Pasting text to and from other programs
Does someone understand the various hitches that arise when copying styled text between Rev and other programs? On a Windows XP PC, I copy some text from MS Outlook. When I paste it into a Rev field, the apostrophes are missing. If I copy from MS Outlook, paste into Notepad, then copy from Notepad and paste into a field, the aprostrophes are preserved. From a Rev field, I copy some text. When I paste it into an MS Word document, the tab characters become underline characters. I should say that my copy and paste routines in Rev are scripted using the htmlText, setting and getting the clipBoardData[html]. Many thanks for any diagnoses or remedies. David Epstein ___ 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
Copying text and images together
Has anyone found a way to convert a Rev field that includes images to some format that TextEdit or MSWord would display with the images intact? Best would be if one could set the clipboarddata and then paste the information, images and all, into TextEdit or MSWord. David Epstein ___ 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: group a single object?
When it comes to groups, however, you can't count on the word last to refer to the last group on the card (if the group you want is nested within another group, for example). I believe there's a bug report or 2 in the RQCC about this, but one workaround is to use the templateGroup and establish a name before grouping the object/s. Another workaround is to get the owner of the object immediately after you've grouped it: group control id aa get the long id of the owner of control id aa David Epstein ___ 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 Help?
I haven't worked this out, but FWIW: Draw a vertical line from point X,Y and determine the value of y at the points, if any, that your line crosses each of the triangle's 3 line segments. It looks as if X,Y is within the triangle if -- at least one intersecting point exists, and -- Y is not greater than the greatest y value among those existing points, nor less than the least y value among those existing points. Try sketching a few cases to see this. If this is right, you'd need to make 3 calls to something like function yOnASegment x1,y1,x2,y2,x0 if (x0 = x1 and x0 = x2) or (x0=x1 and x0=x2) then -- the line segment includes x0, and we want to find y0: put (y2-y1)/(x2-x1) into s -- slope; but need to provide separately for the case where x2=x1 return y1+s*(x0-x1) -- not sure I've considered all possible orderings of the points here, but you get the idea end if return empty -- x0 isn't on the segment end yOnASegment David Epstein ___ 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: Sticky popup?
Scott Rossi asked Is there any way to make the action of popping up a menu sticky? To imitate a sticky popup I show a stack (named here L9nav) with empty decorations, whose buttons trigger the desired actions and cause the stack to close. And I include in the stack an invisible graphic named auto whose script, when in use, causes the stack to close when there's a click somewhere outside the stack. On mousedown: insert script of graphic auto of stack L9nav into front go stack L9nav as palette Graphic auto has this script: on focusIn get the short name of this stack if it is not L9nav then close stack L9nav pass focusIn end focusIn on openField get the short name of this stack if it is not L9nav then close stack L9nav pass openField end openField And L9nav itself has this script: on closeStack if there is not a graphic auto then exit closeStack get the long name of graphic auto remove script of it from front end closeStack David Epstein ___ 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: Windows menu bars
This suggestion is late and perhaps obvious, but FWIW: If the task of adding a menubar to a whole bunch of cards is onerous, it may be worth considering bringing the card contents to the menubar. That is, create a viewer (or even editer) stack that includes the menubar, and faux-navigate among the source cards by successively copying and deleting their content from your viewer/editer stack. The merits of this depend on the relative complexity of the menu and the card content; it is certainly easiest to implement if each card's content is a single group. David Epstein I need to open multiple documents that share the same menu bar. On Mac I can just set the default menubar. What do most of you do for Windows? ___ 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: Scaling Groups?
Before I go off and try to reinvent the wheel, does anyone have a script that will proportionally scale objects within a group relative to each other? Scott Rossi has answered his own question, but FWIW here's my similar approach to the same problem. It does not assume that the scaled group stays in the same location, but it does require that the intended new rectangle of the group (not just a scaling factor) be specified--e.g., set the groupRect of pGroup to 100,100,400,400 David Epstein on storeStartingGroupRects gID -- load a custom property set of group id gID storing its rect and the rects of its members repeat with n = 1 to the number of controls in group id gID set the startingRects[n] of group id gID to the rect of control n of group id gID end repeat set the startingRects[0] of group id gID to the rect of group id gID end storeStartingGroupRects setProp groupRect r -- target group's new rect is r; set its members' rects accordingly put the short id of the target into gID if the startingRects[0] of group id gID is not empty then repeat with n = 1 to the number of controls in group id gID set the rect of control n of group id gID to scaledRect(the startingRects[n] of group id gID,the startingRects[0] of group id gID,r) end repeat end if end groupRect function scaledRect rA,rB,rY -- return a rectangle rX whose position and size relative to rY is the same as rA's position relative to rB repeat for each char k in 12 put comma relativeF(item k of rA,item k of rY,item k+2 of rY,item k of rB,item k+2 of rB) after hold end repeat repeat for each char k in 34 put comma relativeF(item k of rA,item k-2 of rY,item k of rY,item k-2 of rB,item k of rB) after hold end repeat return char 2 to -1 of hold end scaledRect function relativef q,e,g,p,r -- return value f whose value relative to e and g is the same as q's value relative to p and r (rounded) return round(e+(q-p)/(r-p)*(g-e)) end relativeF ___ 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: revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta
Richard Miller wrote: ... 1. Create a popup button. It will come with three lines of data in it. ... 3. Go back and enter this into the message box: put return tab tab choice x after line 1 of btn 1 4. In the development environment, choice x should now appear as a sub-choice of the first menu item, and you should be able to select it. ... Looks like there's an extra tab in your step 3. David Epstein ___ 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: Challenge: How can we set the rect of a polygon to its visual rect? (and a tentative solution)
It appears that Rev defines the rect of a regular polygon to be the rectangle that encloses all possible rotations of that polygon. To see this, create a regular polygon as graphic 1, create a rectangle as graphic 2, in the message box set the rect of grc 1 to the rect of grc 2, and then set the angle of grc 1 to various numbers. This seems like a useful enough feature that I wouldn't call it a bug. David Epstein ___ 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: Detecting a grabEnter?
My question about grabEnter has led to an interesting broader discussion of the relative merits of grab vs mouseMove.. I would be happy to write a more complicated mouseMove-controlled script, but as far as I can tell that won't solve the problem I posed. If the user is dragging an object, whether using grab or by a script reacting to mouseMove events, no objects beneath that object receive a mouseEnter or mouseLeave message, because the mouse remains within the object being dragged. I can think of ways of amending Transcript that would solve this problem--probably by extending the current usage of the various messages associated with drag and drop actions. But is there any way to do what I want with the language as it is? Capturing mouseMove doesn't tell me what control the dragged object has just moved on top of unless at each nudge of the mouse I compare the mouseLoc with the rectangles of all potential target objects. David Epstein ___ 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: Detecting a grabEnter?
Bonjour Eric, Your suggestion is intriguing but I haven't understood it. What is an automatic blend level? If by script I set the dragged object's blendLevel to 50, I still do not detect a mouseEnter when it's dragged over another object. Many thanks. David Epstein Bonjour David, Actually, 2.9 drag and drop feature is able to solve your problem if you accept dragged object's automatic blend level. Le 4 sept. 08 à 15:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : My question about grabEnter has led to an interesting broader discussion of the relative merits of grab vs mouseMove.. I would be happy to write a more complicated mouseMove-controlled script, but as far as I can tell that won't solve the problem I posed. If the user is dragging an object, whether using grab or by a script reacting to mouseMove events, no objects beneath that object receive a mouseEnter or mouseLeave message, because the mouse remains within the object being dragged. I can think of ways of amending Transcript that would solve this problem--probably by extending the current usage of the various messages associated with drag and drop actions. But is there any way to do what I want with the language as it is? Capturing mouseMove doesn't tell me what control the dragged object has just moved on top of unless at each nudge of the mouse I compare the mouseLoc with the rectangles of all potential target objects. David Epstein ___ 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
Does Palette command work?
Using Rev Media 2.9 in Windows XP palette stack a -- no effect go stack a as palette -- works correctly Do others experience this? David Epstein ___ 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: Relayering and dragging a group within a group
Thanks to Ken Ray for his suggestion (quoted below) of how to grab a group on the same mousedown that relayers it. Unfortunately, using send doesn't work, I think because (according to MC docs) we can only call grab from a mouseDown handler. In fact I think it's the peculiar character of the grab command that's the key here, since other commands inserted after a stop editing statement will work. David Epstein on mouseDown if button is in the target then -- (1) put the group this button belongs to on top of other -- groups that are subgroups of group wb: put the short id of the owner of the target into tgid start editing group wb set the layer of group id tgid to top stop editing send grabIt tgid to me in 50 milliseconds end if end mouseDown on grabIt pID -- (2) move this group with the mouse until the mouse is released: grab group id pID of group wb -- DOES THIS WORK? end grabIt Ken Ray ___ 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
