Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-27 Thread James Hurley
Message: 2 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:41:18 -0800 From: Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com Subject: Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: c75ba6de.9b%sc...@tactilemedia.com Content-Type: text/plain

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-26 Thread James Hurley
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:18:11 -0800 From: Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com Subject: Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: c758fe73.95%sc...@tactilemedia.com Content-Type: text/plain

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, James Hurley wrote: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/textspinner.rev; I tried to add one more element: Disembodied text, i.e. a text field field with zero border width and opaque set to false. Unfortunately it crashes RunRev 4.0, build 950 on my Mac

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Jacques Hausser
Le 24 déc. 2009 à 20:35, Mark Swindell a écrit : Does anyone know whether the Rev development team looking seriously at improving text management/manipulation in future releases? Mark Recurrent question, since the beginning ! Typical case of selective deafness... A firm promise from

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 25/12/2009 10:39, Jacques Hausser wrote: Le 24 déc. 2009 à 20:35, Mark Swindell a écrit : Does anyone know whether the Rev development team looking seriously at improving text management/manipulation in future releases? Mark Recurrent question, since the beginning ! Typical

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Emmett Gray
Thanks, Mark, your attempt works. Here's my functioning handler: on doSpine -- called on closing the field Spine Text and again when printing, to be safe set tool to pointer --to delete existing spine graphic click at 49,166 delete click at 455,166 delete set tool to browse

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: RunRev will bother about better text management/manipulation stuff when, either, enough financial pressure is brought to bear, or one of their big-time customers (???) demands it. Or when they can work out how to provide seamless text capabilities across

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 25/12/2009 21:02, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: RunRev will bother about better text management/manipulation stuff when, either, enough financial pressure is brought to bear, or one of their big-time customers (???) demands it. Or when they can work out how to

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Well, as RunRev seem quite good at keeping some of the information you mention below close to their collective chest I can only go on what I see. Well, I didn't think that a field rewrite was a secret, but now I hope I haven't overstepped my NDA. Mostly I just

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Jim Ault
I think you were merely stating the obvious. I have no connection to RR and I use Rev every day to satisfy many client needs as well as my own. My guess is that there will be more than one field object, since many apps would not require an 'all singing all dancing' object in every

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 25/12/2009 22:15, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Well, as RunRev seem quite good at keeping some of the information you mention below close to their collective chest I can only go on what I see. Well, I didn't think that a field rewrite was a secret, but now I hope I

HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-24 Thread Emmett Gray
I'm new to the list and this is my first post. I've done my first successful stack conversion from Hypercard so I'm up to speed on the basics. My next conversion project involves a custom CD C-card printer, which converts a CD premaster text file (with pq codes etc.) into what you want to see

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Emmett- Hi and welcome to the list. Thursday, December 24, 2009, 9:13:04 AM, you wrote: If there is a way to rotate text in Rev I would have an easy solution. I didn't find it, nor can I find a text as graphic tool in Rev to do it the HC way... TIA for help. Here's my attempt at it - this

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-24 Thread Scott Rossi
You can't physically rotate text, but you can create an image of text and rotate that. Here's one example of doing this. Execute the following in your Rev message box: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/textspinner.rev; If you want to print out the results, you could try

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-24 Thread Mark Swindell
Does anyone know whether the Rev development team looking seriously at improving text management/manipulation in future releases? Mark On Dec 24, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: You can't physically rotate text, but you can create an image of text and rotate that. Here's one example