RE: MC/RR and Email launching
Title: Message Hugh, Can't you just do: revGoURL "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ?? Ken RaySons of Thunder SoftwareEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:30 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: MC/RR and Email launchingI am presently Mac-less :(Could one of you let me know if this works on both flavours? put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into tURL if the platform is "MacOS" then get the systemversion set the itemdel to "." if item 1 of it = 10 then # OS X put "open location" quote tURL quote into tScript do tScript as AppleScript else # MacOS send tUrl to program "Finder" with "GURLGURL" end if end ifMany thanks!/H
Revolution 2.1 Beta 3 now available
Dear Listees, We're happy to inform you that Revolution 2.1 Beta 3 is now in testing - thanks for all the feedback! Download from http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/downloads.html And as always, back up your files and report all bugs via Bugzilla http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/bugzilla/index.html Warm Regards, Heather -- Heather Williams ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Development Tools ~~~ Check our web site for new Revolution editions special offers ~~~ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Does your MC crash too?
Hi everyone, Im getting hyperFrustrated due to the amount of crashes I get in MC. For the most part, the one factor that is present in my stacks that seems to cause the crashes is images and htmltext with pictures. It's now 2 weeks Im trying to resolve these without any success. And the number of crashed stacks, LOST HOURS is starting to get on my nerves. Can anyone confirm that they have the same problems? Is there Anywhere or anyone who can explain how to clear correctly an image? In this case, I just changed a blend level on a background picture, save the stack and crash... Stack corrupted AGAIN!!! (french obscene wording like in the matrix skipped for your comfort) ;) Who do we write for support now? cheers Xavier ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Does your MC crash too?
So, just to be clear, you are rotating an image by setting its angle property, enlarging the image, and then setting it's blendLevel? Not really. One image with the blend level is the static not-moving/resizing/rotating background image. The browser image is the one that resized or rotated. This one hasn't posed a problem yet (other than rotation and display speed). If so, I would try fewer manipulations of the image object and see if you still run into the same problem (try eliminating the angle property in the equation). This is what happened: Changed an image's blend effect to srcCopy, save stack, change srcCopy effect to blend, save = crash... Sorry for the confusion... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ 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
Re: script limits
Hi, I think that setting the script of an objetc/stack is widely used, so with a very serious problem of backwards compatibility for already shipped products, and limiting new ones. There are more situations than already discussed (speed, dynamic programming, limits of 'do') on which setting the scripts is very important. For example: - upgrading old version of documents created with a MC/RR standalone. New versions of the standalone may include new functionalities for the documents and you have to update the scripts in the document or add objetcs to the interface, etc - letting the user to password his documents. You may put the password into a custom property but this not sure as to put it into a script and protect the stack. If you put the password out (external pref file) of the document/stack then it is more difficult to distribute/send it. Really I do not understand the reasons for this. The consequence seems a move to let developers develop plug-ins and stacks for use inside the IDE more than real and competitive applications for end users. It is very strange that you have language features on the IDE not present on the standalone (they are addressed only to the developers!). Hope this is not a decission taken... José L. Rodríguez ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Does your MC crash too?
Yes, under these circumstances: MAC OS 8.6 (9.1 also?) Print--anything once or twice... save stack Crash!!! No corruptions so far (except for my patience!) cheers tom mccarthy ___ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Script Limits
Mark Talluto wrote: In my case, I usually am updating code to controls with the set the script of There is no other way to use the same control with new code. While I agree that the proposed change to script limits is likely more of a problem in itself than a solution, there is at lease one other alternative for your scenario. Rather than writing self-modifying code you could set a property in the object and handle the various behaviors in a backscript using a switch block: on MySpecialBehavior switch the uBehaviorClass of the target case Something doSomnething break case SomethingElse doSomethingElse break end switch end MySpecialBehavior The overhead of the switch block is a fraction of a millisecond and allows you to centralize your code into a common library. This may simplify debugging, and likely simplify maintenance as well should you ever need to alter the behavior. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Does your MC crash too?
Weird cause Im using windows with some 750 MB's of ram (*1.2 swap files) MC usually doesn't go beyond 30MB's of ram usage (go figure for what!) To me part of the problem seems that the allocation of the image space in the stack is not solid - it is not compactable it seems for one, and once an image is decompressed, that's it, you're stuck with that size... Is this due to either a flaw in code or the emptying of the image? It's a fact that no one seems to know HOW to empty an image (or imagedata) properly for example. Put empty into image or set the imagedata of img 1 to seem like 2 different usages neither of which are FULLY documented. I doubt it's an OS problem if it happens on more than one platform. BTW, a clean OS resinstall is mandatory by us. It assures that there is no flaw coming from the OS or the old system. It's worth it, believe me... On 13/08/2003 11:12:15 metacard-admin wrote: Yes, I have a similar problem. I am told however that it is due to the memory management of the OS, which I believe since OS architecture was designed around supporting Kbytes of memory and drive space and now has to support Mbytes and GBytes. Not only HTML images but the MC help stacks also do this. Rev incidentally also does this, only more often! So I'm planning to get a mac rev license in the hope that this problem is confined to the PC platform. Ideas? I have not solved this problem because this is my work-machine and my sysadmin is already nervous enough about me knowing more about the system and trying to push it to its limits. So I don't want to get under her skin by saying Hey, can we do a clean install of the OS in case there is an OS problem? My Home Page with free online legal information Page perso avec liens juridiques http://www.lexnet.bravepages.com/ind.htm _ FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community http://www.FindLaw.com Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email! http://mail.Justice.com ___ 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
survey
Hi all, Just wondering whether the efforts are justified... How many of you would like me to finish: a) the enhanced script editor (incl. variable browser) I've made? b) complete Control Browser (with all properties available for editing in any object) c) both a and b d) you prefer the editor in MC/RR Survey 2 Assuming these tools work seemesly with (at least) MC a) it should be freeware (no support guarantee, infrequent updates) b) it should be shareware (some support for licensees, updates once in a while) c) it should be commercial (support + regular updates) Thanks very much for your answers. -=- Xavier Bury TNS NT LAN Server ext 6465 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
Re: Script Limits
BTW could someone eventually post Shari's informal poll to the Rev list ? I'm not on the Rev list myself... I believe that such a list-based poll makes no sense for a number of reasons. If we are serious about it, it should be set up somewhere on the web and an address to posted to both lists. We will get better participation and more immediate results (and if IP addresses are recorded, we can judge if someone was trying to skew the results). And BTW again, did anyone contact Kevin privately about this script limit thing, as suggested in his original message ? And did anyone get an answer ? I did. No answer. But I did not list any specific product that is immediately impacted. Robert ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Admin Detection
On 12/08/2003 20:51:49 metacard-admin wrote: Has anyone come up with a way to determine the user privileges of the current user without writing a file to the drive? I'm trying to detect whether or not the current Windows user has Admin rights. If the only way to determine this is to attempt to create a file, what is the best path to use? Scott, on NT4 or W2K only... (it would be nice if someone posted the osx and linux variants ;) echo %username% will give you the current user name. Then, put the result in comparison with c:\net localgroup Choose the administrator group net localgroup administrators you should see your user name in there. Alternatives: In a NT domain, the local admin may be useless! You can find the admins in net group domain admins -- but only from the PDC... Unless you have EnterpriseAdmin (obsolete I believe) -- more below... So one simple solution to find out if you are an administrator is this: c:\net sessions System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied. or c:\net sessions ComputerUser name Client Type Opens Idle time -- \\BELLINI Windows NT 1381 0 00:07:10 The command completed successfully. For enterprise admin global EAAvailable put shell(EA) into x put The name specified is not recognized is not in x into EAAvailable if not EAAvailable then answer EA - Enterprise Administrator is required for this program to work. Maybe EA's path is not in your system's PATH environment variable. on CheckUserIsAdmin if EAAvailable then local eainfo local marshalindomain,deputyindomain put shell(ea info) into eainfo -- parse this -- Marshal in Focus Domain? Yes, Marshal with all Deputy powers -- Deputy in Focus Domain? Yes put line lineoffset(Marshal in Focus Domain,eainfo) of eainfo into marshalindomain put line lineoffset(Deputy in Focus Domain,eainfo) of eainfo into deputyindomain get yes is in marshalindomain and yes is in deputyindomain else get access denied is not in shell(net sessions) end if return it end CheckUserIsAdmin 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
RE: Does your MC crash too?
Xavier, If you could post exactly what you're doing that causes the crash, we could try it on our own systems. Images and htmlText with pictures doesn't quite cut it. When you say changed a blend level on a background picture do you mean a group that contains an image with its backgroundBehavior true? Let us know and we can help out... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MisterX Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Does your MC crash too? Hi everyone, Im getting hyperFrustrated due to the amount of crashes I get in MC. For the most part, the one factor that is present in my stacks that seems to cause the crashes is images and htmltext with pictures. It's now 2 weeks Im trying to resolve these without any success. And the number of crashed stacks, LOST HOURS is starting to get on my nerves. Can anyone confirm that they have the same problems? Is there Anywhere or anyone who can explain how to clear correctly an image? In this case, I just changed a blend level on a background picture, save the stack and crash... Stack corrupted AGAIN!!! (french obscene wording like in the matrix skipped for your comfort) ;) Who do we write for support now? cheers Xavier ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metac ard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: A task for Binary decode?
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 03:22 PM, jbv wrote: At first glance, the data looks like octal (base 8), and therefore ... But I'm somewhat puzzled by things like Exif or MM in the code... It may be that the binary blob was forced to ASCII printable to be saved in the database. Those bytes that are already in that range, such as MM are left as they are. It looks like there might be some null terminated strings in the data, also, and those are printable ASCII. I suspect that those bytes outside the printable ASCII range are encoded as \nnn where nnn is the octal representation of the byte. If so, the conversion from the database form to the raw binary may simply be this: put format(asciifiedData) into binaryData I didn't see any indication of this, but there might be some constraint as to a maximum line length in the database and some line-end is inserted to comply. Those should be removed before the format() is applied. The binary data is then available for use as binary as a whole. If parts are needed, then binaryDecode() can be used, but if not, then it will not be needed. Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting http://www.swcp.com/dsc/ Programming Services ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Script Limits
It is my understanding that these are OK. The limit of 0 for standalones would apply to 'set the script of ... during the execution of the standalone. If you don't do that in your scripts, then you are OK. Currently I do not believe you can set a script in a standalone. A Hypercard game I created used setting scripts. When I recreated the game in Metacard, I had to remove that because it didn't work once the game was compiled into a standalone. Something about the limitations apparently prevented it. So presumably, this is not something that the new limit affects. Shari C Gypsy King Software -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: [OT] Thumbs up!
Congratulations Shari! You've worked hard on this software and this is certainly a feather in our cap! Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software on 8/5/03 7:29 AM, Shari at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As many of you know, I've been Mac based for years. Metacard has allowed me to go cross platform. I recently released my first two Windows games (both have been available for Mac for quite awhile). The Mac versions are pop picks on Download.com and Tucows, and have won quite a few kudos in the Mac world. The Windows versions just won their first kudos... five stars each from Paul's Picks :-) Just thought I'd share the happy news. Shari C Gypsy King Software ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Script Limits
What would this affect? Presumably if we create a standalone, and distribute it, this would affect scripts within the standalone, correct? Right now a standalone can have unlimited lines in the script, but not in a do command. I don't know about other folks, but I use the do command a LOT in my standalones. Even with the 10 line limit. I use custom properties a lot, as well. What exactly would this affect? Shari C Gypsy King Software As part of the transition process in the MetaCard acquisition, we're working out what to with the scriptLimits property when not developing with a licensed IDE or the 30 day trial. We plan to reduce the first value in the property, the one that lets you set scripts of 10 lines, to 0. So you'll still be able to use do but otherwise this loophole will be closed. If anyone has any objections to this, please contact me off list. The main objection I can see that someone might have is that they use this in their existing standalone. If that is the case, we'll work something out with you before making this change. Kind regards, Kevin -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Admin Detection
Has anyone come up with a way to determine the user privileges of the current user without writing a file to the drive? I'm trying to detect whether or not the current Windows user has Admin rights. If the only way to determine this is to attempt to create a file, what is the best path to use? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Drawers
OS X only; on other platforms, it just opens the stack window that you're drawering (if there is such a word :-). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Lord Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 1:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Drawers I haven't tried this yet (I may have back during the beta), but can you tell me if this works on all platforms or is this an OSX only thing? On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 01:57 AM, Tuviah M Snyder wrote: Create three drawer stacks whose sum of heights is the height of the base stack (or otherwise, if you like). It is possible..it hasn't been documented for some reason drawer x1 at right,top in stack parent drawer x2 at right,center in stack parent drawer x3 at right,top in stack parent Same goes for other directions where the syntax is drawer stackname [at pintoside,[alignment]] So you can have multiple drawers on one side. Tuviah Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Software at the Speed of Thought ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Sincerely, Simon ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metac ard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
[ANN] New website with Revolution files
I present my excuses to everyone. There was an error in the link to the root directory. It's solved now. Thanks again for the feedback. Alejandro = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Search the mail list: http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
OZ-RUG moving
Hi All Due to spam concerns with Yahoo! I'm moving OZ RUG to use Majordomo on my website. To subscribe just send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put 'subscribe ozrug' in the message body. Then send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only subscribed people can post messages. There's no way that anyone (other than me) can find out a scriber address and there won't be an archive. I'll set up a web page when we need one. Cheers to all Monte Goulding B.App.Sc. (Hons.) Executive Director Sweat Technologies email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.sweattechnologies.com mobile (International): +61 421 138 274 (Australia): 0421 138 274 ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Drawers
the question is like asking can you use your own routines to similuate the Aqua feel for all platforms, yes, by using custom graphics and other methods you can. On a related note, you might like to take a look at the search feature in the current version of our mcnews stack, which includes a custom answer sheet routine. Since it is built using native Rev objects and uses our own ease-in script, it is more flexible (can display any control including fields, images, etc.) and it is cross platform. (Warning: grabbing more than 1 month's worth of content could take several minutes, might bog down your system, and may be hazardous to your health.) In your message box: go stack url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/mcnews.rev; Kind of amusing to see Apple-like stuff on Windows. :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
getting the MP3 duration
someone was looking at how to get the duration of an MP3 file.. here's a method that can be used.. the file used was Jethro Tull's Songs from the Woods MP3 (the complete album as one file).. it's a MPEG 1.0 layer 3 file.. if more advanced file info is needed feel free to contact me offlist.. -Sean on mouseUp --- these constants come from my full album mp3 of Jethro Tull's Songs From The Woods constant kFileSizeInBytes = 50034954 -- as returned by the 'detailed files' constant kFileBitRate = 160 -- the bitrate (displayed as 160kbit) local tTotalDurationInSeconds, tMM, tSS, tMMSS put ((kFileSizeInBytes * 8) / kFileBitRate / 1000) into tTotalDurationInSeconds put trunc(tTotalDurationInSeconds / 60) into tMM put trunc(tTotalDurationInSeconds MOD 60) into tSS # WinAMP returns the total duration as: 2501 seconds #returns the total time in MM:SS as: 41m 41s end mouseUp ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Windows Version Numbers
I thought the following might prove helpful for folks doing version detection on Windows... Determining the current Windows version in Rev/MC may require a slight change on the scripting side. I've been doing a project with a client that used a script similar to the following to detect the current system version: switch the systemVersion case Windows 4.0 put Windows 95 into tVersion break case Windows 4.10 put Windows 98 into tVersion break case Windows 4.90 put Windows ME into tVersion break case NT 4.0 put Windows NT into tVersion break case NT 5.0 put Windows 2000 into tVersion break case NT 5.1 put Windows XP into tVersion end switch After some testing, the client found that my project failed on some variations of Windows 98 and Windows ME (the client has a fairly extensive QA department). Apparently these Windows variations return systemVersions other than 4.10 and 4.90. The way I seemed to have solved the problem was to compare number *ranges* in the systemVersion, instead of exact values: put word 2 of the systemVersion into V if word 1 of the systemVersion = Windows then switch case V=4 and V4.1 put Windows 95 into tVersion break case V=4.1 and V4.9 put Windows 98 into tVersion break case V=4.9 put Windows ME into tVersion end switch else switch case V=4 and V5 put Windows NT into tVersion break case V=5 and V5.1 put Windows 2000 into tVersion break case V=5.1 put Windows XP into tVersion end switch end if Hope this saves folks some debugging time. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
