Re: rev and zip files
Richard Gaskin wrote: ... If you take the time to store the type and creator codes obtained from the detailed files on Mac you can even restore those when you write them out again -- something the Zip format doesn't handle at all. Well that's not entirely true Richard. The zip utilities for Mac that I've used create a folder in the zip archive called XtraStuf.mac. When you extract the archive on another Mac, the contents of this folder are used to restore any resource forks. When the archive is expanded on a PC this is of course not used and just appears as a folder containing useless files. Inside XtraStuf.mac there is a file for any file in the archive that has a resource fork, with the same name and path as the data fork file (ie the directory structure of the archive is reproduced inside XtraStuf.mac where necessary, so that the path to the resource fork file matches the path to the data fork file, excepting the first directory). Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
Please excuse the more or less OT question but I thought maybe one of the wise people here might know the reason for this. Yesterday I decided to transfer some old files from mac to PC via USB flash disk. Turned out there was a file in there called com1.gif (someone else sent this to me a long time ago) Windows XP refused to copy this to the PC hard disk. It also refused to rename or delete it. Displaying an alert saying Access denied. The files weren't important so I just gave up. Then I tried to dial up using the modem on COM1. It failed to connect because COM1 was already in use. I cleared COM1 simply by restarting. But I'm puzzled why this should occur. Despite the filename, I don't see why trying to write an image file with this name should apparently result in COM1 being opened. It makes me wonder if there are any other filenames I should avoid. Of course the cause might be something peculiar to my machine, but I wouldn't know what. Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: rev and zip files
Martin Baxter wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: ... If you take the time to store the type and creator codes obtained from the detailed files on Mac you can even restore those when you write them out again -- something the Zip format doesn't handle at all. Well that's not entirely true Richard. The zip utilities for Mac that I've used create a folder in the zip archive called XtraStuf.mac. I must be old. :) Apparently Mac extensions were added to the spec -- from http://www.pkware.com/company/standards/appnote/: Third-party Mappings: -ZipIt Macintosh Extra Field (long) (0x2605): The following is the layout of the ZipIt extra block for Macintosh. The local-header and central-header versions are identical. This block must be present if the file is stored MacBinary-encoded and it should not be used if the file is not stored MacBinary-encoded. Value SizeDescription - --- (Mac2) 0x2605Short tag for this extra block type TSize Short total data size for this block ZPITbeLong extra-field signature FnLen Bytelength of FileName FileName variablefull Macintosh filename FileType Byte[4] four-byte Mac file type string Creator Byte[4] four-byte Mac creator string Which Mac Zip tools use those? And do any of the Win Zip tools allows you to define the values of those fields for moving files cross-platform? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: rev and zip files
Martin Baxter wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: ... If you take the time to store the type and creator codes obtained from the detailed files on Mac you can even restore those when you write them out again -- something the Zip format doesn't handle at all. Well that's not entirely true Richard. The zip utilities for Mac that I've used create a folder in the zip archive called XtraStuf.mac. I must be old. :) Apparently Mac extensions were added to the spec -- from http://www.pkware.com/company/standards/appnote/: Third-party Mappings: -ZipIt Macintosh Extra Field (long) (0x2605): The following is the layout of the ZipIt extra block for Macintosh. The local-header and central-header versions are identical. This block must be present if the file is stored MacBinary-encoded and it should not be used if the file is not stored MacBinary-encoded. Value SizeDescription - --- (Mac2) 0x2605Short tag for this extra block type TSize Short total data size for this block ZPITbeLong extra-field signature FnLen Bytelength of FileName FileName variablefull Macintosh filename FileType Byte[4] four-byte Mac file type string Creator Byte[4] four-byte Mac creator string To be honest I had no idea that it was part of the official spec either, I'm impressed. Which Mac Zip tools use those? And do any of the Win Zip tools allows you to define the values of those fields for moving files cross-platform? Well presumably ZipIt uses them for one, Here are some links for it that were posted here recently. I think ZipIt was the first zip utility for Mac? I use Zipit 2.2.2 on MacOS 9.1 and compress files to / from OSX and Win without any prob. A trial version can be downloaded at http://www.maczipit.com/zipit-222.sea.bin or http://www.maczipit.com/download.html hope that helps, JB I would expect that Stuffit is at least aware of archive in that format. And I use MacZip, which is free and available from download.com. I use it to move stuff back and forth between mac mac and mac PC routinely. I don't know if it is using the format you quote but it would seem a bit daft if it didn't. Admittedly MacZip has a less than friendly interface, so I've never looked at the geekier things it can do (you can send it command-line type commands and arguments via applescript for instance), only ever used it by dropping folders or archives on it, which works well enough. Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Postgres (OT)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Look in the PostgreSQL docs for the CREATE USER and ALTER USER commands. On Feb 8, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote: just trust that they are indeed who they claim to be. You should *at least* use password, or even better use md5... all all 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 md5 I wish I'd know how to use it, set it. Hershel - --- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual $ true | cat /usr/manual | grep John 3:16 John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. $ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCChBY7aqtWrR9cZoRAvBMAJ0b+8BTJxPpjj1FCqjlZy/6qyiiogCfYZ4L A/NDsLyMepm0ztBGU0Yw9Mw= =+Jqi -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ $0 Web Hosting with up to 120MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chalk up another Windoze issue! I just tried this under W2K: 1. Create a folder on the desktop (right-click, new, folder) 2. Name it com1 or com2 This also complains -- a file with that name already exists!!! I don't see it! Where?!?!? ;-) On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: Please excuse the more or less OT question but I thought maybe one of the wise people here might know the reason for this. Yesterday I decided to transfer some old files from mac to PC via USB flash disk. Turned out there was a file in there called com1.gif (someone else sent this to me a long time ago) Windows XP refused to copy this to the PC hard disk. It also refused to rename or delete it. Displaying an alert saying Access denied. The files weren't important so I just gave up. Then I tried to dial up using the modem on COM1. It failed to connect because COM1 was already in use. I cleared COM1 simply by restarting. But I'm puzzled why this should occur. Despite the filename, I don't see why trying to write an image file with this name should apparently result in COM1 being opened. It makes me wonder if there are any other filenames I should avoid. Of course the cause might be something peculiar to my machine, but I wouldn't know what. Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution - --- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual $ true | cat /usr/manual | grep John 3:16 John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. $ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCChoV7aqtWrR9cZoRAtZ9AJ9fUyP+fukEIYPgwb418n1jaVtAuQCfRpxy m8ZYi667MUz2p6SpY8BbsJE= =1x0D -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ $0 Web Hosting with up to 120MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
Com1 and com2 are reserved names for communication ports such as serial ports or virtual ports... You can for example test a cd by echoing it through the com port as if it was a disk... com3 and 4 might also be taken btw... cheers Xavier On 09.02.2005 15:11:32 use-revolution-bounces wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chalk up another Windoze issue! I just tried this under W2K: 1. Create a folder on the desktop (right-click, new, folder) 2. Name it com1 or com2 This also complains -- a file with that name already exists!!! I don't see it! Where?!?!? ;-) On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:17 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: Please excuse the more or less OT question but I thought maybe one of the wise people here might know the reason for this. Yesterday I decided to transfer some old files from mac to PC via USB flash disk. Turned out there was a file in there called com1.gif (someone else sent this to me a long time ago) Windows XP refused to copy this to the PC hard disk. It also refused to rename or delete it. Displaying an alert saying Access denied. The files weren't important so I just gave up. Then I tried to dial up using the modem on COM1. It failed to connect because COM1 was already in use. I cleared COM1 simply by restarting. But I'm puzzled why this should occur. Despite the filename, I don't see why trying to write an image file with this name should apparently result in COM1 being opened. It makes me wonder if there are any other filenames I should avoid. Of course the cause might be something peculiar to my machine, but I wouldn't know what. Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution - --- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual $ true | cat /usr/manual | grep John 3:16 John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. $ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCChoV7aqtWrR9cZoRAtZ9AJ9fUyP+fukEIYPgwb418n1jaVtAuQCfRpxy m8ZYi667MUz2p6SpY8BbsJE= =1x0D -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ $0 Web Hosting with up to 120MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGEInternet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message.The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries.END OF DISCLAIMER ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
I believe com1 - com23 are the reserved com port names. I just read that somewhere? Tom On Feb 9, 2005, at 9:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: com3 and 4 might also be taken btw... Thomas J. McGrath III SCS 1000 Killarney Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15234 412-885-8541 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
embedded video/audio player?
Is there a way, or an external, for playing mpeg movies without using QT or WMP? I apologize if this is treading over old ground - but I am still not quite clear on this. My understanding of Mpeg is that it basically stores a series of video frames, except that after the first frame, the only information that is stored for subsequent frames is pixel data for pixels that have changed. I would think it would be fairly straight forward to be able to constantly update an image to include the information for the next frame in a series of frames. I am not sure what sort of frame rate you would be able to achieve if this were done solely in transcript. My reason for asking, is that I think it would be nice for multimedia presentations to be able to just pop in the CD, press a button, and it all plays. Having to worry about whether QT or WMP is installed seems very problematical. In the past, I have found QT to be somewhat distasteful, because every time I played something with it, QT would set itself to be the default media player. That is obnoxious. Default settings should be under the user's control. Besides, not everyone will have either QT or WMP installed. I guess, if this were in a situation in which file size was not such an issue, then one could convert the movie to a gif animation, and have synched-up audio play at the same time - sounds kind of awkward though. So - has anyone tried any sort of scheme for playing video/audio without depending on other programs being installed on the users computer? Thanks, Jonathan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property
On 2/8/05 11:06 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Known bug? I can't find anything on this in Mozilla. I'm going to resort to placing the password into the stack as a variable, but that seems somehow less elegant. Any chance it is a custom property that is stripped off during standalone building? Perhaps it's part of a profile or has a rev name? Just a few ideas... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: embedded video/audio player?
Recently, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Is there a way, or an external, for playing mpeg movies without using QT or WMP? What would you use then to play the media? Even with a simple text file you need some means to view it. I would think it would be fairly straight forward to be able to constantly update an image to include the information for the next frame in a series of frames. I am not sure what sort of frame rate you would be able to achieve if this were done solely in transcript. This is extremely unlikely given you'd have to write something to decompress all the proprietary and non-proprietary codecs used to compress all video formats out there. My reason for asking, is that I think it would be nice for multimedia presentations to be able to just pop in the CD, press a button, and it all plays. Having to worry about whether QT or WMP is installed seems very problematical. Virtually every multimedia title out there includes system requirements on its packaging. Even media sites like iFilm and similar require that you have Real, WMP or QT to view the content. Requiring that users have some multimedia framework installed is actually pretty standard. In the past, I have found QT to be somewhat distasteful, because every time I played something with it, QT would set itself to be the default media player. That is obnoxious. Default settings should be under the user's control. Besides, not everyone will have either QT or WMP installed. This is the reason for stating System Requirements. :-) I guess, if this were in a situation in which file size was not such an issue, then one could convert the movie to a gif animation, and have synched-up audio play at the same time - sounds kind of awkward though. Again, you'd need to write something that could decompress any multitude of audio and video formats out there -- not a trivial task. So - has anyone tried any sort of scheme for playing video/audio without depending on other programs being installed on the users computer? I would expect the most people to answer doing something like this is too much work. The labor required to pull this off is significant or perhaps redundant considering that most of the players have been in development for for years by teams of programmers. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Development Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: embedded video/audio player?
Well - I didn't mean that it would have the ability to play any format. There are already programs that convert mpeg to gif animation, for example. I just meant the ability to play and control one format. The conversion to that format would take place during production - not on the users end. I read somewhere, but I cannot remember if it was in the REV docs or on this discussion group, about using a constantly updated image as a means of showing video animation. Was that just speculative, or has that actually been done? Cheers, Jonathan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property
Dan- You're not doing something silly like trying to set a customProperty in a running mainStack, are you? -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Problems using Dreamcard
In earlier messages of this thread, I described the problems I had when I just copied the Dreamcard application out of my Rev 2.5 folder onto a CD with a stack and copied them to a friend's Mac. Thanks to help from the list, I found the problems were caused by not installing Dreamcard and the resources it needs to work. When I downloaded and installed the trial version of Rev 2.5 to my friend's machine and opened the stack with the included player, the earlier problems were gone. So I left the stack (a membership directory) with my friend to work on using her newly installed Dreamcard player. Besides problems printing (subject for another thread), in turns out that my Save command was not actually working! She put in quite a bit of work before realizing this, unfortunately. Of course, I had tested saving with my menu command, but running in the IDE. Now that I test it with my Dreamcard player, I discover it doesn't work. My menu command is: save stack Directory as the filename of this stack Again, this functions correctly in the IDE, but not under Dreamcard. Could this stack be different in the player? That would be a rude shock. Am I making bad assumptions about using the player? And I ask again, are there any rules, tips, warnings, guidelines, for designing stacks to be used with Dreamcard anywhere? Thanks for any help. Jim Lyons ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Ann: Kount Fu Master
Hi Rev Scripters, I made a discrete mention about this new game im working on in a post yesterday so I thought I might as well anounce the beta test release of the game engine and demo... The explanation, unworthy screenshot and url for the story and demo download is available at http://www.monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=174 There might be plans to develop downloadable custom kits to adapts themes, shapes, sounds, languages, sounds, images, scores and more... Ideas abound... Im just wondering if this is worth the effort to develop for educational markets or if it's just the kind of shareware that get played once and forgotten. It does have a valuable benefit - it teaches you to count much faster than before... ;) If you're interested in the game or debugging it or translating it into your language, please inquire! There's free licenses in trade for a few... Cheers a la Rev Xavier -- http://MonsieurX.com - Nitrous tools for RunRev development! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property
Turns out the stack was corrupted. Chipp Walters was kind enough to spend considerable time with me on this last night and finally suggested I open the stack, rename it and save it under a different file name. As soon as I did that, the problem went away. (In the interim, the stack developed an additional problem of being unable to be saved as a standalone.) The good news is that I was backed up and archived thanks to Chipp's most excellent altArchive plugin so I was never in real danger of losing work. Dan On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On 2/8/05 11:06 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Known bug? I can't find anything on this in Mozilla. I'm going to resort to placing the password into the stack as a variable, but that seems somehow less elegant. Any chance it is a custom property that is stripped off during standalone building? Perhaps it's part of a profile or has a rev name? Just a few ideas... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
play sound error
on mouseup play audioClip 1 wait until the sound is done play audioClip 2 wait until the sound is done end mouseup executing at 11:13:39 AM TypeHandler: can't find handler Object Label Field Lineplay audioClip 1 wait until the sound is done Hintuntil What's going on here. the first wav file will play but the second don't start and I get the above error message. Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: play sound error
Dear Mr. Salyers, Ty this one: on mouseup play audioClip 1 wait until the sound is done play audioClip 2 wait until the sound is done end mouseup 4 different command = 4 different lines! Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property
On Feb 8, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I have a large stack (about 87MB) that contains two QuickTime movies imported as controls. I'm using this approach because the client doesn't want anyone to be able to view these movies without registering and receiving a password and QuickTime movies can't be password-protected. Dan, I just wanted to mention that you can add password protection to QuickTime movies using a QuickTime sprite track. You can add logic to a QuickTime sprite track that will keep the movie from displaying any audio/visual elements unless a variable in the movie is a certain value. This method does require a tool for authoring wired sprites and you would have to use the EnhancedQT external to set the sprite track variable but it is doable. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Problems using Dreamcard
Jim Lyons wrote: In earlier messages of this thread, I described the problems I had when I just copied the Dreamcard application out of my Rev 2.5 folder onto a CD with a stack and copied them to a friend's Mac. Thanks to help from the list, I found the problems were caused by not installing Dreamcard and the resources it needs to work. When I downloaded and installed the trial version of Rev 2.5 to my friend's machine and opened the stack with the included player, the earlier problems were gone. So I left the stack (a membership directory) with my friend to work on using her newly installed Dreamcard player. Besides problems printing (subject for another thread), in turns out that my Save command was not actually working! She put in quite a bit of work before realizing this, unfortunately. Of course, I had tested saving with my menu command, but running in the IDE. Now that I test it with my Dreamcard player, I discover it doesn't work. My menu command is: save stack Directory as the filename of this stack Again, this functions correctly in the IDE, but not under Dreamcard. Could this stack be different in the player? That would be a rude shock. Am I making bad assumptions about using the player? And I ask again, are there any rules, tips, warnings, guidelines, for designing stacks to be used with Dreamcard anywhere? Thanks for any help. Two possibilities : 1. Make sure the Player is not in secure mode (which prevents it from writing files or accessing the network). [Click on the Rev icon at top right, and set the checkbox for Run in non-secure mode ] 2. There is a bug (Bugzilla 2294) by which stacks run in Dreamcard Player do not have a home directory, so expressions such as the filename of this stack do not produce the correct answer. (I've worked around this by (once only) asking the using to specify the folder they wish to use, and storing this in a preferences file; if I find a prefs file and it specifies a data folder, then there's no need to ask again. Code something like if lPrefsFileName is empty then if the platform is Win32 then put specialfolderPath(baseconvert(0x001c, 16, 10)) into tFolder else put specialFolderPath(Preferences) into tFolder end if etc. As far as I know, the only *expected* difference between the player and regular environment is the issue of secure mode - it's only bugs that make them different. This is the only major one I know of - but there could be others. It would be nice to search by component in Bugzilla, but unfortunately there is bug 2140 - Need to have a Bugzilla component for Dreamcard Player I've just had a quick look through the bugs which mention Dreamcard or Player, and while I might have missed some, I don't see anything else likely to cause different behaviour between the same stack in Player vs Rev. -- Alex Tweedly www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 07/02/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
[OT] QT Editing Tool (was Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property)
Trevor Thanks. I need to look into this in greater detail. Do you have a recommended tool for QT editing? I just use QTPro. At one point I used MovieWorks but my version is no longer up to date. Is there something better? dan On Feb 9, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 8, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I have a large stack (about 87MB) that contains two QuickTime movies imported as controls. I'm using this approach because the client doesn't want anyone to be able to view these movies without registering and receiving a password and QuickTime movies can't be password-protected. Dan, I just wanted to mention that you can add password protection to QuickTime movies using a QuickTime sprite track. You can add logic to a QuickTime sprite track that will keep the movie from displaying any audio/visual elements unless a variable in the movie is a certain value. This method does require a tool for authoring wired sprites and you would have to use the EnhancedQT external to set the sprite track variable but it is doable. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT] QT Editing Tool (was Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property)
Dan, if you have a copy of Golive 5,6,7 around, that might do the trick. There's quite an extensive QT editor in there. sqb Trevor Thanks. I need to look into this in greater detail. Do you have a recommended tool for QT editing? I just use QTPro. At one point I used MovieWorks but my version is no longer up to date. Is there something better? dan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [OT] QT Editing Tool
On Feb 9, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: Trevor Thanks. I need to look into this in greater detail. Do you have a recommended tool for QT editing? I just use QTPro. At one point I used MovieWorks but my version is no longer up to date. Is there something better? This really depends on what you want to do. While QT Pro lets you edit movies it will not let you add interactivity using sprite tracks which is you need to add something like password protection I mentioned previously. For this type of QT editing I couldn't live without LiveStage Pro from TotallyHip www.totallyhip.com. It is an incredibly comprehensive tool that allows you to exploit most everything that the QuickTime architecture has to offer. If you are interested in Wired QuickTime then I would pick up the book Interactive QuickTime - Authoring Wired Media by Matthew Peterson. This goes into great detail about interactive QuickTime and you get something like $150 off a purchase of LiveStage Pro if you buy within 30 days of buying the book. This book explains how to use sprite tracks to add a little DRM to your movies. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
Thomas- Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 6:26:55 AM, you wrote: TMI I believe com1 - com23 are the reserved com port names. I just read TMI that somewhere? There are other reserved words as well: LPT, PRN, NUL, I'm sure there are others that I can't think of off the top of my head. It's a holdover from DOS commandlines where you don't need the trailing colon in order to reference a logical device: COPY FILE.TXT COM1 Thanks for explaining that, yes of course, MSDOS, I thought they finally dumped that ? But really, a multi-user, multi-tasking, allegedly modern operating system that can't tell a reference to a file on disk from a reference to a serial port? I think I'm actually shocked. Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
Actually, I'm going to try making a com1 folder on a CD (from my Mac) and inserting that into a Windows box. Hmm... GOOD GOD MAN!! ARE YOU CRAZY!! You could rip a hole in the space-time continuum and squirt us all out of this dimension like watermelon seeds!! You can't just go plucking the Cosmic Strings like a monkey on a banjo!! OH, THE HUMANITY!!! -James Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/05 02:04 PM Please respond to How to use Revolution To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com cc: Subject:Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, it's Windows. What did you expect? I was able to name a folder com16 or some such, btw... Apparently Windows only blocks the names for ports which actually exist. Makes sense, but what happens when I put my com16 folder on a disk and stick it into a Windows box with 16 or more serial ports? Actually, I'm going to try making a com1 folder on a CD (from my Mac) and inserting that into a Windows box. Hmm... Well, Windows 2000 sees this as not a problem. You can look inside the empty folder and everything. Same with XP home. Note: In XP home, creating the empty folder on the desktop and naming it com1 results in Windows quietly switching the name back to New Folder with no error or anything. W2K at least complained that the file already existed. Strange inconsistency. On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: Thomas- Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 6:26:55 AM, you wrote: TMI I believe com1 - com23 are the reserved com port names. I just read TMI that somewhere? There are other reserved words as well: LPT, PRN, NUL, I'm sure there are others that I can't think of off the top of my head. It's a holdover from DOS commandlines where you don't need the trailing colon in order to reference a logical device: COPY FILE.TXT COM1 Thanks for explaining that, yes of course, MSDOS, I thought they finally dumped that ? But really, a multi-user, multi-tasking, allegedly modern operating system that can't tell a reference to a file on disk from a reference to a serial port? I think I'm actually shocked. Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution - --- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual $ true | cat /usr/manual | grep John 3:16 John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. $ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCCl7Q7aqtWrR9cZoRApAbAJ4pqa5sJcNaA9cOxlHW86hNdaM3lQCZAbaK sXI2zB1/KFl/RQRnjlYHTpA= =xHZW -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ $0 Web Hosting with up to 120MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: CGI access to PostGreSQL
--- Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha, Jan: Linux box running Red Hat (not sure which version... is that critical?) version() returns 2.6 Thanks Sivakatirswami Aloha, You probably need to copy over some libraries then ; if my memory serves me well it will find the revdb library and the drivers just fine if they're all in the same directory as the revolution executable. Taking a quick peek at the directory on my Windows machine, I'd say you need the files from the subdir /components/global environment/database_drivers/linux/ And you'll also need the revdb-Linux and revxml-Linux library files (according to your other post with regards to the XML library on Linux). Hmm, those two library files seem to be missing in my copy of Rev 2.5 but are there in my copy of Rev 2.2 I have a vague recollection of these being compiled into the Revolution CGI-engines, but maybe someone from the RunRev team could elaborate? Hope this helped, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam - Tools for Revolution http://www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows
Hi Klaus Quick guess: Did you set the dontuseqt to true? In an preopenstack-handler or something... I think even if QT is NOT present the engine thinks to have to use QT...? I haven't; but I don't think it's relevant, as the same app on a PC running 'ordinary' windows XP works fine - if QT is installed, it uses QT; if QT is uninstalled, it uses Media Player. Can RunRev confirm the actual requirements, or give me a clue how to debug what's not working? (EG on OS X I now about using the console to get detailed info about what's failing to work when it tries to access some external component; is there some equivalent on Windows (XPe) that I can use to figure out what the problem is here? Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 From: Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:48:38 + To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: MP3 without QuickTime on Windows Hi Klaus, Thanks for your help already. I'm making progress, but I'm not quite where I wanted to be yet. As noted in my previous post, I'm trying to play MP3s on a minimal installation of Windows XP Embedded. I don't have direct control over the XPe build (and wouldn't know what I was doing if I did) - I try something, make a fresh request, get a new solid state disk for the unit, try again. Quite longwinded, and there's a tight timetable on this project. As noted before, I removed QuickTime from a normal PC running XP, and played MP3 files, using a 'quicktime player', without problems (and without a controller, which is fine).I wasn't previously able to install either Media Player or QuickTime on the XPe unit. I've now got a new disk for the XPe unit, with MediaPlayer. I can play an MP3 file directly by double-clicking, it opens MediaPlayer, plays it fine no problems. However, from Rev I still get 'could not open video player' when I set the filename of the player to the MP3 file. I am also now able to install QuickTime (version 4!) on the XPe unit; and can then play the MP3 from Rev fine, complete with controller. But when I uninstall QuickTime, I'm back to square one. I then tried getting Media Player 9 for XP from the MS website, and installing that. Installation apparently proceeded without a problem, and Media Player can play the content without problems - but the symptoms when playing from Rev are the same. Evidently all installations of Media Player are not equal. Can you (or anyone) clue me in to what I need (and preferably how to express this to the people building the disk image)? If we have to, we might be able to get away with QuickTIme - but it will cause other difficulties, so if we can avoid it just to play MP3 files that would be an advantage. Thank you, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Metal anomalies
--- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: I'm not quite sure I agree on this : it only takes a couple of lines of code to script this yourself, and at which point should the engine do it for you ? After the mouseDown message has gone all the way to the back of the message path? Or before any of your scripts get to it, thus rendering any card level 'mouseDown' mesages that normally get triggered when you click next to the controls on your card? When the mouseUp message reaches the engine, of course. At the last stage of the message path. Remember how you'd script this yourself : by means of a combination of mouseDown/mouseMove/mouseUp/mouseRelease handlers -- that's four messages that may be caught independently somewhere down the message path, sometimes in different objects in order to minimize scripting efforts. I'm not sure how the engine could know for sure that it's supposed to move the stack around, but that may just be my puny brains ;-) Jan Schenkel. = Quartam - Tools for Revolution http://www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property
On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:06 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: Saved as a standalone, this does not work. I spent about 3 hours on this today and what I've found after a lot of tracing is that in the standalone app, the custom property containing the password against which the user's entry is to be matched is empty. I have an answer dialog that displays the value of that property. In the IDE, it shows the property correctly and the stack works. In the runtime, that dialog says the custom property has no value in it. Known bug? I can't find anything on this in Mozilla. I'm going to resort to placing the password into the stack as a variable, but that seems somehow less elegant. Dan Dan, what is the name of the property and to whom it belongs? I have a stripAndShip handler here that will destroy properties beggining with Dev and clear fields begginning with the word field_ you're not using some similar handler? Or maybe you're using some reserved word... don't know... Andre -- Andre Alves Garzia 2004 BRAZIL http://studio.soapdog.org ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
Frank D. Engel, Jr.: Actually, I'm going to try making a com1 folder on a CD (from my Mac) and inserting that into a Windows box. Hmm... James Cass: GOOD GOD MAN!! ARE YOU CRAZY!! You could rip a hole in the space-time continuum and squirt us all out of this dimension like watermelon seeds!! You can't just go plucking the Cosmic Strings like a monkey on a banjo!! OH, THE HUMANITY!!! -James ROTFL Go for it Frank ! Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Problems using Dreamcard
Alex Tweedly wrote: Two possibilities : 1. Make sure the Player is not in secure mode (which prevents it from writing files or accessing the network). [Click on the Rev icon at top right, and set the checkbox for Run in non-secure mode ] 2. There is a bug (Bugzilla 2294) by which stacks run in Dreamcard Player do not have a home directory, so expressions such as the filename of this stack do not produce the correct answer. When Dreamcard and the Player came out, I tried using them for a while, but quickly ran into some problems (Bugzilla 2117, 2138, 2139, 2140, 2142) which were all survivable (in fact - a couple of them are entered as enhancements because it wasn't clear to me whether they were real bugs or just possible improvements). When I ran into 2294, I decided to (temporarily) give up on using Dreamcard Player - fortunately I still have a valid 2.2.1 Express license, so can build standalones for my users (though some of them would prefer the much smaller downloads we'd get if we could use DC Player). But triggered by Jim's question, I went back for another look. In less than 30 minutes, I found more problems (2593, 2594, 2595, 2596 and 2597). Is anyone actually using Dreamcard Player ? How extensively ? Is there anything about your user base that makes them able to use it without running into problems (or is it something about me that makes me unlucky :-) ? Am I just too picky ? -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 07/02/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
On 2/9/05 1:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm going to try making a com1 folder on a CD (from my Mac) and inserting that into a Windows box. Hmm... GOOD GOD MAN!! ARE YOU CRAZY!! You could rip a hole in the space-time continuum and squirt us all out of this dimension like watermelon seeds!! You can't just go plucking the Cosmic Strings like a monkey on a banjo!! OH, THE HUMANITY!!! -James This is possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen come through this list. I am *still* laughing. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: The Case of the Disappearing Custom Property
On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: The good news is that I was backed up and archived thanks to Chipp's most excellent altArchive plugin so I was never in real danger of losing work. Dan Dan and Chipp, altArchive is THE MOST IMPORTANT LIFE SAVER EVER! Everytime I destroy Rev, every time I make one of my server experiments fail, everytime I crash an external, I know I am safe cause St. Archiver is looking after my stacks! andre -- Andre Alves Garzia 2004 BRAZIL http://studio.soapdog.org ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Problems using Dreamcard
Jim Lyons wrote: Thanks for telling me about this, Alex. I just spent a frustrating hour looking for this information: at the Dreamcard homepage there is nothing but marketing-speak -- Do anything!. At RevOnline, I don't see the Learning Center in my channels (?!) so I didn't check there. No idea why you don't see them - when you clock RevOnline from the IDE, you should see four boxes (My Space, User Spaces, What's New and Learning Centre). Since the Learning Centre is only available to licensees, there wouldn't be much point in putting Dreamcard Player info in there. I reread the readme files in my Rev 2.5 distribution for info about Dreamcard -- Straight out of the box, Dreamcard provides the features of a word processor, a presentation tool, a simple spreadsheet And finally I looked again in the Rev documentation -- in Topics, Dictionary, and FAQ you can only get dre into the filter box before you get the annoying nothing matches dialog. Sigh and double-sigh. Jim - you need to know about the wonderful stack from Ken Ray, with a way to fix your copy of Runrev for this annoying dialog see http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2005-January/050110.html Thanks so much for your help Alex. By the way, where is the info about secure mode? Beats me :-) I think I learnt about it from this email list (specifically, an email from Kevin Miller to the list back in July) when the player was first announced (or first beta-ed). I'm fairly sure nothing about Dreamcard is described in the built-in docs, and I don't see anything on the web site to describe secure mode. -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 07/02/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Ann: Kount Fu Master
Xavier, the screen shot shows that the interface is awesome. Any chance of compiling it for us Mac users? Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: mouseDown/Up - no actions when not on buttons
J Landman Gay wrote: snip Instead of trying to get the name for all cases, change the syntax to: case navUp -- Determine which text field the user was in if the selectedField contains User ID then -- change this focus on field Password Jaqueline, The above is always empty. If you use: put the short name of the selectedField into activeField if activeField = User ID then as Jason did, you can store the selectedField. Of course, the rest of your recommendations are a far better way of coding. Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: rev and zip files
There is a way to zip files or even folders without an external. I did this by shelling another zipping utility. To be even more sly about it, the zipping executable is embedded in the stack in a custom property. It's on RevOnline. User Name: Benjam Program: Windows ZipFolder This program only works for windows. Also, it hasn't been tested that well. If it doesn't work please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. -Ben P.S. Is it true that you can read from the standard input and output from a exe? Is this the same iostream that c++ uses? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Metal anomalies
Dragging the window IS the correct behavior for metal on OS X. Without the suggested handlers, applications with the metal look don't behave normally and they should IMHO. Bill Vlahos On Feb 9, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: I'm not sure how the engine could know for sure that it's supposed to move the stack around, but that may just be my puny brains ;-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Metal anomalies
Dragging the window IS the correct behavior for metal on OS X. Without the suggested handlers, applications with the metal look don't behave normally and they should IMHO. Bill Vlahos I've been using the following script (borrowed from Scott Rossi I think), placing it in a fld whose only purpose is facilitate dragging the wd. Does this help you? sims local startX, startY, dragWd on mouseDown if the target contains Menubar is false then put true into dragWd put the mouseH into startX put the mouseV into startY else pass mouseDown end if end mouseDown on mouseMove newMouseH, newMouseV if dragWd then set the loc of this stack to item 1 of the loc of this \ stack - startX + newMouseH,item 2 of the loc of this stack - startY + newMouseV end if end mouseMove on mouseUp put false into dragWd end mouseUp on mouseRelease put false into dragWd end mouseRelease ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Ann: Kount Fu Master
Thank you Mark! Well, I'll be darned, I didn't expect that high an adjective! Did you try it? The chances of a Mac version depends on whether I sell the game when it's finished so I can buy a Mac compilation pack and eventually a mini-mac. Eventually my translation Nitrous plugin might help but given I haven't sold one Nitrous plugin or received any shareware donations in over a year, my eight ball instinct says it's doubtful. I'll let the market decide... Regards, Xavier -- http://monsieurx.com Nitrous supplier for accelerated RunRev development -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Greenberg Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 00:49 To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Ann: Kount Fu Master Xavier, the screen shot shows that the interface is awesome. Any chance of compiling it for us Mac users? Mark Greenberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Why does XP choke on the filename - com1.gif
Note: In XP home, creating the empty folder on the desktop and naming it com1 results in Windows quietly switching the name back to New Folder with no error or anything. W2K at least complained that the file already existed. The error message I get in W2K, W2k3 is invalid file name... That should explain it... cheers Xavier - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGEInternet communications are not secure and therefore Clearstream International does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message.The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Clearstream International or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries.END OF DISCLAIMER ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: New Externals...
We're investigating a VOIP external for Revolution. I'll announce something further here when/if progress has been made... Rodney 3. VOIP toolkit. Interface to existing SIP libraries, and controllable audio encoding (G711 or 723 or later, with the external managing all packet sending and reception). Choice of external talking either to hardware (i.e. handset or mic/spkrs) or passing audio buffers to the Transcript [and similarly taking audio buffer from Transcript and encoding/sending it]. -- Rodney Tamblyn OceanBrowser Ltd 44 Melville Street Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64-3-4778606 extension 1 iax2:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oceanbrowser.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
