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Coming from another environment to Revolution can be frustrating at times. I decided to use Revolution for a project a number of years back when I had always used Director for that type of application before. Getting my head around the Revolution philosophy took a while but I do find it an incredibl...

With a slight modification to the handler you posted you can get what you are after assuming the stack whose filename you use is used to build the executable or is in the same folder as the stack used to build the executable. You just need to check if the stack filename contains a reference to an OS...

I recently got Rev 2.9 running as a CGI on our Debian Linux server. I had to install libx11 and libext. I used the following commands: sudo apt-get install libxext6 sudo apt-get install libx11-6 My notes on the process are available at the following url. Perhaps they will help. http://revolution.scr...

Jan, I just tested pasteKey in a standalone with a menubar and the message is not sent to fields if your menubar has command/control + v assigned to Edit-Paste. If you don't have your own menubar then the pasteKey message is sent. I tested in 2.8 and 2.9 so it looks like pasteKey can't be relied upo...

The text you supply to qrtPDF_WriteText can come from anywhere really. The text should be plain text and (not htmltext or rtftext) and should be in ISO 8859-1 encoding. If you need to format text take a look at the demo 2 script "Text boxes and areas example" which demonstrates calls to qrtPDF_SetFo...

When you read the data from the database table create two CR delimited lists. One for the color names and one for the color ids. Some psuedo code to illustrate: repeat for each record theRecord in the cursor put the colorName of theRecord & CR after theColors put the colorID of theRecord & CR after ...

Since you mention that your mouseDown/mouseUp scripts are long and complex it may be possible that the scripts haven't finished running yet and that is interfering with the mouseDoubleUp message. I'm just guessing here as I don't know if that is possible. In any case, what if you tried something lik...

Hi Martin, Try changing your code to this: on stepforward lock screen set the currenttime of me to (the currenttime of me) + round(the timescale of me / 4) unlock screen end stepforward on stepbackward lock screen set the currenttime of me to (the currenttime of me) - round(the timescale of me / 4) ...

So I need to typecast them on the c++ side. Yes. I can only seem to access the first element of the passed array in c++, I'm not even sure if i'm passing a multi element array. from runrev: answer externalfunction("Hello World") --is this an array of chars? Actually this is an array of C-strings wh...

The parameters you pass from Revolution to the function/command defined in the external will always be passed as an array of strings. At that point you can coerce the values as needed.

I don't know of a code that points directly to the Library but "asup" will point to the Application support folder in the root library "/Library/Application Support". I imagine you would want to store your data in this sub folder in any case so maybe that will work for you. To get the users app supp...

I loaded your example stack on Windows XP (native) and 2000 (under Parallels) and it looked right to me. Here is a screenshot of your stack in Windows 2000 with the original image shown on top of it:



What are you seeing?

I just did the following test: 1) Created a new stack. 2) Imported a PNG image (291 x 75) 3) Set the backgroundPattern to the id of the image. The image tiled nicely across the entire stack background. This is in version 2.8.1 of Revolution. I believe that version prior to 2.7 had limits on the size...

Unfortunately there is no way of getting direct Group children. This is very unfortunate as interrogating groups for immediate children becomes very slow as the number of controls grows.

Perhaps this blog post will be helpful:

http://www.revdeveloper.com/include/blog/mark/?p=4