Preferred Font
I have a program I've made, and on the Mac side Helvetica looks fine, but the font is a little spindly and weak-looking on the PC side. I chose Helvetica because I thought it would be a font that all machines would have as a part of their system. Is there a better choice with respect to this that would be part and parcel of every system? Thanks Tom in Arizona ___ 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
Formatted Text
I'm using Studio 2.8.1 I want to have a field into which information will be placed when someone clicks a button. I want bolding and italics and such to be in the field. However, when I format text in a field on another card so that this text will be transferred to the other field, the formatting disappears. Put cd fld formattedtext into card fld wantsformattedtext doesn't retain the formatting, bold, italic, etc. What's the smart way to do this? Thanks! Tom Tom Cole Lecturer, American English and Culture Program College of Extended Education Arizona State 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
Standalone Problem
Dear Revolutionaries, I have a stack with several games for learning. Everything works fine except one game, on a single card, does not function in the Windows standalone. I'm using the new studio software for mac. When you access this card, the game doesn't function at all. Even the return to menu button does not work. Nor will the quit button. Very odd. You see, the Mac standalone works just as it does in the development environment. Just fine. What gives? Is there something I should check first? Is there something that is taboo in the windows standalones? All the other little games work fine. Thank you very much. Tom in Arizona ___ 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
Vista Question
I haven't been reading all the posts lately, so excuse me if you have talked this to death and I ask the most basic of questions. Vista is coming out. Will the software I created on my Mac using the old studio version of Revolution 2.7.1 have any problems with Vista? I don't have video or anything -- just a couple of pictures and a lot of sorting and buttons and stuff to manipulate user input in a grammar game. Thanks, Tom ___ 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: Application Icon
Mark etc. I've been away from the list. Yes, I wanted application icons. Does the new studio have paint tools? I haven't developed in it yet; I've just made standalones by importing my files. Would the graphics be saveable as .icns and .ico? By the way, once you save your old file under the new studio 2.7, the old 2.1 can't open it anymore (at least I think), so you lose the ability to save a standalone as a MacOS9. Good thing I have back-ups. I will look and see about the ability to paint in Studio. Tom Tom Cole Lecturer, American English and Culture Program College of Extended Education Arizona State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asu.edu/xed/aecp Phone (480) 965-4755 Providing access to quality education! ___ 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
System Requirements.
Regarding what to write on the CD packaging with regard to system requirements, my program is a single stack with nothing more complicated than one photo of the desert. No quicktime or anything else. It will run on windows on my Mac with a very old version of Virtual PC running windows -- maybe even 95 rather than 98 and at 100 megahertz?; I'll have to look. It doesn't run fast, but it runs more or less. The techies at the publisher put the following on a similar program that I created using REV 2.1. Are they right? Windows * 32 MB RAM * Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP * Single-speed CD-ROM * 256-color display at 640 x 480 (but 800 x 600 highly recommended) MacIntosh * 32 MB RAM * Mac OSX * Single-speed CD-ROM Could I just add a few words or something to this, delete something, or is it about right? Thanks. Tom ___ 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
System Requirements
I want to distribute OSX and Windows versions of my software made with Rev 2.1 with the standalones made with the new studio. What do people write for system requirements? 95, 98, XP 2000, Mac OSX? And is there a standard blurb for speed and disk space requirements? What are people writing on their documentation when they distribute? Thanks Tom Cole Lecturer, American English and Culture Program College of Extended Education Arizona State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asu.edu/xed/aecp Phone (480) 965-4755 Providing access to quality education! ___ 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
Application Icons
I was wondering if there was a place to go to get application icons for a program I've made. In the past, I made my own, but I remember that it was a hassle to get the right type of graphic and so on. Is there a place with a bunch of cool icons that I could choose from? They would have to be royalty free items because I am going to distribute my software. I have the new Studio License. Thanks Tom Cole ___ 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
Regarding Printing Problem
Thanks to Jacqueline Landman Gay for helping me on the printing problem. I'm so surprised that this glitch exists in my old studio version of rev (2.1). If there was more than a page to print, the second page with some printers would have lines overwritten -- lines from the first page. It was just a simple field print command. I downloaded the trial version, created a standalone, and the problem is gone! Also if your script is answer x and x contains a lot of words, the boundaries of the answer that appears do not spread clean across the screen anymore, and you don't have to write script to make the answer box smaller. But now I have to buy the studio update! Tom in Arizona ___ 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
RevPrintfield Printing Problem
I sent a query in about my printing problem, but there were so many others that it has disappeared and didn't get a reply. I'm taking the liberty to resubmit it. Has anyone heard of this chronic problem I have? Many thanks. I find that if I print text that is more than one page, there is sometimes a terrible print-out with lines of text printed one atop another on much of page 2! My script is simple enough: if it is print now then put test into cd fld printfield revPrintField the name of cd field printfield end if I'm very worried about my project because of this. I have seen this on one printer in my office, but I took it to be a buggy printer. Now my editor has printed out some things for the software that accompanies a book I am writing, and I see this same disaster. Has anyone seen this? I could put a scan of what it looks like on line for someone to see. I've looked at some of the Rev sites and I can't find any reference to this printing problem. Is there a more sure-fire way of printing? Thanks! Tom ___ 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
Arcade Engine
I have a couple of textbooks and I have created Runtime Rev arcade games to go with them. I just make them simple with fish jumping around and things like that by hiding and showing buttons and graphics -- that sort of thing. Very labor intensive. Is this Arcade Engine a good buy for me? I'd like to make something that has a more modern look than my 80-90s-looking games. I have Rev 2.1 studio. There isn't much info on the RunRev page. Anyone know anything about how it would be to create (royalty free) standalones for distribution with Arcade Engine? Thanks very much, Tom in Arizona ___ 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
System Requirements
I have a publisher who wants to distribute a CD with my rev standalones. Previously, when I used HyperCard for Mac and Toolbook for Windows, the system requirements on the CD read: Windows 386/33 processor with 8 MB RAM Windows 95 or higher Single-speed CD ROM 256-color display at 640x48 and for Mac: Apple Macintosh 68040 processor with 5 MB RAM System 7.1 or higher Single-speed CD-ROM Now I am distributing the same software product as MACFAT, MACOSX, and Windows Rev standalones. They want to know how to change the System requirements info to print on a CD. Could someone kindly tell me what the minimum processor speed and RAM requirements are for Rev standalones? Is the rest all right? What are developers putting on their cd's? Thanks very much. Tom in Arizona ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Cross-Platformability
Just a quick basic question. I'm using OSX so I can make standalones for Mac 7,8,9,X and Windows etc. A PC user wants to know if she can save Mac applications using the RunRev Windows version. I think I should tell her that everything is the same except you need the Mac RunRev version to create standalones for Mac systems 7, 8, and 9. Am I right? A browse through the runrev page doesn't make this clear to me. Thanks Tom Cole ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Application Icon during Distribution Build
When I build a distribution for Windows there is an option to include an application icon. I have selected a graphic, but during the build I get a message to try again because the graphic is the wrong size (in KB) and I need 16 colors or something. What's the easy way to give the program a graphic that it likes? I'm using OSX. Thanks Tom Cole ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Platform Question
Just a quick newbie question or three. I use OSX Rev. 1. If I were developing in Windows Rev I couldn't make a mac distribution, could I? 2. Can my OSX Revolution software take a Windows rev stack and work with it to produce a mac standalone 3. or could a Windows Rev developer use a mac rev stack and continue developing it? Thanks, Tom ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Printing Problems
Just a strange thing or two happening. I'm having trouble getting my standalone in Windows to print when I write the script: revPrintField the name of card field mistakesfield or revPrintField (cd field quote mistakesfield quote) Printing has worked fine in my other standalones. Nothing happens. And in the MACOSX development, the same field prints fine -- but it prints three identical sheets -- never just one. Thanks, Tom ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Develop on Windows or Mac
I'm working on my first big project with Revolution and I'm using OSX to develop in. I want the software to run on any mac and any windows machine. It's working surprisingly well. Revolution is a great piece of software. My experience so far -- as limited as it is -- is different from what I am reading here. I have found that the Mac classic standalones need much more tweaking than the PC ones. Fields are too small mostly -- or the fonts get too big or whatever. I'm surprised at this because coming from HyperCard I remember how perfectly the stacks would run on any Mac with no field size problems of any kind. Yet the PC standalones are more faithful to the OSX development view with regard to font size -- although the fonts are spidery sometimes and not as nice as on a Mac. Any tips for keeping things the same on all platforms? I'm rather a neophyte and I don't even know which standalone for Mac to distribute or what the difference is: Fat. PPC. or 68. (I'll certainly want to distribute the OSX version.) If someone could set me straight on this, I'd be grateful. TOM ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Need Icon for standalone, Visual Effects don't work, version info
I'm getting ready to distribute standalones for Mac and PC and I don't know how to make my program without the big diamond with the R in the middle of it. For the Mac side I can change the icon (which will be a fish) by choosing Get Info and pasting the fish graphic in there. But for the PC side I don't know how to change the icon. Also, this will be version 2.0. Is there a place to include that in the information box? HyperCard had you include that when you created a standalone. Finally, visual effects aren't working. I got them started, but most of the time visual effects don't work in the standalones. It'd be nice to get them running. Any ideas? Thanks for your help. Tom ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Can't see Buttons in Application Builder
I still can't see but the very tippy tops of the buttons in the dialog box for building an application -- or is it called distribution maker? The bottom half is cut off. I can click those buttons (barely) and build standalones, but it would be nice to see the labels on them and know what the options are that I'm choosing. I sometimes can see that two are available for clicking. Does anyone have any new ideas about how I can get a complete dialog box to come up? Many thanks, Tom ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1913 - 17 msgs
No one had any ideas, but that can't be so, because zillions of rev users must use the revprintfield command in their standalones. That's such a common thing. I'll post again. I hope someone has had the same problem and solved it. Everything works perfectly except this. I have a stack that prints a field. It prints fine in the windows standalone and the OSX standalone, but in Mac OS 9, an image of the field being printed appears across the screen and won't go away. It prints, but the user's machine has this big, white mess there. How can I keep it from doing that? It does it with the PPC, OS68,and OSfat standalones. What gives? Thanks, Tom winmail.dat
Big White Space on the Screen
I have a stack that prints a field. It prints fine in the windows standalone and the OSX standalone, but in Mac OS 9 an image of the field being printed appears across the screen and won't go away. It prints, but the user's machine has this big, white mess there. How can I keep it from doing that? It does it with the PPC, OS68,and OSfat standalones. What gives? Thanks, Tom ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
visual effects/copy to clipboard/print field
Title: visual effects/copy to clipboard/print field I have solved all my serious problems with my stack. It's miraculous. It runs on 98/XP/Mac 9/OSX. I can't believe how well it works. This thing is great. I do need to know why my visual effects have disappeared. I'd like them back, but they're not essential. Wipe right etc. Also in converting my HC stack, my button COPY TO CLIPBOARD that used to copy the contents of a field to the clipboard doesn't work and and I still don't have a way to print that same field. Thanks for your help. I'm nearly there after just five sittings! Tom Tom Cole Associate Director American English and Culture Program College of Extended Education Arizona State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asu.edu/xed/aecp 480-965-2371
Getting Started and Getting Info
Title: Getting Started and Getting Info I have just bought the studio version and I am amazed that I have a HyperCard Stack about ten years in the making up and running beautifully after three sittings. (It's an educational arcade game with ten miles of scripting.) I'm not done at all yet with the rev conversion, but I can hardly believe that the old problem of cross platform development for HyperCard programmers seems to be solved. Is this thing for real or am I dreaming. Have I died and gone to heaven? I've got fantastic help from the ihug group but I don't ask questions there very often. With Rev, I would like to have the manuals but they seem out of print. There are a lot of little questions I'd like answered, but it's easier for me to just grab a manual and look up my problem rather than flood the group with a lot of basic questions here. Should I just ask and ask here? Can I find a manual on Ebay? Here are a few examples of the kind of questions I have: (I USE THE MAC OSX VERSION) 1. When your script executes answer or ask, the dialog box (or whatever it's called) comes up with a big, honkin' R for Revolution. How do I get rid of it? Actually my game is a fish game and I would really love to assign the fish image instead of the R. How can I do that? 2. The window that appears when Rev executes answer or ask goes clean across the screen. Can I make it more compact in shape and size like in HyperCard? That'd be nice. 3. How do I get Rev to inspect itself completely for incompatible script? I suspect there is some left there because when I try to build a distribution version, it crashes with some dialog box flashing and I have to FORCE revolution to quit. Am I doing something wrong? 4. By the way, the dialog box for creating the distribution file is cut off at the bottom and I can only see the tip top of three buttons to click. Only one is active and I've been clicking the barely visible sliver of that button, but I don't know its name because it's cut off. What gives? Thanks very much, Tom
Stacks Don't Launch, Hover/Option/Command doesn't work
Title: Stacks Don't Launch, Hover/Option/Command doesn't work Thanks for the help. I'm progressing. OSX 1. If I double click on my stack, it comes up as five zillion pages of text. I can only open it from WITHIN Rev. Then it runs fine. It has a darker icon than the stacks I made that still launch properly. 2. Rev needs a forced quit each time I try to make a distribution. It flashes. I mentioned this before but I forgot to mention that finally it says it CAN'T FIND THE STACK. Then I must force quit. I made the tutorial distribution fine. 3. Hovering the arrow over a button and pressing OPTION COMMAND gives no script. (I have to doubleclick the object and then get to the script that way. Big hassle.) OPTION COMMAND C doesn't give card script either; nothing happens. The other stacks I have made which launch correctly and which have a lighter-looking icon don't have this problem. If I can beat some of these first obstacles, I think I will be off and running and productive. Mil gracias, Tom Cole
