Re: Starting an iMac 24 with remote keyboard
Jeffrey, You made my day. Isn't life a hoot? Thanks, Joe Wilkins On May 3, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: Joe, seemed very appropriate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQmode=relatedsearch= (sent to me by a client who does illuminated illustrations and she always jokes she is medieval with computers...) cheers, Jeffrey Reynolds On May 3, 2007, at 7:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacque, Sarah, Thanks. I did finally find a Manual that showed where the button should be, though the manual is terrible. Tiny. Not one of Apple's finest hours. Anyway, I called him. Got his wife. She felt where I directed her and found it first time. You guys are priceless. 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 ___ 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
A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Strap a scanner to one of the older Mac monitors now, talking about DAFT :) as I have a SCSI CD-ROM burner in my attic in Scotland I will just make backups of all my silly little MACS (about 5 at the last count - they breed, you know) onto CD. Come to think of it . . . I have a SCSI PCI card on my G4 Windtunnel just in case I get even more back-to-the-future. LUIS: I may yet strap a scanner to my face and plaster it all over your e-mail :) Love and muffled noises, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ___ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html ___ 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
Assigning IP addresses . . .
Ian Wood wrote: You can only assign IP addresses to devices that understand Internet Protocol, i.e computers and network-aware devices such as network printers, network scanners and NAS boxes. All those things that have ethernet ports... That has been my point all along! For instance: On my home network I have a fairly plain, vanilla USB printer hooked into my Router via an EdiMax (cheap and not very cheerful, and a pain in the bum to set up with Macs) printer server. My printer probably wouldn't understand an IP address if it hit it in the face (a lot of mixed metaphors and similes there) - but the server thrives on IP addresses. Hence the idea that one could assign an IP address to some sort of USB-to-Ethernet server regardless of what was plugged in at the far end. Having read the Keyspan PDFs I found 2 things which make this unworkable, at least with their product: 1. doesn't work with video - although does work with digital cameras. 2. doesn't seem to allow the end-user to assign IP addresses - does it all automatically: why do I dislike machines that have sealed boxes? SO . . . I am now searching for a video-compliant USB/Firewire-to-Ethernet server, and, like a later-day Don Quixote I shall ride forth with my BBC Micro under one arm, my SCSI PCI card under the other and all sorts of ADB cables slung around my waist . . . fear not! the outdated loony cometh! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ___ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html ___ 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 daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Strap a scanner to one of the older Mac monitors now, talking about DAFT :) What? When you gotta make do, you gotta make do. I've still got my metal detector in a matchbox somewhere... as I have a SCSI CD-ROM burner in my attic in Scotland I will just make backups of all my silly little MACS (about 5 at the last count - they breed, you know) onto CD. Come to think of it . . . I have a SCSI PCI card on my G4 Windtunnel just in case I get even more back-to-the-future. SCSI to SCSI: You might be able to mount them as drives (as in shared folders). LUIS: I may yet strap a scanner to my face and plaster it all over your e-mail :) Is it just me or does that just sound plain wrong? Cheers, Luis. Love and muffled noises, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ___ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html ___ 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
Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?
Hi list, Could someone be kind enough to advise a graphic lib that allows (fast) 3D bussiness graphics with Rev cgi (stuff like 3D bar-charts with perspective)? The ouput should be gif or jpg images to be integrated on-the-fly into web pages generated from the same Rev cgi scripts. I guess the main choice is one of the PHP libs... Thanks in adance, JB ___ 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 daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Richmond, A couple of links that might help with this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50512 http://lowendmac.com/network/bridge.shtml Regards James -- James J Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +44 (0)15394 43063 On 3 May, 2007, at 16:53, Richmond Mathewson wrote: And, while I am being daft; does anybody know of some way to patch from an old-fashioned Mac printer/modem port to ethernet??? sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ___ 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: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?
I've no idea if it would work with Rev CGI, but ArcadeEngine does a nice line in 3D barcharts etc. Ian On 4 May 2007, at 10:52, jbv wrote: Hi list, Could someone be kind enough to advise a graphic lib that allows (fast) 3D bussiness graphics with Rev cgi (stuff like 3D bar-charts with perspective)? The ouput should be gif or jpg images to be integrated on-the-fly into web pages generated from the same Rev cgi scripts. I guess the main choice is one of the PHP libs... Thanks in adance, JB ___ 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: Assigning IP addresses . . .
Richmond Mathewson wrote: On my home network I have a fairly plain, vanilla USB printer hooked into my Router via an EdiMax (cheap and not very cheerful, and a pain in the bum to set up with Macs) printer server. My printer probably wouldn't understand an IP address if it hit it in the face (a lot of mixed metaphors and similes there) - but the server thrives on IP addresses. That's because it knows that it has to treat the USB data in a certain way, ie: convert it to ethernet packets. And I agree, Edimax are pants. Hence the idea that one could assign an IP address to some sort of USB-to-Ethernet server regardless of what was plugged in at the far end. Yes, you can, but insofar as, for example, video data is sent into the USB part of the server, if it's expecting printer commands then that's what it's sent as. Having read the Keyspan PDFs I found 2 things which make this unworkable, at least with their product: 1. doesn't work with video - although does work with digital cameras. I suppose the polling rate could be tweaked here. 2. doesn't seem to allow the end-user to assign IP addresses - does it all automatically: why do I dislike machines that have sealed boxes? Yeah, that's a bit poo, especially if you have more than one device attached. SO . . . I am now searching for a video-compliant USB/Firewire-to-Ethernet server, That'd be your Mac then... and, like a later-day Don Quixote I shall ride forth with my BBC Micro under one arm, my SCSI PCI card under the other and all sorts of ADB cables slung around my waist . . . fear not! the outdated loony cometh! Phasers on stun! Cheers, Luis. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ___ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html ___ 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: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?
Ian , Thanks for your reply. Is there any example of 3D barcharts generated with ArcadeEngine ? And is ArcadeEngine compatible with Rev 2.5 ? Thanks, JB I've no idea if it would work with Rev CGI, but ArcadeEngine does a nice line in 3D barcharts etc. Ian ___ 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: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?
Hi BvG, have you looked at SvG graphics? They sound like the right stuff for a cgi... http://cairographics.org seems like a good place to start. There's also links for 3D Graphs and stuff... There's other non-free libs but this one is compatibile with lots of other languages and it's free... And svg graphics can be exported to other formats as well (links there too)... cheers -=- Xavier Bury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/05/2007 13:35:43: Ian , Thanks for your reply. Is there any example of 3D barcharts generated with ArcadeEngine ? And is ArcadeEngine compatible with Rev 2.5 ? Thanks, JB I've no idea if it would work with Rev CGI, but ArcadeEngine does a nice line in 3D barcharts etc. Ian ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet 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. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead END OF DISCLAIMER ___ 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: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?
Oops, sorry, i keep confusing svg, jbv and bvg ;) -=- Xavier Bury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/05/2007 14:42:59: Hi BvG, have you looked at SvG graphics? They sound like the right stuff for a cgi... http://cairographics.org seems like a good place to start. There's also links for 3D Graphs and stuff... There's other non-free libs but this one is compatibile with lots of other languages and it's free... And svg graphics can be exported to other formats as well (links there too)... cheers -=- Xavier Bury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/05/2007 13:35:43: Ian , Thanks for your reply. Is there any example of 3D barcharts generated with ArcadeEngine ? And is ArcadeEngine compatible with Rev 2.5 ? Thanks, JB I've no idea if it would work with Rev CGI, but ArcadeEngine does a nice line in 3D barcharts etc. Ian ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet 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. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead END OF DISCLAIMER ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. ___ 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
A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
I wrote: LUIS: I may yet strap a scanner to my face and plaster it all over your e-mail :) and Luis wrote: Is it just me or does that just sound plain wrong? and, frankly, it is just Luis for the very simple reason that my face does not have an IP Address, a USB port or a FireWire port :) having sunk to the depths of the remark about strapping a scanner to my face I thought I might as well go all the way :) Of course we can debate the morality of such an action endlessly - anyone for a quick class in computer ethics? It sounds extremely tedious. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ___ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk ___ 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
A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
James Richards wrote: A couple of links that might help with this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50512 http://lowendmac.com/network/bridge.shtml; Thank you very much - my digestive juices are now flowing about an OLD Mac Laser printer which is (also) rotting in my attic in Scotland, only through my lack of knowledge as to how to patch it into an Ethernet network. The printer has a refillable toner cartridge (ECO or what?) and does an extremely good job, especially where the standard USB printers from HP and EPSON produce jaggy-whatnots. The BIG question is do I hump my Performa 5230CD (which had an 10base Ethernet card bunged in it way-back-when) and run the Laser P through that (i.e. Laser connected to Performa via printer port and Performa connected to Router by LAN cable), or do I get hold of a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet adapter? Of course the other snag about using a socking great Performa as a print server is that it will use quite a large amount of power for rather unnecessary activities. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson The same goes for my old Stylewriter II, which has nothing intrinsically wrong with it- -apart from a local-talk connector. A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.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: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?
From: http://www.runrev.com/section/features.php 'Beautiful vector graphics engine with SVG operators' So the transition should be fairly painless. Cheers, Luis. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi BvG, have you looked at SvG graphics? They sound like the right stuff for a cgi... http://cairographics.org seems like a good place to start. There's also links for 3D Graphs and stuff... There's other non-free libs but this one is compatibile with lots of other languages and it's free... And svg graphics can be exported to other formats as well (links there too)... cheers -=- Xavier Bury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/05/2007 13:35:43: Ian , Thanks for your reply. Is there any example of 3D barcharts generated with ArcadeEngine ? And is ArcadeEngine compatible with Rev 2.5 ? Thanks, JB I've no idea if it would work with Rev CGI, but ArcadeEngine does a nice line in 3D barcharts etc. Ian ___ 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 Clearstream Services S.A. 42 Avenue JF Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg Société anonyme is organised with limited liability in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg RC Luxembourg B 60911. - Visit us at http://www.clearstream.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE Internet 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. Legally required information for business correspondence/ Gesetzliche Pflichtangaben fuer Geschaeftskorrespondenz: http://deutsche-boerse.com/letterhead END OF DISCLAIMER ___ 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: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Depending on the drive space you could also use it as a file server to back up your projects into. You could put Linux on it and test Linux builds... Cheers, Luis. Richmond Mathewson wrote: James Richards wrote: A couple of links that might help with this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50512 http://lowendmac.com/network/bridge.shtml; Thank you very much - my digestive juices are now flowing about an OLD Mac Laser printer which is (also) rotting in my attic in Scotland, only through my lack of knowledge as to how to patch it into an Ethernet network. The printer has a refillable toner cartridge (ECO or what?) and does an extremely good job, especially where the standard USB printers from HP and EPSON produce jaggy-whatnots. The BIG question is do I hump my Performa 5230CD (which had an 10base Ethernet card bunged in it way-back-when) and run the Laser P through that (i.e. Laser connected to Performa via printer port and Performa connected to Router by LAN cable), or do I get hold of a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet adapter? Of course the other snag about using a socking great Performa as a print server is that it will use quite a large amount of power for rather unnecessary activities. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson The same goes for my old Stylewriter II, which has nothing intrinsically wrong with it- -apart from a local-talk connector. A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.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
PPC Linux builds?
Got to thinking after a recent post: Does anyone know if the Linux builds are x86 only? Many Linux distros are available on PPC platforms, check out Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSe, etc and let's not forget YellowDog Linux! If the target is Linux x86 and PPC, would it take the form of a 'Universal Binary' ala OS X or as independent standalone binaries? Cheers, Luis. ___ 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: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?
Luis wrote: From: http://www.runrev.com/section/features.php 'Beautiful vector graphics engine with SVG operators' This is news to me. What do they mean? Can someone from RunRev chime in here to explain how to tap into these SVG operators? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.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: PPC Linux builds?
Luis, there's no such thing as linux universal binaries, you get one platform or the other, no way to bundle them together. Rev is only for x86 IIRC. andre On May 4, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Luis wrote: If the target is Linux x86 and PPC, would it take the form of a 'Universal Binary' ala OS X or as independent standalone binaries? ___ 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: PPC Linux builds?
Hiya, I assumed as much, I haven't seen the concept bandied about in Linux sites. Still would like to know about PPC builds, or is this for the next revision of the engine? Cheers, Luis. Andre Garzia wrote: Luis, there's no such thing as linux universal binaries, you get one platform or the other, no way to bundle them together. Rev is only for x86 IIRC. andre On May 4, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Luis wrote: If the target is Linux x86 and PPC, would it take the form of a 'Universal Binary' ala OS X or as independent standalone binaries? ___ 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: PPC Linux builds?
Luis wrote: Hiya, I assumed as much, I haven't seen the concept bandied about in Linux sites. Still would like to know about PPC builds, or is this for the next revision of the engine? Cheers, Luis. Luis, Way back when, there used to be a separate engine for PPC Linux, but it was dropped after version 2 (or thereabouts) as only a handful of people used it. That was back before Apple went to Intel, so it would be a big surprise to me if it were to make a comeback at this point. Martin Baxter ___ 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: Assigning IP addresses . . .
Hence the idea that one could assign an IP address to some sort of USB-to-Ethernet server regardless of what was plugged in at the far end. Expensive, but cool idea... http://www.bb-elec.com/product.asp?SKU=ANYWHEREUSB/5 Roger Eller [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: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Richmond, is your time so non-valuable you need to put yourself though this? These days when $250 will buy you a networkable color printer that you plug and play? I've been there, done that. These kludges with old (older than 6 years) hardware do nothing but drive you crazy and take up inordinate amounts of time. Always. Example. Got the kids' old G4 Cube. Nice headless server. Runs OS X. But the 250 gig drive I put in it will only max out at 120 gigs because of firmware limitations. In spite of that, it's a pretty good server. But it is on the edge of it's life, and I'm sure it won't run OS10.5. It took a day to set up for various reasons. Same with the old iMac from my daughter. The CD drive was out, so installing new software was a problem, it needs now rare and expensive RAM, needs WIFI and expanding the hard drive space had the same problem as above. I have the parts, but it was just taking too much time. James Richards wrote: A couple of links that might help with this: Thank you very much - my digestive juices are now flowing about an OLD Mac Laser printer which is (also) rotting in my attic in Scotland, only through my lack o sincerely, Richmond Mathewson -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ 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 daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Stephen, You're certainly right; but I'm sure with Richmond that it is the challenge. As we get older, sometimes the challenges are as important to us as the time we have left to engage them. Just my thought on the topic. Joe Wilkins On May 4, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Richmond, is your time so non-valuable you need to put yourself though this? These days when $250 will buy you a networkable color printer that you plug and play? I've been there, done that. These kludges with old (older than 6 years) hardware do nothing but drive you crazy and take up inordinate amounts of time. Always. Example. Got the kids' old G4 Cube. Nice headless server. Runs OS X. But the 250 gig drive I put in it will only max out at 120 gigs because of firmware limitations. In spite of that, it's a pretty good server. But it is on the edge of it's life, and I'm sure it won't run OS10.5. It took a day to set up for various reasons. Same with the old iMac from my daughter. The CD drive was out, so installing new software was a problem, it needs now rare and expensive RAM, needs WIFI and expanding the hard drive space had the same problem as above. I have the parts, but it was just taking too much time. James Richards wrote: A couple of links that might help with this: Thank you very much - my digestive juices are now flowing about an OLD Mac Laser printer which is (also) rotting in my attic in Scotland, only through my lack o sincerely, Richmond Mathewson -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ 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: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Anyone in the San Francisco area want to take away my old macintosh challenges away?? ha ha I have a SE-30,9600,8100,7100,a wallstreet and two older Mac Laptops plus all the ADB and SCSI hardware you can eat, complete with a couple of old Pro Tools systems... Not to mention a couple of complete Apple II computers and drives, one with a Atari game development system and board. Also every peripheral ever made for the II and the original 'Red Book'. Any takers? I didn't think so... sqb Stephen, You're certainly right; but I'm sure with Richmond that it is the challenge. As we get older, sometimes the challenges are as important to us as the time we have left to engage them. Just my thought on the topic. Joe Wilkins -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ 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
matchtext question using regex
Regex question for use in matchtext I want to find word A followed by word B. (quickly) So: put this is my big dog called cat. into thetext put my.{0,5}dog into reg And put matchtext(thetext,reg) returns true because I use a period so it is counting characters but I need it to count words. I have tried various combinations of \b and \w to no avail. Something like : put my([^ ]* ){0,5}dog into reg works but only for words followed by spaces, not punctuation for example. These could be included but surely there is a more elegant and faster way? Can someone help me out with this? BTW, is it true that setting the wholematches to true and using wordoffset only returns 'words' that are followed by a space? So that in the example sentence above, 'cat' is not found because it is followed by a period? Is this correct? Thanks Ron ___ 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: Best graphic lib to use with Rev cgi ?
Hi Richard, Luis wrote: From: http://www.runrev.com/section/features.php 'Beautiful vector graphics engine with SVG operators' This is news to me. What do they mean? Can someone from RunRev chime in here to explain how to tap into these SVG operators? I'm afraid this only applies to the new and now crossplatform INKS. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ 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
Path problem with Standalone
Hi everyone, At least I'm back to a stack that will build a standalone again; but when I try to add the files for my external aiff files, I cannot get the path to match the source path for the players. As an example: the first player's source path is: /applications/Revolution Studio/2.8.0-gm-4/MusicFolder/MusicOne.aiff but when I add the file with the Standalone setup dialog it only places part of the path for that file, like: /2.8.0-gm-4/MusicFolder/MusicOne.aiff So, when I build the standalone, the player doesn't play. Instead of listing all of them with the Copy Files dialog, I tried checking the Browse for externals (or seach, whatever) in the General Dialog. No soup. Any idea how I can get the full path to be used? 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: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Well, I can match you tit for tat plus some, but I figured they might one day be grist for a museum of some sort. Who knows, we may be back to using bows and arrows shortly if things don't improve in this crazy world of ours. Thanks for your sense of humor. Joe Wilkins On May 4, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Anyone in the San Francisco area want to take away my old macintosh challenges away?? ha ha I have a SE-30,9600,8100,7100,a wallstreet and two older Mac Laptops plus all the ADB and SCSI hardware you can eat, complete with a couple of old Pro Tools systems... Not to mention a couple of complete Apple II computers and drives, one with a Atari game development system and board. Also every peripheral ever made for the II and the original 'Red Book'. Any takers? I didn't think so... sqb Stephen, You're certainly right; but I'm sure with Richmond that it is the challenge. As we get older, sometimes the challenges are as important to us as the time we have left to engage them. Just my thought on the topic. 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
A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Stephen Barncard wrote: Richmond, is your time so non-valuable you need to put yourself though this? These days when $250 will buy you a networkable color printer that you plug and play? There are 4 interesting points about his remark: 1. I have a very nice Epson Stylus Photo R200 that does everything we all want it to in my family via a crappy Edimax printer server (c.f. earlier postings under this heading). 2. I earn about $400 a month: i.e. about 4 times the Bulgarian average (), or about the same as a skilled surgeon. I have expensive tastes - i.e. piano lessons for the kids, internet connexions, and so forth - save nothing. 3. This posting had NOTHING at all to do with my real, or imagined printing problems (there was a few side remarks about how I might use an ancient Mac Laser Printer - not because I didn't have another printer (I have 2 here in Bulgaria) - but because I don't like seeing machines lying idle and going to waste - and because I'd rather driop my beverage of choice all over a laser-printed sheet of paper than one from an inkjet) - it started with an idea about how to stream video into a RunRev stack without having to use videoGrabber and QT/Windows Media. Inevitably (with types like myself on board) it went badly off topic into various nutty and not-so-nutty discussions about how to utilise old stuff that at present resides in my attic in Scotland and badly needs liberating. 4. Some of us ARE daft insofar as we don't see money as the b-all-and-end-all, and I spend hours and hours of my time working for free in a country that as a charming diplomat once told me is totally fd in terms of infrastructure, morals and educational chances for all but the richest kids - why? well, not because I am daft, but because I passionately believe that it is rather nice to give kids a chance of a level playing field - what they do with it, is, by and large, another story all together. That is why I am going back to Scotland in the summer to dig out all my old Macs from the attic and drive them back here in a tatty old Citreon - so that instead of gathering dust, they can be put to good use helping kids with brains (and, frankly, parents with rather smaller brains) get a leg up in life. The small amount of spare money I have will pay for that trip rather than any fancy printers and so on. I'm sorry Stephen if that all sounds pompous and self-righteous - its certainly not meant to - but sometimes I have a feeling that not all people realise that time isn't always money - sometimes it can be other things. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ___ Inbox full of unwanted email? Get leading protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ___ 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: Path problem with Standalone
Joe, In the case of a standalone, wouldn't you want the path to be as generic as possible? Your end-users are not likely to have a 2.8.0-gm-4/ directory. I haven't fiddled with this on Mac OS X, but I think Beta 7 has some improvements in the standalone building, as well. FWIW, the best way to handle ancillary files in standalones is, I think, to load up the files as custom properties (they can be compressed) then at runtime drop them wherever you want them to reside. This keeps the stack self-contained and puts the needed files in a predictable location. ___ 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
limited time demo?
Are there any sample scripts showing how I should do this? I was thinking of doing it like this On preopenstack IF fld dateopened is empty THEN put the long system date into fld dateopened else * this is where I am having trouble want to check what is in fld datopened and make sure it is not more than 30 days old if it is don't open the stack and post a message end if Thanks Rob ___ 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: Path problem with Standalone
Jacque, Bill: Thanks for your time and patience. I'll digest what you've said and attempt to make it work. It's definitely not as simple as I had hoped and expected; but what is? Frankly, Jacque's explanation gives me more hope for it working as I think it should than does your's, Bill. They may be the same, but they seem different at first glance. Thanks, 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: limited time demo?
Hi Rob, I've done this kind of thing before: on preOpenStack -- first gain access to settings -- (assumes this is a standalone) put the filename of me into tPath set the itemDelimiter to slash if the platform = MacOS then delete item -4 to -1 of tPath else delete item -1 of tPath end if put /mySettings.rev after tPath -- second, make sure a 30-day time limit exists if the uTimeLimit of stack tPath = empty then set the uTimeLimit of stack tPath \ to (the seconds + (60*60*24*30)) save stack tPath end if -- third, check for expired time if the seconds the uTimeLimit of stack tPath then answer This demo has expired. quit end if -- keep going if all is OK pass preOpenStack end preOpenStack HTH - Phil Davis Robert Mann wrote: Are there any sample scripts showing how I should do this? I was thinking of doing it like this On preopenstack IF fld dateopened is empty THEN put the long system date into fld dateopened else * this is where I am having trouble want to check what is in fld datopened and make sure it is not more than 30 days old if it is don't open the stack and post a message end if Thanks Rob ___ 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: limited time demo?
Robert Mann wrote: Are there any sample scripts showing how I should do this? I was thinking of doing it like this On preopenstack IF fld dateopened is empty THEN put the long system date into fld dateopened else * this is where I am having trouble want to check what is in fld datopened and make sure it is not more than 30 days old if it is don't open the stack and post a message I've written time-limited demos, and they're not only a lot of work but are difficult to be really secure with, and the security becomes even more onerous now that OSes have built-in ways to conveniently roll back systems. Most of my apps use feature-limited demos, in which the program does at least something useful for free. Not only are they simpler to write, but offer these marketing advantages: 1. Getting you app installed is the first step to making a sale. If the app times out, that benefit goes away. But if the app remains in use, every time it's used it serves as a marketing tool for you. And giving away something useful for free means far more prospects will use it than a demo only. 2. The purchase price of most software is the smaller cost; far greater is the learning curve. If your app does something useful for free, people will be willing to download it and use it, and in time perhaps even become dependent on it. Sooner or later they'll need something beyond what the free version offers, and with the commitment to using your product already in place the choice to pay for a license is a snap. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.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: Path problem with Standalone
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: It's definitely not as simple as I had hoped nd expected; but what is? Story of my life. :) Actually, it really is simpler than it appears, but only if you know the underlying concepts. I think what you're getting stuck on are some concepts that HyperCard didn't have, so it's normal to be a little baffled. The main thing here is the concept of a defaultfolder. This is the directory where Rev (or your standalone) will start looking for files. When the engine starts up, the default folder is always the one that contains the application. In the IDE, this is the Revolution folder. In your standalone, it's the folder containing your standalone bundle (or on Windows, the folder with the executable.) You can change the defaultFolder in a script. If you do that, the engine will use the newly specified folder to look for files if the file reference doesn't contain a full file path. If a player or a file reference does use a complete file path, then Rev will use that path without consulting the defaultFolder. When you add files to a standalone, the SB will place the files (on OS X) inside the application bundle, next to the engine file, in: My Standalone/Contents/MacOS/ Since the default folder on launch will be the folder containing the standalone, a relative file path that will work in your players (on Mac OS X only) would be the above, with the file name appended: My Standalone/Contents/MacOS/myAudioFile.aif During development though, you'll want to play your files for testing. If your players are set up with relative paths then the above will fail because those folders don't exist outside of standalones. You'll need to reproduce the relative folder structure inside your test folder (which in your case is the Rev folder, though I think that's not a great idea. But anyway.) So for testing, you'd want to create these folders inside the Rev folder: My Standalone/Contents/MacOS/ and put your audio files in there. That matches the paths your standalone will use. But hardly anyone does it this way. It's too fussy. There's a better way. Many of us use a little custom function to determine the path to the stack, which returns the right path regardless of whether you are are in the IDE or running a standalone (careful of text wrap): function appPath theStackName -- return the path of the application if theStackName = then put the short name of this stack into theStackName put the effective filename of stack theStackName into thePath set the itemdel to / If (IsOSX()) then get offset(.app/Contents/MacOS/, thePath) if it 0 then delete char it to len(thePath) of thePath end if end if delete last item of thePath return thePath / end appPath function isOSX set the itemDelimiter to . return (the platform = MacOS and item 1 of the systemVersion = 10) end isOSX This pair of functions will always return the path to the stack, whether it is in stack form (during development) or inside the bundle in a standalone (which is where the SB will copy your audio files.) When you want to play back an audio file, just set the defaultFolder before any of the players load: set the defaultFolder to appPath() To work, your players should use relative file paths. In this case, since we're using appPath(), you don't need any folder reference. Your relative file path will just be the name of the audio file. Dump all your audio files into the same folder as your stack for testing. Now the engine will look inside the bundle for the audio files, and if your player paths are relative (myAudioFile.aif without any folders) then it will find the file and play it. If you are running in the IDE, it will look in the stack's folder for the files because appPath() will return that path. That's just one way, there are other things you can do instead of setting the defaultFolder. I more often use appPath() to construct a filepath dynamically in scripts. For example, when the standalone starts up you could set all your players to absolute paths right at the start: put appPath() myAudioFile.aif into tPath set the filename of player 1 to tPath Now you don't have to worry about the default folder, because you've just set the file name to an absolute path. The above will work in both development and standalones, provided your audio files are in the same folder as your stack. Finally, having a lot of loose files like that is sort of messy, so I usually put them into a containing folder. Say you've got a folder called Audio and all your audio files are in there. The same rules apply as above, but instead of using just the filename with appPath() you'd add the containing folder as well: put appPath() Audio/myAudioFile.aif into tPath I can't recall whether the SB will move the files into the standalone inside a folder (I usually just do it manually) but if it doesn't, it's a pretty easy step to open the
Re: Path problem with Standalone
Thanks to all of you. I didn't do exactly what I thought any of you said, but absorbing the essence of what you were saying led me to solve the problem. Now working from the Standalone. It was really pretty simple. I just needed to put the sound files folder into the folder where I was planning to save the standalone when it was built. This resolved all of the path issues; though I still had to use my fix in assigning the paths to the player objects - using the Application Browser rather than the object Inspector to identify each of the players source paths. 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
Problem setting Quicktime VR zoom, tilt, and pan settings through the property inspector
I am trying to set the zoom, tilt, and pan settings for a Quicktime player by typing their values into the Quicktime player property inspector. However, this does not seem to change anything. I presently have to write a script to create the zoom, tilt, and pan settings. Am I doing something wrong? Should one not be able change these settings directly through the player property inspector? I'm using Rev 2.7.4 on a Mac OSX. Thanks. Steve Goldberg ** See what's free at http://www.aol.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: Path problem with Standalone
On May 4, 2007, at 2:51 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: When you add files to a standalone, the SB will place the files (on OS X) inside the application bundle, next to the engine file, in: My Standalone/Contents/MacOS/ Since the default folder on launch will be the folder containing the standalone, a relative file path that will work in your players (on Mac OS X only) would be the above, with the file name appended: My Standalone/Contents/MacOS/myAudioFile.aif I would add one subtlety to Jacque's excellent summary regarding the defaultFolder: In an OS X standalone, the default folder on launch is the folder containing the application *bundle*. That is if you never set the defaultFolder in your stack. If, on the other hand, you explicitly set the defaultFolder to the folder containing your stack, using a function like Jacque's, the defaultFolder will be *inside* the application bundle at AppName/Contents/MacOS/. It's a subtle distinction, but a useful one. Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University ___ 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 daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Ebay! Or a museum! Anyroad, sometimes we learn from the old. Cheers, Luis. On 4 May 2007, at 18:51, Stephen Barncard wrote: Anyone in the San Francisco area want to take away my old macintosh challenges away?? ha ha I have a SE-30,9600,8100,7100,a wallstreet and two older Mac Laptops plus all the ADB and SCSI hardware you can eat, complete with a couple of old Pro Tools systems... Not to mention a couple of complete Apple II computers and drives, one with a Atari game development system and board. Also every peripheral ever made for the II and the original 'Red Book'. Any takers? I didn't think so... sqb Stephen, You're certainly right; but I'm sure with Richmond that it is the challenge. As we get older, sometimes the challenges are as important to us as the time we have left to engage them. Just my thought on the topic. Joe Wilkins -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ 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: A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .
Just leave the haggis behind... ;) Cheers, Luis. On 4 May 2007, at 19:28, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Stephen Barncard wrote: Richmond, is your time so non-valuable you need to put yourself though this? These days when $250 will buy you a networkable color printer that you plug and play? There are 4 interesting points about his remark: 1. I have a very nice Epson Stylus Photo R200 that does everything we all want it to in my family via a crappy Edimax printer server (c.f. earlier postings under this heading). 2. I earn about $400 a month: i.e. about 4 times the Bulgarian average (), or about the same as a skilled surgeon. I have expensive tastes - i.e. piano lessons for the kids, internet connexions, and so forth - save nothing. 3. This posting had NOTHING at all to do with my real, or imagined printing problems (there was a few side remarks about how I might use an ancient Mac Laser Printer - not because I didn't have another printer (I have 2 here in Bulgaria) - but because I don't like seeing machines lying idle and going to waste - and because I'd rather driop my beverage of choice all over a laser-printed sheet of paper than one from an inkjet) - it started with an idea about how to stream video into a RunRev stack without having to use videoGrabber and QT/Windows Media. Inevitably (with types like myself on board) it went badly off topic into various nutty and not-so-nutty discussions about how to utilise old stuff that at present resides in my attic in Scotland and badly needs liberating. 4. Some of us ARE daft insofar as we don't see money as the b-all-and-end-all, and I spend hours and hours of my time working for free in a country that as a charming diplomat once told me is totally fd in terms of infrastructure, morals and educational chances for all but the richest kids - why? well, not because I am daft, but because I passionately believe that it is rather nice to give kids a chance of a level playing field - what they do with it, is, by and large, another story all together. That is why I am going back to Scotland in the summer to dig out all my old Macs from the attic and drive them back here in a tatty old Citreon - so that instead of gathering dust, they can be put to good use helping kids with brains (and, frankly, parents with rather smaller brains) get a leg up in life. The small amount of spare money I have will pay for that trip rather than any fancy printers and so on. I'm sorry Stephen if that all sounds pompous and self-righteous - its certainly not meant to - but sometimes I have a feeling that not all people realise that time isn't always money - sometimes it can be other things. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ___ Inbox full of unwanted email? Get leading protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ nowyoucan.html ___ 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: Path problem with Standalone
Devin Asay wrote: I would add one subtlety to Jacque's excellent summary regarding the defaultFolder: In an OS X standalone, the default folder on launch is the folder containing the application *bundle*. That is if you never set the defaultFolder in your stack. If, on the other hand, you explicitly set the defaultFolder to the folder containing your stack, using a function like Jacque's, the defaultFolder will be *inside* the application bundle at AppName/Contents/MacOS/. It's a subtle distinction, but a useful one. Thanks Devin. I think my explanation was so convoluted, even I didn't completely understand what I was saying when I was done. ;) -- 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
Embedded stacks in Windows
I've noticed that under Windows, any included stacks show up as separate programs in the Task Manager. Is there a way to prevent this? My program should only appear as a single application to my users. Bill Vlahos ___ 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: limited time demo?
Rob, Richard's suggestion of approaching the issue from a crippling point of view is an excellent one. The problem with us technical types is that we see trial versions as a security issue and not as what they really are - marketing tools. Once you start delving into protection via time limited demos it get's quite hairy as there are so many ways to circumvent this. By all means use a time trial but use it in the knowledge that it can an may well (depending on how popular or application is) be bypassed by either the end user or a dedicated hacker (most often by scene crackers). It is *almost* impossible to add extra code in (I say almost because if it's something simple like a checkbox or a simple file save in a common format then it can often be patched too) and that makes it impossible to produce a real crack. Research by software companies and Colin Messits famous experiment is one of the best and is often used in the industry. See: http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/articles/why-do-people-register-shareware.html It's no mean feat in a lower level language to defeat crackers - it's even harder in a higher level language like Rev. It's not Rev that's at fault, mind, but the nature of the tools. Most MISV's (who are successful) that I know of use some combination of of the above experiment and variations on time and licensing systems. There are programs (for Windows) that create pretty good trial period software and though expensive they are *all* stripped and cracked routinely. There are some things one an do and I'm in the process of writing something that I'll be sharing with the Rev community in an upcoming newsletter that address' some of the problems faced with serial numbers vs keygens and cracks. Scott ___ 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: limited time demo?
I should add that the article I provided a link to references the ASP's PONC policy (that prohibited crippling of software by members). That policy was ditched ten years ago as developers became aware that the whole nature of the end user had changed from people who paid for trials because they respected the work of the programmer (circa 1978 - 1994) to people who didn't give a toss how hard you worked on it just gimme!. So not even the ASP is insisting (or has any policy) requiring no function limited trials. Scott ___ 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