The New FRelease

2010-11-18 Thread Cal Horner
I know this is a 'bit' early and I may be jumping the gun but... Has anyone out there installed Elsie four fiftyone and if so are there any gotchas waiting to bite us in the backside? Or, is everything sweet? Any comments? ___ use-revolution mailing li

Things that make you go HMMMMMMM?????

2010-10-28 Thread Cal Horner
OK, so we have this wonderful menu builder tool provided by runrev for Elsie forty-five. Why can't it be used for the Tab panel? It seems to me that the Tab panel has the same attributes as the menu button and the handler is basically the same. So, why didn't the people at runrev hook the Tab p

Engine Trouble

2010-10-08 Thread Cal Horner
Is it just me or is there a trouble with a generated engine again. I can remember a few years (versions) ago that when an engine was created to drive a stack we got memory leakage (check the windows task manager) when the app was closed. Simply put the stack closed but the engine stayed in memory

Plugins in LC 4.5

2010-09-29 Thread Cal Horner
Help me out here! Either I'm having a brainfreeze or age is catching up with me. I can't figure out what has been done with the plug in folder that was in my Revolution (edition). And all the documentation that has been provided is leaving me stumped. Has anyone in the list managed to get plugin

Re: Survey Caution

2010-05-29 Thread Cal Horner
Being "Cack-handed", I had no trouble at all. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolutio

The topic is the Object Library

2010-05-10 Thread Cal Horner
In all the time I have been using runrev I have yet to see any postings on this forum about someone using the "Object Library". While working on a widget today I found myself wondering why it(the widget) wasn't in the object library and why the object library wasn't my go to tool So, I went look

Script Editor Handler List

2010-02-19 Thread Cal Horner
Is anybody out there having trouble with disappearing Handler Lists. Or is it only me? The list is there for a while and then it must decide to take a tea break. It takes a complete stop and cold restart to bring it back again. Perhaps this is a bug and I have missed the notification. ___

Re: 65535 limit?

2010-01-06 Thread Cal Horner
In response to your question about the magic number 32767. This number has an ancient history, as anyone that has worked with early mainframe machines will know. And I don't think there are too many of us on this list. 32767 was the maximum value(in binary) that could be held in one word. BTW, yo

$Global Variables

2009-12-22 Thread Cal Horner
I just started using 4.0 and in most tests I'm happy. But like most developers I like to work in my own non-default environment and so I'm trying to clear up some of the unused clutter that appears during debug. I've found that the $(dollar sign) global variables that are owned by RunRev popup

Re: Has anyone tried this?

2009-12-03 Thread Cal Horner
Bjoernke and Andre, Thanks for the warnings. I was aware(from other postings) that the IDE could be corrupted, unless you were very careful. But you didn't answer question number 2. >2. If you have tried this before, were you successful? Cal _

Has anyone tried this?

2009-12-01 Thread Cal Horner
Call me old-fashioned but after trying several text editors I still prefer the script editor that comes with runrev. But like most change-agents I would like to make several of my own enhancements. The main one would be based around a new menu on the script editor itself. The menu-items would be d

Re: Learn Programming in 1 Day

2008-03-14 Thread Cal Horner
Ladies and gentlemen, What we have been witnessing here is the 'thin-skin' phenomenon that all programmers must go through in order to become MASTER Programmers. This problem starts occurring from the day a potential programmer cuts his/her first line of code for an end user and continues to the

Re: Virtual Scrolling window

2008-01-11 Thread Cal Horner
Gentlemen, thank you for your rapid response to my query. Trevor, I was afraid I was going to have to do as you suggest. I just wanted an easier way. Luis, Thanks for taking to time to do the math. The only thing that bothers me is the word 'assume'. In the words of the famous detective Sherloc

Virtual Scrolling window

2008-01-09 Thread Cal Horner
I've been trying to create an APP. Much like a graphics PERT chart. Something that scrolls forever. But it seems that the largest stack size, card size or even background. Group I can create is 32759. I find that number very strange because of my binary upbringing I should be able to get 32767 as

Re: Bigger is better

2007-11-16 Thread Cal Horner
Apologies Gentlemen, The measurement is in pixels not inches, feet, mm or metres. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runr

Bigger is better

2007-11-15 Thread Cal Horner
I have a Background object that I use as a pin board in one of my projects. I have made this pin board a scrolling group object . I have managed to make the Background object 32767 x 32765. Which suits at present. What bothers me is the worry that I may need to make the background object larger t

happy anniversary

2007-06-18 Thread Cal Horner
A Challenge to the list members. On June 14, 1957 I entered into my life long love affair with the computer. Back then it wasn't called IT. It was simply DP. COBOL and Basic didn't exist. Fortran was only a baby. My first computer was peg boards, sorting machines and card readers, and chain prin

Re: 2.8.1: a necessary corrective

2007-05-18 Thread Cal Horner
Richmond, I concur completely. Just one thing though. Don't you think that "Work Around" should become,e a reserved word, not only in RR but all the RADs in use by our profession? Cal ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Plea

Re: Accessing gRev values

2007-05-13 Thread Cal Horner
Sometimes it is the simple things that are overlooked. Thanks Phil. That works very nicely. Cal ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: h

Accessing gRev values

2007-05-11 Thread Cal Horner
Is there any way of getting the value from an RR gRev global variable? Such as gRevMenuTarget. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Script Editor

2007-05-11 Thread Cal Horner
Has anybody out there ever tried to put text into the script editor using script. If so, would you like to share the "How To" with me. Cal ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an

Plug-ins for the Script editor

2007-04-17 Thread Cal Horner
Has anyone in the list ever tried to make a plug-in for the script editor itself? The reason I ask? VB had the ability to install add-ins into the script editor to "lighten the load'. I had one that let me insert handler documentation into the handler itself before I started cutting the code for

RevSave and RevSaveAs

2007-04-13 Thread Cal Horner
Can RevSave and RevSaveAs be used to save stacks in a standalone or StackRunner? environment ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.

Re: Framed

2007-04-01 Thread Cal Horner
Ken You are exactly right! Mark, I was trying to keep from starting another long discussion as to the merits of Rev. To me Rev is a tool set that works well when one is creating an application that is used in one or two offices But, if you are committed to a large project, and I'm not necessar

RE: Framed

2007-03-31 Thread Cal Horner
Thanks Ken. I figured that out shortly after i submitted the question. It just seems funny that a simple control that has become such a standard in the building of interfaces, should be "hidden" within a complex object. But i guess that's the difference between industrial strength environments a

Framed

2007-03-30 Thread Cal Horner
I'm looking for the simple control 'Frame' that usually appears in any IDE I have ever used. Well, that is until I started using this one. Perhaps I am just missing the obvious? But in the end I clumped together one that seems to work. I know from looking at other stacks that there are controls t

Bullit Points

2007-03-02 Thread Cal Horner
has anyone in the list been successful in putting bullet points into text fields? If so could you explain how you did this? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your su

RE: External Writing for the Unitiated - Part I

2006-11-15 Thread Cal Horner
If you use PB/Win or PB/DLL to create a DLL the DLL can be used by programs written in any other language that supports 32-bit Windows DLLs, such as C/C++, Delphi PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). A PowerBASIC DLL can create a GUI interface or it can contain pur

RE: External Writing for the Unitiated - Part I

2006-11-15 Thread Cal Horner
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. For all you Windows users out there that don't like to develop externals in C++. I submit this solution. Many years ago, when I was cutting code in VB, I came across a compiler designed to create externals (DLLs) in Basic. The boys at PowerBasic had taken t

TemplateGroup Investigation

2006-09-23 Thread Cal Horner
Does anyone out there actually use the templateGroup feature? After digging through Documentation as far back as 2.2. I then looked through the forums and individual sites I can't find any one that is using it. Perhaps you have used it and found it to be too difficult or time consuming? Any res

Re: Replicate hang up

2006-08-14 Thread Cal Horner
My Platform: WinXp SP2. BTW, Duplicate works fine. And of course the old Standbys Copy and paste have kept me from going completley "Crackers". Cal ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Replicate hang up

2006-08-13 Thread Cal Horner
I'm just trying to use "Replicate..." for the first time and after using it once, to get the feel of it, I find that "Replicate..." hangs up the IDE every time I have tried to reproduce a Group object. Has anyone ever used this tool? If so, did you have this problem and did you work-around it?

MacOpener users?

2006-06-02 Thread Cal Horner
Anyone on the list using a Dataviz product called "MacOpener"? It's supposed to read the mac formatted dicsc and transfer them to Windows. I've got thousands of old HC stacks just gathering dust in the corner I'd like to convert them with Rev. Cal _

Re: Processes, anyone

2006-05-05 Thread Cal Horner
With all the tenacity of a Pit Bull, I charge on. Trying to figure out why the process related to a stand alone .exe stays in the Windows Task manager list, even after the Stand alone if finished, closed and removed. I decided to use the example "Employee Database" that was given out by Revolutio

Process, anyone?

2006-05-04 Thread Cal Horner
After days of chasing down and testing every possible idea and suggestion, I have come to the Oracle. Can anyone out there tell me what is the best solution for this problem? A stand-alone app doesn't delete itself out of the Windows Task Manager list when the stand-alone app is closed. The ap

Where has all the Object Documentation gone?

2006-03-20 Thread Cal Horner
Back in the good ol' days, those of 2.6, 2.5 and earlier, there was a very effective tool (for me) in the Revolution on-line documentation. It even had its own button. It was called OBJECTS. It seems to have gone the way of the Dodo or have the Dodos simply left it out of 2.7? My question is si

Object Library woes

2006-02-18 Thread Cal Horner
Am I the only one or are other people having trouble using the Rev "Bog" standard object library with 2.7? After attempting to follow very vague installation instructions I have once again covered my forehead in key impressions, by banging it against the keyboard. Then, shaking my head in disgust

Re: Whiteboard help

2005-12-23 Thread Cal Horner
Jerry, If this W/B product can be encapsulated into a Revolution stack then it might be of use. Personally, in my old age, I'm trying to get away from DLLs, xcmds, and multiple languages encorporated into a project. So, I would rather see what can be done with Revolution not PHP and MySql. I'm

Whiteboard help

2005-12-22 Thread Cal Horner
This is probably a well-worn topic, but I seem to be unable to find anything about any Rev Developer attempting to or successfully develop a stack with the features of the whiteboard. Or, if you haven't built the w/b have you used its features in some stack? If anyone reading this list should have

re: debugger problem

2005-12-14 Thread Cal Horner
The disappearance of certain debugging features occurred during what I would term a vanilla-flavored stack. I was working on an "openstack" script and all the the debug buttons and menu items just disappeared. And by the way, the variable watcher turned to custard as well. Using several different

debugger problem

2005-12-14 Thread Cal Horner
Hi!, I have many different assumptions about what is causing the problem, but rather than to keep grasping at straws I have been looking at the Embassy and i saw your reply to a debugger question. So here I am I'm running Rev 2.6.1 in a windows XP Pro environment. I've used Rev since version