Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-23 Thread Bob Warren
Andre Garzia wrote: I don't have a windows machine so I didn't saw your stacks, if you could point us to shots would be cool! To Andre and other non-Windows XP users who might be curious about the appearance of the file/picture chooser widgets currently in beta:

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-19 Thread Bob Warren
Thanks to your valuable feedback, I now know what tasks are immediately ahead in order to make the widgets acceptable for your use. I'll be going offline for a while now to concentrate on getting these things sorted out as soon as possible, and I'll let you know as soon as the widgets are

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-19 Thread Alex Tweedly
Bob Warren wrote: Dear Windows XP Users (and others), This is a quick status report on the testing of the file and picture chooser widgets available for download at http://www.howsoft.com/downloads/runrev . Hi Bob. I've started testing, but haven't yet experimented with changing the .ini

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-19 Thread Bob Warren
Great! Thanks very much Alex. I think you've just defined #2 for me! Just about everything you asked for is desirable. I'll keep your list, and when the times comes I'll try to include as much as I can. As you will appreciate, at the moment I need to concentrate on achieving the stability of

RE: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-19 Thread MisterX
PROTECTED]; use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP Xav: Ken reported that when he tried altering the INI parameters to change the size of the widget's window, etc., not all the parameters were correctly actioned. Have you tried

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-19 Thread Bob Warren
works like a charm... winxp... 1gb ram, 3GHz... rev 261 cheers Xav -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Warren Sent: Wednesday, 18 January, 2006 17:37 To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-18 Thread Bob Warren
Dear Windows XP Users (and others), This is a quick status report on the testing of the file and picture chooser widgets available for download at http://www.howsoft.com/downloads/runrev . On my machines, these widgets work perfectly. However, for some reason yet to be discovered, they do

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-18 Thread Bob Warren
January, 2006 17:37 To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP Dear Windows XP Users (and others), This is a quick status report on the testing of the file and picture chooser widgets available for download at http://www.howsoft.com

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-18 Thread Bob Warren
Apart from my Windows machine, I have only one other old PC at the moment that I use for Linux. Last night, in order to try and reproduce Ken's bug (since I thought it might be connected to the use of a slower machine), I ripped out my Linux and installed Win XP. Unfortunately, the widgets

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Warren
Dear Ken, Thanks very much indeed for the quick feedback. My hair began to stand on end at the bugs you seem to have found until I read the following: - Ken Ray wrote: For troubleshooting, I'm running WinXP Pro, SP2, and

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-17 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/17/06 11:41 AM, Bob Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Ken, Thanks very much indeed for the quick feedback. My hair began to stand on end at the bugs you seem to have found until I read the following: - Ken Ray

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Warren
Dear Ken, I do hope that all of this doesn't add up to a programming principle I learned many years ago. On a different machine, even with the same operating system, a program can still crash for reasons which are not immediately apparent. We just have to test, test, and test again, on

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-17 Thread Sivakatirswami
Mac user here: OSX. I work with images on a daily basis, 20 days a month, so I'm always interested in tools. basically I have three little apps that load pix, preview pix, allow re-naming files in the directory, re-order, build html around them set captions etc. and would always like to

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Warren
Ken: I have just run the widgets on my wife's machine: Win XP, SP2, Portuguese. The programs ran perfectly. I also tried changing every parameter in every INI file. They were all actioned correctly. There is something going on here that I don't understand. Could it be what I suggested about

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Warren
Dear Sivakatirswami, If you are working with MAC, the stacks wouldn't do you much good at the moment. This is on account of the fact that the Mac file system is vastly different from the Windows one. My plan is to convert the Windows XP version to Linux first, and I anticipate that this might

Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Warren
OK, thanks Ken. All I can do now is to try and find an XP machine that gives a similar result. I'll let you know what I turn up. Bob Ken Ray wrote: On 1/17/06 1:08 PM, Bob Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken: I have just run the widgets on my wife's machine: Win XP, SP2, Portuguese.

Half-OT: I am not alone anymore (was Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP)

2006-01-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Oi Bob, I see by your mail that you're also in Brazil, good! I always wondered if I was the only brazilian on the list. I have a mac, so I can test your stuff if you need. I don't have a windows machine so I didn't saw your stacks, if you could point us to shots would be cool! cheers, Be

Re: Half-OT: I am not alone anymore (was Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP)

2006-01-16 Thread Bob Warren
Hi Andre, We've met by e-mail before, but it was a long time ago and perhaps you don't remember because I was obliged to add a new e-mail service provider for the Use-Revolution lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). When RunRev upgraded their server last July, it couldn't manage to send stuff anymore