Re: image data
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 10:19 PM -0700 4/8/2007, Mark Wieder wrote: the text property of an image is the actual image data. So: set the text of image "testImage" to tJPGData This is one of those cases where I feel the language loses its intuitiveness... I know you have to do this, but it makes absolutely no sense to me. It's historical. I glanced at this and read "it's hysterical". So it is. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: image data
At 10:19 PM -0700 4/8/2007, Mark Wieder wrote: the text property of an image is the actual image data. So: set the text of image "testImage" to tJPGData This is one of those cases where I feel the language loses its intuitiveness... I know you have to do this, but it makes absolutely no sense to me. It's historical. In HyperCard 1.0, only fields had settable contents, so the "text" property made perfect sense. When HyperCard 2.0 introduced buttons with contents, it still used "the text", and of course with images we go completely off the rails. For what it's worth, "put XXX into " does the same thing as "set the text of to XXX", and is considerably more intuitive. But I wouldn't object at all to adding a synonymous "content" property or something similar. -- jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jaedworks.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: A string doesn't equal itself
Ken- Sunday, April 8, 2007, 11:00:24 PM, you wrote: > Just my 2 cents, I see your two and raise you a nickle. You're absolutely right about that. I went back and read it again. This looks quite buggy to me. IMO the quotes should prevent dereferencing and evaluation as a number. Yuck! Of possible interest is that the breakpoint is around 1.796931348E308: put "1.796931348E308" = "1.796931348E308" returns true put "1.796931349E308" = "1.796931349E308" returns false -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Linux installation
On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:14, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I'm aiming to write my own. So what I'm looking for is info on what > each of the window managers (KDE, Gnome -- other popular ones?) requires > for an app to: > > - Set up document file type associations > - Assign icons for the app and the documents > - Add shortcuts to the Start menu KDE filesystem hierarchy: http://techbase.kde.org/SysAdmin/KDE_Filesystem_Hierarchy KDE development tutorials: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials Freedesktop.org Specifications: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications (icons, menus applinks etc) The KDE Kmenu follows this specification: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html A bunch of links on standards and documentation here: http://vlug.org/linux/links/Documentation/Standards/index.html -- Rishi -- ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Linux installaton
On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:27, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > My understanding is that the various window managers for Linux each have > their own mechanisms for these, and that they aren't the same. Is that > correct? Yep, afraid so... BUT there is the Linux Standard Base: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB however this is still filtering through to actual implementation... > > Is there a single site you could recommend to get familiar with how to > write installers for Linux that provide a smooth user experience? RPM is a very widely used software package delivery system. http://www.rpm.org/ -- Rishi -- ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: image data
On 9 Apr 2007, at 18:16, Tereza Snyder wrote: Wasn't "the contents" the same as "the text" at one time? I was sure it was so, but I just tested it and "the contents" of an image returns empty, whereas "the text" does not. But I'm sure that once upon a time—maybe in Metacard days—it was a synonym. Am I nuts? Does anyone else remember this? Perhaps you're thinking of "put mydata into image 1". This is what I've always used. I can't bring myself to use "text". :-) Cheers Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Problem with Imbedded file
I saved a RTF file as a custom property of my app stack with the
following code:
answer file "Store which file?" --> I selected the file
"template.rtf"
set the customPropertySet of this stack to empty
set the uRtFile of this stack to url ("file:" & ".rtf")
set the uShortFilename of this stack to last item of it
save this stack
This script works. The following script also works. It opens the RTF
file to add field information from my card to the fields in the .rtf
file.
put the effective filename of this stack into tPath
set the itemdelimiter to "/"
put "template.rtf" into last item of tPath
put URL ("file:"& tPath) into tRTFdata
-> Code to fill fields.
if field "vmiFld" of card "index" > ""
then
replace "(1)" with the rtftext of field "vmiFld" of card "index"
in tRTFdata
else
replace "(1)" with "" in tRTFdata
end if
etc.
Then export the RFT file:
ask file "Save file as:"
put it into tNewFilePath
put tRTFdata into URL ("file:" & tNewFilePath & ".rtf")
This export code works in the IDE of Rev 2.7.4 . However, it does NOT
work in the standalone! I get the message that I cannot open the RTF
file using TextEdit after I export the file.
I have been working on this for four days with the same results. I
would appreciate ANY suggestions!
Charles Szasz
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HC converted stacks
Hi from Paris, Bonjour Francis, You might want to read the tutorial of HyperActive that is devoted to translating stack from HyperCard to Revolution. I used it and saved time thank to this tutorial. Merci André -Francis "Nothing should ever be done for the first time - But I've spent my life just doing that !" ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Enteprise Upgrades - Free Vista Upgrade and/or Parallels Offer Running Out
http://www.runrev.com/offers/vista/ Hi all, Ive been contacted by a few folks over the weekend about the special offer and if its still live - it is! But its going away very likely sometime not all that long after our European side team members get back from "Easter Monday". In a nutshell this is: With any Enterprise purchase including new licenses, upgrades from Media or Studio, or update packs, use the code MFVISTAFREE and get Vista upgrade free Or With any Studio purchase over $250, including new purchases, renewal packs ond upgrades from Media, use the code MFPARALLELSFREE - get Parallels for free The Vista upgrade is shipped to you via Amazon, and the Parallels is a download/serial you get via Parallels. Folks in the USA: If your Enterprise license especially is going to expire soon, this is a great deal - the early update for Enterprise is $499, but the "late" update to Enterprise is $749. An update just stacks on top of whatever time you have left, so you arent losing anything by buying now - besides, don't you have a fat tax rebate coming? :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution Ltd http://www.runrev.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: image data
On Apr 9, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Trevor wrote: the text property of an image is the actual image data. So: set the text of image "testImage" to tJPGData Then Mark Wieder wrote: This is one of those cases where I feel the language loses its intuitiveness... I know you have to do this, but it makes absolutely no sense to me. Wasn't "the contents" the same as "the text" at one time? I was sure it was so, but I just tested it and "the contents" of an image returns empty, whereas "the text" does not. But I'm sure that once upon a time—maybe in Metacard days—it was a synonym. Am I nuts? Does anyone else remember this? Even if it wasn't ever the case, it ought to be. I'm with Mark. Referring to "the text" of an image makes absolutely no sense to me. t -- Tereza Snyder Califex Software, Inc. www.califexsoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: A string doesn't equal itself
Ken Ray wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:16:32 -0700, Mark Wieder wrote: string that represented a serial number she allowed the engine to process the equality operator numerically. And gave it values beyond those it could be expected to handle with a default margin of error. Actually, Mark, this was her post: put "09114E715806" = "09114E715806" So she *did* quote it. I'd agree with you if it weren't quoted, but as it was, I would expect this to be interpreted as a string and not a number. I'm torn between the two opinions. In a way, I agree with Mark. The flexibility of xtalk allows us to be very lax about variable typing -- we don't really have to do it at all. I believe the engine evaluates even quoted literals to try to type them. For example, this works: set the brush to "4" If the engine were not evaluating the string, this example would fail. That means that even quoted literals are not always literals if they are numbers. I think it would be difficult to fix this problem without severely restricting the flexibility of the engine in general. We would be forced into pseudo-typing all variables by only using quotation marks when we really do mean exact literals. That wouldn't necessarily be a terrible thing, but it would break backward compatibility with traditional xtalk. The consequences of the engine change could affect lots more than the single, unique problem we're trying to fix. Here's another thing that works right now: put "4/9/2007" is a date This isn't just a string. It is a string with numbers in it, and Rev has to evaluate them as such. The character "4" is not the number "4", which allows Rev to determine that "4/ew/2007" is not a date (an improvement over HC, which did think "ew" was a date.) If we remove the ability to parse quoted dates as numbers, then how do you solve the issue where 1/1/2007 becomes an (incorrect) division command? On the other side, as Richard says, a string should always equal itself. And in fact, it does, provided you force the engine to evaluate it as a string. I accomplished this by specifically adding quotation marks around the variables that contain the so-called "number". Jim points out that adding a null character does the same thing. I think the engine performs flawlessly except in this one, narrow circumstance where there is a single "E" inside a group of numbers. I would be okay with RR just adding documentation clarifiying the possible pitfalls of using numerical strings. On the other hand, this behavior could throw people who weren't expecting it (and it threw me until I understood what was happening.) On the third hand, I've worked with numerical strings in Rev/MC for almost 10 years now and this issue has only occured once. It's a minor issue, though significant to the developer when it happens. I guess I'll report it, and let the team figure out the best way to handle it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Vista Question
I haven't been reading all the posts lately, so excuse me if you have talked this to death and I ask the most basic of questions. Vista is coming out. Will the software I created on my Mac using the old studio version of Revolution 2.7.1 have any problems with Vista? I don't have video or anything -- just a couple of pictures and a lot of sorting and buttons and stuff to manipulate user input in a grammar game. Thanks, Tom ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Problem saving a standalone
Hi all, In my search to find out why my stack is aborting the Save a standalone process, it appears that the last thing that is being done is copying externals. Since they haven't changed at all since I previously compiled the stack, it must be the very next thing that is the hang up. Anyone have an ideas as to what that might be. I don't have anything else ready to comple so that I can watch the process, but maybe one of you do? TIA, Joe Wilkins ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: HC converted stacks
Bonjour Francis, You might want to read the tutorial of HyperActive that is devoted to translating stack from HyperCard to Revolution. I used it and saved time thank to this tutorial. The address : http://www.hyperactivesw.com/mctutorial/rrtutorialtoc.html Best regards from Grenoble André Le 9 avr. 07 à 12:58, Francis Nugent Dixon a écrit : Hi from Paris, I will be without Classic on my new iMac G5, so I took the much delayed plunge, and in one day, converted my many HC stacks to Revolution (2.6.1 Build 152). Things seemed to work quite well, although I will have to modify many of my scripts, as I leaned heavily on external XCMDs and XFCNs (many thanks to Mr. Rinaldi et alia). I will end up rebuilding them all entirely, simply because Rev stacks can be so much more "jazzy" to look at. But, until then, I want to clean up the scripts a little, so that the stacks execute to some degree of efficiency. However, a few problems are bugging me and I don't know how or why they occur. When I open a HC converted stack, Examples : 1 - When I select a field or button with the pointer tool, the "up", "down", "left" and "right" arrows on the keybord don't work any more. I can't move my fields/buttons step by step. 2 - I get strange errors flagged, such as "Repeat: error in statement" for a script command" "repeat forever", and "Handler: error in statement" for a script command "go to card 1". I can find NO errors in my scripts. Can anybody shed any light on either of these problems ? Are there any important "Do's" and "Don'ts" for those converting stacks from HC ? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
HC converted stacks
Hi from Paris, I will be without Classic on my new iMac G5, so I took the much delayed plunge, and in one day, converted my many HC stacks to Revolution (2.6.1 Build 152). Things seemed to work quite well, although I will have to modify many of my scripts, as I leaned heavily on external XCMDs and XFCNs (many thanks to Mr. Rinaldi et alia). I will end up rebuilding them all entirely, simply because Rev stacks can be so much more "jazzy" to look at. But, until then, I want to clean up the scripts a little, so that the stacks execute to some degree of efficiency. However, a few problems are bugging me and I don't know how or why they occur. When I open a HC converted stack, Examples : 1 - When I select a field or button with the pointer tool, the "up", "down", "left" and "right" arrows on the keybord don't work any more. I can't move my fields/buttons step by step. 2 - I get strange errors flagged, such as "Repeat: error in statement" for a script command" "repeat forever", and "Handler: error in statement" for a script command "go to card 1". I can find NO errors in my scripts. Can anybody shed any light on either of these problems ? Are there any important "Do's" and "Don'ts" for those converting stacks from HC ? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: XP and Vista question
Not sure if this link has already been posted but here is a fascinating analysis of the costs & repercussions of Vista's DRM http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#author There are many nice quotes in the article, here is just one- "Because Windows dominates the market and device vendors are unlikely to design and manufacture two different versions of their products, non-Windows users will be paying for Windows Vista content-protection measures in products even if they never run Windows on them." ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: A string doesn't equal itself
And just for completeness, this also return false: put "09114E715806" is "09114E715806" (I wondered if 'is' instead of '=' might produce a different result). Best, Mark On 9 Apr 2007, at 07:00, Ken Ray wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:16:32 -0700, Mark Wieder wrote: string that represented a serial number she allowed the engine to process the equality operator numerically. And gave it values beyond those it could be expected to handle with a default margin of error. Actually, Mark, this was her post: put "09114E715806" = "09114E715806" So she *did* quote it. I'd agree with you if it weren't quoted, but as it was, I would expect this to be interpreted as a string and not a number. Just my 2 cents, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Problems with passworded stacks?
Tereza, >>> Bill, you mean if I unlock the stacks at runtime, the stacks will run normally? Can I do that just once during execution and they'll be unlocked in memory for the duration? If so, maybe I can set the passkey(s) at startup EXCEPT in the presence of the IDE and thereby deny script-reading. Does that sound as if it would work? <<< Yes, exactly. Passwords prevent certain modifications to a stack so you either have to come up with a different method of operation, or unlock them during runtime the way you describe. Some different approaches would be adjusting objects that already exist, or segregating stuff that needs to be modified into a sub-stack that is not protected (passwords apply to a particular stack, not the whole file). ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
