Re: Correct Syntax???!!!

2006-03-24 Thread David Burgun
, I don't think you can set chunks of it...so you'll probably have to get it it first: put the text of the long id of me into temp put item 2 of myDataRecord into line 1 of temp set the text of the long id of me to temp Mark On 24 Mar 2006, at 13:36, David Burgun wrote: Hi, I am trying

Re: Correct Syntax???!!!

2006-03-24 Thread David Burgun
Hi, It used to read: put item 2 of myDataRecord into me But I have had to change it because the use of: put something into me or set the text of me to something Is not 100% reliable - see thread entitled Weirdness Passing Messages if you would like more details. All the Best Dave

Re: Correct Syntax???!!!

2006-03-24 Thread David Burgun
Hi, It used to read: put item 2 of myDataRecord into me But I have had to change it because the use of: put something into me or set the text of me to something Is not 100% reliable - see thread entitled Weirdness Passing Messages if you would like more details. All the Best Dave

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-24 Thread David Burgun
On 24 Mar 2006, at 16:12, J. Landman Gay wrote: David Burgun wrote: Incidentally, the above works just fine regardless of the stack/ card/ object using put something into me. The problem I described yesterday was brought to light because when a new folder is selected, I wanted

Re: Correct Syntax???!!!

2006-03-24 Thread David Burgun
Hi, On 24 Mar 2006, at 16:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: I'm not sure it's helpful to the readers here to say that me is not 100% reliable without providing details; The details are all in the posts from the other thread, I really didn't want to cut and paste all that again. while narrowly

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
I've always thought that 'me' always referred to the control whose script it appears in, but that's an assumption, not necessarily a fact... Mark On 22 Mar 2006, at 19:14, David Burgun wrote: Hi, function ListenForMessages theMessageID,theHanlderLocation Adds to an Array (stored

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Update: I just changed the code so that instead of: put MessageY into me It now reads: put MessageY into field FieldY of group Y of card 2 of stack / Documents/Test/StackMain.rev And now the put statement works as expected!!! Can anyone shed some light on this? I really need to refer

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
On 22 Mar 2006, at 13:55, Wouter wrote: Hi David, On 22 Mar 2006, at 12:53, David Burgun wrote: Hi, Nice Script! There is just one thing I don't understand? What are the: get /* i Statements for? /* this is a comment as is this */function whatever return something end

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi Mark, I looked at the information you pasted below too, don't worry! It's the document that is foggy not you! I've read and re-read it over and over again and I am not 100% sure of what is supposed to happen either! I change the me to the target and it still doesn't work! One thing I

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi Mark, Great Minds think alike I was just experimenting with that too - see my previous post! Thanks for letting me know how to make it evaluate the string as an object reference. I tried it and it works! However, this has left me with a VERY unsafe feeling about the usage of me,

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Opps! Meant to ask: What version of RunRev are you using and what platform?? Thanks again Dave Hi Mark, Great Minds think alike I was just experimenting with that too - see my previous post! Thanks for letting me know how to make it evaluate the string as an object reference. I

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi Mark, I was hoping that you were going to say Version 2.6.6 (which I am using), I was going to try it in version 2.7 and was hoping to would be fixed! I'm using MacOS 10.4.5 too. Can anyone check if this works on a different platform? I only have a Mac. Is this a Bug? If so it a

Re: Message Box ?

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Are you typing openFIle as one word? It is two separate words - open file and close file etc. All the Best Dave On 22 Mar 2006, at 23:25, thulme wrote: set the defaultFolder to /Users/myusername/Desktop/ Then try it again. Chances are it will work this time. If this doesn't fix it,

Terrible RunRev Bug? - Was Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I have a problem that first I thought was something that I was doing wrong but now I'm not sure and would like confirmation of how the Context mechanism works in RunRev. I have the following setup: 1 StackMain:Card1:ObjectA:mouseUp - Calls Function

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi Mark, The problem is that this is a General Message passing handler. The code I sent you was vastly simplified to demonstrate the problem, in reality it's a lot more difficult. This is how it should work: ListenForMessage is called by lots of objects. PutMessage sends to all Listening

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi Richard, Thanks for helping. I read your post but I am not sure that this applies in this case, mainly because I don't understand too much about the internals of RunRev! If you read my post Terrible RunRev Bug? - Was Weirdness Passing Messages it gives a fuller description of the

Very Very Very Basic Question!!!!!

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Should the following lines work 100% of the time, regardless of how or where the message handler is called? on MessageHandler local myData set the text of the long name of me to X put the text of the long name of me into myData end MessageHandler Thanks a lot All the Best Dave

Re: Terrible RunRev Bug? - Was Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
It would be nice to know if this would 100% solve the problem regardless of where the handler is called from. Any ideas? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave On 23 Mar 2006, at 16:31, J. Landman Gay wrote: David Burgun wrote: Hi All, I have a problem that first I thought was something that I

Re: Very Very Very Basic Question!!!!!

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
of the long name of me to X. I just don't want to do this work and then find out it only works sometimes as is the case with put something into me! All the Best Dave On 23 Mar 2006, at 16:40, Devin Asay wrote: On Mar 23, 2006, at 9:24 AM, David Burgun wrote: Hi, Should the following lines

Re: Terrible RunRev Bug? - Was Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi, The following form, *seems* to work with the multi-stack setup I have: set the text of the long name of me to x Thanks a lot All the Best Dave On 23 Mar 2006, at 17:13, Ken Ray wrote: On 3/23/06 7:55 AM, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a problem that first I

Re: Very Very Very Basic Question!!!!!

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
to look at this. All the Best Dave It was just an On 23 Mar 2006, at 17:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: David Burgun wrote: Should the following lines work 100% of the time, regardless of how or where the message handler is called? on MessageHandler local myData set the text of the long name

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Thank you sooo much, you have no idea of how it felt to be trying to sort this out. I really don't know much about the internals of RunRev to have a clue as to where to start looking sometimes! The one thing that REALLY hacks me off is that there is no mention of this at all

Re: Terrible RunRev Bug? - Was Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
On 23 Mar 2006, at 17:52, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, David Burgun wrote: The problem in a nutshell is that: put x into me or set the text of me to x Does not work 100% of the time. Mark Smith has reproduced the same problem. ... It would be nice to know if this would 100% solve

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-23 Thread David Burgun
On 23 Mar 2006, at 18:26, Richard Gaskin wrote: David Burgun wrote: Thank you sooo much, you have no idea of how it felt to be trying to sort this out. I really don't know much about the internals of RunRev to have a clue as to where to start looking sometimes! That's what

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-22 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Nice Script! There is just one thing I don't understand? What are the: get /* i Statements for? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave On 21 Mar 2006, at 14:45, Wouter wrote: on Sun Mar 19 16:12:57 CST 2006 Geoff Canyon wrote: /* this is a comment as is this */on mouseUp answer

Re: How can I pass a handler a long ID as a string?

2006-03-22 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Instead of doing: myHandler (the long id of fld myField of cd myCard of stack myStack) do myHandler (the long id of me) That should fix it! All the Best Dave On 22 Mar 2006, at 14:47, Graham Samuel wrote: I've never come across this before, and it's got me confused. I have a

Why doesn't this select work???

2006-03-22 Thread David Burgun
Hi, The following fails when executing: select before line 1 of me or select before me This is in a handler inside a List Field. All I want to do is to deselect anything that is selected and scroll the list to the beginning.\ Thanks a lot All the Best Dave

Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-22 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have a 2 Stacks, StackMain and StackUtil. I used StackUtil as a library stack via the start using command. In the Stack Script for StackUtil I have the following functions: PutMessage() ListenForMessages() In StackMain Card 2 ObjectX, I do: function InitObject get

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-22 Thread David Burgun
within a message handler OR when called from a different card that the one that called the initial message. Not sure which! Thanks a lot All the Best Dave On 22 Mar 2006, at 19:02, Mark Smith wrote: What do these functions do? Mark On 22 Mar 2006, at 18:51, David Burgun wrote: PutMessage

Re: Weirdness Passing Messages

2006-03-22 Thread David Burgun
which! Thanks a lot All the Best Dave On 22 Mar 2006, at 19:02, Mark Smith wrote: What do these functions do? Mark On 22 Mar 2006, at 18:51, David Burgun wrote: PutMessage() ListenForMessages() ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-20 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I think the original poster wanted to copy a function/handler from one Script to another. I was taking the more general case of wanting to know if a function/handler is defined in a script so it can be called and not cause an error if it is not defined. All the Best Dave On 20 Mar

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-20 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Yes, this really is the problem. In order to parse and identify a function/handler 100% correctly you need to do most (if not all) of the work of the TranScript Parser in the Script Compiler. In the past I've written any number of language parsers and I know it is non- trivial to get

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-19 Thread David Burgun
make it 100% foolproof. All the Best Dave On 17 Mar 2006, at 12:19, Mark Smith wrote: Commenting would only affect things if the wholeMatches is set to true - normally, lineOffset will get the right line even if it's commented out, no? Mark On 17 Mar 2006, at 12:06, David Burgun wrote

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Of course none of the solutions so far work if the function is commented out. To make the code 100% foolproof is a lot of work. I was doing something similar and found that comments made life really difficult. All the Best Dave On 17 Mar 2006, at 11:42, Robert Brenstein wrote:

Re: Latest Version of RunRev for Mac OS 9???

2006-03-09 Thread David Burgun
the download link for the current OS 9 version... Chris On Mar 8, 2006, at 11:10 AM, David Burgun wrote: Hi, So was the 2.6.6 version promised, however we are still waiting for it. I agree it is important to the educational market (as well as other markets) which is why it blows my mind

Re: 2.7 bugs

2006-03-09 Thread David Burgun
Hi, On top of what Paul said there is also the Stack incompatibility issues to contend with in 2.7. I totally agree that we need and have said several times over the last year or so that a bug fix only release is what is needed. This product has had heaps of new functionality added over

Re: 2.7 bugs

2006-03-09 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I've had to write some externals too for features that are not in RunRev already. The point is that you found a work-around, however if you have a bug at the core of RunRev there is no work-around except to use a different development system. Also once you have written your external

Re: 2.7 bugs

2006-03-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Mar 2006, at 12:35, Kevin Miller wrote: On 9/3/06 11:28, jbv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anti-aliasing Graphics Engine. Revolution‚s vector graphics presentation layer is now anti-aliased. These are super-cool features, but they are not NEEDED, anti-aliased vector graphics were BADLY

Re: Latest Version of RunRev for Mac OS 9???

2006-03-08 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I doubt there will be a version 2.7 for MacOS 9 either, the same was said about version 2.6.6 and that version didn't materialize. Don't understand why version 2.6.1 isn't on their web site tho? All the Best Dave On 7 Mar 2006, at 20:09, Robert Brenstein wrote: Hi Dave... It's Rev

Re: 2.7 bugs

2006-03-08 Thread David Burgun
Hi, If I were you I'd see if you can get ahold of a 2.6.6 version of RunRev. 2.7 is so buggy that I have stopped using it until a new version is released. All the Best Dave On 26 Feb 2006, at 09:21, Andy wrote: Anyone else here bought 2.7 and can't get it to register? Mine just takes

Re: Latest Version of RunRev for Mac OS 9???

2006-03-08 Thread David Burgun
Hi, So was the 2.6.6 version promised, however we are still waiting for it. I agree it is important to the educational market (as well as other markets) which is why it blows my mind that there is no download available for it. I have no intention of porting my MacOS 9 only stacks to 2.7,

Re: XP - Applescript equivalents

2006-03-03 Thread David Burgun
Hi, The only way I can think to do this is to write External Commands that in C/C++ interface to the relevant Windows APIs and return the information to RunRev. All the Best Dave On 3 Mar 2006, at 11:53, Richard Miller wrote: Our Rev program is Mac based. We want to run it under XP. We

Re: Long load times

2006-02-28 Thread David Burgun
Hi, If the image itself doesn't have to be password protected, you could save it in the another stack which in kept in the same folder as the main stack, since this will only contain the image, it need not be password protected. Then load this stack at run time, get the image from the

Re: So long and thanks for all the stacks...

2006-02-25 Thread David Burgun
Nice sentiment, but it's hard to be cool with people that are so short sighted, so inflexible and seem hell bent on ruining their own business. Anyway. Enough of that! Thanks for all the help Xavier you will be missed greatly. All the VERY Best Dave On 24 Feb 2006, at 17:01, MisterX

Re: Spam:Re: Index for Revolution PDF Document

2006-02-20 Thread David Burgun
be that useful. I would assume they'd generate one when the document is finalized. At 01:27 PM 2/17/2006, you wrote: David Burgun wrote: Hi, Since I have the full version of Acrobat, I can create indexes and have created one for the RunRev PDF. I am not sure if I am allowed

Re: Pointlessness [was Revolution RUMORS!]

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
On 15 Feb 2006, at 22:35, David Vaughan wrote: On 16/02/2006, at 5:00, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yes, in order to stop other people getting into the same position. Once the cat was out of the bag there was no need for anyone to go to the site again. It could be argued that he

Re: Missing Chapter 8 9

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Yes, the chapters are missing in my file too. Cheers Dave On 17 Feb 2006, at 04:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the new pdf for the documentation in 2.7 missing chapters 8 9? I can't find them in mine. If someone else has the same experience with theirs, let me know and I'll Bugzilla

Re: Missing Chapter 8 9

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
I guess you mean the Table of Contents? I can't find an Index. Chapter 11 is missing also! All the Best Dave On 17 Feb 2006, at 15:03, Thomas McGrath III wrote: 8 is empty in the index and so should not be there, but 9 is in the index and is missing completely. Verified here OSX 10.4.5

Re: Revolution 2.7 documentation panic

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
One thing I've done is to create an Index using Acrobat, makes finding things in the document a breeze! Not sure if I am allowed to send this to anyone and if I am if it would be of use? All the Best Dave On 17 Feb 2006, at 13:36, Charles Hartman wrote: On Feb 17, 2006, at 2:35 AM,

Index for Revolution PDF Document

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Since I have the full version of Acrobat, I can create indexes and have created one for the RunRev PDF. I am not sure if I am allowed to distribute this, but if I am, I would be happy to send it anyone that wants it! It makes searching a real breeze! All the Best Dave

Re: Index for Revolution PDF Document

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am not sure if I am allowed to send it out, I don't want to infringe any copyright issues. Does anyone know if this is allowed or not? Thanks Dave On 17 Feb 2006, at 16:59, Mikey wrote: Dave, Please send me a copy of the document with the index... Mike. -- On the first day,

PDF Document Title Incorrect???

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Has anyone noticed that the title property of the PDF document is Microsoft Word - User Guide 2 ?!?!?!? Guess this is wrong??? All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Spam:Re: Index for Revolution PDF Document

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
Hi, It's the same PDF file, I have just created a separate index file that can be used in conjunction with the PDF you download yourself. You double-click on a file called RRIndex.pdx and it allows you to enter words or phrases and when you hit search it gives a list of the lines where

Re: PDF Document Title Incorrect???

2006-02-17 Thread David Burgun
Done! On 17 Feb 2006, at 17:39, Kevin Miller wrote: On 17/2/06 17:11, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone noticed that the title property of the PDF document is Microsoft Word - User Guide 2 ?!?!?!? We've provided new material and set up an email address specifically

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-16 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Thank you all so much! WIth this information (and all the other posts) I am just bound to get something working for Monday! On 15 Feb 2006, at 19:19, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 15, 2006, at 7:58 AM, David Burgun wrote: Ok, that's great, but I don't have any database to import, I want

Re: Screen DPI

2006-02-16 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I guess you could provide a Calibration function. Display a line of Size N Pixels and then have the user put a ruler to it and enter the size. Some screens vary in their horizontal and vertical DPIs, so you may want to display two lines. You could perhaps build up a database of DPI

Re: selectedField in 2.7 not working

2006-02-16 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Actually I found that selectedField was flakey in 2.6, it worked in some places but not others. I found that doing this fixed it: local myField local myFieldNumber put the selectedField into myField put word 2 of myField into myFieldNumber put f after field myFieldNumber I this made a

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-16 Thread David Burgun
got the basic record retrieve working, I will set about populating the database for real. I reckon with the help from the people here I should have it finished by this time tomorrow! All the Very Best Dave On 15 Feb 2006, at 01:44, Kay C Lan wrote: On 2/15/06, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: selectedField in 2.7 not working

2006-02-16 Thread David Burgun
and this solution seems to work. Have you done this on windows? Thanks for your response, Tom On Feb 16, 2006, at 8:06 AM, David Burgun wrote: Hi, Actually I found that selectedField was flakey in 2.6, it worked in some places but not others. I found that doing this fixed it: local myField

Re: 2.7 scripts not working how to save in 2.6.1

2006-02-16 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I posted a request for this yesterday but have not had a response. I don't think I will use 2.7 except for playing until either I get this or it's more stable. In the meantime I am searching for the information else where, I think it was published once upon a time. If you find it

Re: Please clarify incompatibility re 2.7

2006-02-16 Thread David Burgun
On 15 Feb 2006, at 19:33, Timothy Miller wrote: Hi All, Could someone please let me know the details of this property? I have a few stacks that run under MacOS 9 and may need to save them under MacOS X and I don't want to inadvertently save them under RR 2.7 and then find that I can't

Re: GOTO Equivalent in Rev?

2006-02-15 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I don't understand why you would want to use GOTO anyway, but no I don't think there is an equivalent in RunRev. Instead take a look at defining a function or two. Functions are much more powerful, less likely to cause problems and they make the code much easier to read. Here is an

Re: Please clarify incompatibility re 2.7

2006-02-15 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, Could someone please let me know the details of this property? I have a few stacks that run under MacOS 9 and may need to save them under MacOS X and I don't want to inadvertently save them under RR 2.7 and then find that I can't change them back to the 2.6 format. Thanks a lot

Re: 2.7 BUG: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-15 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Thanks for this. One other thing that doesn't work correctly is when you press one of the buttons to call up RunRev's documentation. If you do this it fails with an error. Just heads-up. All the Best Dave On 14 Feb 2006, at 22:12, Chipp Walters wrote: Hi David and Scott,

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-15 Thread David Burgun
Hi Trevor, Thanks for taking the time out to reply. A couple of things to address here. Creating the database The recipes.rev file assumes that you have already created the recipes table in your MySQL database. That is what the recipes.sql file is for. I did a search on google on the

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-15 Thread David Burgun
On 14 Feb 2006, at 17:10, Stephen Barncard wrote: You're obfuscating the fact that he POSTED the information on this forum, not that he got 'stuck in the site'. Yes, in order to stop other people getting into the same position. Once the cat was out of the bag there was no need for anyone

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-14 Thread David Burgun
On 14 Feb 2006, at 02:13, Phil Davis wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: On 2/14/06, Heather Nagey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list folks, I regret that Richmond is back on the moderated list - he won't be able to post without approval. I would hope that now that 2.7 is 'Official' that Richmond's

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-14 Thread David Burgun
On 14 Feb 2006, at 03:55, kee nethery wrote: On Feb 13, 2006, at 6:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: kee nethery wrote: To use the house analogy, the homeowner gave me instructions on how to get into his house and get stuff I was supposed to be able to get. I followed the homeowner's

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-14 Thread David Burgun
On 14 Feb 2006, at 04:06, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: kee nethery wrote: This example seems kind of specific. :-) Do you per chance live in a house that once upon a time had a broken door lock and ... Ah my, you should have been a diplomat. :) And let me tell you, if I

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-14 Thread David Burgun
On 14 Feb 2006, at 04:28, Judy Perry wrote: I would agree, however, RunRev clearly didn't want this information available now. Sure, they may have forgotten to 'lock the door', but that's not a good excuse to go inside anyway. The point is that it was hard to back out, the window was stuck

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-14 Thread David Burgun
Well, since the RunRev site and the Use Revolution list have been down (I was unable to post to it, although I could read it) for days. I guess I didn't have much else to do! Also knowing that a new version it almost ready makes it hard to stay focused! All the Best Dave On 14 Feb 2006,

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-14 Thread David Burgun
Hi Trevor, Thanks for taking the time to reply on this. On 13 Feb 2006, at 18:41, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 13, 2006, at 5:52 AM, David Burgun wrote: Haven't had much luck in getting this to work. I downloaded and installed MySQL. I then downloaded libDatabase and sample stack called

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-14 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I downloaded and installed this and running the test stack: go URL http://www.gadgetplugins.com/altsqlite/SQLite3Demo.rev; seems to work ok, this (although there are problems running under RunRev 2.7, so I am using 2.6.1). I can't seem to find out what the restrictions are on the Demo

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-13 Thread David Burgun
. Charles On Feb 11, 2006, at 7:52 AM, David Burgun wrote: Hi All, I have worked on Rev for a while but have not used it with a database application before and was wondering the easiest and cheapest way to get going with it. I have the following basic questions: What do I need to Add

Re: Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-13 Thread David Burgun
. Charles On Feb 11, 2006, at 7:52 AM, David Burgun wrote: Hi All, I have worked on Rev for a while but have not used it with a database application before and was wondering the easiest and cheapest way to get going with it. I have the following basic questions: What do I need to Add

Re: Revolution RUMORS!

2006-02-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi, All this could have been avoided if someone had thought to say that the site would be down for a few days. Saying check again in a few hours just makes people keep checking. Also, I don't think that hitting the cancel keys a few times can really be classed as deliberately bypassing a

Re: Extracting Images from a http:// page

2006-02-11 Thread David Burgun
Thanks a lot! It's working really well now! I am amazed how quickly I got the skeletal stack up and running! Bye for Now and Have a Great Weekend All the Best Dave On 10 Feb 2006, at 14:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --set the imageData of image 1 to url binfile: myImagePath should be

Getting Started with a Database

2006-02-11 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I have worked on Rev for a while but have not used it with a database application before and was wondering the easiest and cheapest way to get going with it. I have the following basic questions: What do I need to Add to RunRev to be able to: a) Create and Add data to a database

Extracting Images from a http:// page

2006-02-10 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am trying to extract all images from a http:// page. I have never worked with http: in RunRev before and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or a sample stack on how to do this? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution

Re: Extracting Images from a http:// page

2006-02-10 Thread David Burgun
Hi Xavier, That's great! This allows me to extract the list of images, in the form: img src=images/JRG9.jpg width='100' height='100' border=0 How can I now display the image at this URL in an Image Object? I've tried things like: set the imageSource of image 1 to full_url/images/JRG9.jpg

Re: Extracting Images from a http:// page

2006-02-10 Thread David Burgun
Hi Again, Thanks a lot that worked just fine! The extract below reads thru the URL list and flashes each image in an Image Object. However, I can't seem to set the imageData, only the fileName. I don't want to hold the image as a reference, but rather I want to import the image into the

Re: yet another repeat

2006-01-21 Thread David Burgun
I would like to put the costumer detales into the fields userID,name,Phone.ect with a repeat command but am stuck here get fld showID put it into tshowID Not sure about the rest of the code, but why do you do the above instead of: put fld showID into tshowID ? All the Best

Re: Job opportunities

2006-01-19 Thread David Burgun
Guess it depends! If you get don't get one then it isn't, if you do then it is! I'd like to stay using RunRev, and, since, VERY few people have even heard of it, then this seems like the best place to try and obtain one! All the Best Dave Hi all, Hi All, I have finished the project I

Any RunRev Projects???

2006-01-18 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I have finished the project I was working on and am now looking for a new project! I have around 2 years experience using RunRev on Macintosh 8/9/X and Windows, and over 20 years experience in C/C++ on Macintosh and Windows and Cross platform work in general. If you have a project

Any RunRev Projects???

2006-01-18 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I have finished the project I was working on and am now looking for a new project! I have around 2 years experience using RunRev on Macintosh 8/9/X and Windows, and over 20 years experience in C/C++ on Macintosh and Windows and Cross platform work in general. If you have a project

More Scope Problems

2006-01-03 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I have a problem that is baffling me. I have number of stacks: StackA StackB StackC In the preOpenStack hander of Card 1 of StackA, I load some other stacks using the: go invisible stack StackB close stack StackB (The above it just to get the stack loaded and to setup some values that

File Path/Name Problem

2005-12-19 Thread David Burgun
Hi, In MacOS X, it is possible to have file/folder names that contain a / character. For instance for Photoshop, in the plug-ins folder, there is a folder called Import/Export. If you try to use the path for a file inside this folder, it causes a problem in RunRev because it thinks that the

Advice on Messaging System

2005-12-13 Thread David Burgun
Hi All, I have a problem that I have solved, but wondering if anyone on this list could think of a better/faster way of doing the same thing. I have a number of Stacks then can be opened or closed under user control, each stack can generate an Event or Message. One such message is

Re: use-rev means using Rev (was 10,000 other threads)

2005-12-13 Thread David Burgun
I think the list should be left just as it is. As long as the subject field is clearly marked, it's pretty obvious what is a geeky post and what is a polilical/rant post. Just delete the ones you don't want to read! Or ignore them as I do. It's really not hard to filter this list, I do it all

Re: What does this Hint mean?

2005-12-13 Thread David Burgun
Try this: local myStatement put menuItem quote New Card quote of menu Object into myStatement do myStatement Hope this helps, All the Best Dave I pasted the doMenu example from the documentation: on mouseUp do menuItem New Card of menu Object end mouseUp And this error results:

Re: List Splitting - Idea

2005-12-13 Thread David Burgun
A very sensible approach! I second the suggestion. Cheers Dave We have seen a debate here about splitting the list various ways and there are pros and cons for most everything. One many lists there are conventions that posters follow that include placing small category keywords in

Re: You're Right -- It was HARSH -- NOT!

2005-12-13 Thread David Burgun
Dear Ken, et al: I'm not saying that a thread won't or shouldn't evolve (devolve?) into a philisophical or business acumen-related discussion; it's just that as soon as we notice we've gotten off track, we should either take the discussion offlist, or to another list, or end the thread, so that

Re: Handler/Function with same name

2005-12-12 Thread David Burgun
On 12/11/05 12:12 PM, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I wonder if anyone knows of a good reason why one shouldn't have a function and a handler with the same name? Confusion, perhaps? Suppose your 'trim' function did some things that your 'trim' handler didn't... and here it is 6

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-09 Thread David Burgun
Hi Eric, How would you handle other languages (french, english, spanish etc) ? The problem I have with menu's is how to handle them if the text of the menu changes due to a language change. What I do at present is to: 1. The menu item is passed to the menuPick handler in the current language.

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am currently teaching my Friends Son Alex (11) the wonders of RunRev! All the Best Dave Interesting info there. A couple of things are possibly skewing perceptions of the average age of the community - youngsters likely can't afford to go to conferences so you probably wouldn't see

Re: How to Disable the Preference and About Box Items

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi Dave, Le 6 déc. 05 à 20:23, David Burgun a écrit : That way 96% of computer users wouldn't be affected, except that they could code without having to test for MacOS X. At the moment, you cannot disable the Edit or Help Menu's as a whole unless you test for MacOS X first In my experience

Stack Context/Scope Question

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I am slightly confused as to the use of this and me when used for a Stack, for instance, if I have two stacks: GlobalStack, contains global functions in the Stack Script, as so: function GetStackFileName local myFileName put the filename of this stack into myFileName return myFileName

Re: How young are the coders...

2005-12-07 Thread David Burgun
she was intrigued with the possibility of making the CEO into a flying pig that circled the window (I was testing Arcade Engine at the time). I would love to see that stack! :-) Speaking for germany, I know that quite a few of the folks that hang around at revolutionboard.de are far younger

Changing the Layer/Resizing Controls

2005-12-06 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Is it just me or is it incredibly hard to change the layer order of a Group or Control in the lastest version of RunRev? The previous version was pretty hard but latest version is just terrible. So, maybe I am doing something wrong: If I have a control that is outside of all groups on

RE: Why isn't Rev more popular?

2005-12-06 Thread David Burgun
Just had to say I know I like a *bit* of a moan now and then, hey this is *way* over the top! I have just one question: Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour? Think everyone one should take a chill-pill comptemplate 1200 baud modems for a while! All the Best Dave

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