do that I get "We expect one of these browsers Explorer, Safari, blah blah blah" I'm guessing the site doesn't like whatever us

Re: Re-2: secure FTP

2008-09-03 Thread Alex Shaw
regards alex Jim Sims wrote: On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Alex Shaw wrote: You could also throw votes towards the relevant bug/enhancement options @ quality.runrev.com Already did that some time ago. Want secure FTP? http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_

Re: Re-2: secure FTP

2008-09-03 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Until rev supports secure ftp internally and cross-platform like it does "https" with the upcoming rev3 release, I find it more convenient to use the current ftp/liburl functions within something like a vpn (eg. openvpn, hamachi, ssh tunnels etc). Or use a proxy like delegate to handle the

Re: REV Send Email via CGI and mail.php script on the fly?

2008-08-07 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I agree but I have had past problems using "sendmail" (particularly with attachments) on some web servers. The solution that's worked best for me is LibCGI and Shao Sean's libSMTP & libEmailEncode. All in rev :) regards alex Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, using smtp routines from a cgi is

Re: Contextual Menus

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Here's some stripped down code I've been using that works ok on mac & pc. Not tested on linux. Any improvements appreciated. To test, create a new stack, place a few fields onto the first card. Set the script of the card or stack to the code text below. regards alex --> start code globa

Re: GUID generator

2008-06-20 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Mark's UUID library is a good reference.. http://www.futility.co.uk/futsoft/revolutionstuff.html regards alex Sivakatirswami wrote: One thing I need to emulate is their GUID (Global Unique ID) generator which outputs unique len(36) random strings like 557B4610-65DC-4FEA-B6DC-32C3FA4B374

Re: AW: Is it possible to hide the "windows side" of a hybrid CD on aMac?

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I have used this in the past with success.. http://cdeverywhere.com regards alex Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: What is the state of the art of producing such hybrid CDs? Is there any way to "hide" the windows side of the CD from the Mac User, or are the Mac users are just used to this file st

Re: Rev cgi store question

2008-04-08 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Richard When visiting a https page, information is encrypted down the "wire" only. So, you do not have to do anything to decrypt it. Be aware though that the rev engine has issues when itself is accessing https URLs on both Linux & OSX. See bug 3639.. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/sh

Re: how to work with binary data inside a Rev cgi script ?

2008-04-07 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi You could implement a bash64 or urlencoded approach to dealibng with binary data. The nice thing about rev it is easy to implement alternative solutions but I'd hate to see rev go the way of java.. http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2008/03/java-is-losing-battle-for-modern-web.html regards

Re: ANN: IP to Country

2008-03-16 Thread Alex Shaw
Thanks Mark, always wondered the best way to do that. regards alex Mark Smith wrote: I've made a little stack (IPtoCountry) for any internet sleuths who want to know what country an ip address comes from. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolu

Re: RevCGI Hosts?

2008-02-18 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Chipp Just had success using the 2.9.0-dp4 linux engine on my current webhost (www.asmallorange.com), who I have been using for a few years now. Previously only the 2.6 engine would work. The main file didn't work so I had to use the "Standalone" file from the "Runtime/Linux/x86-32" folde

Re: LiveStage Pro

2008-01-23 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Ian Do you know the best tool to do 3D videos? eg. http://adn.blam.be/papervision/ regards alex Ian Wood wrote: On 23 Jan 2008, at 16:20, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Has anyone found a good solution for generating cubic QTVRs? As the local panoramic photographer... Several of the stitching

Re: Another Revolution?

2008-01-18 Thread Alex Shaw
/me puts hand up :) regards alex Andre Garzia wrote: Aloha Friends, by the way, anyone want to test the new RevOnRockets release? :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: using mySQL to communicate between PHP and Rev CGI Deamon

2007-12-10 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi David I would recommend checking out: http://www2.sahores-conseil.com/insead/index_en.html And of course: http://www.andregarzia.com/RevOnRockets/index.html I've had great success running rev daemons on in-house and on public webhosts from using a combination of the above methods. regards

Re: OT: Marvelous technology demo about picture navigation and linking...

2007-11-27 Thread Alex Shaw
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/191 this one made me happy :) regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lis

Re: Rev and video compression

2007-11-26 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi jbv Sounds like you need to develop a front-end gui tool to a command line application like mencoder or ffmpeg. regards alex jbv wrote: Jack, it's probably me who was not clear : basically, the idea is to have a small app available for download on a webpage, and with that app, users (no

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-16 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre Date & time conversion functions would be useful too. regards alex Andre Garzia wrote: Talking about a useful subset of transcript, out of my mind I think we need: chunk expressions / string manipulation. xml routines. db routines. custom properties (we can match them to json and dyn

apache insead?

2007-10-16 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Pierre Sahores used to have a good little rev-apache tutorial at: http://istream.homeunix.com/insead/index_en.html Is that still available somewhere? Could someone email thru a copy? regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@list

Re: creating scalable web application in rev using mod_load_balancer

2007-10-15 Thread Alex Shaw
Andre Garzia wrote: Apache mod_proxy_balancer will act as a proxy directing chosen connections to it's team members which are called proxyBalancers. One can launch, for example, five instances of RevHTTP and tell apache that those are the five proxybalancers. Then for each request, apache will

Re: ANN: MikMod External (mod and mod-like playing library for MacOS X)

2007-09-22 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre, Good one! Now, how about an external for libcurl ;-) http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ regards alex Andre Garzia wrote: Aloha my friends, This is my second external... :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Ple

Re: slash in file name on OS X

2007-09-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Mark To see it, try creating a folder on your OSX desktop called "/\?*|" Open up the Terminal, cd to the "Desktop" & do a "ls" listing command. You will see that even though the folder on the desktop seems ok, physical name has been stored as ":\?*|" XP does not allow the following -> \/:

Re: Data synchronization

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi More info on this couchDB thing.. http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/72-Some-Context.html .. Hmm, definitely on the right track ;) Staying with Rev/Valentina at the moment but some good ideas are presented. I have two books on Erlang, maybe one day I will read them :) regards alex ___

Re: Data synchronization

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre Good start! Obviously needs some work, eg. "STOR" command & ability to handle large files. I've started a few modifications already :) ie. clearing gWorkLog & adding explicit variables. My priority is obviously on the other job but would really like to help get this finished, in

Re: Data synchronization

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre Good start! Obviously needs some work, eg. "STOR" command & ability to handle large files. I've started a few modifications already :) ie. clearing gWorkLog & adding explicit variables. My priority is obviously on the other job but would really like to help get this finished, in

Re: Data synchronization

2007-09-04 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre Thanks for the tips! I've been working on a similar idea & you have helped assure me I'm on the right track :) Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Alex, I don't know much about Valentina but I decided to chop in this thread (which I read and learned much from). If you make a litte server usi

Re: Data synchronization

2007-09-03 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Ruslan Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: Right, this solution is (VSERVER <=> MIDDLEWARE APP) <=> ClientApp Correct. Although in this case you will have a lots more job todo. You need for example self work with sockets, and develop own protocol. Such solution choose teams which have enough p

Re: Data synchronization

2007-09-03 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Ruslan Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: And here main question we have: Does laptops should have a) the whole snapshoot of server db ? b) or its part? c) or nothing at all? Case c) means that we need only one direction synch Client => Server Case a) means bi-direction synch

Re: Data synchronization

2007-09-03 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi This maybe sightly off-topic & I may even move it to the Valentina list but I respect the wide range of experience the users of this list have :) regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Data synchronization

2007-09-03 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Ruslan In relation to your question, I am interested in .. b) off-line client to Vserver synch. But.. I have a simple & probably very common scenario. Small group of multiple users, most users have local network access and other users on the road with laptops. Laptops are equipped with

Data synchronization

2007-09-02 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Been researching various data synchronization techniques.. and these are the ones I've found most interesting: 1. Google's Map/Reduce (not really data synchronization but still interesting) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce 2. SyncML Protocol http://www.openmobilealliance.org/releas

Re: Microsoft XML

2007-08-29 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Another spreadsheet application I looked at recently is a simple one called "Tables" (http://www.x-tables.eu/), but decided to wait till Apple's "Numbers" came out. Personally I like tables views (rows/columns) because they are an efficient way to view lots of information quickly and stil

Re: Microsoft XML

2007-08-28 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Phil Thanks for the tip! Yes, I've decided to keep things simple. I like challenges but figured this one was just gonna give me a headache :) regards alex Phil Davis wrote: Tab-delimited text can work! Since you're working on a Mac... Here's what I do for one client and it's close eno

Re: Microsoft XML

2007-08-28 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi In any case it makes it hard for small developers to want to support the maze-like format. 6000 pages?! Back to simple tab-delimited files for me or.. Has anyone looked at the native format used by Apple's "Numbers"? If that's simpler I can convince the client to buy that because they are

Microsoft XML

2007-08-27 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I was thinking how nice it would be if a project of mine could natively read & write excel documents. Should be easy to write a parser in rev, right? Well after reading this article that idea has be thrown into the wastebin. http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/OOXML-is-defective-by-design.

Re: Looking for demos and documentation for Browser, SQLite and Font DLLs

2007-08-15 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Alejandro I was in the same boat recently.. had an old project developed with rev2.6.1 & used a sqlite 2.x database. The client got a new intel macbook pro, so.. All I had to do was convert the sqlite2 database to a sqlite3 one using SQLiteManager (from http://www.sqlabs.net but there are

Re: Standalones as CGI

2007-08-15 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Love your work Andre! Been meaning to get round to investigating this. regards alex Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, I just spent the last three hours working this out for you. Not only because you're my friend but because I wanted to know if it was possible. short answer is: YES. _

Re: the pencil

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Shaw
hello from brisbane ;) regards alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Scott, Yes it would be good to catch up with some other Revolutionaries. We should see what our various travels allow. So Sarah is Qld, I am NSW and you are Vic? or Tas? ___ use-revo

Re: [ANN] andregarzia.com is now online.

2007-06-18 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre Basically I really like the way you have integrated all the current rev cgi funtionality but it would be nice if the webserver could handle large data/file transfers in both directions (ie large POSTs). This can be done by saving all client sockets in list, update them a little each

Re: [ANN] andregarzia.com is now online.

2007-06-17 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre Looks great!! That photo looks inviting. Noticed a small mistake on the RevOnRockets page (http://www.andregarzia.com/RevOnRockets/index.html).. 4th dot point says "Web Server - 100ranscript..". I guess it should be "100% Transcript", or "100% Revolution script" :) Dumped my hacke

Re: Problem with Browser Sampler Stack in Rev/Mac 2.8.1

2007-06-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi There seem to be a few issues relating to revBrowser on OS X. Please consider voting for bug 4940.. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4940 regards alex Ralf Bitter wrote: This is my observation too and I think this should be corrected. On Windows Flash works as expected,

revBrowser OS X refresh problem

2007-05-29 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Scott Kane wrote: > From: "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> check http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/lexicon > > Very impressive! btw Very nice site! I just happened to be playing with revBrowser on OS X & plugged the url into the Browser Sampler. The site comes up ok but when

End of U3?

2007-05-12 Thread Alex Shaw
sounds like it.. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/11/2021244&from=rss regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferenc

Re: Bug in "the folders"?

2007-03-23 Thread Alex Shaw
hi On XP I just noticed you cannot even create a folder with a preceding space char thru the desktop (it gets removed) but can create them with rev.. learn something new every day :) regards alex Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 3/23/07, Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2.8 mac osx 10.4.

Re: Do you Ubuntu?

2007-03-19 Thread Alex Shaw
Bill Marriott wrote: Ubuntu is clearly the flavor-of-the-month. As far as I can remember it has number one on the distrowatch.com list for a few years now :) Out of the dozen or so distros I've installed over the years.. Xubuntu is my favourite and have had no problems. Got a new rack un

Re: Pendingmessages

2007-03-06 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Richard You could try retrieving the directory through a cgi process that also returns a meta info related to the event. regards alex Richard Miller wrote: Tied into this is that getting a directory from the server is obviously just as prone to failure as getting any file from the server

Transcript Language Module for UltraEdit

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Does anyone have a copy of Xavier's old Transcript module for ultraedit or setup one themselves? regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscrip

Re: Futuristic Interface

2007-02-08 Thread Alex Shaw
True, the hardware ultimately is subject to the software (hardware people would probably argue the opposite) & the demonstrated interface really seems to map to current input devices, eg just with hand/finger pressured gestures instead of using a mouse. I had my first play with MS vista today

Futuristic Interface

2007-02-08 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi For those interested in interface design.. http://www.bassictech.com/blogs/bassictech_news_blog/archive/2007/01/20/remapping-the-universe-using-this-gui.aspx http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&flashenabled=1 Now when will rev be able to do this? :) regards alex __

Re: help with a multi process http server.

2007-01-23 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Dave I see two situations where this can be a problem (particularly when related to file serving) which would need a lot of extra code to work properly. 1. Large files. Using the "seek" command would get around this. 2. Dynamic environments where file contents can change. So serving ever

Re: OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

2007-01-15 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre The same thing happened to my old ibook recently. I didn't get the noise but the S.M.A.R.T. status of the HD was "failed". I was only able to retrieve the data by booting up a live cd of Ubuntu (PPC) & followed the instructions below.. http://jclark.org/weblog/2005/05/24/ubuntumoun

Re: Flash

2007-01-10 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I believe Jiro Harada has successfully used a Adobe-licensed version of the flash plugin with a revapp call F-ab. Haven't looked at it yet but I am curious has to how flexible the api is.. Jiro? regards alex Bill Marriott wrote: Jason, How do I play a SWF? Very shortly, Rev will be

Re: [ANN] RevOnRockets Web Development educational Package! Happy 2007 everyone.

2007-01-10 Thread Alex Shaw
Great work Andre! Must say it's a nice tidy improvement to the old mchttp stack.. particularly when compared to my own which is a mess :) Not sure if you are going to create a separate forum for it but I noticed in the bit where it creates a new stack for the brazilian-magic cgi ... here I s

Re: BUG: importing image files crash rev 2.7.5

2007-01-10 Thread Alex Shaw
hmm I noticed that too.. I think the public beta was 2.7.5-dp-2 (which has expired) .. & the recent update was 2.7.5-dp-1 One of those weird time warp bugs :) regards alex Andre Garzia wrote: Gee, it's only my version 2.7.5-dp-1 that is broken!? ___

Re: flash drive serial number seems different on Mac & Win

2006-12-21 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Phil Try using the values from the windows registry.. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR\Enum The serial number seems to be consistent with OSX on the USB devices I've tried. regards alex Phil Davis wrote: Can anyone tell me how to resolve this issue? On Windo

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-12-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Op 5-dec-2006, om 15:57 heeft Alex Shaw het volgende geschreven: Hi Mark It mentions ActiveX (which is windows-only) in the faq but they claim to have a pro version (165k!) which works as a standard plugin for other browsers. I've sent a email of to them to see if they have plans to suppo

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-12-05 Thread Alex Shaw
: Hi Alex, Am I right that OSA Kit works on Windows only? Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Get your store on-line within minutes with Salery Web Store software. Download at http://www.salery.biz Op 5-dec-2006, om 13:24

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-12-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Re: Revolution browser plugin, has anyone tried OSA Kit? http://www.osakit.com regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Rev_rant part 1

2006-11-15 Thread Alex Shaw
hi With both mc & rev the documentation has been weak & I believe a good idea is an official Runrev tutorial wiki of some sort where all the bright minds on this list can contribute. Things have improved thru the forums but personally I don't use it much because basically it take more effort

Re: AVI versus MOV in standalones - H.264 encoding

2006-10-24 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I've had good success with MPEG4 too but it can be a resource hog if you try to play back too many clips at once. And also found large-framed (> 640px wide) video also suffers playback-wise on older machines. Seems H.264 encoding is the future (for quicktime).. http://developer.apple.com/

Re: AVI versus MOV in standalones - Apple Quicktime regulations

2006-10-23 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Steve I've found saving video in the old mpeg-1 (.mpg) format works fine & is highly compatible because it works on older windows media player & quicktime versions as well (ie. pc & mac). File sizes are not as compact as newer codecs but it also isn't as resource hungry on playback. A

Re: Threads

2006-10-12 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Was wondering how rev performed on these new dual/quad/multi core CPUs which are becoming standard in new systems. Am hoping for a smoother interface experience by starting to do more process-slashing of long running functions by breaking them down and using more "send" calls to recursive

Re: Filthy Apples

2006-09-28 Thread Alex Shaw
not surprising really.. http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=14915 but the cost of technology is a debate which will be argued to the end of time.. or until i can run a 80-core appletel(tm) wrist-sized supercompter from solar panels built into my hat on a rainy day:) regards a

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Richard I haven't tried these but I heard about & bookmarked them after I had manually tweaked my system.. http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html http://www.nliteos.com http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Also last I checked there are a multitude of system tweaking apps out there for xp & other syste

Re: Rev for Linux "Seal of Approval"

2006-07-08 Thread Alex Shaw
hi Linux is a great platform for server style rev development. Currently I'm researching & testing on Xubuntu, a variation of Ubuntu but using the Xfce desktop which rev positively flies. I have used a number of distros in the past, but I certainly don't consider myself a full penguin. Aside

Re: What's The Verdict, Web or Not?

2006-07-05 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi I really hope "AJAX" gets replaced with something better.. & soon because it can be a pain to implement :) .. especially when compared to a tool like rev, which as an all-round development tool makes the same things possible with less hassle. AJAX does what is does but can not be conside

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 33, Issue 44

2006-06-27 Thread Alex Shaw
hi bill haven't tried it but i hear it works :) .. http://www.firedaemon.com regards alex Message: 25 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:14:23 -0400 From: "Bill Marriott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Rev standalone as a "service" on Windows XP To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Legacy format from code.

2006-06-09 Thread Alex Shaw
aha thanks stephen found heaps of info on it once i knew what to search for :) but.. Chipp Walters said on Thu, 20 Apr 2006.. "I had contacted Mark a bit ago about the stackFileVersion property and he said it's ok to mention it, but it might be renamed or go away later, so it's not officially s

Legacy format from code.

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Shaw
hi Started my first serious project with the 2.7.x series last week & have to say 2.7.2 seems almost as stable as 2.6.1 :) The project is a simple 6-card CMS which dynamically creates the static files for the clients site from HTML templates.. great, easy stuff to do in rev... in fact, the i

Re: images in cross-platform stacks (PNGs)

2006-05-18 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Richard & others.. Some good info & tips for using PNGs.. http://user.fundy.net/morris/?photoshop27.shtml http://user.fundy.net/morris/?photoshop03.shtml regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: test.gz problem - solved

2006-04-21 Thread Alex Shaw
ah-ha .. just in from chris at altuit: The creation of the test.gz file on the c drive was a bug in very early release versions of the first altsqlite. You should get the latest altsqlite2 release from our website..it should not create the test.gz file..also has some other fixes in it. Rep

Re: test.gz problem

2006-04-21 Thread Alex Shaw
chipp: As you know, test.gz refers to a gzipped file. Are you gzipping anything? yes, but have double checked code for any "test.gz" refs & none have appeared. david: This file is created either by altSQLite directly or by the demo stack. In zipped form its contents are: 1f 8b 08 00 00 00

test.gz problem

2006-04-21 Thread Alex Shaw
hi Experiencing a small problem with a project I've installed on a client's system. The network is just basic shared access thru a standard windows network. The app was developed with rev 2.6.1 storing info using the great altsqlite2 plugin (saving sl3 for the next version :) Users have a sh

standalone [pc/win] dialog bug

2006-03-12 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Getting a few annoying problems with a current project with standalones on windows (ok on mac) using 2.6.1 & 2.7 I have invisible main stack which i create as a standalone. This stack loads a splash stack which in turn loads various other module stacks (including the one in which all inte

Re: Opening other applications from within Revolution

2006-02-08 Thread Alex Shaw
hi Had the same problem in the past.. Found the best solution (so far) is to use an external command launcher, at the mo i use.. on Windows: runfile.exe http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?50001891 on OS X: launch http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/ .. and use rev's shell command to launch

Re: Rev vs. AJAX...Or Web-Aware Apps vs. Web Apps

2005-10-14 Thread Alex Shaw
hi personally i've pushed mc/rev to the limits (& beyond) for some of my projects the last few years i've been investigating a few of these issues & various other technologies (on the "market") over the last few weeks & usually in my head i'm thinking... well, it can be done in rev.. ~not~ t

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