RE: Mixing Languages and Mac OSX
Manuel writes: Are you not confusing macOS X vs macOS and Unicode vs conventional system? With the conventional 1 byte coding you have 256 spots (only 128 in DOS and Windows) which leaves more than 200 hundred possible chars. UNICODE uses TWO bits per char which extends the possibility to over 4! - No, as I understand it, 2 byte fonts (note: not bits, but bytes) were around long before Unicode. Unicode just tries to conventionalize it. But all or most of the Apple 2 byte font 'language kits' are now bundled (and free!) in OSX. Actually, the OSX applications that use Unicode (Mail, TextEdit etc) do not work (yet) nearly as well as the apps specialized for these languages. For example, if you send Japanese with Apple's new Unicode Mail, it often comes out garbled on the other side, whereas sending the same message in, say, Jpanese Netscape, is no problem. And Jpnese Claris works/appleworks works far better for Jpanese than does unicode savvy TextEdit. The important point is, you can buy just ONE OSX anywhere in the world and run all of these excellent language specific applications (forget unicode!) perfectly, without having to pay for, install, or hassle with any 'language kits'. It's a real marvel. We are pretty happy that the Phenicians came up with the alphabet!* -- It's efficient for languages with complex syllable structures (like English) but it makes learning how to read hell. It's practically impossible to say, for example /b/ (or any other plossive/stop) without adding a vowel at the end. This confuses the heck out of kids. BUH EE RHA. ? Oh, BEER! Regards, mark mitchell Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Philosophy
Please skip this post if you are feeling pragmatic. Scott writes: I disagree: xTalk is a high-level language well suited to most application development, if not for bit-fiddling with low-level OS and hardware features. While it's true that you give up some performance and flexibility using a high-level language, you more than make up for this with increased productivity. Note that I'm not criticising C/C++ I have a quick philosophical question: (1) When you write in a higher language like C, there is nothing you can 'say' that cannot also be written directly in machine-code, is that correct? In other words, you could create a language that introduces novel computing approaches, but in the end it must be compilable, which means translated into machine code? (2) Now, my impression has been that the metacard engine more or less emulates a mini-computer, ie creates a virtual computer within your computer. If that idea is correct, then metacards virtual computer machine-talk is different from the real computer's machine talk, but does idea (1) above still hold true? In other words, anything I write in transcript 'could' be written directly in machine-code? thanks, mark mitchell Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Observations Re: Images
Jeanne, et al writes: I should have read this closer. For me the bottom line is, if you want the image to be scalable, it must reside in each stack: resizing a button does not resize its icon. - It can, all you have to do is put this into the "onResizeStack handler": put the icon of button myButt into myPic set the height of image id myPic of stack theImages to the height of button 1 set the width of image id myPic of stack theImages to the width of button 1 Of course, the above will also work without using a separate substack for images. But I can't get buttons to reliably scale using the geometry manager (OS9.2 mac) so you may have to write a script for that too, rather than using geometry manager. good luck mark mitchell Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: onTO
Dar Scott writes: Here is one way to remember which one to use... Either "on" or "onto" can be used to show movement to a location in English. Though "on" is most common, it can be ambiguous and "onto" is clearer. The programming language uses the clearer preposition. --- It may be clearer for a real, English-speaking and thinking human, but no clearer to the metacard engine! The easiest syntax is thus always going to be the most frequent. A quick collocation analysis confirms my suspicions: whereas "on" is number 4 in the 'place' collate list, with a whopping T-score of over 11, 'onto' didn't show up at all in the top 100, and 'place' is also not in the top 100 as a collate for 'onto'. So 'place X on' is not just a little more common then 'place X onto..' , it appears to be vastly more common. And since there is no need to worry about ambiguity when you are talking to a software engine with a very limited vocabulary, if the writers of X-talk were striving for the most natural syntax (and I assume they were, since that is the whole point of a higher-level language) 'onTO' was clearly a mistake. I'm sorry, was I raving? :-) mark mitchell Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: sound recording MAC and QTPRO
Talking about recording sound on a Mac, presumably using the record sound file command in Rev? Jean-Luc wrote: Hello, You need to have "QuickTime Pro" installed. Do you have it? The player you can dowload free enables you to listen to files, but not to record them. Your problem may be due to that. If it is, you can get "QuickTime Pro" at "www;quicktime.com" it costs about $20. Can someone explain this to me? The rev 'record sound file' really needs the 'pro' version of QT? Although I don't have this, it seems to work OK as long as I use 'with dialog' and under OS9 only (not OSX, which has a bug apparently, causing separate channels to record at different levels). I'm trying to decide if I need to invest in QTPRO now! mark mitchell Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
extracting hypercard picts
This was covered recently, but I've forgotten what the upshot was. Appologies. How does one efficiently extract pictures stored in the resource fork of a hypercard project? How about pictures saved within a Supercard project (directly on a card) I tried with graphic convertor, but couldn't get it to recognize either file type. Also, Resedit doesn't seem to offer any easy batch export of pict images. Thanks in advance! mark mitchell Japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: sound recording on windoze
I heard that something about this was supposedly corrected in the "build 8" of the metacard engine (I think you can type "put the build number" in the message box to get this number). However, on a Mac anyway, there are still massive problems. In my experience, you will have much better luck recording "with dialog" option. In the absence of dialog, there seems to be a bug in specifying quality. I noticed that the rev docs indicate that recording is performed via Quicktime. So I wonder if a quicktime update or compatability check might not also effect recording. For example, I often run on a Japanese OS, containing Japanese quicktime by default. Quicktime visual effects invoked by rev will not function in this environment unless you change their names to the Japanese equivalents. I'm wondering if the same issue might not be occuring with the 'record sound file' command. good luck, mark mitchell japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Initializing variables
When you have a long list of variables, it might be easier to try an array instead. For example: on mouseUp global myVar repeat with i = 1 to 1000 put 0 into myVar[i] end repeat end mouseUp So, instead of calling your variables x,y,z etc...you can simply call them myVar[1],myVar[2], etc good luck, mark in Japan Jim wrote: I have a list of variables, say "x,y,z" I would like to set each of these equal to zero. If I were to use the following: put "x,y,z" into tList repeat with i = 1 to 3 put 0 into item i of tList end repeat ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Warning about Metacard Carbon
If you use Mac Classic Rev or metacard to create a stack, and then save it as a metacard stack.be careful! If you are running classic OS and both carbon and classic metacard engines are on the system, and you click directly on the stack, it will open it in metacard Carbon (when it should be classic) and doing so can wipe the stack clean. All controls and scripts simply disappear. So, of course back up everything, and make sure that metacard carbon is either not available or that you open classic stacks only via classic metacards open stack menu. Got all that?! mark mitchell japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Buffer on X vs. Classic
I think this has already been discussed, but at the time I didn't quite follow or pay attention. Anyway, I have this situation: 1. a player is playing a quicktime movie (actually a GIF) with looping 2. I move the player around while it is playing (using move relative) In Mac classic, with the alwaysBuffer of the stack and player set to true, the movement looks nice and smooth (although I think the player pauses briefly during the move). In contrast, with mac OSX, you must set the alwaysBuffer of the player to false, or it disappears, at least briefly, during the move, giving a choppy, blinky appearance. With alwaysBuffer() set to false, the move looks good as it does on classic. BUT: 3. with always buffer set to false, a playing or paused player cannot appear behind a field, even if the layer of the field is way over that of the player. I think this is true on both platforms. So, why does the alwaysBuffer of a player work oppositely under X and classic? Bug? thanks, mark in Japan (ps. all results used latest test versions of Rev.) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Database and standalone
Yves wrote: I have a stack with many filled flds full of data I've built the stack in a standalone Now I'd like to change the program. How can I modify (update) my standalone without loosing the data ? I have worked on the scripts in a .rev file but how can I recover the data from the standalone ? When you built the standalone, did you choose the option save substacks in separate data folder? If you want to save the data, you have to do this anyway, as far as I can tell. Your standalone main stack should/could be nothing more than a title (and of course a menu/buttons to get at the substacks). The substacks are where you want the meat/data to be kept. If these are saved in a separate folder, they remain stacks and your data can be saved by your standalone while it is running. Subsequently, Revolution can still open and play with them. Just choose open stack , go into the 'data' folder of your standalone, then the 'components' and the substacks should appear. Good luck. mark mitchell japan ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
