Printing question

2007-05-22 Thread Dave Herndon
Hi, I am having an interesting problem. Recently one of the computers on my network started getting a "Sorry for the Inconveniance but Revolution must shut down." message while attempting to execute the print code shown below on several printers available from that workstation. The print job

Help. How do you insert a custom icon into your standalone?

2006-12-13 Thread Dave Herndon
I have searched all over the internet and tried choosing an icon in the standalone settings screen but of all the hundreds of icons that I have found none have passed the criteria of Rev. Is there an easy way to choose an Icon so I don't have to use the blank square of an Icon I get from Rev ?

Trouble with sub stacks

2006-11-03 Thread Dave Herndon
I have a mainstack that serves as the main view of my database and I edit the database by hiding and showing modal substacks. When I hide the substack I am able to use the command. on mouseUp hide stack "EditWindowSubstack" go to card 1 of stack "mainstack" PerformRefreshDbHandlerInStac

Getting data prepped for database entry.

2006-11-02 Thread Dave Herndon
This script pretty much gets the job done. Stripps unwanted spaces before and aft, changes mixed or small caps to ALL CAPS, and makes ready the data for SQL data entry by wrapping the list items with 'singlequotes' on mouseUp put field "data" into MyList repeat with x = 1 to the nu

Subject: Re: Stripping blank spaces before and after a word. Help

2006-11-02 Thread Dave Herndon
Thanks Mark, I settled on this and it works SWT ! Thanks For your help. Now to finish it up. Anybody have a good way to convert all text in a list to ALL CAPS? It would be nice to get a consistent look in the database. Here is the script I settled on. repeat with x = 1 to the nu

Stripping blank spaces before and after a word. Help

2006-11-01 Thread Dave Herndon
Does anyone have a handy little script that could be put in a repeat loop to evaluate either the contents of several fields, or a comma delimitered list of variables, and strip any blank spaces that may or may not exist from before and after the contents. To ready the data for insertion into a d

my Variable watcher no longer appears in debug mode

2006-10-31 Thread Dave Herndon
This has got me bugging. Two or three days now and I havent been able to bring up the VW window in debug mode. (v2.73) I am thinking of re-downloading rev to see if that helps. Any ideas? It just is no where to bee seen! Wierd. Dave ___ use-revolu

RE Loading a button with Time

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Herndon
WOW ! John Craig's script made mine look STINKY !! I made a couple changes to it to suit my needs. It now formats the contents to load dirrectly into a cascading style pull down button so it is easy to select the time you want. I reformated the script to span 24 hours and maintain a military

Re Subject: Adding Time

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Herndon
Regarding > >Can anyone steer me in the correct direction for this? What I need to >o is populate a list box with times at specific intervals. i.e. > >I have a input box for the start time say 8:00 A.M. >I have a input box that has a stop time say 5:00 P.M. >I have a input box that has an in

managing sqlight3 permissions help

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Herndon
I have developed some powerfull database editing features in my revolution front end. I realize that the find and replace feature that I set up in one of my substacks could if used in properly alter the database in a huge way. So now I am wondering if I should just limit access to that sub sta

RE Print problem

2006-10-24 Thread Dave Herndon
I havent run across your exact problem however I have had a problem with fields that have the text baseline feature selected in the table objects section of the field preferences. When I have print problems I create a new blank stack and run my print commands on it. If the blank stack prints o

Trouble setting a substack to topstack Help please.

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Herndon
Situation. Three stacks. A MainStack and two SubStacks. MainStack queries data from the dabase on start up. Substack1 is a small stack that is hidden. It is called from the mainstack with the modal SubStack1, show SubStack1 commands. It pops up data is then manipulated and then re-inserted

Printing Problem with Rev HELP

2006-10-17 Thread Dave Herndon
I converted over some stack from rev 1.1 to 7.3 and I went through a process of slowly stripping down the stack until I could get it to print. The culprit seemed to be fields with the table object feature chosen and the Baseline text feature chosen. It would bomb revelution every time. Once

MS SQL Connectivity ?

2006-10-01 Thread Dave Herndon
Anyone know of a way to open a database connection with a MS SQL server database from within revolution ? The same string that works for SQlight which includes the username, password, etc doesn't work for MS SQL Server. I have however obtained success by entering my username and password in th

Simple question

2006-10-01 Thread Dave Herndon
What is the best way to open a "splash style " stack from a standalone to load some global variable info for use by the standalone. I used the open stack "splash" command from the standalones openStack handler and then close stack "splash" after a couple seconds but the first time I use a pul

Button Icons wont show up when powered by my standalone

2006-09-19 Thread Dave Herndon
Hi Little help here. I am developing a fire department application in rev 2.7.3. I realy liked the haz mat barrel button icon in the metacard icons listed. When I build my standalone in windows the icons show up black when I open the file with my standalone. I have been racking my brains t