Re: VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
lin, check out videograbber, it's fairly useful for some limited video chores. It's inside every installation (in the mac package Contents:Tools:Resources:Sample Projects: folder as Video Capture.rev) -- they actually fixed most of it in the last updates. On 22 October 2010 10:44, Ben Rub

Re: VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 22/10/2010 18:53, Colin Holgate wrote: I have no idea what VideoGrabber is, but the symptoms suggest that some frames were skipped, and yet the stored frames were kept at a regular frame rate. Would be interesting to video grab a running clock. Then you could test my theory. VideoGrabber

Re: OT: SheepSaver

2010-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I don't use it often (I use it to occasionally take a look at an old program/publication, rather than for production use of legacy software) but when I do I'm very happy with it. I certainly don't resent the space it takes on my disk, by contrast with Parallels... Ben On 24/10/2010 17:43, M

VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
We've used LiveCode to create an unattended system in a public environment which is recording several hundred short video clips a day. The clips are variable length - controlled by the person who is recording a message - typically 10-30 second each. In a small number of cases, the last second

Re: Franklin Audio Intro Pricing Ends Soon; New Testable Too!

2010-10-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 18/10/2010 08:54, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Franklin Audio is based on OpenAL as Ruslan said. Its primary purpose is to provide multi-channel, spacial playback without requiring QuickTime. Looping is possible using the API - you can loop each discreet sound being played back. My understanding it t

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 14/10/2010 00:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/13/10 5:34 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: However, have you tried Jim Lambert's suggestion of using the keyUp event? AFAIK, LiveCode processes auto-repeating keys (at least on Mac) as repeated keyDown events; but it only sends a keyUp event whe

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 13/10/2010 22:33, Michael Kristensen wrote: Thanks for the reply's I m sorry to report that neither .. or ... ...did have any effect on stopping the repeated keyDown. I don't think you can stop the repeated keyDown; the OS will keep sending the keyDown events, LiveCode will keep r

Re: [OT] 42-day

2010-10-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 10/10/2010 14:42, Colin Holgate wrote: ...It only works in HyperCard, and only with Mac OS prior to OSX (or in Classic), so the number of machines that can view it are dwindling. It's worth mentioning for anyone who still occasionally wants to view HyperCard or other Classic apps that Shee

Re: iphoneRotateInterface command in mobile apps

2010-10-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 06/10/2010 15:06, Colin Holgate wrote: Is there an orientation change event that we can use, or can we read the current orientation? Yes to both - the current card gets an "orientationChanged" message when the device physically changes, and you can query the orientation at any time (inclu

Re: Feture request? WAS Re: RevBrowser question

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 04/10/2010 15:24, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi all, Klaus, You can have a hidden revBrowser window where you load things, if it suits you then, you load things on the visible one after fiddling with the hidden one. Kinda cumbersome but it works, if all you need to check is in the HTML source then

Re: RevBrowser question

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 04/10/2010 13:31, Klaus on-rev wrote: does someone know if there is a mesge that is sent AFTER a URL has loaded but BEFORE it is displayed, so one can check the source html and maybe cancel the display if necessary? Hi Klaus: browserBeforeNavigate. You can investigate the URL, and if you d

Re: RevBrowser question

2010-10-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 04/10/2010 14:14, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Ben, On 04/10/2010 13:31, Klaus on-rev wrote: does someone know if there is a mesge that is sent AFTER a URL has loaded but BEFORE it is displayed, so one can check the source html and maybe cancel the display if necessary? Hi Klaus: browserBefore

Re: Sort question

2010-10-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 03/10/2010 15:39, Colin Holgate wrote: Ben, wouldn't yours just end up with it sorted the second way? Mark's does work if you use& No, because Rev doesn't move lines if they have the same value on the sort expression. So two sort commands in succession have the desired effect - the first

Re: Sort question

2010-10-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
This is really the same as Mark suggested, but should work even if the numbers aren't zero padded: function sortByMonthAndDay tText set the itemDelimiter to "/" sort lines of tText ascending numeric by item 1 of (word 2 of each) sort lines of tText ascending numeric by item 2 of (word 2

Re: Colors in LiveCode

2010-09-21 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 21/09/2010 10:33, René Micout wrote: All this is still annoying, almost every new version of Revolution (Pardon LiveCode) is the same thing ... This is the problem when fixing a bug... sometimes that means breaking stacks that were adapted to work with the previous behaviour. But for me t

Reducing flash with revVideoGrabber - any suggestions?

2010-09-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm working on a kiosk which will regularly record short clips of video. At a certain point in the sequence I open the video grabber and start previewing the video; subsequently I start recording, then switch back to preview, then close the VG altogether. Rinse, repeat. Each time the VG is i

Re: [feature] did you guys knew that "?" is a valid character for function/command name?

2010-09-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 07/09/2010 09:51, Ben Rubinstein wrote: This is very bad news for my long-held campaign to introduce '@' as an optional (but one day might be checked) prefix to a parameter, to indicate in the calling line that this is passed by reference. He was subsequently forced to retract

Re: Geographic Functions, any takers?

2010-09-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 30/08/2010 17:19, Ewan Richardson wrote: > Has anyone written any libraries for Geographic functions within rev? > > > Im thinking of a library for dealing with latitude and longitude, for > example determining distance between points, bearings radian calculations > ect. Ewan, Sorry for the

Re: [feature] did you guys knew that "?" is a valid character for function/command name?

2010-09-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
This is very bad news for my long-held campaign to introduce '@' as an optional (but one day might be checked) prefix to a parameter, to indicate in the calling line that this is passed by reference. ie if functionWithSideEffects(tInput, @tOutput) then ... should allow

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

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 09/08/2010 13:55, Andre Garzia wrote: I believe that this can be "fixed" by using client side javascript only. By fixed I mean "restore that behaviour". If you specify an action that is a javascript function and in that function you assemble your parameters in a url and set the window.location

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

2010-08-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
4, Richard Miller wrote: Yes. Long grabs are where we've encountered problems. Richard Miller On 8/7/10 11:35 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Is it long grabs (my next set of tests) that is the problem? Many thanks, Ben ___ use-revolution mail

Re: Bug management systems

2010-08-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 07/08/2010 14:56, wayne durden wrote: Given that almost all will indeed have excessive features, it seems like this might be a good use case for Rev and "eating one's own dogfood." Admittedly any prebuilt system has an enormous amount of man hours already in it, but it doesn't seem like a bug

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

2010-08-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
found it a problem to use revCloseVIdeoGrabber as often as needed (on Mac or PC side)... because you are right in saying it is the only way to get rid of the preview image on a Mac. Richard Miller On 8/5/10 5:39 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Docs for revStopPreviewingVideo says: "Stops sh

revVideoGrabber: stop preview doesn't hide video window

2010-08-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Docs for revStopPreviewingVideo says: "Stops showing input from a video camera in the video grabber window." "Use the revStopPreviewingVideo command to stop showing video input." "When you stop previewing video, the video grabber window shows a blank screen." When I try this (rev 4.0 or later, on

Re: Long-term stability of revVideoGrabber?

2010-08-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
capture - you should be able to set up an automated test for your idea in little time. There has been talk of a new, privately commissioned external for audio/video. Stay tuned. sqb On 5 August 2010 01:26, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I'm embarking on a project for which I'll need to

Long-term stability of revVideoGrabber?

2010-08-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm embarking on a project for which I'll need to have an unnattended unit capturing short video clips (30-180 seconds) repeatedly over a long period; and need to pick my technology. Does anyone have experience of using the rVG over a long term like this? Does it hold up? War stories, witne

Re: EXIF parser

2010-08-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 31/07/2010 18:39, Mark Schonewille wrote: For a client of mine, i have created a library that uses ExifTools http://qurl.tk/eb . My library uses an additional .exe file on Windows and a .bundle on Mac OS X (which also includes a command line app). Hi Mark, Just to be clear, is this using sh

Re: Rev Create XML Tree

2010-07-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 28/07/2010 18:49, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 7/28/10 11:33 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: ...and for my two cents' worth, it's hard to think of using the terms "xml" and "performance" in the same thought... Yeah. And it's hard to work with in all kinds of ways. I can't figure out why it's become th

Re: Quality Control Center - handling of bug reports

2010-07-28 Thread Ben Rubinstein
As I've just accidentally posted a message to the other list (that was meant to be private) touching this, it's timely to come back to the use list and find this discussion ongoing. In responding to another thread a month ago I checked stats for the reports that I've opened in RQCC over the ye

Re: File lists

2010-07-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 12/07/2010 04:02, J. Landman Gay wrote: ... put l & "Contents/PkgInfo" into tTestFile if there is a file tTestFile then -- iApp file put char 1 to -2 of l & cr after tList else if VOODOO -- MAGIC FILE TEST -- MIRACULOUS IDENTIFICATION, ADD TO LIST end if ... Checking for the pkgInfo file a

Re: garbage collection

2010-07-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I fear that this sentence from the dictionary entry for hasMemory is correct: This function is only partially implemented, and may not return useful values on some platforms. It is included in Revolution for compatibility with imported SuperCard projects. See also

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
bug is old... On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Ben Rubinstein 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: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3926

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 use-revo

Re: Uncomfirmed crash report (was Re: [OT] Computer news from Kassel)

2010-06-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 25/06/2010 17:36, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: One thought that led me to put together a more comprehensive report is the assumption that at least some of the listed bugs are somehow related to each other. You can always create five separate reports, and then create a sixth one suggesting that there

Uncomfirmed crash report (was Re: [OT] Computer news from Kassel)

2010-06-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 22/06/2010 16:01, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: It is as yet unknown whether during his stay in Edinburgh the new professor had come into contact with Revolution or the Revolution team, but considering the topic of his work this seems to be highly probable. Apparently he had taken a look at the Revolut

Re: Big Flat Stacks

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
But that reminds me - is there lore relating to the uTitle[id] of this stack the uDescription[id] of this stack etc vs the uData[id,"Title"] of this stack the uData[id,"Description"] of this stack etc vs the uData[id]["Title"] of this stack

Re: Big Flat Stacks

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Jacque, Paul, Thanks for all the sage advice. I'd already replaced the find (having discovered that the client only searched on one field) with a nice fast matching against a cached property - but have gradually been coming to the conclusion that I've been wasting my time in this glacial IDE

Big Flat Stacks

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm converting an old HyperCard stack for a client - it's a classic HC as a single table DB job, with a bit of interesting functionality. But it's big - slightly over 38,000 cards, all with one background; about 30 MB on disk. It's _very_ slow to do various things - but possibly that's only in t

Re: HyperCard was huge in its day, Jobs said

2010-06-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 2/6/10 05:03, Colin Holgate wrote: Unfortunately, Steve was making the point that Flash being big doesn't prove that it will live forever, after all, look at HyperCard. The blog I followed reported that the crowd laughed at his HyperCard comment. He also seems to be making the mistake that

Re: Geometry manager

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 20/1/10 22:37, Bob Sneidar wrote: Just to weigh in, the fact that people can write their own scripts to do this should be some indication that a geometry manager CAN work for most things. Off the top of my head, it seems you would want to set and track the following things: My view, when

Re: CMYK Jpeg's

2009-12-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 4/12/09 00:01, Ray Horsley wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like a glaring omission on the part of the Runrev engine not to display Jpeg's in CMYK or even provide a manner for detecting them. You are not wrong. (I always like to answer rhetorical questions, even if they're only

Re: Importing gMail?

2009-08-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 14/8/09 01:15, James Hurley wrote: I'm thinking of sending a query (kind of an open ended survey) via gMail to members of my neighborhood association. I'm expecting a couple hundred replies. Is there some way to import the responses into Rev programatically for subsequent processing? I've

Re: Transcript should be called Transcript

2009-08-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
My biggest priority for a new name is that it should be a sufficiently good choice to avoid being changed again. We've been through MetaTalk -> Transcript -> Revolution -> (new name); Each time the name is changed, a whole lot of efforts to raising awareness is lost, and useful information

Re: wake from sleep

2009-08-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Possibly helpful, but somewhat messy: * at least on Mac, if the screensaver kicks in when your stack is on top, it will get a 'suspendStack' message; when the user breaks out of the screensaver, and the stack becomes active again, it gets a 'resumeStack' message * at least on Mac, you can use

Re: Bytes (was: password in a script)

2009-08-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
See also Engine Release Log for 3.0. You would perform a kindness if you added a QC note that the documentation hasn't been updated to match. Ben ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: Releasing Memory and Virtual Memory

2009-08-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Notwithstanding that Derek's case seems actually have been different: I certainly have run afoul of this problem, that there is no garbage collection until a handler ends, in a similar situation: a script where image objects were created and deleted, when given a large enough job on a machine wi

Re: Why no ScreenUp Dates

2009-08-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 12/8/09 10:35, Mark Smith wrote: Sivakatirswami , inserting a "wait 0 millisecs with messages" just after "calcTime" might help. Sometimes loops are fast enough to get in the way of rendering the screen, and a 'wait' will give the engine enough time to update the screen. My impression is a

Wanted: a clue for using encrypt with DES

2009-07-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm trying to implement a protocol which uses DES encryption to send a password across the network. And I know nothing about encryption. In the protocol I'm working with, the approach is that one side sends a random 16-byte "challenge"; the other end encrypts this data "with DES using the passwo

Re: Filed enhancement request 8133

2009-07-09 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 26/6/09 08:06, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I filed this to ask for 'replace' to have an additional option - to work like the Sed /s command. If you aren't familiar with this relic s/oldtext/newtext/ will replace only the first occurrence of oldtext in a line. In all lines of the file, or the

Re: Sort Command in 3.5 is adding lines to a variable

2009-07-02 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 2/7/09 21:18, Timothy Bleiler wrote: > I agree with Richard. > > It looks like > is NOT "fixed". > Can someone reopen the report? I think its severity should be changed to > "major". I've re-opened this report - please feel free to add

Re: Rev cannot open my jpeg ! - and some serious thinking

2009-06-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
If this issue matters to you, please make your views persistent by adding comments/votes to http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4026 thank you. Ben ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

OT pour les Francaise: 3G pay-as-you-go in France?

2009-05-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm abusing the list to contact some of our French correspondents. Apologies to everyone else... and apologies to French speakers for my appalling Franglaise. I'm wondering whether it's possible to get hold of 3G data stick - or the SIM to go into one - for use in France, on a "pay-as-you-go"

Re: ODBC - Can use file DSN in Rev?

2009-05-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I would also be interested if this was possible - and even more so, if it was possible to use a DSN-less connection for an ODBC database. I distribute several apps for which I have to send people detailed instructions on setting up a DSN; it would be far more convenient if I could handle this

Re: accessing https URLS with basic authentification

2009-05-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
client: 0 bytes server: 0 bytes client: 0 bytes I also no longer seem to be able to step into libURL code in the debugger - is this something we lost in the 3.0 rollout? Any further suggestions gratefully received... Ben

accessing https URLS with basic authentification

2009-05-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I can load an "https" URL fine. I can load an "http" URL protected using 'basic' authentification, using either the "http://user:passw...@www.somewhere.com/"; format, or by using the HTTPHeaders property to explicitly add an "Authorization: Basic xxx" header. But I can't load an "https" URL t

On-Rev founders - some speed data?

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On-Rev founders are in a unique position at this point to give some indication of the performance of the new facility (granting of course that there may be also sorts of debugging etc going on, or at least further optimisations possible in the future). I don't think that speed is going to be the

Re: web browser and Rev interactivity, help

2009-03-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I am wanting to edit the selected text of a text box on a web page presented on a card of a stack. As for as I can tell, I can't directly replace selected text in the text box. Anyone has a way to do this please share. What I would like to do is press a button and have it insert text into a tex

Re: "ss" function

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
dunb...@aol.com wrote: I don't know if I will pursue this. Having all instances of a string in a list is MUCH better than hitting them sequentially. There are a few modifications I might suggest to the way the "find and Replace" dialog is accessed, and how the find string is loaded, but right n

Re: mouseControl problem

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
DunbarX wrote: > I am rewriting the "ss" function in HC. Because it is there. Jim Ault wrote: ss = search script containers for a string Rev Find is more powerful in some ways, but HC would highlight the found string after opening a script container, but only for the frontmost stack. Rev

Re: Chunk order must be small to large

2009-03-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Richard Gaskin wrote: Ben Rubinstein wrote: ... > ... a simple statement, legal in the syntax, which crashed Rev > with 100% reliability shouldn't be marked "critical" because > it could only affect the programmer, who should know better. What statement is that, and

Re: Chunk order must be small to large

2009-03-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Richard Gaskin wrote: I went to the mat with him over this one years ago when I was porting an HC project. He said, "If you need a custom behavior, use a custom name." I said, "But I *need* to override the built-in function!" and he asked simply, "'Need'? Why?" I couldn't think of a truly ne

Re: "exit to top" within modal: bug or misconception?

2009-03-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Kay C Lan wrote: ... In my case I considered that it had been an error on my part to not provide a "Cancel" button as an option. So I'd rephrase the question, in what circumstances do you consider you NEED to provide the option to 'exit to top' but CAN'T provide a Cancel button to do so. I thi

Re: How to compare bettwen .rev file

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Nhan, Tran Thi Thanh wrote: Is there any one who can help answer this question? My group are developing a project and how can we compare the difference between .rev file to know what each one does on the same file because we usually copy the same file to each one's computer and modified. We use

Re: Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thank you to everyone who replied with suggestions, both on and off list. Great to see some of the fantastic work out there. And I'm sorry that I inadvertently caused the sanctity of this list to be polluted by innuendo and misuse of the Transcript Dictionary. - Ben _

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Ken Ray wrote: We already have two major editors in the Revolution world, plus the MC options. Rather than putting more effort into creating a third, could we do better, as Robert suggested, to hook into all the work that's already gone into the external editors? We have that with the STS/MLX

Good looking examples of applications built with Revolution

2009-02-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I know that this must be an FAQ, but I've not been able to find that handy list I'm looking for. It's that time again: considering what development approach to take on a new project, which requires a cross-platform well connected desktop app with a slick UI, for a wide consumer audience. The

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Robert Brenstein wrote: Regex is indeed a built-in option for global search and that search finds all objects that contain the search string. However, I was referring to searching within a single script, a script I am editing. Right now, one can search in the editor by hoping from instance to

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Richard Gaskin wrote: Thanks for the ideas, folks. I've long believed it should be possible to make a really good editor for Transcript, and since Ken and I have been using ROSE for some time maybe I'll be able to add more of these at it continues to evolve. ... My long term goal is to sepa

Re: convert to lower ascii 128?

2009-02-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Alex Tweedly wrote: Chipp Walters wrote: Ben, Thanks for the tests. Illuminating again. You are correct, I was actually running my tests on shorter strings, but hundreds of them in sequence. So it might be useful for you to try Ben's fourth (i.e. array-based) method, but do the set-up once u

Re: Detecting CYMK jpeg images

2009-02-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Well, I won't pretend to understand this, but it should work: http://www.sweattechnologies.com/rev/ libColor.rev Richmond, thanks for the reply - but unfortunately libColor is about converting a colour description between colour spaces, nothing to do with analysing

Detecting CYMK jpeg images

2009-02-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Does anyone have a method in Transcript to detect the colour space of a jpeg image? As you doubtless know, Rev can't open a CMYK JPEG; however the error it throws if you try to open one (eg by setting the filename of an image object to the URL of a jpeg file that happens to be CMYK) is simply

Re: convert to lower ascii 128?

2009-02-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Mark Smith wrote: One of the things that can slow Rev down in a long for loop is the building up of a long output string (I suspect that an awful lot of copying and moving of memory starts to happen). I made a little test of something suggested by someone on this list (Eric Miclo?), that is,

Re: convert to lower ascii 128?

2009-02-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
From the dept of "Please don't let my wife or boss know that I've been wasting time on this" Chipp Walters wrote: Interesting note: I found the following results: function altAsciiScrub2 pText put replacetext(pText,"[" & numToChar(129) & "-" & numToChar(255) & "]","") into pText put

Re: Recover from Temp?

2009-02-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Ben Rubinstein wrote: More directly relevant to Scott's problem; I don't know what it means when Spotlight displays a dotted line icon either. An hypothesis, since Spotlight (even when just searching for filenames not content) searches in its database rather than in the file system

Re: Recover from Temp?

2009-02-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Kay C Lan wrote: Whilst I wouldn't argue against the use of TimeMachine, for those who have it, I find GLX2's Archive feature a swifter solution for such Rev specific problems. And (not that this helps Scott now) I have a button on my personal toolbar that I use to save instead of the standard

Re: Copying standalone to PowerBook

2009-01-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Jim Ault wrote: Have you tried looking inside the app bundle to see if something is missing? Right click on the icon, then choose "Show package contents" It could be that the destination file system does not think the user has enough permissions to write all the files, or it stops copying files f

Re: Copying standalone to PowerBook

2009-01-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 3/11/08, Mark Stuart wrote: I'm having an issue with my standalone application "disappearing" on a PowerBook after its first use. The second launch of the application, it doesn't start. Here's what I did... I developed an application on WinXP with RunRev v3.0. Built the standalones for: Powe

Support (was Re: Call for comments: Rev as a Second Language)

2009-01-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Dave wrote: There should be a big banner plastered across the top of it saying "NO GUARANTEED SUPPORT FOR THIS PRODUCT, SUPPORT IS VIA VOLUNTARY MAILING LISTS AND FORUMS". But, er, that would be incorrect. The RunRev "support" model is different from any of the other development environmen

Re: Urgent! - Registering a URL Handler for a RunRev Application

2009-01-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Dave wrote: (I use a third party control panel "More Internet" to control this mapping; there are many others eg TinkerTool - for some reason Apple no longer include a GUI for modifying this directly. Evidently not something users are supposed to worry their pretty little heads about...) I d

Re: Urgent! - Registering a URL Handler for a RunRev Application

2009-01-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Dave wrote: This is a Mac only question! Is it possible to register a URL Hander for an Application built using RunRev? Please see: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?HowToRegisterURLHandler Which describes (sort of) how to do it for a regular Cocoa Application. Some specific questions are:

Re: Using Rev over X11

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Luis wrote: I haven't used it over X11 but it works well over VNC. I'm thinking of trying Remote Desktop (the MS app on the Mac) as Ubuntu also has rdp: I've found that performs better than VNC in a lot of cases (I've done rdp from Linux to Windows and vice versa and it works very well). It

Re: Using rev with -ui flag

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks for the replies Jacque (and Mark). You wrote: If there's a problem, it should show up in the error log. I'm probably being stupid, but what log would that be (on either Mac or Linux)? (BTW I possibly didn't make clear that this isn't in a CGI context - this is a standalone app.) S

Re: Rev && appleScript

2009-01-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Timothy Miller wrote: When I do as "applescript" is it possible for applescript to pass a variable or function or something back to rev? For instance, just to keep it simple, could I somehow use "the result" from appleScript in a Rev script? Yes. If you test "the result" immediately aft

Re: What is Revdb_commit() for anyway?

2009-01-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
It's not just that the set of updates are deferred; but if the database product provides 'true' transaction support, they should stand or fall together. Either they'll all succeed, or none. The general idea is that sometimes a series of changes to a database represent a single logical transac

Re: revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Bob Sneidar wrote: Not sure if this helps, but in my help system under the Revdb commands, there is a blurb at the bottom which states that for standalones you have to include the plugins for revdb in order for the commands to work. Thanks Bob. Actually on Linux it seems it's a bit more compl

Using rev with -ui flag

2009-01-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'mn trying to get to grips with an app that's going to have to run on a headless Linux box. I have a number of questions - answers to any or all would be gratefully received, as would any other relevant observations or suggestions. * Is the -ui flag documented anywhere? I can only find ref

Using Rev over X11

2009-01-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm currently trying to run a Rev app on Debian Linux, over SSH from my Mac 10.5, using X11. It sorta-kinda-works, but it's exceptionally poor: the window is basically white, with elements redrawing only as necessary in small areas. Resizing the window doesn't help. Menus appear only when yo

Re: Message headers

2009-01-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Also note that this (and I believe all other RunRev mailing lists) include a "List-id" header, which I think is the most thing to test on in a filter. So for this list, if you view the full source of any message (however your mail client does it), you should see: List-Id: How to use Revolutio

Re: revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Ben Rubinstein wrote: Accessing PostgreSQL database on Linux. Works in IDE; using standalone, throws error in revOpenDatabase. (219: Function: error in function handler). Works in both 2.9 and 3.0 in IDE; fails in standalone built from either. Just for the record/benefit of a future

Re: revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
; option and so you have to select the "select inclusions ..." option. Then you check the database support and you select all the drivers. You have to select the other libraries too. Riccardo Inviato da iPhone Il giorno 11/gen/09, alle ore 18:20, Ben Rubinstein ha scritto: Riccard

Re: revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
the standalone settings. I have solved in this way the same problem with mysql. Riccardo Inviato da iPhone Il giorno 09/gen/09, alle ore 17:22, Ben Rubinstein ha scritto: Accessing PostgreSQL database on Linux. Works in IDE; using standalone, throws error in revOpenDatabase. (219

Re: revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-09 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I've now also tested with ODBC, in Debian Lenny (previous test was on Xandros, to PostgreSQL), and got the same result: works in IDE, fails in standalone. Same error. Has anyone else managed to solve this? Please help! Many thanks, Ben Ben Rubinstein wrote: Accessing PostgreSQL dat

Re: How to click the mouse on another application

2009-01-09 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Klaus Major wrote: Fact is, you cannot "click in another app" from within Rev! On the Mac you could do this via AppleScript (but I don't know how:-), no idea of Windows. Actually I'm not even sure you can do this via AppleScript. I was looking into this a while ago for automated soak testing

Re: IWBs, peer pressure, and the inexorable march of technology.

2009-01-09 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Richmond, You may well be in the position of wanting something that just darn well works; and I have no experience of either 'real' (ie commercial) interactive whiteboards, or the alternative that I'm about to mention; but are you aware of the work that various hackers and open-source groups

revOpenDatabase on Linux - works in IDE, broken in standalone - how do I fix?

2009-01-09 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Accessing PostgreSQL database on Linux. Works in IDE; using standalone, throws error in revOpenDatabase. (219: Function: error in function handler). Works in both 2.9 and 3.0 in IDE; fails in standalone built from either. Looking at the Externals folder of the standalone, in both I get:

Re: clear the cache used by revBrowser

2009-01-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
David Bovill wrote: I guess this is the cache used by anything that uses webkit to embed the system browser on Macs? If that's the case you may get a conflict with other apps? Actually not - see reference below to bundle identifier. > put specialFolderPath("utmp") & "/-Caches-" into tCacheFol

Re: the grabbedObject?

2008-12-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Unfortunately it appears that mouseEnter messages do not fire while an object is being dragged? http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6203 A bit of a PITA, IMHO True, currently no messages are sent during grab. I for one

Re: the grabbedObject?

2008-12-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Mark Swindell wrote: Unfortunately it appears that mouseEnter messages do not fire while an object is being dragged? http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6203 A bit of a PITA, IMHO - Ben ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolutio

Re: Flash + RevBrowser + Mac Problems

2008-12-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Scott Rossi wrote: Has anyone on the list done much work with interactive Flash movies played within RevBrowser? I have some Flash content that displays clickable products and runs great on Windows, but performance is terrible on OS X. Clicks on the Flash content are intermittently unresponsive

Accessing MS SQL Server from Revolution on Linux

2008-12-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
As the title says... I want to access Microsoft SQL Server databases, from a Revolution app, running on Windows. I've done this for years on Mac and Windows, via ODBC; on Windows always using Microsoft's bundled ODBC drivers, on Mac using variously ones from OpenLink and Actual. Is anyone cur

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