Re: Language learning stacks
I have a project (commercial, except for my own students) that focuses on vocabulary and provides a number of different activities (flashcards, multiple choice, scrambled words, dictation, and others). There's also support for images, multiple sounds per item, short video clips, examples notes, and integrated google search. It's been used with a number of languages including Russian, Japanese, and Irish (though languages with right-to-left writing systems haven't been tested much). My web site has a pretty extensive set of word lists for Russian and a sample for Irish phrases, and there's a built-in list creator for making your own lists. You can find more information a demo version at http://www.sonasoftware.com/vocab/ --feel free to try it out let me know what you think! Curt Dr. Curtis Ford Sona Software LLC Curt Ford Sona Software LLC ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
how to tell whether external file is unicode formatted or not
My app reads in external files that are stored as plain text, but the encoding can vary. Is there a way to tell whether the encoding is Unicode or not, so I can tell how to process the text (without asking the user, who may not know)? thanks, Curt Curt Ford Sona Software LLC www.sonasoftware.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
[ANN] Sona Vocabulary Assistant 1.0
I'm pleased to announce the release of Sona Vocabulary Assistant, an internet-aware, media-friendly product for language students. There are lots of vocabulary apps out there but none with the features I wanted, so I made one myself. : ) Many thanks to Richard Gaskin, Ken Ray, and everyone who contributes to this list.. and of course everyone at runrev.com for making this terrific tool. http://www.sonasoftware.com/vocab best Curt Dr. Curtis Ford Founder, Sona Software Senior Instructor of Russian, University of South Carolina ___ 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
error with revIDEHandleMouseUp ?
A substack which has so far been behaving itself is acting strangely.. when I open the substack from its mainstack (via a pulldown menu), the IDE seems to freeze; after a minute or so I get an error: 'The handler: revIDEHandleMouseUp has reached the recursion limit of: 40. Execution will be terminated to prevent hang.' I can click 'OK' out of that, and if I click the pointer tool for edit mode immediately, I can work a little with the stack; as soon as I choose the browse tool to run it, it gets stuck again shows the same error. I can open the substack from the application browser but it freezes up immediately again when I choose the browse tool. I didn't see anything about revIDEHandleMouseUp in the Quality Control Centre. Any suggestions how to start troubleshooting? Running 3.5; upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5.7 just last night.. hmm.. thanks! Curt Sona Software LLC ___ 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
problems with Cyrillic input on Windows standalone: SOLVED
Homework graded, I finally get back to this issue... I flailed around making builds with different combinations of textFont settings, etc., tried 2.9 with the same results, and was about to post answers to Devin's questions, when I remembered my wife's iMac still has the old copy of 2.8.1. Took the file over, made a quick build and there it is - the Cyrillic works great everywhere, including Windows standalones. That'll teach me not to test EVERYTHING on both platforms when a new version comes out. Should I try to work out a simple recipe post this as a 2.9/3.0 bug? Of course now I can't use the unicodeTitle that I'd been so glad to see introduced in 2.9.. and should probably check on other possible issues like that Thanks, everyone who contributed thoughts! Curt ___ 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: problems with Cyrillic input on Windows standalone
Hi Devin others, It sounds like your suggestion is a good one for when the user should definitely type in Russian, or another language the project might plan for. In an ideal world (!), I'd like my project to work with any language the user's computer supports, and it's OK if they need to switch the input method themselves. I've been experimenting with another sample stack; the results seem to be that for success, the textFont of the stack needs to be empty, and the textFont of the field needs to be Arial. In my main project the plot thickens - there are two (of nine) cards where users might enter text. One card has fields where they enter info to create a word list; the other has a dictation exercise. Last week neither was accepting Cyrillic in the Windows standalone. This morning I set the textFont of the stack to empty, which helped some: the word list screen started accepting Cyrillic again, the dictation exercise still doesn't. A further wrinkle: if I open the Windows standalone and go directly from the main menu (first) card to the word list card, Cyrillic works; but if I go to any other card, then back to the main menu, and then to the word list card, the word list shows the same problems with Cyrillic as the dictation card. I'm looking for something in card scripts of the other cards that could cause this but haven't found anything likely. Each card does have a preOpenCard handler that calls this stack script: on ChangeFontsForWindows if the platform = Win32 then repeat with i = the num of fields of this card set the textFont of fld i to Arial end repeat end if end ChangeFontsForWindows ..but since that's in the word list card too, I don't think it's the culprit. I'd hoped to figure this out without going to a consultant but the time I have for this issue is running out.. any ideas what else I could look at? Thanks!! Curt ___ 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
problems with Cyrillic input on Windows standalone
I'm using Rev 3.0 on a Mac for a project includes a field that users should be able to type into in Russian. Until recently this worked fine in Windows standalones but in recent builds, typing with the Russian keyboard selected gives gibberish (numbers symbols like :B; 5BO) instead of Russian in the Windows standalone only. The textFont of the field is Arial. To isolate the problem I made a separate stack with just a card a field with textFont set to Arial, textSize 18. This worked fine for Russian in a Windows standalone. I tried copying this working field into my project without changing anything about the field; its textFont was still Arial. When I tried this is a Windows standalone, typing in Russian gave gibberish again. I can't find anything in the card script that affects the fields of this card. In the stack script I do have if the platform = Win32 then set the textfont of this stack to Arial set the textsize of this stack to 14 --but don't make the pulldowns too big on Windows! set the textsize of group Menubar to 12 else if the platform = MacOS then set the textfont of this stack to Lucida Grande set the textSize of this stack to 12 end if But pasting this into the stack script of the separate stack didn't cause a problem in the Windows standalone. Any ideas what's going on here, or what to look at? -Curt ___ 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: problems with Cyrillic input on Windows standalone
Благодаря, Richard, for the quick response - I'm not sure what I would do with the fontLanguage - ? I've looked at useUnicode as well but thought that was only for working with NumToChar and CharToNum functions. I'd hoped to avoid changing the code since it had been working well before (and still is in the Mac IDE and Mac standalone); in fact, throughout the project I've avoided mucking around with Unicode as much as possible, trying to stick to HTMLText properties for writing out text reading it in from external files. FWIW I found the last working Windows standalone (version 99h3) and the first Windows standalone where the problem appears (99h5), but couldn't find a difference in the code. I've just tried making a new standalone from 99h3 using both Rev 3.0 and 2.9 - both show the problem. My original version 99h3 dates from March 8 2008 - don't remember now which version of Rev I was using then..?? -Curt ___ 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: problems with Cyrillic input on Windows standalone
Извинете Ричмънд! My app needs to allow users to type in information, then save it to a text file (or custom property of a separate stack). In another part of the app info from these files is read in, displayed manipulated in various ways - so it's all got to be dynamic. Using HTMLText has worked well for Russian and several other languages, and info can be written out and read in on either platform; I'd gotten the tip from some of Devin Asay's materials, like at http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/december/issue62/newsletter2.php It's just this strange input problem on Windows standalones that's come up - none of the fields, on several cards, take Cyrillic anymore. Curt ___ 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
sending Unicode strings that include punctuation to search engines with revGoURL
My app allows users to send a word to a search engine for more examples of usage. With help from the list I've gotten it to work with languages using the Latin alphabet, Russian, even Hindi.. It does fail, though, when I send a search string in Russian that includes any punctuation or space. For example, the search string for ой! (a two-letter word followed by an exclamation mark) shows up in the engines as http://www.google.com/search?q=%04%1E%049! . Does anyone have suggestions on how to tweak this so terms like 'как-то' or 'потому что' can be sent to the search engines? Existing code: When the user displays a new term, the word to search for is set up like this: on changeWord global gWord, gWordToSearch --use an invisible field so we can check its effectiveTextFont to see if it's Unicode set the HTMLText of fld invisibleWordToSearch to gWord set the useUnicode to true --if the field contains Unicode text.. if the effective textFont of word 1 of field invisibleWordToSearch contains comma then --next line works for Russian put urlEncode(unidecode(fld invisibleWordToSearch, utf8)) into gWordToSearch else --next line works for Roman alphabet put fld invisibleWordToSearch into gWordToSearch end if end changeWord The 'search' button has this script: on mouseUp global gWordToSearch revGoURL (the cSearchEngine of this stack gWordToSearch) end mouseUp thanks Curt___ 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: dynamically adding links with textStyle..
Thanks, Devin, I had been making this much harder than necessary, worrying about whether I'd need to manipulate HTML or Unicode directly if the selectedText was in Russian, but this works fine now for setting a link, regardless of language: on mouseUp --save the selection before the 'ask..' makes it go away put the selectedChunk into tSelection --tSelection will now contain something like char 1 to 4 of fld 1 ask Please enter a link: put it into tLink select tSelection set the linkText of the selectedText to tLink set the textStyle of the selectedText to link put the HTMLText of fld source into fld resultHTML end mouseUp To let the user edit an existing link, this works well too: on mouseUp --save the selection and its linkText before the 'ask..' makes it go away put the selectedChunk into tSelection put the linkText of the selectedChunk into tOldLink ask Please edit the link: with tOldLink put it into tNewLink --reselect what was selected before select tSelection set the linkText of the selectedText to tNewLink set the textStyle of the selectedText to link put the HTMLText of fld source into fld resultHTML end mouseUp ..where the last lines are just a check to see what I end up with. Thanks! -Curt Dr. Curtis Ford Instructor of Russian and Linguistics Dept of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of South Carolina ___ 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
dynamically adding links with textStyle, linkText, and an ask dialog
In my project I want to let users enter text into a field, then highlight some text to add a link; the field contents are then saved to a text file to be read in later displayed with an active link. This works fine, attached to a button for adding a link: on mouseUp set the textStyle of the selectedText to link set the linkText of the selectedText to http://www.google.com; put the HTMLText of fld source into fld resultHTML --a check to see how it looks end mouseUp But when I try to let the user enter a link with: on mouseUp ask Please enter a link: put it into tLink set the textStyle of the selectedText to link set the linkText of the selectedText to tLink put the HTMLText of fld source into fld resultHTML end mouseUp ..the link ends up following the text that was selected; so if in one two three the two was highlighted, the result is: pfont face=Genevaone twoa href=www.google.com/a three/ font/p Is there a way I can keep the ask dialog box from interfering with the selection? Curt Dr. Curtis Ford Instructor of Russian and Linguistics Dept of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of South Carolina cford at sc.edu ___ 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: writing to external file from Windows standalone: empty files: solved!
Many thanks to Sarah, Bill, and Mark for your responses - commenting out the 'open file ... for update' line did the trick. Works great now. : ) This was one of the first things I wrote in the project, when I was *really* just starting in Revolution, and I think I used 'open file..' and then 'write to file.' Several sources then recommended using 'put .. into URL..' so I put that in without deleting the 'open file.' The Mac version never minded - I'd made dozens of lists with the Mac standalone - guess Windows was pickier about the syntax. I will probably need to deal with the permissions issue at some point but I'm glad it's not now! -Curt ___ 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: clearing a field through a variable holding the name of the field
Ah, that did it. Thanks Mark! best, Curt ___ 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
newbie-ish question: is QT required on Windows for audio in a player?
I may just be missing this in the docs, but.. Do windows users have to have QT installed to hear mp3 audio played through a player object? My project uses lots of external audio, played through a player. Sometimes an entire file, more often a portion, using startTime and endTime; sometimes the .mp3 is local, sometimes accessed over the net. Works great on OSX. A few Windows users have had trouble getting the external audio (this was discussed a few weeks ago by me others). I'd hoped playing the files locally would help but a tester has reported getting a few seconds of audio for one clip, then nothing, even when playing local files. She said she had had QuickTime, but uninstalled it a while back. Is there something else needed, winAmp or something else, on XP for playing mp3 files through a player? thanks! Curt ___ 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
