On 21/06/2006, at 17:44, Scott Rossi wrote:
Is there an incantation I can use to bypass/remove/kill the Do you
want to
save... dialog that the IDE throws up even when nothing has
changed on a
stack?
Even more fabulous, is there something which deals with the deeply
stupid Really the
On 28/05/2006, at 1:24, Devin Asay wrote:
OTOH, documentation errors are easy to fix. I recently stumbled
across a minor doco error in one of the revDB functions and
submitted it to BZ. Lo and behold it showed up as fixed in the next
2.7.x release. You should submit it for sure. I would
On 29/05/2006, at 9:52, Alex Tweedly wrote:
change
delete line 1 of tDirList
to something like
filter tDirList without ..
This one works anyway, and also does not suffer from a couple of
other bugs which exist in Ken's older version, to do with permissions
and infinite recursion in OS
Using Rev 2.7.1 with AltSqlite/SQLite 3, I found inconsistent
behaviour (as I see it) with the function revdb_isbof alias
RevCurrentRecordIsFirst.
Let us assume you find a record set comprising one record.
-- revdb_isbof will be true (expected)
-- revdb_iseof will be false (not expected)
On 26/05/2006, at 19:02, Jan Schenkel wrote:
I remember an old discussion about when exactly you
were at the end of a cursor: on the last record, or
after you call revdb_movenext on the last record?
FoxPro seemed to think that the EOF() was _after_ the
last record, not on it.
I do not
On 27/05/2006, at 12:30, Kay C Lan wrote:
...
...BUT once you move
away from these, moving back to them using 'previous' or 'next'
will not
result in them be recognised, you need to try an move past them, then
they'll be recognised.
I recognise it but it leaves me thinking that the old
On 25/05/2006, at 7:52, Ian McKnight wrote:
I think I see whats happening. I'm not altering the original data in
theImportedData variable rarther the copy of the data thats in the
loop variable. So unless I store this -- I lose it.
In fact, if you do alter importedData itself rather then
On 10/05/2006, at 9:15, Mark Schonewille wrote:
FYI, it is not necessary to use VPC for that. On the PC side, I
have Client for MS Networks installed, together with the correct
ethernet drivers. I have also a TCP/IP protocol defined for that
Ethernet driver, with the correct IP number
On 06/05/2006, at 4:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ruslan wrote:
RevDataFromQuery -- is not good choice in your case.
it load everything into string of result
You need to use RevQueryDatabase
==
The successful use of this command returns
On 21/04/2006, at 21:50, Chipp Walters wrote:
I don't see any test.gz file on my system anywhere. altSQLite in
the demo does create some sample databases, but they aren't named
'test.gz'
??
This file is created either by altSQLite directly or by the demo stack.
In zipped form its
Mikey
I have one in HyperCard and need to convert it to Rev before I can
buy an Intel Mac. I have the core design for the Rev version but not
a line of code. The old one was first developed in 1989 and
successively refined over the years, now being in V8.30 of 2003. It
is one of three
When I wrote in favour of a Forum late last year:
Subject: Re: Recent Development on the Use-LIst
Date: 16 December 2005 10:52:27 GMT+11:00
among my arguments were that:
Secondly, a single button brings up in tree format every post made
since you yourself last checked, and no others.
Thanks for the idea, Devin. I had looked at custom props previously,
sufficiently to know what they do but without keeping them in mind
for real applications.
You have just simplified a database system I am writing, where I
employ what appears to the user to be modeless operation, tracking
On 13/04/2006, at 7:55, David Vaughan wrote:
...I had looked at custom props previously ...
I meant to say GetProp/SetProp not custom props. One always uses
the latter.
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On 13/04/2006, at 8:11, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Now I'm curious what's the advantage, if any, of using a setProp
handler over a standard command handler? This isn't just to you,
Devin, but to anyone who uses these regularly.
In my instance I am already setting a property or two so using
On 13/04/2006, at 8:47, Graham Samuel wrote:
Thanks to Klaus, Devin and Ken for their replies: both Klaus and
Ken pointed out that I need to set the hilitedLines of the field to
zero or empty. I hadn't realised that I was necessarily using a
list field, but in fact I am, since I see that
On 09/04/2006, at 17:44, Geoff Canyon wrote:
I think you and I are agreed: the software itself is bug free.
There seems to be debate over whether a bug in the code's context
-- requirements, the engine, the OS, etc. -- qualifies as a bug in
the software. I think it doesn't, but I can
On 10/04/2006, at 1:56, David Burgun wrote:
The real problem here is if the marketing department get ahold of
it, they will make it into a feature ! e.g. this Application is
supposed to tell you the time in the USA, it's so cool you don't
have to figure it out for yourself, thereby
On 10/04/2006, at 2:37, Geoff Canyon wrote:
The question is this: what do you think is the upper limit for
_completely_ bug-free code?
Was your code bug-free the first time you wrote it, no typographic
errors or any other changes? Do not answer that because it is only a
lead-in to the
I forgot to mention the sixth actor, although alluding to it in my
very first line below: inverse time.
David
On 10/04/2006, at 10:21, David Vaughan wrote:
On 10/04/2006, at 2:37, Geoff Canyon wrote:
The question is this: what do you think is the upper limit for
_completely_ bug-free
On 08/04/2006, at 16:36, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So tell me what could go wrong? ;-)
You are limiting yourself to the code, where bugs can have the forms
of user requirements, specification and documentation as well as
coding. In this case, the user may have wanted to know
So tell me what could go wrong? ;-)
I realised while cooking the salmon this evening (crocodile being off
the menu) that Geoff had inadvertently provided a wonderful case
study on bugs. Any link to Geoff in the following is purely
coincidental and nothing to do with him at all :-)
Once
On 09/04/2006, at 6:23, Garrett Hylltun wrote:
The thing is, that is not a bug. The programmer did not make any
error in his code at all. The code works as it was intended.
You could also claim that if a user in Japan downloaded the program
and could not read it because it was in
On 09/04/2006, at 9:26, Garrett Hylltun wrote:
The intent of the code is far too obvious for you or anyone else
here to say any different.
Ah, the sweetness of certainty; the certainty of not knowing.
You're just upset because your belief that bug free is impossible
was shown to be
On 07/04/2006, at 15:46, Garrett Hylltun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
about what
David Vaughan wrote:
and I have replied off-list because this list is about software and,
as Garrett himself says, he has made himself and his assumptions, not
RunRev, the subject of this particular rant
On 08/04/2006, at 0:50, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if it beats roo meat or crocodile? I've had both
and they were excellent.
Crocodile is excellent, better than kangaroo and emu although there
is nothing wrong with kangaroo. I think emu can be a bit tough. The
kangaroo
On 08/04/2006, at 8:48, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Oh, Yeah? Well WE had to walk 35 miles through a raging snowstorm
with only
flipflops and snorkles while juggling crazed rabid wombats and
breathing
sulphur just to LOOK at a cardboard computer!
;-)
Ken Ray
Now, now Ken, you
On 08/04/2006, at 0:50, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One way of
putting it is that the boundaries of capability have been pushed
over the years while the rise in bugs has been disproportionately
low.
Over what years are you talking about? I really can't see this, for
instance:
On 07/04/2006, at 10:25, Garrett Hylltun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What it comes down to is money.
Yes, the cost and benefit analysis of which Richard spoke.
I'm sorry, but my expectations of software is higher. I get so
tired of
hearing B.S. and excuses as to why software isn't or can't
On 31/03/2006, at 8:28, Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We had Apple III (yes, the ill-fated 3 not 2) in the p-chem lab and
nobody knew what to do with it, so I got a free rein in using it.
That was a few years before Lisa and Macs.
The Mac did not appear in Australia until 1985.
I would much rather have 75% of the functionality with 5% bugs, than
100% of the functionality with 25% bugs!
Good thought, I thought, but what if RunRev could not target quite
that well? What if there were 77% of the functionality with, alas, 6%
bugs, or 55% functionality with 1% bugs?
People, this is not cool. Sleep time.
cheers
David
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On 26/02/2006, at 0:50, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
snip
To digress slightly, I think the reason Rev appears to have so many
bugs is because it is so versatile. We all use Rev in different ways
to do widely different projects. I ignore some bugs because I never do
the things they
On 25/02/2006, Garrett Hylltun [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
Gregory Lypny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote stuff.
Sorry to others for some repetitious elements in here but I see a
couple of basic themes in the offerings from Garrett and Gregory
(principally the former) which I wish to answer.
My
On 23/02/2006, at 5:00, Jonathan Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
any other tips?
Rob's comment about supporting 15-30 users is valid although it
depends also on the transaction rates they can achieve.
Jim's discussion of pre-emptive rights for certain actions or user
types will add
On 22/02/2006, at 5:00, Jonathan Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
1) User A reads the file, and determines it is not owned
2) In the few milliseconds between when User A reads the file, and
resaves
it, user B reads the file and also reads that it is not owned.
3) User A makes changes and
On 19/02/2006, at 9:21, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From:
Subject: Re: File sharing, locking, etc... between multiple users...
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
On 2/18/06 6:39 AM,
On 18/02/2006, at 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So far my experience with Rev 2.7 has left much to be desired.
The latest:
When I open a stack that has been automatically converted to the new
file format by Rev 2.7, with a new standalone (created with Rev 2.7) I
get the Windows appearance
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 should be praised for his
selfless actions and
On 13/01/2006, at 9:37, Camm29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David thanks , that's seems to do the trick.
Any ideas how to break out of repeat loops in say 10 seconds as a
timeout ?
Glad it worked for you.
I take it you want a loop to execute but stop after an amount of time
apart from any
On 10/01/2006, at 21:48, Camm29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have some custom made Hardware that i communicate to in Serial.
This Hardware returns the Character when ready and able to Receive
and/or finished replying.
so before any write to file COM:1 or read from file COM:1 (I
must have
On 20/12/2005, at 12:27, Brad Borch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Flash will be reading what is
essentially a tab-delimited database.
First, am I better off dropping text into an array in Rev to edit
it, or
simply sorting and managing the text as a big hunk of text?
Second, if the
On 17/12/2005, at 22:58, Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Why does a stack on a CD run really quite well on a Pentium
2, 300MHz, 128 MB RAM (Win 98), a Pentium 3, 700 MHz, 128
MB RAM (Ubuntu 5.10) and grind to a shuddering halt on an
iMac G3, 333MHz, 320 MB RAM (Mac 10.4)?
This is a 'bother'
.
However, the search in that CASE returned no data, something for
which I was not testing because I was trying to get the DEFAULT code
working first! The rest of the errors flowed from there.
sorry
David
On 15/12/2005, at 13:35, David Vaughan wrote:
Using a licenced AltSQLite as the database, I
On or before 16/12/2005, at 7:58, various people wrote in relation to
the old question of forum vs mailing list.
After a few years on the RunRev Use and Improve lists I switched to
digest mode which cleaned my mailbox a bit but took away the ability
to see messages in a timely manner. A
Using a licenced AltSQLite as the database, I created a record set
and endeavoured to extract data using the following code (some error
checking and other irrelevant pieces omitted from both fragments):
handler 1
get revdb_query(gConn,SELECT * FROM taxl)
put it into p
set the cursors
On 04/08/2005, at 12:47, Chris Sheffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm talking about recursion as in calling the same handler/
function from within itself. I'm guessing there could be issues
with this if the folder to back up has a large directory structure,
as in many sub folders and
On 20/07/2005, at 10:15, Mark Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David,
I am by no means an advanced programmer in Rev, but I have been
using Regex a lot lately. This is what I have discovered in my use
of Regex in Rev:
snip
I highly recommend the book Mastering Regular
The documentation says to see the PCRE manual for regular expression
syntax. The PCRE manual refers to certain properties set as part of a
C program. Consequently, I am unsure of the answers to the following
four questions. True, I can experiment to see how these currently
work but that
On 15/05/2005, at 7:17, Dave Cragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro
Getting off topic.. :)
When I hear the word cursor I still think of the transparent sliding
thingy on a slide rule. So when doing selects on two database tables,
I conjure up this notion of the tables somehow sliding over each
other, and
On 06/05/2005, at 13:25, Paul Salyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Rev Programmer,
Had a basic calculator been made in Rev, If so can I have help. on
getting it to add when you type in numbers say, (12 + 12) before
pressing the [=] key in the read out which is a label field I'm
getting 1212
On 07/04/2005, at 2:00, Jim Hurley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is worthwhile to examine what effect greenhouse gases have on the
temperature of other planets besides Earth. It turns out that Venus is
very hot, about 832 degrees Fahrenheit. But how much of this due to
greenhouse gases and how
On 04/04/2005, at 16:34, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got two lists - one with is the comprehensive list that is
return-delimited, like:
3
5
6
snip
And another list which is the list I would like to *remove* from the
comprehensive list:
5
6
snip
Which should give me:
3
snip
Any ideas?
Ken
On 05/04/2005, at 0:38, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/4/05 1:39 AM, Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Ken (and all the other ingenious people), you have something against
the
intersect command?
Convert both lists to arrays and intersect them leaving only the
non-common elements.
On 01/04/2005, at 19:05, Alejandro Tejada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi Developers,
Long time ago, surfing the net i found a forum,
where the administrator supervised the threads
and when a question was responded correctly or a
problem was solved, he (or she) closed the
message thread and added a
On 16/03/2005, at 5:57, various people wrote on:
Subject: Re: Poll: the sum(7,9)
Reply-To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
It's this: How do you mentally process simple addition/subtraction
facts? What actually happens in your brain to elicit 16 when you hear
7+9? (for
Richard
It is many years since I played much in Terminal and then not with
tcsh, so let me tell you how I worked my way through this and see if it
helps you. Watch for the dots I have in here, e.g. in sudo mv
./airport /usr/local/bin there is one at the beginning of the first
path.
I
On 23/02/2005, at 12:07, Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello listers,
I hope this is not too far off topic.
Well, I suppose it is not about Rev but in every other respect it seems
a pertinent topic ;-)
I have been having problems getting myself motivated.
snip
Any helpful ideas on
On 18/02/2005, at 7:27, Marian Petrides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless I miss my guess, he is Heather (aka List Mom)'s spousal unit.
Her spousal unit? :-D :-D :-D
At last, I really know my place.
cheers
David
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On 14/02/2005, at 4:00, Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
If you take the case of
put 1,2 into myArray[a,b]
put 1,3 into myarray[c,d]
snip
Nope. It will actually give
v1 = a,c
v2 = b,d
v3 = 1
v4 = 3 the other value got lost in the split immediately
before the assignment to
Xavier, Alex and all.
The principal difficulty with the split/combine code I have suggested
for extract/merge is that key order is not preserved in relation to the
data when you get the keys. If you wish to re-merge after an extract
then you must know what is the correct key order (e.g. a
On 13/02/2005, at 4:00, MisterX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xavier
I have not searched back to your original request, but if I understand
it correctly then you wish to be able to de-merge columns from an
array, and that these columns may be of the data or of the keys. Let us
assume you have an
Moron me! Doing some edits from my test script I omitted the line add
1 to i just before end repeat
On 13/02/2005, at 10:43, David Vaughan wrote:
Xavier
This is the merge part
Assume you have the following two variables:
v1 contains a
v2 contains b
split v2 with return
put 1 into i
repeat
On 31/01/2005, at 9:13, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Well folks the stack is available under my username soapdog at
revOnline or thru http://www.soapdog.org/rev/smtpraw.rev sorry I put
a space in the file name
Andre,
I tested sending to a .mac address and got this error in
I do not do professional development but use it in a couple of main
areas. I have applications written to support my life. Examples include
manage my Super Fund, look after contacts, do backups, provide a small
multi-entry RPN calculator, calculate optimal gearing for model racing
cars,
On 22/01/2005, at 4:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to me a more significant contest between the two systems
would
be to assign the same project to two very experienced developers with
each development environment, and see who gets it finished quicker.
-- I think after 20yrs...I should be
On 19/01/2005, at 4:00, Thomas Gutzmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I'm glad that most English people I know are very tolerant and polite.
Probably less so than those people who have managed my
Australian-accented French and German with only the ripple of a
suppressed smile. :-)
It has
On 13/09/2004, at 22:12, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using 2.5 and I have a palette where the arrow keys aren't working
in a field. I've already checked that the appropriate properties are
set, and the arrow keys work if I move the field out of the group it's
in.
I remember there
On 18/08/2004, at 7:17, Rich Lague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Klaus (and Jan!),
Yes, adding the complete descriptor for i did allow my 'next repeat'
to run. However, I'm still having problems getting rid of the extra
lines in my global variable.
I have also been trying your suggestion of
On 08/07/2004, at 8:47, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If I have a string containing 25 characters, how do I extract the
eight characters starting at position 5 in the string?
[In BASIC this would be left$(5,8) or some such.]
This should be a simple thing to do but I can't figure it
On 27/04/2004, at 16:40, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Like the AppleScript, it works fine so long as the screen saver time
limit hasn't been reached, now to test if it has.
For anyone who is interested, the script is slightly different to the
one Andre suggested:
get shell(ps
On 27/04/2004, at 19:20, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sorry, it doesn't work if the screen saver has come on after it's time
setting. In fact it is exactly the same as the AppleScript. You can
see it happening as the screens saver goes off for about half a
second, then comes
On 28/04/2004, at 10:19, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, however none of them will do
what I need. Using either AppleScript's quit of the shell's kill (with
or without -9) works fine if you have started the screen saver by
pushing the mouse
I am seeing erratic behaviour with drawers.
First one:
Create a stack with a menubar. Create a substack of it. Add a button to
the main stack to show the substack as a drawer (at bottom, if it
matters).
When you press the button to show the drawer (a problem in itself as
discussed below) then
I have been engaged in an off-list conversation with Dar Scott, mostly
around his solution to the Yavelow test. In the course of it we found
out or re-confirmed a few things about Rev characteristics and I pass
them on here for anyone who is interested. The information comprises a
somewhat
On 22/04/2004, at 10:12, Brian Yennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Monte,
Looks ok here. I ran the old vanilla offset() function and it got the
same number of matches.
Is anyone seeing differently?
On guard! Another Rev entry!
That's fast Brian (64 tickes here) but not meaning to offend I
noticed
On 22/04/2004, at 1:57, Frank Leahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 06:55 AM, Monte Goulding
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We can't change the fact that RB has a faster substring
searcher than Rev but we can make that fact irrelevant.
Cheers
Monte
Monte,
I don't think
On 21/04/2004, at 1:02, Norman Winn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Norman
I am aware of responses already from Ken Ray and James Richards to your
comments below but, as author of the key programming step I find excuse
to add my own perspective.
I am a user assessing Revolution as a replacement++
On 21/04/2004, at 10:45, Chris Yavelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now there has been considerable activity on the RB list, and the total
speed is down to 77 ticks for RB, 70 for Revolution. But, looking at
the Revolution code, I see that the hacks are optimized for 3-word
searches, and that's
On 19/04/2004, at 2:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
repeat for each word inWord in tMatchList
put k2 into k1
put k3 into k2
put inWord into k3
put true into sMatch[k1 k2 k3]
end repeat
-- I have been sorta reading along, but what and where is k2 and k1
coming
from? and where
On 17/04/2004, at 5:36, Chris Yavelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... In the meantime, I did put some realistic data up on my speedtest
page:
http://www.yav.com/speed.html
I took Chris data and examined it. My solution below exploits that
knowledge of the data but if it is genuinely a typical
On 17/04/2004, at 21:46, Brian Yennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's amazing how many different optimizations we can find based on the
type of data. There's the baseline brute force, there's mine which
takes a constant factor out (by shrinking the text), but would fail if
you had many different
On 18/04/2004, at 9:42, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you haven't brought this up on the RealBasic list, you probably
should to
be fair... we've had a lot of chances to provide optimized routines;
I'm
assuming the RealBasic routine you use is one you developed... someone
on
the RB list
On 15/04/2004, at 17:51, Chris Yavelow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm conducting an informal speed test comparing identical projects in
SuperCard (4.1.2), Revolution (2.2), and RealBasic (5.5.1). The
projects match 3,000 short phrases against an 81,920 word text. There
has already been some
On 02/04/2004, at 6:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NOW THAT I HAVE RETROLUTION ON MY OLD C64, I AM SIMPLY AMAZED AT HOW
MUCH
FASTER IT IS THAN TODAYS BLOATED SYSTEMS. WITH ONLY 61832 BYTES OF
XTALK,
I HAVE CREATED A NEURAL NETWORK THAT FAR EXCEEDS THE INTELLIGENCE
LEVEL OF
A MICROSOFT CEO. AFTER
On 16/03/2004, at 8:47, John Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am interested to know what database people are using with Revolution.
What seems to be the favourite and for what reason... Are you using
MySQL,
Postgres or Valentina, for example...
Valentina
What prompted your choice ?
Speed
On 15/03/2004, at 8:55, someone whom I am not attacking personally
wrote:
Ayup. It happens but that isn't necessarily the right way to do
things. For example, contractors fail to fix warranty items on new
homes all the time, claiming they are not defects and knowing that
most people will not
On 23/02/2004, at 9:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 February 2004 5:20:08 GMT+11:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PARENTHESES
Reply-To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your right about the ^ being a caret/carrot.
But what then are the left and right
On and before 10/02/2004, at 7:19, several people wrote many things on
this topic:
Fundamentally, Alex is right but it does not matter a lot. So is Rob
but in a different sphere. Meanwhile, I think Frank is wrong.
Without going back to the original, I recall Alex's basic points as
being:
-
Rev 2.1 has now been reviewed in Australian MacWorld (Feb p68)
Andy Ihnatko's review is generally positive in a post-Hypercard way
although I personally disagree with his closing comment: Just don't
imagine that you'll be able to build the ambitious programs you can
turn out in RealBasic and
/Applications/Revolution 2.1.2/Revolution.app
Creator:
Type:
On 05/02/2004, at 15:36, Barry Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a number of earlier digests, there was discussion about the
directory walker. I've copied that code into my script and, sure
enough, it works exactly as advertised.
On Friday, Sep 19, 2003, at 01:29 Australia/Brisbane,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Malte Brill) wrote:
snip
Quoting Sarah:
You might want to try out my Serial test stack - available from my web
page at
http://www.troz.net/Rev/
I have just updated it so that it allows you to select termination
characters
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 15:06 Australia/Brisbane, Wouter
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Hi,
If this post is redundant don't read it.
My workaround OS X only:
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change to eliminate the aliases
get shell(ls -F)
filter it with *[/]
Redundant perhaps. More importantly, just wrong.
On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 23:18 Australia/Brisbane, David Vaughan
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Hmm. I have now encountered the same problem. As I wrote before, I had
no difficulty with 100,000 files and directories 17 deep, but the same
folders examined from their parent (the volume name) lead
On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 21:33 Australia/Brisbane, Robert Brenstein
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Hmm, actually, when one walks directories, shouldn't one walk only the
true directories and treat aliases as files (which they are)?
Yes. As I intimated in my previous post, and have now
On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 21:33 Australia/Brisbane, Wouter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WA
But thank to this I discovered a difference in the alias folders.
Try for yourself:
Type in the msg box :
set the directory to /etc;put the directories
You get the directories in which you see etc as a
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 12:29 Australia/Brisbane, Wouter [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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This means that languages which use diacriticals
can't use this version of the directory walker until
the conversion is solved.
It works as is. There is no problem because...
change to
.
The alternative might be some trigger into circularity, which is what
happened with permissions.
Perhaps it is OSX-specific. Is the same issue encountered on Windows or
Linux please?
Seems worth some work given the code should work for virtually any
situation.
regards
David (Vaughan
On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 07:20 Australia/Brisbane, Wouter
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Correction:
In this case it is the compiled_alias_folder at
//etc/X11/xkb/compiled/
And you still have the honor.
No, I have no such folder, not having compiled X11.
I'll keep looking.
regards
David
On Friday, Sep 5, 2003, at 16:48 Australia/Brisbane, Dar Scott
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Permissions!
Good work Dar. Thanks. I'll add the path test for future safety.
regards
David
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