Printing OS X Buttons ?
Why is it, that when I print a card containing Buttons (under OSX) these buttons are not printed, only the text on the buttons ? I would like to have a card printed the way it looks on screen, is it possible ? Cheers Rolf ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Stack script problem
I made a stack script which would delete the contents of a field in a substack which I open as sheet. The script goes like this and is in the main stack: on openStack put empty into field fldLog of stack Log end openStack Now, my field gets emptied every time I open the Stack Log as sheet, but I would expect that it is emptied only at startup, when the main stack gets loaded. Any clues ? Cheers Rolf ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Printing OS X Buttons ?
--- Rolf Kocherhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it, that when I print a card containing Buttons (under OSX) these buttons are not printed, only the text on the buttons ? I would like to have a card printed the way it looks on screen, is it possible ? Cheers Rolf Hi Rolf, Just a quick copy+paste from the Limitations and Known Issues section in the What's new.txt file in the Revolution folder: -- Issue: On Mac OS and OS X systems, certain controls (scrollbars, standard buttons, radio buttons, checkboxes, option menus) may not print properly if the lookAndFeel property is set to Appearance Manager. Workaround: During printing, replace each affected control with an image of the control. (You can create the image automatically in a handler using the import snapshot command.) When printing is complete, delete the images. If the exact appearance of these controls is not critical, you can instead change the lookAndFeel to Macintosh during printing, then change it back. -- Hope this helped, Jan Schenkel. = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Stack script problem
--- Rolf Kocherhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a stack script which would delete the contents of a field in a substack which I open as sheet. The script goes like this and is in the main stack: on openStack put empty into field fldLog of stack Log end openStack Now, my field gets emptied every time I open the Stack Log as sheet, but I would expect that it is emptied only at startup, when the main stack gets loaded. Any clues ? Cheers Rolf Hi Rolf, When a stack is opened as a sheet, the engine sends an 'openStack' message ; if you don't handle it at card or stack levcel in your syubstack, this message will travel up the message path, comes by the mainStack and executes the 'openStack' handler in its script. So one way of solving this problem would be to simply trap the 'openStack' message in the stack script of your substack, and not 'pass' it. Hope this helped, Jan Schenkel. = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: ANN: Punctuation Invaders Beta
Scott Rossi wrote: Speaking as nitpicky someone who has an itchy trigger finger from years of arcade games, I would say the firing system feels a bit sluggish. Perhaps this is intentional (and perhaps I'm just old) but the delay between shots caused a minor bit of frustration when trying to hit the correct location, or correct my mistakes. That is intentional--to require careful shooting and prevent strafing. Good point, maybe I should consider feedback on the delay or at least noting it in the directions. Also, it wasn't obvious (but perhaps it was in the instructions) that the left and right firing buttons had different effects on the words -- maybe it would be useful to colorize the laser differently for each type of shot so folks like me who ignore directions could learn by doing. It's in the directions (and training hints) but also a very good point, I'll consider doing something to make the direction indicator more obvious. (Currently a blue triangle beside the beam, and only shown when pressing one fire button has a different effect than the other.) Thanks for trying it and for the good observations! Best wishes, Curry ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
How to change cards without go...
The user is working in one window with a list of cards and controls. Another window, showing off to the side, is the one with the cards listed. I would like clicking on a card in the list to select that card in the other window without bringing that window to the front. I can think of some brute force ways to accomplish this, but I haven't found any smooth way of doing it. Is there (yet another) cool Rev command I am missing that does this? Thanks. Jim Lyons ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Help with analog clock with text images as hour and minute arms.
My new project is an analog clock but instead of using circle arcs, I want to use text as the hour and minute arms. The problem I'm running into is the text rotates around it's midpoint. Is there a way to rotate the text's x,y point that represent the left,mid-Y of the textheight around the clock's centerpoint or around the tangent points on a circle??? I tried creating a line (polygon) and grouping the text image to that but that didn't work. Would it be best to create each step of each arm in Photoshop and show each in succession as time goes by??? Any thoughts? Thanks, Andy Burns ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Help with analog clock with text images as hour and minute arms.
yoy wrote: My new project is an analog clock but instead of using circle arcs, I want to use text as the hour and minute arms. The problem I'm running into is the text rotates around it's midpoint. Is there a way to rotate the text's x,y point that represent the left,mid-Y of the textheight around the clock's centerpoint or around the tangent points on a circle??? Type as many [Option]SPACE(s) before the text as there are letters in the text? -- Life, Light, Love and Laughter, Dale Pond Sympathetic Vibratory Physics Sacred Science - Sacred Life http://www.svpvril.com SVP Discussion Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svpvril/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: New Stacks: careful with if/else statements
Richard I like your system info stack is it possible to add hard drive space and amount of memory and processor speed etc? jack
RE: multiple-word phrases, links
Toma, Here's a bit of code I use to do just that. repeat for each line tPhrase in thePhrases] if matchChunk(fld MyText, ( tPhrase ), tStartChar, tEndChar) then set the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld MyText to link end if end repeat Of course, you only have to use the repeat if you have multiple phrases. The matchChunk function returns a Boolean true or false if the text is found. The parentheses are necessary to match a patter of multiple words. The beginning and ending characters are stored in whatever variables you specify, in this case tStartChar and tEndChar. So then you just use those in a chunk expression to set your link. Hope that helps. Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toma Tasovac Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: multiple-word phrases, links Hi there. I have a list containing various multiple-word phrases and I want Revolution to find those phrases in a text field and turn them into links (the whole phrase, not individual words). What's the best way of doing this? I can use wordOffset for each individual word in the phrase and then make sure that the offsets are next to each other in the text, but that sounds horrible. There has to be a better way. Helplessly yours, Toma ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Icons and scope
At 07:38 PM 10/09/2003 -0400, you wrote: Actually, Graham, the image needs to have a unique ID vs. a unique name (AFAIK). So if you say: set the icon of btn myButton to (the id of img ImageForIcon of cd MyIcons of stack myStuff) it should work so long as the ID number is unique. Ken Ray What if you only have the id number of an object? I tried using 'owner' but i could not use the returned reference. Basically, how do you read the data from a field on another card with only the field's ID number? regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: problems decompressing files
I would think encountering 13 identical and contiguous bytes would be a very common occurrence I think that would depend on the type of data being compressed, Tom...I believe the original file in question is a .wav. As I noted yesterday 20+MB of ASCII text apparently has no such contiguous identical byte string issues. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee. from The Triple Foole by John Donne (1572-1631) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How to change cards without go...
I would like clicking on a card in the list to select that card in the other window without bringing that window to the front. I can think of some brute force ways to accomplish this, but I haven't found any smooth way of doing it. Is there (yet another) cool Rev command I am missing that does this? Nope, Jim: no cool new commands; but simply a twist on an old one-- Example: instead of lock screen lock messages push card got to stack database.rev put newValue into field A get field B pop card unlock messages unlock screen use put newValue into field A of card 1 of stack Server/Drive/Folder/database.rev get field B of card 1 of stack Server/Drive/Folder/database.rev The limitation here is one still has to go to the stack to add delete cards; -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee. from The Triple Foole by John Donne (1572-1631) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Stack script problem
Le jeu 11/09/2003 09:52, Rolf Kocherhans a crit : I made a stack script which would delete the contents of a field in a substack which I open as sheet. The script goes like this and is in the main stack: on openStack put empty into field fldLog of stack Log end openStack Now, my field gets emptied every time I open the Stack Log as sheet, but I would expect that it is emptied only at startup, when the main stack gets loaded. Any clues ? Did you try to put, at least, on openStack pass openStack end openStack handler in the substack Log Regards, Pierre Cheers Rolf ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Vertical Horizontal revtools hacks
Dear RunRev Afficionados, I have just uploaded updates to my RR revtool hacks. Unfortunately the vertical variant got fatter (wider) to accommodate all the widgets and small window sizes: if you feel a desperate need for a 'long and thin' one contact me off list and I will knock one up (although most RR programmers can presumably do a quick stack resize and shuffle a few buttons around by now). Love, Richmond __ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.htmland http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/developercentral/usercontributions.html __ --- Great Macintosh Products The MacLaunch Store! http://www.maclaunch.com/cgi-launch/store/agora.cgi --- ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Icons and scope
I tried using 'owner' but i could not use the returned reference. Basically, how do you read the data from a field on another card with only the field's ID number? Get the long id of the field and us it. owner returns effectively the name of the owner of the object, and long owner returns the long name. Personally, I'd use long id... is is always unique. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Unicode matchChunk (was multiple-word phrases, links)
Thanks to Kjeti, Chris and Ken. Chris, your script works great with English, but I can't get it to work with Unicode text. I tried to unidecode both the text field and thePhrases and thus deal with two one-byte chars per one Unicode two-byte character, preform the matchChunk function with one-byte chars, and then use the startChars and endChars in the unicode field, but the results are weirdly off. I don't know if this is a bug or if I am doing something wrong. Has anybody successfully used matchChunk with Unicode text? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. All best, Toma Am Donnerstag, 11.09.03 um 16:17 Uhr schrieb Chris Sheffield: Toma, Here's a bit of code I use to do just that. repeat for each line tPhrase in thePhrases] if matchChunk(fld MyText, ( tPhrase ), tStartChar, tEndChar) then set the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld MyText to link end if end repeat ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: problems decompressing files
I may have found a training string that avoids compression that trips up decompression on OS X, Revolution 2.1. Maybe. Here is my test button script: // on mouseUp get field Input get xCompress(it) get xDecompress(it) put [ it ] LF into field Log end mouseUp function trainer local train repeat with i= 0 to 255 put numToChar(i)a after train end repeat return train end trainer function xCompress s return compress( trainer() s ) end xCompress function xDecompress s return char 513 to -1 of decompress(s) end xDecompress /*/ As is, it needs fields Input and Log. Put some string into field Input. Click the button. The result comes out in field Log between brackets. You might want to try it on anything you can find and see if this really does any good. For all I know there is no training string that will prevent the error. I can't prove this will fix the problem, either. And this will do no good for decompressing what was compressed elsewhere. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: problems decompressing files
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: I had one test file that was only 6 bytes and it compressed/decompressed fine. One thing I did notice, however, is that when a file is this small, the compressed file actually ends up being larger. I think in this case it was about 33 bytes. Not sure what that means. The gzip format puts at minimum (typically) a 18-byte wrapper around the deflate data. The deflate data is the compressed data, but has a minimum of maybe 5 bytes of overhead. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Print with dialog?
Thanks, Jan. I tried what you suggested (I think): on mouseup answer printer open printing with dialog print card into 36,36,550,610 end mouseup The first time I got both dialogs: paper size # number of copies But then, nothing printed. Subsequent clicks of the same button got me dialog 1, paper size, then no second dialog, and still nothing sent to printer. I just don't get the printing deal with Rev. It's got to be easier than this. Hi Mark, If you use open printing, then the print card statement(s) just queue all the cards you want to print, until you use close printing to tell them to go ahead. This enables you to print multiple cards at a time, but is perhaps less than intuitive :-) Anyway, just add a line to your script, after print card... saying close printing and all will be well. Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: problems decompressing files
On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 06:06 AM, T. R. Ponn wrote: Tim Ponn...the guy who thought turning 1 file into 1,000,000 files was a good approach. :-[ But, if one is interested in compression and not in making standard file, your idea of breaking up the file might have merit. Break it up. Try to compress and test decompress each part wrapping with try/catch. If the decompress fails save that uncompressed. The file might be a series of sub files each with a length prefix and a compressed-or-not flag. Or, since recursion is the current watchword, the enhancement that breaks up a file like this recursively is left as an exercise. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: problems decompressing files
I think something more is at play here: I put 13 @s in an SDB record field, backed up the db--which includes gzip compression, and then restored from the (decompressed) backup. I then add a line of approx 30 *s with the same (error-free) result. What are we doing differently? I ran my tests on a G4 iMac, Mac OS 10.2, RR 2.02. Mac OS X 10.2.6, Powerbook 500 MHz G3 Pismo, RR 2.1 (RR 1.1.1 was last version to work properly). Try this in your message box: -- put @ into cmprsThs put compress(cmprsThs) into cmprsd put decompress(cmprsd) into msg -- If you do not get an error, then it must be the difference between 10.2 and 10.2.6, or G4, or perhaps you are using the URL keyword with a file. I haven't used URL, might you have a script with URL that I could test? Robert Eppich epsi computer systems, inc. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Chunk Expressions (see if my solutions is bad)
I don't see why 'seeing' ascii 11 is bad anyway, it helps troubleshooting. It's not meant to be displayed, just a way to substitute returns sqb Rev on OS X displays a character for ASCII 11 that looks like a curved arrow. ASCII 29 doesn't display any character in a field (I tried several fonts) and seems to work OK as an invisible delimiter. The definition is group separator according to the ASCII definition (http://www.asciitable.com/). Does anyone see a problem using ASCII 29? I can't imagine what it would be used for these days. Bill Vlahos ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
