ANN: TwistAWord as Facebook Application
Hello, I have created a light version of TwistAWord as the main component of a Facebook application, using the Revolution plug-in. While the full version includes large collections of phrases in Catalonian, Danish, English, French, German, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish, the lite edition of TwistAWord has 600 English phrases and lacks several features. You can find the TwistAWord Facebook application at http://apps.facebook.com/twistaword/ and more information about TwistAWord is available on its homepage at http://www.twistaword.net. If you like the game, you can send me a friend request, or become a fan of Economy-x-Talk's Facebook page. You can also follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ xtalkprogrammer. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Submit your software at http://www.quickestpublisher.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: Practical limits on object counts
Yesterday I had written in response to one of Richard's post of this thread: Responding to your post, I have expanded my test stack of 2004 to now containing 1 (ten thousand) fields. (was: http://www.sanke.org/Software/RevTestStacks.zip for the 3300-fields stack) I will post the URL of the new test stack in my next post to this list. Preliminary results of testing with the 10,000 fields' test stack: Creating the 1 fields takes around 200 seconds in the Rev IDE, 130 seconds in the MC IDE. Deleting the 1 fields in the Rev IDE takes 420 seconds in the Rev IDE, 6 seconds in the MC IDE The three buttons for creating color patterns need about 2.3 seconds in the MC IDE, 3.5 seconds in the Rev IDE When the 1 fields have been created, the Rev IDE is very much unresponsive, no Problems with the Metacard IDE (with the exception of the Metacard Control Bowser which needs also more time to respond when 1 fields are present) I did not yet test to build standalones. The figures quoted above were measured on a 3 GHz WindowsXP machine with Rev engine versions 4.0-dp4. The problem back in 2004 with the 3300-fields' stack was the intrusion of a front- or backscript concerning only table fields, but because this script was insufficiently isolated to only monitor table fields, it therefore constantly monitored any kind of fields. Such well-meant, but in many cases unneeded interference from front and backscripts is still a very negative characteristic of the Rev IDE. The Rev IDE has a very interrelated, intertwined structure. This has been discussed several times in the past with proposals to achieve more modularity in the Rev IDE, to make a number of parts of the IDE more independent of each other. The present format has reached such a level of interrelatedness that the Rev IDE will cease to function completely when you remove certain front or backscripts ( I tested this, but do not remember at the moment which of these scripts were the culprit). There may be well also limits located in the engine, but as there are clearly to be seen differences between the performances of the Metacard and Rev IDEs, it is worth while also to think about improving the Rev IDE. One thing the Rev IDE does is to add so-called development properties to each object that is being created. This process in its result slows down the creation of objects and the overall performance of the IDE when a certain number of objects has been reached - as Richard found out: around 5000. I now have tested to create standalones from my new 1-fields stack: Metacard IDE: Creating the standalone took less than one second! I have to add here that I had to use the Standalone file of Rev version 3.5, the file of the 4.0-dp4 version did not work with the Metacard IDE, presumably a bug. Rev IDE: I canceled the test after 40 (forty) minutes. The Rev IDE then was still working on Removing development properties, but without a final result. Before I started the standalone builder I had unchecked Search for required inclusions ( as there were none ) and to add any dialogs or library inclusions. In section Property Profiles of the standalone settings unfortunately you cannot uncheck all of the options, you have to choose from at least one of them. So I chose Remove all profiles on objects although I really was not interested to achieve this special goal. After about ten minutes of standalone building the Rev window panes turned completely black and after some time returned to normal. After 40 minutes there was no way to remove the blackness of the Rev Windows, and then I force-quit the standalone building via the Windows Task Manager.- Another observation: To use less space on the card containing the 1 fields I set the width and height of the template field to 4. This worked fine in the Metacard IDE when creating the fields. In the Rev IDE however the size of the created fields - despite the template settings of 4 - was a width of 250 and a height of 57 for each of the 1 fields. I found out that this occurs with all template field settings 9 - another instance of a unwanted and unneeded intrusion from the side of the Rev IDE. To be able to precisely compare the performances of Metacard and Rev IDE I therefore chose 9 for the template field settings in my test stack. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia ___ 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
[OT] Memory with VPC on a G4
As a defiantly retro sort of chap I run Windows XP in Virtual PC 7 for PPC Mac; using it as little as I can possibly manage to test and build for Widows clients. I am currently spinning-of several standalones for a new pupil of mine to take home and pop on her Mum and Dad's box running Windows XP. That, as such, is unproblematic, except that the Windows version of the RR 4 dp4 behaves like a 90 year-old with a bad back because the maximum RAM that can, apparently, be allottted to VPC is 512 MB. This is silly as I have 2 GB RAM and can gladly spare 1.5GB for VPC as only running iTunes while I use VPC. Does anybody happen to know a 'hack' whereby one can UP the RAM allotted to VPC to more than 512 MB? -- I know the obvious answer to this is buy a heap of junk for $25 to run XP; however in my 'cabin' I am already being squeezed out by the G4 (with 2 fat monitors), the PPC macMini, the other heap of junk with Ubuntu, the BBC Master and the other 'thing' currently running FreeDOS with a primitive GUI. So, beyond migrating onto the roof, the cellar, or colonising the sitting-room I really have to stick with VPC. ___ 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: Telnet Shell Help
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:28 PM, RevList revl...@createchsol.com wrote: I need to write a very small utility that uses Telnet so that I can connect to a server on port 333 and login with credentials and issue a specified command recognized by the server. Would you be able to use SSH instead of telnet? Not only is it more secure than telnet, but it is scriptable too. Bernard ___ 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 on 65 Bit Windows
Stewart, Rev and its standalones have worked just fine on my 64-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7. Haven't tried Windows Server 2008, but I'm sure that would work too. I don't know if this has been answered before, but I need to know if you can run a compiled Revolution application on a 64 bit Windows machine running either Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008? ___ 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: Telnet Shell Help
Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net on October 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM -0700 wrote: Maybe it wouldn't be as hard if you opened telnet with open process for update and interacted with it that way. Then the socket-handling business would be done by the OS. Recently Josh Mellicker showed me how to do that with 'curl' using 'open process for read' and it made it super easy. Phil Davis Mark Smith li...@futilism.com on October 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM -0700 wrote: Stewart, I think you could do telnet over a socket connection. See open socket, write to socket and friends in the docs. This is what I would like to do, but have no idea on how to implement this. I have not used sockets ever and I really need a simple sample app that would help me to get started. I don't really know how to start. I need to telnet to a server and enter the credentials and once authenticated, send a script that the server understands. I do it in terminal or in the command line on window but I want to automate it through revolution. I understand that when I open a socket to that computer on port 333 (which is the port I need to use) then the port is open. I get an open connection but how do I send the commands and know when or if the server has received and accepted the commands so that I can send the next one. For example, when I connect over telnet, I know I have a connection and can issue my next command, because the terminal displays +0 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Stewart This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual to whom they are addressed and it may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you have received this communication by mistake, please notify us immediately. ___ 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
Different objects have different properties
Yeah, I know; stating the crashingly obvious. BUT; I don't see why this should be necessary, if Graphic Objects can have a Label (even though, by default, this possibility is hidden from us) why can they not have icons? Presumably the answer, like so many answers, is that somebody made a reasonably random decision, not thinking that somebody might, one day, wish to assign an icon to a Graphic object. Trying to work round this one I found that one also cannot assign imageData to a graphic object: put the imageData of img ID 1007 into grc gXXX NOR can one do this sort of thing: put img m.png into grc gXXX what is faintly misleading is that the ScriptEditor in RR 4 dp-4 doesn't find anything wrong with these lines of code. The best way round this problem seems to be something like this: set the pattern of grc gXXX to 1007 where 1007 is an imageID. The only snag is that your Graphic Object shouldn't be much larger than the image you are using as an icon unless you want it tiled as a repeating pattern. Why not do away with hard-and-fast defined object types and have a generic OBJECT which could have its TYPE defined just as all its other properties? This would make things considerably more flexible. ___ 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: ANN: TwistAWord as Facebook Application
Mark, fantastic! Can't wait to show this off to others to give them an idea of what can be done with the new plug in. Of course we have to wait until the final (64-bit enabled) plug-in is released. Most everyone here is on Safari-Snowleopard and so it won't work... -- Yes, I know about the 32 bit switch, but for naive users that's not an option... it needs to run out of the box) -- I guess it is still best to wait before unwrapping this outside our runRev community. On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hello, I have created a light version of TwistAWord as the main component of a Facebook application, using the Revolution plug-in. While the full version includes large collections of phrases in Catalonian, Danish, English, French, German, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish, the lite edition of TwistAWord has 600 English phrases and lacks several features. You can find the TwistAWord Facebook application at http://apps.facebook.com/twistaword/ and more information about TwistAWord is available on its homepage at http://www.twistaword.net. If you like the game, you can send me a friend request, or become a fan of Economy-x-Talk's Facebook page. You can also follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Submit your software at http://www.quickestpublisher.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: ANN: TwistAWord as Facebook Application
I ran it on Firefox/Snow Leopard and it worked great. Didn't try Safari. On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami ka...@hindu.orgwrote: Mark, fantastic! Can't wait to show this off to others to give them an idea of what can be done with the new plug in. Of course we have to wait until the final (64-bit enabled) plug-in is released. Most everyone here is on Safari-Snowleopard and so it won't work... -- Yes, I know about the 32 bit switch, but for naive users that's not an option... it needs to run out of the box) -- I guess it is still best to wait before unwrapping this outside our runRev community. ___ 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: ANN: TwistAWord as Facebook Application
Can you check something in the game? I had the smokers sentence one, and the final answer was also the one I had tried first go, but was told that it was wrong. I believe that it's because there are two pieces that both read smoke. , and I may have placed the two in the opposite placement of the official answer. ___ 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
