Re: More on Windows printing...

On 1/6/05 10:56 PM, David Squance wrote: If the stack's formatForPrinting property is true, the setting of the windowBoundingRect property is ignored when the stack is opened or maximized. Is this a bug or is there some reason? It's a necessary design decision. Normally the windowBoundingRect p

Re: More on Windows printing...

then set the stack's formatForPrinting property to true before opening the stack to print it. How is this done? Do you change the setting, close the stack and then reopen it, or can it be added to a preopenstack handler? If the stack's formatForPrinting property is true, the setting of the wi

Re: More on Windows printing...

> Unfortunately, there is still a difference between the two. It is a > small difference, but it is there. > > I am not too worried about it for this project, because, for my > purposes, I can just use either the Modern or Garamond fonts, for which > the printer fonts are quite close, but a teeny

RE: Webserver

Hi Ton, I've actually just started a program that would do just that. It uses a DOS command-line utility(http://www.7-zip.org/) to zip the files, (I guess this won't work on PC, unless you can find a OSX shell program?). When I'm done - like next week - I'll let you know

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>What is the perpendicular distance between a point and a line? >Application for which there is no redeeming social value: Thanks for sharing that code, James. I'm taking calculus right now and that type of thing might come in handy. Also thanks for not using "repeat until the mouse is up." I

Writing externals

I'm a pretty experienced Revolution user, but I'm new to externals in the form of dlls. I'd like to create these, but I only have the Borland C++ compiler which I hear doesn't work for externals. Could someone please come up with a list of the languages or compilers that are compatible? Hopeful

Re: Why multiple votes in Bugzilla?

I think that 5 is the maximum number of votes allowed per user per bug. I allocate 5 to any bugs that really cause me problems, realizing that other people may find them irrelevant. I'm not sure how much the RunRev people use the vote counts to assign their priorities, but it can't hurt to pile

RE: More on Windows printing...

I appreciate your feedback on this. I tried setting it to format for printing, closing it, purging from memory, then printing. I created the stack to make an image of the field, and put the image right underneath the field - so when it prints, I can compare the width of the two fonts very careful

Re: More on Windows printing...

I checked the docs one last time and discovered that nausea and dizziness are not among the side effects of using formatForPrinting. -Jerry On Jan 6, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: Jonathan, This comment may account for the anomalous behavior you encountered (again, from Rev Docs): I

Re: More on Windows printing...

Jonathan, This comment may account for the anomalous behavior you encountered (again, from Rev Docs): Important! Fonts inherited from another stack are not updated when you set the formatForPrinting of a stack. If the stack will be printed, make sure that either the stack's textFont property

Re: More on Windows printing...

formatForPrinting from the Rev Docs Comments: Windows systems may use different font versions for printing and for screen display, and the spacing of the print version may differ from the spacing of the screen version. This can result in layouts and line breaks differing between the screen displ

RE: More on Windows printing...

I just tried it, and it was different. Maybe it depends on the font or something. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Daniels Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windo

Re: More on Windows printing...

It's not the answer to world peace, but formatForPrinting property keeps the fonts consistent looking between printer and screen on Windows...at least it did with Rev 2.2. Haven't had to try it with 2.5. -Jerry On Jan 6, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Anyone try this? Jerry Daniels say

Re: Compress folders

Ton Kuypers wrote: > I need to upload a folder containing files and subfolders to a > webserver. > No problems in setting that up using RR, but I need to compress the > folder first... > > The "compress" function only works on files, has anyone created a > "FolderCompresser" which works on both Mac

Re: More on Windows printing...

Anyone try this? Jerry Daniels says it solved his printing woes. Description Use the formatForPrinting property to improve printout appearance on Windows systems. Value: The formatForPrinting of a stack is true or false. By default, the formatForPrinting property of newly created stacks is set t

Re: Compress folders

I'll go fo the ZIP command, let's see if I can get it working. The windows version will be next. Tnx Ton Kuypers Digital Media Partners bvba Tel. +32 (0)477 / 739 530 Fax +32 (0)14 / 71 03 04 http://www.dmp-int.com On 06 Jan 2005, at 23:31, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Would it be possible to load the en

Re: 3D Object Viewer

Recently, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Are they working in versions > for OS X and Windows? > > Last time i contacted Bill, > it was only for OS X... :-( I thought they were doing both, but perhaps Mac is getting more attention because the number of Mac tools out there is slim. Best to check with

RE: Compress folders

Would it be possible to load the entire folder into a custom property on a stack, compress the stack - then do the reverse upon uncompressing? Or... Write a script to compress each file in a folder, create a folder on the server, and copy each compressed file to that folder? -Original Messag

Re: Compress folders

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, on the Mac side, you could use the "zip" utility, which is a terminal command (use the shell() f'n in Rev). On the PC side, you would need to provide such a tool for the program (download one to a known location), but there are a number of them

RE: More on Windows printing...

I am trying to figure out if the definitions for printer fonts can be used like an image, or translated into an image, and then set the image of a character, as it is typed or pasted in, to the image of the printer font. It sounds like torture to me, and like it would evoke all sorts of kerning pr

Re: More on Windows printing...

[ Re: differences in text rendering on screen vs. on printer in windows, and the absense of differences in macintosh ] The main reason there's a difference is the huge difference in resolution on the two surfaces. Screens are around 90 dots per inch (my 17" LCD is about 105 dpi). Printers now-a-da

Compress folders

Hi, I need to upload a folder containing files and subfolders to a webserver. No problems in setting that up using RR, but I need to compress the folder first... The "compress" function only works on files, has anyone created a "FolderCompresser" which works on both Mac and PC? The result shou

Re: 3D Object Viewer

on Thu, 06 Jan 2005 Scott Rossi wrote: > The iGame3D guys have it. The developed a game for > uDevGames with it here: > http://www.igame3d.com/ Hi Scott, Are they working in versions for OS X and Windows? Last time i contacted Bill, it was only for OS X... :-( al = Visit my site: http:/

Re: Answer to a question no one asked

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 07:40:10 -0800, James Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the perpendicular distance between a point and a line? > > Application for which there is no redeeming social value: >if x3-x2 is 0 then > return (x1-x2) >else > put (y3-y2)/(x3-x2) into m -- The

Re: 3D Object Viewer

At 20:37 06/01/2005, you wrote: > A 3D object viewer for rev, now you're talking! I don't know if Bill Griffin (one of the iGame3D guys) is ready to share his mind-boggling development work with the world (it's pretty complicated stuff) but as a licensee, I'm hoping to provide a subset of what the

Re: 3D Object Viewer

> A 3D object viewer for rev, now you're talking! I don't know if Bill Griffin (one of the iGame3D guys) is ready to share his mind-boggling development work with the world (it's pretty complicated stuff) but as a licensee, I'm hoping to provide a subset of what the iGame guys are doing as a simpl

Re: controls on each card

At 9:17 AM -0500 1/6/05, Thomas McGrath III wrote: But, doesn't a group need to have backgroundBehaviour true FIRST in order to show up in the "Place Group" submenu? No. (Just checked, in case a bug like that had sneaked in.) You can place any group (as long as it's not already placed on the curr

Re: 3D Object Viewer (was: Open-source: Presentation software)

Recently, Gordon Webster wrote: > A 3D object viewer for rev, now you're talking! > > My personal dream would be to see a set of openGL > bindings for rev that would allow you to create a 3D > viewport window on a rev stack The iGame3D guys have it. The developed a game for uDevGames with it he

RE: 3D Object Viewer (was: Open-source: Presentation software)

I have been thinking extensively about that very idea! It would require having custom properties for each object that would appear in the 3-D space that defines that object's location in 3-D space. Then, when the card preloads, you take the data for all objects inside the group with the image tha

Re: Open-source: Presentation software

On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Well, if you need an autoflow script, to allow formatted text to automatically continue from one field to another, I can offer that. It is useful for creating text that wraps around pictures, or columns that continue across different pages. I also

RE: 3D Object Viewer (was: Open-source: Presentation software)

A 3D object viewer for rev, now you're talking! My personal dream would be to see a set of openGL bindings for rev that would allow you to create a 3D viewport window on a rev stack - perhaps embedded in an image object the way Chipp's altBrowser is. BTW: OpenGL is cross-platform too :-) Gordon

RE: Open-source: Presentation software

Well, if you need an autoflow script, to allow formatted text to automatically continue from one field to another, I can offer that. It is useful for creating text that wraps around pictures, or columns that continue across different pages. I also have a script for resizing pictures with the mouse

Re: Open-source: Presentation software

On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: What kind of objects does your presentation software use? By that, I mean, I assume it does fields, pictures, audio, and video. Any other types of objects? I have been thinking that a 3-D object viewer would be a great object. (I hope no one obje

Re: Open-source: Presentation software

On Jan 6, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Gordon Webster wrote: Mark I checked out your Yahoo groups page - the project sounds potentially interesting but it's hard to know how interesting in the absence of more info. Hi Gordon, I am very new at working in an open-source project. Ask me what you want to know

RE: Open-source: Presentation software

What kind of objects does your presentation software use? By that, I mean, I assume it does fields, pictures, audio, and video. Any other types of objects? I have been thinking that a 3-D object viewer would be a great object. (I hope no one objects to my overuse of the word 'object' here, which, o

Re: Open-source: Presentation software

Mark I checked out your Yahoo groups page - the project sounds potentially interesting but it's hard to know how interesting in the absence of more info. Best Gordon --- Mark Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some time ago I created a commercial product called > Multimedia > Generator. Th

Open-source: Presentation software

Some time ago I created a commercial product called Multimedia Generator. This is presentation software that was designed for the education market. We ended up getting users in many different markets over time. The software is pretty easy to use, but does lack some polish and features from t

RE: More on Windows printing...

Well - after creating a stack that takes an image of a field and puts it right underneath the field, so that I can print it out and compare the screen font width to the printed font width for various fonts... I have concluded that Modern and Garamond are the two best fonts to use, if one is hopin

Re: icon's

Thanks On Wednesday, January 5, 2005, at 09:57 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: --- Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's one.. www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/ StandaloneBuilderTutorial/ BuildingIconsforMacOSXandWindowsXP.htm hello Chipp, i tried to hunt down a StandaloneBuilderTutorial but could not

Re: automatically create fields from xml tree

At 23:28 05/01/2005, you wrote: Bob, It depends on what your XML structure looks like: For instance if your XML looks like: Hi Chipp. Well I gave this a try and made sure the text.xml file was in the same directory. It originally looked like this Comedy

Re: Answer to a question no one asked

On Jan 6, 2005, at 8:40 AM, James Hurley wrote: What is the perpendicular distance between a point and a line? This is a nice example of breaking out a small general problem into a separate function. Good work. Some nit-picking (without trying it): I think of distance as always positive. If the

Re: More on Windows printing...

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: > But - somehow MS word manages to look the same between both. > Not to sound paranoid or anything, but I tend to imagine it > was designed that way on purpose to make it tougher for > competing programs. It seems you're not paranoid at all. The decades' old rumors of Micro$o

RE: More on Windows printing...

But - somehow MS word manages to look the same between both. Not to sound paranoid or anything, but I tend to imagine it was designed that way on purpose to make it tougher for competing programs. I figure there should be some fonts where the metrics are roughly the same between printer font and s

Re: More on Windows printing...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You should be able to use any TTF with Rev. The issue with different font metrics is a Windows problem, not a font problem. This issue does not exist on the Mac, for example. Arial is a good example of a TrueType font. However, the printer metric

Re: controls on each card

On Jan 6, 2005, at 6:17 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: But, doesn't a group need to have backgroundBehaviour true FIRST in order to show up in the "Place Group" submenu? No. You can place any group in your stack on a card where it doesn't already appear. This is how you use one group across mult

More on Windows printing...

Are there any fonts that are the same on screen as on printer? Some are shorter, some are longer, but I have yet to find one that comes out the same. Normally, one would use a truetype font for this purpose. Is there any sort of true type font we can use in Rev? ___

Answer to a question no one asked

What is the perpendicular distance between a point and a line? Application for which there is no redeeming social value: Create a line graphic "line" and an oval graphic "circle" Put the following script into a transparent radio button and then drag that button. local myName, p2,p3 on mouseDown p

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Hi Alex and Jonathan, thanks a lot for your (partly philosophical ;-) answers... I think i now have more solutions than i will ever need :-D I LOVE THIS LIST! (No monkey dance, however ;-) Best from germany Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de

RE: clicktext and decimal numbers

For a spellcheck for a program at work - I had to make it so that it selected the actual word, even if that word contained a dash. I did it basically by starting with the character under the mouse click, then counting to the left until reaching a space or linefeed or the beginning of the field - th

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Klaus Major wrote: Hi friends, a happy 2005 to all of you! Happy New Year to you too. Short question: When clicking on decimal numbers like 12.34, "the clicktext"*** returns "12", "." or "34", which is not very helpful if you need the complete number... *** "clickcharchunk" and "clickchunk" etc

Re: controls on each card

But, doesn't a group need to have backgroundBehaviour true FIRST in order to show up in the "Place Group" submenu? Tom On Jan 5, 2005, at 11:15 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: Once you've grouped the objects, go to each card you want them to appear on, and choose the group from the "Place Group"

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Hi Robert, Would something along the lines of the following work? get word (the number of words of (char 1 to (word 2 of the clickCharChunk) of fld "xxx"))) of fld "xxx" Way cool! Got it to work with some brackets less ;-) put word the number of words of (char 1 to (word 2 of the clickCharChunk)

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Hi Scott, Recently, Klaus Major wrote: Short question: When clicking on decimal numbers like 12.34, "the clicktext"*** returns "12", "." or "34", which is not very helpful if you need the complete number... *** "clickcharchunk" and "clickchunk" etc... are working the same way :-( ... SHORT scripts

Re: Unicode won't print

Just to be clear, that Michael is not me. But what you say is very true. If a user inserts some unicode into a field in your application or stack which is to be printed your application or stack is going to break . â Michael On Jan 4, 2005, at 5:02 AM, ron barber wrote: See bug 1955, its been a

Why multiple votes in Bugzilla?

Does it make any difference if I use all my votes on one problem? Will that increase the likely hood of the problem getting fixed or will it just show that it is a very serious problem for me? Michael ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@list

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Hi Xavier, thanks, but that would be far too easy ;-) Actually the numbers can be anywhere inside a locked field... Then try to find the space before and after the clickchunk... Yep, that's what Scott already offered :-) Still no submissions for logos for the RunRev sponsored GT car... It's free, a

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

>thanks, but that would be far too easy ;-) > >Actually the numbers can be anywhere inside a locked field... Then try to find the space before and after the clickchunk... >> Still no submissions for logos for the RunRev sponsored GT car... >> It's free, and you'll get car pictures too for your w

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Hi Scott, Recently, Klaus Major wrote: Short question: When clicking on decimal numbers like 12.34, "the clicktext"*** returns "12", "." or "34", which is not very helpful if you need the complete number... *** "clickcharchunk" and "clickchunk" etc... are working the same way :-( ... SHORT scripts

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Bon jour Xavier, Hi Klaus, if you have either a single column field list or a table, the clickline/text or the number of items in char 1 to the clickchar kind of op. thanks, but that would be far too easy ;-) Actually the numbers can be anywhere inside a locked field... Still no submissions for log

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Recently, Klaus Major wrote: > Short question: > > When clicking on decimal numbers like 12.34, "the clicktext"*** returns > "12", "." or "34", which is not very helpful if you need the complete > number... > > *** "clickcharchunk" and "clickchunk" etc... are working the same way > :-( > > Now

Re: clicktext and decimal numbers

Hi Klaus, if you have either a single column field list or a table, the clickline/text or the number of items in char 1 to the clickchar kind of op. Still no submissions for logos for the RunRev sponsored GT car... It's free, and you'll get car pictures too for your websites... hope that help

clicktext and decimal numbers

Hi friends, a happy 2005 to all of you! Short question: When clicking on decimal numbers like 12.34, "the clicktext"*** returns "12", "." or "34", which is not very helpful if you need the complete number... *** "clickcharchunk" and "clickchunk" etc... are working the same way :-( Now i worked