Re: OT: shell access in on-rev - please do not complain anymore

2009-05-04 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Matthias, runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Okay, if there would be the possibility to use some command line tools like magick this would be fine. But i, for one, want a system, which is not vulnerable because everyone gets (full) shell access. When I see the words full shell access I get

Django with On-Rev Using CGI

2009-05-04 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Folks, Here is a quick post that shows how to install Django (and several other packages) and configure it to work with your On-Rev account. http://www.gordontillman.info/computers/41-web-application-development/99-django-with-on-rev --gordon

Re: Joining 2 images

2009-05-04 Thread Gordon Tillman
David Bovill wrote: Gordon - if there is any chance you adding a very brief description of what you managed to compile and the shell commands you used to the On-Rev forum - or just post it here - it would be a great help? David I'm writing it up now and will post a link shortly. --gordon

Re: Joining 2 images

2009-05-04 Thread Gordon Tillman
David Bovill wrote: Good grief! Looks like the On-Rev hosting is really stripped down to a bare bones minimum. What happens if you type any of the following at the command line: - make --version - svn --version David here is the output from those commands: # make --version GNU Make

Re: Django with On-Rev Using CGI

2009-05-04 Thread Gordon Tillman
David Bovill wrote: Fab! Have not used Django in a few years - have some Rev scripts hanging around somewhere that would parse / create Django XML files... by the way what do you like about Mercurial? I've just moved over to GIT, but not had a look at Mercurial? David I've never used Git, so I

Re: the user's name under OSX

2008-12-19 Thread Gordon Tillman
Scott in 10.5 that information is stored in Directory Services. The dscl command is used to interact with that. For example: $ dscl . -read /Users/gordy RealName RealName: Gordon Tillman (that's me!) --gordy On Dec 19, 2008, at 06:07, Scott Morrow wrote: I'm trying to get the user's

Re: Time Server

2008-07-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
Mark I know you can talk to an SNTP server with telnet. Here I just did the following: $ telnet time-a.nist.gov 13 Trying 129.6.15.28... Connected to time-a.nist.gov. Escape character is '^]'. 54674 08-07-27 14:50:55 50 0 0 340.9 UTC(NIST) * Connection closed by foreign host. --gordon On

Re: Regular Expression Question

2007-07-10 Thread Gordon Tillman
Len try this in the message box: put approved_by_code into tFind get matchText(tFind, ^(.*?)[^_]*$, p1) put len(p1) that outputs 12. And with a string that contains no _ it outputs 0 --gordy On Jul 10, 2007, at 09:55, Len Morgan wrote: I need to find the last matching character offset of a

Re: Sorting lines

2007-05-29 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Matthias, On May 29, 2007, at 12:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have textfile, which contains data. Each line of this text file contains serveral values, which are separated by ;. Each line has the same number of values. My problems is, that i have to sort the lines by one of

Re: calendar function anyone ?

2007-02-13 Thread Gordon Tillman
JB you can try something like this... for example, in the message box: convert 1918,9,18,0,0,0,0 from dateItems to dateItems put it This returns: 1918,9,18,1,0,0,4 Note how it fixes the day of the week in the date items to 4 (Wednesday) Alternatively you can specify the output as

Re: matchText

2007-01-21 Thread Gordon Tillman
On Jan 21, 2007, at 09:23, Robert Mann wrote: but I just relized that it is also selecting any strings that have that pattern, is there a way to only select exact matches? Robert you just need to add a bit to the regular expression part to tell it that you want to match the entire string.

Re: matchText

2007-01-21 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Robert, On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:14, Robert Mann wrote: Don't think I am getting the syntext correct this is returning nothing matchText(tword1,^tword$) tword1 and tword are both variables Yep for the second argument to the matchText() function, you need to construct the regular

Re: Copy images

2006-09-03 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Sue, Is it possible to copy an image (png format) that has been placed as a referenced control to the clipboard? Thanks is advance! I just tried this and it worked: put binfile: the fileName of control id 1003 into tURL get URL tURL set the clipboardData[image] to it (NOTE: in my

Re: Simple Myst-Like Application

2006-08-24 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Graeme! Just got back to the office and saw your email. Looks like some other folks have kindly chimed in with clarification and details. (This is a great mailing list!) --gordy On Aug 24, 2006, at 09:34, Graeme Harlick wrote: Gordon, So what I do is: In the Stack script I

Re: Simple Myst-Like Application

2006-08-23 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Graeme, On Aug 23, 2006, at 21:34, Graeme Harlick wrote: How and where would I put the code so that the points don't get lost going from screen to screen, and also what code would I use to set variables so that users can explore freely and find hidden areas non-sequentially? No

Re: Dumb question about external development

2006-05-05 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy JB, On May 5, 2006, at 03:56, jbv wrote: I was wondering : with the new Intel Macs and all the universal binaries stuff, does it make any sense to imagine that external development for Rev could consist in 1 single source code compilation for all platforms (at least Win Mac) as long as

Re: imagedata in Word XML

2006-03-17 Thread Gordon Tillman
Henk I wrote an exporter for JasperReports that can save to WordML format. This is in Java, no no help with RunRev. But I can tell you that the information is not in pure imageData format. The information in WordML is a base-64 encoded PNG or JPEG, or whatever. Well, even though you

Re: In-line Fraction with Horizontal Line

2006-03-06 Thread Gordon Tillman
Mark it may be possible to generate an image on the fly of your equation and display that. Also, if the kind folks at Altuit would update the altBrowser plugin to use the Gecko rendering engine (ala Firefox), you could use MathML and get *great* equation rendering! --gordon On Mar 6,

Re: There's a fly (or two) in my ointment

2006-02-22 Thread Gordon Tillman
Bob I don't think this is a Rev issue. I have noticed this same problem from any applications that I run in (Ubuntu) Linux. I don't know if this also applies to other Linux distributions. --gordy On Feb 22, 2006, at 14:15, Bob Warren wrote: 1) When Rev applications in (Ubuntu) Linux

Re: SMTP Proxy in Rev?

2006-02-20 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Dan, On Feb 20, 2006, at 18:05, Dan Shafer wrote: I have a colleague who wants to build what amounts to an SMTP proxy that sits between a standard email client, listens on the proper port for output, pre-processes email, and then sends it out to a pre-defined SMTP server. Minimal UI.

Re: Difficulty using shell in Ubuntu Linux

2006-02-08 Thread Gordon Tillman
On Feb 8, 2006, at 08:03, Bob Warren wrote: I am using Ubuntu Linux (#5.04 - Hoary Hedgehog)*** with Rev 2.6.1. No matter what I try, I cannot get the function/commands shell, launch or open process to work. I have checked that the path to the standalone folder for launching is correct (by

Re: Difficulty using shell in Ubuntu Linux

2006-02-08 Thread Gordon Tillman
Stephen I don't think so.. On Feb 8, 2006, at 13:11, Stephen Barncard wrote: just a thought - does one have to be 'root' or at least set some permissions to use shell? I'm using it from a non-root account, although it *is* an account that can sudo if it needs to execute something as root

Re: FTP

2006-02-05 Thread Gordon Tillman
Scott my favorite FTP program is Fetch. Here is the URL: http://fetchsoftworks.com/ Supports both regular and secure FTP (which is what you need if you want to FTP via SSL). --gordy On Feb 5, 2006, at 15:24, Scott Kane wrote: Hi folks, I'm after a basic FTP client for OSX. I know Rev

Re: Addition-Elementary Style

2006-01-25 Thread Gordon Tillman
Michael you can do something like this: Let's suppose your 8 fields are named f1 through f8 and you want the sum in a field named f9. You can say put (field f1 + field f2 + ... + field f8) into field f9 --gordy On Jan 25, 2006, at 15:03, Michael Mandaville wrote: Revolution brothers

Re: Best modality for rather large stacks

2005-12-16 Thread Gordon Tillman
. The database file is also fully cross- platform. Regards, Gordon Tillman ___ 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

Re: Apache Server with RunRev stacks doing the processing?

2005-11-20 Thread Gordon Tillman
Glenn you are very welcome, On Nov 20, 2005, at 08:17, Glenn E. Fisher wrote: Gordy, Thanks for your post. It works great on my old system G4 450 MHz OSX 10.3.9. It's post like this that is what it is all about. Thanks again, Glenn Gotta tell ya: You take all the cool stuff that comes

Re: Apache Server with RunRev stacks doing the processing?

2005-11-19 Thread Gordon Tillman
Morning Kee, On Nov 19, 2005, at 07:36, kee nethery wrote: I'm looking for a way to have an Apache server catch a request (will be using SOAP which is basically just a bunch of XML), feed it to a RunRev stack that I can debug using the RunRev development environment (ie not using a text

Re: Apache Server with RunRev stacks doing the processing?

2005-11-19 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Kee, On Nov 19, 2005, at 08:52, kee nethery wrote: P.S. - If I get some time later today I will post a small sample for you. Yes please. Thanks. Kee OK, got a sample posted for you here: http://homepage.mac.com/gordyt/FileSharing14.html It's the one called rr_test. After you

Re: Google invite

2005-10-13 Thread Gordon Tillman
Done! --gordy On Oct 13, 2005, at 10:08, Bill wrote: Can someone send me a google invite? ||| )_) )_) )_) )___))___))___)\ )))_)\\ _|||\\\__ ---\ /-

Re: Running in Taskbar

2005-09-30 Thread Gordon Tillman
Morning Michael and Chipp! On Sep 29, 2005, at 18:20, Michael D. wrote: Gordon Thats sounds very handy tool, would you mind forwarding a copy to me ? OK, I made a small test application to show how it is used, along with the .rev file used to create the stack, and the full source, xcode

Re: system tray external.

2005-09-30 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hmmm, Chipp try this URL: http://homepage.mac.com/gordyt/FileSharing14.html The other URL is supposed to load that page automatically - that's what I get for using the .Mac HTML tool! :-) -g On Sep 30, 2005, at 11:40, Chipp Walters wrote: All I get is a blank page :-) Gordon Tillman

Re: Running in Taskbar

2005-09-29 Thread Gordon Tillman
I have an external that will do that for you. I'll send you a copy of it if you like, along with some instructions for its use. --gordon On Sep 29, 2005, at 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. I'm back this time with I feel a more legitimate question to ask. I still can't

Re: Running in Taskbar

2005-09-29 Thread Gordon Tillman
- Original Message - From: Gordon Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:22 PM Subject: Re: Running in Taskbar I have an external that will do that for you. I'll send you a copy of it if you like, along

Re: Building an External Command for WIndows

2005-09-29 Thread Gordon Tillman
Dave I have an external that I wrote that does a couple of minor things: (1) fast crc 32 calculations (os x and windows) (2) installs your run-rev app on the system tray (and removes it when it quits) and shows your app when the user clicks on the icon (windows only) I use xcode to build

Re: Building an External Command for WIndows

2005-09-29 Thread Gordon Tillman
OK Dave, I have a download here: http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default? user=gordyttemplatefn=FileSharing12.htmlxmlfn=TKDocument. 12.xmlsitefn=RootSite.xmlaff=consumercty=USlang=en (sorry for the long URL - you can instead go to http://

Re: Unix scripting help

2005-09-29 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Chris, On Sep 29, 2005, at 11:14, Chris Sheffield wrote: I can't get this to go through for some reason. So here it is again. I hope I'm not totally off topic here. I've got an installer in Rev that has to start a process under OS X using the shell function. I'm able to get the

Re: The Deadly Sins

2005-09-22 Thread Gordon Tillman
On Sep 22, 2005, at 12:00, Ken Norris wrote: Hi Mark, On Sep 21, 2005, at 11:06 PM, use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:12:05 -0700 From: Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Deadly Sins Sinners- I've had this filed away for a while and just

Re: java?

2005-09-17 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Eric, On Sep 17, 2005, at 00:55, Eric Engle wrote: a) Whether and where an integrated visual IDE for java could be found -- of course, ideally it would be like hypercard with a palette to choose interface elements (buttons, fields, movies, images) and for scripting them. b) A simple

Re: Displaying PDF - Help! Urgent!!

2005-09-14 Thread Gordon Tillman
Chris you are very welcome, On Sep 14, 2005, at 03:04, Chris Carroll-Davis wrote: Gordon - your code seems to work beautifully! And Ken's point about the web link is also satisfied because if there is no app to display the PDF, Windows brings up a prompt to d/l software anyway. Thanks

Re: Calculating points of a mega circle..

2005-09-13 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi TJ, Hi folks Anyone know how I would calculate the points of a circle given a specific number of required points and a massive radius. For example I'm looking to generate a list of 7200 points that describe a circle with a radius of 99 Any ideas how to go about this? Thanks, -

Re: Revolution under Ubuntu Linux?

2005-08-25 Thread Gordon Tillman
Folks I agree with what Bob has written here: Didn't you ask that same question a few days back? Or was it somebody else? I am using Ubuntu Linux (with the Gnome interface), but not Kubuntu (that uses KDE). RR 2.6 runs with absolutely no trouble on my machine, with no necessity for the

Re: Revolution under Ubuntu Linux?

2005-08-25 Thread Gordon Tillman
If you are using Ubuntu, I recommend you install the Smeg application, which is a nice graphical way to add and edit menu items. For an icon, just select the revapp.ico file in the Sample Icons folder. --gordon On Aug 25, 2005, at 18:28, Rishi Viner wrote: Mark, I haven't figured out

Re: Revolution under Ubuntu Linux?

2005-08-25 Thread Gordon Tillman
Anytime! :-) On Aug 25, 2005, at 18:47, Rishi Viner wrote: Well, I just tried this and now have a propper Rev icon at last! Should have done it ages ago... Thanks for the motivation boost, Regards, -g ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Password generator

2005-08-23 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Wally, On Aug 23, 2005, at 16:25, Wally Rodriguez wrote: Does anyone here know where I can find an .htaccess-compatible password generator? I am setting up a website generator program that will require this functionality, but the only thing I can find is php-based systems. Do you

Re: Revolution running on Ubuntu?

2005-08-19 Thread Gordon Tillman
Peter I use Revolution with Ubuntu, no problem. I you have any questions feel free to contact me. --gordon On Aug 19, 2005, at 09:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had anyone sucess running Revolution under Ubuntu Linux or Debian? Best Regards Peter --- Werbung

Re: Serial communication in Tiger

2005-07-12 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Dennis, On Jul 12, 2005, at 12:43, Dennis Brown wrote: Hi All, I just ran into a problem that perhaps I can use Rev to solve, but I don't know if I can, or where to start looking, so perhaps one of you can point me in the right direction. I have a robotic glass cutting machine I

Re: Core image

2005-06-08 Thread Gordon Tillman
Klaus it worked fine for me! --gordy On Jun 8, 2005, at 12:06, Klaus Major wrote: Hi friends, could a mac user running Tiger and a Core image capable graphics card please test this script for me? Works for me, since i have NO CI capable graphics card, but would like to see if it works on

Re: Core image

2005-06-08 Thread Gordon Tillman
Sorry Klaus! Here is my configuration: gordy18:~ gordy$ system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType Graphics/Displays: GeForce FX Go5200: Chipset Model: GeForce FX Go5200 Type: Display Bus: AGP VRAM (Total): 64 MB Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0329

Re: Rev. User Groups in the USA (RUGs/USA)?

2005-06-06 Thread Gordon Tillman
Glenn I'm in Humble (basically a suburb of Houston).I would definitely be interesting in participating in a RUG meeting! --gordon On Jun 6, 2005, at 08:39, Glenn E. Fisher wrote: Ralph, I live in the Houston, Texas area and would be interested in a say southwest region RUG. Any other

Re: Rev. User Groups in the USA (RUGs/USA)?

2005-06-06 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Ralph, On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:27, Ralph R. Forehand wrote: Thank you for your response - YEA!! OUR QUERY IS STARTING TO PAY- OFF!! :-)) I assume it's OK to add you to our list of interested Rev. Users I'm compiling? I will keep you informed as we go along That's perfectly fine.

Re: Runrev work with your linux ?

2005-05-18 Thread Gordon Tillman
Morning Damien! I am using runrev under linux, and he doesn't work at all when I launch runrev with the GTK+ look and feel. Runrev only start in motif, so I search people who can launch runrev with the GTK+ look and feel, for search where the bug can come from. I have tryed with Runrev 2.5.1

Re: Runrev work with your linux ?

2005-05-18 Thread Gordon Tillman
Damien? I'm not sure but doesn't Gnome use the GTK library? On May 18, 2005, at 08:15, Gordon Tillman wrote: Morning Damien! I am using runrev under linux, and he doesn't work at all when I launch runrev with the GTK+ look and feel. Runrev only start in motif, so I search people who can launch

Re: Anyone using Tiger Yet?

2005-05-01 Thread Gordon Tillman
Morning Bur, On May 1, 2005, at 08:24, Burrton Wodruff wrote: Hi Folk, Anyone using Tiger with Rev yet? Any problems? I haven't had any problems so far; however, Lars Brehmer just sent me screen shots of a very interesting issue he has seen with one of his applications running under Tiger. It

Re: Tiger and windowShape

2005-04-30 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Lars, On Apr 30, 2005, at 08:30, Lars Brehmer wrote: Has anyone installed Tiger and looked at a revStack or standalone that uses a windowShape other than rectangular? I just installed Tiger on my backup machine to try it out and one of my main Rev projects has three stacks with a shape

Re: another multi-user solution?

2005-04-24 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Kurt, On Apr 24, 2005, at 08:43, Kurt Kaufman wrote: This morning, while in the shower of course (Mr. Kaufman, the U.N. has decided to elect you Secretary General, on the condition that all of your decisions regarding this institution are made whilst you are in the shower.) I thought of

Re: Alternating rows in a list

2005-04-20 Thread Gordon Tillman
Ain't that the truth Frank! On Apr 20, 2005, at 07:19, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: It's too bad HTML tables are not supported; that would make these questions SO much easier to deal with: table width=100% trtd bgcolor=#00Line 1/td/tr trtd bgcolor=#ffLine 2/td/tr trtd bgcolor=#00Line

Re: Alternating rows in a list

2005-04-19 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Varen, About your post: I'm trying to format a list field which displays plain old html with a list of links. I'd like to format the list so that each link in the list is an alternating color such as white, light grey, white, light grey, etc. Here is an example which may get you

Re: rather not have apps... from a web page

2005-03-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi JB, On Mar 27, 2005, at 03:30, jbv wrote: Just curious : how do you manage upgrades of a standalone, if not by downloading new versions of sub-stacks that will be downloaded and saved on the HD, and thus ending with more than 1 file on the user's HD ? Of course, there's also the possibility to

Re: Running MySQL Utility Commands on Remote Server

2005-03-26 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Peter, On Mar 26, 2005, at 05:07, Peter Reid wrote: In order to do various forms of database maintenance (dumping, importing copying, etc.) I need to be able to use not just the MySQL server commands but also the MySQL utility commands such as mysqldump. In particular, I'd like to be

Re: Launching RR from a web page

2005-03-24 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Len, This is a very interesting problem, one that I would like to be able to implement as well. On Mar 24, 2005, at 08:40, Len Morgan wrote: There was a thread about 3 years ago about having a RR that ran within the browser and I'm wondering if anything came of that? The reason I ask is

Re: Preserving Rev Prefs Between Upgrades

2005-03-11 Thread Gordon Tillman
Thanks for the great tip Xavier! On Mar 11, 2005, at 00:04, MisterX wrote: there's is now a backup folder in the components/save/ folder with a copy of the revprefs in it! cheers Xavier --gordy ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Is this a bug or is it just me?

2005-03-10 Thread Gordon Tillman
check the spelling of your handler... I tried this script inside the edit field itself: on mouseEnter get the dontWrap of me set the dontWrap of me to not it end mouseEnter very interesting! --gordy put quotes around true or false ...perhaps Ok I tried this two diffrent ways for the don't

Re: Getting Directory Tree

2005-02-02 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Derek, I'm at a loss. I've spent the last 3 hours trying to make a script that will look at 1 directory and provide a complete hierarchial list of all files within all folders and subfolders, and I can't make it work. Has anyone else attempted this, and been successful? How about

Re: Using stacks as a database for very large data sets

2005-01-26 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Jonathan, On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:01, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Still - how do database programs do it? Is each record a separate file or something? If it were possible to use a single stack as a huge database, it would be very convenient. The big problem of course is that opening a stack loads the

Re: Bugzilla URL?

2005-01-26 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Phil, On Jan 26, 2005, at 20:05, Phil Davis wrote: I've changed computers a few too many times recently and have lost many bookmarks on which I so heavily rely. Can someone please tell me where to find Rev's Bugzilla site? http://support.runrev.com/bugzilla/ --gordy

Re: Using Externals in Revolution Article

2005-01-05 Thread Gordon Tillman
Morning Trevor, Thanks for posting this: http://mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/ If you have any feedback on corrections or how to clarify any points in the article you can send them to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very nice write-up. Oh how I could have used it a couple of months

Re: RevOnline

2004-12-06 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi David, On Dec 6, 2004, at 13:40, David Squance wrote: Unfortunately, the user name is of no use to me, since it appears RevOnline is restricted to those with RR2.5 which I can't afford. Thanks anyhow. Dave I think you can download the free Revolution Dreamcard Player and access the

Re: DLL problem - Good News !

2004-12-05 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Roger! On Dec 4, 2004, at 15:17, Roger Amar wrote: Hello Gordon, I'm back. My dll started to work by adding a .def file to export the getXtable function. Glad you got it working. I think I used a def file for my project as well, although CW does have a mechanism that will automatically

Re: DLL problem

2004-12-03 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Roger, Please do let me know how it goes. Holler at me if you have any questions. On Dec 3, 2004, at 06:06, Roger Amar wrote: Thanks a lot Gordon ! I'll try to find what is wrong and keep you informed. Roger; Feel free to try out the externals that are included in that project. One does

Re: Progress on preventing multiple instances of a program from running in windows

2004-12-03 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy Folks, I'm jumping in on this thread a bit late, but I wanted to let you know what we are doing to handle this issue. I have a preferences library that any application can use to manage, well, preferences. It does the right thing and stores the preferences at the proper location for

Re: Progress on preventing multiple instances of a program fromrunning in windows

2004-12-03 Thread Gordon Tillman
Of Gordon Tillman Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:13 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Progress on preventing multiple instances of a program fromrunning in windows Howdy Folks, I'm jumping in on this thread a bit late, but I wanted to let you know what we are doing to handle this issue

Re: DLL problem

2004-12-03 Thread Gordon Tillman
[]; Maybe is missing something like a library or header ? What do you think about ? Roger; -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Gordon Tillman Envoyé : vendredi 3 décembre 2004 15:25 À : How to use Revolution Objet : Re: DLL problem Howdy Roger

Re: Serial comm differences between PC Mac?

2004-12-02 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy! About this: I am connected via a serial cable (on OSX with a Keyspan serial adapter) to our phone system to capture our call data. Thanks to Sarah's serial stack (THANKS, SARAH!), I got up running quickly everything works great. But when I unplug from my mac plug into com1 on the PC

Re: DLL problem

2004-12-02 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Roger, I have an external dll that I wrote for Mac OSX and Windows. The Mac side is built using xtools, but the Windows side is built using CW. Now I did use CW for Mac (it can build windows code), but that shouldn't matter as the .mcp files are cross-platform. I have archived the whole

Re: barcode scanner

2004-11-25 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Paolo, On Nov 25, 2004, at 05:06, paolo wrote: How can I send data from a barcode scanner to a revolution stack on WIN-PC? Any of you experienced a software using a barcode scanner as data-entry in a revolution stack? Ciao Paolo Mazza I wrote a sample RR app for a fellow that drives a

Re: Standalone Question

2004-11-23 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Steve, On Nov 23, 2004, at 10:48, Steve Bonham wrote: I've created a standalone. I'd like others to be able to import a text document to a field and then quit -- and the content to STILL BE THERE when it is reopened. But it is not happening. The standalone always opens as it appear when I

Re: Newbie question about image/button relationships

2004-11-22 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Jason, On Nov 22, 2004, at 12:58, Silver, Jason wrote: Now, onto the issue. I have an image of a mobile phone keypad (in JPG format), and I would like for the user to be able to click on specific areas, causing changes to occur on the screen (which is a field). Is there a way to Revolution to

Re: Newbie question about image/button relationships

2004-11-22 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Klaus, On Nov 22, 2004, at 13:07, Klaus Major wrote: You can set their ink to noop, then they will respond to mouseclicks etc... but are invisible to our eyes :-) That's a great tip! --gordon ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reading a (BIG) text file one line at a time

2004-11-22 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Rob, On Nov 22, 2004, at 14:05, Rob Beynon wrote: Greetings all, I have failed to discover how to read a file one line at a time. The file is a text file, and is large (84MB) but I need to process it on a line by line basis, rather than read the whole file into a field (not even sure I can!). I

Re: Creating reusable code libraries

2004-11-21 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Gordon, I am fairly new to RR myself, but have been using it a lot lately and so I thought I would try and respond to a couple of your questions. On Nov 21, 2004, at 11:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the best way in Rev. to create a reusable code library - e.g. to do 3D

Re: Technical strike bug 2341

2004-11-18 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Jacqueline, About this... On Nov 18, 2004, at 13:52, J. Landman Gay wrote: There's a problem here: as of Rev 2.5, the GM is no longer supported. It has become a legacy tool that customers can download separately and use as-is, but no further support or fixes will be provided. That's why your

Re: Identifying the itemOffset

2004-11-17 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Greg, I just tried your script... I have a field with a one line and ten items that are tab delimited, and the textStyle of each item is set to link. I've written a simple field handler that identifies the item offset, so that I can sort another field according to that item. The handler

Re: Return selected item of option menu

2004-11-12 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Kaveh, If you want to just find out what is the selected line or text of an option menu at any time, just get its label property; for example, if you option menu is named choicesOM, you can: get the label of button choicesOM --gordon ___

Re: Table field questions

2004-11-04 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Jack I figured out how to change the width of columns using the tabstops setting under table in the object inspecter. As you know it changes all the column widths. Is there a way to change the width just 1 of the columns? You absolutely can! The way that property works is that you can use a

Valentina and RR 2.5 - Timeouts

2004-11-01 Thread Gordon Tillman
external method to make it work? Thank you, Gordon Tillman ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Valentina and RR 2.5 - Timeouts

2004-11-01 Thread Gordon Tillman
Thanks Chris! On Nov 1, 2004, at 12:23, Chris Sheffield wrote: Yes, I'm using Valentina with Rev 2.5 just fine. This is an obvious suggestion, but I would start with double-checking the revOpenDatabase function parameters, and make sure you have them all in the right order and have the correct

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi K, On Oct 27, 2004, at 12:38, K wrote: Is there a way to read from stdin or any file and not hold the event loop hostage? The best I could do with file reads was to use the timeout feature. I uploaded a sample stack to illustrate this to my user space on rev online. username= gordyt It's

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
Howdy K. On Oct 27, 2004, at 14:04, K wrote: Is the user space accessible with out the RR IDE? I think you may have to. Here is all of the stuff from the script file. --gordy constant kReadIntervalSecs = 2 constant kTimeoutMS = 1 local sPath, sDone, sPos on LogIt pMsg put pMsg return after

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
You're Welcome K, On Oct 27, 2004, at 14:16, K wrote: I will test this in my situtation and post the results. Thanks! Please do let me know how it goes. One thing I would like to point out in particular: read from file sPath at sPos until return in kTimeoutMS milliseconds Be sure and keep

Re: Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

2004-10-27 Thread Gordon Tillman
K I don't know about this: On Oct 27, 2004, at 14:20, K wrote: Can the conditions be or'ed? Like so... read from file sPath at sPos until return in kTimeout milliseconds or numToChar(3) K You can of course just read a character at a time, accumulating into a buffer variable until the result is

Re: an handler inside another...help

2004-10-26 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Namgyal, This should be no problem: When a button is pressed, it will parse through the text file, read two lines and put that in the two fields irrespectively. It will then wait for a certain time and then read the next two lines and put that to the two fields overwriting the previous content.

Re: PDF large images

2004-10-22 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Aurélien, 1 - Is there any way to display a pdf in a revolution stack ? 2 - I want to display a 500*800 pixels image on a 640*480 card. Is there a way to add scollers to this image ? I don't know how to do PDF's, but adding scrollers to a large image is no problem. I will find a sample stack

Re: Making Windows externals

2004-10-22 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Thomas, In this function: void XGetName(char *args[], int nargs, char **retstring, Bool *pass, Bool *error) { char buffer[MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH+1]; DWORD dwLength; BOOL blnSuccess; dwLength = MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH+1; blnSuccess = GetComputerName(buffer, dwLength); *pass = False;

Re: Finding the current folder ?

2004-10-21 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Alex, Try something like this: function getDefaultFolder set the itemDelimiter to / get the filename of this stack return item 1 to -2 of it end getDefaultFolder --gordy On Oct 21, 2004, at 16:01, Alex Tweedly wrote: I want to place my app in a folder, and then when it

Application Organization and Updating Mechanism

2004-10-13 Thread Gordon Tillman
Greetings Folks! Would you mind taking a look at the following layout for a Form Scanning Server application that I'm working on? This application will run on both Mac OS X and Windows platforms and the purpose of it is to interface with both Scantron scanners and NCS/Pearson scanners. It

How to STOP accepting connections?

2004-10-11 Thread Gordon Tillman
Greetings All, Sorry if this has been asked before...I couldn't find anything in the archives. Given a RR app that is accepting socket connections as follows: accept connections on port 1234 with message ConnectionRequest If at some time in the future the application wants to stop accepting

Re: How to STOP accepting connections?

2004-10-11 Thread Gordon Tillman
Thanks Dar! On Oct 11, 2004, at 14:03, Dar Scott wrote: On Oct 11, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Gordon Tillman wrote: accept connections on port 1234 with message ConnectionRequest If at some time in the future the application wants to stop accepting connections, how might that be accomplished? close

Re: Connecting to Valentina using revdb_connect

2004-09-28 Thread Gordon Tillman
Thanks for the feedback Jan! I have added bug 2243 to the bugzilla database. --gordon On Sep 28, 2004, at 13:40, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- Gordon Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I was wondering if some kind soul might enlighten me on a couple of points... I'm running the latest RR 2.5

Connecting to Valentina using revdb_connect

2004-09-24 Thread Gordon Tillman
on the fly if it doesn't exist. Many thanks! Gordon Tillman ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Revolution 2.5 Updater

2004-09-21 Thread Gordon Tillman
Hi Mark! I have studio licenses for both mac and windows platforms and have tested this updater on both. The mac side updated with no complaints and no errors. On the Windows side I got this error message: There was an error executing a script in stack Revolution Version Checker. No more

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