Problem with scrolling image
All, I have a group which contains a large jpg image (width=5760 height=2880 pixels). The grp has hscroll and vsroll bars. It works on MacOSX on a PPC Intel. On Windows XP using Virtual PC on the PPC and VMShare on the Intel, the image does not show in the window. If I edit the group it shows up and when I stop editing group it disappears. Any Ideas what could be causing this? TIA, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 gefis...@mac.comhttp://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://gefisher.comxa.com/gindex.html http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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
Array key not working
Hi Revers, I have a strange problem is one of developing stacks... I am using enterprise Rev 3.0 build 750 on a G5 mac tower. I have my own plugin that has the ability to display global arrays with their keys and clicking on a key will display that array key value. It works great without failure. In the stack that I'm creating I build some global arrays in an openStack handler. When using the debugger to checkout a script that uses a global array, some keys return empty when the above plugin, using the same array gets the arrays value for that key. I have checked the keys for invisible chars and the key is the same in the program debugger as in the plugin. Other keys in same array work ok both places. My question is, Is there a global property or something that effects the key data retrieval in arrays? I'm pretty much stumped... Any help is appreciated, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 gefis...@mac.comhttp://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.comcast.net/~glennefisher/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:specialfolderpath(), WAS: App restart after update
Klaus, On MacOSX you can use tempName. FWIW, Glenn On June 18, 2008 2:24:46 AM CDT Klaus wrote: Hi all ... With Rev 2.9 you can now get the temp folder on all three platforms with: get specialFolderPath(temporary) I tried them and two of them simply did not work/ returned empty on OS X 10.5.3, Rev 2.9!? specialfolderpath(home) specialfolderpath(temporary) All the others work as exspected. Is this already bugzillaed? Could someone check this please? Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.comcast.net/~glennefisher/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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
An:Flow Analysis upload
All, I finally got my old Flow Analysis HyperCard stack converted (actually rewritten) to Rev and uploaded it to Rev OnLine in category Education for your viewing and use. Have fun with it, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.comcast.net/~glennefisher/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: use-revolution Digest, Vol 52, Issue 12
Dave, On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more thing (isn't there always?!). Is there anyway to read back the current position of the file? Thanks again All the Best Dave I haven't done this in a long time, so YMMV, but try: seek relative 0 HTHs, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.comcast.net/~glennefisher/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:Get the RGB values for the pixel under the mouse.
Jim, Here is some of my dumb ways to check for some particular colors in one of my games. I thought it might give you some ideas. function pixelColor lx set the screenMouseLoc to lx get the mouseColor set the screenMouseLoc to 0,0 return it end pixelColor -- c is the RGB values as an item list function isGreen c if item 2 of c 10+item 1 of c and item 2 of c 10+item 3 of c then return true return false end isGreen function isBrown c if item 1 of c 30 and item 1 of c 70 and item 2 of c 15 and item 2 of c 40\ and item 3 of c 7 and item 3 of c 20 then return true return false end isBrown function isYellow c if c = 174,144,96 or c = 161,125,76 then return true return false end isYellow function isBeige c if item 1 of c 130 and item 1 of c 160 and item 2 of c 90 and item 2 of c 130\ and item 3 of c 40 and item 3 of c 80 then return true return false end isBeige Have fun, Glenn on July 12, 2007 7:08:54 PM CDT Jim Hurley wrote: To be sure of my code I started with a script to get the RGB values under the mouse, using a MouseMove function. To see this go url http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/RGBunderTheMouse.rev; Unfortunately the map does not show pure colors so getting the ranges for each hazard zone is messy. But this utility is useful in exploring the range of colors. Jim -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:happy anniversary
Cal, I started programming in 1962, so you've got 5 years on me. :-( Look at My Computing Experience on my UH web page below for a rundown of what I've been upto over the years. Congrats and happy anniversary, Glenn On June 18, 2007 7:19:50 PM CDT Cal Homer wrote: A Challenge to the list members. On June 14, 1957 I entered into my life long love affair with the computer. -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:[OT] Decompiling SWF on a Mac (Richmond Mathewson)
Richmond, You might want to take a look my sound editor utility. It is not finished, but can do some sound conversions to aiff. It's in RevOnLine under id gefisher in the utilities catagory. On 2/12/07, Richmond Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody just dumped a load of shockwave files of phonetic materials they want me to pop together into a RR thing for a Free English pronunciation guide. That is all jolly well and good . . . but need to extract the sound components of the swf files so I can turn them into aiff files - help, advice gratefully recieved, sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Save the last dance for me, and don't slip in the dogs mess on the way over to take my hand. ___ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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 remote control
I remember in the early 90's when Apple first came of with voice controlled commands, Someone running down the hall shouting: Computer Shutdown! Very funny, Glenn ...and for a laugh, here's how you can put Vista to work telling itself what to do: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=416 -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: audio file handling
Phil, I uploaded to revOnline a sound utility stack that I have been working on. It is not finished yet, but look at the scripts and maybe it will help. It's under user:gefisher in category:Utilities Have fun, Glenn I have a ton of audio files (.WAV and .AIF) I want to examine in Rev, discover which ones were created with the wrong settings (sampling rate, frequency range, etc), and re-render export them with different settings. (don't laugh!) So this is really two questions: 1) Is there a way in Rev to get that kind of info about a file? I can set the filename of a player and look at props of the player, but that doesn't seem to give me what I need. (Or am I missing something?) 2) Once I discover which files created wrong, is there a way I can export them from Rev with different settings? Thanks folks. I appreciate whatever ideas you can offer. Phil Davis -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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
An:New stacks uploaded to Rev Online
All, I have uploaded two stacks to Rev OnLine for your inspection. Catagory Stack Utilities FileUtility Games WarOfRoses The FileUtility stack allows for you to develop tools to be attached together in a layout that can operate on files in folders on your disks. It's pretty simple now but has a future. The Game is an educational and historical simulation of the War of the Roses of 15th century England. Enjoy, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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
Pattern utility
Jacque others, I wrote a utility stack to use to break apart a multi-pattern image into individual images. It also has limited ability to reverse the operation. It also can add a white transparent alpha mask to the created images. I wrote it for my personal use, so there is not a lot of help in it, but you can look at the scripts to see what is going on. I uploaded it to Rev online (share this stack under the file menu) to the Utility catagory under my ID gefisher. Have fun with images, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: Dependence on Programming Experts
on July 14, 2006 Alex Tweedly wrote: On the other hand, there are a variety of languages (Babbage !?, many variants of Basic) which don't have those issues, so simply allow a single = for assignment or for equality comparison. Alex, I know you probably already know this, but the original Basic was like transcript (I know I'm set in my ways :-)) in that you had to say: Let x = 5 (It made it easier to parse) Have fun, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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
New Stack on Rev OnLine
Revers, I've uploaded my Genealogy stack to Rev Online. It was originally a HyperCard Stack so the Rev logic is somewhat out-of-date, so YMMV. It's also on my iDisk web page as gefGenealogy. The real reason I did it years ago is the Tree that it can build from the data. It contains some ole English stuff that you can take a look at. http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher/gefGenealogy.zip Have fun, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:GEDCOM and Rev
Hugh, I have an old genealogy stack that I originally did in HyperCard and converted to Rev. I believe I added the import and export of GEDCOM after it was converted to RR. I'll send you a copy of it by email or upload it to a web page if you are interested. Best regards, Glenn Before I re-invent the wheel, has anyone done any work on a GEDCOM 5.5 exporter/parser/importer for Revolution or a Rev-based GEDCOM/XML translator/manipulator? /H PS: If you don't know the GEDCOM file format, be happy! -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:Slideshow with Revolution? (Joao Candido Portinari)
Joao, I just uploaded a slide show and multiple move player stacks to revOnLine in the General catagory under my ID gefisher. Maybe they can help. Have fun, Glenn Revolution friends and gurus, I would appreciate very much any help you could kindly provide on the following: I am trying to build a slideshow using Revolution. It consists of some 200 images of paintings accompanied by a music soundtrack, lasting about 20 minutes (automatic play with dissolve transitions). The problem is the need for a practical way of creating an accurate synchronization between the images and the music soundtrack (meaning that each image must be shown at a specific time in the soundtrack). This sync creation process should be natural and easy enough, something like: 1. go to ³authoring mode²; 2. play the slideshow and click ³go next card² when a specific musical event is reached; 3. repeat this process consecutively as the images go by, and commands for ³go next card² should be inserted automatically in the script. Do you know of any already existent stack that builds slideshows in this way? If not, how do I write a script for this? Thank you very much for your help. Regards, Joao ___ 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:Math equations
Mark, You wrote: I am making a stack to teach students math -- linear equations, to be more precise. When I display the y = mx + b form, the best I can do to show a fraction in the m position is something like y = 4/5x + 2. This is ambiguous because it isn't clear what should be taken as the divisor, 5 or 5x or 5x + 2. The math teacher for whom I am making the game would prefer a horizontal division line instead of a slash. So far this is what I've thought of and rejected: Use fonts that have fractions built in as one character. No, because they have too few for the range of possible slopes I want to generate. Force the numerals around as subscripts and superscripts until it is clear what the fraction is. Messy and probably won't lead to success. Use inline images. Need too many images to cover possible slopes. Write it y = (4/5)x + 2. This is mathematically acceptable, but not the way the students will see it elsewhere. Use a different 2-line field that moves according to the location of the fraction. Hmm.. maybe. I could use some help on this one. TIA, Mark I have done this in the past (HyperCard days) with more complex equations than just linear which would simplify the scripting necessary. The secret is doing the spacing of the numerator and denominator above and below a horizontal line of the equation in the center. If you need some help scripting it just send me email off list and I'll help. Have fun, Glenn ___ 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:Switch versus if/then/else ( was: Main menu puzzle, Klaus)
Hi revers, As a historical note, (I'm a very old programmer since 1962) back when I was writing compilers and emulators in B and C in the line editing mode ;-), the switch case statements were really needed. In these kinds of programs many many cases was the norm and the nested if..then..else just didn't cut it. So it depends on the scope of the problem which is the best. Just my ole two cents, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: Minimum Mac specs for Rev 2.6.1?
Ken, Something else that might cause this is a running script (infinite or long loop) that you are not aware of. On a mac multiple flower-.s will sometimes get you out. Just a guess, Glenn on February 12, 2006 10:45:36 PM CST you wrote: Thanks all for your advice. Here are the freeze symptoms: The mouse cursor doesn't freeze; RR main menu does not respond to show pulldowns, keyboard commands (like C-save/quit) don't work; None of the tools in the toolbar respond to clicks; In open RR windows and palettes the close-minimise-maximise buttons turn white and don't work, and those that are not dimmed don't work; Open windows and palettes can't be dragged around, or brought to the front; None of the palettes respond to selection clicks. From what you say it could have been a dysfunctional script, as the debugger was reporting (yet another..!) error when the freeze happened. -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:Phomenes
Tom, On January 26, 2006 2:11:50 AM CST Thomas McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that SuperCard had a text to speech phomene editor. Does Rev have that capability he asks hopefully tm Sorry for the late response as I've been out-of-town and away from the list. One thing that I have done that works out pretty well for my needs (Mostly games) is to change up the spelling of a particular work until it sounds right and add it to a list of words that are searched for in the parameter text of my speaking function and changed before it is spoken. Works well for short text messages. HTHs, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:Transparency and PNG format
Graham, On November 29, 2005 4:05:09 PM CST you wrote: (GraphicConverter on the Mac is really good for this - a lot simpler than Photoshop Elements... but I digress). However when I import a PNG as an image, the transparency disappears and the figure therefore appears in a white rectangle. Here's how I create an alpha channel using GraphicConverter. Maybe this will help. To add an alpha channel to an image file using GraphicConverter. 1) Open the file with GraphicConverter. 2) Do a Save As under the File menu and select PNG for the output file type. I usually select another output folder to hold my converted images. 3) Select Select Picture Content under the Edit menu. 4) Select Copy and Copy under the Edit menu. 5) Select Add Alpha/Mask Channel under the Effect menu. 6) Select Show Alpha/Mask Channel under the Effect menu. 7) Select Paste and Paste under the Edit menu. This will paste a grey scale of your image into the alpha channel. 8) Select Threshold... under the Effect menu and adjust the level until you get a reasonable black and white mask. I sometimes have to use the eraser tool to remove some left over areas that I do not want in the mask. 9) Depending upon the image, you may need to select Invert under the Picture menu to get the right mask. You can change it with invert later if it diplays wrong. 10) Select Hide Alpha/Mack Channel under the Effect menu. 11) Select Save under the File menu. HTH, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: Apache Server with RunRev stacks doing the processing?
Gordy, Thanks for your post. It works great on my old system G4 450 MHz OSX 10.3.9. It's post like this that is what it is all about. Thanks again, Glenn OK, got a sample posted for you here: http://homepage.mac.com/gordyt/FileSharing14.html It's the one called rr_test. After you download and extract it you will see two files: rr.php rr_backend.rev Make sure you have enabled PHP on your Mac. Very simple to do. PHP is already installed. Put the rr.php file somewhere you can get to it with your browser, for example, in your ~/Sites folder. Open the rr_backend.rev stack in RR and click the Start Listening button. Then, using your web browser, load the rr.php file. You can do it any number of ways. For example, you can pass in arguments in the get string like this: http://localhost/rr.php?name=gordonage=48location=humble Or you can create another page with a form on it and have the form invoke the rr.php script. This should get you started. Both the php and the rr is very simple and you should be able to adapt it to any type of function that you need. --gordy P.S. - holler if questions -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:Size of all objects (fields, image, etc.) in a stack?
Frank, I have a plugin stack that has the ability to display the contents of btns of all open stacks that you can download from RevOnLine under user gefisher. It should be easy to modify to use fields instead of btns and display the length instead of contents as it's pretty simple. Have fun, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: No volumes in Linux?
Bob, Does this really mean that although a computer may have 2 or 3 physical drives, there is no way that RR can discover this in Linux? If so, I find that rather disappointing, don't you? I don't know Linux, but from my old unix days I remember that df was useful. You might give it a try. Best, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?
Revers, Sorry to be so late on this topic. I'm retired. :-)) If you haven't already, get Wilhelm Sanke's excellent Search Docs plugin. Put it in your plugins folder for easy access in Rev. I typed Jon's first search into it (continue) and break \ came up as the first in the list. Get the one that's appropriate for you at this web page: http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia/index.html Or on RevOnline under user sanke. Happy reving, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: I give up: how do you continue a line in Rev?
Peter, On August 19, 2005 11:33:48 AM CDT you wrote: How is this different from the existing search option? Well it is somewhat different and seems to be faster than the documentation search on my machine. It also hilites the search string in red in the found topics. Check it out by running the same search on each and compare. It also has some nice radio button options for restricting or enhancing the search. Best regards, Glenn At 08:36 AM 8/19/2005, you wrote: Revers, Sorry to be so late on this topic. I'm retired. :-)) If you haven't already, get Wilhelm Sanke's excellent Search Docs plugin. Put it in your plugins folder for easy access in Rev. I typed Jon's first search into it (continue) and break \ came up as the first in the list. Get the one that's appropriate for you at this web page: http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia/index.html Or on RevOnline under user sanke. Happy reving, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: NPR puzzle
Sarah, On July 20, 2005 5:26:37 PM CDT you wrote: A 10-letter word for a form of travel, that consists of five consecutive symbols of chemical elements. What is it? If automobile had been the answer, AU, would represent Gold, MO would represent Molybdenum, and BI, would represent Bismuth. Unfortunately, the remaining bigrams, TO and LE, are not chemical symbols. I have put up a stack with two fields. The first contains all 10 letter words in my dictionary. The second contains all two character elements from the periodic table. You task, should you choose to adopt it, is to write a Run Rev handler to solve this weeks NPR puzzle defined above. Before reading everyone else's solutions, I had a go and came up with more or less the same script as anyone else. What intrigues me is that there would appear to be 2 ways of tackling this problem and everyone chose basically the same one. You can either go through the word list and see if any match the elements, or you could go through the element list, making combinations and matching them to the words. I discarded this idea because the maths involved in working out all the permutations combinations has long since flowed out of my brain, but I wonder if anyone else thought of using this method? Instinctively I feel it would take longer, but there are 3620 words and only 97 elements. Thanks for the puzzle Jim, just what I needed to get the brain moving first thing in the morning! Sarah My first try at a solution was to form random combinations of 5 symbols and checking to see if it was in the dictionary. But, alas, it took too long to even find words, so I went for the finding of words in the dictionary take matched the any 5 symbols. Fun problem, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: NPR puzzle
Jim, Here is my submission that ran in 70 milliseconds on my 5 1/2 year old G4 450 MHz tower: set cursor to watch put the milliseconds into t put fld ChemSymbols into c put fld dictionary into d repeat for each line L in d if c contains char 1 to 2 of L and c contains char 3 to 4 of L\ and c contains char 5 to 6 of L and c contains char 7 to 8 of L\ and c contains char 9 to 10 of L then put L CR after o end if end repeat put the milliseconds -t into t put o into fld Output put time= t msecs after fld Output Cheers, Glenn On Jul 20, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: For my fellow puzzle addicts: Here is this weeks NPR puzzle (Sunday Weekend edition) Sunday Puzzle By Will Shortz Challenge for July 24: A 10-letter word for a form of travel, that consists of five consecutive symbols of chemical elements. What is it? If automobile had been the answer, AU, would represent Gold, MO would represent Molybdenum, and BI, would represent Bismuth. Unfortunately, the remaining bigrams, TO and LE, are not chemical symbols. I have put up a stack with two fields. The first contains all 10 letter words in my dictionary. The second contains all two character elements from the periodic table. You task, should you choose to adopt it, is to write a Run Rev handler to solve this weeks NPR puzzle defined above. In the message box: go stack url http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/NPRpuzzle.rev; Jim __ -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:Question on Geometry
at July 7, 2005 7:29:08 AM CDT Charles Hartman wrote: Is there a tutorial or overview of Geometry settings somewhere? Try the Geometry Manager entries at this link: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/VideoTutorials.htm HTH, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor
All, I vaguely remember from my UNIX and C days that there was a command named cb that was named Program Beautifier. It took C source file as input and wrote a file that had the C source in indented and structured form. There was also a command named uucleanup that did a similar thing with uu (Unix to Unix) transfer scripts. So it's pretty or beautiful or clean...:-) This is fun, Glenn On July 1, 2005 10:01:49 AM CDT Alex Tweedly [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: Thomas McGrath III wrote: Eric, Is that what it is really called? Pretty printing? Or is that a translation thing? It just sounds a little funny. It's really called that. I *think* the name was first used in Lisp back in the 60s certainly it was in common use by the time I got involved in computers (1970), though it was still a feature then; it has become so ubiquitous that the word itself is less frequently needed these days - everyone knows programs should be laid out sensibly (even if they don't agree on what is sensible :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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
AN:Update of Optics and Interactions
All, I have cleaned up my Optics and Interactions stacks and made them more user friendly. They are on RevOnLine under user gefisher. Warm regards, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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
AN:Particle Interactions
All, I just converted one of my old HyperCard stacks named Interactions to rev. Anyone interested in particle physics might take a look and comment. It's on RevOnLine under id gefisher in the Education category. It uses the font Symbol so if you don't have that font it probably will not display nicely. I really liked the old way in HyperCard that you could put fonts in the resource fork. Best regards, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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:Glenn's Optics Stack
Jon wrote: Glenn: I noticed your Optics stack, so I took a look. Here are a few quick comments. It may be clear to you what this stack is supposed to do, but it made very little sense to me. A little explanation might be useful. You can use the Add and Delete buttons above the Telescopes field and the Eyepieces field to add and remove items from these fields. If you add items the heading items need to be adhered to, for example in adding telescopes, the first item needs to be the diameter of the objective lens in millimeters, the second item needs to the F number or speed of the objective lens like F8, and the third item needs to be the description of the scope (which can be any text). You can then select a line from each field and it will calculate the power and field of view for that telescope and eyepiece combination. I clicked on Design, then clicked on Create Lens, then clicked Cancel. There was a run-time error. I then clicked the close icon (X) on the Design window, and was asked if I really wanted to save the Design stack. All I wanted was to hide the window so I could get back to the original window. I did finally manage to create a second lens and see the optical lines flying around: very cool! I wish I understood what was going on better! The Design part is not finished, I'm still working on it. :) Jon I'll add some help to it when I get the time. Being retired, I'm not tied to my desk like when I was working so my response to the email is only hit or miss. :) Sorry for the slow response. Have fun, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: AN:Particle Interactions
Jon wrote: Glenn: I downloaded the Interactions stack. The first thing I see is a list of particles. When I click on the buttons, nothing happens. I'm confused, again. If you place the cursor over one of the buttons, you should see the following: drag to bullet or target (tool tip message) I'm sorry but this should have said Drag to Accelerated Particle or Target Particle. So what you do is drag one of the particles to the Accelerated Particle field. The cursor will change when you move the cursor over the correct field. Then you can click on the Do It button to calculate all the allowed interactions and display them in the field below the View in Cloud Chamber button. I then notice the big window, behind the smaller window, and click on it. I click on Do It. I'm told You need to select an interaction to view, which is fair enough. I click on OK A run-time error occurs. When I click on the X icon, I'm not asked if I want to save things (which is nicer than with the Optics stack). When I click on the X icon for the decays pop-up, I'm asked again (not so nice). I'd prefer two buttons, Accept and Cancel. I finally read the Help (too bad there is no Help button on the particles palette window!), and try to drag a particle to the large white box on the main window. It does not work. You can not drag to that field as I explained above. Once you do the above, you can select one of the lines (an interaction) in the display field and then click on the View in Cloud Chamber button to display the graphic of the interaction. Again, it looks neat, but I can't figure out what to do with it... :) Jon I'll clean this up a little and try to make the help clearer. Thanks for the response, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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: Glenn's Optics Stack
Thomas, On June 15, 2005 9:52:44 AM CDT Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon, Glenn's stack is for figuring out different aspects of using different eye pieces with different telescopes. So if you want to know what the field of view FOV for a 26 mm Plossi lens then you punch that in and you get your FOV etc. Then if you change to a 2x multiplier than you will know the new FOV. Thanks so much for explaining this in my absence from the list. The close box works exactly as you describe in the IDE for every stack (unless you over ride the close box message). That is normal behavior. Tom This list is great for exchanging ideas. Best regards, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ 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. User Groups in the USA (RUGs/USA)?
Ralph, I live in the Houston, Texas area and would be interested in a say southwest region RUG. Any other people in this area? Thanks for doing this Ralph. Best regards, Glenn All, The list of you interested Rev. Users Groups is growing. It looks very promising for the Mid-Atlantic/South Eastern US region ay this point. I expect to be in the Atlanta area (attending a Convention) July 20th-23nd. I would like to hear from anyone who might like to meet informally to discuss RUGs and/or any future Rev. Users gatherings. Also I'd like to hear from anyone else interested in Rev. User Groups and or Rev. Users gatherings. I can serve as a focal point for RUGs/USA information. Please feel free to contact me off-list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you prefer, More Later and TAKE CARE, Ralph -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re:ANN: ArchiveSearch 1.61
Mark, On 05-05-05 you wrote: Loaded with fives today. Today, 05-05-05, is my birthday and I'm turning 55. My grandson's birthday is also 05-05-05 and he turned 5. :-) Small world. Cheers, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: What do most Rev developers do
On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: What do you do? Hi Jonathan, I am a very old retired programmer that has been programming computers since 1962. I use RR for my own use now, mostly redoing old hypercard stacks that I have written for various reasons over the years. I started out programming old main frame computers (IBM 7000 series) using assembly language and FORTRAN II. Other languages used over the years include BASIC, ALGOL,B, and C. as well as scripting type languages for various operating systems like IBSYS,BTM,EXEC8,UNIX,GCOS,VMS,VM etc.. Anyone interested in any details of this can read all about it at this URL: http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/exp.html I started looking at RR in November of 2000 and bought a license for v1.0 in July of 2001 when it was still in beta. It was a God send for me as it supplied all of the things that I wished for using HyperCard. Not only that, but it allowed me to share my programs with my windows friends and relatives. I still have a lot of HyperCard programs, utilities and games to convert, so I'm staying busy and having fun. Best regards and have fun, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RobinHood Game
Revs, I have uploaded the main stack of my Robinhood game to rev online for your enjoyment. It is a beta release, but it is playable. It requires a 1024x768 or larger screen size and I have not tried it yet on PCs. Try it and let me know what you think. All criticisms welcome. There is a splash screen version available with all the pieces at: http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher Have fun, Glenn -- Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re:Adventure Games with Revolution?
Roger, I can find no dedicated Mac OS X game engine for point-and-click adventure games in the spirit of Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Sam Max. Do you know of any point-and-click adventure games made with Revolution? General multimedia tools don't take care of the low-level game management and there are few or no adventure games templates. Revolution has potential, but I would really like a template. Would anybody be open to making a Revolution point-and-click adventure game to guide others? I am currently working on a couple of games that might be of interest. They are not completed yet, but they'll give you an idea of a point and click game. They are not adventures, but a computerized version of table games. Use the mac.com link below and click on the Games link. Have fun, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
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doug, executing at 1:24:38 PM TypeHandler: can't find handler Object Button LinerevMacFromUnixPath(it,convertOSX) HintrevMacFromUnixPath Thinking that I am not sending the file path correctly, I am trying this Rev function. So Rev can't find a built in function ? huh? What's up? There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. __http://home.golden.net/~samu__ If revMacFromUnixPath is a function, shouldn't you call it like a function instead of like a command? Like: get revMacFromUnixPath(it,convertOSX) Read Jacque's page again. :-) http://www.hyperactivesw.com/functions.html HTH, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Label an Image with Text?
Hi Rick, You wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if there is a way in Rev to paint a text label onto a jpeg image file and then save it as part of the jpeg file when I export it. (I also noticed the lack of a text tool for doing that in the paint tools.) Anyone? Is the text dynamic? or can you build it as an image outside of RR? I have modified images that I use for button icons by merging two .png files whose alpha masks don't overlap with the following transcript that is fast enough for icon sized images: on mergeImages im1,im2,imout put the imageData of image im1 into d1 put the imageData of image im2 into d2 put the alphaData of image im1 into a1 put the alphaData of image im2 into a2 put the height of image im2 into h put the width of image im2 into w put the length of d2 into n put 0 into i repeat for each char c in a1 add 1 to i if in then exit repeat put charToNum(c) into x if x=0 then put char 4*i-3 to 4*i of d2 after d3 put char i of a2 after a3 else put char 4*i-3 to 4*i of d1 after d3 put char i of a1 after a3 end if end repeat if there is not an image imout then create image imout end if set the text of image imout to empty set the height of image imout to h set the width of image imout to w set the imageData of image imout to d3 set the alphaData of image imout to a3 end mergeImages HTH, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Label an Image with Text?
Chipp, on December 11, 2004 10:59:21 AM CST Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a set of handlers which can composite multiple images with overlapping alpha channels as well. You might want to take a look at them at: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Downloads.htm called: Image Compositing... best, Chipp Yes, Chipp I have your stack and got some of my ideas from it and from Dar's postings some time ago. Many thanks to both of you and others for the ideas. I was just concerned that the original poster (Rick) might dismiss doing this sort of thing because of speed. My images are a special case of icons and are all the same size so the simple script serves the purpose. Thanks again for your great web site, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re:image size limit?
Richard, I had a problem like this with a huge jpeg file. I tracked it down to a file that was converted from a PICT file. I got a copy of the original jpeg and it worked fine. I figured that it must have lost something in the conversion from jpeg to pict to jpeg. Hope this helps, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ http://homepage.mac.com/gefisher ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Max image size
Hello all, Is there a max size to import an image (jpg or png) for RR? I have a large 12 MB jpg file that will not display correctly after being imported or just referenced by the filename of an image. It looks like the horizontal hold is not working (:-) old TV set) as all the scan lines are multi-colored garbage. I have tried converting it to png and changing the color bit size, but nothing that I have tried has helped. It displays fine with other graphic applications. I am using a G4 tower with 512MB of RAM on MacOS X v10.1.5 with RR 1.1.1. Thanks for any advice. Happy New Year to all, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Revolution in Classis, Virtual PC?
On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:11:25 -0800 Mark Swindell wrote: What about tweaking using Virtual PC, only for display purposes and navigation? Have you, or anyone, used VPC for this and found problems, inconsistencies? Mark, I have used VPC to debug windows versions of my stacks. I have even installed the windows version of RR with VPC to resolve some errors that I could not diagnose with display only. I am using VPC v5.0.4 and RR 1.1.1.2. HTH, Glenn Glenn E. Fisher University of Houston - Retired 22402 Diane Dr. Spring, Tx 77373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uh.edu/~fisher http://home.houston.rr.com/thegefishers/
