Re: Multi-Language-Support iOS

2010-11-18 Thread ron barber
Hi Harald I don't know if this works on iOS but In my app using Japanese and English, I have two custom property sets that have the same elements, each with names in their respective languages. The appropriate property set is set on preopenstack of the mainstack based on a preference setting. on p

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-17 Thread ron barber
ev.com > 3mcgr...@comcast.net > > I Can Speak - Communication for the rest of us... > http://mypad.lazyriver.on-rev.com > > I Can Speak on the iPad Store > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-can-speak/id364733279?mt=8 > > On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:06 PM, ron barber wrote:

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-16 Thread ron barber
As a follow up to my earlier question _can_ we use LiveCode desktop to make desktop apps to be sold through the Apple store (Kevin's answer was a qualified 'yes') Is anyone _actually_ moving forward with an app for the Apple store? I have an app that I want to make available in the store but I'm w

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-11 Thread ron barber
AM, Kevin Miller wrote: > On 11/11/2010 13:41, "ron barber" wrote: > >> Thanks RIchard >> >> I understand about LiveCode Mobile and Apple's policy reversals. But >> what about the upcoming non-iOS App store, the one for non-mobile >> applications.

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-11 Thread ron barber
ng desktop app store? Thanks Ron On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > ron barber wrote: > SDK 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 allowed LiveCode Mobile, 4.1 prohibited it, then > 4.2 allowed it again.  Given that the bizarreness of the provenance clause > in SDK license 4

LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-11 Thread ron barber
Greetings, I know about Apple's reversal of policy on the iPhone/pad and Rev's progress on providing a solution via LiveCode iOS to us to submit apps to that store. With the announcement of the upcoming App Store I was under the impression that applications made with LiveCode were also able to be

LiveCode Apps and Mac App Store

2010-11-10 Thread ron barber
Greetings, I'm aware of the change in Apple policy that allows creation and submission of LiveCode apps to the iPhone/Pad store and that Rev has taken steps in that direction. I was under the impression that the AppStore was the same - viz. apps built with LiveCode could be submitted and accepted.

Re: Mac app to cprop

2010-08-24 Thread ron barber
Mark, Brian, Thanks for the quick and helpful replies. I searched my notes for these and could not find them so I appreciate the help. Ron On Aug 25, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Brian Yennie wrote: One option would be to use shell() to tar + zip the file. Something like: get shell("tar -czf MyApplica

Mac app to cprop

2010-08-24 Thread ron barber
Greetings, What is the procedure of getting a Rev standalone Mac app (bundle) into a custom property? I can get the component files within the bundle, I can copy files and folders but I can't seem to find the magic words for getting the bundle into a cprop. Thanks Ron

Liburl availability

2010-08-05 Thread ron barber
Hi, I am trying to compare the application's version number with the version number online at startup in order to give an option for upgrading. I use various liburl calls. I know that the liburl library must load before it is available, to quote the docs : When included in a standalone applicatio

Re: Mousemove, Optionkey and Windows

2010-08-05 Thread ron barber
Hi , Just to follow up on this question. Based on Terry's response and the fact that I am also using Fusion, and that Jan reported no problem, I will assume that this is a Fusion problem and not a Rev problem. Good news. Thanks Ron On 3/08/10 11:46 PM, "ron barber" wrote:

Re: Mousemove, Optionkey and Windows

2010-08-03 Thread ron barber
Terry, Jan Thanks for checking on this. On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- On Mon, 8/2/10, ron barber wrote: Greetings Works for me under Windows XP - though if I hold down the optionKey/altKey I first have to move the mouse to actually see the change in the message box. The

Mousemove, Optionkey and Windows

2010-08-02 Thread ron barber
Greetings I encountered a problem and would appreciate confirmation and a work around if needed. The problem is: the state of the optionkey is not reported in a mousemove handler on windows (tried on 7 only) Simply create a new stack with a single fld. Set the script of the fld to on mousemove

Re: Specialfolderpath (26) and roaming

2010-04-19 Thread ron barber
Hi, At one point I thought this discussion was decided in favor of using specialfolderpath(35) rather than (26). If I remember, it had something to do with the way Win 7 handled installations. Is it better to use (26) or (35)? Thanks Ron On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:29 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: David

urlstatus question

2009-10-26 Thread ron barber
Greetings, I am downloading a file from the web to my HD using libURLDownloadToFile. I copied the scripts in Rev's user guide which also says: "As the URLStatus changes periodically throughout the download process, the button's showStatus handler is executed repeatedly. Each time a showStatus mes

menu item tagging

2009-10-02 Thread ron barber
The engine change log list Menu-item tagging as a new feature: === The menu item specification has been extended to allow a tag to be specified. It is now of the form: [ '/' [ ] [ '|' ] ] Note that the is optional as is the however, if you want an item with a tag but wit

Standalones with dp 4.0

2009-09-28 Thread ron barber
Greetings, Do standalones built with a dp version of Rev expire? I know this was discussed in the past but I couldn't find it in the archives. Perhaps I used the wrong terms... If my license is current and I build a standalone using the current 4.0 dp-4 then the standalone will continue to run jus

Re: html forms vs revlets

2009-09-10 Thread ron barber
Thanks for your comments Sarah, Robert, Jacque and, as usual, to Kenji for his examples. I thought I would put up a page with some random examples of how such things might be accomplished but got stuck on the sending mail. I have used examples from Sarah's site for another application on my own si

html forms vs revlets

2009-09-09 Thread ron barber
I left html when it was still v. 1 so I have had quite a bit of catching up to do as I have tried to integrate the new found power of revlets and my on-rev account. So bear with me as I try to sort things out as to the advantages of when to use what and how to communicate between them. So, typical

Regular Expression question

2009-03-13 Thread ron barber
Hi, I'm trying to use regex for searching unicode text in Rev. The docs say that Rev follows pcre rules and I've tried various combinations or \N, \x but unsuccessfully. Can someone offer a way to do this or confirm that Rev does not support regex for unicode? I am working with utf 8 (Greek etc) a

Re: Foreign Keyboards

2008-08-19 Thread ron barber
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Foreign Keyboards

2008-08-18 Thread ron barber
Hi, I am unable to use a Japanese keyboard on a Windows machine so I am wondering if there is anyone else using some kind of localized keyboard on Windows with success. Specifically, the Japanese keyboard has keys that change the input method but with RR they only produce an 'a' or chartonum 65 so

keyboard input method

2008-06-24 Thread ron barber
Hi, The docs say: "If the textFont of a field or a chunk includes a language, selecting in that field or chunk automatically switches the keyboard input method to the one for that language, ready to type text in the language. " My question is, can this be handled in Mac or Windows directly? Is t

Re: Splitting up a large text file with 'seek relative'

2008-06-20 Thread ron barber
Hi Hugh,Just a thought about the approach rather than the code. What if you did the same thing you are doing but first split the file in half viz read for 500, or whatever. Then deal with each half, possibly even making quarters or eighths. That way you are only dealing with the big file once?

Menu accelerators problem

2008-02-21 Thread ron barber
Greetings, Background: A couple of months ago I asked about handling multiple menubars in a multi lingual application. I received several helpful replies and after finding time to implement the suggestions, saved lots of space and greatly simplified the menu handling procedure in my app. It is much

Re: menu accelerators problem

2007-11-28 Thread ron barber
Hi Sarah, Well, this seems to work - thank you for the suggestion. I use set the menubar all the time for my Mac apps but the docs say: "Platform Support: MacOS and OS X Use the menubar property to specify which menus appear in the menu bar on Mac OS systems when a stack is the active window." M

menu accelerators problem

2007-11-28 Thread ron barber
Hi All, the 2.8.1 engine change log says: "The menu accelerators now also work as you would intuitively expect. i.e. * the active menubar gets sent a mouseDown message before being searched for non-disabled accelerators * the active menubar gets sent a menuPick message if one of its ac

Re: BMP file problem

2007-10-24 Thread ron barber
he installation process? Can it be included with an install of my app? Thanks again, Ron On 10/25/07, Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently, ron barber wrote: > > > Is there a way to open monochrome BMP files with Rev or to change the > > format of the files using

BMP file problem

2007-10-24 Thread ron barber
Hi, I have received a large collection of BMP files that I would like to display but they don't want to open in Rev. Windows reports them as "Monochrome BMP" and indeed they are all B&W. If I convert them with another program to 16bit BMP or any other BMP, I can open them in Rev with no problem.

Re: grouping objects by script problem

2007-10-23 Thread ron barber
Hi Klaus Thank you for your reply. I tried your script and my implementation of it hung after it created the second graphic. It created the first, moved it, then selected it, then created the second and stopped. Interestingly, when I walked through it with the debugger, it went fine... I tried cr

Re: grouping objects by script problem

2007-10-23 Thread ron barber
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grouping objects by script problem

2007-10-23 Thread ron barber
Hi, I have been trying to group a set of controls and graphic objects after creating them via script but can't seem to find out what I'm doing wrong. Here's the relevant part of the script: repeat --do some other stuff here-- create graphic tname put "graphic"&"e&tname"e & return after

Re: Number of chars in a line limit?

2007-06-30 Thread ron barber
On Jun 29, 2007, at 7:47 PM, ron barber wrote: > Greetings, > > Is there a limit to the number of chars on a single line? Line means > words with spaces between them but no return. > > I have been formatting some long text sections with no return and > those with &g

Number of chars in a line limit?

2007-06-29 Thread ron barber
Greetings, Is there a limit to the number of chars on a single line? Line means words with spaces between them but no return. I have been formatting some long text sections with no return and those with >10,000 or so chars have some difficulty displaying in a text field, especially at higher poi

Re: [offlist] Re: Unicode in Window Title?

2005-11-15 Thread ron barber
Glad it worked for you, but I think we still need to be able to use unicode in a more direct, natural way. On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: In my Japanese/Chinese/Korean/English app, I have the user choose a default language and work with it this way. Try it and let me know

Re: Unicode in Window Title?

2005-11-15 Thread ron barber
ame of wd "untitled 1" to tword In my Japanese/Chinese/Korean/English app, I have the user choose a default language and work with it this way. Try it and let me know if it works for Russian as well. HTH, Ron On Nov 16, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Nov 15, 2005, at

Re: Unicode in Window Title?

2005-11-15 Thread ron barber
Hi Trevor, Sigh. One day we will be able to do this and I would love to have someone come in and tell me that today is the day but until then we continue to wait for more complete unicode support. I can't remember if this is on the bugzilla list or not but please add it if it isn't. Thanks

Re: Ask/answer dialog question -docs

2005-10-31 Thread ron barber
Picker is available from my website (Revolution > Plugins) or Rev Online (user: So Smart Software) Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Le 31 oct. 05 à 11:48, ron barber a écrit : Hi, The docs say that styled text is a possibility in ask and answer dialogs. I have tried ask the htmltext of

Ask/answer dialog question

2005-10-31 Thread ron barber
Hi, The docs say that styled text is a possibility in ask and answer dialogs. I have tried ask the htmltext of field "myfield" with "myFile" but it shows the html encodings rather than the formatted text. I get the same thing with ask file and the answer dialogs. Is there a way to get style

Re: Plain text or Unicodetext?

2005-10-31 Thread ron barber
Hi Marcus, Thanks for the suggestion. Kenji Kojima also replied to me privately with the same idea. It seems to be an effective way of checking, even if it involves an extra step of putting the text into a fld first. Thanks Ron On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:28 PM, Marcus van Houdt wrote: Hello,

Plain text or Unicodetext?

2005-10-25 Thread ron barber
Hi, Is there a way to determine if the text returned from a dialog is ascii text or unicodedtext? I tried working with the chartonum, useunicode and baseconvert functions to no avail. I tried converting and comparing uniencoded versions with the original text and no go. I have tried what I k

Determining the language of the text

2005-10-21 Thread ron barber
Hi again, This is an attempt to get at my problem a different way. Is there a way to tell what language a given chunk of text is? If I ask for user input, it may be in english or japanese or korean for example. If I need to unidecode the text, I need to know if it is japanese or korean. If i

Language Input settings

2005-10-21 Thread ron barber
Hi, Simple question: Is there a way on windows and mac to get/set the text input language? Thanks, Ron ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefer

Unicode - Printing

2005-10-17 Thread ron barber
Hi, I was pleased to read in the release notes that we can now print unicode. I must be doing something wrong however since I have been unsuccessful so far. 1. printtext theunicodetext prints the unencoded unicode text 2. printfield the name of fld 1 prints solid black bars for the length

Unicode - Font name question

2005-10-16 Thread ron barber
Hi, Getting the fontnames returns the name of Japanse (and Korean etc) fonts in what appears to be SJIS format and therefore unreadable as is. These can be converted to unicode with the uniencode function. However, there is also an "english" name, viz. one that uses just the roman alphabet a

Unicode Users Unite

2005-10-10 Thread ron barber
Greetings, Its great to get 2.6.1 with its many bug fixes and some enhancements. If you use unicode in Rev then you know that it is also an area that could use some focused attention. I have listed below the outstanding bugs from Bugzilla. We all know that these are not the sum of all bugs con

Re: Unicode Font Woes

2005-09-12 Thread ron barber
Hi Are you selecting the text and then changing the font from the font menu? This will not work with Unicode text. Try explicitly setting the textfont to "Kalyani,Unicode" setting the font of unicode text from the menu does not work in its current form. Someone please prove me wrong. HTH, R

Mac/Win UI question

2005-07-01 Thread ron barber
Hi, It seems like Mac used to dim menus that had no active/relevant menuitems but I don't see that happening anymore. Is that since OS X? Menuitems dim but not the menus themselves. See TextEdit, TextWrangler our own Rev. Typically this is occurs when to a Windows or Format menu when no win

Re: returnInField doesn't work

2005-06-27 Thread ron barber
Hi Friedrich, I'm sure Kenji's suggestion will do what you want to do. It might be helpful for you to read the find command in the docs to understand the various types of find and why one works for unicode and others don't. Along with Kenji's method, I also use offset: put the number

Re: returnInField doesn't work

2005-06-27 Thread ron barber
Hi Fritz On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote: My setup is Rev 2.6 on a G4 notebook under Mac OS 10.3.2. The problem: A very simple stack with one field containing text and another field for search purposes. The text is Chinese and so is, of course, the word typed into the

Incremental display of data

2005-06-07 Thread ron barber
Hi present & future Intel users..., I am displaying text in a scrolling fld. Sometimes the text is several thousand lines long. This is not too big a problem when the text is all English, but when I convert to unicodetext and then htmltext, it takes a very long time simply to display the resul

Functions and repeat for each

2005-06-07 Thread ron barber
Hi, In an effort to speed up a process of importing, converting and htmling some text I ran across this unexpected (to me) result: put uniencode(return,"Japanese") into unireturn repeat for each line l in thetext put uniencode(l,"Japanese")&unireturn after newtext end repeat set the unicod

Re: XML and Unicode?

2005-05-16 Thread ron barber
Hi Curtis, I don't use XML but what happens when you set the textfont to "Russian,unicode" rather than Lucida Grande? Ron On May 11, 2005, at 3:47 AM, Curtis Ford wrote: I've been studying the XML demo kindly provided by Sarah Reichelt - a big thanks to Sarah, it's a great resource! A few newbie

Re: Rev fails to recognize Chinese

2005-05-16 Thread ron barber
Hubert I think you will have to import the text from each field in your HC stack to the new Rev stack set the unicodetext of fld "revfld" to uniencode(HCfld,"Chinese") This will have to be different for the simplified - ("simplechinese) and traditional - ("chinese") HTH Ron On May 16, 2005, at

Re: Is this true? Rev doesn't print Unicode?

2005-04-27 Thread ron barber
Hi Dan You are right, Rev does not print Unicode. See bug 1955 which is listed as unconfirmed and passed on to Michael. The following is a description of the problem. I have mentioned this several times but no response so far. I would love to be proven wrong... Type Unicoded text into a fld and

Re: RegEx Replace Text -- strip leading and trailing spaces

2005-04-14 Thread ron barber
Hi Wouter On Apr 14, 2005, at 3:52 AM, Wouter wrote: On 14 Apr 2005, at 01:49, Ken Ray wrote: On 4/13/05 2:47 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: get matchText(pString, "(?s)^[ \t\r\n]+(.*?)[ \t\r\n]+$", tReturnVal) Wow, lots of things happen when sleeping :-). The matchtext version is

Re: There's got to be a better way

2005-04-13 Thread ron barber
Thanks Richard, as always, very helpful. Distinguishing 'open' as read into memory and as receiving the openxxx messages was where I was fuzzy. Ron ps - sorry for the personal post, I'll be more patient next time... On Apr 13, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: ron barber w

Re: There's got to be a better way

2005-04-13 Thread ron barber
Hi Richard, On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Here's a tip to get even better performance (sometimes as much as two or three times more): use a field in an unopened window for the translation. When a field is on the current card, even if hidden, it's initialized with additional

Apple's Language Analysis

2005-04-10 Thread ron barber
Hi, Is there anyone willing to compile Apple's Language Analysis SDK for use on OS X? I have a sample of the xfcn that works on OS 9 but need to bring it to X. I can send you the SDK (or you can download it from Apple) as well as the sample stack for OS 9 if you can help me with this. Thanks R

Re: xcmd for OS 9 to X

2005-04-08 Thread ron barber
Thanks Klaus, I was afraid of that. Next question: Is there anyone willing to re-compile this small xternal for me for OS X? Thanks Ron On Apr 8, 2005, at 7:46 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Ron, Hi, I just dug out a stack that uses an xcmd made a couple of years ago. It worked on OS 9, which is what

xcmd for OS 9 to X

2005-04-08 Thread ron barber
Hi, I just dug out a stack that uses an xcmd made a couple of years ago. It worked on OS 9, which is what I was using at the time, but doesn't want to work on OS X. Does it need to be recompiled? or changed in another way? I tried setting the externals of the stack to "./nameofexternal" where n

Printing (was: Re: XCMD's/XFCN's)

2005-03-09 Thread ron barber
Dan, et al. Are you able to print Unicode text, from a fld or variable, successfully? Thanks Ron On Mar 10, 2005, at 3:12 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: 9-5's stuff is definitely not compatible with RR. Also, it's not really true that reporting is non-existent in RR. I'm just finishing my next eBook(let)

Re: Minor htmlText bug

2005-03-09 Thread ron barber
Don't know if its related or not but is the textfont of the fld you are pasting into, the same as the font of the text being pasted? Try setting the textfont of the field to something different and see if it doesn't force the htmltext to include font info. Ron On Mar 9, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Thomas

Re: Printing Hell

2005-01-25 Thread ron barber
Hi Kevin, On Jan 25, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: perfect, precise, printing from within Rev, many of them cross-platform. It is perfectly possible to print anything you may want to, including complex I don't think it is possiible to print Unicode documents, ie fields with unicode cha

Re: Unicode won't print

2005-01-05 Thread ron barber
See bug 1955, its been assigned to Michael last I heard. It would be great to get this fixed since its a large hole in the support for unicode. Ron On Jan 3, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Michael D Mays wrote: I'm on Mac OSX.3.7 I make a stack with a card which has one field. I use the Character Palette to

Re: Wanted: idiot's guide to using Unicode in Rev

2004-12-08 Thread ron barber
Hi Group URL : http://www.egroups.co.jp/group/Runtime_Revolution_Users_Japan/ Group Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help URL : http://help.yahoo.co.jp/help/jp/groups/ Ron On Dec 8, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Ben, Maybe not so much help but a tip. I know there is in existence a Ja

Re: Wanted: idiot's guide to using Unicode in Rev

2004-12-03 Thread ron barber
Hi Ben, On Dec 2, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I've just fiddled (and part of my problem is that I don't know any non-roman languages, so have very limited capability to understand if I'm doing something right). And if I do have to set a font, how do I know which one to specify? The

Re: Unicode for cross-platform use

2004-11-18 Thread ron barber
Are you also setting the textfont of the fld to eg "MS Gothic,unicode"? Definitely get 2.5. Unicode handling is much improved even though some issues remain. (All reported bugs have been squashed but the Japan list is encountering more which will be reported soon) Ron On Nov 19, 2004, at 2:56 AM

Re: Unicode and Menus

2004-10-26 Thread ron barber
Hi Kenji, (B (BOn Oct 25, 2004, at 10:46 PM, Kenji Kojima wrote: (B (B>> 1. The problem with menu history is that it is not recommended for (B>> cascading menus. (B> (B> I could get items by this. (B> (B> on menuPick pWhich (B> set the unicodeText of fld 1 to pWhich (B> end menuPick 

Re: help in Japanese text encoding

2004-10-26 Thread ron barber
Hi Namgyal On Oct 26, 2004, at 2:46 AM, Namgyal Dolker wrote: I am making a presentation of one Japanese instructor. I trying to find how I can display both English and Japanese in a field. set the unicodeText of field "question" to line 2 of URL "binfile:Japanese Demo/japaneseqa.txt" This seems t

Re: unicode menus

2004-10-21 Thread ron barber
Hi Kenji, (B (B1. Thanks for you suggestion. I was unclear what was becoming mojibake (B(junk). It is not the menu name but the contents of the menu. It (Bconsistently corrupts itself, even after I set it to the unicodetext of (Ba fld, as Tuviah suggested. I am still working on this problem

Re: unicode menus

2004-10-21 Thread ron barber
Thank you Tuviah for your response. You have done some good things with unicode thus far which is why its so frustrating when it doesn't seem to work as advertised. It's usually something that I'm doing wrong rather than Rev., but it sure is frustrating in the meantime. On Oct 22, 2004, at 1:14

Re: Unicode and Menus

2004-10-21 Thread ron barber
Hi Klaus Thanks, yes, I'm aware of this 'trick'. It works with Japanese, Korean and Chinese too. But, as you point out, it only affects the 3 menuitems and then, only allows you to leave them in English. Surely someone is using cascading unicode menus! Ron On Oct 22, 2004, at 12:49 AM, Klaus Maj

Unicode and Menus

2004-10-21 Thread ron barber
Greetings First, let me say RR has come a long way in implementing unicode. However, I have spent 3 long days working with unicode menus. I have tried to set them from the menu builder, from the properties palette and from script. I cannot make cascading menus. Not with a tab character, not wi

Re: Building standalones - followup

2004-09-04 Thread ron barber
On Sep 4, 2004, at 5:16 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: 2. In OS X, Saving a standalone with non Rev based externals (like Valentina) results in unexpected quitting after the standalone is saved. 3. In OS X, saving a standalone with the mainstack as a palette results in unexpected quitting after the sta

Building standalones - followup

2004-09-03 Thread ron barber
Greetings Perhaps everyone already knows these things but they tripped me up until Monte helped me through them. I thought I would pass them on and also publicly thank Monte since I publicly complained to him. 1. In OS X, you need to have the .rev extension to save a standalone. 2. In OS X, Savi

Re: RevPrintText/Field/Card problems

2004-08-09 Thread ron barber
Thanks Jan for checking on this, I'll bug it now. Hopefully, it can be fixed with 2.5. Ron On Aug 9, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- ron barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Any chance RevPrintText will be updated to support Unicode? Printing unicode text is proving challe

Re: RevPrintText/Field/Card problems

2004-08-04 Thread ron barber
Hi Rob Yes, that would seem the natural thing to do, however my results were the same as the htmltext attemp viz. blank sheets. The htmltext does actually, appear in the variable watcher as html tagged text with the language = japanese (in my case) and numbers representing the characters. It se

RevPrintText/Field/Card problems

2004-08-04 Thread ron barber
Hi, Any chance RevPrintText will be updated to support Unicode? Printing unicode text is proving challenging. Type Unicoded text into a fld and then use the various print options available to us. put the htmltext of fld 1 into thetext revshowprintdialog false,true revprinttext thetext === This

Re: Crash on Standalone build - Help please

2004-08-02 Thread ron barber
Sorry Mark, I read right over that detail about OS 9. I'm not on 9 right now, so I don't know either. Ron On Aug 3, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: On Monday, August 2, 2004, at 08:40 PM, ron barber wrote: The crash log is located in Library/logs/crash reporter There is no Libr

Re: Crash on Standalone build - Help please

2004-08-02 Thread ron barber
Hi Mark, Sarah I tried on 2.2 and on 2.2.1 with the same result. The crash log is located in Library/logs/crash reporter I am using Valentina external. This has not been a problem with previous builds. I have tried various build locations. I must have made some changes in the script that is tripp

Re: Crash on Standalone build - Help please

2004-08-02 Thread ron barber
D] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ron barber Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 12:17 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Crash on Standalone build - Help please Greetings Can someone tell me what this crash log is telling me? I am trying to build a standalone which in the past has built succes

Crash on Standalone build - Help please

2004-08-02 Thread ron barber
Greetings Can someone tell me what this crash log is telling me? I am trying to build a standalone which in the past has built successfully. RR can build several other stacks into standalones successfully, but this stack crashes every time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks Ron

Unicode Stack names on 2.5b

2004-07-30 Thread ron barber
Hi, Simple question with a simple answer probably. How do I get the window name(title/label) to display in Unicode?(or for that matter in other specialty fonts which keyboard layout is not standard eg Greek) Is this a function of the OS rather than scriptable from within RR? The new properties

Re: Chinese Unicode problem

2004-06-08 Thread ron barber
Fritz, This is a known issue, bug 243, we see it in Japanese as well. It is being addressed by Tuviah, but if it remains a problem, we will report it again. Thanks Ron On Jun 8, 2004, at 10:59 AM, Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote: Ron, Thank you so much for your offer to help. So far I've identified

Re: Chinese Unicode problem

2004-06-07 Thread ron barber
Hi Fritz, Please go to bugzilla and enter these. Or, let me know what they are and I will bugzilla them. Tuviah is working on many of the issues we have experienced with Japanese unicode but he can't fix what he doesn't know. Ron On Jun 7, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote: Frédéri

Re: Chinese version of business game - problems with text import to fields

2004-03-10 Thread ron barber
Hi Albert In your script try setting the textfont of the field explicitly in the script before putting in the unicodetext set the textfont of fld displaytextfield to (Taipei,Unicode) or to (Beijing,Unicode) depending on whether your original file is in traditional or simplified Chinese. The fo

Re: Rev fails to recognize Chinese

2004-01-29 Thread ron barber
Hi Fritz On Jan 29, 2004, at 12:25 AM, Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote: The thing is that a new problem raises its head -the original text contains one actually quite common character (yang3, "to rear") which not only disappears in fld "newText" but leads to a line break. What is happening here? I do

Re: Rev fails to recognize Chinese

2004-01-27 Thread ron barber
Hi Fritz How are you pasting the Chinese? Do you set the text of the fld to unicode? Do you set the textfont of the field before pasting? uniencode(field "chinesetext",chinese) into fld "chinesefld" set the textfont of fld "chinesefld" to "Hei,chinese" Ron On Jan 27, 2004, at 7:36 PM, Friedrich

Re: rev unicode still crap?

2004-01-22 Thread ron barber
Hi Alejandro On Jan 23, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: There are a RunRev japanese mail list. I'm sure that there you could find users of multiple operating systems. Actually, I believe Mark is on the Japanese RR list as I also am. I think it is fair to say that the Japanese are just a

Re: rev unicode still crap?

2004-01-21 Thread ron barber
Hi Mark RR is still not there concerning unicode in general and Japanese in particular. We are waiting in confidence that Tuviah and others will come through with everything promised by v2.5. However, there was a bug fixed with uniencode/decode in 2.1.2. I suggest you download the trial and tr