Re: Rev. User Groups in the USA?

2005-06-03 Thread Ray Bennett
I'm in Pennsylvania. I have 2 others working with me and could rationalize a road trip - either driving a day (so, Hotlanta's about the limit - that's 11 hours) or flying somewhere for which it's possible to get good flight deals. On Friday, June 03, 2005, at 01:56PM, Jim Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: barcode scanner

2004-11-30 Thread Ray Bennett
my barcode app. This allows you to set focus based on what's coming in. HTH, Ray Bennett ..:From my Treo 600:.. Original Message From: "kee nethery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11/27/04 1:24 pm To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: barc

RE: barcode scanner

2004-11-30 Thread Ray Bennett
Most barcode scanners can be programmed to send a 'preamble' string before the data that you scan. This is how I differentiate input sources in my barcode app. Another trick is to ensure you reset the focus to a text field after you are done processing the input. Ray ..:From my Treo 600:.. --

Re: strange clone behaviour: bug?

2004-07-13 Thread Ray Bennett
Andreas - I'm afraid this won't be of much help, but about a year ago, I reported a problem with the clone function - we were executing it within a repeat loop and could guarantee an eventual crash, although it was completely unpredictable as to _when_ it would crash. It felt like a memory dis

Re: Array question again.

2004-02-11 Thread Ray Bennett
Hi Kevin, Delayed because of lack of time and jetlag. In Santiago, Chile just now. Will return on Friday. I'd recommend you test it to see. I don't know what else to advise. My gut tells me that it'll work as you suspect without you having to garbage collect yourself, but I can imagine scen

php URL statements?

2004-02-08 Thread Ray Bennett
I've been trying for a while to launch a php script on my remote server by using a get URL or a put URL I can't get either to do much. In one case, I am able to get back an error from the server saying I've got an error near a "" tag. What I do currently is to build the http string and launch

Re: Resizeable problems

2004-01-05 Thread Ray Bennett
If you're colorizing as you type, the non-properties stay as black text - that's usually my first clue that I didn't get it. On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 01:54 AM, Dar Scott wrote: On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 10:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: How do I set the resizeable of a stack to false.

Re: Splash Screen closing

2003-12-23 Thread Ray Bennett
If you set the "destroystack" and "destroywindow" properties of your splash screen to TRUE, you can use "close stack myStack" instead of delete stack. I _think_ it accomplishes the same thing -doesn't it? You can use the message box to set these properties for your splash screen set the des

Re: Navigation palette questions

2003-12-19 Thread Ray Bennett
have you tried sending "go next" message to the stack you're working on? i.e. send "go next" to stack "fred" On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 09:54 AM, David Squance wrote: card switching doesn't happen. It would appear that the messages are stuck in the palette stack, and not going to the cur

Re: Problems with XP & custom properties, and printing

2003-12-19 Thread Ray Bennett
Hi David, We do most of our product testing on XP. I can offer that we do a lot of pretty funky things, including dynamically loading pulldowns/pop-ups and it works fine for us on XP/98/95/ME. These thoughts may be of no help, but I'll pass them on for your consideration: A difference I note

Re: Scrolling Cards

2003-12-17 Thread Ray Bennett
fields displayed. Does that cause a problem? Jim 12/17/03 2:49 AM, Ray Bennett wrote: And make sure to go into the "Property Inspector" for the group Jacque described and open the Geometry properties. Click on the vertical pipe that that exits the top of the object box and the hor

Re: Your Software

2003-12-12 Thread Ray Bennett
Thanks, Rod. Application Name: OpenTourney Assistant Version: 3.10 Availablility: Now Publisher: Escape Sports, Inc. Website: www.escapesports.com Contact Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Platforms: Windows 98/NT/XP (no ME); Mac OS 9.2.2; OS X OS X Native?: Yes/No Demo available: www.escapesports

Re: Develop on Windows or Mac?

2003-11-04 Thread Ray Bennett
Hi Paul. I'm sure you'll get lots of opinions on this one. I've lived on Macs and Unix boxes for years and years. We've developed, over the past year, a product that is cross platform - meaning that it has a market that requires Mac and PC support. Alas, the Mac will likely account for less

Re: breakpoints don't clear

2003-06-25 Thread Ray Bennett
Yes. Nearly every time. Specifically, the issue seems to be that the debugger is actually toggling instead of clearing if you try to clear while in debug mode. If you leave, then go into the script editor and clear the breakpoint, it seems to finally be cleared. On Saturday, June 14, 2003, a

windows, memory and how the heck do i debug crashes

2003-03-05 Thread Ray Bennett
Okay, this isn't an easy question, but let me try and cut to the chase. I have a fairly complex application that is well-behaved on OS X (10.2.4) and well-behaved on OS 9.2.2. On Windows, 98 and XP, the application crashes with irregularity. I think have isolated it to times of intensive pagi

Re: XP and ask/answer file commands.

2003-02-28 Thread Ray Bennett
PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: "Ray Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:43 PM Subject: XP and ask/answer file commands. XP seems to ignore my request to set a default di

XP and ask/answer file commands.

2003-02-27 Thread Ray Bennett
XP seems to ignore my request to set a default directory where the user will be when I ask them to open a file. OS X / OS 9 both doing just what I'd expect. XP always goes to where it was last. Help? code sample put the _workingPath of stack "Fred" & "d_BRK Files/" into thePath put "*

Re: Visual effect anomaly

2003-02-24 Thread Ray Bennett
You may want to toggle the "alwaysbuffer" settings for the stack and see if that has any effect. It did for me when printing images that were part of a card. On Saturday, Feb 22, 2003, at 17:28 America/New_York, Graham Samuel wrote: I have a rectangular area on a card which is used to cover a

Re: background image disappears when printing to PDF

2003-02-24 Thread Ray Bennett
Well, hot on the trail of this, here's what I've learned. If I turn the "alwaysbuffer" property off, the image magically appears on when PDFd/printed. (it was also disappearing _any_ time I tried to print it from an XP box). Hmmm... On Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003, at 22:05 A

Re: Some install issues

2003-02-13 Thread Ray Bennett
Ron, I'm just a little more paranoid than I should be, but the only platform I won't warrant my product on is Windows ME. Mostly because it seems that the different hardware vendors got pretty confused when they wedded it to their box, so for instance the Sony VAIO and HP Pavillion's running M

background image disappears when printing to PDF

2003-02-12 Thread Ray Bennett
Dear List - Sorry to be a pest. I have an image control with an imported (vice linked) image. This control was pasted into the background of a card. This background occurs on 15 cards. The image is pretty small (175x175). When I use the Print Dialog to create a PDF of the stack, everything

registry follow-up. never mind.

2003-02-12 Thread Ray Bennett
Sorry gang. Just found Ken Ray's pointer to the Sons of Thunder tip regarding Registry stuff from the December 2002 list. That should get me going. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolu

Windows registry and being a "proper" app

2003-02-11 Thread Ray Bennett
Okay, I've not really ever done any development for Windows-resident apps, so forgive my ignorance on this one. Is there anything I need to do to make my application "proper" as far as Microsoft is concerned? Specifically, is there something I need to do in order to get it checked into the reg

Re: Configuration Management of built apps

2003-02-10 Thread Ray Bennett
My thoughts were, I guess, somewhere in the middle. Sarah's suggestion of just keeping track of the configs in the Distribution Builder covers the major chunk of the code, and I hadn't thought of using the config settings as a sort of cm tool, but that makes sense. But (and it may be that I

Configuration Management of built apps

2003-02-10 Thread Ray Bennett
If this has been asked before, I missed it, so apologies in advance if that's the case... Now that I'm building standalones, its becoming pretty obvious that a lightweight configuraion management tool would be handy (for Unix folks, I'm looking for something like sccs for humans). Something

Re: Can I embed PDF driver in a Rev stack built for distribution?

2003-01-29 Thread Ray Bennett
anything more complicated that a standard business letter, but if that's what you want, it's probably possible. gc On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 03:53 PM, Ray Bennett wrote: I'd like to be able to include the ability to "save as PDF" right into my application wh

license.rev corruption?

2003-01-28 Thread Ray Bennett
I had my first Revolution "crash" this weekend. The crash resulted, I believe, in my license key being corrupted, and I think that's probably it. Anyway, the detail below is a little long winded, but insight and feedback would be greatly appreciated. Scenario: Was using the development envir

Can I embed PDF driver in a Rev stack built for distribution?

2003-01-22 Thread Ray Bennett
I'd like to be able to include the ability to "save as PDF" right into my application when I distribute it. Has anyone done this? Thanks again in advance. Ray ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: Why does a "Save" screw up the "scroll" settings?

2003-01-18 Thread Ray Bennett
Hi Kurt, I'm a relatively green Revolutionary, but am pretty "long in the tooth" in HyperCard (alas, since abandoned because I need to build software I can sell!). This is a lengthy reply, but hopefully will either help us both or get someone else to jump in the thread. Anyway, I've been futz

Can I embed PDF driver in a Rev stack built for distribution?

2003-01-18 Thread Ray Bennett
I'd like to be able to include the ability to "save as PDF" right into my application when I distribute it. Has anyone done this? Thanks again in advance. Ray ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/us

Why does a "Save" screw up the "scroll" settings?

2003-01-18 Thread Ray Bennett
Why, when I save a stack that is scrolled does the on-screen appearance change? For instance, I have stack whose cards are roughly twice as high as the window they're viewed in. To be able to scroll all of the objects on the card (about 100), I grouped them into two groups. One of the group

Re: multiline button labels

2003-01-07 Thread Ray Bennett
This line produces a multiline button label in Rev 1.1.1 set the label of button "testprint" to "Test" & return & "Button" On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 08:28 America/New_York, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Kevin or someone at RR, Labels of buttons CAN have multi-line names ! You can force a new line i

re: Printing what you can't see

2003-01-06 Thread Ray Bennett
Dear List, I think I've figured out the answer to the printing question I posed a few days ago. Specifically, the problem was that the data area of interest on my card was 800w x 1638h. The visible window (rect of the stack) that I view the card through is usually about 800 x 1000, and I scrol

Printing what you can't see

2003-01-03 Thread Ray Bennett
This question is similar to Sarah's question of 24 Nov 02, which, judging by the thread, was never really resolved. I have a card that is considerably larger than the visible window (about 2x taller, same width). I want to print the entire card into a page-size rect, but the print command alwa

Re: UPC or Barcode Scanners

2002-11-01 Thread Ray Bennett
I use a WASP USB barcode scanner in a HyperCard application that I'm porting to Rev. Haven't ported it yet, but see no reason it _shouldn't_ be straightforward. The trick is that the scanner is programmable. Meaning that you can program it to send a preamble (read, "handler name") when it rea

print card _without_ dialog

2002-10-31 Thread Ray Bennett
I've searched archives back through Mar 2002 for an answer to the question: is there any way to do a "print card" and _not_ see the print dialog? As best I can tell, the answer is no. My application, relative to user interaction, needs to be streamlined relative to user interaction because t

Re: Script line break character

2002-10-13 Thread Ray Bennett
I too used the option-return sequence. However, on my Mac (Pismo PowerBook - OS 9.2.2), it actually looks like it generates "CR" then "\" then another "CR". So, as someone else suggested, just typing it "\" in directly must be the answer. Ray Bob Arnold wrote: >Here is a really basic,

Re: "Conforming" UI (was:REALbasic vs. Revolution)

2002-10-10 Thread Ray Bennett
Kurt - can you give us an idea of what sort of users you had? Were they random public folks or folks from a specific walk of life (such as engineers, math teachers, lawyers, accountants)? Just curious because we're in the middle of several UI considerations for a cross-platform app that will