Re: OT Ugly fonts using XP/Parallels

[Ken Ray]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:58:52 -0700, Mark Swindell wrote:

> Thanks Bill.  I'm definitely a Windows novice.
> 
> Yes, I'm running millions of colors and using ClearType, which makes 
> things slightly less jagged, but still thin and gray compared to what 
> should be.
> 
> I don't have the BootCamp partition as you suggest, but it makes 
> sense to set things up as you describe.  I just did the Parallels 
> install and installed Windows under it.
> 
> I'm not sure why Explorer looks so funky... I know it's not as it 
> should be, but I don't know why it's the way it is.

Mark, can you take a screenshot and post a link to it? I'm curious as 
to what you're seeing...

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Re: How does "ask file with type" work?

[Richard Gaskin]

Trevor DeVore wrote:


On Apr 6, 2007, at 7:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

If you supply a default name, the name portion preceding the file  
name extension is selected, preserving the file type extension.   
That works well.


This works on OS X but not Windows. On Windows the entire file name  
(including extension) is selected. If the user just starts typing  
away then the extension is lost. This seems to be the standard  
behavior with other Windows applications but see below.



...
OS X allows the developer to supply a file extension, and Rev  
provides a means for doing that.  But apparently the OS doesn't  
prevent the user from going out of their way to delete file type  
extensions in its dialog, and the "ask file" command (when used  
outside of the Message Box) faithfully returns exactly what the  
user entered.


I just tested Notepad and SnagIt on Windows.  The behavior in ask  
file dialogs is to automatically append the extension of the  
currently selected "Save as type:". In Notepad I tried to save a file  
as "test" in a folder that had a "test.txt" file already. I clicked  
the "Save" button and was immediately presented with a dialog asking  
if I wanted to replace "test.txt" (ask dialog did not disappear).


So on Windows I think the file extension of the currently selected  
"Save as type:" should be automatically appended to the file name. On  
Mac I think the current behavior is correct since file extensions  
aren't required.


The fact that lots of us are writing cross-platform software means  
some of us might want to enforce file extensions so the files can  
travel between different operating systems easily enough. Maybe an  
option to force the extension on OS X would be nice as well. We can  
do it manually now but it would be nice to not have to add the extra  
code to check each time.


Those are important observations.  Please consider adding them to the BZ 
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Re: OT Ugly fonts using XP/Parallels

[Mark Swindell]

Thanks Bill.  I'm definitely a Windows novice.

Yes, I'm running millions of colors and using ClearType, which makes  
things slightly less jagged, but still thin and gray compared to what  
should be.


I don't have the BootCamp partition as you suggest, but it makes  
sense to set things up as you describe.  I just did the Parallels  
install and installed Windows under it.


I'm not sure why Explorer looks so funky... I know it's not as it  
should be, but I don't know why it's the way it is.


Mark



On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Bill Marriott wrote:


Mark,

If you're a newcomer to Windows, fonts may not look as nice as you're
accustomed to in Mac OS X.

1) Are you running Windows in Millions of colors?

2) Have you turned on ClearType in Windows?

Display Properties--> Appearance--> Effects

[x] Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts
 - ClearType

3) Are all the fonts equally unattractive? Some fonts are TrueType/ 
OpenType
in Windows, and some are not. Try Verdana and Georgia, which should  
look

best.

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partition first (being sure to install Apple's drivers), then instruct
Parallels to re-use that partition for its virtual machine while  
running in
Mac OS X. This way, you have access to the native environment when  
you need
it, and you can compare to see whether a problem (such as the  
display issue
you're encountering) is due to Parallels or just the "way it is" in  
Windows.


FWIW, I don't notice the fonts in Windows looking any different  
than they do

on my Windows desktop.


"Mark Swindell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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Newbie question:

I've finally got Parallels and Windows XP Home Edition installed and
running on a MacBook Pro... but

the fonts look terrible... .  thin and straggly and grayish...  
both  in

the system and Explorer

I've looked around the Parallels site for info and come up with   
nothing.

It's not right, as I looked at a friend's native XP setup  and things
looked fine.

Anyone here seen this, or have a solution?




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Re: Print question

[Sarah Reichelt]

I have tried setting the field's showBorder to false but the blue
background is still there. Does lockscreen affect using select empty?
I used lockscreen just before printing. I have tried using select
empty at several places in the script but with the same result.


Jeanne said "showFocusBorder", not "showBorder".

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Re: Print question

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Charles Szasz wrote:

Jeanne

I have tried setting the field's showBorder to false but the blue 
background is still there. Does lockscreen affect using select empty? I 
used lockscreen just before printing. I have tried using select empty at 
several places in the script but with the same result.


At first you mentioned a blue border, but the last couple of times you 
say blue background. If the whole background of the field is blue, then 
you'll need to set the background color of the field to empty (or to 
white.) If it is just the border, then the other suggestions should work.


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Print question

[Charles Szasz]

Jeanne

I have tried setting the field's showBorder to false but the blue  
background is still there. Does lockscreen affect using select empty?  
I used lockscreen just before printing. I have tried using select  
empty at several places in the script but with the same result.



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Print question

[Charles Szasz]

Chris,

I just uncheck show border and I still have a blue background.


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Re: Print question

[chris livermore]

Charles, set the field's 'border' to 0, if you need a border then  
maybe use a rectangle shape.


chris

On 12/04/2007, at 11:15 AM, Charles Szasz wrote:


Bill,

I tried your suggestion. I inserted Select Empty just before and  
also after open printing with dialog but with the same results - it  
did not eliminate the blue background in the field.



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Re: Print question

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At 6:11 PM -0400 4/11/2007, Charles Szasz wrote:

I am using the Print Card to print three cards. I have only problem.
The first field on the first card where the user enters their name
has a blue high light around the person's name. It shows up in
Preview of OSX and prints out as blue background around the text in
the text field. I am using Rev. 2.7.4.  How can I fix this?


Hi, Charles. Try setting the field's showFocusBorder property to 
false before printing.

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Print question

[Charles Szasz]

Bill,

I tried your suggestion. I inserted Select Empty just before and also  
after open printing with dialog but with the same results - it did  
not eliminate the blue background in the field.



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Re: XP and Vista question

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At 5:22 PM -0600 4/11/07, ian wallace wrote:

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Re: XP and Vista question

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STOP EMAILINGME



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Subject: Re: XP and Vista question
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:26:07 +0200

On 11 Apr 2007, at 06:51, Chipp Walters wrote:


Been reading this same sort of doom and gloom regarding Microsoft for
years. When MS makes mistakes (frequently), they often do change their
course-- and quickly.


http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Dear Chipp

The problem is, that linked article is in no way about the downfall of 
Microsoft. Although there are parts in it that say "Microsoft made a 
mistake" or "Suicide note", that is not the main focus of the article as I 
perceived it.


For me, the most important message in that article was (in my words):
"Microsofts implementation to enforce DRM in the new Vista will make every 
software, and every hardware only remotely attached to the PC platform more 
costly and more buggy. Even if the user never comes near Vista itself."
Although that may be true or not, it is a very interesting notion based on 
the facts he put forth. Especially for a cross platform tool user as 
myself. Personally I think that this is as much build in into Windows as 
IE. Although it could technically be removed, Microsoft will fight to the 
death to keep it in, as for them it is their lifeblood.


I have watched DRM reduce the usability of every digital medium since the 
content providers where shocked by the (then) new lossless capabilities of 
copying (ca. 1970 or so i guess).
In the end, DRM is all about reducing your customers to sheeps: Mindless 
creatures to be slaughtered on a whim. The problem is, they are not, and in 
fact find you very much rude if they perceive you to having such thoughts. 
Also unlike sheeps, customers aren't slaughtered, but give you money 
voluntarily or out of their own need, so as soon as you slaughter one (or 
try to), all the others will think about finding another person to give 
their money to (If they find one depends on many variables of course).


I do plan to become a supplier if my own IP in the future, but I have yet 
to find an answer to protecting sold digital data which satisfies me. Most 
likely, I probably won't protect it, or only very lightly.


Sincerely yours
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Re: Print question

[Bill]

In order to avoid that problem I put "select empty"

On Print_Card
select empty
set the printmargins to 0,0,0,0
open printing with dialog
print card from 0,0 to 612,792
close printing
End Print_Card


On 4/11/07 6:11 PM, "Charles Szasz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am using the Print Card to print three cards. I have only problem.
> The first field on the first card where the user enters their name
> has a blue high light around the person's name. It shows up in
> Preview of OSX and prints out as blue background around the text in
> the text field. I am using Rev. 2.7.4.  How can I fix this?
> 
> 
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Beta-Testing and Bugzilla

[Richmond Mathewson]

Found a bug [tried to save a script in an image],

went to Bugzilla, lost my password, requested new one
and got a

token

and instructios to click on it - nothing doing?

help me please!

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Print question

[Charles Szasz]

I am using the Print Card to print three cards. I have only problem.  
The first field on the first card where the user enters their name  
has a blue high light around the person's name. It shows up in  
Preview of OSX and prints out as blue background around the text in  
the text field. I am using Rev. 2.7.4.  How can I fix this?



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Re: OS X Preferences menu item

[Chris Sheffield]

Perfect, Sarah. Thank you. I'll give that a try.

On Apr 11, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:



The method I use is to rename the Edit menu to something other than
"Edit", say "EditMenu" instead. Then change the label of the Edit
button in the menubar to "Edit" so it displays correctly. This will
disable the Preferences item just as if you had no Edit menu. It will
also stop the bottom 2 items of the menu being moved, so you will need
to delete them yourself.

Cheers,
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Re: OS X Preferences menu item

[Sarah Reichelt]

On OS X, is it possible to either remove completely (preferred) or
disable (acceptable) the Preferences menu item in the application's
menu? I know it's possible as far as the OS is concerned cause I've
seen other Mac apps where it's either disabled or completely gone.
But I'm not sure if there's a way to accomplish either of these with
Rev.


The method I use is to rename the Edit menu to something other than
"Edit", say "EditMenu" instead. Then change the label of the Edit
button in the menubar to "Edit" so it displays correctly. This will
disable the Preferences item just as if you had no Edit menu. It will
also stop the bottom 2 items of the menu being moved, so you will need
to delete them yourself.

Cheers,
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OS X Preferences menu item

[Chris Sheffield]

I have to say I feel kind of stupid asking this question, seeing as  
how I've been using Rev for a few years now. You'd think I'd already  
know the answer to this. :-)


On OS X, is it possible to either remove completely (preferred) or  
disable (acceptable) the Preferences menu item in the application's  
menu? I know it's possible as far as the OS is concerned cause I've  
seen other Mac apps where it's either disabled or completely gone.  
But I'm not sure if there's a way to accomplish either of these with  
Rev.


I currently have an Edit menu in my app that contains two items, the  
last one being Preferences. But the app has no customizable prefs, so  
I'd like to remove it if possible. But the closest I've been able to  
come is to remove the Edit menu entirely. Doing this gives me a  
disabled Preferences item, but I really want to keep my Edit menu. Is  
there another way that I'm missing?


Anyone?

Thanks,
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Re: XP and Vista question

[Björnke von Gierke]

On 11 Apr 2007, at 06:51, Chipp Walters wrote:


Been reading this same sort of doom and gloom regarding Microsoft for
years. When MS makes mistakes (frequently), they often do change their
course-- and quickly.


http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Dear Chipp

The problem is, that linked article is in no way about the downfall of 
Microsoft. Although there are parts in it that say "Microsoft made a 
mistake" or "Suicide note", that is not the main focus of the article 
as I perceived it.


For me, the most important message in that article was (in my words):
"Microsofts implementation to enforce DRM in the new Vista will make 
every software, and every hardware only remotely attached to the PC 
platform more costly and more buggy. Even if the user never comes near 
Vista itself."
Although that may be true or not, it is a very interesting notion based 
on the facts he put forth. Especially for a cross platform tool user as 
myself. Personally I think that this is as much build in into Windows 
as IE. Although it could technically be removed, Microsoft will fight 
to the death to keep it in, as for them it is their lifeblood.


I have watched DRM reduce the usability of every digital medium since 
the content providers where shocked by the (then) new lossless 
capabilities of copying (ca. 1970 or so i guess).
In the end, DRM is all about reducing your customers to sheeps: 
Mindless creatures to be slaughtered on a whim. The problem is, they 
are not, and in fact find you very much rude if they perceive you to 
having such thoughts. Also unlike sheeps, customers aren't slaughtered, 
but give you money voluntarily or out of their own need, so as soon as 
you slaughter one (or try to), all the others will think about finding 
another person to give their money to (If they find one depends on many 
variables of course).


I do plan to become a supplier if my own IP in the future, but I have 
yet to find an answer to protecting sold digital data which satisfies 
me. Most likely, I probably won't protect it, or only very lightly.


Sincerely yours
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Re: OT Ugly fonts using XP/Parallels

[Bill Marriott]

Mark,

If you're a newcomer to Windows, fonts may not look as nice as you're 
accustomed to in Mac OS X.

1) Are you running Windows in Millions of colors?

2) Have you turned on ClearType in Windows?

Display Properties--> Appearance--> Effects

[x] Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts
 - ClearType

3) Are all the fonts equally unattractive? Some fonts are TrueType/OpenType 
in Windows, and some are not. Try Verdana and Georgia, which should look 
best.

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partition first (being sure to install Apple's drivers), then instruct 
Parallels to re-use that partition for its virtual machine while running in 
Mac OS X. This way, you have access to the native environment when you need 
it, and you can compare to see whether a problem (such as the display issue 
you're encountering) is due to Parallels or just the "way it is" in Windows.

FWIW, I don't notice the fonts in Windows looking any different than they do 
on my Windows desktop.


"Mark Swindell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Newbie question:
>
> I've finally got Parallels and Windows XP Home Edition installed and 
> running on a MacBook Pro... but
>
> the fonts look terrible... .  thin and straggly and grayish... both  in 
> the system and Explorer
>
> I've looked around the Parallels site for info and come up with  nothing. 
> It's not right, as I looked at a friend's native XP setup  and things 
> looked fine.
>
> Anyone here seen this, or have a solution?



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Re: imagedata

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 12:34 PM +0300 4/11/2007, Viktoras Didziulis wrote:

So ppm/pgm/pbm is more compact than imageData and therefore processing may
be a bit faster. But be warned - I did not try this yet in Revolution, I
used to work with these formats in other languages before started playing
with Rev. However now using imageData mostly - but if ppm still is the same
real ppm in the text of image, then it is worth to try - performance gain
may be possible...


I don't think it is. The import command can import PPM/PBM/PGM files, 
but if I remember correctly, it turns them into RLE internally. 
Likewise with XWD and its variants, and BMP. (I haven't actually 
tested this lately, though.)

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OT Ugly fonts using XP/Parallels

[Mark Swindell]

Newbie question:

I've finally got Parallels and Windows XP Home Edition installed and  
running on a MacBook Pro... but


the fonts look terrible... .  thin and straggly and grayish... both  
in the system and Explorer


I've looked around the Parallels site for info and come up with  
nothing.  It's not right, as I looked at a friend's native XP setup  
and things looked fine.


Anyone here seen this, or have a solution?

Thanks
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Re: How does "ask file with type" work?

[Trevor DeVore]

I just finished dealing with a support issue on Windows related to  
this so I want to add some additional notes.


On Apr 6, 2007, at 7:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

If you supply a default name, the name portion preceding the file  
name extension is selected, preserving the file type extension.   
That works well.


This works on OS X but not Windows. On Windows the entire file name  
(including extension) is selected. If the user just starts typing  
away then the extension is lost. This seems to be the standard  
behavior with other Windows applications but see below.


So this comes down to Dave's suggestion that the ask file command  
somehow force a file type extension when the user has deleted it  
from the prompt, and also provide its own notification of any  
conflicts with existing files.


OS X allows the developer to supply a file extension, and Rev  
provides a means for doing that.  But apparently the OS doesn't  
prevent the user from going out of their way to delete file type  
extensions in its dialog, and the "ask file" command (when used  
outside of the Message Box) faithfully returns exactly what the  
user entered.


I just tested Notepad and SnagIt on Windows.  The behavior in ask  
file dialogs is to automatically append the extension of the  
currently selected "Save as type:". In Notepad I tried to save a file  
as "test" in a folder that had a "test.txt" file already. I clicked  
the "Save" button and was immediately presented with a dialog asking  
if I wanted to replace "test.txt" (ask dialog did not disappear).


So on Windows I think the file extension of the currently selected  
"Save as type:" should be automatically appended to the file name. On  
Mac I think the current behavior is correct since file extensions  
aren't required.


The fact that lots of us are writing cross-platform software means  
some of us might want to enforce file extensions so the files can  
travel between different operating systems easily enough. Maybe an  
option to force the extension on OS X would be nice as well. We can  
do it manually now but it would be nice to not have to add the extra  
code to check each time.


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Re: Regarding RunTime Revolution

[Scott Kane]

Not that I'm aware of, but why would you want to do that?


You can do it (not necessarily using Rev), but it's bad form and what's to 
save the poor user if the program goes ballistic.


Scott 


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Re: Regarding RunTime Revolution

[Ken Ray]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:54:01 -0700 (PDT), DAVID DEATON wrote:

> Will Someone please Tell me how to make A  button i created in one of my
> applications  in run-time revolution only click on The left button of 
> the mouse, it 
> clicks on all three buttons of the mouse i don't like that. I have Searched 
> And Look  on line in The Documentations A everything to figure this 
> out. And I 
> can find  it. Please help. Thanks.

There is a parameter to the mouse messages (mouseUp, etc.) that 
includes the mouse button that was clicked (see the docs on "mouseUp", 
etc.). You could filter for it:

on mouseUp pBtn
  if pBtn <> 1 then exit to top  -- don't do anything
  -- the rest of your script here
end mouseUp

>And another Thing, Is it possible to keep an application that is 
> running to not show up in the Task Manager of windows. so that it 
> cannot be closed?

Not that I'm aware of, but why would you want to do that?

Ken Ray
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Re: does altSQLite still exists?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Great, thanks Andre!

 

Tiemo, 

better than that, I just found the page where they are for you 

   
http://www.runrev.com/offers/plugins.php 

Have Fun! 
Chipp and Chris products rocks! 

Andre 

 

 

 

 

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Re: does altSQLite still exists?

[Andre Garzia]

Tiemo,

better than that, I just found the page where they are for you

  http://www.runrev.com/offers/plugins.php

Have Fun!
Chipp and Chris products rocks!

Andre
 
On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 01:27AM, "Tiemo Hollmann TB" <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Andre
>
>I am new to revolution and didn't received a newsletter yet. Do I have to
>subscribe for the newsletter, or does everybody with a licence gets it?
>
>Can you forward that newsletter off list to me?
>
> 
>
>Thank you
>
>Tiemo
>
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Re: does altSQLite still exists?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Andre

I am new to revolution and didn't received a newsletter yet. Do I have to
subscribe for the newsletter, or does everybody with a licence gets it?

Can you forward that newsletter off list to me?

 

Thank you

Tiemo

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Re: does altSQLite still exists?

[Andre Garzia]

Tiemo,

check the latest revolution newsletter, it has a link to the page with the 
plugins/externals.

andre
 
On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 12:22AM, "Tiemo Hollmann TB" <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I need a small, but reliable, single user database for win and Mac and have
>read about altSQLite. For me it seemed to be the best solution, because I
>don't need all of  valentines features for my small solution. Now I have
>found that altuit doesn't sell altSQLite any more, but I can't find it at
>runrev (to whom it should have been sold).
>
> 
>
>Can someone clearify this for me, what has happened here? - some technical
>or political stuff, which I - as a revolution newbee - have to know?
>
>Are there any old licences of altSQLite, which still work with 2.8?
>
>In case altSQLite isn't any more on the market, which "next bigger" sql
>database for win and mac is your recommendation? Is valentine the product of
>choice?
>
> 
>
>Thank you
>
>Tiemo
>
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does altSQLite still exists?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hello,

I need a small, but reliable, single user database for win and Mac and have
read about altSQLite. For me it seemed to be the best solution, because I
don't need all of  valentines features for my small solution. Now I have
found that altuit doesn't sell altSQLite any more, but I can't find it at
runrev (to whom it should have been sold).

 

Can someone clearify this for me, what has happened here? - some technical
or political stuff, which I - as a revolution newbee - have to know?

Are there any old licences of altSQLite, which still work with 2.8?

In case altSQLite isn't any more on the market, which "next bigger" sql
database for win and mac is your recommendation? Is valentine the product of
choice?

 

Thank you

Tiemo

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Non-descriptive subject headers

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Dear list members,

Every so often, discussions on this list get a subject header that  
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Regarding RunTime Revolution
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Windows question
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Yet another Newbie Question
Very newbie question
true newbie
Unusual Problems
strange code problem
Silly question
Very Very Very Basic Question!
New to the mailing list need a little help
use-revolution Digest, Vol #, Issue ##


May I kindly request the use of meaningful subject headers? This will  
make it easier for all of us to find solutions to problems that have  
been discussed before.


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Op 10-apr-2007, om 22:54 heeft DAVID DEATON het volgende geschreven:

Will Someone please Tell me how to make A  button i created in one  
of my
applications  in run-time revolution only click on The left button  
of the mouse, it
clicks on all three buttons of the mouse i don't like that. I have  
Searched
And Look  on line in The Documentations A everything to figure this  
out. And I

can find  it. Please help. Thanks.
   And another Thing, Is it possible to keep an application that is  
running to not show up in the Task Manager of windows. so that it  
cannot be closed?



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Re: Regarding RunTime Revolution

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi David,

Le 10 avr. 07 à 22:54, DAVID DEATON a écrit :

Will Someone please Tell me how to make A  button i created in one  
of my
applications  in run-time revolution only click on The left button  
of the mouse, it
clicks on all three buttons of the mouse i don't like that. I have  
Searched
And Look  on line in The Documentations A everything to figure this  
out. And I

can find  it. Please help. Thanks.
   And another Thing, Is it possible to keep an application that is  
running to not show up in the Task Manager of windows. so that it  
cannot be closed?


Rev allows to handle left and right click by checking a parameter  
sent by the engine to up and down mouse events.

For instance:

on mouseUp pButton
  switch pButton
  case 1

  break
  case 3

 end switch
end mouseUp

AFAIK, third button (or pressing the mouse wheel) is not standard and  
trapping the rawKeyUp message don't return anything in this case.


As for not showing an application in the Task Manager, I don't think  
it's possible: this would make the Task Manager useless :-)
As for not showing an application in the tray, just hide it, set its  
mode to another mode than topLevel or set its decorations to empty.


Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.

http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/
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Re: Regarding RunTime Revolution

[xavier . bury]

hi David,

here's a little script for your button

on mouseup theMouseParam
  if theMouseParam is 1 then
answer "You clicked the left button"
  else
exit mouseup
  end if
end mouseup

As for the task manager, no, you can't make an app invisible. You can hide 
it from the taskbar by
setting the stack's decorations to empty only...

Regards,
Xavier

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/04/2007 22:54:01:

> Will Someone please Tell me how to make A  button i created in one of my
> applications  in run-time revolution only click on The left button 
> of the mouse, it 
> clicks on all three buttons of the mouse i don't like that. I have 
Searched 
> And Look  on line in The Documentations A everything to figure this 
> out. And I 
> can find  it. Please help. Thanks.
>And another Thing, Is it possible to keep an application that is 
> running to not show up in the Task Manager of windows. so that it 
> cannot be closed?
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Regarding RunTime Revolution

[DAVID DEATON]

Will Someone please Tell me how to make A  button i created in one of my
applications  in run-time revolution only click on The left button of the 
mouse, it 
clicks on all three buttons of the mouse i don't like that. I have Searched 
And Look  on line in The Documentations A everything to figure this out. And I 
can find  it. Please help. Thanks.
   And another Thing, Is it possible to keep an application that is running to 
not show up in the Task Manager of windows. so that it cannot be closed?

   
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Linux installation - menus

[peter]

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/

is probably the first place to go for how to do menus independently of WMs.

Peter
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Re: imagedata

[Viktoras Didziulis]

The most straightforward image file format suported by Rev afaik is ppm
(portable pixelmap), it consists of just a header and a sequence of RGB
triplets (either in ascii or in binary form): 
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/ppm/ 
 
pgm (portable greymap) - header and each cell represented by a single
greyscale value
 
pbm (portable bitmap) - header and each cell represented by 0 or 1 (black
and white) 
 
So ppm/pgm/pbm is more compact than imageData and therefore processing may
be a bit faster. But be warned - I did not try this yet in Revolution, I
used to work with these formats in other languages before started playing
with Rev. However now using imageData mostly - but if ppm still is the same
real ppm in the text of image, then it is worth to try - performance gain
may be possible... 
 
All the best 
Viktoras
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Re: Drag Files To Application Icon

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Bridger,

Use AppleEvents. There are quite a few examples available in the list  
archives now.





If you put the following script into the stack script of a  
standalone, you will have an easy way to understand how AppleEvents  
work. Your stack also needs a text field.


on appleEvent theClass,theEvent,theSender
   put theClass & cr & theEvent & cr & theSender & cr & cr into myData
   request appleEvent data
   put it after myData
   put myData into fld 1
end appleEvent

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Op 11-apr-2007, om 8:10 heeft Bridger Maxwell het volgende geschreven:


Hey,
 How can I handle the dragging of a file onto my standalone  
application's

icon (in the dock or on startup)?  Is this easily done in Transcript?

 TTFN
   Bridger Maxwell
   Fiery Ferret
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