RE: Grouping with lists in a script
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 Chipp Walters wrote: Hi William, You can either create the objectList by selecting the objects you wish to group, then issuing the single command group as in.. on mouseUp select control 1 and control 2 group end mouseUp or if you don't want to select, you can use the 'and' concatenator as in.. on mouseUp group control 1 and control 2 and control 3 end mouseUp -Chipp Hi Chipp, Thanks very much for the response, but what you suggest is exactly what I tried to *avoid* because of the great number of controls. I had the understanding that the list-option of the group command was an option to automate the tedious process to concatenate manually a huge number of crontols in the script editor. This is what the Metatalk Reference says: Syntax: group c where c stands for a list, explained by an if-statement: If a list of controls is supplied, those controls will be added to the new group. If list here would just mean the concatenated sequence of controls names or numbers in a script - explicitly written down one after the other -, this extra option would be meaningless. I tried to put the contatenated sequence of control names into a variable fieldlist by means of a repeat loop. Then, group fieldlist - both with an and-sequence as you suggested and a vertical order of controls as lines - only produced errors. What finally worked, as I already indicated, was to put group as the first word into the repeat-loop generated variable fieldlist and then put the do-command before the variable with the script: put groupthe name of fld 1 into Fieldlist repeat with i = 2 to 100 put Spaceandthe name of fld i after last word of Fieldlist end repeat do Fieldlist .- The question remains, is there a special structure for the list-option or is the information of the MetaTalk Reference merely tautological, i.e. repeating in a fuzzy way what already had been stated? If the latter is the case then the sentence: If a list of controls is supplied, those controls will be added to the new group. would indeed be superfluous and misleading. Thanks and regards, Wilhelm group c Description: The group comand makes a set of selected controls into a group/background. If a list of controls is supplied, those controls will be added to the new group. == Although there is a workaround (see the quotation below), I am still curious to know how to produce a list as in group c of the Metatalk Reference, where c stands for a list of controls. The Revolution Transcript Dictionary, which sometimes gives more detailed information about matters of usage, does not mention the option to use group with a list. Well, anybody out there that has an idea? Thanks in advance, Wilhelm Sanke On Tuesday, March 4th, I wrote: Subject: Grouping with lists in a script I needed to make a greater number of controls into a group by script. MetaTalk Reference (182) provides this information: Syntax: group c Description: The group comand makes a set of selected controls into a group/background. If a list of controls is supplied, those controls will be added to the new group. I tried various forms of lists and put them into a variable fieldlist, but then group fieldlist failed each time. Two forms of lists I tried - generated in a repeat-loop - were fld 1 fld 2 fld 3 and fld 1 and fld 2 and fld 3... What finally worked after some experimenting was using the do command, like in put groupthe name of fld 1 into Fieldlist repeat with i = 2 to 100 put Spaceandthe name of fld i after last word of Fieldlist end repeat do Fieldlist What am I missing in setting up the list structure for using the information about grouping in the MetaTalk Reference? Regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Grouping with lists in a script
[snip} I had the understanding that the list-option of the group command was an option to automate the tedious process to concatenate manually a huge number of crontols in the script editor. This is what the Metatalk Reference says: Syntax: group c where c stands for a list, explained by an if-statement: If a list of controls is supplied, those controls will be added to the new group. If list here would just mean the concatenated sequence of controls names or numbers in a script - explicitly written down one after the other -, this extra option would be meaningless. I tried to put the contatenated sequence of control names into a variable fieldlist by means of a repeat loop. Then, group fieldlist - both with an and-sequence as you suggested and a vertical order of controls as lines - only produced errors. The question remains, is there a special structure for the list-option or is the information of the MetaTalk Reference merely tautological, i.e. repeating in a fuzzy way what already had been stated? If the latter is the case then the sentence: If a list of controls is supplied, those controls will be added to the new group. would indeed be superfluous and misleading. Thanks and regards, Wilhelm I think the entry for this in the MetaTalk Reference needs to be updated to clarify the very issue you raised. Intuitvely, when I encounter the term list, I think of a group of items that have a common delimiter, enabling me to buld a list in a rather simple manner. My first go-'round with this was to try to prepare a string comprising the list of controls, trying different delimiters. Of course, that totally didn't work. I finally settled on the concatenation method demonstrated in the docs. (But I still don't like it.) miscdas ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Grouping with lists in a script
[snip] Wilhelm Sanke writes: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intuitvely, when I encounter the term list, I think of a group of items that have a common delimiter, enabling me to buld a list in a rather simple manner. miscdas The whole thing boils down to the problem, that even a list - concatenated with and - does not work, if you generate it in a repeat-loop and put it in into a variable. Regards, Wilhelm Sanke = When I said ...to 'buld' a list in a rather simple manner, I was refering to methods such as your repeat loop. This was one of the ways I tried without success as well. The documentation needs explicit examples, such as yours, of what works AND of what doesn't work. miscdas ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Radius VV codec
AFAIK, Radius only dev'ed for Mac and made their codecs available only for their video cards (way back then...) I've never seen a PC Radius codec. ;( Maybe there is some source code? But doubtful... -Original Message- From: Schiller, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 13:22 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Radius VV codec Hi debdoot, I am searching for a windows version of the Radius VV codec... and found your thread on http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/2002-June/001813.html I have the old Mac Radius VV codec if you want it. - do you have a windows one or know where I can find it? thanks Mark Schiller ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. END OF DISCLAIMER ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
