Re: Stackrunner

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 17, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Richmond wrote: On 11/17/2010 09:36 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm not 100% sure how to do this. I guess it means finding where the image library stack is then issuing a command of some sort when my app starts up to bring that stack into my stack file? Pete

Re: Reunion (was: It was once possible to set individual pixels of an image)

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I think I'll make up a T-shirt that says: on openBackground backgroundID if the short name of background backgroundID = Hypercard then answer Things have changed now! launch LiveCode end if end openBackground -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http

Strange Datagrid Column Problem

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Haworth
I've customised a datagrid column to contain a checkbox. Right after the customisation, the checkbox shows up in the column just fine. I then added the following line of code in the FillInData handler for the column: set the hilite of button 1 of the long ID of me to handleBoolean(pData)

Re: Strange Datagrid Column Problem

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Haworth
That worked! Are you familiar with the banana slug, native to the Santa Cruz area of California? Pete Haworth On Nov 18, 2010, at 2:54 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: Pete, Try: set the hilite of btn 1 of me to handleBoolean(pData) ___

Stackrunner

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Just started using this and very happy but have come across a problem regarding button icons. I imported a set of icons into the image library in the IDE and refer to the icon numbers within the Image Library when specifying icons for buttons. All works fine in the IDE and standalone but

Re: Stackrunner

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks. It will be a huge amount of work for me to change icon numbers everywhere so I guess Stackrunner won't work for me. Oh well! Pete Haworth On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:02 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/17/10 11:45 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Just started using this and very happy but have

Re: Stackrunner

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm not 100% sure how to do this. I guess it means finding where the image library stack is then issuing a command of some sort when my app starts up to bring that stack into my stack file? Pete Haworth On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Devin Asay wrote: On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Peter

Re: Stackrunner

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Devin and Richmond. Pete Haworth http://www.mollysrevenge.com http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Devin Asay wrote: On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm not 100% sure how to do

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Haworth
I'd be happy with that too. Pete Haworth On Nov 16, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Kevin Miller wrote: I'm leaning towards shortening the banner time to 5 seconds. That would be a very good option, IMO. When SuperCard introduced a splash screen delay they originally went for 10

Re: DOWNLOADING REV 4.0.0

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Haworth
I love how unconnected discussions come together! I just downloaded stackrunner and it seems to solve all my issues regarding standalone startup banners/using test files versus live files. I point it to my application .rev file and it runs it as if it were a standalone, opening the live

Re: DOWNLOADING REV 4.0.0

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Haworth
On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Richmond wrote: On 11/16/2010 08:04 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I love how unconnected discussions come together! I just downloaded stackrunner and it seems to solve all my issues regarding standalone startup banners/using test files versus live files. I

Re: SQLite Problem in 4.5

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Haworth
is a backwards compatibility issue with Metacard stacks or something. I vaguely remember this being discussed a few months ago. But I could be wrong. Well... not really. ;-) Bob On Nov 15, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Avoiding NULLs is always good I think. But since SQLite itself works

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Haworth
Ron, I don't develop for iPad/iPhone (yet) but it seems to me that Revolution owe all its developers who do develop on that platform an answer to your questions and any others that would make it easier to develop apps for the Apple Store. Pete Haworth On Nov 16, 2010, at 8:06 PM, ron

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
I understand Kevin. I just don't like the fact that a standalone application I create from code I have written myself on my own computer still has this delay in it when I run it on my own computer. Pete Haworth On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Kevin Miller wrote: On 15/11/2010 16:07, Pete

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
I have a totally separate set of files and databases for testing in the IDE than I do for live running with the standalone. Pete Haworth On Nov 15, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: On 15/11/2010 17:42, Peter Haworth p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: I understand Kevin. I just don't

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
If I want to install my application on my laptop as well as my desktop all for my own use, you're suggesting I install a pirate copy of the IDE on one of my computers (I think). Pete Haworth On Nov 15, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: On 15/11/2010 20:23, Jeffrey Massung

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
, at 12:49 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: On 15/11/2010 20:43, Peter Haworth p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: If I want to install my application on my laptop as well as my desktop all for my own use, you're suggesting I install a pirate copy of the IDE on one of my computers (I think). No, we allow you

Re: SQLite Problem in 4.5

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Bob, The double bar is a concatenation operator, same as the in LiveCode Pete Haworth On Nov 15, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Peter, I do not know what the double bars are in an SQL statement. What do they do? Bob On Nov 13, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Just ran

Re: SQLite Problem in 4.5

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
, and the query worked fine for me. At this point, what I would suggest is getting the sqLite plugin for Firefox and making queries directly against the sqLite database. See what you get then. Bob On Nov 13, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Just ran into a serious problem with and SQLite SELECT

Re: SQLite Problem in 4.5

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
? Bob On Nov 15, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks Bob. I think the problem may have something to do with NULL values in some of the columns coming back from the SELECT. When I fixed them, the SELECT worked fine in LiveCode. The Firefox plugin was one of the utilities I used

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
When I'm testing and fixing bugs - a lot! Pete Haworth On Nov 15, 2010, at 3:45 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: Far of all these considerations, a simple question: how many times you open your application a day? Regards, -- -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best! 8) http://www.aslugontheroad.co.cc

Re: SQLite Problem in 4.5

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
is a backwards compatibility issue with Metacard stacks or something. I vaguely remember this being discussed a few months ago. But I could be wrong. Well... not really. ;-) Bob On Nov 15, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Avoiding NULLs is always good I think. But since SQLite

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
That's exactly what I would like to see. Unfortunately, it seems as if Revolution has moved away from license keys so I doubt it will happen. Pete Haworth On Nov 15, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: On 15/11/2010 20:37, Andre Garzia wrote: (2) There is no way to distinguish your

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Haworth
Yes, matter of fact I did just recently. Turned out to be a data problem in my application which didn't manifest itself in the IDE but caused big performance problems in the standalone. The only way I could track it down was to keep trying things/writing messages to a debug log,

Re: Getting the weekday name

2010-11-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks. I forgot that I have been using the SQLite strftime function to do all my date formatting/calculations so I think I'll just use that. Pete Haworth On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/13/10 4:55 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The dates are coming from an SQL

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-13 Thread Peter Haworth
I agree it wasn't a surprise, but sometimes the reality of things doesn't match expectations (there's no mention of the banner staying on the screen for 10 seconds). At this point, I have no plans to offer my application for commercial use but I ought to be able to run a standalone on my

SQLite Problem in 4.5

2010-11-13 Thread Peter Haworth
Just ran into a serious problem with and SQLite SELECT statement in 4.5. I'm selecting data from my database with the following SQLite statement put revDataFromQuery(,,gDBID,myLine) after tdata myline contains SELECT PlaceID, Name || ',' || City || ',' || State AS Location FROM Places ORDER

Getting the weekday name

2010-11-13 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm using the datetimetoJulian function in Sarah's great datetime stack as part of a way to get the alpha weekday name. The words in Sarah's stack say that it's possible to get the day number of the week by taking the remainder of dividing the Julian days by 7 but when I do that, I

Re: Getting the weekday name

2010-11-13 Thread Peter Haworth
That sounds simpler! I've never used convert and dateitems - what format would tdate have to be in? Pete Haworth On Nov 13, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Dick Kriesel wrote: On 11/13/10 1:44 PM, Peter Haworth p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: I'm using the datetimetoJulian function in Sarah's great

Re: Getting the weekday name

2010-11-13 Thread Peter Haworth
:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/13/10 3:44 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm using the datetimetoJulian function in Sarah's great datetime stack as part of a way to get the alpha weekday name. The words in Sarah's stack say that it's possible to get the day number of the week by taking

Re: Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
No problem Richard, fun tracking this stuff down. After your last email, I now understand the exact reason for the slowdown. I now plan to switch all my long name references over to use the control ID. Everything in the doc says using the ID should be a safe way to uniquely identify a

Bug Tracking

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
I've learned over the last few days how important it is to keep track of code changes in each release of an app. I already have a LiveCode app that lets me catalog bugs/enhancements, prioritise them, write notes about how they were fixed and define which release they were fixed in.

Re: Bug Tracking

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Magic Carpet as well though! Pete Haworth On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Peter, This was a hot topic some months ago here. There are many alternatives and many users have rolled their own as well. Your first choice is: (a) To use a standard VCS/SCM software such as Git

Re: Bug Tracking

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Chipp - where can I get a copy of Magic Carpet? Pete Haworth On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: f you decide to go with option (b) then you can do pretty much whatever you want. Chipp Walters has a wonderful tool in the form of Magic Carpet.

LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
I opted to go for the personal version of LiveCode when the name change happened. I understand that I can't distribute apps with this version but I personally find it objectionable that I have to endure the banner announcing that for 10 seconds every time I start a standalone app - I'm

Re: alerts

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 10, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: Here's the way I do it. I show a small display stack, the idea is just that it's a billboard to tell the user that the saving is occurring. It closes after the save is done. on doSave modeless stack savingAlert

IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Haworth
I think I have found the cause of the performance problems I have been experiencing. I had been referring to objects by their long name in various places in the offending code. I started changing the code to refer to the same objects by their short ID and each line of code I changed

Re: IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for delving into this Richard. Here's a small example section of code which I've changed to use the ID where it used to use the long name. The variables are: myIDholds the short ID of the control pselection a parameter passed into the command put the milliseconds into

Re: IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Haworth
See answers below. Pete Haworth What's interesting there is that the control is only being referenced three times: once to write the debug string, a second time to check the customKeys, and a third time to obtain the prop values. Given that it's just three object references and most

Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Figured out the IDE/Standalone performance issue, it's nothing to do with the code. I my last email I mentioned how I have a custom property holding the long names of all the controls on a card that need to have data loaded into them from my database. On closer inspection, the long name

Re: Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Yes, that's what I'm seeing. With the references to my .rev filepath in the control names, the card I'm using to test was taking around 35 seconds to open. I went through and manually removed the references to the filepath (that's the only thing I changed I swear!) and built the

Re: Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Haworth
, Monte! Thanks for running that test. So the difference is in addressing controls *within* a stack, but not with the stack itself. Hard to anticipate, but very good to know. So Peter has a solution, and I learned two new things today about performance. A good day

Re: alerts

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 11, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: The saving of the time in a customProp is because I have scripted things so the stack is automatically saved every 20 minutes, or at whatever interval the user chooses in the preferences. That feature was irrelevant

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
doesn't his work with a cursor? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 8, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Devin Asay wrote: Joe, I'd use a spinning daisy cursor. See http://ajaxload.info/ for a slick utility that will generate a custom animated gif for you

OT: Hardware recommendation for graphics card?

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Alcibiades
and foremost. Peter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Devin Asay wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: I'm just fooling around with trying out an animated cursor, and I can't get it to work. I tried importing an animated GIF then setting the cursor to it, but I only get what looks like an opaque

More on IDE vs Standalone Performance issues

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Haworth
Spent the last day or so trying to get some data to track this problem down by inserting code to write details of the time taken for various chunks of code to execute into a text file so I could see what was going on. I narrowed it down to a command that loads the text property of an

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Devin Asay wrote: So it seems like you could just set the cursor to the image id of your choosing, and increment it in a repeat loop, just like 'set cursor

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/9/10 11:33 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: It does seem that setting a cursor to an animated GIF ought to work out of the box the way setting a button icon to an animated GIF does But if there's a workaround for cursors I'd settle

Re: Method question

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
the mouseloc into uStartPoint end mousedown on mouseup put the mouseloc into uEndPoint end mouseup Then use the script local variables in whatever handlers for your own purposes. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

Re: [OT] legality of DVD backup

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Richmond wrote: fluid measurement: Scots pint ( = 4 English pints) No wonder the Scots have a high tolerance for alcohol. I'll have another pint, please. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

Re: More on IDE vs Standalone Performance issues

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Haworth
; charset=us-ascii I think you are on to something there Peter. This may be something for the bug reports. Is there a test stack with the debug written into it that you could post so we can try it on our end? Bob ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Code for Database Transaction Processing

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Haworth
This isn't specific example including complete code but the general flow is: revExecuteSQL gDBID,BEGIN TRANSACTION . revdbExecute your SQL command if error revRollBackDatabase gDBID exit end if . revdbExecute your SQL command if error revRollBackDatabase gDBID

Re: alerts

2010-11-08 Thread Peter Brigham MD
to the seconds close stack savingAlert go stack pdData end doSave -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 8, 2010, at 1:24 AM, Mark Smith wrote: Hi Craig, Forget the part about not knowing when a save is done... I'm a little tired

Re: alerts

2010-11-08 Thread Peter Brigham MD
In my case the save takes at most 2 seconds. Progress bar probably not needed. Also, it's impossible (AFAIK) to tell in advance how long a save will take, to the only progress bar possible for this situation would be a barber-pole type bar. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http

Re: Painfully slow performance (Trevor DeVore)

2010-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for all the input. I've pretty much ruled out SQLite as the cause of the problem because I'm using the same database in the IDE and the standalone so unless the standalone is using a different SQLite library than the IDE, there shouldn't be any difference in performance between the

Painfully slow performance

2010-11-06 Thread Peter Haworth
I just built my first standalone with LiveCode 4.5 (on OSX) and I'm seeing painfully slow performance compared to the same application built with 4.0. I'm using an SQLite database to populate all the data on the cards in the app, not sure if there's some problem with the SQLite side of

Slow Performance - Update

2010-11-06 Thread Peter Haworth
I guess I was too hasty in accusing LiveCode 4.5 of performance issues! I rebuilt my application using Rev Studio 4.0 using the same code base and the performance issues are still there in the standalone. So the issue now is that the problem doesn't occur in the IDE, only in the

Re: OT: Some help with Regular Expressions

2010-11-04 Thread Peter Brigham MD
return true end testFormat call it with: if testFormat(tInput) then -- valid string, do whatever else -- invalid string, do something else end if -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote

Re: a weird thing about registration, Linux

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Alcibiades
A solution is to change owner. After chown to my user, it runs and updates the DGH fine. Should not have to do this, however, and it does not solve the problem that every account should be able to use it. I will write to support. -- View this message in context:

Re: [ANN] DGH 1.1.3 is ready for Linux

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Alcibiades
zyrip, it did not work for me, but chown -R of runrev to my account did. I still don't understand the reregistration problem but will raise it with support. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-DGH-1-1-3-is-ready-for-Linux-tp3022985p3023237.html

Re: [OT] Browsing the internet... It is safer from Linux?

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Chipp, not saying you are wrong, but how would you know? That's the thing that got me, and why I think Alejandro's thought of taking Windows offline is quite sensible. The problem with windows getting compromised is I am not sure you necessarily know when its happened. Most studies on anti

Re: LiveCode Linux version: graphic effects issue with the name of a push button

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes, I get this too. Always assumed it was a feature, just the way it works. How are you modifying the button graphic? What I have done is underlay a graphic with a transparent button not showing its name, but you'll have thought of that. Peter -- View this message in context: http

Re: LiveCode Linux version: graphic effects issue with the name of a push button

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Zryip, another thing which is probably a Linux peculiarity, the DGH is asking should it do an upgrade. So you say yes, but then it can't open the file. Its probably permissions. The LC app is installed into /opt, and of course the user does not have write permissions in /opt, which is what the

a weird thing about registration, Linux

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
, but by account. Anyone else getting this? Peter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: a weird thing about registration, Linux

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
. But I can't understand why if, as myself, I simply acquire root privileges, it should not find all its files? Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/a-weird-thing-about-registration-Linux-tp3022230p3022361.html Sent from the Revolution - User

Re: Escape key doesn't work with fullScreen?

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Brigham MD
At the risk of repeating something posted to this list last year I hate this damn computer I wish that I could sell it. It never does what I want it to, Only what I tell it! -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 1, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Bob

Re: a weird thing about registration, Linux

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
pe...@:/opt/runrev/livecode-4.5$ ls Documentation livecode.x86 Resources Runtime Externals Pluginsrevpdfprinter.so Toolset License Agreement.txt Release Notes.pdf revsecurity.so pe...@:/opt/runrev/livecode-4.5$ ./livecode.x86

Re: a weird thing about registration, Linux

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Nope, same thing. Also su -m -p, or su -p, also same thing. Weird. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/a-weird-thing-about-registration-Linux-tp3022230p3022902.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OT] Browsing the internet... It is safer from Linux?

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I don't know if its safer than current versions of Windows 7 intelligently used. It certainly is a lot safer than earlier versions of XP, used as they came out of the box. One reason is that desktop linux is a small population and so not being targeted. A second is when you do an install, it

Re: [OT] Browsing the internet... It is safer from Linux?

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Alcibiades
not long after, and Linux holds out longest. But I don't know what the starting setup is on the windows installation. Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Browsing-the-internet-It-is-safer-from-Linux-tp3020657p3020955.html Sent from the Revolution

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Brigham MD
cases for SQLite. As Yogi Berra said, In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice they're different. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: [OT] Browsing the internet... It is safer from Linux?

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes, it was the annual hackfests. I only know two people with OSX, and neither one has been compromised. Whether the Unix underpinnings make OSX more secure? I think the hacks, but maybe others recall better, were due to applications and privilege escalation. I am really not sure what to

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Thanks guys, food for thought. This would probably do most of it, have him able to write it in something he is comfortable with, but also centralize it so as not to proliferate copies. Should have thought of it. Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Brigham MD
combination). I never realized how much variation there is in these things. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Jim Sims wrote: On Oct 29, 2010, at 6:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I've never seen it that way. All my Mac

revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I have been to http://revweb.runrev.com/ and it says, as it has for some years now, that the Linux version is coming shortly. Is it in fact coming? And if so when? I'm asking because I need that kind of functionality one way or another in the next couple of months. Peter

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
test under Revolution 4.0. I created a new stack and added the following handler to the stack: on startup put Hello Console quit end startup I created a standalone and then ran the executable from a shell console using the -ui option : Rodney:MacOS peter$ ./CLTest -ui Hello Console

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Its a really simple application, its for a guy that I work with. I would really like for him to be able to write it and keep it going himself. I am lately rather seriously in the mode of lessening people's dependence on me for this stuff. What it is, he will have a large map on a big screen.

auto identification of connected printer (Mac)

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Brigham MD
with the need. Thanks to the dozen or more members of this list that have helped me with ideas, shell calls, etc. I absolutely could not have done it without you. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig - constant storageStack = yourStackNameHere

Re: Bl**dy Laptop Keyboards

2010-10-27 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond Thanks, but what is a Fn button? It's the bottom left key in the picture at http://gamoe.net/imagebank/NewMacBookKeyboard.jpg. There are both return and enter keys on my MacBookPro. Regards Peter___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Well thanks to this thread at least I found out where the # key went on the UK Mac keyboards, which maybe might come in handly one day. Its surreal to have it be alt + 3 unmarked. How on earth are you supposed to know that? I guess you have to read the Human Interface Guidelines? -- View

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Alcibiades
To most people, this has never had anything to do with OS choice or with Apple's stock price. It has to do with corporate conduct. It has to do with the following:- 1) Do you want a society in which your access to applications and thus increasingly to media is in the control of a few

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Brigham MD
Presumably they wanted to have the pound sterling symbol more naturally available, so they swapped the sterling and the # mappings -- option-3 vs shift-3. It would have made more sense for them to have mapped the sterling symbol to shift-4, where the dollar sign is. -- Peter Peter M

Re: Help please: can't get behavior script to work

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Brigham MD
iangmckni...@gmail.com === -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Help please: can't get behavior script to work

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Brigham MD
slow anything down. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Oct 23, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Ian McKnight wrote: Do you know I never really thought about using either mouseenter or mousemove :) As I was thinking about various ways to solve my problem it just

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes, Richard's post is spot on. They have a track record, and this is how it will start. Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Mac-App-Store-tp3004425p3006723.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
The Apple corded full USB is very nice. Far better than the Cherry Strait which is a contender also, but the keycaps wear off. Otherwise, Logitech OEM is very good value and everyone really likes it. Or the extreme clickety clack made by PCKeyboards, which if they are into that sort of thing,

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I have to say, reluctantly, not being an admirer of Apple or its works, that the latest keyboards, if that's the sort of thing you want, basically do not have any competition. I was using the aluminum usb full one, really came to like it, apart from the irritating keycaps. It is virtually

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Chipp Walters wrote: Jeez, how long before you have to JAILBREAK your Mac in order to put your own programs on it? I believe it's just around the corner..haven't been wrong yet. We all have to decide, its both a personal thing and a society thing. The personal thing is do we

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Richmond wrote: On 10/21/2010 05:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: So the problem society has with Apple is not whether it will close down OSX, I think Chipp is right, it will just as soon

Re: [ANN]BvG Docu 1.7

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Have you tested the increase type size on Linux? It does not seem to work for me. Debian Squeeze and Fluxbox. Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-BvG-Docu-1-7-tp3000985p3004334.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive

Re: [ANN] Data Grid Helper moves your columns

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Its a most wise and helpful creature, this Slug, and so I bought it. Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-Data-Grid-Helper-moves-your-columns-tp3001188p3002478.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Save and Print Card Problem

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Brigham MD
of the chosen cards? How to you load the saved data back into the print cards? Sound as if we'll have to see your scripting to sort this out. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Brigham MD
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Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I have done set the rect of stack xyz to the screen rect. With Gnome this floats the stack above but touching the task bar, as with all apps meximized, with no overlap. With Fluxbox, the task bar is overlappng and over the stack which occupies the whole screen, and this happens with all apps.

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes this is right, it does it with flux on Debian also. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/WindowBoundingRect-in-Linux-tp2993052p2994115.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I do like wmii, but what I keep coming back to for everyday use is Fluxbox, and some of the time ion2. Mostly Fluxbox feels very intuitive and plain. I agree the suckless people are very interesting. -- View this message in context:

Re: shell command to identify wireless printer

2010-10-12 Thread Peter Brigham MD
not part of the filename. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: Can you come at it from a different direction? Can you check current SSID against a printer list to select which printer you want? Assuming

Re: [OT] 42-day

2010-10-12 Thread Peter Brigham MD
put min(myAge,42) into myAge -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Oct 11, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: OH MY GOSH! I am 42 today! And have been for some years now! ;-) Bob On Oct 10, 2010, at 2:16 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi, Today

Re: shell command to identify wireless printer

2010-10-12 Thread Peter Brigham MD
than 1 valid result, and you do use the entire thing as your match text, also might consider a sort since I can't test if system_profiler always lists in the exact same order. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

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