Re: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-04 Thread Dave Cragg

At 12:10 pm -0600 3/4/02, Gene Kennedy wrote:
I just downloaded the release version of Rev 1.1.1 for Mac Classic and
started up.  Everything went as expected until I attempted to build a
distribution for Windows.  With the auto-downnload any required software
button checked, the application proceeded to download the windows engine
(674K).  Everything seemed to go OK right up to the end of the download then
I got a Engine Download: error message.  I tried this several times with
the exact same results.  Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?

Hi Gene

I just followed the same procedure and it works here (running on OS 
9.2.2). Do you get the same problem with the other engines, or just 
for the Windows engine?

Cheers
Dave Cragg
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AppleScript help

2002-04-04 Thread Ian Summerfield

I can't get my OS X system to shut down the power to the Mac:

Do tell app   quote  Finder  quote   to shut down as applescript

It doesn't work, revolution itself cancels the shut down because it's too
busy waiting for a result from AppleScript to do the quit!  Can I fire off
AppleScripts without waiting for the response?

Has anyone a better way to power off?  I get a message from my UPS that I
have only ten minutes battery left and I want to cleanly shut down the
system.

-i-

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Re: Today's really stupid newbie question

2002-04-04 Thread M.D.

Thanks, Mike for asking the question I was going to be grappling with 
today!  (And I'm not exactly a Rev newbie, but have not had the time to 
work with Rev much lately.)

If I'm lucky, you'll ask all of my questions for me right before I think 
of them ;-)

Thanks, Jeanne for the detailed instructions AND for spelling out the 
rationale behind doing it this way.  I always find things easier to 
remember if I understand WHY I'm doing them that way.

Marian

On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 07:09 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

 At 4:57 AM -0800 4/3/2002, Michael Foy wrote:
 how do I create a new card with a different background (oops sorry 
 grouped
 objects) do I create a new card and then delete the grouped objects on 
 it?

 When you create a card, any groups on the card you're on, whose
 backgroundBehavior is set to true, will be placed on the card. This is
 automatic and can't, as far as I know, be prevented. You can:

 - set the backgroundBehavior of all the groups to false, then create 
 the card.
 - create the card and remove the groups
 - go to another card first that has the groups you want on it and 
 doesn't
 have the ones you don't want, and create your card while on that card.

 And of course you can script any of this. It depends on what you want 
 to do
 and whether you want the groups you have already to act like 
 backgrounds or
 not.


 can't we have a 'new card' menu with a choice of backgrounds?

 Well, the thing is that you may want a new card that has several groups 
 on
 it, in which case you'd be out of luck.

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What software have you created?

2002-04-04 Thread Rod McCall

Dear All,

Runtime is currently looking at ways to showcase products developed by 
Revolution in our promotional materials. Typically this would take the form 
of a brochure in which we would display a screen shot of your product and 
possibly a short description. In all cases we would acknowledge that the 
product was written by a third party.

If you feel your product would be suitable for inclusion in a brochure or 
other materials please get in touch with me. In addition if there are any 
particular aspects you think look especially interesting please also send 
me a screenshot of that feature.

Thank you for your assistance.

Kind regards,

Rod McCall

PS. I will be off late next week for a few weeks to complete my PhD so 
please accept my apologies for any delay in replies.

Rod McCall
Runtime Revolution Ltd www.runrev.com
91 Hanover Street, Edinburgh,  EH2 1DJ, UK
tel: +44 (0) 870 747 1165 fax: +44 (0) 131 718 4334
Power to the Developer (Mac/Windows/Linux/Unix)
Free trial download available.

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Re: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-04 Thread Richard D. Miller

I don't think you guys are really paying careful attention to this matter,
though I could be wrong. Yes...the newest release installs fine on Windows.
And yes, you can develop applications fine in Windows with the new release.
The issue is in the DISTRIBUTION area...when you're building an app for
distribution to others. Take a look in the Components folder and then the
Engines folder. I believe you will see that the Windows engine is exactly
the same one as in the previous build. I couldn't find a more recent
release. Did anyone else?

Thanks.
Richard

 Richard,
 
 I posted a question regarding this almost two weeks ago, but haven't
 received a response from the Rev folks. It's a matter that needs to be
 addressed. What IS the story with the distribution engine for Windows?
 
 You can find the latest 1.1.1 at RunRev's site in the download section.
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Re: Trailing Zero Suppression

2002-04-04 Thread Michael D Mays

Use the numberFormat property.
 set the numberFormat to .
will show 8 digits to the right of the decimal unless they are a trailing
zero.

Note that you have to perform a mathematical operation on the number before
displaying it.

 set the numberFormat to .###
 put 1.2300

would display 1.2300 in the message box.

 set the numberFormat to .###
 put 1.2300+0

would display 1.23

michael


Richard Harrison of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on 4/3/02
11:07 PM

 Hi there,
 
 Does anyone have a good trailing zero suppression
 routine for eliminating trailing zeroes from decimal numbers?

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rev conference

2002-04-04 Thread Steve Messimer


Hi,

Has anyone given any thought to putting together a run rev conference? I 
for one would be willing to attend this type of event. I'll bet we could 
learn a lot from each other.

Anybody interested in trying to get this organized? Having it run just 
before or just after a MacWorld might make it possible for folks to fit 
in their schedules and budgets.

Steve

Stephen R. Messimer, PA
Messimer Computing Inc.
www.messimercomputing.com

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Re: Trailing Zero Suppression

2002-04-04 Thread Richard Harrison

on 4/4/2002 7:41 AM, Michael D  Mays at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Use the numberFormat property.
...
 
 set the numberFormat to .###
 put 1.2300+0
 
 would display 1.23
 
 michael
 

Michael,

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

The Revolution documentation certainly wasn't very clear
about this.

Thanks again,

Rick Harrison


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Re: MOD function does not work! So be warned!

2002-04-04 Thread Rob Cozens

The someone else was me, and since another writer made a similar 
point about my comment I should clarify that I did not make it in 
relation to Rev (and hence the documentation makes no such 
statement) but to the MOD function as it was initially implemented 
(so far as I know) in the languages of 25+ or even 35+ years ago. I 
was talking about distant antecedents rather than current usage.

David, et al:

FWIW, I just looked through my old programming manuals and found all 
three versions of Pascal (UCSD, Turbo,  Think) define mod as an 
integer operation.  The Turbo Pascal manual specifically identities 
real arguments to mod as an error.

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Re: Trailing Zero Suppression

2002-04-04 Thread Richard Harrison

on 4/4/2002 4:03 AM, Chipp Walters at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Rick,
 
 Try this (or someting like it)
 
 on mouseUp
 put killTrail(5123.54001000)
 end mouseUp
 
 function killTrail val
 if val contains . then
 if last char of val is in 123456789. then
 return val
 else
 delete last char of val
 return killTrail(val)
 end if
 else
 return no decimal number here
 end if
 end killTrail

Chipp,

Thanks for the info.

I'm thinking that Michael Mays following solution
might be a little better.

 set the numberFormat to .###
 put 1.2300+0
 
 would display 1.23
 
 michael

Thanks anyway, I appreciate the effort!

Rick Harrison

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Re: MOD function does not work! So be warned!

2002-04-04 Thread Rob Cozens

MOD is working. = is working.

Michael,

MOD is NOT working: anyNumber mod 5 CANNOT = 5.

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Re: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-04 Thread Geoff Canyon

At 12:10 PM -0600 4/3/02, Gene Kennedy wrote:
I just downloaded the release version of Rev 1.1.1 for Mac Classic and
started up.  Everything went as expected until I attempted to build a
distribution for Windows.  With the auto-downnload any required software
button checked, the application proceeded to download the windows engine
(674K).  Everything seemed to go OK right up to the end of the download then
I got a Engine Download: error message.  I tried this several times with
the exact same results.  Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?

I know this doesn't help much, but I just did a build that included the Mac OS Fat 
engine and the Windows engine with 1.1.1, and it dutifully went out, got the engine, 
and did the build. Is it possible there was just something going on with your internet 
connection that day?
-- 

regards,

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Re: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-04 Thread Gene Kennedy

 I just followed the same procedure and it works here (running on OS
 9.2.2). Do you get the same problem with the other engines, or just
 for the Windows engine?


Dave,
 I just tried to download the Windows engine again; unsuccessfully! (running
OS 9.2.1 on a 600 MHz iBook)  I have only tried this with the Windows engine
since it does not come through with the Mac Cloassic 1.1.1 download and I
have nothing going on the Unix side.

Gene Kennedy

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Re: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-04 Thread Geoff Canyon

At 6:44 AM -0500 4/4/02, Richard D. Miller wrote:
I don't think you guys are really paying careful attention to this matter,
though I could be wrong. Yes...the newest release installs fine on Windows.
And yes, you can develop applications fine in Windows with the new release.
The issue is in the DISTRIBUTION area...when you're building an app for
distribution to others. Take a look in the Components folder and then the
Engines folder. I believe you will see that the Windows engine is exactly
the same one as in the previous build. I couldn't find a more recent
release. Did anyone else?

The engines and the development environment can be updated entirely separately. I 
don't know when the last _engine_ update was, but depending on what you mean by 
previous build, it's entirely possible that it should be the same engine.
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Re: MOD function does not work! So be warned!

2002-04-04 Thread Michael D Mays

It's not 5 Rob its 4.999... .

It only looks like 5 because the default numberFormat rounds it to 5. If you
set the numberFormat to a high enough precision you will see that the number
which is else rounded to the default numberFormat and displayed in the
message box is not 5.

anyIntegerNumber MOD 5 is never 5.

certainRealNumbers MOD 5 can look like 5 when rounded.

The default numberFormat wraps the MOD function with a round function which
rounds 4.999... to 5.

michael

Rob Cozens of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on 4/4/02 9:08 AM

 MOD is working. = is working.
 
 Michael,
 
 MOD is NOT working: anyNumber mod 5 CANNOT = 5.

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RE: MOD function does not work! So be warned!

2002-04-04 Thread Rob Cozens

I'd
do it myself, but I've never had a need to do mod with non-integers.

Nor have I, Glen.

In fact, my recollection is no programming language I've used except 
Xtalk dialects even allowed decimal values to be passed to mod.

The thread was initiated by Ian Summerfield.  I included his handler 
in a subsequent post on this thread.

FYI, per the Transcript dictionary, beginning with v1.1 the mod 
operator can be applied to arrays.
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Re: MOD function does not work! So be warned!

2002-04-04 Thread Rob Cozens

It's not 5 Rob its 4.999.

Michael, et al:

OK, I'll accept that...and add numbskull of the day to my title of 
resident foole.
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Digests, anyone?

2002-04-04 Thread Richard Hillen

Hallo Geoff,

first look at

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/

Richard.

Geoff wrote:
 
 
 I'm hoping to assemble a complete archive of the list. I seem to recall that someone 
has been saving all the archive files. I can make an FTP server available, or just 
take them through email, whichever is easier. Specifically I'm looking for digests 1 
- 178
 
 thanks!
 --
 
 regards,
 
 Geoff Canyon
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Re: rev conference

2002-04-04 Thread Bill Vlahos

Great idea. I'm in.

Bill Vlahos

On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 06:12 AM, Steve Messimer wrote:


 Hi,

 Has anyone given any thought to putting together a run rev conference? 
 I for one would be willing to attend this type of event. I'll bet we 
 could learn a lot from each other.

 Anybody interested in trying to get this organized? Having it run just 
 before or just after a MacWorld might make it possible for folks to fit 
 in their schedules and budgets.

 Steve

 Stephen R. Messimer, PA
 Messimer Computing Inc.
 www.messimercomputing.com

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Re: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-04 Thread Gene Kennedy

Sorry I created such a commotion here.  For some reason I get an error when
trying to download the Windows engine when using then latest release of Rev
1.1.1 on my iBook to build an application for distribution on Windoze
platforms.  Alternatively, I went to RunRev's ftp site and downloaded the
Windows.gz (674K) file from there.

Gene Kennedy

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Re: RR now charging royalities for runtimes?

2002-04-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein

on 3/4/02 11:44 PM, Chipp Walters at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Does anyone know anything about this? They call it an Installation
 License. I'd sure like to know more...
 
 http://www.runrev.com/revolution/licensesfaq.html
 

This is news to me. I'm certainly looking forward to RunRev's comments and
explanation.

I would also be 'interested' to know from what date they intend to apply it.
 
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Re: rev conference

2002-04-04 Thread Devin Asay

Excuse the cross-posting, but I thought this would interest both lists:

At 10:31 AM -0500 4/4/02, Steve Messimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Has anyone given any thought to putting together a run rev conference? I
for one would be willing to attend this type of event. I'll bet we could
learn a lot from each other.

Anybody interested in trying to get this organized? Having it run just
before or just after a MacWorld might make it possible for folks to fit
in their schedules and budgets.

At one time Kevin was talking about doing such a workshop at Macworld 
NY in July. They seem to still be undecided. I for one would jump at 
the chance and have been encouraging him to do it. I'm sure a strong 
show of support for this idea would give it some impetus.

Rather than inundate Kevin with (even more) email, let's try this: If 
you're interested in Rev workshops by the Rev people at Macworld, 
drop me a note to that effect ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'll compile the 
responses and send Kevin a list of those interested. To get an idea 
of your level of interest, tick one of the items below:

( ) I will definitely come to a Revolution workshop at Macworld NY.

( ) I would consider coming to a Revolution workshop at Macworld NY.

( ) Other:

Thanks. I think this could be a great thing for the Rev community if 
it comes off.

Devin
-- 
Devin Asay
Humanities Research Center
Brigham Young University
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Re: AppleScript help

2002-04-04 Thread Gene Kennedy

on 4/4/02 3:36 AM, Ian Summerfield at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I can't get my OS X system to shut down the power to the Mac:
 
 Do tell app   quote  Finder  quote   to shut down as applescript
 
 It doesn't work, revolution itself cancels the shut down because it's too
 busy waiting for a result from AppleScript to do the quit!  Can I fire off
 AppleScripts without waiting for the response?
 
 Has anyone a better way to power off?  I get a message from my UPS that I
 have only ten minutes battery left and I want to cleanly shut down the
 system.


Ian,

What I have done to solve a similar problem is to write an AppleScript
application that contains the following two statements:

Delay 5   -- this gives your Rev application time to quit.
Tell application Finder to shutdown

Place the AS application in the same folder as your Rev application and name
it something appropriate such as Quitter.

Then add an exit routine to your Rev application such as:

On ExitApp
launch Quitter
Quit
end ExitApp


This works well enough for me however, if you wanted a bit more
sophisitaction, you could replace the dumb delay statement in AS with a
procedure that checks the open processes and loops until your Rev app is no
longer among them.

Best regards,

Gene Kennedy

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Spreadsheet Style Display (.mc to .rev)? Can't open...

2002-04-04 Thread Steve L


--- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 At 8:11 PM -0800 4/3/2002, Steve L wrote:
 I have downloaded the file that was recommended
 here:
 Jacque Landeman Gay's Pseudotable, which is at

http://www.hyperactivesw.com/downloads/pseudtbl.mc.hqx.
 
 However, this file is in .mc format, how could this
 be
 used/converted to .rev format?
 
 Revolution will open any MetaCard stack. Just use
 the Open Stack menu item
 to open the file.
 
 --
 Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I cannot get either stack to open (pseudtbl.mc or the
modified version from their site.  It comes up as
error: illegal operation.  

I even redownloaded both stacks to make sure they
weren't corrupted during downloading.

However, I can open all other stacks without a
problem.  Does anyone know why I can't open either of
these stacks in Rev.

Thanks 

Steve

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Re: Can't open downloaded stack on OS X

2002-04-04 Thread Dar Scott


On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 12:25 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

 I downloaded a stack from the Internet (Altuit's cool 
 XMLtree.rev), but I can't open it with Revolution.  It is dimmed 
 in the open window.

I've been able to open this, but it does seem strange.

OS X knows the stack is a Revolution Document.  It shows up with a 
Revolution Icon, anyway.  My _Mac OS X: The Complete Reference_ 
says the system will know the type by a creator code, a hint in the 
first 1K of the file, or by the suffix.  I'm not sure what a 
creator code means in the OS X context.

I think I was erroneously hesitant to open a stack other than by 
the dialog box after Jeanne's explaining that double-clicking a 
stack will open it in run-time mode.  I have yet to explore what 
that means.

What worked was dragging the stack onto dock icon of a running 
Revolution.  I didn't try double clicking or dragging it to the 
dock icon of a Revolution not running.

The answer file description does not address OS X.

Perhaps the stack is one derived from an older version.

Dar Scott

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Re: Naming a card

2002-04-04 Thread Dave Cragg

At 4:49 pm -0500 4/4/02, Zac Elston wrote:
after trying to rename the cards several times and working through the debug
window I can see cards 1-31 are named...but that's it...not 32-on. which
shows me it might have worked .the script seems to be hanging on the set
the name of card part.  but it doesn't actually error.  I see really large
values in the debug time window though for that line though.  anyone have an
idea?  it looks simple enough

make 100 cards and try it

put the cardnames of this stack into MyCards
put 1 into MyX
repeat for each line MyLine in MyCards
   set the name of card MyLine to Page  MyX
put MyX +1 into MyX
end repeat

Could it be that the cards after 32 don't have names? The cardnames 
returns the id of the card if it doesn't have a name, for example 
card id 1004.

Use the number of the cards instead:

put the number of cards of this stack into tNumCards
  repeat with i = 1 to tNumCards
set the name of card i to Page  i
  end repeat

Cheers
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An easier way to edit scripts?

2002-04-04 Thread Dar Scott

I'm still new to Revolution.  Editing scripts is painfully slow 
because I don't remember the name of a command or function, much 
less its syntax.  Trying to guess at the name by repeatedly typing 
ideas into the Transcript dictionary is slow.

Does the script editor provide any help for the forgetful like me?

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Re: Spreadsheet Style Display (.mc to .rev)? Can't open...

2002-04-04 Thread J. Landman Gay

Steve L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I cannot get either stack to open (pseudtbl.mc or the
 modified version from their site.  It comes up as
 error: illegal operation.
 
 I even redownloaded both stacks to make sure they
 weren't corrupted during downloading.
 
 However, I can open all other stacks without a
 problem.  Does anyone know why I can't open either of
 these stacks in Rev.

I just downloaded pseudotable.mc.hqx to see if there was a problem, and
it came over fine for me. It won't drop onto Rev's icon, but it opened
fine using the File-Open menu.

The file is binhexed, so make sure it is fully expanded before trying to
open it.

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Re: Spreadsheet Style Display (.mc to .rev)? Can't open...

2002-04-04 Thread Steve L


--- J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Steve L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  I cannot get either stack to open (pseudtbl.mc or
 the
  modified version from their site.  It comes up as
  error: illegal operation.
  
  I even redownloaded both stacks to make sure they
  weren't corrupted during downloading.
  
  However, I can open all other stacks without a
  problem.  Does anyone know why I can't open either
 of
  these stacks in Rev.
 
 I just downloaded pseudotable.mc.hqx to see if there
 was a problem, and
 it came over fine for me. It won't drop onto Rev's
 icon, but it opened
 fine using the File-Open menu.
 
 The file is binhexed, so make sure it is fully
 expanded before trying to
 open it.
 
 -- 
 Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Hi Jacqueline,

I am downloadinf the stack files, just as I would any
other download, I am not compressing the file (that I
know of); is there anything special I need to be
doing?

I tried several times, it keeps saying: trying to
perform an illegal operation and closes Rev.  Like I
said, it opens all other stacks without a problem.

Thanks

Steve



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Re: Database-type data but without a server?

2002-04-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt

On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 04:22  pm, Barry Levine wrote:

 I'm making an educational math game that will have a series of 
 multiple choice questions. snip

Rev makes reading  writing text files very fast and very easy so this 
approach sounds reasonable to me. What about having a text file with a 
single line for each question  it's answers, separated by some 
delimiter (I've used commas in my example but if they are ever likely to 
appear in the data, you'll need to choose something else).
e.g.
4 x 2,6,8,10,3
10 / 2,3,5,7,9 etc etc

Read the file in all in one go and store it in a hidden field or custom 
property. Then as the student answers, store their result in another 
hidden field ready for collating, saving  printing when they've 
finished. One of the neat things that Rev has over HyperCard is the 
ability to have a separate name  label for a button, meaning that you 
can have buttons called answer 1, answer 2 etc but set their labels 
to whatever the answer is for that particular question.


 A follow-on to the above question is how the student test results 
 data files can be processed in a report. Is there some kind of field 
 or, perhaps, a group of fields that would permit me to pretty-print a 
 report? I suppose simply processing all of the student test results 
 files using a script in Rev and then sending it out to a tab-delimited 
 file one could open in Excel is an acceptable solution. However, it 
 would be nice to keep everything happening within the Rev environment.
Use a tab-delimited field to layout your report - in the latest version 
of Rev (1.1.1b2), this will keep the formatting during printing and can 
be adjusted to make a very neat printout. While testing, have the 
vertical grid showing - this makes it easier to check.

I hope this is helpful.
Sarah

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TIP: Placing a group onto multiple cards

2002-04-04 Thread Geoff Canyon

Summary: using the Application Overview, you can place a group onto all the cards in a 
stack, or an arbitrary selection of the cards in a stack, with one command.


-- Open the Application Overview.
-- Click on the stack.
-- Click on the disclosure triangle at the upper right side of the Application 
Overview. This will expand the Application Overview to show Stack Details.

The first two tabs in Stack Details are for Cards in the Stack and Groups in the stack.

To place a group on all cards in the stack, click on the Groups tab. Click on the line 
for the group you want, and then on the button menu Place, select Place on All Cards.

If you want to place a group onto an arbitrary selection of cards in the stack, click 
on the Cards tab. Highlight the cards you want to add the group to (the shift and 
command key can be used in selecting cards in the list), and then select the group you 
want to add on the Place Group button menu.

You can also remove a group from an arbitrary selection of cards this way.
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regards,

Geoff Canyon
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Jeanne...revAppVersion doesn't work?

2002-04-04 Thread Chipp Walters

put the revAppVersion throws an error. Is there anyway else to find out
which version you're running???

(Seems like an about box should do the trick?)

Also, I hate to be a crab about it...but the help files still have the
problem with apostrophe's on Windows. I know it's created for Macs, but
can't someone figure out how to automatically convert the apostrophe's for
windows? It kills all the links to help troubleshooter files.

something like...

set all the help stacks to macToISO(all the help stacks)

-Chipp

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