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Create an ANSI Font Option Menu
Updated on: Sep 02, 2016
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Running Revolution as CGI on Debian Linux
Updated on: Sep 02, 2016
<p>Revolution is a great development tool for desktop applications. But it can also be run as a CGI on your server which means you can quickly write scripts for use on the web using the syntax you know and love.</p> <p>This tutorial shows the steps I went through to install the Revolution Linux ... -
Adding Windows Vista Manifest To a Revolution Executable
Updated on: Sep 02, 2016
<p>In Windows Vista an .exe file can have a manifest embedded in it that tells Windows the application should run with administrator privileges. When the user launches the .exe Vista will prompt the user for a username and password. Your application can then write to protected directories. </p> ... -
Dropping System Folders on Fields
Updated on: Sep 02, 2016
This lesson demonstrates how to allow a user to drop a system folder onto a field. The folder path is then displayed in the field.
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Alternating Line Colors in a List Field
Updated on: Sep 02, 2016
This lesson will demonstrate how to create alternating line colors in a Revolution list field. This technique requires version 2.8.1 or later of Revolution.
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Write A Command That Sets 'the result' And 'it'
Updated on: Sep 02, 2016
<p>Certain Revolution commands, such as 'answer', will set both it and the result: <br />* it is set to the data returned from the command <br />* the result contains status such as an error message or the button clicked on.</p> <p>While it is not readily apparent how to do this when writing you... -
Quickly Edit a Palette Stack in the IDE
Updated on: Sep 02, 2016
When working in the IDE with the pointer tool you cannot select controls in stacks that have a mode of 3 or 4 (modeless or palette). Learn how to quickly toggle the mode to 1 (toplevel) without having to remember the name of the stack.
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Knowing Which Stacks Are In Memory
Updated on: Sep 02, 2016
<p>In Revolution a stack file that is stored on disk contains a single main stack. If the stack file is accessed in your program then the main stack and it's substacks are loaded into memory. There are various ways to access a stack file. The following examples will load all stacks (the main stac... -
Zipping/Unzipping a Folder Using RevZip
Updated on: Jul 21, 2018
<p>The revZIP external is great if you need a cross-platform means of creating ZIP archives. Unfortunately there is no built in handler that will ZIP an entire folder for you. This lesson contains handlers that will ZIP up a folder and decompress a ZIP archive to a folder. All of the supporting h... -
Creating a Password Field
Updated on: Jan 23, 2019
Learn how to create a password entry field using a a custom font and revFontLoad. You can download the PasswordEntry.ttf font here.