RE: Windows sound and music--help!
Judy, Early versions of XP shipped with SAPI 4, which works with RR. Perhaps he was using such an early version? Did it upgrade it using SP1? If not, it may be a memory problem. Try booting RR and just entering: revSpeak hello If that doesn't work, you might check the SAPI control panel and see if any settings have changed. Choose the smallest voiceprint possible and try again. I looked all over to try and find out how to tell if you're using SAPI 4 or 5..with no luck. You'd think they'd put a vers # on the thing...but *that's MicroSoft* -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Judy Perry Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:00 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Windows sound and music--help! FWIW, my student swears he had revSpeak working on his 128 MB RAM XP box until he added a bunch of other things to the stack... Judy On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Ken Norris wrote: -- I know. I sure hope they can patch revSpeak for XP somehow. It's all I have to test on right now. Because of the loss of muscle control, my intended users are speech impaired. Their other possibilities of controlling the computer is where I come in with custom combinations of software techniques and controllers. I can't be running back and forth to the convalescent center to test on their machines. ___ 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: Windows TTS- what about Narrator?
Paul, There are a number of issues concerning what you want to do. 1) Current XP uses SAPI 5 which is not *currently* supported in RR. 2) ATT Natural Voices are in most people's opinion the very best...and ATT knows this. They have been *very* hesitant to license them to developers --unless you pay a buttload (texas term) of . I checked into this a couple of years ago when they first came out. So, if you want to develop an application and bundle the voices with it, it will be very expensive. I suppose a way around this is to force your users to pre-Install something like ReadPlease, though I'm still not sure ATT would look fondly at a commercial app developed around their technology without them getting a royalty. Interesting to find out what you learn after talking to the ReadPlease folks. My guess, is 'NO, you CAN'T use the voices without licensing them.' best, Chipp I joined the list just this morning and have missed some of the prior discussion about Windows TTS. I am hoping my Revolution stack using revSpeak will be able to access Windows TTS functionality as provided by http://readplease.com/rplisten.phpReadPlease, which uses the ATT NaturalSpeak engine. If you have not heard their 16bit voices, you will be shocked! The Rich and Claire voices are by far the most natural sounding TTS I have ever heard and may even replace professional announcers in quality. Unfortunately, chews up massive system resources. I'm hoping some of you have insight on how to make this work. I infer from early replies to this thread that revSpeak does NOT support XP, but then this message... I plan to contact ReadPlease tomorrow to find out if the ATT TTS software is installed as a system resource and can be accessed by the Speech Control Panel like the Lernout Hauspie TruVoice I tried yesterday on W98 machine. Will report back. Not sure if this means rveSpeak will access it, though. Any opinions? Thanks, Paul Stary ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: OT: Convert AIF to MP3
Just a suggestion as I have no way of testing it out right now, but have you tried driving Audion www.panic.com/audion with Applescript? There's an X version of Audion that should work under Panther and I'd imagine the scripts would be similar between iTunes and Audion. HTH... joe. From: Sannyasin Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Convert AIF to MP3 Platform: Mac OS X, Panther: We used to use Media Cleaner to convert *.aif files to *.mp3 files. Cleaner broke on OS X and we switched to using Applescript to drive iTunes to do the same job, with iTunes already up and running, MP3 encoder selected with the conversion settings we needed. The appleScripts were driven from inside a Rev stack that managed this one among a series of production operations. Now, under Panther, the appleScript and the latest version of iTunes is also broken...it used to be simple: pass a file path to a variable and tell iTunes to convert that file. Now, nothing happens. I sat with our sound man today and watched him try to debug the script using examples from some iTunes appleScript site... wow, talk about convoluted! I'm really spoiled by xTalk... using iTunes for this seems like using a tablesaw to sharpen a tooth pick... a small knife is really all that is needed. So, looking for an easier way... Can anyone help? Thanks Sannyasin Sivakatirswami ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Set the visible of
Thomas, Try: repeat with v = 1 to 8 hide fld (myLabel v) end repeat (It's all in the parens :-) -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas J McGrath III Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Set the visible of I am trying to hide a set of text fields before the card is opened and then show them with a dissolve. The fields are named myLabel1, myLabel2 etc to myLabel8 It don't work. on preOpenCard repeat with v = 1 to 8 put quote myLabel v quote into h set the visible of Field h to false end repeat end preOpenCard ___ 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: newsgroup vs. mailing list
Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now in Mac OS 10.3 (Cheetah), Mail.app 1.3 has message threading view! Woohoo! View menu / Organize By Thread. As for now, I am reading your prose with MacSOUP! Yes, with MacSOUP you are able to SEE a graphical representation of the whole thread, the TREE with its BRANCHES :-))) As good for mailing lists, as for news... better than a simple thread view, IMHO! -- Digial photos (nature, garden) : http://cooldomi.free.fr/ Scripting : http://domiscript.free.fr/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: newsgroup vs. mailing list
on 27/10/03 12:01:31 -0700, Alex Rice wrote: Now it also appears that some people (eric hansen?) are hitting reply to a list message, then changing the topic *entirely*, as a shortcut for composing a new topic message to the list. This looks bad in a threaded view because based on the in-reply-to headers, it's thread, but the message content does not make a coherent thread. What is the effect of those of us who receive the digest and hit 'Reply to' and then edit subject line? If we don't edit the subject line it gets the useless unedited heading, and anyway the Reply to header must foul up any chance of threading. I wonder why threading is done that way when so often congruence of subject line is the desired basis of threading. And presumable the situation would be just as bad if someone on the digest list simply created a new email from scratch. Regards James -- James J Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +44 (0)15394 43063 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: newsgroup vs. mailing list
On Oct 27, 2003, at 11:48 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: This is my third PowerBook and I have have been using Mail since it came out. I never knew that. I just hit the space bar and it scrolled to the bottom and then hit it again to advance to the next email and then hit again to scroll to that emails next page. Glad to help :-) The left/right arrow trick works for not only the new Mail.app but lots of other apps in all versions of OS X- any app that uses a standard outline view widget. The new mail is probably built for Panther. But I can say only a few days into Panther use, I think it was definitely worth the $$ and I've only scratched the surface of some of the new features. Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: First Edited Threads Posted - Reactions?
On Oct 25, 2003, at 6:39 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: There appears to be something bizarre with URL translation going on with my server. Try omitting the period and it works fine: http://www.revolutionpros.com I'm investigating the other weirdness. Sorry for the confusion. Dan - congrats on your book release. It's quite a tome of xtalk-ing wisdom. And highly readable! About the revolutionpros.com site. It appears there is a different DNS entry for revolutionpros.com (the A record) vs. the entry for www.revolutionpros.com (the CNAME) Here is some dig output: www.revolutionpros.com. 1800IN CNAME www.altuit.com. www.altuit.com. 600 IN A 65.167.160.85 (says www.revolutionpros.com is an alias for www.altuit.com) revolutionpros.com. 1720IN A 216.168.60.84 (says revolutionpros.com has a different IP address than www.revolutionpros.com) Also one has name service by easydns.com and another has name service by name-services.com. It's kind of unusual to have two different DNS hosts for one domain. Kinda weird! Anyways- hope this helps. Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
re: How to use Rev with Media Player - anyone got a guide?
I thought I saw Tuviah say you could record sound in Rev and play it back in WMP, but nothing I've tried works. Check out the recordformat property and make sure it is set to something like wave. Also check the recordcompression and make sure that it is set to a format readable by Windows (like no compression). Tuviah Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Software at the Speed of Thought ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Windows TTS- what about Narrator?
Does this mean revSpeak now DOES support XP? Works fine for me. I have SAPI 4 speech engines installed, and MS said that both can coexist peacefully. Tuviah Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Software at the Speed of Thought ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Set the visible of
Hi Thomas, --- Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to hide a set of text fields before the card is opened and then show them with a dissolve. The fields are named myLabel1, myLabel2 etc to myLabel8 It don't work. on preOpenCard repeat with v = 1 to 8 put quote myLabel v quote into h set the visible of Field h to false end repeat end preOpenCard Hi Tom, I think the engine is looking for a field with a quote in its name. However, this gives me a chance to work the wonders of the 'merge' function again :-) Try the following script : -- on preOpenCard repeat with v = 1 to 8 put merge(field [[quote]]myLabel[[v]][[quote]]) \ into tFieldRef set the visible of tFieldRef to false end repeat end preOpenCard -- Hope this helped, and now a bit less irritating ;-) : You end with 2 quotes around the name of the field like field1 (I doubt that the name of your fields do have QUOTES in their names...) Script this: on preOpenCard repeat with v = 1 to 8 set the visible of Field (myLabel i) to false end repeat end preOpenCard Hope that helps... Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery
Hi Dan, I've read a bunch of the posts that have appeared on this list over the past year or so regarding inclusion of movie files in Rev applications intended for cross-platform use. My conclusion from all of them is that it is better to use players linked to external files than to embed the movies in the application and invoke them with the Rev play command. My reasons: 1. Easier to create interactivity with the movie (e.g., letting the user restart based on a mouse-click, which I don't see can be done at all with a movie playing under play command control) ... play resume videoclip xyz ... play stop videoclip xyz ... play step forward videoclip xyz ... play step back videoclip xyz ... to name them ;-) But with a player you surely have even more control... 2. Faster starting of movies. (Subjective experience) Maybe... Last time i did play vc xyz is several years ago, BEFORE MetaCard introduced players ;-) This approach creates a possible installation glitch if the user doesn't drag all the files over, a problem which doesn't exist if everything including the movies is in one file, but other than that I don't see any reason not to approach this problem as I've described here. Does anyone else? No :-) Dan Shafer, Revolutionary Author of forthcoming 3-book set, Revolution: Programming at the Speed of Thought http://www.revolutionpros.com for More Info Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: newsgroup vs. mailing list
At 12:51 am -0700 28/10/03, Alex Rice wrote: On Oct 28, 2003, at 12:27 AM, James Richards wrote: What is the effect of those of us who receive the digest and hit 'Reply to' and then edit subject line? If we don't edit the subject line it gets the useless unedited heading, and anyway the Reply to header must foul up any chance of threading. Not sure what happens. I wonder why threading is done that way when so often congruence of subject line is the desired basis of threading. And presumable the situation would be just as bad if someone on the digest list simply created a new email from scratch. You got me thinking- If anyone out there is writing a new mail client- please make it have a message-digest-aware reply feature. It should be able to pick out the subject line and message-id based on how far into the digest you have scrolled! It should also be aware of people like me, who, when starting a new thread, just open any old mail from the list and hit reply, so the To: field is filled out already. Sorry, folks! Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
DB Write
Message: 7 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:40:37 -0500 From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DB Write To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On 10/23/03 4:10 PM, Ed McCabe wrote: Has anyone had any luck installing DB Write the XCMD word processor into a REV stack. The installer can read a rev stack that I converted from HC - and had the DB Write external - and indicates that the XCMD is already installed in the stack - but Rev cannot find it. I am reluctant to resort to Resedit unless I have to. How did you install it? HC XCMDs do have to go into the resource fork. Also, Rev can only use the older 1.0-type XCMDs. If Write DB is the newer 2.0 type, it won't work. If Write DB creates its own external windows, then it's most likely the newer kind. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com Thanx for the response; DB/Write is a commercial word processing add-on for Hypercard, 4th Dimention Supercard published by Metropolis Software in Palo Alto. I purchased it around 1990 and have been using it since. The program came with an installer but its manual indicates that it can also be installed with ResEdit though it was not recommended. Once installed it is called like a function and offers most of the features of a full blown word processor including mail merge which is my main use of it. I cant tell you which type XFCN it is - but when activated it does produce its own word processor-like window. One of the main problems with DB/Write is that the documents it produces can only be opened from within DB/Write - however it can produce text only files which can be inserted into any other word processor. I am using HC as a data entry front to DB/Write documents (form letter type reports which already have a lot of boilerplate text within them) via its mail merge capability and insert the text only documents it produces into a McWrite Pro template - but any word processor can accept them. I am hoping to create a stand alone REV application that will run on windows after all these years of being relegated to Mac only use. The DB/Write installer program recognizes the Rev stack I converted from HC and indicates that DB/Write is already installed - but I cannot call it. I am aware that externals do not make the conversion to REV - but apparently some did as the installer sees them. There may be a better way to produce text files directly from REV, but DB/Write has done the job for over 12 years since I started using it. Metropolis stopped supporting the application many years ago. Any suggestions would be appreciated before I start attempting to install the resources with ResEdit. Ed McCabe ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Set the visible of
Chipp Thanks, I had not read about that. I am putting them in now. I did finally end up with the hide (myLabel v). So thanks again. I was getting pretty tired last night. I tried the dontuseQT's and it seems to work ok. More tests now. Tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 02:10 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Oh, one more thing. QTeffects have some documented problems in 2.1. So, try in the preOpenStack Handler (first thing before ANY EFFECTS are issued): set the dontUseQT to true set the dontUseQTEffects to true and see if it doesn't help... -Chipp I have been getting very odd behavior all night on this. at some points I have to save and close stack in order for it to work right. I may have over done it. some times it works and others it doesn't. I will work on it tomorrow. Thanks Tom ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Set the visible of
Klaus, I think it was the fact that I had visual effects in QT going and most of my problems were random. after I put the dontuseQT and dontuseQTeffects in the random problems seem to have calmed down. When I was switching cards back and forth really fast then I really had problems and I was trying everything I could think of. It seems to be OK now. the effects are a little slower though. Thanks Tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 03:42 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Thomas, --- Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to hide a set of text fields before the card is opened and then show them with a dissolve. The fields are named myLabel1, myLabel2 etc to myLabel8 It don't work. on preOpenCard repeat with v = 1 to 8 put quote myLabel v quote into h set the visible of Field h to false end repeat end preOpenCard Hi Tom, I think the engine is looking for a field with a quote in its name. However, this gives me a chance to work the wonders of the 'merge' function again :-) Try the following script : -- on preOpenCard repeat with v = 1 to 8 put merge(field [[quote]]myLabel[[v]][[quote]]) \ into tFieldRef set the visible of tFieldRef to false end repeat end preOpenCard -- Hope this helped, and now a bit less irritating ;-) : You end with 2 quotes around the name of the field like field1 (I doubt that the name of your fields do have QUOTES in their names...) Script this: on preOpenCard repeat with v = 1 to 8 set the visible of Field (myLabel i) to false end repeat end preOpenCard Hope that helps... Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
time stamp on return
How do I add a time stamp in a field with each press of the return key, i.e. return 3:34 pm The cat woke up return 3:48 pm The cat stretched return 4:01 pm The cat went back to sleep return 4: 47 pm John ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: DB Write
On 10/27/03 11:29 AM, Ed McCabe wrote: I cant tell you which type XFCN it is - but when activated it does produce its own word processor-like window. In that case, Rev can't use it. It is a type-2 external. I think you are stuck writing your own mail merge in Transcript. I've done this quite a lot though, and it isn't all that hard. Basically I take the boilerplate text and, wherever an insertion is to occur, I put a placeholder into the text. So you have boilerplate that looks something like this: Dear **name**, Thanks for the opportunity to work with **company**. Then a script cycles through all the cards and replaces each placeholder with the appropriate text from the card: repeat with x = 1 to the number of cds put myBoilerplate into theText -- make a copy in a variable replace **name** with fld name of card x in theText replace **company** with fld company of cd x in theText -- save file, or print here end repeat It's fast. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Outsourcing / Writing dll's for Revolution...
Due to time constraints on a number of projects we are now outsourcing 'core functionality' to other agencies. We've had great success with RentACoder.com ; the 'ebay' of the coding world. We've commissioned projects which have been delivered within time, to specification (and often added extra's) and *well* within budget. However, we wish to retain 'overall' control so have designed a framework in Rev to deal with registration, serial numbers, preference saving and opening and a number of other user activities. This means we can also keep our applications visually pleasing and maintain branding. Although I appreciate this will cut down our market (I haven't used my Mac in months!) I wish to use a series of outsourced dll's. Does anyone have any advice / recommendations on using dll's with revolution? How do dll's 'integrate' with revolution? How do I pass parameters and receive 'it' or 'the result'? What do I instruct the outsourcers to build? I'd be happy to pay for a dll 'framework' for use with Rev ... and hey why not dust off the Mac...what about an XCMD/XCFN framework as well? Thanks in advance, Gary Rathbone BSc MBCS Chartered IT Professional ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Windows sound and music--help!
Thanks, Chipp. AFAIK, he hasn't upgraded anything (with that low amount of RAM, I know I sure wouldn't!). I'll pass your suggestions along to him. Thanks! Judy On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Chipp Walters wrote: Judy, Early versions of XP shipped with SAPI 4, which works with RR. Perhaps he was using such an early version? Did it upgrade it using SP1? If not, it may be a memory problem. Try booting RR and just entering: revSpeak hello If that doesn't work, you might check the SAPI control panel and see if any settings have changed. Choose the smallest voiceprint possible and try again. I looked all over to try and find out how to tell if you're using SAPI 4 or 5..with no luck. You'd think they'd put a vers # on the thing...but *that's MicroSoft* -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Judy Perry Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:00 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Windows sound and music--help! FWIW, my student swears he had revSpeak working on his 128 MB RAM XP box until he added a bunch of other things to the stack... Judy On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Ken Norris wrote: -- I know. I sure hope they can patch revSpeak for XP somehow. It's all I have to test on right now. Because of the loss of muscle control, my intended users are speech impaired. Their other possibilities of controlling the computer is where I come in with custom combinations of software techniques and controllers. I can't be running back and forth to the convalescent center to test on their machines. ___ 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 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: time stamp on return
How do I add a time stamp in a field with each press of the return key, i.e. return 3:34 pm The cat woke up return 3:48 pm The cat stretched return 4:01 pm The cat went back to sleep return 4: 47 pm Hi John, on returnInField put return(the short time) after me end returnInField -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/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 use Rev with Media Player - anyone got a guide?
Hi Tuviah, Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:29:04 -0500 From: Tuviah Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: How to use Rev with Media Player - anyone got a guide? I thought I saw Tuviah say you could record sound in Rev and play it back in WMP, but nothing I've tried works. Check out the recordformat property and make sure it is set to something like wave. --- That still creates a QT file (acccording to the icon it ends up with). --- Also check the recordcompression and make sure that it is set to a format readable by Windows (like no compression). --- Right. No compression. I'll take yet another stab at it, but I think I went through everything. My little recorder offers all the options available for recording in Rev. The file extensions all get named as expected. QT translates and plays them fine. WMP always refuses, throws an error Cannot play back file. File format not recognized Oddly, my friend across town was able to eventually open and play a file I sent, apparently in WMP on a Windows box. But it wouldn't open in the email. he had to put it somewhere on disk, but it did play when he opened it. The only difference I can tell is that I reduced the size (mono) and the bit rate (11025). The file was about 13% of the original. This is so strange. I wish I knew what was really happening. Thanks, Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OSX Distribution issues
The service call I recommended was to Revolution not Apple. As an Enterprise customer I have service call requests with my purchase for a year. I thought your problem would be a good one to use yours on if you have them. That's all Tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 05:29 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: Everything else on my OSX system seems rock solid, including the Internet connection, so I can't see that a service call (from an entirely mythical service engineer) would do anything... I think anyone can see that there are rough edges in the DB - like the way it doesn't open in browse mode in OS9, or the way path displays fall off the bottom of the window, or the way it doesn't remember where your config file is on your system but reverts to RR's own home directory, or the way the flashing cursor is absent when you fill in the fields on the first page... it needs a tidy up, that's all. I am not advocating this above the fixing of more show-stopping bugs, but I would like it to look more professional and to be more crash-proof. Graham -- Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Revolution crashes on startup
I had something similar happen to me. It was after I put a new plugin in the plugins folder. I went back and took it out and was fine. Tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 09:41 AM, Russell wrote: Hi people The past several days whenever I open revolution it opens the tips window and seems to crash! The error window opens and flickers like the code is going in a loop. Takes awhile to stop (clicking and bouncing around the window) and there is no guarentee it won't happen and does again when viewing the Documentation or ''Tutorials Any idea what i can do to fix this, How can i get into debug mode and find out what code is doing this Thanks Russ I have a 2week old evaluation verision Windowsxp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3
Hello Sannyasin, Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:34:08 -1000 From: Sannyasin Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Convert AIF to MP3 Now, under Panther, the appleScript and the latest version of iTunes is also broken...it used to be simple: pass a file path to a variable and tell iTunes to convert that file. Now, nothing happens. -- Have you tried using QT? I'm looking into that right now. -- I sat with our sound man today and watched him try to debug the script using examples from some iTunes appleScript site... wow, talk about convoluted! I'm really spoiled by xTalk... using iTunes for this seems like using a tablesaw to sharpen a tooth pick... a small knife is really all that is needed. -- This is typical of the things that have weighed on my mind about programming in general lately. It seems that both MS and Apple continue to make changes to their OS' which are drastic enough to cause breakage in their own support apps. This is no way to run a railroad. Like many of you, I'm a member of ADC. We need to complain to Apple to settle down, or at least make sure the changes they make to the OS doesn't break things. E.G., AFAIC, there is no excuse for AS losing control of iTunes. Even if Rev had a command set and functions to do file conversions, it might also break. But I sure wish it did anyway (hint-hint). Not sure where to address these types of issues with MS, though. Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3
On 10/28/03 10:00 AM, Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, under Panther, the appleScript and the latest version of iTunes is also broken...it used to be simple: pass a file path to a variable and tell iTunes to convert that file. Now, nothing happens. Have you tried using QT? I'm looking into that right now. The latest version of QT apparently doesn't do MP3, only MP4. If older versions of QT provided MP3 encoding, Apple seems to have dropped it in favor of AAC. It would be nice if they provided an option for MP3. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Text field formatting
On Oct 28, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Hello all, I am doing a rush CD project and need to do a lot of conversions from existing Powerpoint presentations. I need to import text and graphics from Powerpoint into a card in rev. Then I need to replicate the special effects that were done in Powerpoint in the new card in Rev. I started doing the text and am having trouble even getting the text field formatting to look right. A wrap around text line does not tab in to align correctly. The text starts at the number or bullet instead of tabbed in to align with where the text starts. Rev does not seem to have good text field tools for formatting. Any ideas on good formatting in REV? Has anyone had to do a lot of importing of formatted text? Any ideas on how to do this. I am in a crunch on this. Not to sound discouraging- but you are not going to acheive parity with Powerpoint formatting- I'm assuming Powerpoint has an embedded version of MS Word basically-- much more advanced text formatting than what Rev can do. With Rev you are limited to htmlText and rtfText and related properties. Open the Transcript Dictionary and filter with the phrase text for other related props. As for that specific problem with the bulleted list- you could set the tabStops for the field, and put the bullet in the first column and the text in the second column. That's not going to wrap very well though. Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3
Hi all, On 10/28/03 10:00 AM, Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, under Panther, the appleScript and the latest version of iTunes is also broken...it used to be simple: pass a file path to a variable and tell iTunes to convert that file. Now, nothing happens. Have you tried using QT? I'm looking into that right now. The latest version of QT apparently doesn't do MP3, only MP4. If older versions of QT provided MP3 encoding, Apple seems to have dropped it in favor of AAC. It would be nice if they provided an option for MP3. No version of QT ever supported exporting to MP3, not even QT Pro. Unfortunately... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
re: Outsourcing / Writing dll's for Revolution...
We've had great success with RentACoder.com ; the 'ebay' of the coding
world.
Yes I too have had success with them. I find it important to work on the
design first, and do the necessary research (for example I may research any
related technical issues, design a class, and ask them to implement the
methods) beforehand so things can be integrated into my project. Being a
knowledgable consumer always helps, test frequently and ask for source, and
you want to make sure that you work *with them* to make the right decisions
regarding your technology choices (because they will always choose what is
fastest and cheapest).
How do I pass parameters and receive 'it' or
'the result'? What do I instruct the outsourcers to build?
Tell them to build general DLLs (in C/C++) that accomplish whatever specific
task. You should work with them to define the API for the DLL.
Then you need to build one external to talk to them all.
In most cases what you need to do is link with the DLLs .lib file, and
include the source headers (mydll.h) in your project which just defines stub
functions for the linker. After that you can call functions in DLLs as
though they were in your app. So for example if I had a dll with the
function helloworld which prints something to the screen, I would write
something like
#include helloworld.h
void revHelloWorld(char *args[], int nargs, char **retstring,
Bool *pass, Bool *error)
{
*pass = False;
*error = False;
result = NULL;
if (nargs == 1)
helloworld(args[0]); //call function in DLL and pass
else
*error = True;
*retstring = result != NULL ? result: (char *)calloc(1,0);
}
and then link to library helloworld.lib and make sure that the
helloworld.dll file is somewhere where the Rev external can find it. Also
note that the October issue of MacTech has a great article by Tim Monroe
which covers developing an external for editing QT movies, so hopefully that
will be online shortly.
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RE: Text field formatting
My advice is to completely divorce yourself from anything native to PowerPoint. Depending on what kind of effects you need to replicate and your display quality needs, I would suggest grabbing the slides as screen shots, or doing Save as within PowerPoint and saving the presentation to HTML, RTF, GIF, or whatever. Then deal with those objects. -Original Message- From: Thomas J McGrath III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Text field formatting Hello all, I am doing a rush CD project and need to do a lot of conversions from existing Powerpoint presentations. I need to import text and graphics from Powerpoint into a card in rev. Then I need to replicate the special effects that were done in Powerpoint in the new card in Rev. I started doing the text and am having trouble even getting the text field formatting to look right. A wrap around text line does not tab in to align correctly. The text starts at the number or bullet instead of tabbed in to align with where the text starts. Rev does not seem to have good text field tools for formatting. Any ideas on good formatting in REV? Has anyone had to do a lot of importing of formatted text? Any ideas on how to do this. I am in a crunch on this. Thanks much, Tom Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
Glossary and hyperlink
Hello all, Same project, I need to make each line in the text field a link to either an external file or another substack window to open over top of the main stack. BUT I also want a glossary effect that when the mouse is over words in the text to display a glossary in a separate field. The glossary seems to be done by the link text item and the hyperlink seems to also work best there as well. So I put the link as the external file/substack link and an underline text style as the glossary look up. This works except what I want is something like single click ( or better yet mouseover) on line shows glossary item if over glossary text item and THEN double click same line opens external file/substack. Or something like this. tom local storedHilitedChunk -- stores the highlighted text location on mouseMove -- first unhighlight the old phrase if necessary: if storedHilitedChunk is not empty \ and storedHilitedChunk is not the mouseChunk then do set the backgroundColor of \ storedHilitedChunk to empty put empty into storedHilitedChunk end if -- highlight if the text under the mouse is linked: if the mouseChunk is not empty then -- then check it if link is in the textStyle of the mouseChunk then --if link then set color and do something set the backgroundColor of the mouseChunk to pink -- Go link to external file or substack put the mouseChunk into storedHilitedChunk -- saved for later unhighlighting else -- not link then check underline if mixed or underline is in the textStyle of the mouseChunk then set the backgroundColor of the mouseChunk to yellow -- Go glossary look up put the mouseChunk into storedHilitedChunk end if end if end if pass mouseMove end mouseMove on mouseLeave -- unhighlight any currently highlighted text: if storedHilitedChunk is not empty then do set the backgroundColor of \ storedHilitedChunk to empty put empty into storedHilitedChunk end if pass mouseLeave end mouseLeave Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Revolution crashes on startup
Also, I had a little luck hitting command period a bunch of times and then holding command option of card to open script editor. Well it did work a couple of times. tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 09:41 AM, Russell wrote: Hi people The past several days whenever I open revolution it opens the tips window and seems to crash! The error window opens and flickers like the code is going in a loop. Takes awhile to stop (clicking and bouncing around the window) and there is no guarentee it won't happen and does again when viewing the Documentation or ''Tutorials Any idea what i can do to fix this, How can i get into debug mode and find out what code is doing this Thanks Russ I have a 2week old evaluation verision Windowsxp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Text field formatting
Alex and Mark, I forgot about the html. I will spend today exporting to html and then play with that and see if it will speed things up or not. Also, I already figured the special effects would be rebuilt in REV from scratch. But, I was wondering if any one built some functions to handle the built in abilities in REV for animation type effects If I do this I will write my own for this and future projects and upload but it would be nice to have a Build slide via first bullet/every line/ every word etc. function. it would be nice to have a few affects to animate a text field with that are straight forward and simple. Thanks again tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 02:09 PM, Mark Powell wrote: My advice is to completely divorce yourself from anything native to PowerPoint. Depending on what kind of effects you need to replicate and your display quality needs, I would suggest grabbing the slides as screen shots, or doing Save as within PowerPoint and saving the presentation to HTML, RTF, GIF, or whatever. Then deal with those objects. -Original Message- From: Thomas J McGrath III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Text field formatting Hello all, I am doing a rush CD project and need to do a lot of conversions from existing Powerpoint presentations. I need to import text and graphics from Powerpoint into a card in rev. Then I need to replicate the special effects that were done in Powerpoint in the new card in Rev. I started doing the text and am having trouble even getting the text field formatting to look right. A wrap around text line does not tab in to align correctly. The text starts at the number or bullet instead of tabbed in to align with where the text starts. Rev does not seem to have good text field tools for formatting. Any ideas on good formatting in REV? Has anyone had to do a lot of importing of formatted text? Any ideas on how to do this. I am in a crunch on this. Thanks much, Tom Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone
I have the following handler in the Stack Script: on openStack resetOpen -- prep the stack handler send mouseUp to button Server Data end openStack It works correctly on Mac OS X builds but doesn't do anything on Windows standalones. Clicking on the Server Data button works correctly on both platforms. Built with Rev 2.1 on OS X. Any ideas why this doesn't work? Bill Vlahos ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Text field formatting
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:02 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Also, I already figured the special effects would be rebuilt in REV from scratch. But, I was wondering if any one built some functions to handle the built in abilities in REV for animation type effects If I do this I will write my own for this and future projects and upload but it would be nice to have a Build slide via first bullet/every line/ every word etc. function. it would be nice to have a few affects to animate a text field with that are straight forward and simple. If you want to just animate the whole text field you could use these functions from an animation library I am working on. It uses cosine interpolation to animate and is easy enough to use. I converted the code from some examples in the book Interactive QuickTime by Matthew Peterson (excellent book not only for QuickTime but all media based programming). Put both of the functions below somewhere where they are available to all of your scripts and then call it with something like this: libAnim_Ease short id of field MyField, long owner of field MyField, 0, 200, 0, 200, true, 10, 20 This would move your field from 0,0 to 50,200 and send the message libAnim_Finished to the object you were animating when the animation was done. It would move the object every 10 milliseconds and do the entire animation in 20 steps. Hope this helps, -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] /** * Performs the ease animation on an object * * @param pObjIDobjID ID of the object to animate * @param pOwnerobjOwner of the object to animate * @param pStartX integerStarting x position * @param pEndX integerEnding x position * @param pStartY integerStarting y position * @param pEndY integerEnding y position * @param pWithMsgs booleanWhether to send updates to object on updates and finishing. * @param pSpeedintegerSpeed of animation in milliseconds. How often message is sent. * @param pNumSteps integerNumber of steps to do the animation in */ on libAnim_Ease pObjID, pOwner, pStartX, pEndX, pStartY, pEndY, pWithMsgs, pSpeed, pNumsteps local tTarget put control id pObjID of pOwner into tTarget set the libAnim[uCurrentStep] of tTarget to 1 set the libAnim[uNumSteps] of tTarget to pNumsteps set the libAnim[uStepSizeX] of tTarget to (pEndX - pStartX) / pNumSteps set the libAnim[uStepSizeY] of tTarget to (pEndY - pStartY) / pNumSteps set the libAnim[uStepAngle] of tTarget to 2 * pi / pNumSteps set the libAnim[uSendMessages] of tTarget to pWithMsgs set loc of tTarget to pStartX, pStartY # Start animation libAnim_CosineInterpolation pObjID, pOwner, pSpeed end libAnim_Ease /** * Animates an object using cosine interpolation * * @param pObj objIDID of control to animate * @param pOwner obj Owner of the object (long owner) * @param pSpeed integer How often to resend the message in milliseconds. */ on libAnim_CosineInterpolation pObjID, pObjOwner pSpeed local tVelocityScale local tTarget put control id pObjID of pObjOwner into tTarget put 1 - \ cos (the libAnim[uCurrentStep] of tTarget * the libAnim[uStepAngle] of tTarget) \ into tVelocityScale put item 1 of loc of tTarget into tX put item 2 of loc of tTarget into tY set loc of tTarget to (tX + (tVelocityScale * the libAnim[uStepSizeX] of tTarget), \ tY + (tVelocityScale * the libAnim[uStepSizeY] of tTarget)) set the libAnim[uCurrentStep] of tTarget to the libAnim[uCurrentStep] of tTarget + 1 if (the libAnim[uCurrentStep] of tTarget = the libAnim[uNumSteps] of tTarget) then send libAnim_CosineInterpolation pObjID , pObjOwner , pSpeed to me in pSpeed milliseconds else if (the libAnim[uSendMessages] of tTarget = true) then send libAnim_Finished to tTarget end if end if end libAnim_CosineInterpolation ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Text field formatting
On Oct 28, 2003, at 1:29 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
libAnim_Ease short id of field MyField, long owner of field
MyField, 0, 200, 0, 200, true, 10, 20
This would move your field from 0,0 to 50,200 and send the message
libAnim_Finished to the object you were animating when the animation
was done. It would move the object every 10 milliseconds and do the
entire animation in 20 steps.
Trevor- is this command very different from Rev's built-in move
object command?
move object {[from startLoc] to endLoc|to pointList|rel[ative] motion} \
[in time] [without {messages | waiting}]
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Re: Text field formatting
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
On Oct 28, 2003, at 1:29 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
libAnim_Ease short id of field MyField, long owner of field
MyField, 0, 200, 0, 200, true, 10, 20
This would move your field from 0,0 to 50,200 and send the message
libAnim_Finished to the object you were animating when the
animation was done. It would move the object every 10 milliseconds
and do the entire animation in 20 steps.
Trevor- is this command very different from Rev's built-in move
object command?
move object {[from startLoc] to endLoc|to pointList|rel[ative] motion}
\
[in time] [without {messages | waiting}]
I believe the move command just goes from point a to point b at the
same speed. This uses an ease in/ease out method that I think looks a
little nicer.
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POP-UP Calender/Time routine
I was wondering if anyone has done a pop-up Calender and time selector in Revolution similar to what some of the online travel systems have. I want to have a user to be able to select the year, month, day and time from a pop-up...this will ensure that the format that I am expecting will always be met. Just thought I'd ask. thanks, Glen ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Text field formatting
On 10/28/03 12:02 PM, Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be nice to have a few affects to animate a text field with that are straight forward and simple. You can see the ease-in/out example stack we put together. In your message box, type the following: go stack url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/ease.rev; Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: POP-UP Calender/Time routine
Le mardi, 28 oct 2003, à 22:06 Europe/Brussels, Bojsza a écrit : I was wondering if anyone has done a pop-up Calender and time selector in Revolution similar to what some of the online travel systems have. I want to have a user to be able to select the year, month, day and time from a pop-up...this will ensure that the format that I am expecting will always be met. Just thought I'd ask. thanks, Glen Sarah has written something in this kind. Ask hert at Sarah Reichelt : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings. Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone
try: send mouseUp to button Server Data in 200 milliseconds (give the app some time to breathe) -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Vlahos Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone I have the following handler in the Stack Script: on openStack resetOpen -- prep the stack handler send mouseUp to button Server Data end openStack It works correctly on Mac OS X builds but doesn't do anything on Windows standalones. Clicking on the Server Data button works correctly on both platforms. Built with Rev 2.1 on OS X. Any ideas why this doesn't work? Bill Vlahos ___ 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: POP-UP Calender/Time routine
Le mardi, 28 oct 2003, à 22:06 Europe/Brussels, Bojsza a écrit : I was wondering if anyone has done a pop-up Calender and time selector in Revolution similar to what some of the online travel systems have. I want to have a user to be able to select the year, month, day and time from a pop-up...this will ensure that the format that I am expecting will always be met. Just thought I'd ask. thanks, Glen You can also check : File Name: Date Picker v.1.0 Build Date: 2003.01.21 Author: Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings. Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone
Nope. This doesn't work either. Bill On Oct 27, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: try: send mouseUp to button Server Data in 200 milliseconds (give the app some time to breathe) -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Vlahos Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone I have the following handler in the Stack Script: on openStack resetOpen -- prep the stack handler send mouseUp to button Server Data end openStack It works correctly on Mac OS X builds but doesn't do anything on Windows standalones. Clicking on the Server Data button works correctly on both platforms. Built with Rev 2.1 on OS X. Any ideas why this doesn't work? Bill Vlahos ___ 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 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Text field formatting
I am now regularly making PowerPoint presentations from within Revolution with all of the bells-and-whistles :-) It is very straightforward, but you will need Keynote. Simply 1. Open your PowerPoint presentation in Keynote (the current version opens my lectures without any errors at all!). 2. Set your builds as you want them (Keynote builds are often better than PowerPoint builds). 3. Export the file as a Quicktime movie (you will get a big file if you [like me] choose the highest quality, but CDs are big enough so who cares?). 4. Make a Revolution card with a big player on it. 5. Set the player's filename to the movie file and that's about it. You can make all sorts of customisations from within Revolution, for example I have a button that sets the backrop to black and hides the menubar. It really is easy and reliable. Even if you don't have Keynote I think you will find it is worth buying it to save the time that you would otherwise waste on trying to match PowerPoint in Revolution (voice of experience ;-) ...if you don't have an OS X Mac then maybe it will not be as feasible. Let me know if you want extra details. -- Michael J. Lew Senior Lecturer Department of Pharmacology The University of Melbourne Parkville 3010 Victoria Australia Phone +613 8344 8304 ** New email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone
On Oct 28, 2003, at 3:18 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: This doesn't work. click at the loc of btn Server Data Works for me. --Create a new mainstack stack --Add a button --Edit button script: on mouseup put hi end mouseup --Type in the message box click at the loc of btn 1 --or click at the loc of btn Button 1 --see hi in the message box Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone
At 12:16 pm -0800 28/10/03, Bill Vlahos wrote: I have the following handler in the Stack Script: on openStack resetOpen -- prep the stack handler send mouseUp to button Server Data end openStack It works correctly on Mac OS X builds but doesn't do anything on Windows standalones. Clicking on the Server Data button works correctly on both platforms. Are you doing anything in the resetOpen handler that could change the default stack or navigate to another card? What happens if you specify the card and stack in the send line: send mouseUp to button Server Data of card cardname of stack stackname Also, is there any chance you have two buttons named server data, for example by accidentally duplicating a button in the same location? Cheers Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone
It looks like I am encountering an error which stops the execution of the Windows standalone when I ask: if there is a file thefile.txt then enable menuItem 2 of menu File else disable menuItem 2 of menu File It works on OS X standalones but not on Windows 2000 standalones where it generates a weird 3 line error. Bill Vlahos On Oct 28, 2003, at 2:18 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: This doesn't work. Bill On Oct 28, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Alex Rice wrote: On Oct 28, 2003, at 1:16 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: I have the following handler in the Stack Script: on openStack resetOpen -- prep the stack handler send mouseUp to button Server Data end openStack It works correctly on Mac OS X builds but doesn't do anything on Windows standalones. Clicking on the Server Data button works correctly on both platforms. Built with Rev 2.1 on OS X. Any ideas why this doesn't work? Don't know, but a workaround is click at the loc of btn Server Data HTH Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco ___ 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 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone
On 10/28/03 7:02 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: It looks like I am encountering an error which stops the execution of the Windows standalone when I ask: if there is a file thefile.txt then enable menuItem 2 of menu File else disable menuItem 2 of menu File It works on OS X standalones but not on Windows 2000 standalones where it generates a weird 3 line error. Try using line and button instead. I've had unreliable results with the keywords menuitem and menu. I.e.: enable line 3 of btn file -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Get shell broken on Panther?
This was working on 10.2.8 from within a Rev script, but not now on Panther: put (ditto -rsrcFork quote (gLocalPath/ gLocalFile)quotequote fld remoteFolderquote) into tCommand get shell (tCommand) but ditto -rsrcFork someFile/path/file.txt somefolder/OnTheServer/ *Does* work in the Panther terminal... just not any more from within a Rev script... can someone test and confirm? Thanks Sannyasin Sivakatirswami Himalayan Academy Publications at Kauai's Hindu Monastery [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.HinduismToday.com www.Gurudeva.org www.Hindu.org ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Get shell broken on Panther?
Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: This was working on 10.2.8 from within a Rev script, but not now on Panther: put (ditto -rsrcFork quote (gLocalPath/ gLocalFile)quotequote fld remoteFolderquote) into tCommand get shell (tCommand) but ditto -rsrcFork someFile/path/file.txt somefolder/OnTheServer/ *Does* work in the Panther terminal... just not any more from within a Rev script... Would using resfile serve as a workaround? put url resfile:someFile/path/file.txt into \ url resfile:somefolder/OnTheServer/ -- 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 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Command Option
Hello All, I did something?!?!?!? Now when I hold down the command and option key over controls I do not get the script window. Don't know what I did, but was hoping you guys might straighten me out on it. Thanks Tom Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3
Hi Scott, Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:22:56 -0800 From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3 The latest version of QT apparently doesn't do MP3, only MP4. -- YeahI noticed that. Iddenthat wierd? 10 million things out there in MP3 and they pitch it away like it was nuthin' The Apple Gods Must Be Crazy. Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
How to set the cursor??
Hi, I know I am displaying what a complete imbecile I am, but I simply cannot set the cursor property to save my life. What I want to do is change the default cursor to arrow (yep, tried that in the openStack handler) and then have it change to browse/pointing finger when over an area of interest, so I do this: on mouseWithin set the cursor to browse -- (or whatever) end mouseWithin on mouseLeave set the cursor to arrow end mouseLeave Why doesn't this work? I don't know if I've inhaled too much smoke from the 8+ wildfires within 20-30 miles, but I know I'm felling waayy too stupid... Judy ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3
Hi Klaus, Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:28:16 +0100 From: Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3 No version of QT ever supported exporting to MP3, not even QT Pro. Unfortunately... --- Hmmm. Are you sure? It wouldn't have had a MP3 designator, but MPEG3. QT, of course, plays MP3's with never a problem I've encountered. BTW, QT Pro isn't a version, but a UI for some of the API goodies. I always thought they were nuts not to include recording GUI's, but then that would've spoiled iThingies. Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone
enable line 3 of btn file I didn't even know you could do this! This is awesome... although it only serves to remove or add (with disable) the ( from the beginning of the line and not if it is not the first character, but it is a lot less typing than: if char 1 of line 3 of btn file is ( then delete char 1 of line 3 of btn file end if 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
RE: Command Option
Tom, Check your Preference in the General area and see if you have it turned on... 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 Thomas J McGrath III Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Command Option Hello All, I did something?!?!?!? Now when I hold down the command and option key over controls I do not get the script window. Don't know what I did, but was hoping you guys might straighten me out on it. Thanks Tom Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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: Command Option
Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: It would be cool to be able to have hot keys, like in all Adobe apps where if you are not in the text tool then any key on the key board becomes a hot tool key. Not hard to do with a frontScript. In fact, you could put a functionkey handler in there to act as a toggle for the hot keys so you could alternate between layout and text entry tasks easily -- 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 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Still no good PNG
Howdy, I'm stumped. Nothing I do makes the image show up properly. I want a blended translucent image for all platforms mode. In SC I could do it by setting inks, but in Rev's All Platforms mode, the middle of the image where the blend occurs is blown out. I tried all kinds of tricks in PhotoShop (LE is all I have on this machine), and the image is a layer with no background (the checkerboard is there in PS). In PS the image is fine, but when I import it to Rev, the blended portion is completely gone. If anyone has a blended translucent image for all platforms in a Rev stack, can you please send me a demo offlist, and explain how you got it? Desparately Seeking Blended Translucent PNG, Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Get shell broken on Panther?
Do other shell commands work? If not, you may need to set the shellCommand property? Just a shot... Brian On Oct 28, 2003, at 4:32 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Would using resfile serve as a workaround? put url resfile:someFile/path/file.txt into \ url resfile:somefolder/OnTheServer/ Well, we need the entire file... I was trying to avoid the read and write to rev-ram and the ditto was an instant copy across our 100 base-T LAN.. but in a pinch we could use binfile... trouble is some of these InDesign 2 files get pretty big...(pg 42-42 of our current issue is a 25 meg file) Hopefully Adobe's new workgroup RCS in the Creative Suite will take care of everything. But still need to get ditto to work for other copy file routines... Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: This was working on 10.2.8 from within a Rev script, but not now on Panther: put (ditto -rsrcFork quote (gLocalPath/ gLocalFile)quotequote fld remoteFolderquote) into tCommand get shell (tCommand) but ditto -rsrcFork someFile/path/file.txt somefolder/OnTheServer/ *Does* work in the Panther terminal... just not any more from within a Rev script... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___ Sannyasin Sivakatirswami Himalayan Academy Publications at Kauai's Hindu Monastery [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.HinduismToday.com www.Gurudeva.org www.Hindu.org ___ 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
Scripting PDF files
OS X has a Save as PDF option in the print dialog. Does anyone know of a way to automate this, so a script could save a printout as a PDF? Or is there any other way to create a PDF? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery
Hello Tom, Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:39:22 -0500 From: Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery I've always thought it was best to keep large files as externals for memory issues and performance issues. It seems REV is the same. -- I got into this a bit late, so I apologize for redundancy. I think it depends what you want to do. The concept is fairly universal. Small separate clips used for effect in specific places, and probably won't change, is a place where you will normally want to trade memory for performance. Larger player files, image files, and data files which you will need to open on command will normally be external files. You wouldn't want to embed them because they will require a sizeable chunk of memory for each, and it makes no sense to embed copies eveywhere. E.G., button icons in a single stack will all have different icons according to what they do, so importing (embedding) images is appropriate. Using a single player to play many different files means keeping the files externally, or at least in a substack (which actually end up as connected files in a standalone build), similar to opening QT from the DT. As I look back, it's really just a matter of combining results with common sense. Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery
Ken, Thanks for your input. I agree. I have an MPEG movie with a quicktime icon on it. It is 160MB and I just made the mistake of New Controller Video and pretty much froze REV. I had to force quit. Then I did new reference Quicktime for it. put in a controller and was OK. I want to make sure that if the system it is used on does not have QT that it will still play. If so then the menu item is misleading. If not then how can I put this large file in with my Standalone? Thanks Tom On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 12:09 AM, Ken Norris wrote: Hello Tom, Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:39:22 -0500 From: Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery I've always thought it was best to keep large files as externals for memory issues and performance issues. It seems REV is the same. -- I got into this a bit late, so I apologize for redundancy. I think it depends what you want to do. The concept is fairly universal. Small separate clips used for effect in specific places, and probably won't change, is a place where you will normally want to trade memory for performance. Larger player files, image files, and data files which you will need to open on command will normally be external files. You wouldn't want to embed them because they will require a sizeable chunk of memory for each, and it makes no sense to embed copies eveywhere. E.G., button icons in a single stack will all have different icons according to what they do, so importing (embedding) images is appropriate. Using a single player to play many different files means keeping the files externally, or at least in a substack (which actually end up as connected files in a standalone build), similar to opening QT from the DT. As I look back, it's really just a matter of combining results with common sense. Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA 15102 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
