Re: what's "this" stack

2010-11-17 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 15.11.2010 at 17:42 Uhr -0800 Mark Smith apparently wrote: Robert Brenstein wrote: change your code as follows to resolve this for yourself ;-) on savenotes modeless stack "save" answer "Saving" && (the short name of this stack) -- just to know

Re: what's "this" stack

2010-11-15 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 14.11.10 at 17:35 -0800 Mark Smith apparently wrote: Hi, I recently wrote this code which works fine on savenotes modeless stack "save" save this stack wait 360 millisecs close stack "save" end savenotes when i went back to document it I stumbled across a sort of confusion in

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-15 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 13.11.10 at 17:14 +0100 Malte Brill apparently wrote: Even though I can understand splash screens feel annoying, I can not see this as a surprise, as this is clearly stated on the runrev.com homepage: "Applications created with this license will include a splash screen or watermark. The Se

RE: alerts

2010-11-11 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 11.11.10 at 19:02 -0600 Mark Smith apparently wrote: Hi Thanks, more like: show something save this stack hide something I'm on the verge of testing "something" to be some sort of modeless stack/window. We shall see how it goes. Thanks for the suggestion - M If your saving i

Re: What is wrong with this script?

2010-11-04 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 04.11.10 at 17:29 -0700 charles61 apparently wrote: Craig, Your script the first time but I got an error the second time I tried printing saying; flagging the line end "mouseUp" to button b and reporting the error message: button "Print"; execution error at line 287 (Chunk: no such objec

Re: Progress bar with lock?

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 21.10.10 at 12:19 -0700 Scott Rossi apparently wrote: AFAIK, there's no way to do this. I could have sworn screen locking used to affect whatever stack was active at the time it was called, but currently it affects all stacks. You might consider throwing up a text message "One moment please

Re: Sending mouseup to checkboxes on different card

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.10.10 at 09:47 -0700 charles61 apparently wrote: Robert, I understand your previous e-mail about using custom handlers. I have never used this concept before. But I am not following you when you sent the following: f one uses full reference in the called script (that is script in btn

Re: Sending mouseup to checkboxes on different card

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.10.10 at 18:04 +0200 Klaus on-rev apparently wrote: >> Anyway, your script may fail if your mouseup function does sth that refers to the buttons on the other card, which are not present on the current card and it does not make full reference to them but only uses short names. To avoi

Re: Sending mouseup to checkboxes on different card

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.10.10 at 07:49 -0700 charles61 apparently wrote: Hi Craig! I checked for line breaks but there is none. I think the one in my posting was due to cutting and pasting the code to Nabble. My sample stack of two cards has four checkboxes on one card and four on the second. Each checkbox ha

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 14.10.10 at 13:50 -0400 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote: Mark. But script local variables do all that as well, no? It isn't a big deal, but except for the fact that these can replace predefined constants (a feature less available in LiveCode than in HC, especially as regards build-in functio

Re: send vs dispatch and continuously running processes

2010-09-30 Thread Robert Brenstein
> on myMessage > doYourStuff > send myMessage to me in 1 miilisecond with messages > end myMessage > This seems like a good pattern for an app driven by a human. The apps I tend to write launch and then run forever. They constantly look into a database to see if there is something they

Re: How do you get the name of an open saved file in memory using message box?

2010-06-18 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 14.06.10 at 07:38 -0700 charles61 apparently wrote: Hi Sarah, The user does not get the file by selecting ti. In this situation, 1. The user creates a new file and populates the file 2. Then saves the file "abc". 3. User decides to make a change in the file. 4. The user opens a new file with

Re: RTF documents as templates

2010-06-01 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 31.05.10 at 10:50 -0700 JosepM apparently wrote: Nop. My solution was store the entire document and search and replace before to build the document, and then out as PDF using Quartam PDF Library and Quartam Reports, but also you can print from a card. If you need to just print, producing PD

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 27.05.2010 at 13:44 Uhr +0100 Ian Wood apparently wrote: No, that keeps it local to the object that contains the handler. I *think* I'm talking about one handler nested inside another one. Thanks, Ian Would you mean behaviours? Robert ___ use-r

Re: RevStore

2010-05-02 Thread Robert Brenstein
And its stupid. Because the best way to promote a development environment is to promote/ sell the apps that have been coded with it. I am waiting to see a revStore. With everything on it. This way John Doe (not to mention Steve Jobs) will be able to judge if apps developed with revolution can

Re: my arrowKey handler is working

2010-04-19 Thread Robert Brenstein
Hi Jacqueline, it's nice to be here learning Revolution. Thank you for the long answer and the suggestions. This stack is for my own use. It's a book catalog for my private library. I've working on it for several years in Hypercard. It has aproximately 1500 cards, four backgrounds. It not only

Re: Naming Custom Properties

2010-04-17 Thread Robert Brenstein
Vokey, John wrote: However, to be consistent, the name of the custom property should be a quoted literal when not the contents of a variable name You would be right if quoting literals was mandatory. It is not, although AFAIAC quoting is strongly recommended. Robert _

Re: Stopping Handlers

2010-04-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 14.04.2010 at 12:08 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: Andrew Kluthe wrote: I have a moveStack handler that triggers sometimes accidentally before all of my windows open and causes it to error out and not finish opening what is needed for the application. Can I use lock messages in m

Re: [ANN] revSparkle minimalist web framework for RevServer

2010-03-26 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 25.03.10 at 17:51 -0300 Andre Garzia apparently wrote: You can check the wiki at: http://bitbucket.org/andregarzia/revsparkle/wiki/Home Wiki is really at http://bitbucket.org/andregarzia/revspark/wiki/Home Robert ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Possible virus warning

2010-03-19 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 19.03.10 at 15:35 +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: DMGs (and the Mac Installer) are the standard way Macs distribute software. Yes you could try some other methods, and that might be easier for newbies, but those in the know will be thinking, not normal, therefore alien conspiracy;-) Indeed

Re: Confusing Errors

2010-03-17 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.03.10 at 08:39 -0700 Dan Friedman apparently wrote: Mark (and others), Thanks for the info. Here's some more... global currentTarget global GlobalModeOption global gStudentXML global pMode set cursor to watch lock screen put the IDNumber of currentTarget into fPane --th

Re: Stacks and Standalones

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
Andrew, As others said, your problem is probably with paths, which IDE handles more automatically for you. Check out the startUp message. It is sent when your standalone application starts and allows you to accommodate the runtime differences between IDE and standalone. Robert __

RE: preopenstack handler interrupt?

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
Ron wrote: Thanks Jim and Bob, Jim, this is what I thought but I am experiencing sudden death of the application that seems to be related to setting the menubar based on data in the pref stack. Based on the sequence of preopenstack of main stack runs until command to open the pref stack th

Re: How do I 'shorten' this script?

2010-03-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 05.03.10 at 17:55 +0100 William de Smet apparently wrote: @ everyone: thanks a lot! The script works. A bit different take - just a single if on mouseUp repeat with x = 1 to 5 get "A" & x put the backgroundcolor of grc it of grp "A" after tColorsA put the b

RE: Calling handlers on different stacks.

2010-02-27 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.02.10 at 09:23 -1000 Jim Bufalini apparently wrote: I just want to make sure that you understand that *call* is only necessary to call a handler that is not in the message path. Also, *start using* is for libraries. Otherwise you use *open*. However, if you *start using* a library stack, t

Re: Project Euler

2010-02-23 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 23.02.10 at 15:54 -0300 Andre Garzia apparently wrote: Done! checkout http://wecode.org/euler you need RevWeb plugin for that. Cheers andre PS: check the source code to see some uberpretty revlet loading techniques! revlet loading techniques? All I get is "plugin not loaded." Robert _

Re: OT: Our place in Hawaii....

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 11.02.10 at 09:12 -0500 Thomas McGrath III apparently wrote: Slideshow is great but NO music here??? Safari 4.0.4 OSX 10.6.2 Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net Same here. Slideshow but no music. Firefox 3.5.7 OSX 10.4.11 PowerBook G4 Robert

Re: Noob Stacks Questions

2010-02-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 10.02.10 at 09:06 -0800 Andrew Kluthe apparently wrote: Can I write LeaseStack and add it to MainStack as a sub-stack later? Not a lot of data is going to be passed from Main to the different Module stacks. Most of them are going to be near stand-alone (my boss has a dream of charging differen

Re: Getting user's time from web revlet?

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 21.01.10 at 21:56 +0900 Tim Selander apparently wrote: Hi Mark - yep, that is exactly what I want to do, but haven't figured out how yet. I have learned how to get the user's local time via javascript, but don't know how to pass it to the revlet (actually, it seems I have my terms wrong, typ

Re: Geometry manager

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.01.10 at 19:15 -0600 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: Robert Brenstein wrote: I would second what Richard wrote. With that many objects, there must be patterns so only a few central scripts are probably needed. In some projects, I used naming scheme to handle this. In others, I used

Re: Geometry manager

2010-01-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.01.10 at 18:01 -0600 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Look at the bright side: with that many objects you'd get RSI from using a point-and-click solution anyway. ;) I just added them up and it isn't as bad as I thought. It's only 943. I would second what Richar

Re: Modal dialog not modal... any hints?

2010-01-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.01.10 at 07:50 -0600 Tereza Snyder apparently wrote: > Hi Tereza That explains nothing, but could perhaps be an ad hoc solution (since I cannot reproduce the problem, I cannot test it). Try to modify your script as follows: function YesOrNo pQuestion, pDefaultAnswer set the dialo

Re: Bill Marriott

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
What's a shock... Joining all in grief... Robert ___ 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-revo

Re: progress bar

2010-01-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 05.01.2010 at 21:09 Uhr +0100 Jacques Hausser apparently wrote: Hi, I have a stack loading and rescaling big pictures (12 megapixels or more) by setting their filename and then their size. The user can choose their resizequality, and with "best" the process is rather slow, the final size b

Re: Oracle buyout of Sun and it's affects on mySQL

2010-01-04 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 04.01.2010 at 12:53 Uhr -0800 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: oic. I am wondering then how this is going to impact On-Rev, which offers mySQL support? I intended to write a multiuser application and host it on my On-Rev site, but I am wondering now if Runrev is going to be forced to charge use

Re: ANSWER FILE in Rev 4.0.0 problem

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 18.12.2009 at 16:15 Uhr +0100 Kresten Bjerg apparently wrote: But when it comes to answer file (txt) and answer file (app) I hit into the problem, that they are not using the answer dialog of the IDE but those of the systems, respectively mac and windows, - and they do not obey my scripti

Re: HTMLText question

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 17.12.2009 at 12:04 Uhr +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: Secondly, using the keyword 'word' when dealing with htmlText doesn't seem to be a safe option to me at all, in fact it would be the last option I'd think of using. If a field contained multiple lines of words, formatted in all sorts of

Re: HTMLText question

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.12.2009 at 22:06 Uhr -0800 Phil Davis apparently wrote: I'm totally confused. I am not aware that variables have a htmlText property? When I try to access it I keep getting an error message. You're right. Variables don't have an "htmlText" property, only fields do. This agrees with the

Re: HTMLText question

2009-12-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.12.2009 at 11:51 Uhr +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: Craig, one further observation. If the field already contains formatted text, ie bold or coloured, doing what you are doing would set everything back to plain text except for word 2 so in most cases (but I accept not all) you'd want to

Re: interrupting a repeat loop

2009-12-15 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 15.12.2009 at 16:01 Uhr +0100 Jacques Hausser apparently wrote: Hi Tim it depends of the kind of loop you are using. Several possibilities For example in a card script: local stoploop command runTheLoop repeat forever if stoploop = "S" then exit repeat -- do what you want

Re: Rev IDE vs MetaCard IDE

2009-12-14 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 14 Dec 2009, at 01:55, J. Landman Gay wrote: Anything is prettier than the MC IDE. I remember that we used to refer to its interface as "spartan" when comparing to Rev IDE in its earlier days... Robert ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revol

Re: CantModify/saveStackRequest

2009-11-25 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 22.11.09 at 13:40 -0600 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: Mike Kerner wrote: Sorry, y'all, it's been the better part of a year. If I have a stack that I want the user to be able to interact with, including fields, but I don't want the changes to be saved, do I just catch saveStackRequest, or

Re: revlet works locally - fails on server

2009-11-24 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 23.11.09 at 23:20 -0500 roger.e.el...@sealedair.com apparently wrote: Robert Brenstein apparently replied: Such a code will work only if your server runs windows and your revlet has write access at the root level. It might be better to use one of the "magic" folders for

Re: revlet works locally - fails on server

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 23.11.09 at 09:38 -0500 roger.e.el...@sealedair.com apparently wrote: The files are in the same folder on the server. They were uploaded as binary. There is no 'file' access in the stack script, but I do check for and create a folder locally. Could that be the problem? on openStack if there

Re: Does revweb run under osx 10.4.11 / ppc?

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 23.11.09 at 17:01 -0500 Richard Miller apparently wrote: I didn't, but since this bug was discussed in some detail a while back, I believe others have submitted it. It's a rather serious loss of functionality on the Mac side that the engineers must be aware of. Richard I suggest you find

Re: Does revweb run under osx 10.4.11 / ppc?

2009-11-23 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 22.11.09 at 07:53 -0500 Richard Miller apparently wrote: Solved it. It was that bug in revweb that requires the security window (under OSX 10.4.11, at least) to be slightly moved before buttons on it will respond. I certainly hope this bug is resolved very shortly. Richard Miller Did yo

Re: Repeat Loop

2009-11-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.11.09 at 15:13 -0500 Schwartz, Jonathan L. apparently wrote: Has anyone had a problem with the following? on mouseUp repeat with n = 0 to 1 step 0.1 put n&"," after aList end repeat put aList end mouseUp Returns 0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9,1,1.1, However, on mo

Re: Was: openstack or preopenstack confusing... Now "User Contributed Notes" for RunRev Dictionary

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 09.11.09 at 12:48 -0400 william humphrey apparently wrote: Thanks for everyone's replies about openstack message confusion. Putting the openstack (as well as closestack) items in the first card of the mainstack solves everything and I think it is something I used to know along with a myriad o

Re: Renewing Revolution licence

2009-09-24 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 24.09.09 at 15:06 +0200 Francis Nugent Dixon apparently wrote: Hi from Paris, I bought rev 3.0 some time ago. I have just received a mail informing me that my licence will expire in a few days. What does this mean ? Do I have to pay for an upgrade to 3.5, or do I get it free (if I download it

Re: [OT] Recover Files From OS X User Account

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 11.09.09 at 02:57 -0700 Scott Rossi apparently wrote: BTW, I'm accessing the problem drive from an external disk/system -- I cannot boot up from the problem disk (freezes at the Apple logo). Have you tried setting of the drive to ignore permissions, when having it connected as external dri

Re: Internet site rules for on-Rev

2009-09-04 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 04.09.09 at 12:10 +0200 Francis Nugent Dixon apparently wrote: Several years ago, when they (Who are THEY ?) opened the suffix .fr, I immediately contacted a company who reserves site names, and they charge me some small fee every year, for retaining my site name. I am not sure if site name re

Re: Filter by Item and What gives with my field?

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 26.07.09 at 16:23 -0700 Tom Cole apparently wrote: Dear Group, I have two items that I hope someone can help on. One is very straightforward: I need to filter a field by the items. That is, I have a field with zillions of records with four items (comma delimited) itemone,itemtwo,itemthree

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-11 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 11.06.09 at 21:59 +0300 Richmond Mathewson apparently wrote: BUT, if I put: on mouseUp put quote & fld "fHEX" & quote into FHEX put baseConvert(FHEX,16,10) into fld "fDEC" end mouseUp where fld "fHEX" contains 20Ac (or any other Hexadecimal number) it screws up and I get 133824 POO! T

Re: interesting conundrum...

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 27.04.09 at 19:02 -0500 Chipp Walters apparently wrote: I'm working on my custom scroller library. I want to trap a message anytime the text in a field is changed via script. To my knowledge, there is no way to do this using a built-in Rev message. In otherwords, of course openField, closeFie

Re: [OT] Deciding about On-Rev

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 22.04.09 at 10:59 -0400 George C Brackett apparently wrote: Yes, you can. I can do without sudo/root, but I can't do without SSH access. I've been thinking through what I actually use to manage my multiple domains, and command-line access -- to run scripts directly, to execute shell comman

Re: Generating a phone call from Rev

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 09.04.2009 at 8:23 Uhr -0400 Richard Miller apparently wrote: Kay, This company you pointed to (www.telemessage.com) looks like it might have a decent solution. It's more expensive than Skype, but not too bad at 10 cents per call. Their XML solution should work in Rev on a Mac server. But

Re: Well I never!

2009-03-27 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 26.03.09 at 23:47 -0700 James Hurley apparently wrote: Watching the web demo today I witnessed a funny thing. It looked like this twoDimenArray ["stuff"] ["moreStuff"] I said to myself, So THIS must be the two dimensional arrays I've heard about. Now silly me, I've been using oneDimenArray

Re: Selection Embarrassment

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.03.09 at 12:12 -0400 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote: Did you see the "Solution" post? Craig Hacking message box script is not a long-term solution IMHO. Using hilitedLines as Jackie suggested is a better way to deal with script-based line selecting, hilighting actually. The thing is

Re: CLF = WTF?

2009-03-07 Thread Robert Brenstein
2. Right now I'm parsing the CLF date and reformatting it into "internet date" using about a dozen lines of code, and maybe it could be simplified a bit more but what I'd ideally like is the efficiency of a one-liner. Anyone here know of a what to alter CLF dates into a form that will surv

Re: Main stack and substack order in the message path

2009-02-27 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 27.02.09 at 08:49 -0800 Scott Rossi apparently wrote: I could be wrong but I believe that the order of library stack to be used is determined by the order opened: the scripts of the most recent stack opened would be used before any others. I know this is true of frontscripts. The workaround

Re: Crybaby

2009-02-26 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 26.02.09 at 17:00 -0800 Mark Wieder apparently wrote: Robert- Thursday, February 26, 2009, 3:46:04 PM, you wrote: I would think that using a backscript for trapping all messages for such a utility is a more suitable approach anyway. Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. A fronscr

Re: Crybaby

2009-02-26 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 26.02.09 at 15:32 -0800 Jim Ault apparently wrote: This may give you the answer to your situation. Other ideas to explore are: 1 -- if "message box" is among the openstacks then 2 -- use a back script to trap opencard, send your in-use stack a "gotOpenCard" message, then pass opencard 3 --

Re: Menu problem

2009-02-26 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 25.02.09 at 10:26 -0800 Mark Wieder apparently wrote: is evaluated by the compiler as a reference to a custom property. So technically I think it's not a bug as such. On the other hand, I'd be happy if the compiler had a bit more smarts in the way of catching keywords accidentally being used a

Re: strange error in a repeat loop

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 23.02.09 at 16:33 +0100 Andre.Bisseret apparently wrote: YEsss ! Thanks a lot Thierry and Robert ; both of you where right : I had a couple of spaces in item 9 of line 1 of my field !! Kind of things I should have suspected ; but I was really "brain stuck" (not sure this is a good expression

Re: strange error in a repeat loop

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Brenstein
Is it possible that item 9 in one of the lines of fld "chRécapDuMois" is not a valid number? An invisible char sneaked in? This loop seems curious REPEAT FOR each item meti in tLesVars put empty into meti END repeat I think you mean REPEAT FOR each item meti in tLesVars

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-17 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 17.02.09 at 12:18 + Ben Rubinstein apparently wrote: Perhaps I've missed something, but I think that both these excellent facilities are indeed available in 3.0. If you click on the "+" button at the bottom right of the script editor "Find and replace", it supports grep. And the "Find

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 17.02.09 at 11:12 +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: Robert Brenstein wants, powerful Search/Replace which optionally uses GREP with optional Find All search mode You know, in the Rev's Edit menu, at the bottom is Find and Replace (cmd-F). You have multiple options to include or exclude

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.02.09 at 09:21 -0800 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: I've broken the list into two parts; the ones here at the top could use more explanation to describe exactly what you're after - are they documented in BBEDit? If so I'll just look 'em up there: - Diff - Plugin facility so we can int

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
This is actually entered in Quality Control long time ago, as I just found out: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=2590 Robert ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscri

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 15.02.09 at 20:40 -0800 Mark Wieder apparently wrote: Kay- Sunday, February 15, 2009, 8:03:04 PM, you wrote: What would you like to see in an editor that's not in the ones available yet? clippings/boilerplates find differences parentheses balancing conditional balancing folding c

Re: [OT] Rev + BBEdit

2009-02-15 Thread Robert Brenstein
http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/plugin_library.html Your back :-) Has anyone tried to hack Rev to use BBedit as a script editor? I mean to use it in the same fashion as an external icon editor. Being able to select a script editor program used to be part of the standard distro und

Re: Need suggestions from the masters :)

2009-02-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 09.02.09 at 17:05 -0500 weslyn whitehead apparently wrote: I'm creating a application (game system) that will work in a virtual world and interact with the system there. As players use the system, it will post data to a inworld server which i will use to make httprequest outside the world int

Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...

2008-12-22 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 22/12/08 at 09:05 -0800 Randall Lee Reetz apparently wrote: If I go to amazon to purchase a programming system, I will ask for a product by name. If I am comparing language families it would be ridiculous to list Rev next to C. If I was to mention Rev, I would have to then refer to CodeWar

Re: When they ask, what is this written in?

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 01/12/08 at 14:22 -0800 Richmond Mathewson apparently wrote: Dear Robert Brenstein, there was no "apparently" about things, I wrote what I wrote. However, just to throw another spanner in the works:- The very few times people ask me how I make my programs I state that I use:

Re: When they ask, what is this written in?

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 01/12/08 at 13:18 -0800 Richmond Mathewson apparently wrote: Mark Swindell wrote: "Transcript is a good name for the language." No it isn't because it has no obvious link with Runtime Revolution. Why must there be a connection? Despite all the marketing justification, I firmly believe th

Re: Instead of toUpper

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 29/11/08 at 21:51 +0100 Melitón Cardona Torres apparently wrote: repeat with x = 1 to the number of chars of upText put char x of upText into aChar end repeat could be repeat for each char aChar in upText end repeat Robert

Re: Instead of toUpper

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 29/11/08 at 21:51 +0100 Melitón Cardona Torres apparently wrote: ## Those characters (æ, ¦) cannot be included in spSma (?) if chartonum(aChar) is 190 then replace aChar with numtochar(174) in upText next repeat end if if chartonum(aChar) is 207 then r

Re: Instead of toUpper

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 29/11/08 at 21:51 +0100 Melitón Cardona Torres apparently wrote: ## SpecChars if aChar is among the chars of spSma then repeat with y=1 to the number of chars of spSma if aChar is char y of spSma then replace char y of spSma with char y of spCap in upText

Re: Instead of toUpper

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 29/11/08 at 14:33 +0100 Melitón Cardona Torres apparently wrote: Works fine on my mac; I wonder whether it be the same a PC. Any hints? Thanks in advance, Ton Cardona function toCapitals aText --Works on a mac environement put "ÁÉÍÓÚÑÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛÇÆؑÅ" into unusualCapitals put "áéíóúñäë

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: need help for decompress URL

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 28/11/08 at 14:34 +0100 Tiemo Hollmann TB apparently wrote: Hello again, tracking it down it looks like the problem is not the decompress but the simple download and I don't find the fault ;( I did the compress like: put compress(URL ("binfile:" & it)) into URL ("binfile:" & it & ".gz") 1. com

Re: repeat loop and formatting question

2008-11-18 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 17/11/08 at 19:20 -0800 Mark Swindell apparently wrote: Yes, this is a much more efficient direction to take things. Given over 90 different digraphs and blends, it's a lot less code than I was using. Thanks. Mark If you have that many, it may be worth to have a config page with a tab

Re: repeat loop and formatting question

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Brenstein
Actually, you can type less by eliminating the tags: put fld 1 into tText replace "ck" with "ck" in tText replace "ch" with "ch" in tText replace "oa" with "ch" in tText replace "oo" with "oo" in tText Or in a more generic way -- more code but easier to maintain put fld 1 into tText set the

Re: OS 10.5 character issue

2008-11-03 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 03/11/08 at 19:12 -0800 Dan Friedman apparently wrote: The check came on line 195 The ellipse came on line 201 I then ran the SAME routine on a 10.4 Mac: The check came on line 201 AND 195! The ellipsis character was not listed at all. Which it shouldn't be - it's where our check is. Any

Re: is there a way to trap the "start using" command before it happens.

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 01/11/08 at 19:45 -0200 Andre Garzia apparently wrote: Hello Chipp, thanks for replying. I can't use startup. Let me explain the situation. RevHTTP server is now able to run revolution cgis as if it was apache. The problem is that there's no sandbox, so if a stack is put into use, it stays in

Re: more rev 3.0 woes - losing the will to live

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Brenstein
But here's what I'm seeing with some stacks: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls *.rev perf-test-leg.rev test-legacy.rev [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more test-legacy.rev #!/bin/sh # MetaCard 2.4 stack # The following is not ASCII text, # so now would be a good time to q out of more^L [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more te

Re: RunRev AppleScript Question

2008-10-01 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 01.10.2008 at 13:30 Uhr +0100 Dave apparently wrote: Which works and displays "Message", however if I change it to: set myRRScript to "send beeper" & " & quote & " & myQuote & "Hello Message" & myQuote & " & quote " & " to stack " & myQuote & "SATest1" & myQuote Then Beeper gets called (i

Re: question about find and replace

2008-09-30 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 30.09.2008 at 8:54 Uhr +0100 Peter Alcibiades apparently wrote: How do you pad out a series of numbers with leading zeros? Like for instance the series is .1. .2. .3. .11. .42. .98. and you want them to be .001. .002. .003. .011. .042. .098. I know how to find them, using the fact that th

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-26 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 25/09/08 at 13:15 -0700 Dick Kriesel apparently wrote: Hi, Chipp. Here's a version that's effectively the same but that has a couple minor advantages. First, it has a single exit point, possibly improving maintainability. Second, it executes the corner functions only once no matter how many

Re: Making "Real Stack" invisible

2008-09-22 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 22/09/08 at 01:24 -0700 Joe Lewis Wilkins apparently wrote: Thanks for your suggestions, Terry, I still haven't wrestled with the concept of "custom property" yet. It seems to be very useful, but I've yet to spend enough time with it to understand what it really is. Something like a pointer

Re: Restraining the pencil in Rev

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 21/09/08 at 08:30 -0700 Joe Lewis Wilkins apparently wrote: I guess this is my day for confusion. (smile) I'm not using a player for any of this. I have a fairly simple stack consisting of some 50 cards, each of which has one or more images and some fields and/or buttons. Using the bucket

Re: Checking to see if another program has your database open PS

2008-09-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 12/09/08 at 15:07 -0400 william humphrey apparently wrote: PS - When I post to the RunRev mailing list I get a German reply that says something about my post not being accepted. This is just a message that your post can't be delivered to one of the list subscribers. These messages come an

Re: Checking to see if another program has your database open

2008-09-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 12/09/08 at 15:07 -0400 william humphrey apparently wrote: Thanks for your prompt answer JB. I searched the database of old strings and I cannot find any answer for how to check if the database is being used by another program. The only answers I found were: 1. Don't do that ): -- figured

Re: Parallels

2008-09-02 Thread Robert Brenstein
I'm not sure whether Parallels on an Intel Mac fits the definition of "virtualization" per se, given that it provides a shell in which the OS makes native calls which for the most part are going straight to the processor. Parallels does provide an additional layer for integration with the hos

Re: [somewhat OT] Text processing question (sort of)

2008-05-19 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 18/05/08 at 23:03 -0700 Kee Nethery apparently wrote: Interesting problem. if you are looking for typos, here are my thoughts. What are the probable errors? Seems to me you have: 1. Typos in individual words 2. Extra spaces in individual words (so that you end up with two words instead of o

Re: OT: Best Windows Emulator on Mac?

2008-03-04 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 04/03/08 at 22:22 -0300 Andre Garzia apparently wrote: Aloha, I've paid for both parallels and vmware. parallels was wonderful till version 2, now it's dead slow. VMWare fusion works wonderfully, even better than parallels ever did. I am very happy with VMWare, one of my best buys ever! And

Re: Dialog Stack Design Questions

2008-02-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20/02/08 at 07:58 -0600 Len Morgan apparently wrote: I'm wondering what is the "recommended" way of handling a lot of dialog boxes in applications. There are a couple of way of handling this that I've thought of but I don't know what would be considered "best:" There is no single best sol

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2008-02-13 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 13/02/08 at 09:46 -0800 Stephen Barncard apparently wrote: My good-old Eudora email client has been abandoned by the developers, and the open-source version that's offered isn't anywhere near what Eudora was -- that Mozilla 'version' (Penelope) is just a skin over Thunderbird. Check out Od

Re: ANN: Plugin: Lock and Unlock Stacks

2008-02-08 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 06/02/08 at 14:44 -0800 Phil Davis apparently wrote: I often work on multistack applications where many of the stacks are password-protected. I finally built a tool that gets me in and out of those scripts quickly! Maybe it can reduce the password nuisance factor for you too. You can get it b

Re: ScriptLimits (was Re: Rev cgi vs. php)

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 31/01/08 at 09:21 -0800 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: That said, this list has a lot of traffic and I may have missed that post, and I'm not in touch with Kevin enough to say with complete certainty that he's never been asked to negotiate a custom solution for someone regarding scriptLimi

Re: Rev cgi vs. php

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 31/01/08 at 11:47 + Luis apparently wrote: Dolphin (now unsupported) and VisualWorks. The third one I'm keeping to myself for now (there's some IP issues to resolve, so I'd rather they are left to their negotiations for now). There's tons of others out there, these are the ones I use. Th

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