Re: Splash Screen Launcher
Hi Mark, 1) create 2 stacks: one is going to be your launcher splashscreen app, the other - stack to be run via the splashscreen; 2) in stack inspector for the launcher stack set Stack Files pointing to that other stack; 3) in the launcher stack's script editor write: on openStack go stack thatOtherStack set the visible of me to false end openStack 4) compile the launcher stack; 5) create a button on that other stack; 6) set the script of that button to: on mouseUp save this stack end mouseUp 7) set the script of that other stack to: on closeStack quit #to make sure closing the stack closes entire application and not just this stack end closeStack That's it. Should work now. Viktoras Mark Greenberg wrote: I need to make a tiny standalone that will launch a stack file so that the user, who doesn't have Rev, can save changes in the stack. I've done this years ago, but, for the life of me, can't figure out how I did it. Probably all I need is the script command that will start up the stack file. Thanks in advance, Mark Greenberg ___ 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: Splash Screen Launcher
correction for the launcher's handler: on openStack hide me in 1 sec go stack thatOtherStack end openStack Hi Mark, 1) create 2 stacks: one is going to be your launcher splashscreen app, the other - stack to be run via the splashscreen; 2) in stack inspector for the launcher stack set Stack Files pointing to that other stack; 3) in the launcher stack's script editor write: on openStack go stack thatOtherStack set the visible of me to false end openStack ___ 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: libcgi go to url
Hello Chris, sorry for the late reply, I think I understand what you're trying to accomplish and will write some words on the topic, if I understood you wrong, then, sorry, english is not my strongest quality. Let us divide your problem in two topics: templating and answering Templating is the act of having a placeholder file or stack that is used by the cgi to answer to a request, so you put your presentation layer into one of those templates then with some calls, you glue your data into them. We're specifically talking about building HTML like files. So you can have a default HTML template and just glue your data in it. When you run a Revolution CGI, the CGI has a default folder (global property the defaultFolder), all it's file operations are relative to such location, you can change it by setting it to a new folder path such as: set the defaultfolder to /mySweetTemplates/ You can set it to absolute paths (absolute paths are relative too but they are relative to the root folder of your file system) or relative path. If you set the default folder to a relative path, it will be set using the previous known location and then override this location. This in plain english means that if the default folder is your cgi folder and you have a template folder inside it, then executing the following line: set the defaultfolder to templates/ will set all the file operations to be relative to such child folder. To read or write files, the best option is to use URL keywork commands such as you're already doing. Now to glue data into your template there are many ways, I'll just explore two in here. First is to use the replace command. You fill your template html file with place holders such as ###NAME###, each of those placeholders will be replaced with the actual data by using multiple replace calls. Using your previous example, let us replace some values, consider that your HTML file has something like ###NAME### and ###COLOR### in it, and it is answering the name and the favorite color of the user. You can then call something like: replace ###NAME### with tName in tData replace ###COLOR### with tFavoriteColor in tData So with each replace call you glue one piece of your data back in the tData template. This is a very straight forward way of doing templates in Revolution. Another popular way that requires less coding and is more flexible is to use the merge command. This command will pick a variable and inspect it looking for pre-defines placeholders, it will then replace these place holders with the result of their values. Revolution uses double brackets as place holders for the merge call, so you just fill your template with double brackets and your variables. Using our previous example, imagine that your template looks like html headtitleMy Fav Color/title/head body Hello, [[tName]] Your favorite color is [[tFavoriteColor]] /body /html then if you execute the call: put the merge of tData into tAssembledData The resulting variable called tAssembledData will contain the content of the template with those double bracket place holders replaced with the actual variable content. This is very flexible because you can change your template to display different data without changing your program code. OBS: the merge call does more than variable glueing. This is just a quick note... So now you should have some mental image of how to glue data into your template and end up with a variable that contains the answer you want to send back to the browser, let us talk about answering to the browser now. In your example you try to use RevGoURL. This command is to be used by desktop application to open the browser directed to some web page, this is not to be used by CGI applications. It's a purelly desktop command that opens another program and launches a web page. Most web servers are running under some kind of unix or follow some conventions set by the unix familly of operating systems. To explain how the cgi answers back to the browser let me talk a little about the standard i/o common to C programs. There are three important standard i/o, they are STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR. They mean standard input, standard output and standard error output. You can think of them as files, three different files used for different purposes. STDIN always mean the standard input interface, it may be the keyboard or a piped file. When you use a CGI, the STDIN is written by the web server to contain the web request, so when you read from STDIN using a CGI you should read the raw web request data. STDOUT always mean the standard output, in some cases is the screen, in others it may be a file. When you talk about CGI, the STDOUT will be grabed by the web server and sent back to the browser. So your CGI will write it's output to STDOUT and this will be piped back to the browser. STDERR points to the standard error output, like STDOUT it differs for each context, in the cases
Re: Deleting grouped control deletes group
Richard, If you look at the Rev IDE code, you will probably see the answer. RunRev has added send commands in several places, which would probably be removed if RunRev were to do a massive rewrite of the IDE. I suspect one of these send commands is the culprit, but I haven't taken the time to prove it. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com Op 9-okt-2007, om 2:00 heeft Richard Gaskin het volgende geschreven: Why does Rev do that? Know the engine. Trust the engine. Use the engine. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ 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: libcgi go to url
outstanding reply, thanks for the continued support Andre chris On 08/10/2007, at 5:59 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Chris, sorry for the late reply, I think I understand what you're trying to accomplish and will write some words on the topic, if I understood you wrong, then, sorry, english is not my strongest quality. Let us divide your problem in two topics: templating and answering Templating is the act of having a placeholder file or stack that is used by the cgi to answer to a request, so you put your presentation layer into one of those templates then with some calls, you glue your data into them. We're specifically talking about building HTML like files. So you can have a default HTML template and just glue your data in it. When you run a Revolution CGI, the CGI has a default folder (global property the defaultFolder), all it's file operations are relative to such location, you can change it by setting it to a new folder path such as: set the defaultfolder to /mySweetTemplates/ You can set it to absolute paths (absolute paths are relative too but they are relative to the root folder of your file system) or relative path. If you set the default folder to a relative path, it will be set using the previous known location and then override this location. This in plain english means that if the default folder is your cgi folder and you have a template folder inside it, then executing the following line: set the defaultfolder to templates/ will set all the file operations to be relative to such child folder. To read or write files, the best option is to use URL keywork commands such as you're already doing. Now to glue data into your template there are many ways, I'll just explore two in here. First is to use the replace command. You fill your template html file with place holders such as ###NAME###, each of those placeholders will be replaced with the actual data by using multiple replace calls. Using your previous example, let us replace some values, consider that your HTML file has something like ###NAME### and ###COLOR### in it, and it is answering the name and the favorite color of the user. You can then call something like: replace ###NAME### with tName in tData replace ###COLOR### with tFavoriteColor in tData So with each replace call you glue one piece of your data back in the tData template. This is a very straight forward way of doing templates in Revolution. Another popular way that requires less coding and is more flexible is to use the merge command. This command will pick a variable and inspect it looking for pre-defines placeholders, it will then replace these place holders with the result of their values. Revolution uses double brackets as place holders for the merge call, so you just fill your template with double brackets and your variables. Using our previous example, imagine that your template looks like html headtitleMy Fav Color/title/head body Hello, [[tName]] Your favorite color is [[tFavoriteColor]] /body /html then if you execute the call: put the merge of tData into tAssembledData The resulting variable called tAssembledData will contain the content of the template with those double bracket place holders replaced with the actual variable content. This is very flexible because you can change your template to display different data without changing your program code. OBS: the merge call does more than variable glueing. This is just a quick note... So now you should have some mental image of how to glue data into your template and end up with a variable that contains the answer you want to send back to the browser, let us talk about answering to the browser now. In your example you try to use RevGoURL. This command is to be used by desktop application to open the browser directed to some web page, this is not to be used by CGI applications. It's a purelly desktop command that opens another program and launches a web page. Most web servers are running under some kind of unix or follow some conventions set by the unix familly of operating systems. To explain how the cgi answers back to the browser let me talk a little about the standard i/o common to C programs. There are three important standard i/o, they are STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR. They mean standard input, standard output and standard error output. You can think of them as files, three different files used for different purposes. STDIN always mean the standard input interface, it may be the keyboard or a piped file. When you use a CGI, the STDIN is written by the web server to contain the web request, so when you read from STDIN using a CGI you should read the raw web request data. STDOUT always mean the standard output, in some cases is the screen, in others it may be a file. When you talk about CGI, the STDOUT will be grabed by the web server and
Re: Revolution = YouTube?
On 8 Oct 2007, at 22:26, Erik Hansen wrote: YouTube exposure would complement a browser, right? Make sure you read YouTube's terms and conditions VERY carefully before you submit any videos - by submitting work where you own the copyright you are giving YouTube free distribution rights *forever*. They can do *anything* with your video, including editing it, selling it etc. without having to pay you a penny. 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
How know if a stack is maximized ?
Hi all, I am searching, but I don't find anything now. Does there is a function in Runrev that permit to know if a stack is maximized or not ? Or do I have to do a trick like ever ? (if the rect of the stack look like to be maximized, it is maximized). Thanks, Damien ___ 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: Revolution = YouTube?
Hello Erik wrote this yesterday and I want to know if it is possible to export a Rev animation as a video (any format) via scripts, not with external capturing software. Regards, Andres Martinez www.baKno.com On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: What is the latest on capturing your Revolution animation as a video file? It used to be make a QuickTime movie, but your Windows viewer needs to install QT. ___ 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: Revolution = YouTube?
On 9 Oct 2007, at 14:19, Andres Martinez wrote: Erik wrote this yesterday and I want to know if it is possible to export a Rev animation as a video (any format) via scripts, not with external capturing software. As always, 'Trevor's wonderful EnhancedQT External'. :-) http://www.bluemangolearning.com/developer/revolution/enhancedqt.php You would have to export each frame as an image file, then load them up using the external and turn them into a movie file. 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: Revolution = YouTube?
Hi Ian, On 9 Oct 2007, at 14:19, Andres Martinez wrote: Erik wrote this yesterday and I want to know if it is possible to export a Rev animation as a video (any format) via scripts, not with external capturing software. As always, 'Trevor's wonderful EnhancedQT External'. :-) EXACTLY! :-D http://www.bluemangolearning.com/developer/revolution/enhancedqt.php You would have to export each frame as an image file, then load them up using the external and turn them into a movie file. Ian Best 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
Re: How know if a stack is maximized ?
Bonjour Damien, Actually, it's a real problem with stacks the maxWidth or the maxHeight of which has been not specified (let to 65536) and Rev AFAIK does not provide any function or property to know this. So just a workaround that consists in setting by yourself the maxWidth and the maxHeight according to the windowBoundingRect at preOpenstack: on preOpenStack SetMaxDim the long name of this stack -- end preOpenStack on SetMaxDim pStack set the maxWidth of pStack to item 3 of the windowBoundingRect - item 1 of the windowBoundingRect - 20 set the maxHeight of pStack to item 4 of the windowBoundingRect - item 2 of the windowBoundingRect - 36 end SetMaxDim Values above reduce a bit the values returned when the stack is maximized by the system then the below function works: function IsMaximized pStack return (the height of pStack = the maxHeight of pStack) and (the width of pStack = the maxWidth of pStack) end IsMaximized Tested on Mac OSX, XP SP2 and Vista. Hope this helps... Le 9 oct. 07 à 15:08, GIRARD Damien a écrit : Hi all, I am searching, but I don't find anything now. Does there is a function in Runrev that permit to know if a stack is maximized or not ? Or do I have to do a trick like ever ? (if the rect of the stack look like to be maximized, it is maximized). Thanks, Damien Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Plugins and tutorials for Revolution: http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/ Email: [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: How know if a stack is maximized ?, Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosma
Wouldn't a stack be maximized when it's rect equals the current windowBoundingRect? -- 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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
GIRARD Damien wrote: Hi all, I am searching, but I don't find anything now. Does there is a function in Runrev that permit to know if a stack is maximized or not ? If you just want to know whether the stack is not minimized, you can check the stack's iconic property. If you want to know whether the stack is being shown full-screen, then use one of the methods others have posted here (checking the size, windowboundingrect, etc.) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How know if a stack is maximized ?
On Oct 9, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Wouldn't a stack be maximized when it's rect equals the current windowBoundingRect? It might be maximized in the sense that the stack is the maximum height/width of the windowBoundingRect but it might not be maximized in terms of whether or not the user clicked the zoom button on OS X or the Maximize button on Windows. Take this for example - I open Notepad on Windows. I resize the window with my document just how I want it. I close Notepad and the next time I reopen it the window is just how I left it. I then click the Maximize button and the Notepad window fills the screen. If I quit Notepad and relaunch the window does not reopen to fill the entire screen but rather that size it was before I clicked the maximize button. Is there an easy way to reproduce this behavior with Revolution since there is no property which reports that a stack is 'maximized' (though we do have an 'iconic' property)? The user may have manually resize the window to fill the screen, in which case you should restore the window to that size the next time your app launches, or they may have used the maximize button to fill the screen in which case you should restore the window to the size it was prior to clicking the maximize button. I filed an enhancement request for this but if I'm missed something obvious I would love to know. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3897 -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems www.bluemangolearning.com-www.screensteps.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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Oct 9, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Wouldn't a stack be maximized when it's rect equals the current windowBoundingRect? It might be maximized in the sense that the stack is the maximum height/width of the windowBoundingRect but it might not be maximized in terms of whether or not the user clicked the zoom button on OS X or the Maximize button on Windows. Take this for example - I open Notepad on Windows. I resize the window with my document just how I want it. I close Notepad and the next time I reopen it the window is just how I left it. I then click the Maximize button and the Notepad window fills the screen. If I quit Notepad and relaunch the window does not reopen to fill the entire screen but rather that size it was before I clicked the maximize button. Is there an easy way to reproduce this behavior with Revolution since there is no property which reports that a stack is 'maximized' (though we do have an 'iconic' property)? The user may have manually resize the window to fill the screen, in which case you should restore the window to that size the next time your app launches, or they may have used the maximize button to fill the screen in which case you should restore the window to the size it was prior to clicking the maximize button. I do this in one of my projects by storing the stack rect every time the resizeStack message fires. When the stack is reopened, I just set its rect to the stored property. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How know if a stack is maximized ?
On Oct 9, 2007, at 12:30 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I do this in one of my projects by storing the stack rect every time the resizeStack message fires. When the stack is reopened, I just set its rect to the stored property. But that means that the stack will reopen to full screen if the user clicked the maximize button which is what I am trying to avoid. The stack should reopen to the size it was prior to the user clicking on the maximize button in the title bar. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems www.bluemangolearning.com-www.screensteps.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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
Damien, I've run into the very same problem you are describing. Here is how I solved the problem on Windows: 1. Download the Externals Collection from the RunRev web site. (It's unsupported, but it's free now). Attach the external file to your stack. 2. Add the following function and command to your stack. function maxCardRect set itemDelimiter to , put screenRect() into maxRect put item 2 of ext_menuSize() into item 4 of maxRect put queryRegistry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\CaptionHeight) into titleBarSize put abs(titleBarSize / 15) + 1 into titleBarSize put titleBarSize into item 2 of maxRect return maxRect end maxCardRect on moveStack get setRegistry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Company\Stack\ScreenRect,(the rect of stack stackName)) pass moveStack end moveStack on resizeStack get setRegistry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Company\Stack\ScreenRect,(the rect of stack stackName)) pass resizeStack end resizeStack 3. Add the following code to your loading script. (Ex: preOpenStack, preOpenCard, etc...) put queryRegistry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Company\Stack\ScreenRect) into newRect if (newRect is not empty) and (- is not in newRect) then if newRect = maxCardRect() then get ext_maxWindow() else set the rect of this stack to newRect end if What happens is that the external will find out from the system how large the Task bar is. Then the script gathers the size of the titlebar and window borders. After that, you do a comparison at the stack loading to see if the rect of the stack window you saved in the registry is the same size as what a fullscreen rect would be. By the way, what you are asking for is an enhancement request on BugZilla. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com GIRARD Damien wrote: Hi all, I am searching, but I don't find anything now. Does there is a function in Runrev that permit to know if a stack is maximized or not ? Or do I have to do a trick like ever ? (if the rect of the stack look like to be maximized, it is maximized). Thanks, Damien ___ 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: How know if a stack is maximized ?, Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosma
Hi Richard, Le 9 oct. 07 à 18:11, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Wouldn't a stack be maximized when it's rect equals the current windowBoundingRect? Yes I would have thought so too but, after many experiments, no :-( I assume that the system takes into account possible window borders + some 'cosmetic' margins depending on the system :-) Actually if you maximize any window in any app with any system, it will not fit the screen rect - window bounding rect. Behavior is different between OSX and Win: when a window is maximized on Win it's no longer resizable but you can resize it with Mac OSX and even enlarge it! So I agree: a new property (the maximized of window descriptor) would be welcome. Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Plugins and tutorials for Revolution: http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/ Email: [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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
Trevor wrote: The stack should reopen to the size it was prior to the user clicking on the maximize button in the title bar. This seems counterintuitive to me. If the user explicitly maximized the window, why would the window open to any other size? I couldn't find mention of this exception in the OS X HIG, so I went to check the behavior in TextEdit. Bad idea: TextEdit doesn't really honor any user size settings, at least not in any easily-discernible pattern. ;) Good idea on the request in BZ; I just added some votes to it. -- 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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
On Oct 9, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Trevor wrote: The stack should reopen to the size it was prior to the user clicking on the maximize button in the title bar. This seems counterintuitive to me. If the user explicitly maximized the window, why would the window open to any other size? True. So Notepad is a bad example. Take Firefox or IE then. If you close the application while a window is maximized then the window will open back into the maximized state. Clicking the 'Restore Down' button then returns the window to it's non-maximized size. I couldn't find mention of this exception in the OS X HIG, so I went to check the behavior in TextEdit. Bad idea: TextEdit doesn't really honor any user size settings, at least not in any easily-discernible pattern. ;) Behavior on OS X seems more random to me than on Windows. If I recall correctly OS X uses a concept of the User window state and the Ideal window state. When you click on the + icon in an OS X window the window toggles between the size the user has set the window to and the ideal size that the program sets. I'm still not clear on how it is *supposed* to work though. I just tried OmniOutliner 3 and the position of my document windows seem to be remembered but not the size. In any case, I think we need an additional property in reorder to recreate this madness in our own apps. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems www.bluemangolearning.com-www.screensteps.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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
Trevor wrote: The stack should reopen to the size it was prior to the user clicking on the maximize button in the title bar. Is it counterintuitive to me also, and is it why I must a command that can maximize a stack. The best intuitive method, is that : - The user set the rect of the window - He want to maximize it, so it maximize the window. - He quit the software. - When the software is re opened, the window must be appear maximized, and when he click on the maximize button, the previous rect (not maximized) is set. Runrev cannot do that, so, if is it not fixed for 2.9, I will try a tricks. But, this is a CRITICAL problem for a programming language that permit to make quickly GUI. Damien ___ 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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
One method is to make your own title bar set of graphics as buttons (take a screen shot), set the window decorations to false (don't use the default system title bar), then when the user clicks to maximize, or chooses to resize, you are in control of all the operations, even the 'close and quit X'. You can even allow user preferences, such as resize-in-place, center-in-screen, align along left side of monitor, shrink to fit content, expand to show details, etc. Hope you find your solution. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 10/9/07 11:12 AM, GIRARD Damien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trevor wrote: The stack should reopen to the size it was prior to the user clicking on the maximize button in the title bar. Is it counterintuitive to me also, and is it why I must a command that can maximize a stack. The best intuitive method, is that : - The user set the rect of the window - He want to maximize it, so it maximize the window. - He quit the software. - When the software is re opened, the window must be appear maximized, and when he click on the maximize button, the previous rect (not maximized) is set. Runrev cannot do that, so, if is it not fixed for 2.9, I will try a tricks. But, this is a CRITICAL problem for a programming language that permit to make quickly GUI. ___ 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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
GIRARD Damien wrote: Is it counterintuitive to me also, and is it why I must a command that can maximize a stack. The best intuitive method, is that : - The user set the rect of the window - He want to maximize it, so it maximize the window. - He quit the software. - When the software is re opened, the window must be appear maximized, and when he click on the maximize button, the previous rect (not maximized) is set. Runrev cannot do that, so, if is it not fixed for 2.9, I will try a tricks. But, this is a CRITICAL problem for a programming language that permit to make quickly GUI. Why not just save the rect of the stack when it closes, and restore that rect in the next session? What you need to do sounds much simpler than what Trevor's doing, since he needs to know state information after the state has changed. But since you want to restore the last state, this would seem simple, no? -- 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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
Damien, While Rev cannot do what you want, the external and scripts that I posted earlier will solve this problem for you. Specifically, the ext_maxWindow() function from the Externals Collection will allow you to, via script, set the window to it's Maximum Rect (like pressing the Maximize button). The window controls will automatically be set correctly, and your Standalone will behave like every other Windows program. If you are having problems getting this to work, contact me and I will send you a pre-made stack so you can see it in action. I know for a fact that the code works, because I use it in my program JPEGCompress. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com GIRARD Damien wrote: Runrev cannot do that, so, if is it not fixed for 2.9, I will try a tricks. But, this is a CRITICAL problem for a programming language that permit to make quickly GUI. ___ 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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
On Oct 9, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Why not just save the rect of the stack when it closes, and restore that rect in the next session? What you need to do sounds much simpler than what Trevor's doing, since he needs to know state information after the state has changed. But since you want to restore the last state, this would seem simple, no? Currently I do nothing to take into account the maximized property so it isn't too complicated :-) I do what Jacque does and just restore the stack to it's last size every time. The examples I provided were of some typical Windows applications and showed scenarios that we have a difficult time duplicating without using externals. I haven't finished implementing this behavior in my framework yet though it is on a to-do list somewhere... If I understand correctly he would still need a maximize property/ command (or external). To behave like IE or Firefox when the users closes a stack window that was maximzed you would need to: 1) set the rect of the window to the last size the user had it set to. 2) set the 'maximized' property of the window. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems www.bluemangolearning.com-www.screensteps.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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
Hi, just throwing in a thought. If you assume you never start up maximized you can create your own property: on openStack set the uIsMaximized of this stack to false end openStack on resizestack if item 2 of the mouseLoc=0 and item 1 of the mouseLoc the right of this cd - 4 then -- maximize button clicked set the uIsMaximized of this stack to not the uIsMaximized of this stack else -- other means of resizing end if pass resizeStack end resizestack All the best, Malte ___ 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: How know if a stack is maximized ?
On Oct 9, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Malte Brill wrote: n openStack set the uIsMaximized of this stack to false end openStack on resizestack if item 2 of the mouseLoc=0 and item 1 of the mouseLoc the right of this cd - 4 then -- maximize button clicked set the uIsMaximized of this stack to not the uIsMaximized of this stack else -- other means of resizing end if pass resizeStack end resizestack Tricky :-) On Windows I think this would fail if the user right-clicked on the task bar icon and selected Maximize though. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems www.bluemangolearning.com-www.screensteps.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: Re: How know if a stack is maximized ?
Nevermind. Not fool proof. If the user is quick moving the mouse it does not work ATB, Malte ___ 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: Splash Screen Launcher
3) in the launcher stack's script editor write: on openStack go stack thatOtherStack set the visible of me to false end openStack Viktoras, the only thing I would mention as a possible change would be to put this code into the startUp handler instead openStack on startUp go stack thatOtherStack set the visible of me to FALSE end startUp The difference being the startUp command is only fired when the program first starts the openStack message will be fired every time a stack is opened so you'll need to trap it. Thanks for the coding tip though as I am going to be doing the exact same thing in the next day or two :-) -Sean ___ 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: Splash Screen Launcher
Hi Guys, To the suggested script on startUp go stack thatOtherStack set the visible of me to FALSE end startUp Maybe it would be worth adding on startUp wait 2 seconds -- so users can admire my beautiful splash screen go stack thatOtherStack set the visible of me to FALSE end startUp : ) Regards John -Original Message- From: Shao Sean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 06:02 AM To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Splash Screen Launcher 3) in the launcher stack's script editor write: on openStack go stack thatOtherStack set the visible of me to false end openStack Viktoras, the only thing I would mention as a possible change would be to put this code into the startUp handler instead openStack on startUp go stack thatOtherStack set the visible of me to FALSE end startUp The difference being the startUp command is only fired when the program first starts the openStack message will be fired every time a stack is opened so you'll need to trap it. Thanks for the coding tip though as I am going to be doing the exact same thing in the next day or two :-) -Sean ___ 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: SOAP Library
David- One question though, I can't find any documentation on the SOAP.RPCRequest() function. When I click it in SOAPLib Stack, it just shows the name. Urk. You're right. I just posted a fixed version. This was taken from the old SOAP Stack, however there are now more parameters into RPCRequest() and I have no clue what to set them to. The new parameter is for https connections. If you don't need the extra authentication then just set them to empty. I tried the url you posted: it doesn't work for me, either. But then very few web services do. If there were anything like a standard for these things then it might be simpler. With your url I get as far as getting rejected with a bad SOAPAction verb. http://www.xmethods.net (An organization dedicated to promoting the development, deployment, and use of web services) has a good collection of web services you can try out, but most of them don't work or are no longer available (has nothing to do with whether they work in rev). -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Stack Transparency Background only?
Mac OSX; rev 2.8.1: When setting blend mode (transparency) of a stack, such that the background shows thru all objects are also transparent. Is there a way to make it so the background only is transparent? in other apps with transparency like this (I'm looking at the amazing quickSilver right now) the objects on the top are not transparent. ___ 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: Stack Transparency Background only?
Recently, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: When setting blend mode (transparency) of a stack, such that the background shows thru all objects are also transparent. Is there a way to make it so the background only is transparent? The only way to do this currently is to use the windowshape property, which is basically using an image to define the transparent and opaque regions of the stack. In doing this you loose the ability to have a resizable stack, but you will get the effect you're looking for. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
