Re: Witango-Talk: OS X.4 - Danger in correcting... (solved)

2005-10-20 Thread Bill Conlon
This seems to me to be a sound practice prior to deploying applications. I'll plan on it. So I guess the answer to my original question is that I might as well install X.4, and follow Peter's recommendation. thx, bill On Thursday, October 20, 2005, at 09:10 AM, Peter Ternstrom wrote:

Witango-Talk: OS X.4

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Conlon
I think I'm ready to migrate from my circa 1998 G3 desktop. Can't remember which feline is the current version, but does anyone have experience running the Dev Studio on X.4? thx bill TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to

Re: Witango-Talk: OS X.4

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Conlon
/ On Oct 19, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Bill Conlon wrote: I think I'm ready to migrate from my circa 1998 G3 desktop. Can't remember which feline is the current version, but does anyone have experience running the Dev Studio on X.4? thx bill

Re: Witango-Talk: OS X.4

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Conlon
. -- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Bill Conlon wrote

Re: Witango-Talk: Witango 5.5 on Mac X.3

2005-10-09 Thread Bill Conlon
almost got it. two things: 1. I had the v5 Server in the startup items. 2. clients.ini now follows apache naming, so the plugin begins mod_ -- had to rename. Now have a Client Plugin Error Code 605 to resolve. On Saturday, October 8, 2005, at 08:50 PM, Bill Conlon wrote: I'm trying

Re: Witango-Talk: Witango 5.5 on Mac X.3

2005-10-09 Thread Bill Conlon
oops. forgot to make sure there were no witango processes running. re-installed and I'm good. On Saturday, October 8, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Bill Conlon wrote: almost got it. two things: 1. I had the v5 Server in the startup items. 2. clients.ini now follows apache naming, so the plugin

Re: Witango-Talk: OT: Blog

2005-10-08 Thread Bill Conlon
I like WordPress -- it's open source PHP/MySQL. On Saturday, October 8, 2005, at 08:44 AM, steve wrote: I do know that I once saw at the WiTango site, a blog running and if I remember right,   it was a Tango app.   Are there app’s out there like the one I described above?  Heck I didn’t

Witango-Talk: Witango 5.5 on Mac X.3

2005-10-08 Thread Bill Conlon
I'm trying to configure a powerbook as a developer server while I'm on the road this week. I've got MySQL installed and ODBC working from the 5.5.09 studio. I'm having trouble with the witangod server -- it fails to load: % /Applications/WitangoServer/5.5/witangod -s dyld:

Re: Witango-Talk: support for @DOM encoding

2005-09-19 Thread Bill Conlon
Doesn't xml require utf-8? Don't know for a fact, just seems like I picked that knwledge up on the street :). Anyway, going to the issue of umlauts, etc. from last week, if the problem is how the character is rendered on the client, it could be due to the encoding specified in the http

Re: Witango-Talk: support for @DOM encoding

2005-09-19 Thread Bill Conlon
I think Customer Support should weigh in here. Do witango string manipulation functions (@LEFT, @LOCATE, @REGEX, @REPLACE, @RIGHT, @SUBSTRING) use: a) a fixed character encoding (e.g. LATIN-1) set at compilation b) the character encoding of the environment (LANG=UTF-8, for example

Re: Witango-Talk: div and CSS (OT)

2005-09-17 Thread Bill Conlon
Start by validating your HTML. (I use the Firefox developer toolbar.) Abyway you're missing a closing /div to go with div id=pageBox I would start there. Once you have valid html, then validate the css. If it still doesn't work 'm sure I can help. bill On Saturday, September 17, 2005,

Re: Witango-Talk: Randomly Sort Large Resultset

2005-09-16 Thread Bill Conlon
how about SELECT id, column ..., etc, RAND() AS random FROM table WHERE (whatever) ORDER BY random LIMIT 10 On Friday, September 16, 2005, at 01:40 PM, Dave Machin wrote: If you're using MS-SQL for the database, I've always added the following to the query to get the results sorted

Re: Witango-Talk: Randomly Sort Large Resultset

2005-09-16 Thread Bill Conlon
the exact same value. NewID() is evaluated uniquely per row. - Original Message - From: Bill Conlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: witango-talk@witango.com Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 1:59 PM Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Randomly Sort Large Resultset how about SELECT id, column ..., etc, RAND

Re: Witango-Talk: Randomly Sort Large Resultset

2005-09-16 Thread Bill Conlon
Message - From: Bill Conlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: witango-talk@witango.com Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 2:23 PM Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Randomly Sort Large Resultset Interesting. Here's a MySQL query on a small table: Output from SQL command SELECT ID, rand() FROM tokens .. ID rand

Witango-Talk: component zone

2005-09-15 Thread Bill Conlon
1. I'm looking for a browser sniffer like http://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_browser_detection.php. Does anyone have one to contribute? 2. Anyone have any more thoughts on a sourceforge repository? I'm reluctant to add components to developer.witango.com because: a) last time I tried,

Witango-Talk: POD-like documentation?

2005-09-14 Thread Bill Conlon
Is there a standard for document TCF's and associated custom tags so the documentation can be incorporated easily within the programmer's reference? I presume the answer is NO, but perhaps we could come up with something along the lines of PERL POD. I'm thinking that a TCF would include a

Re: Witango-Talk: Problems with umlauts, etc

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Conlon
Oh this is a messy problem. Let me guess that you are using @URL to (or CMD wget or some such) to retrieve a page via HTTP GET. The character encoding is supposed to be specified by the server, but sometimes it's in a meta. And sometimes it's specified but wrong, and just appears

Re: Witango-Talk: Intermittant Email Issue

2005-08-29 Thread Bill Conlon
Look in the mail server log to see what's happening there. On Monday, August 29, 2005, at 11:00 AM, jeffgoldstein wrote: Hello All, I am running 5.5.003 on an W2K Server with SP4, and I am having intermittant email issues. This happens if the taf is just a single mail action with all of

Re: Witango-Talk: FTP File Manager

2005-08-28 Thread Bill Conlon
How about using WebDAV for client access and tail the HTTP accesslog? You could use the Perl File::Tail module and a shell script similar to the one I've posted for monitoring the WitangoEvents log -- and then parse the log line to update your db. bill On Saturday, August 27, 2005, at

Re: Witango-Talk: Help with witango email action windows server 2003

2005-08-28 Thread Bill Conlon
MTAs don't normally require any authentication for SMTP connections, which is why relaying is a problem. Don't know the IIS MTA, but in my Postfix main.cf, I have the following restrictions: This says what IP addresses can connect to my SMTP server: smptpd_helo_restrictions =

Witango-Talk: ODBC binding in DirectDBMS actions

2005-08-08 Thread Bill Conlon
I was having trouble getting an Insert Action to work inside a call method -- Witango wasn't binding BLOB data, and instead was quoting it within the the SCL VALUES() clause. Only 1220 bytes were getting inserted into the BLOB column. I guess this was just a little bug in the studio,

Witango-Talk: call method parameter scope

2005-08-08 Thread Bill Conlon
In the Studio, parameters passed by reference (as a variable) instead of by value, cannot in method scope. Does anyone understand this limitation? I have some methods that manipulate strings in place, and I would like to use them within a TCF. But it looks like I have either pass by value,

Witango-Talk: appending strings

2005-08-06 Thread Bill Conlon
I've asked for a new feature to allow me to specify a variable into which ResultsHTML are accumulated. Some useful place for this feature: * assembling resultsHTML within methods, * deferring the assembly of HTML head until after the action results Such a feature does not exist, to my

Re: Witango-Talk: OT - imaging software

2005-08-05 Thread Bill Conlon
On the Mac, GraphicConverter is a GREAT stand-alone app. It's probably scriptable. ImageMagick (*nix, windows, mac) can do this from command line or any of several APIs. I imagine the GIMP could be scripted as well. On Friday, August 5, 2005, at 03:25 PM, Tom Ferguson wrote: I used to

Witango-Talk: HTTP file cache

2005-08-04 Thread Bill Conlon
I know a few people on this list have addressed the issue of dealing with cached files. Here's my scenario: I go to an admin page, and get some info on a file stored in the db. The page includes a thumbnail (also stored in the db), such as: img src=download.taf?_uid1=@COLUMN thumb_id the

Re: Witango-Talk: HTTP file cache

2005-08-04 Thread Bill Conlon
presume if you provide an entity tag, the User-Agent will have to re-validate every file, but in most cases would use the cached resource. Anyone have any experience with this? On Thursday, August 4, 2005, at 01:45 PM, Bill Conlon wrote: Thx Scott Roland. Using amp;@RANDOM will indeed cause

Re: Witango-Talk: HTTP file cache

2005-08-04 Thread Bill Conlon
luck. ~ Scott Cadillac ~ 403-254-5002 ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Custom Software for Business http://custom.softwarefor.net ~ The XML-Extranet Partnership ~ P.O. Box 69006 RPO Bridlewood SW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2Y 4T9 -Original Message- From: Bill Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Witango-Talk: HTTP file cache

2005-08-04 Thread Bill Conlon
http://custom.softwarefor.net ~ The XML-Extranet Partnership ~ P.O. Box 69006 RPO Bridlewood SW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2Y 4T9 -Original Message- From: Bill Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:37 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango

Re: Witango-Talk: Problem Reading a GIF

2005-08-01 Thread Bill Conlon
. -- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Bill Conlon wrote: Robert

Re: Witango-Talk: Problem Reading a GIF

2005-07-30 Thread Bill Conlon
95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ On Jul 29, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Bill Conlon wrote: This definitely seems to be a problem reading binary data: Here's a hex dump of the first line: : 47 49 46 38 39

Witango-Talk: Problem Reading a GIF

2005-07-29 Thread Bill Conlon
Are there any tricks to reading a GIF or other binary data? My log shows: 29/07/2005 11:29:0966.219.95.118 [EMAIL PROTECTED]-1443935312 1 723 [File Action] Read_thumb 29/07/2005 11:29:0966.219.95.118 [EMAIL PROTECTED]-1443935312

Witango-Talk: External action error

2005-07-29 Thread Bill Conlon
I've notice that ALL my external actions throw an error in the log. Does anyone have any clues on eliminating these errors? (on linux). The process is always: Forking Process -- Waiting on the child process -- Error: No child processes -- Waiting done. I'd like to eliminate the Error: No

Re: Witango-Talk: Problem Reading a GIF

2005-07-29 Thread Bill Conlon
up to the NULL. So does anyone know how I can read a binary file? Or do I have to complete my action in another language (shell/perl/php script)? On Friday, July 29, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Bill Conlon wrote: Are there any tricks to reading a GIF or other binary data? My log shows: 29/07/2005

Re: Witango-Talk: WYSIWYG HTML Form Editors?

2005-07-19 Thread Bill Conlon
TinyMCE is outstanding. On Tuesday, July 19, 2005, at 09:43 AM, Stefan Gonick wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of any WYSIWYG HTML Form Editors that can be used on a web form? I would like to use this for a content management system. Ideally, it would be a relatively simple one that supported

Re: Witango-Talk: WYSIWYG HTML Form Editors?

2005-07-19 Thread Bill Conlon
I found TinyMCE when I was evaluating Mambo (php-based CMS) for a client. I now use it for all my client-accessed sites, and am integrating into a Witango apps also. It is dirt simple to implement, supports style sheets, and will even produce/enforce valid code -- HTML 3.2/4, XHTML.

Re: Witango-Talk: WYSIWYG HTML Form Editors?

2005-07-19 Thread Bill Conlon
Yep. Default is to make textarea editable. You can restrict by name. You can also define other editable HTML tags. On Tuesday, July 19, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Stefan Gonick wrote: This product looks nice. It has a large toolbar with many options, which feels a little overwhelming for my

Re: Witango-Talk: WYSIWYG HTML Form Editors?

2005-07-19 Thread Bill Conlon
I don't think we have any clients accessing it via dialup. Good news is the script can be cached, so the impact is tolerable. Have you tried compressing it to .jar? General reaction from users, is appreciation that they no longer have to code the HTML themselves. On Tuesday, July 19,

Re: Witango-Talk: Mac OS X Timestamp issue: Found Problem.

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Conlon
Just a thought based on your data dictionary post. I've noticed that Witango studio keeps old data dictionaries that are no longer used. I have a feeling these can be a source of some problems. So when I work on legacy apps, I make it a habit to edit the xml and remove all references to

Re: Witango-Talk: 404 Object Not Found

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Conlon
Presumably you have an error trap for Witango Main Error 3 (file not found) that displays your error page. The error page is a valid page so it should return 200 OK. You need to have your web server return a 404 Not Found, 302 Redirect, or 301 Moved in response to these requests, before

Re: Witango-Talk: 404 Object Not Found

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Conlon
On Thursday, July 14, 2005, at 10:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bill, Thanks for answering. A question or two if you please... I am running IIS5 on a Win2k server. In order to do redirects, the files have to already exist. I was hoping for something a bit more elegant then

Re: Witango-Talk: 404 Object Not Found

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Conlon
That's what it should do index.html returns 301 telling the user agent to fetch default.taf default.taf is there, and returns 200 On Thursday, July 14, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Fogelson, Steve wrote: First turn on a sniffer. Try http://www.reedssports.com/index.html, you will see it redirects to

Re: Witango-Talk: 404 Object Not Found

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Conlon
Message- From: Bill Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 1:25 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: 404 Object Not Found That's what it should do index.html returns 301 telling the user agent to fetch default.taf default.taf is there, and returns

Re: Witango-Talk: running processes in witango that take a long time

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Conlon
Seems like an ideal use of a semaphore plus AT. I think John McGowan posted on this earlier this year. Set a semaphore (eg., create an Environment variable with a value of ready). Put your job in the AT queue as a Shell script. First action of the script would be to set the variable to

Re: Witango-Talk: Disabling form fields

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Conlon
I can understand having a client side calculator to help the users, and avoid a round trip to the server for updating the totalcharge. But nothing that's submitted can be trusted, and the Total Charge must be calculated at the server, so what's the point of having it as a hidden field? I

Re: Witango-Talk: Problem with input value truncated with quote

2005-07-12 Thread Bill Conlon
Try: INPUT NAME=TEST VALUE=@ARG TEST maxlength=256 On Tuesday, July 12, 2005, at 03:45 PM, MC Tay wrote: INPUT NAME=TEST VALUE=@ARG TEST TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf

Re: Witango-Talk: survey demo

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Conlon
It works for me from http://developer.witango.com/downloads/modules.taf do you want me to just email it to you? On Friday, July 8, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Roland Dumas wrote: There's a survey application in the sample code section of the witango site. there's a link to a demo, which gets you a

Re: Witango-Talk: Hosting photo competition

2005-07-01 Thread Bill Conlon
Upload to /tmp/@USERREFERNCE Use an external command to run clamav against the file If clean, handle it, else delete. On Friday, July 1, 2005, at 09:13 AM, steve wrote: I have an upload module I built and am pondering this very situation. IF you get any great ideas on how to scan the files

Witango-Talk: TCF -- Suppress HTML results logging

2005-06-24 Thread Bill Conlon
I run my development system at logginglevel=3 (LogLevel2 information plus generated SQL, variable and action result values). When a method generates an HTML result, the HTML goes into the log. I would prefer it if TCF HTML results were considered the same as other action HTML results, and

Re: Witango-Talk: Custom Tags in expressions

2005-06-24 Thread Bill Conlon
John, Did you get any resolution on this? I would like to make a custom tag to treat arrays as hashes (associative arrays in Perl PHP). This would simplify the repeated use of @ASSIGN NAME=desired_row VALUE=@FILTER ARRAY=array EXPR=#col='expr' @@desired_row[1,column] to @HASHREF

Re: Witango-Talk: Absolutely Annoying new Features of the Dev Studio

2005-06-20 Thread Bill Conlon
I get method$this on Mac 5.5.08 On Monday, June 20, 2005, at 08:53 AM, Dale Graham wrote: Nope. When I drag in a new method, it always defaults to method$this (in Dev Studio 5.5) On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Bill Downall wrote: 2. When dragging a method call from the object workspace for

Witango-Talk: list order snippet

2005-06-20 Thread Bill Conlon
I'm looking for a snippet that will change the order of a list. Before I write it, I might as well ask if someone has done this already. Consider a table id -- unsigned int, autoincrement order -- unsigned int name -- char I display the table ID ORDER NAMEUP DOWN 1 1

Re: Witango-Talk: Printing envelopes from a web page?

2005-06-13 Thread Bill Conlon
This should be entirely feasible using CSS2. We built a print-on-demand system in 2003 that was linked to a content-management system. Consider using the CSS media specifications for print and screen (You could have a 300dpi image for printing, but a 72 dpi for display in the browser).

Re: Witango-Talk: when logging fails...

2005-06-01 Thread Bill Conlon
Maybe the logging directory got changed when you upgraded??? Or maybe witango doesn't have permission to write to the log directory (as a result of the upgrade changing default permissions). On Wednesday, June 1, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Roland Dumas wrote: I've had a set of witango crashes and

Re: Witango-Talk: MacOS 10.41

2005-05-25 Thread Bill Conlon
I figured you'd be the first ;). On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, at 03:41 PM, Roland Dumas wrote: Anyone running witango 5 on Mac 10.4.1 server? ___ _ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf

Re: Witango-Talk: Implementing AJAX remote scripting

2005-05-25 Thread Bill Conlon
Just got my copy of InfoWorld (23 May 2005 issue). There's an article on AJAX starting on page 39. On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Diodeus wrote: Hi Mike, A few years ago I was using Brent Ashley's remote scriping routines (http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/) to dynamically populate

Re: Witango-Talk: Other SF Project possibilities

2005-05-23 Thread Bill Conlon
I agree that the project leader should determine the DBMS. The only issue is what kind of project you're hosting at SF. If it's a community effort, then the choice of db will influence the number of developers who can contribute, andk the project leader also needs to consider features that

Re: Witango-Talk: Witango question concerning cut and paste

2005-05-20 Thread Bill Conlon
I had a component at ncol as part of the component contest that allowed you to store images, pdf, movies, etc in a database. You could look at that as an example to manage the db. Web browsers don't accept pasted binary data, so I think you'll have to use the file upload capability. On

Re: Witango-Talk: Performance

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Conlon
Thx for bringing up hardware. If the software stack is really the same on all systems, then you should really look at hardware failures. Some things to consider: * network. cables NIC as Bill mentions, but also switches, routers, proxy servers or load balances * disk drives. Use

Re: Witango-Talk: Converting AppleTalk ACGIs

2005-05-12 Thread Bill Conlon
Here's a quick hack, haven't tested it, as I'm just writing it here as a response. Create a shell script, for example folder.sh (make it executable by witango) #!/bin/sh # folder.sh -- shell script to create a folder mkdir $path Then write an external action in witango that calls the script

Re: Witango-Talk: WiTango Lite Version and Apache on Local Machine for Development

2005-05-11 Thread Bill Conlon
look in the apache error log (maybe /var/log/httpd/error_log). Is witangod running? On Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at 01:27 PM, McGriff, Gary wrote: This seemed to lock up Apache. Gary McGriff NASA [EMAIL PROTECTED] 544-9097 -Original Message- From: Jason Pamental [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Witango-Talk: Capturing and parsing of web page

2005-05-05 Thread Bill Conlon
@URL Put results in a DOM and parse it. Might be some copyright issues with taking data from a search engine. What I do is maintain a database of relevant external sites, periodically spider them using swish-e spider, and then search the local swish-e index. On Thursday, May 5, 2005, at 11:36

Witango-Talk: Deflate/gzip compression

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Conlon
Does anyone have any experience using mod_deflate on apache, or the equivalent compression on IIS? Presumably, the apache deflate output filter processes the witango output just as if the web server had pulled a file from the file system. And I guess the default http header (and any custom

Re: Witango-Talk: Deflate/gzip compression

2005-05-04 Thread Bill Conlon
Just for completeness, I'll answer my post. I'm deflating text/html, and I didn't have to do anything in witango. I do not have a header.htx, so the apache header was being used as is. On Sunday, May 1, 2005, at 09:47 AM, Bill Conlon wrote: Does anyone have any experience using mod_deflate

Witango-Talk: Witango sure is easy compared to

2005-04-27 Thread Bill Conlon
Just finished a major re-write of some perl cgi scripts that our clients use for content managment. I'm no perl novice, (not an expert either) after 5+ years of hit and miss perl programming), but it sure is nice to have all the features you get with Witango. The purpose of the project was to

Re: Witango-Talk: Client-side table sorting

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Conlon
Chuck, Here's my flayed feline: I go back to the server each time. I build my query with @ARG _orderby. Say it's a simple text query, with the request in _query. The column headers have a link back: tha href=@APPFILE?_function=listamp;_query=@ARG _queryamp;_orderby=columnnamecolumnname/a/th

Witango-Talk: Changing method parameters

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Conlon
How do I insert a newly added method parameter to an existing call method in a taf? It looks like instead of being able to drag additional method parmaters onto the call method action, or use a menu Edit-Insert, I have to create a brand new call method and re-type everything. Is there an

Re: Witango-Talk: Permissions error in Tiger (Mac OS X v 10.4)

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Conlon
It might not be permissions. You might have to read some more of the docs. The linux kernel now uses SELinux, security profiles needed to comply with NSA. Tiger may have a similar new security framework. I haven't delved into it, and just disabled SELinux so permissions would control. bill

Re: Witango-Talk: Strange behavior in application scope

2005-04-07 Thread Bill Conlon
Works in 5.5 On Thursday, April 7, 2005, at 08:28 AM, Peter Fogg wrote: Yes, later today tomorrow morning at the latest. BTW, didn't I read on the list recently that application scope doesn't work on Linux? Peter - Can you put a test case together, so I can try it on linux. On Wednesday,

Re: Witango-Talk: Strange behavior in application scope

2005-04-06 Thread Bill Conlon
Can you put a test case together, so I can try it on linux. On Wednesday, April 6, 2005, at 01:54 PM, Peter Fogg wrote: NOt that I know of. The server is on my local workstation and is not serving pages to anyone but me. Peter - Is the server under any load (or answering other requests at all)

Re: Witango-Talk: Image size?

2005-04-04 Thread Bill Conlon
Here's one way that is easy, fast, and free (on Linux). Maybe not quite as easy on OSX. Can also do this on Windows, but you probably need ActivePerl. install ImageMagick install PerlMagick install perl module Image::Info use an external action to invoke a perl script that gets the

Re: Witango-Talk: Image size?

2005-04-04 Thread Bill Conlon
Look thru the ImageMagick web site. They have a bunch of APIs. There's probably one that's easy to use on Windows. On Monday, April 4, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Tom Ferguson wrote: Thanks, Bill, I'm on Windows. I'll check this out. -Original Message- From: Bill Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Witango-Talk: Application scope not defined

2005-03-30 Thread Bill Conlon
On linux (maybe others) Witango 5 v065, the only application SCOPE that works is DEFAULT. On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Robert Shubert wrote: In Witango.ini: Check to see if APPLICATIONSWITCH is on Then check for the presence of APPCONFIGFILE which is defaulted to: C:\\Program

Re: Witango-Talk: Witango 5.5 / JDBC / MySQL

2005-03-23 Thread Bill Conlon
John, I haven't looked for it. If you can spell out a test case, I can try it out. I am running Witango 5 / myodbc /MySQL 3.23 on Redhat 9. I was planning to try testing W5.5 soon. I can probably set up a JDBC connector pretty quickly also. Bill On Wednesday, March 23, 2005, at 03:11 PM,

Re: Witango-Talk: Unique ID Number???

2005-03-22 Thread Bill Conlon
This is along the lines of locks only keep honest people honest. There is no reason that the persistent cookie, stored in a file on the PC, can't be stolen or transferred to another system. On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at 09:28 AM, Chris Millet wrote: We did this by simply using a cookie. A

Re: Witango-Talk: Unique ID Number???

2005-03-22 Thread Bill Conlon
only keep honest people honest. On one level, I am ok with that. However, I really wish there was a way to get some machine specific information to do this. I suppose it creates privacy problems etc, and even that could be masqueraded I suppose. Any other ideas? Mark On 3/22/05 9:58 AM, Bill

Re: Witango-Talk: Unique ID Number???

2005-03-22 Thread Bill Conlon
. Chris On Mar 22, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Bill Conlon wrote: This is along the lines of locks only keep honest people honest. There is no reason that the persistent cookie, stored in a file on the PC, can't be stolen or transferred to another system. On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at 09:28 AM, Chris

Re: Witango-Talk: Log gaps

2005-03-20 Thread Bill Conlon
You're dating yourself. What about your apache access_log? Does it show accesses to .taf/.tml? On Sunday, March 20, 2005, at 01:41 PM, Roland Dumas wrote: When there's something funny going on, I go peek at the witango log. There are, however, often big gaps in the log. Half a day here and

Re: Witango-Talk: Log gaps

2005-03-20 Thread Bill Conlon
(Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122 bill On Sunday, March 20, 2005, at 02:23 PM, Roland Dumas wrote: Yes, I get the web log of hits. The witango log is going to show me what was passed to witango, though. My web log doesn't have the args. On 3/20/05 2:10 PM, Bill

Re: Witango-Talk: New Developer Site - Can't Log In

2005-03-16 Thread Bill Conlon
yes. Tried unsuccessfully yesterday. On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 09:44 AM, Dave Machin wrote: I'm trying to log in to the new developer site and can't get in. I use the recover account info button, and copy and paste the email address and password and it just sends me back to the

Re: Witango-Talk: VariableTimeoutTrigger

2005-03-16 Thread Bill Conlon
This is a bug, which I've reported to Witango. Phil tells me it will be fixed in the next 5.5 release. I posted a test case on the list last November. On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 07:22 PM, Roland Dumas wrote: Well, it triggers the URL, but the user variables are disappeared. On

Witango-Talk: proposed feature?

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Conlon
I'm looking for ideas on how to better construct my HTML output, especially the head elements, since some items in the head, like title and metatags, are dependent on the results. Currently mycontrol flow is * presentation action with htmlhead.../headbody top and side navigation * other

Re: Witango-Talk: proposed feature?

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Conlon
Corrected text below: I'm looking for ideas on how to better construct my HTML output, especially the head elements, since some items in the head, like title and metatags, are dependent on the results. Currently my control/presentation flow is * presentation action with htmlhead.../headbody top

Witango-Talk: string concatenation

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Conlon
I can't find concatenation in the docs, so is there a concatenation operator (like . in Perl) to build strings? TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf

Re: Witango-Talk: string concatenation

2005-03-08 Thread Bill Conlon
not that flexible. how 'bout a head slap? On Tuesday, March 8, 2005, at 03:59 PM, Stefan Gonick wrote: You're going to kick yourself... :) Just put the string together within quotes: @assign request$String '@@part1 @@part2 @@part3' Stefan At 06:48 PM 3/8/2005, you wrote: I can't find

Re: Witango-Talk: Baling wire and duct tape to prevent crashing

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Conlon
Roland, While it's not ready for a public release, you might be able to use my witango_watch daemon to help out. I built this to overcome the bug in startupurl (witango can't issue a url to itself, so you can't use startup url to initialize your apps). But you can use this for anything

Re: Witango-Talk: Baling wire and duct tape to prevent crashing

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Conlon
they do re-create their shopping carts. On 3/3/05 11:56 AM, Bill Conlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland, While it's not ready for a public release, you might be able to use my witango_watch daemon to help out. I built this to overcome the bug in startupurl (witango can't issue a url to itself, so

Re: Witango-Talk: Baling wire and duct tape to prevent crashing

2005-03-03 Thread Bill Conlon
good thought, and even easier with apache mod_rewrite, so you can re-direct everything, with one line in httpd.conf, even referrals and bookmarks deep within the site. On Thursday, March 3, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Alan Wolfe wrote: Sorry I cant help at all with your witango crashing issues but

Re: Witango-Talk: Solaris Tango 3.6 question

2005-03-02 Thread Bill Conlon
First guess: JVM is too old. On Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at 03:55 PM, Scott Cadillac wrote: I'm just relaying this question for somebody who's Email system won't permit sends to the List directly. -- Hope somebody can help by answering this question: Why attempt to

Re: Witango-Talk: Still baffled by application scope

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Conlon
the effect of your error file much like using the path of the application scope. Robert -Original Message- From: Bill Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:44 PM To: Witango-Talk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Witango-Talk: Still baffled by application scope I

Re: Witango-Talk: thought experiment -- user reference cookie expiration

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Conlon
Anthony, You were right. I got a very subtle bug by using the WitangoUserReference, instead of my own custom key. On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 01:55 PM, Bill Conlon wrote: Thanks. On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 01:03 PM, Anthony M. Humphreys wrote: That is an excellent idea

Re: Witango-Talk: Modifying wintango.ini file

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Conlon
$chmod -w witango.ini On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 01:08 PM, Roland Dumas wrote: How? On 2/28/05 1:06 PM, Storey, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought, but what would happen if you make your changes to the witango.ini file and the change the attributes to read only before running

Re: Witango-Talk: Modifying wintango.ini file

2005-02-28 Thread Bill Conlon
experience this? On 2/28/05 12:55 PM, Bill Conlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland, are you sure your changes are saved? In other words do you have write permission to witango.ini when you open it with vi or whatever? On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Roland Dumas wrote: BUT, reloadconfig

Witango-Talk: Still baffled by application scope

2005-02-27 Thread Bill Conlon
I am having a devil of a time defining applications in applications.ini. It seems that I only can get the Default application (PATH=/) to work. If I run a simple taf to print @APPNAME@APPPATH, I will always get Default/ no matter if the appfile is within an application path. Interestingly,

Re: Witango-Talk: Preloading the Witango Cache

2005-02-27 Thread Bill Conlon
is though that those @url calls all fail with the Server is starting up message, (Same exact problem that Bill Conlon had a while back when trying to initalize domain variables.) So now I'm thinking about this... perhaps i can set witango.ini's thread pool size to 1 on server startup

Re: Witango-Talk: TCF Parameters

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Conlon
outside the TCF and then simply use @@request$file inside the TCF, the variables are always available to you. Robert -Original Message- From: Bill Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:48 PM To: Witango-Talk Subject: Witango-Talk: TCF Parameters Are there limits

Witango-Talk: TCF defect?

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Conlon
I want to use a FOR action in a TCF. [I need an action rather than a metatag so I can BREAK out of a loop on a condition.] Anyway, the FOR action uses a request scope loop counter, but it seems to me that the loop counter MUST be in method scope in order for this TCF to not risk clobbering an

Re: Witango-Talk: TCF defect?

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Conlon
... ) I've found that if I want safe Methods that have loops in them I use the While action instead, and unfortunately, manually handle the counter as a method scoped variable. /John Bill Conlon wrote: I want to use a FOR action in a TCF. [I need an action rather than a metatag so I can BREAK out

Re: Witango-Talk: TCF defect?

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Conlon
Manual states: This tag does not affect loops initiated with For Loop or While Loop actions. On Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at 09:14 AM, Bill Downall wrote: Bill Conlon wrote: I want to use a FOR action in a TCF. [I need an action rather than a metatag so I can BREAK out of a loop

Re: Witango-Talk: TCF defect?

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Conlon
Ahh. Will this let me break out of FOR/WHILE metatag loop? (as opposed to action). On Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Bill Conlon wrote: Manual states: This tag does not affect loops initiated with For Loop or While Loop actions. On Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at 09:14 AM, Bill

Re: Witango-Talk: CPU consumption

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Conlon
I just got the same thing. Here's the explanation: Verbose logging is on (level 3 I think). I'm debugging a database update -- it's removing CR LF from the end of PDF files stored in the db (I'll post the reason separately, as I think it's of general use). Anyway, I was writing the pdf

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