Blank Page printed with RevPrintField command
Using a Mac 10.6.2 RevPrintField function prints page within application being design all okay - but not when exported as a standalone application and used on a PC running Vista. It is only printing a BLANK page then. My Script is: On Mouseup RevShowPrintDialog true, false RevPrintField the long id of field "Results" End Mouseup I am using the $500 Enterprise 4.0.0 Edition. When instructed to placed the "answer the result" after the printing commands - It returns a blank dialogue box which does little to help make the cause of error clear. By the way I have checked under General that the print feature is selected to export with standalone windows application. Is there any format to the field that I should be aware of? Locked/ Unlocked/ Disabled, Font? Is this a glitch when designing on Mac, exporting to Windows standalone? Brent Summerton.___ 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: Smoothly moving a jpeg
Did you look at Animation Engine? Might be overkill for what you need to do, but he does have some pretty slick smooth moving in there (even on this old machine).. ___ 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: The Tatty, Old Metacard icon.
Hey, I'd happy to take the credit, but I don't think it was me. My brain may have lost too many functioning cells, but I only recall creating a splash screen for MC under Scott Raney and some answer dialog icons for MC under Richard Gaskin. I think it's about time Klaus Major changed the splash screen to a banana. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design Recently, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Actually, i like the more recent version of the > MetaCard icon, created by Scott Rossi. > > > Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: >> >> Now that RunRev has passed through its chrysalis stage and >> emerged with shiny, new icons, maybe it is time that >> Metacard did the same. >> [snip] ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
Thank you to all who provided code suggestions and insight into solving this problem (James, Colin, Mark W. gMc, Pierre, Jacques, Phil). I'd have taken forever to figure this out without such a helpful (and clever) bunch of allies. Mark On Dec 16, 2009, at 1:57 AM, gmccarthy wrote: > > What about getting the angle from point B to A, then the angle from point B > to C, then getting the difference: > > on mouseUp > put cd fld "A" into pointA > put cd fld "B" into pointB -- assumed center of angle > put cd fld "C" into pointC > -- > put fGetAngle(pointB, pointA) into angleA > put fGetAngle(pointB, pointC) into angleC > if angleC > angleA then > put angleC - angleA into cd fld "AngleABC" > else > put angleA - angleC into cd fld "AngleABC" > end if > end mouseUp > > function fGetAngle pPoint1, pPoint2 > --angle anticlockwise from X axis > return atan2(item 2 of pPoint2 - item 2 of pPoint1,item 1 of pPoint2 - > item 1 of pPoint1) * 180 / pi > end fGetAngle > > > See atan2 in the dictionary. > By the way, this gives 66.209226 for the angle. > > As a test for known angles, try > 250,250 > 200,200 > 100,373 > This is for angles of 45 degrees and 120 degrees. > you should get 75 degrees as your answer. > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Deriving-an-angle-from-three-points-tp964930p965051.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Deriving an angle from three points
Colin, Thanks, this appears to be a very succinct solution. Very much appreciated. Mark On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: > >> 40,116 >> 98,186 >> 132,118 >> >> How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those >> above? > > > All of the suggested scripts seem quite long. Try putting this script into > three buttons. The script uses the Other Mark's way of dragging the button > around (and it doesn't hilite the button as he claims): > > on mouseDown >repeat until the mouse is up with messages > set the loc of me to the mouseLoc > wait 0 millisecs with messages > end repeat > put 180 - angler(loc of btn 1,loc of btn 2,loc of btn 3)/pi*180 > end mouseDown > function angler p1, p2, p3 > put atan2(item 2 of p2-item 2 of p1,item 1 of p2 - item 1 of p1) into angle1 > put atan2(item 2 of p3-item 2 of p2,item 1 of p3 - item 1 of p2) into angle2 > return abs(angle2-angle1) > end angler > > The bit that calculates the angle could be done in a single line: > > put 180 - (atan2(item 2 of p3-item 2 of p2,item 1 of p3 - item 1 of > p2)-atan2(item 2 of p2-item 2 of p1,item 1 of p2 - item 1 of p1))/pi*180 > > > ___ > 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: HTMLText question
On 12/16/09 8:04 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
A tad safer and more general technique is to
put "" before word 2 of tHtml
put "" after word 2 of tHtml
As other said, variable have htmltext property, just the content which can
be html, so you need to work with it directly. Html comes into effect when
such a content is put into a field and then displayed to user.
Robert
I'm totally confused. I am not aware that variables have a htmlText
property? When I try to access it I keep getting an error message.
You're right. Variables don't have an "htmlText" property, only fields
do. This agrees with the Rev docs description and is the way it really
works.
I think maybe Robert meant "variable DON'T have htmltext property", and
was saying you can put the htmlText of a field into a variable,
manipulate it, then set the htmlText of the field to the manipulated
contents of the variable to display it in rendered form.
Secondly, using the keyword 'word' when dealing with htmlText doesn't seem
to be a safe option to me at all, in fact it would be the last option I'd
think of using. If a field contained multiple lines of words, formatted in
all sorts of weird and wonderful ways, and the htmlText of one of those
lines might look like this:
boink
If I were to use the keyword 'word', Rev considers
boink
putting "" and"" before and after any of these words will result
in ill formed HTML.
Granted, if you do a grep for>([^<]*)< you can extract just the content
between the html tags and then using the 'word' keyword will work for you.
But now that I appreciate that this original post is related to another post
where I put forward the idea of using the 'token' keyword, I'll suggest it
again. Doing grep and trying to keep track of where in a line of html text
you are and what word needs to be replaced with what, plus needing to deal
with all the punctuation marks that get included inside what Rev considers
is a word, is very involved for this old brain and dare I say, unsafe or at
least fraught with possible errors. Using token, there are only a few
special characters you have to account for, you can then just run through
every token and when you get a match:
put ""& token tTokenCounter of tHtmlText& "" into token
tTokenCounter of tHtmlText
Probably not the fastest way, but relatively simple.
HTH
I'll take simple over snazzy any day of the week. That way, when I come
back to it in six months I might be able to look at the code and
immediately know what it's doing! I love it when that happens.
Another approach I've taken is to reformat the htmlText into something
more given to processing, then process it, then restore the original
format. Like this:
on mouseUp
get withBoxTags(the htmlText of fld 1)
put it -- so you can inspect the htmltext output
set the htmlText of fld 1 to it
end mouseUp
function withBoxTags pHtmlText
-- replace existing CRs with a char not found in pHtmlText
replace cr with numToChar(250) in pHtmlText
-- reformat the text for processing
replace ">" with (">" & cr) in pHtmlText -- each ">" now ends a line
replace "<" with (cr & "<") in pHtmlText -- each "<" now starts a line
filter pHtmlText without empty -- remove blank lines
-- insert "box" tags
repeat for each line tLine in pHtmlText
if char 1 of tLine = "<" -- not a 'data' line
then put tLine & cr after tNewText
else put "" & tLine & "" & cr after tNewText
end repeat
-- restore original format
replace cr with empty in tNewText
replace numToChar(250) with cr in tNewText
-- return it to caller
return tNewText
end withBoxTags
The above code may not accomplish exactly what you're trying to do, but
it illustrates the idea.
--
Phil Davis
PDS Labs
Professional Software Development
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Re: Deriving an angle from three points
James, Thanks for this, but starting the Turtle stack did not allow me to calculate the angle. I got an error each time at "Start Turtle." Is there a trick to making the library accessible to other stacks? Mark On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:08 AM, James Hurley wrote: >> >> Message: 24 >> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:21:47 -0800 >> From: Mark Swindell >> Subject: Deriving an angle from three points >> To: How to use Revolution >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii >> >> 40,116 >> 98,186 >> 132,118 >> >> How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those >> above? >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> > > Mark, > > Or even easier. Set the Turtle at the apex and get the angle of the other two > points. > > > on mouseUp > startTurtle --Initiates the turtle graphics library > penup > setxy 98,186 --The vertex > put direction(40,116) into A > put direction(132,118) into B > put B-A into dA > put abs(dA) & cr & abs(180 - dA) into msg box > choose the browse tool > end mouseUP > > (Assuming your middle point is the apex of the angle you want.) > > To run this you will need the TG library. Run this in the msg box > > go url "http://www.jamesphurley.com/jhurleyFolder/TurtleGraphics.rev"; > > Jim Hurley > ___ > 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: Saving standalone substacks
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Actually, I probably wasn't too clear. All that file path business was > mostly for opening files, not for re-saving them. Once they're open from > disk, the engine already knows the path, so "save this stack" is all you > need. > > Is this true, the Dictionary says, under the save entry: If you specify a name but not a location, Revolution assumes the file is in the defaultFolder. I've always worried, as I do tinker with the defaultFolder, that I might get myself into a situation where the defaultFolder is not where I think it is so I always specify the path when saving my app. > > You can get "the filename of this stack" to find out the path on disk > without any parsing. > > Ah, I love this List. Another line of code eliminated. > Anyway, this is what I use. It goes into the standalone's mainstack script: > > function appPath -- path to application folder >put the effective filename of me into tPath >set the itemdel to slash >return (item 1 to -2 of tPath) & slash -- on OS X this is INSIDE the app > bundle > end appPath > > And then when I need to open a satellite stack: > > go stack (appPath() & "stack1.rev") > > Actually I see you use the 'effective filename' which I now appreciate solves any file path issues regarding substacks. Thanks. ___ 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: Smoothly moving a jpeg
Recently, Tim Selander wrote: > Thanks - shortening the changes in distance helped a lot. So it > appears Rev doesn't visibly move an image, it jumps it to the > next location. Well, really any move is a jump to a new location. In the case of Rev's move command, a move is based on several factors: moveSpeed, duration, and overall distance. The host computer's processing power, and the power of the graphics card, and monitor refresh can also be issues. You'll need to find a balance between the size of the jump and speed at which the jumps take place. > If I move the image a pixel at a time, but tighten the loop to 2 > or 3 milliseconds, things get pretty smooth. Now to test the > reading speed with the on camera talent! Great -- hope it works out for you. Best 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
Re: HTMLText question
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > > A tad safer and more general technique is to > > put "" before word 2 of tHtml > put "" after word 2 of tHtml > > As other said, variable have htmltext property, just the content which can > be html, so you need to work with it directly. Html comes into effect when > such a content is put into a field and then displayed to user. > > Robert > I'm totally confused. I am not aware that variables have a htmlText property? When I try to access it I keep getting an error message. Secondly, using the keyword 'word' when dealing with htmlText doesn't seem to be a safe option to me at all, in fact it would be the last option I'd think of using. If a field contained multiple lines of words, formatted in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways, and the htmlText of one of those lines might look like this: boink If I were to use the keyword 'word', Rev considers boink putting "" and "" before and after any of these words will result in ill formed HTML. Granted, if you do a grep for >([^<]*)< you can extract just the content between the html tags and then using the 'word' keyword will work for you. But now that I appreciate that this original post is related to another post where I put forward the idea of using the 'token' keyword, I'll suggest it again. Doing grep and trying to keep track of where in a line of html text you are and what word needs to be replaced with what, plus needing to deal with all the punctuation marks that get included inside what Rev considers is a word, is very involved for this old brain and dare I say, unsafe or at least fraught with possible errors. Using token, there are only a few special characters you have to account for, you can then just run through every token and when you get a match: put "" & token tTokenCounter of tHtmlText & "" into token tTokenCounter of tHtmlText Probably not the fastest way, but relatively simple. HTH ___ 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 Rev Web Project and On-Rev working together?
Thanks Sarah and Bj?rnke! I had a funny feeling about the ":" colon after URLhowever, I could of swore I lifted that script from one of the examples, and it had a colon in there... In any case I removed it and it worked fine :-) Bj?rnke, as for copying the sentence to the clipboard, is there a technical reason why this is a bad idea, it's not being written to the harddrive? Is it because the user might have been saving something else on the clipboard and that action replaces what they had previously saved? I was using the copy to clipboard as a kind of cheat. I'm going to embed the rev project into Drupal web page. Originally, I was hoping to figure out how to have the Rev app automatically post an anonymous comment to the Drupal page (the little rev app was embedded in.) But not sure how I actually would do it. Ultimately I was looking for a way the user would be able to share a sentence that they create by dragging a few words from some song lyrics I know it sounds a little lame, but I was just going to use it as example for some teachers as to what these tools can do all together. I was hoping to have the Rev project duplicate the process of the Drupal comment action, using the Rev interface instead of the Drupal interface...but still having the user's work show up in the comments section. As an alternative I may just load a new Drupal Module that pulls a static html file, ...one like Rev creates in my example here. That might work to if I move a way from having the user just past their comment off the clipboard. Thank you! John Patten On Dec 16, 2009, at 4:33 PM, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > -- > > Message: 23 > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:45:04 +1000 > From: Sarah Reichelt > Subject: Re: A Rev Web Project and On-Rev working together? > To: How to use Revolution > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> I have a little rev project that I will eventually turn into a >> webRevProject. I would like to have this little webRevProject project store >> a line of text into an on-rev text file. I'm not quite getting it right... >> >> Here are the three parts that I have: >> >> 1. Rev Projects Script >> >> put theSentence & " -created in " & totalTime & " seconds" into theSentence >> set the clipboardData["text"] to theSentence >> put "sentence" & "=" & urlEncode(theSentence) into tMyPostData >> post tMyPostData to URL "http://jpatten.on-rev.com/xmas/saveSentence.irev"; >> >> 2. SaveSentence.irev >> >> >> > put $_POST["sentence"] & return after URL: "file:sentence.txt" >> ?> >> >> >> 3. sentence.txt (a blank text file waiting to be written to) > > > Basically, this should work fine, but there are a couple of things > which may be typos in your email, or may be causing problems. > > In Step 1, you post to saveSentence.irev, but in step 2, you say the > irev file is called SaveSentence.irev. Servers are usually > case-sensitive, so you need to make these 2 consistent. > > In step 2, you have: > URL: "file:sentence.txt" > but the colon after URL is not correct. > > > For testing purposes, check "it" and "the result" after the "post" > command to see if there is any error or returned value. > > In your irev file, have it write a log file showing all the $_POST > variables to check what is arriving. > > HTH, > Sarah > > > -- > > Message: 24 > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:45:14 +0100 > From: Bj?rnke von Gierke > Subject: Re: A Rev Web Project and On-Rev working together? > To: How to use Revolution > Message-ID: <55466469-d402-4cfc-a032-def7dce2b...@mac.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > A http server (like on-rev) needs to always return something. making > that something (as in your case) be "" seems to be rather > unusual and nondescript, but should work. still you might want to > check "the result" in your rev stack, to make sure the script on the > server actually works as expected. > > Also, you're missing validation and security. anyone can write > anything into your text file, if he or she wants to, and sooner or > later they will. If there are a lot of users (hundrets per second), > you might also run into the problem of some text not being stored in > the file, because another user overwrites the first change (competing > file access). > > Note that there's script errors in your supplied example, so i guess > you're missing those too. For example "URL:" in the irev file should > of course be "URL", and probably i'm missing some too :) > > A file created by you might not be accessible to the process the web > server runs at (unix user handling and file access restrictions). But > this is more a "what if everything else is correct and it still fails > unexpectedly" scenario. > > If things don't work, try to return stuff. for example putting the > d
Re: Saving standalone substacks
Kay C Lan wrote: Because I can never figure out the differences between Windows set ups and Mac set ups, to lazy to keep track of the defaultFolder or whether I should be using a specialFolder, and am sure that someone (me most likely) is inadvertantly going to move a data stack to another location other than where my splash stack expects it to be, I've gone for a univeral, seems to work everytime, calculate the file path exactly before you need it approach: Actually, I probably wasn't too clear. All that file path business was mostly for opening files, not for re-saving them. Once they're open from disk, the engine already knows the path, so "save this stack" is all you need. put the long name of stack "myDataStack" into tFilePath --result is the full file path enclosed in quotes and preceded by the word stack --the first 7 char are: stack " --the last char is: " put char 8 to -2 of tFilePath into tFilePath --just the file path save stack "myDataStack" as tFilePath You can get "the filename of this stack" to find out the path on disk without any parsing. That said, I do usually use your method (with the filename variation) to find stacks whose relative locations are already known. I have a function that returns filenames based on the standalone's location. I should probably use the stackfiles property more than I do, it's an automated way to do the same thing with less scripting. Anyway, this is what I use. It goes into the standalone's mainstack script: function appPath -- path to application folder put the effective filename of me into tPath set the itemdel to slash return (item 1 to -2 of tPath) & slash -- on OS X this is INSIDE the app bundle end appPath And then when I need to open a satellite stack: go stack (appPath() & "stack1.rev") -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com 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: Smoothly moving a jpeg
Scott, Thanks - shortening the changes in distance helped a lot. So it appears Rev doesn't visibly move an image, it jumps it to the next location. If I move the image a pixel at a time, but tighten the loop to 2 or 3 milliseconds, things get pretty smooth. Now to test the reading speed with the on camera talent! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan Scott Rossi wrote: snip well moving large images. That said, I would try to repeatedly set the position of the image with short changes in distance in a tight "send..." loop. Here's a simple example: on mouseUp moveImage end mouseUp on moveImage if right of img 1 < 10 then exit moveImage set left of img 1 to (left of img 1 - 2) send "moveImage" to me in 5 millisecs end moveImage This makes for substantial processor use, but also makes for smoother move effects. Another option I would try is to move the physical position of the stack in which the image appears across the desktop, instead of moving the image snip ___ 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: Saving standalone substacks
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:20 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Assuming three stacks in the same folder as your standalone, with the > defaultfolder set to that directory: > > on shutdownRequest > repeat for each item i in "stack1.rev,stack2.rev,stack3.rev" >save stack i >close stack i > end repeat > pass shutdownRequest > end shutdownRequest > > Jim, Because I can never figure out the differences between Windows set ups and Mac set ups, to lazy to keep track of the defaultFolder or whether I should be using a specialFolder, and am sure that someone (me most likely) is inadvertantly going to move a data stack to another location other than where my splash stack expects it to be, I've gone for a univeral, seems to work everytime, calculate the file path exactly before you need it approach: put the long name of stack "myDataStack" into tFilePath --result is the full file path enclosed in quotes and preceded by the word stack --the first 7 char are: stack " --the last char is: " put char 8 to -2 of tFilePath into tFilePath --just the file path save stack "myDataStack" as tFilePath So if you have multiple data stacks, using Jacque's example above: on shutdownRequest repeat for each item i in "stack1.rev,stack2.rev,stack3.rev" put the long name of stack i into tFilePath put char 8 to -2 of tFilePath into tFilePath save stack i as tFilePath close stack i end repeat pass shutdownRequest end shutdownRequest adds only two lines of code here but seems to save me a whole lot of headscratching trying to deal with any other approach. HTH ___ 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
Web interface for executable software
Hi all, Recently i saw a functional web interface for a desktop application that runs as a server. Previously, i have seen the VLC player interface running in a browser, (Still think that an external for VLC could be an excellent alternative to Quicktime) also WinAmp and iTunes. How difficult could be to create such interface for our own apps? Thanks in advance. Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Web-interface-for-executable-software-tp965693p965693.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Smoothly moving a jpeg
Recently, Tim Selander wrote: > The next thing I'm trying to do is take a jpeg of vertical, right > to left Japanese text and move it smoothly across the window at > reading speed for a teleprompter app. I'm using the "move image" > command. The result is a little to jerky and stuttery. > > Does Rev have a smoother way to animate/move images on the screen? If the image spans the entire width and/or height of the screen, you may be hard pressed to move anything of that size smoothly -- Rev doesn't do so well moving large images. That said, I would try to repeatedly set the position of the image with short changes in distance in a tight "send..." loop. Here's a simple example: on mouseUp moveImage end mouseUp on moveImage if right of img 1 < 10 then exit moveImage set left of img 1 to (left of img 1 - 2) send "moveImage" to me in 5 millisecs end moveImage This makes for substantial processor use, but also makes for smoother move effects. Another option I would try is to move the physical position of the stack in which the image appears across the desktop, instead of moving the image within the stack. Sometimes movement of a stack window can appear smooth, perhaps because the system is responsible for blending the window with the desktop, I'm not sure. But if image movement doesn't work out well for you, I'd try moving the stack. Hope this helps. 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
Smoothly moving a jpeg
Thanks to all who replied to my question on interrupting a loop with keyboard input, that was an interesting thread. The next thing I'm trying to do is take a jpeg of vertical, right to left Japanese text and move it smoothly across the window at reading speed for a teleprompter app. I'm using the "move image" command. The result is a little to jerky and stuttery. Does Rev have a smoother way to animate/move images on the screen? Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ 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: Recording user actions in the RevMedia IDE
Trevor Devore has a framework and some ideas for the implementation of multiple undo in his "Application Framework" http://www.bluemangolearning.com/revolution/software/libraries/glx-application-framework/ - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2009/12/16 Alejandro Tejada > > Hi all, > > Last Monday, i took three hours showing > RevMedia to some teachers. > > Besides the interface shock and the unique > need to name each object that you create, > it was the lack of multiple undo that raised > most eyebrows. > > If you want experiment, then how could you > recover your work if you lose it? > > Other programs, make this is possible with > multiple undo. In fact, many software allows > you to choose how many undo you want. > > My question is: How could we record every > user action in the IDE, to revert any destructive > (or simply blocking) change that users could > make? Does this strategy (storing every user > action) could actually works as a multiple undo > replacement? > > Thanks in advance. > > Alejandro > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Recording-user-actions-in-the-RevMedia-IDE-tp965668p965668.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Deriving an angle from three points
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jacques Hausser wrote: > I really should re-read my mails before sending them :-( > I cannot copy and paste scripts directly into mails (I don't know why) so I > rewrite them... with bugs ! > > Now that Mark has his solution, this seems to be the next thing that needs solving. What platform are you on and which email client do you use? Are your scripts in Rev or tRev? Does it make a difference if you use your mouse and select Copy and Paste rather than using keyboard shortcuts? Can you Copy and Paste code from Rev into a text editor or other program, or from one Rev script to another Rev script, ie is the problem you can't Copy in Rev, you can Copy but it get's lost when going to some other programs, or Paste just never works outside of Rev? This was an intermitant problem with Rev way back and the usual cure was to manually select the menu commands. HTH ___ 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: The Tatty, Old Metacard icon.
Actually, i like the more recent version of the MetaCard icon, created by Scott Rossi. Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: > > Now that RunRev has passed through its chrysalis stage and > emerged with shiny, new icons, maybe it is time that > Metacard did the same. > [snip] > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/The-Tatty-Old-Metacard-icon-tp965553p965671.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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
Recording user actions in the RevMedia IDE
Hi all, Last Monday, i took three hours showing RevMedia to some teachers. Besides the interface shock and the unique need to name each object that you create, it was the lack of multiple undo that raised most eyebrows. If you want experiment, then how could you recover your work if you lose it? Other programs, make this is possible with multiple undo. In fact, many software allows you to choose how many undo you want. My question is: How could we record every user action in the IDE, to revert any destructive (or simply blocking) change that users could make? Does this strategy (storing every user action) could actually works as a multiple undo replacement? Thanks in advance. Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Recording-user-actions-in-the-RevMedia-IDE-tp965668p965668.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Shortcut for resizing a selected object ?
Hi Jacqueline, In fact it's just a story about an anagram around my first name ;) A nickname that followed me to the track for a long time. 8) Finally I found it sticks well to the situation. I missed so many trains to reach you that I'm a bit late! 8) -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best ! 8) 2009/12/16 J. Landman Gay > > > I don't think you should call yourself a slug any more. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > 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 > ___ 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: Saving standalone substacks
James Hurley wrote: Things I didn't know: 1) I thought I would be saving to a substack. Substacks -- the ones embedded into a main stack -- become part of the standalone. Executables can't save data to themselves, no matter how many stacks they are composed of. So yeah, you need separate stacks on disk if you want to save them. 2) I was unaware of the "shutDownRequest" handler. Another question or two. 1) How would "StackRunner" differ from using my own splash screen? 2) How would "Revolution Player" differ from using my own splash screen? I don't think either of these would be much different. They are both basically splash standalones, though Rev's player has a few more restrictions I think. But with either of these, you'd need to put your saving instructions into each satellite stack, or else into a backscript that you insert when your first stack opens. That's because both of these are already built standalones, so to add any scripted behavior you have to use another stack to store the scripts in. 3) If I use "save" verses "save as..." can I assume that the satellite stack will be saved and the user will not be asked if he or she wants to overwrite the existing file? Yes. Actually, you can use "save as" too without bothering the user. Both "save stack" and "save stack as " just write a file to disk. No dialog is presented unless your script puts one up. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com 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: regex/HTMLText question
Okay, I'm back with the end of maybe a full solution. To enclose a word without its punctuation you have to define also a list of substitute strings like this : -> the list of possible form " ",",",".",".",".." -> the substitute list " ",",",".",".",".." With this approach you'll be able to keep your punctuation alive. I'm sure it'll thank us 8) To create a list of possible form of whole word, you could: 1) Define the list of punctuation which could starts a word i.e. : colon,space,nothing,comma 2) Define the list of punctuation which could ends a word i.e. : -,colon,dot,comma ... 3) Then mix all possibilities by two imbricated loops (okay it's like cooking i'm presume 8)) So you'll obtain something like that : put "colon,space,comma,nothing,quote" into startCharsList put "colon,dot,comma,-" into endCharsList put "" into keyWord put "" into htmlTag put "" into wholeWordList put "" into substituteList -- Create the list of whole words and its substitute list repeat with startCharNum = 1 to number of items of startCharsList repeat with endCharNum = 1 to number of items of endCharsList put item startCharNum of startCharsList & keyWord & item endCharNum of endCharsList&"," after wholeWordList put item startCharNum of startCharsList & htmlTag & keyWord & htmlTag & item endCharNum of endCharsList&"," after substituteList end repeat end repeat -- Search and boxed one or a list of words repeat with aWord in wordList repeat with wholeWordForm in wholeWordList put replaceText(aRegex,"",aWord) into wholeWordForm -- replace the "" key in your pattern by the word that you need get fld "yourField" replace wholeWordForm with itSubstituteForm in it end repeat end repeat See how it could work ? However not sure of the time of processing... Give it a try and keep up informed ;) -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best ! 8) ___ 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 Rev Web Project and On-Rev working together?
A http server (like on-rev) needs to always return something. making that something (as in your case) be "" seems to be rather unusual and nondescript, but should work. still you might want to check "the result" in your rev stack, to make sure the script on the server actually works as expected. Also, you're missing validation and security. anyone can write anything into your text file, if he or she wants to, and sooner or later they will. If there are a lot of users (hundrets per second), you might also run into the problem of some text not being stored in the file, because another user overwrites the first change (competing file access). Note that there's script errors in your supplied example, so i guess you're missing those too. For example "URL:" in the irev file should of course be "URL", and probably i'm missing some too :) A file created by you might not be accessible to the process the web server runs at (unix user handling and file access restrictions). But this is more a "what if everything else is correct and it still fails unexpectedly" scenario. If things don't work, try to return stuff. for example putting the data into the text field might fail, and then "the result" would contain useful information so you might want to return that: put the result i think that setting the clipboard, without the user demanding it, is evil, and should never be done (ever). On 16 Dec 2009, at 22:06, John Patten wrote: Hi All! I have a little rev project that I will eventually turn into a webRevProject. I would like to have this little webRevProject project store a line of text into an on-rev text file. I'm not quite getting it right... Here are the three parts that I have: 1. Rev Projects Script put theSentence & " -created in " & totalTime & " seconds" into theSentence set the clipboardData["text"] to theSentence put "sentence" & "=" & urlEncode(theSentence) into tMyPostData post tMyPostData to URL "http://jpatten.on-rev.com/xmas/saveSentence.irev " 2. SaveSentence.irev 3. sentence.txt (a blank text file waiting to be written to) Is there something I missed? Thank you! John Patten ___ 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 Rev Web Project and On-Rev working together?
> I have a little rev project that I will eventually turn into a > webRevProject. I would like to have this little webRevProject project store > a line of text into an on-rev text file. I'm not quite getting it right... > > Here are the three parts that I have: > > 1. Rev Projects Script > > put theSentence & " -created in " & totalTime & " seconds" into theSentence > set the clipboardData["text"] to theSentence > put "sentence" & "=" & urlEncode(theSentence) into tMyPostData > post tMyPostData to URL "http://jpatten.on-rev.com/xmas/saveSentence.irev"; > > 2. SaveSentence.irev > > > put $_POST["sentence"] & return after URL: "file:sentence.txt" > ?> > > > 3. sentence.txt (a blank text file waiting to be written to) Basically, this should work fine, but there are a couple of things which may be typos in your email, or may be causing problems. In Step 1, you post to saveSentence.irev, but in step 2, you say the irev file is called SaveSentence.irev. Servers are usually case-sensitive, so you need to make these 2 consistent. In step 2, you have: URL: "file:sentence.txt" but the colon after URL is not correct. For testing purposes, check "it" and "the result" after the "post" command to see if there is any error or returned value. In your irev file, have it write a log file showing all the $_POST variables to check what is arriving. HTH, Sarah ___ 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: Shortcut for resizing a selected object ?
zryip theSlug wrote: Never thought when I wrote this script that it could be integrated to a biggest project. I'm really honored, thank you. I don't think you should call yourself a slug any more. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com 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: Shortcut for resizing a selected object ?
This little script is not only useful to resize controls like buttons or fields, but also for graphics objects like lines, rectangles, etc that as you know requires more accuracy. Never thought when I wrote this script that it could be integrated to a biggest project. I'm really honored, thank you. 8) It's now yours and the property of all the community. You can make it follow the destiny that you want. ;) Since, I have integrated a feature to stop the resize when the bottom right corner is not within the limits of the card. Just a line in fact. ;) You're welcome 8) - Zryip TheSlug - wish you the best 8) 2009/12/16 Richard Gaskin > Nicely done. Limiting the resizing to the left and bottom removes the > ambiguity I was wondering about in terms of which sides gets adjusted. > > I think I'll add this to my copy of the MC IDE, and have cc'd the MC > discussion list here in hopes that the crew agrees it would be useful to add > to the master version. > > It's a nice compliment to the Shift key modifier, which moves the objects > by 10-pixel increments. With Option added for resizing, it really rounds > out the arrow key use quite well. > > Thanks for the script - useful stuff. ___ 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: Saving standalone substacks
Devin Asay wrote: Do you know what the file permissions implications are if a user other than the one who installed the app is trying to save stacks to the app bundle? I think it depends on the OS permissions assigned to the app, but maybe someone else knows more. Most of the apps in my Applications folder are Owner: read/write, group: read/write, anyone: read. I think you'd need to make sure that the permissions are set correctly for the people who would need to access it. I notice that my Apple apps are mostly group = admin, where third party apps are mostly group = (unknown). -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com 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
The Tatty, Old Metacard icon.
Now that RunRev has passed through its chrysalis stage and emerged with shiny, new icons, maybe it is time that Metacard did the same. I have popped a highly derivative icon here: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/STUFF/MC.png not as a terribly serious suggestion, more as a way of getting somebody else's digestive juices flowing. ___ 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 Rev Web Project and On-Rev working together?
Hi All! I have a little rev project that I will eventually turn into a webRevProject. I would like to have this little webRevProject project store a line of text into an on-rev text file. I'm not quite getting it right... Here are the three parts that I have: 1. Rev Projects Script put theSentence & " -created in " & totalTime & " seconds" into theSentence set the clipboardData["text"] to theSentence put "sentence" & "=" & urlEncode(theSentence) into tMyPostData post tMyPostData to URL "http://jpatten.on-rev.com/xmas/saveSentence.irev " 2. SaveSentence.irev 3. sentence.txt (a blank text file waiting to be written to) Is there something I missed? Thank you! John Patten ___ 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: Saving standalone substacks
James Hurley wrote: Actually, I had recalled that the splash screen was the way to go. My question is really quite primitive. When the user quits, or just wants to save the substacks, what is the action plan, specifically, what is the code? Save.the substacks name. Is a file path required? Like I said, my question is quite primitive. Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: Depends on what your stack does. If you've changed the defaultfolder, then you'll need to calculate a file path back to your satellite stacks I don't like the word "substacks" in this case because those are stacks embedded in the mainstack, and they can't save data. Separate stacks opened by a splash app need a different name.) The default location when your splash starts up is the same folder as the splash app is in. You can handle this several ways: 1. Reset the defaultfolder to the one where your splash exists, if you've changed it. Refer to satellite stacks by their relative path. 2. Calculate file paths to the satellite stacks and use those as stack references. 3. Set the stackfiles property of your splash so that it points to relative path locations for the satellite stacks. Then you can just refer to them by their short names and Rev can still find them. This is perhaps the easiest way to manage it. However you determine the stack paths, the rest is the same. Loop through the names of your satellite stacks when the user requests to quit, and save each one. You can ask the user if they want to save each of them, if that fits your app better. Assuming three stacks in the same folder as your standalone, with the defaultfolder set to that directory: on shutdownRequest repeat for each item i in "stack1.rev,stack2.rev,stack3.rev" save stack i close stack i end repeat pass shutdownRequest end shutdownRequest -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com Thanks Jacque. That is VERY helpful. Things I didn't know: 1) I thought I would be saving to a substack. 2) I was unaware of the "shutDownRequest" handler. Another question or two. 1) How would "StackRunner" differ from using my own splash screen? 2) How would "Revolution Player" differ from using my own splash screen? 3) If I use "save" verses "save as..." can I assume that the satellite stack will be saved and the user will not be asked if he or she wants to overwrite the existing file? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: "Funny" things happen when your internet cuts off.
On 16/12/2009 21:24, Mark Talluto wrote: Hi Richmond, I think this has to do with bug: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8409 Rev makes use of the internet in the Docs and Rev Online. Because your computer was still connected to your router and your internet was not functioning at the time this bug may be affecting you. Thanks, Mark. Had I bothered to think a bit more it might have occurred to me to try disconnecting the router. And, come to think of it, using my wife's ancient iBook (recently seen in Edinburgh) up at our villa in the country - RR 4 worked perfectly well at least 20 miles from any sort of internet service whatsoever. ___ 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: VS: How do I construct a scroll bar for stack larger than screen
Thanks but the example is far from fantastic -- it was quickly put together to illustrate what I perceived to be the desired arrangement. And since building it on OS X and looking at it on Windows, I see Rev has managed to mess up the text, so I added a little fix to keep the textSize in place. In answer to your question, there is no significance to the label fields, they are present purely as a large visual identifier for the windows and are probably unnecessary. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design Recently, D.Coker wrote: >> Kresten, if you need nine separate scrollable stacks, maybe this is what you >> are trying to do. Execute the following in your Rev message box: >> >> go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/nine_stacks.rev"; >> >> This is a small model of what I think you described. When any stack is >> resized, the group that is within the stack scales to fit the rect of that >> stack. These groups have hscrollbars which you can disable if you don't >> need them. > > Scott, > I cannot speak for Kresten, but your example is really gonna be helpful to me > if and when I get back to a project that I currently have on the back burner. > To date, I've not done a lot with graphics -or- multi-stack configurations > using Rev, so this will be a fantastic learning opportunity. > > Question: > Is there any significance with the label field in each window? ___ 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: Saving standalone substacks
On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:20 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: James Hurley wrote: Actually, I had recalled that the splash screen was the way to go. My question is really quite primitive. When the user quits, or just wants to save the substacks, what is the action plan, specifically, what is the code? Save.the substacks name. Is a file path required? Like I said, my question is quite primitive. Depends on what your stack does. If you've changed the defaultfolder, then you'll need to calculate a file path back to your satellite stacks (I don't like the word "substacks" in this case because those are stacks embedded in the mainstack, and they can't save data. Separate stacks opened by a splash app need a different name.) The default location when your splash starts up is the same folder as the splash app is in. You can handle this several ways: 1. Reset the defaultfolder to the one where your splash exists, if you've changed it. Refer to satellite stacks by their relative path. 2. Calculate file paths to the satellite stacks and use those as stack references. 3. Set the stackfiles property of your splash so that it points to relative path locations for the satellite stacks. Then you can just refer to them by their short names and Rev can still find them. This is perhaps the easiest way to manage it. However you determine the stack paths, the rest is the same. Loop through the names of your satellite stacks when the user requests to quit, and save each one. You can ask the user if they want to save each of them, if that fits your app better. Assuming three stacks in the same folder as your standalone, with the defaultfolder set to that directory: on shutdownRequest repeat for each item i in "stack1.rev,stack2.rev,stack3.rev" save stack i close stack i end repeat pass shutdownRequest end shutdownRequest Jacque, Do you know what the file permissions implications are if a user other than the one who installed the app is trying to save stacks to the app bundle? 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: Deriving an angle from three points
On 12/16/09 10:57 AM, Bruce Robertson wrote: No it didn't. On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Well, of course it's a triangle, but describing it as a V helped explain which angle was wanted. I thought Mark S identified it well when he called it the 'internal angle' - at least that did it for me: On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Mark- > > Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 10:21:47 PM, you wrote: > >> 40,116 >> 98,186 >> 132,118 > >> How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those above? > > There are three angles. Which one are you interested in? > > --- The above represents roughly a V shape with the center point the vertex. I was trying to detemine the internal angle. -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ 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: "Funny" things happen when your internet cuts off.
Hi Richmond, I think this has to do with bug: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8409 Rev makes use of the internet in the Docs and Rev Online. Because your computer was still connected to your router and your internet was not functioning at the time this bug may be affecting you. Best regards, Mark Talluto http://www.canelasoftware.com On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Lost internet today for about 6 hours (stupid self had forgotten > to pay for it); and when I opened any stack in RevStudio the > whole thing froze (PPC Mac). > > Now I have internet restored (robbed a bank), all is quite > alright again. > > Does this mean that when I go to see Mum and Dad at New Year and > drag the Tray-loading G3 iMac out of the attic (OS Panther) because it > will not be connected to the internet RunRev is going to play > "silly buggers" ? > ___ > 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: Deriving an angle from three points
No it didn't. On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Well, of course it's a triangle, but describing it as a V helped explain > which angle was wanted. ___ 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: HTMLText question
On 16.12.2009 at 11:51 Uhr +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: Craig, one further observation. If the field already contains formatted text, ie bold or coloured, doing what you are doing would set everything back to plain text except for word 2 so in most cases (but I accept not all) you'd want to do deal with htmlText exclusively: put the htmlText of fld "myField" into tHtml --not the plain text replace "" with "" in line 2 of tHtml replace "" with "" in line 2 of tHtml set the htmlText of fld "myField to tHtml Of course one case where you would one to swap from one to the other is if you want to strip HTML tags. Set the htmlText of a field to a html file, then put the field into a Var, most of the html is then nicely stripped for you :-) HTH A tad safer and more general technique is to put "" before word 2 of tHtml put "" after word 2 of tHtml As other said, variable have htmltext property, just the content which can be html, so you need to work with it directly. Html comes into effect when such a content is put into a field and then displayed to user. Robert ___ 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: VS: How do I construct a scroll bar for stack larger than screen
>Kresten, if you need nine separate scrollable stacks, maybe this is what you >are trying to do. Execute the following in your Rev message box: > > go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/nine_stacks.rev"; > >This is a small model of what I think you described. When any stack is >resized, the group that is within the stack scales to fit the rect of that >stack. These groups have hscrollbars which you can disable if you don't >need them. Scott, I cannot speak for Kresten, but your example is really gonna be helpful to me if and when I get back to a project that I currently have on the back burner. To date, I've not done a lot with graphics -or- multi-stack configurations using Rev, so this will be a fantastic learning opportunity. Question: Is there any significance with the label field in each window? At any rate, I really appreciate this particular example! Best regards, David C. ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
Well, of course it's a triangle, but describing it as a V helped explain which angle was wanted. On Dec 16, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: It doesn't. Three points in a plane represents a triangle ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
gmccarthy- Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 2:07:46 AM, you wrote: > By the way again, Mark's method is also correct if you fix the variable names > as shown below. > Normally a triangle with points ABC have their sides named with side b > between A and C so it is opposite angle B...etc. Quite correct. In my defense, it was one in the morning here after a long day... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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
"Funny" things happen when your internet cuts off.
Lost internet today for about 6 hours (stupid self had forgotten to pay for it); and when I opened any stack in RevStudio the whole thing froze (PPC Mac). Now I have internet restored (robbed a bank), all is quite alright again. Does this mean that when I go to see Mum and Dad at New Year and drag the Tray-loading G3 iMac out of the attic (OS Panther) because it will not be connected to the internet RunRev is going to play "silly buggers" ? ___ 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: interrupting a repeat loop
Andre- Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 5:56:34 AM, you wrote: > Hi Alex, > We all love tail recursion optimizations! > Thanks for the code! If a recursive routine can be refactored into a "repeat forever" loop then it's probably a bad candidate for recursion. But it's hard to resist recursive routines with finite bounds. There's something that just looks so *right* about them. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
Mark- Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 6:08:16 AM, you wrote: > The above represents roughly a V shape with the center point the > vertex. It doesn't. Three points in a plane represents a triangle. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: Rev IDE vs MetaCard IDE
It's good to see the Metacard IDE mentioned here. While someone accustomed to Rev might initially be underwhelmed by its simplicity, that same simplicity can make your programming so much more productive. The Rev IDE has its honor points and I do occasionally launch it, but the MC IDE is where I get most of my work done. Thank you, always, for keeping the MC IDE alive! Shari -- Critters, humor, patriots and sports t-shirts http://www.villagetshirts.com WlND0WS and MAClNT0SH shareware http://www.gypsyware.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: Saving standalone substacks
James Hurley wrote: Actually, I had recalled that the splash screen was the way to go. My question is really quite primitive. When the user quits, or just wants to save the substacks, what is the action plan, specifically, what is the code? Save.the substacks name. Is a file path required? Like I said, my question is quite primitive. Depends on what your stack does. If you've changed the defaultfolder, then you'll need to calculate a file path back to your satellite stacks (I don't like the word "substacks" in this case because those are stacks embedded in the mainstack, and they can't save data. Separate stacks opened by a splash app need a different name.) The default location when your splash starts up is the same folder as the splash app is in. You can handle this several ways: 1. Reset the defaultfolder to the one where your splash exists, if you've changed it. Refer to satellite stacks by their relative path. 2. Calculate file paths to the satellite stacks and use those as stack references. 3. Set the stackfiles property of your splash so that it points to relative path locations for the satellite stacks. Then you can just refer to them by their short names and Rev can still find them. This is perhaps the easiest way to manage it. However you determine the stack paths, the rest is the same. Loop through the names of your satellite stacks when the user requests to quit, and save each one. You can ask the user if they want to save each of them, if that fits your app better. Assuming three stacks in the same folder as your standalone, with the defaultfolder set to that directory: on shutdownRequest repeat for each item i in "stack1.rev,stack2.rev,stack3.rev" save stack i close stack i end repeat pass shutdownRequest end shutdownRequest -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com 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: Rev IDE vs MetaCard IDE
Bernard Devlin wrote: Jacqueline Thanks for making this such an easy install. I really am most grateful to the people who've kept this alive. I'd reached the end of my tether trying to use Rev 3.5 and 4.0 on Linux. At least the Metacard IDE works about 98% of the way. There are still some visual defects, but alas they seem to be in the engine. I can at least edit scripts and read what's written on the IDE's menus. It's going to take a little getting used to, but at least I can use Rev. You're welcome. Anyone trying out MC for the first time should note that none of the "rev"-prefixed calls will work, since those are all scripted into the Rev IDE; i.e., revPrintField, revGoURL, etc. If you need any of that, you'll have to pull the handlers out of Rev and move them into your own backscript. We're strictly bare-bones here. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com 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: Rev IDE vs MetaCard IDE
Jacqueline Thanks for making this such an easy install. I really am most grateful to the people who've kept this alive. I'd reached the end of my tether trying to use Rev 3.5 and 4.0 on Linux. At least the Metacard IDE works about 98% of the way. There are still some visual defects, but alas they seem to be in the engine. I can at least edit scripts and read what's written on the IDE's menus. It's going to take a little getting used to, but at least I can use Rev. Bernard On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > In RevOnline (in Rev's toolbar) search for the "MetaCard Setup" stack. This > will download the latest MC IDE and set it up with your (licensed) Rev > engine, ready to go. It's all one click. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@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: VS: How do I construct a scroll bar for stack larger than screen
Kresten, if you need nine separate scrollable stacks, maybe this is what you are trying to do. Execute the following in your Rev message box: go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/nine_stacks.rev"; This is a small model of what I think you described. When any stack is resized, the group that is within the stack scales to fit the rect of that stack. These groups have hscrollbars which you can disable if you don't need them. If this is not what you are looking for, please provide some additional details. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design >>> I have tried to follow them, but am approaching the view, that it cannot >>> be done. >>> >>> Which is a shame, because the users of the cheap mini-notebooks would be >>> a most relevant target group >>> >>> It is a most unusual context : A stack, where the stacksize is 3072 x >>> 2304 = 9 different 1024x768 windows, >>> >>> which ideally should each have a vscrollbar. > >> Kresten, to clarify what you want, are you trying to create 9 separate >> scrolling windows on the desktop, or do you want 9 separate scrolling regions >> in one window? > > 9 separate > > scrolling windows on the desktop ! ___ 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: Shortcut for resizing a selected object ?
Nicely done. Limiting the resizing to the left and bottom removes the ambiguity I was wondering about in terms of which sides gets adjusted. I think I'll add this to my copy of the MC IDE, and have cc'd the MC discussion list here in hopes that the crew agrees it would be useful to add to the master version. It's a nice compliment to the Shift key modifier, which moves the objects by 10-pixel increments. With Option added for resizing, it really rounds out the arrow key use quite well. Thanks for the script - useful stuff. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv zryip wrote: How ? Try this 8) : on rawkeyDown theKey if (the altKey is down) and (theKey >= 65361) and (theKey <= 65364) then -- only if alt key is pressed when using arrow key put the selectedObjects into objectsList -- keep in memory the list of objects to resize get number of lines of objectsList if it > 0 then repeat with x = 1 to it -- a loop to resize all the objects in the list resizeObject line x of the selectedObjects,theKey end repeat end if else pass rawkeyDown end if end rawkeyDown on resizeObject theObject,theKey do "get rect of" && theObject put numKey2Const(theKey) into direction put getStep(direction,the shiftKey is down) into myStep -- step = 1 pixel or 5 pixels when the shift key is down add myStep to item numKey2rectItem(direction) of it do "set rect of" && (theObject) && "to it" end resizeObject function numKey2Const valueKey -- Not necessary but usefull to not keep in mind 65361 when I search my left. 8) switch valueKey case 65361 return "left" case 65362 return "up" case 65363 return "right" case 65364 return "down" default return "" end switch end numKey2Const function numKey2rectItem direction if (direction is in "left,right") then return 3 else return 4 end if end numKey2rectItem function getStep direction,shiftFlag if (direction is in "left,up") then put -1 into myStep -- reduce the size of the object else put 1 into myStep -- grow up the size of the object end if if shiftFlag then put (myStep * 5) into myStep return myStep end getStep -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best ! 8) 2009/12/16 Richard Gaskin I use this feature in Fireworks and other tools that let you select a single bounds handle, but how would this work in Rev (or HC for that matter, since it used the "marching ants" marquee to indicate selection)? ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
Message: 24 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:21:47 -0800 From: Mark Swindell Subject: Deriving an angle from three points To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 40,116 98,186 132,118 How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those above? Thanks, Mark Mark, Or even easier. Set the Turtle at the apex and get the angle of the other two points. on mouseUp startTurtle --Initiates the turtle graphics library penup setxy 98,186 --The vertex put direction(40,116) into A put direction(132,118) into B put B-A into dA put abs(dA) & cr & abs(180 - dA) into msg box choose the browse tool end mouseUP (Assuming your middle point is the apex of the angle you want.) To run this you will need the TG library. Run this in the msg box go url "http://www.jamesphurley.com/jhurleyFolder/TurtleGraphics.rev"; Jim Hurley ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > All of the suggested scripts seem quite long. Correction, gmc's solution was also using atan2, and was fairly short. ___ 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: Bug
On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something. Over here, using the above on OS X 10.6.2, the > button doesn't hilite, using Rev 4 or Rev 3.5. Tried buttons that are > square and rectangular. No difference. No problem here either, with a rounded rect button. Again OSX, and using Rev Media. ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
On Dec 16, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Mark Swindell wrote: > 40,116 > 98,186 > 132,118 > > How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those > above? All of the suggested scripts seem quite long. Try putting this script into three buttons. The script uses the Other Mark's way of dragging the button around (and it doesn't hilite the button as he claims): on mouseDown repeat until the mouse is up with messages set the loc of me to the mouseLoc wait 0 millisecs with messages end repeat put 180 - angler(loc of btn 1,loc of btn 2,loc of btn 3)/pi*180 end mouseDown function angler p1, p2, p3 put atan2(item 2 of p2-item 2 of p1,item 1 of p2 - item 1 of p1) into angle1 put atan2(item 2 of p3-item 2 of p2,item 1 of p3 - item 1 of p2) into angle2 return abs(angle2-angle1) end angler The bit that calculates the angle could be done in a single line: put 180 - (atan2(item 2 of p3-item 2 of p2,item 1 of p3 - item 1 of p2)-atan2(item 2 of p2-item 2 of p1,item 1 of p2 - item 1 of p1))/pi*180 ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
Message: 24 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:21:47 -0800 From: Mark Swindell Subject: Deriving an angle from three points To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 40,116 98,186 132,118 How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those above? Thanks, Mark Mark, Here is how easy this is in Turtle Graphics: on mouseUp startTurtle --Initiates the turtle graphics library penup setxy 40,116 pendown put direction(98,186) into tStartAngle setxy 98,186 put direction(132,118) into tEndAngle setxy 132,118 --Not necessary, but visually satisfying put tEndAngle - tStartAngle into dA put dA & cr & 360 - da into msg box choose the browse tool end mouseUP (Assuming your middle point is the apex of the angle you want.) To run this you will need the TG library. Run this in the msg box go url "http://www.jamesphurley.com/jhurleyFolder/TurtleGraphics.rev"; Jim Hurley ___ 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: Newbie Data Grid question
--- Message: 15 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:52:52 -0800 From: Jim Ault Subject: Re: Newbie Data Grid question To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes One valuable technique for understanding the DataGrid inner workings. In Rev, choose the pointer tool, click on a data grid, then go the inspector, choose 'custom properties' from the drop down, and now check out the property sets. You should see dgProps and dgCache Note all the properties that have been created when the data grid was created. Of course you can edit the values here, but you can also change them in script lines. One bit of confusion for me is that there is no dgText property set visible here. The syntax set the dgText [ true ] of group "DataGrid" to tHeaders would logically mean that there would be a custom property set "dgText" Interesting if you click on dgProps "row template" you will see: group id 1011 of card id 1010 of stack "Data Grid Templates 1260751174078" ...at least in my version of Rev 3.5 Hope this helps in your travels. Jim Ault Las Vegas Jim, Thanks for this. I tried this, hoping for the same insight you discovered, but I don't see anything in the custom property set. Are you looking at the dgProps of the data grid group? Jim ___ 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: Saving standalone substacks
Message: 23 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:53:00 +0800 From: Kay C Lan Subject: Re: Saving standalone substacks To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 You might try here: http://revjournal.com/tutorials/saving_data_in_revolution.html HTH On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM, James Hurley >wrote: Is there a tutorial someplace on saving data in the standalone substacks? Jim Hurley Kay, Thanks. As always, Sarah to the rescue. Actually, I had recalled that the splash screen was the way to go. My question is really quite primitive. When the user quits, or just wants to save the substacks, what is the action plan, specifically, what is the code? Save.the substacks name. Is a file path required? Like I said, my question is quite primitive. Jim Hurley ___ 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: Rev IDE vs MetaCard IDE
On 16/12/2009 11:48, Ryno Swart wrote: I seem to have the uncanny ability to break anything... the MIDA$ touch. I cannot download the MetaCard IDE successfully. The message "Sorry, but this version of the IDE requires engine >=3.x!" appears. My version of Rev is 2.8.1 build 470. Any suggestions? Yes, but probably not one you will like: Upgrade your version of RunRev 4. ___ 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: Bug
Recently, Mark Schonewille wrote: > On any version of Mac OS X with any version of Revolution from 2.2 up > to and including 4.0, create a new stack, with one square button, e.g. > 70x70 pixels (size doesn't matter). Give this button the following > script: > > on mouseDown > repeat until the mouse is up with messages >set the loc of me to the mouseLoc >wait 0 millisecs with messages > end repeat > end mouseDown > > Turn off the autoHilite and, just to be sure, the sharedHilite. Click > the button and move it around. The button will appear hilited, which I > don't want, because I need to be able to control the hilite myself, > while dragging around this button. That's also a reason why I can't > use the locking-up drag command. All other solutions you and I can > think of fail too. Maybe I'm missing something. Over here, using the above on OS X 10.6.2, the button doesn't hilite, using Rev 4 or Rev 3.5. Tried buttons that are square and rectangular. No difference. 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
Re: Deriving an angle from three points
On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Mark- > > Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 10:21:47 PM, you wrote: > >> 40,116 >> 98,186 >> 132,118 > >> How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those >> above? > > There are three angles. Which one are you interested in? > > — The above represents roughly a V shape with the center point the vertex. I was trying to detemine the internal angle. ___ 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: interrupting a repeat loop
Hi Alex, We all love tail recursion optimizations! Thanks for the code! Cheers andre On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > Andre Garzia wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> this been answered in many ways already but I thought I'd chime in and try >> to answer it in a different way. The key is to think of reusable code, >> every >> now and them we keep rewritting the same pieces over and over again. How >> do >> we create a generic thing that will: >> >> 1) Run some code in a loop >> 2) Enable us to stop this execution when something happen >> >> If speed is not the main issue here, then we can approach this with a more >> flexible way by creating a group of functions that will enable a generic >> handler to be executed until something else make it stop. We will use the >> new dispatch calls for that. >> >> command iterate pHandlerToLoop, pHandlerThatInterrupts >> dispatch pHandlerThatInterrupts >> if the result is true then >> dispatch pHandlerToLoop >> if the result is true then >> dispatch iterate with pHandlerToLoop, pHandlerThatInterrupts >> end if >> end if >> end iterate >> >> This code will first call a command to check if the loop should be >> executed, >> this command should return true or false. If it is true then it will call >> the loop command once and if the loop command returned true, it will call >> itself again. This code will loop and will exit the loop if any of two >> things happen, the command that interrupts return false or the command >> that >> loops return false, for example, let us count to ten using this code: >> >> >> > Nice. But as George said, you will hit recursion limits. > > And the dispatch to iterate (i.e. to itself) is a simple tail recursion - > which you can eliminate easily. > > AFAICT, this is equivalent and has no recursion issues. > >> command iterate pHandlerToLoop, pHandlerThatInterrupts >> repeat forever >> dispatch pHandlerThatInterrupts >> if the result is false then exit iterate >> dispatch pHandlerToLoop >> if the result is false then exit iterate >> end repeat >> end iterate >> > > > -- Alex. > > ___ > 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 > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. ___ 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: type font size in dictionary
On 16 Dec 2009, at 04:58, Kay C Lan wrote: The easier way is, to use my bvg docu stack, where you can set text sizes in the settings: http://bjoernke.com/?target=bvgdocu Does this incorporate the User Contributed Notes? - They're slowly growing and important to an occasional programmer like me! Short answer: No Long Answer: Unfortunately, RunRev has still not given any public access to the user notes, despite promising such a feature when i asked in spring. Similar goes the online stored documentation. I could of course get them by looking trough the rev dictionary stack code, but currently bvg docu 2 is not the main focus of my available time, sorry. Have fun (nonetheless) Björnke -- official ChatRev page: http://bjoernke.com?target=chatrev Chat with other RunRev developers: go stack URL "http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/chatrev1.3b3.rev"; ___ 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
Bug
Hi, On any version of Mac OS X with any version of Revolution from 2.2 up to and including 4.0, create a new stack, with one square button, e.g. 70x70 pixels (size doesn't matter). Give this button the following script: on mouseDown repeat until the mouse is up with messages set the loc of me to the mouseLoc wait 0 millisecs with messages end repeat end mouseDown Turn off the autoHilite and, just to be sure, the sharedHilite. Click the button and move it around. The button will appear hilited, which I don't want, because I need to be able to control the hilite myself, while dragging around this button. That's also a reason why I can't use the locking-up drag command. All other solutions you and I can think of fail too. For many years now, I keep running into this bug, whenever I try to quickly create a nice interface (something RunRev is supposed to be the ideal tool for). When is this ridiculous and annoying bug finally going to be fixed?! -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Full PayPal integration and automation in web site or (Revolution/ SuperCard/other) software. Contact me for a quote http://economy-x-talk.com/contact.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: Datagrid: Edit a cell to update the rest of cells
Reply to myself... :) SetDataOfIndex the dgIndex of me, "Col X", Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Datagrid-Edit-a-cell-to-update-the-rest-of-cells-tp965161p965163.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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
Datagrid: Edit a cell to update the rest of cells
Hi, I have a problem. I need, after edit the value of a cell, update de values of the rest of cells of the row. I enter one value, check the database and fill other cells in the row. It's posible? I have a "datagrid_behavior" with the CloseFieldEditor where I can check the database and get the values, but how to put the values into other cells? Salut and Merry Xmas for all, Josep -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Datagrid-Edit-a-cell-to-update-the-rest-of-cells-tp965161p965161.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Deriving an angle from three points
Hi Friends, Did'nt follow all the present thread so don't know if this can help but in case, here is the general way i would use to process such tasks : on mouseUp set the style of the templateGraphic to "polygon" set the opaque of the templateGraphic to "true" set the filled of the templateGraphic to "true" set the backgroundcolor of templateGraphic to "blue" # or what ever color you choose instead set the textcolor of templateGraphic to "blue" # or what ever color you choose instead if there is a grc "new_grc" then delete grc "new_grc" create grc "new_grc" ask "How many sectors do you want to display" if it is not "" then put it into secteurs_nb else exit to top # random example values you will have to replace with the real values you want to display put "" into les_valeurs33 repeat with c = 1 to secteurs_nb put -1+random(2) & return & return after les_valeurs33 end repeat put char 1 to -3 of les_valeurs33 into les_valeurs33 put -40+the height of this cd into graph_diametre put graph_diametre div 2 into graph_rayon put the width of this cd div 2 into x1 put the height of this cd div 2 into y1 put 2*pi / secteurs_nb into langle put langle / 2 into langlecalcule repeat with c = 1 to secteurs_nb put cos((x1*2*pi) + langlecalcule) & "," after the_cos_1 put sin((y1*2*pi) + langlecalcule) & "," after the_sin_1 add langle to langlecalcule end repeat put the_cos_1 after the_cos_1 put the_sin_1 after the_sin_1 put pi / secteurs_nb into langle put "0" into langlecalcule repeat with c = 1 to 2*secteurs_nb put cos((x1*2*pi) + langlecalcule) & "," after the_cos_2 put sin((y1*2*pi) + langlecalcule) & "," after the_sin_2 add langle to langlecalcule end repeat put the_cos_2 after the_cos_2 put the_sin_2 after the_sin_2 # draw the graphic set the points of grc "new_grc" to points_cosin (secteurs_nb ,les_valeurs33 ,x1,y1,the_cos_1,the_sin_1,the_cos_2,the_sin_2,graph_rayon) end mouseUp function points_cosin secteurs_nb ,les_valeurs,x1,y1,the_cos_1,the_sin_1,the_cos_2,the_sin_2,graph_rayon put "" into points_nb put "0" into d repeat with c = 1 to 2*secteurs_nb put (1 / 11) + ((line c of les_valeurs*10) / 11) into active_rayon if c mod 2 = 1 then add 1 to d put x1 & "," & y1 & return & round(x1-(item c of the_cos_2*active_rayon*graph_rayon)),round(y1-(item c of the_sin_2*active_rayon*graph_rayon)) & return & \ round(x1-(item d of the_cos_1*active_rayon*graph_rayon)),round(y1-(item d of the_sin_1*active_rayon*graph_rayon)) & return & \ round(x1-(item 2+c of the_cos_2*active_rayon*graph_rayon)),round(y1-(item 2+c of the_sin_2*active_rayon*graph_rayon)) & return after points_nb else put x1 & "," & y1 & return & round(x1-(item c of the_cos_2*active_rayon*graph_rayon)),round(y1-(item c of the_sin_2*active_rayon*graph_rayon)) & return & \ round(x1-(item 2+c of the_cos_2*active_rayon*graph_rayon)),round(y1-(item 2+c of the_sin_2*active_rayon*graph_rayon)) & return after points_nb add 1 to c end repeat return points_nb & line 1 of points_nb end points_cosin just put this script inside a new stack's button and run it to display the "new_graph" test graph. Just tested and seems to work fine there. Have fun ! Pierre Le 16 déc. 09 à 11:56, Jacques Hausser a écrit : I really should re-read my mails before sending them :-( I cannot copy and paste scripts directly into mails (I don't know why) so I rewrite them... with bugs ! in function calcangle the line if SurfaceTriangle (a,c,b) then should be if SurfaceTriangle(a,c,b) > 0 then ... but you corrected it already ! Jacques-in-the-moon ** Prof. Jacques Hausser Department of Ecology and Evolution Biophore / Sorge University of Lausanne CH 1015 Lausanne please use my private address: 6 route de Burtigny CH-1269 Bassins tel/fax:++ 41 22 366 19 40 mobile: ++ 41 79 757 05 24 E-Mail: jacques.haus...@unil.ch *** ___ 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 -- Pierre Sahores mobile : (33) 6 03 95 77 70 www.wrds.com www.sahores-conseil.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
VS: How do I construct a scroll bar for stack larger than screen
9 separate scrolling windows on the desktop ! Kresten ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
I really should re-read my mails before sending them :-( I cannot copy and paste scripts directly into mails (I don't know why) so I rewrite them... with bugs ! in function calcangle the line if SurfaceTriangle (a,c,b) then should be if SurfaceTriangle(a,c,b) > 0 then ... but you corrected it already ! Jacques-in-the-moon ** Prof. Jacques Hausser Department of Ecology and Evolution Biophore / Sorge University of Lausanne CH 1015 Lausanne please use my private address: 6 route de Burtigny CH-1269 Bassins tel/fax:++ 41 22 366 19 40 mobile: ++ 41 79 757 05 24 E-Mail: jacques.haus...@unil.ch *** ___ 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: Newbie Data Grid question
Bonjour, Le 16 déc. 09 à 06:12, Trevor DeVore a écrit : On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:04 AM, James Hurley wrote: It's okay, the Data Grid likes to be beta up on once and a while :-) As long as this is still in Beta, may I make a suggestion? Sorry, that was supposed to be "beat" not "beta". :-o)) (Does anyone ever let the possibility of the answer be "no" stop them?) I had assumed when I saw the following code in the guide: put field "data" into tData put true into pFirstLineContainsHeaders set the dgText [ pFirstLineContainsHeaders ] of group "DataGrid 2" to tData I assumed that the data grid would function in much the same way that FileMaker does when importing an Excel file, i.e. it allows one to assign the items in the first line of the file to field names and the rest of the llines to populate these fields. That would be a reasonable behavior of "dgText[pFirstLineContainsHeaders]" il.e. when the parameter is true, the column headings are taken from the first line of the text field and the rest go into filling the columns. I must confess that I interpreted this code in the same way in particular, I think, because this phrase "If true then the data grid will extract the first line of pText …" The first line is only used to tell the data grid which columns to map the rest of the data to. If you want to create columns then you will need to set the dgProp["columns"] property. That's OK for me now, Trevor :-) Might be nice to elaborate a bit in this lesson to prevent from this misinterpretation. Best regards from Grenoble André You can't really use multiple parameters when using setProp (which is what dgText is). I'm kind of fudging things a bit by treating dgText as a custom property set and pFirstLineContainsHeaders as the custom property. The truth is we still don't have access to a very expressive syntax when creating custom controls (which the Data Grid is one). -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems ScreenSteps: http://www.screensteps.com Releasable Revolution Resources for Developers: http://revolution.bluemangolearning.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: Deriving an angle from three points
By the way again, Mark's method is also correct if you fix the variable names as shown below. Normally a triangle with points ABC have their sides named with side b between A and C so it is opposite angle B...etc. on mouseUp put cd fld "A" into pointA put cd fld "B" into pointB -- assumed center of angle put cd fld "C" into pointC -- -- get the lengths of the three sides of the triangle put SideLength(pointA, pointB) into lengthC put SideLength(pointB, pointC) into lengthA put SideLength(pointA, pointC) into lengthB --calculate the angle as arccos( (b2+c2-a2) / 2bc) --the other two angles are arccos( (a2+c2-b2) / 2ac) -- and arccos( (a2+b2-c2) / 2ab) put (lengthA * lengthA) + (lengthC * lengthC) - (lengthB * lengthB) into tSub put acos(tSub / (2 * lengthA * lengthC)) into tRadians put (tRadians * 180 / pi) into cd fld "AngleABC"-- convert from radians to degrees end mouseUp -- calculate (x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2 -- return the square root of that function SideLength pPointA, pPointB local lengthX, lengthY set the itemdelimiter to comma put item 1 of pPointB - item 1 of pPointA into lengthX put lengthX * lengthX into lengthX -- x squared put item 2 of pPointB - item 2 of pPointA into lengthY put lengthY * lengthY into lengthY -- y squared return sqrt(lengthX + lengthY) -- length of hypotenuse end SideLength -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Deriving-an-angle-from-three-points-tp964930p965059.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Deriving an angle from three points
What about getting the angle from point B to A, then the angle from point B to C, then getting the difference: on mouseUp put cd fld "A" into pointA put cd fld "B" into pointB -- assumed center of angle put cd fld "C" into pointC -- put fGetAngle(pointB, pointA) into angleA put fGetAngle(pointB, pointC) into angleC if angleC > angleA then put angleC - angleA into cd fld "AngleABC" else put angleA - angleC into cd fld "AngleABC" end if end mouseUp function fGetAngle pPoint1, pPoint2 --angle anticlockwise from X axis return atan2(item 2 of pPoint2 - item 2 of pPoint1,item 1 of pPoint2 - item 1 of pPoint1) * 180 / pi end fGetAngle See atan2 in the dictionary. By the way, this gives 66.209226 for the angle. As a test for known angles, try 250,250 200,200 100,373 This is for angles of 45 degrees and 120 degrees. you should get 75 degrees as your answer. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Deriving-an-angle-from-three-points-tp964930p965051.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Rev IDE vs MetaCard IDE
I seem to have the uncanny ability to break anything... the MIDA$ touch. I cannot download the MetaCard IDE successfully. The message "Sorry, but this version of the IDE requires engine >=3.x!" appears. My version of Rev is 2.8.1 build 470. Any suggestions? Ryno. ___ 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: Shortcut for resizing a selected object ?
Hi Richard, How ? Try this 8) : on rawkeyDown theKey if (the altKey is down) and (theKey >= 65361) and (theKey <= 65364) then -- only if alt key is pressed when using arrow key put the selectedObjects into objectsList -- keep in memory the list of objects to resize get number of lines of objectsList if it > 0 then repeat with x = 1 to it -- a loop to resize all the objects in the list resizeObject line x of the selectedObjects,theKey end repeat end if else pass rawkeyDown end if end rawkeyDown on resizeObject theObject,theKey do "get rect of" && theObject put numKey2Const(theKey) into direction put getStep(direction,the shiftKey is down) into myStep -- step = 1 pixel or 5 pixels when the shift key is down add myStep to item numKey2rectItem(direction) of it do "set rect of" && (theObject) && "to it" end resizeObject function numKey2Const valueKey -- Not necessary but usefull to not keep in mind 65361 when I search my left. 8) switch valueKey case 65361 return "left" case 65362 return "up" case 65363 return "right" case 65364 return "down" default return "" end switch end numKey2Const function numKey2rectItem direction if (direction is in "left,right") then return 3 else return 4 end if end numKey2rectItem function getStep direction,shiftFlag if (direction is in "left,up") then put -1 into myStep -- reduce the size of the object else put 1 into myStep -- grow up the size of the object end if if shiftFlag then put (myStep * 5) into myStep return myStep end getStep -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best ! 8) 2009/12/16 Richard Gaskin I use this feature in Fireworks and other tools that let you select a single bounds handle, but how would this work in Rev (or HC for that matter, since it used the "marching ants" marquee to indicate selection)? ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
Mark- Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 10:21:47 PM, you wrote: > 40,116 > 98,186 > 132,118 > How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those > above? If I can assume that (98,186) is the center of the angle, then you can calculate the angle (actually all three angles) from the lengths of the three sides of the triangle: on mouseUp local pointA, pointB, pointC local lengthA, lengthB, lengthC local tSub local tRadians put "40,116" into pointA put "98,186" into pointB -- assumed center of angle put "132,118" into pointC -- get the lengths of the three sides of the triangle put SideLength(pointA, pointB) into lengthA put SideLength(pointB, pointC) into lengthB put SideLength(pointA, pointC) into lengthC --calculate the angle as arccos( (b2+c2-a2) / 2bc) --the other two angles are arccos( (a2+c2-b2) / 2ac) -- and arccos( (a2+b2-c2) / 2ab) put (lengthB * lengthB) + (lengthC * lengthC) - (lengthA * lengthA) into tSub put acos(tSub / (2 * lengthB * lengthC)) into tRadians put tRadians * 180 / pi -- convert from radians to degrees end mouseUp -- calculate (x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2 -- return the square root of that function SideLength pPointA, pPointB local lengthX, lengthY set the itemdelimiter to comma put item 1 of pPointB - item 1 of pPointA into lengthX put lengthX * lengthX into lengthX -- x squared put item 2 of pPointB - item 2 of pPointA into lengthY put lengthY * lengthY into lengthY -- y squared return sqrt(lengthX + lengthY) -- length of hypotenuse end SideLength ...and I come up with 64.680313 degrees. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
As usual, I forgot something... Distance is merely this brave old Pythagora: function Distance a,b -- -- a,b : points -- returns distance (real) between a and b -- return sqrt((item 1 of a - item 1 of b)^2 + (item 2 of a - item 2 of b)^2) end distance Jacques Le 16 déc. 2009 à 09:47, Jacques Hausser a écrit : >> >> On 12/15/09 10:21 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: >>> 40,116 >>> 98,186 >>> 132,118 >>> >>> How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those >>> above? > > Hi Mark, > > I'm using the following handlers. SurfaceTriangle is used to determine if you > compute the outer (>180) or inner angle with summit c in calcangle. > > HTH > > Jacques > > function SurfaceTriangle a,c,b > -- > -- a,c,b: points > -- returns twice the surface of triangle a,c,b > -- the result is signed, positive if points follow each other clockwise, > -- negative otherwise. > -- aligned points return zero. > -- > put ((item 1 of c - item 1 of a)*(item 2 of b - item 2 of a)\ > - (item 1 of b - item 1 of a)*(item 2 of c - item 2 of a)) into aire > return aire > end SurfaceTriangle > > function calcAngle a,c,b > -- > -- a,c,b : points. > -- returns angle between ca and cb in degrees > -- > put Distance(c,b) into da > put Distance(a,c) into db > put Distance(a,b) into dc > put (da + db + dc)/2 into p > put sqrt(p*(p-dc)/(db*da)) into lecos > if lecos > 1 then put 1 into lecos > if lecos < -1 then put -1 into lecos > put acos(lecos) * 180 / pi into alpha > put 2 * alpha into alpha > if SurfaceTriangle(a,c,b) then > return alpha > else > return 360-alpha > end if > end calcAngle > > ___ > 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 ** Prof. Jacques Hausser Department of Ecology and Evolution Biophore / Sorge University of Lausanne CH 1015 Lausanne please use my private address: 6 route de Burtigny CH-1269 Bassins tel/fax:++ 41 22 366 19 40 mobile: ++ 41 79 757 05 24 E-Mail: jacques.haus...@unil.ch *** ___ 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: Deriving an angle from three points
> > On 12/15/09 10:21 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: >> 40,116 >> 98,186 >> 132,118 >> >> How would one determine the angle created from three points, such as those >> above? Hi Mark, I'm using the following handlers. SurfaceTriangle is used to determine if you compute the outer (>180) or inner angle with summit c in calcangle. HTH Jacques function SurfaceTriangle a,c,b -- -- a,c,b: points -- returns twice the surface of triangle a,c,b -- the result is signed, positive if points follow each other clockwise, -- negative otherwise. -- aligned points return zero. -- put ((item 1 of c - item 1 of a)*(item 2 of b - item 2 of a)\ - (item 1 of b - item 1 of a)*(item 2 of c - item 2 of a)) into aire return aire end SurfaceTriangle function calcAngle a,c,b -- -- a,c,b : points. -- returns angle between ca and cb in degrees -- put Distance(c,b) into da put Distance(a,c) into db put Distance(a,b) into dc put (da + db + dc)/2 into p put sqrt(p*(p-dc)/(db*da)) into lecos if lecos > 1 then put 1 into lecos if lecos < -1 then put -1 into lecos put acos(lecos) * 180 / pi into alpha put 2 * alpha into alpha if SurfaceTriangle(a,c,b) then return alpha else return 360-alpha end if end calcAngle ___ 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
