Re: core image transitions
Recently, Claudi Cornaz wrote: Over these background patterns I need to move spot's of other patterns, a bit like clouds. These clouds should change the undelying pattern in contrast, or color, or luminosity etc. I was hoping I might use the new core transitions to achieve this but I can't get them to work. I was told by Mark W at RunRev that currently only Core Effects which are transitions work within Revolution (transitions have a source and destination). Effects do not. You might want to look at Rev's ink effects as the range of these were recently expanded to include blend effects like those found in Photoshop's layer styles and more. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Automatic mail send (RevMail?)
Recently, Beynon, Rob wrote: Any ideas about sending an email automatically? (I will program the entire content, including the body in plain text). Andre Garzia wrote a mail stack (SMTP Raw) some time ago that handles mail within Rev (no external mail app needed). I don't see his stack posted anywhere but you could email him. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, Shao Sean has written a stack called libEmail (perhaps this is now called SMTP Library?) which I haven't used but also might be an option. http://shaosean.tk Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Deleting files on Vista
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: I don't have Vista yet but I know this is going to come up for my clients eventually. Could someone give a step by step instruction for setting an app to run as administrator, something that I can quote until I break down and get my own copy? I don't have Vista in front of me but IIRC, I do it by right-clicking on the Rev app and choosing the selection from the contextual menu. I couldn't find a way to make the setting stick but there may be one. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Starting at square one with image processing
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 4:28 pm, James Hurley wrote: I'm trying to understand the rudiments of image processing in Run Rev. I used the RR pencil (image not graphic) to draw a horizontal line and used the following script to see how the data was stored: All I got for my troubles was string of zeros. I believe you may be seeing the result of RLE -- one of Rev's internal paint formats (see the paintCompression property) but someone else may know better. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
Retrieve alphaData From Image In Variable?
Does anyone know if it is possible to access or retrieve the alphaData from an image which has been exported to a variable? I'm wondering if it's possible to grab this data without writing the image out to a stack or external file. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Retrieve alphaData From Image In Variable?
Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to access or retrieve the alphaData from an image which has been exported to a variable? I'm wondering if it's possible to grab this data without writing the image out to a stack or external file. I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. Can you provide an example, or explain in more detail? Sure. If you have an image on a card, you can script put the alphaData of img myCoolImg into tData But can you do this with a snapshot image that has been exported to a variable (ie export snapshot to coolVar as PNG)? Let me know if this isn't clear. Best Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Log scales = animation scales?
Recently, David Bovill wrote: Are there any ideas for natural type movements - straight acceleration (maybe with ease in and / or ease out)? You're welcome to use the following (watch wraps). It's set up as a handler with parameters to allow for easing (moving) multiple objects at once. So you can place the code in the card script, for example, and call easeObject... for each object on the card you want to move. (Requires Rev 2.7 or later for object fading.) # EASE IN/OUT ANIMATION SCRIPT # # VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS # pObj = LONG ID OF OBJECT TO MOVE # pStartLoc = STARTING LOCATION # pDestLoc = ENDING LOCATION # pMethod = IN OR OUT -- IN DECELERATES, OUT ACCELLERTATES # pDuration = DURATION OF EASE EFFECT # pStartTime = TIME IN MILLISECONDS WHEN EASE EFFECT BEGINS # pFade = IN OR OUT -- OPTIONAL FADE IN/OUT OF EASED OBJECT # pHost = LONG ID OF OBJECT TO RECEIVE 'EASEDONE' MESSAGE on easeObject pObj,pStartLoc,pDestLoc,pMethod,pDuration,pStartTime,pFade,pHost put (the millisecs - pStartTime)/pDuration into phi # REQUIRED FOR SHORT MOVE TIMES if phi 1 then put 1 into phi # USE APPROPRIATE FUNCTION if pMethod = in then put (2*phi - phi^2) into tEase # EASE IN if pMethod = out then put phi^2 into tEase # EASE OUT # MOVE OBJECT put (item 1 of pDestLoc - item 1 of pStartLoc) into xDist put (item 2 of pDestLoc - item 2 of pStartLoc) into yDist put item 1 of pStartLoc + round(tEase * xDist) into newX put item 2 of pStartLoc + round(tEase * yDist) into newY set loc of pObj to newX,newY if pFade = in then set blendLevel of pObj to 100 - (phi * 100) if pFade = out then set blendLevel of pObj to (phi * 100) # EXIT WHEN OBJECT REACHES ITS DESTINATION if ((newX,newY) = pDestLoc) or (phi = 1) then send easeDone pObj to pHost exit easeObject end if # LOOP SCRIPT send easeObject pObj,pStartLoc,pDestLoc,pMethod,pDuration,pStartTime,pFade,pHost to me in 10 milliseconds end easeObject Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Log scales = animation scales?
Recently, David Bovill wrote: From a couple of tests you can't fluidly animate more than a very small number of objects at the same time. So generating a lista and passing that recursively deleting an item each pass may help a little. By all means, please try it and post your results. In my experience, if you have more than few objects moving at the same time, you will get some slowdown. how does RunRev compare performance wise in animating simple controls compared to Flash - I know Flash has a lot of nice features and s set up for this - but if you just want to animate a button across the screen, or as i my case a few pieces of text in fields (changeing there size)... is Flash any faster? Moving one or two objects in Rev is OK, but generally Flash is much faster. Flash was designed for animation since its beginning. It treats almost everything (except bitmaps) as vectors which is probably one of the reasons for its speed. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Why Save the Mac Mini
OK, some folks like the Mini, some folks don't. I'd say we're ready to move on, yes? Best Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: revBrowser : Problems with PDFs when Acrobat's Pdfviewer plugin is installed
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 3:41 am, Christian Langers wrote: - when calling a Pdf file from my HD (and probably from the internet too) and you've got Adobe's PdfViewer plugin installed, revBrowser will open an ask file window I disabled Adobe's plugin, and voilà, revBrowser loaded the file ; I know revBrowser depends on Safari. Hi Christian: I ran into a related (but different) situation with revBrowser some time ago. In my experience it seemed that Macs would *not* display PDFs within Safari unless the pdfviewer plugin was installed. I found in that situation that default behavior without the plugin was the browser would hand off the PDF to Preview. I believe in general you can't rely on the pdfviewer plugin being installed. I'm curious how you were able to get PDFs to show up with the plugin disabled. When you disable the plugin, will Safari continue to display PDFs? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Error Dialog Advice?
Hello List: I was hoping to get some recommendations about dealing with error messages generated by password protected stacks. What's a good way to answer error info from a password protected stack that's intelligible by users? I'm familiar with the errorDialog message, but how does one use it (or something similar) to pass along the location in the script where the error occurred? I see there is an object reference and a handler name, but which digits correspond to which error messages? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Inks: black translucent background with hole
Recently, David Bovill wrote: I want to make a selection area of an image the only bit that shows up clearly with the rest of the image darkened. I have a stack that might illustrate what you're trying to do. Execute the following in your message box: go url http://www.tacilemedia.com/download/spotlight.rev; Sorry for the large filesize (860K) but this was the most immediate example I had. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Inks: black translucent background with hole
Recently, Paul Gabel wrote: Safari can¹t open the page ³http://www.tacilemedia.com/download/ spotlight.rev² because it can¹t find the server ³www.tacilemedia.com². Sorry, typo. Should be: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/spotlight.rev; Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Inks: black translucent background with hole
Recently, Paul Gabel wrote: When I click on this typo-less web page link, I get mostly garbage. It's not a Web link -- it's statement to execute in your Revolution message box: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/spotlight.rev; Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: URLstatus for Players set to remote URLs
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: Can players be hooked to libURL such that set the filename of player remoteMovie to http://www.domain.org/movies/greatestShowOnEarth.mov; would emulate a load cmd so that we have access to the URLstatus for that player's download? Goal: One would like to present a progress bar to users, that could poll URLstatus for the player's call to a remote URL... after all it would seem that setting the player's filename to an http ref is the same animal as a load url call. You can do this using Trevor DeVore's EnhancedQT external. He has a sample link that (I believe) explains how to do what you describe: http://www.bluemangolearning.com/download/revolution/enhancedqt/examples/EQT _Miscellaneous.zip This is the same process I use in the jukebox app I mentioned some months ago: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/jukebox.rev; HTH. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Inks: black translucent background with hole
Recently, David Bovill wrote: Thats the trick! There was a time when some of the inks only worked on some of the platforms - do these structural blends work on all platforms? Not sure about Linux but AFAIK, Mac and Win are supposed to be good to go. And of course these inks are only in Rev 2.7 (?) and later. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: white windows/stacks?
Recently, Paul Gabel wrote: Do any of you know all of the reasons (or as many as you can think of) why opening a stack by script could cause it to show white and blank? This happens to me sometimes. In the Rev Window menu, the blank window is checked, and when I manually item-select it the blank window returns to normal. This will happen repeatedly with the same window. Is it a memory issue? Is this a stack you created? I've seen this on occasion -- sometimes it's caused by a script failure during an event that takes place during a locked screen. You might try stepping through your script, commenting out key events one by one, until you find the culprit. Other folks may have additional suggestions. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
https Help Needed
Hey Rev List: I'm under a very tight deadline on an https file access stack for Mac/Win. I need to download a file from a secure server to a local drive, ideally using 'load URL' so I can monitor progress. Apparently there is a bug in the SSL stuff in libURL that prevents the library from working reliably on OSX(?). I was able to workaround the problem of *reading* a text file on the server by using the previously posted shell workaround for OSX: get shell(curl -v -k secureServerPath) This seems to work fine for reading, but now how can I download a file from this same secure server and monitor progress? Any option for this? Am hoping somebody can provide a solution soon as I'm quickly running out of time. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: https Help Needed
Recently, Andre Garzia wrote: Hello Scott, don't know if you already solved that. No, I didn't, but I was hoping you might offer a solution. :-) have you tried: LibURLSetSSLVerification false Definitely. The problem seems to be that using native Rev to access a secure server is unreliable on OSX. In my testing so far I'm getting empty results with nothing happening. Windows is OK. your cURL line below is doing just that with the -k in it. Maybe with this setting in place, everything works. I really don't understand what that shell thing is doing. I was hoping there was some way to adapt it to my needs. I'm just a simple designer. :-) PS: you know that TM|Colors and TM|Align are my favorite plugins here... Glad to hear it. But just wait until Revolution Live in Las Vegas... :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
Answer Annoyance
If I put a simple text file on a server that contains the following: hello world /hello ...and I script: put url pathToServerFile into tData answer tData ...I get this: world How do I tell the answer dialog that I *DON'T* want the HTMLText? I want the actual text! Arg. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Answer Annoyance
Recently, Jim Ault wrote: How do I tell the answer dialog that I *DON'T* want the HTMLText? put url pathToServerFile into tData replace with [ in tData replace with ] in tData answer tData Workable. Thanks Jim. I don't know of a way to disable the feature of the built-in Answer dialog. This, of course, allows a variety of formatting for the user. True, but IIRC this behavior is somewhat new for Rev -- used to be that answer displayed the raw (unformatted) text of whatever you fed it. Seems like there should be some kind of show formatted toggle or something built on the HTMLtext property. Thanks again. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Export Snapshot - documentation issues
Recently, David Bovill wrote: A few experiments later and it seems the message is that the docs are wrong - firstly there seems no point using of object form, instead use only of window windowID. If I understand what you're saying, one syntax form for an object is: import snapshot from rect (rect of obj) of obj This imports a snapshot of the object to the card using the object as the source. The reason for doing this is it grabs the alpha data of the object as well, keeping any transparency intact. The export syntax is: export snapshot from rect (rect of btn 1) of btn 1 to file fPath as PNG This does the same but to an external PNG file. You can also use the other image formats (ie JPEG) as well. You can also export to a variable. Is this what you were asking? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
Writing to Temp Folder on Windows?
Hello List: Anyone know if Windows imposes any restrictions when writing to the temp folder under a user (non-admin) account? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
[Not Quite OT] Possible Fix for PNG Color Shift
Greetings List: For any of you who work a lot with PNG images in your stacks (or elsewhere), you might be familiar with the slight color shift that is often introduced into the files by the apps that generate them (Adobe apps are some that cause this problem, as well as inconsistent PNG support in Web browsers). Recently I came across a free Windows application called PngOptimizer that removes what it calls useless information from PNGs, making the images display as expected. http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer Drag any files from the desktop onto the running app, and it creates new files with the extraneous data removed. I've tried half a dozen apps/plugins that claim to solve this problem, but in my initial tests, this one seems to work. YMMV. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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 revGoURL Auto-Encode URLs?
I'm trying to get Rev to launch a site in the user's browser that requires a login, and so far, the browser is launching to the correct domain but not to the protected page. revGoURL http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When running the above, I get a security alert back from the browser (Firefox) that reads like: You are about to log into the site targetserver.com with the username user%2Ename%40userserver%2Ecom, but the website does not require authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you. Is targetserver.com the site you want to visit? The username string listed in the security alert shows the at symbol and periods as HTML entities, so I'm not sure if revGoURL is encoding the username string, or this is just the way the browser is returning the info. Perhaps goRevURL is encoding both @ symbols where it should not. Or perhaps it is encoding the periods in the string where it should not. This doesn't seem to be a script error on my end as the browser is launched properly, but rather seems to be a formatting problem. So any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Does revGoURL Auto-Encode URLs?
Recently, I wrote: I'm trying to get Rev to launch a site in the user's browser that requires a login, and so far, the browser is launching to the correct domain but not to the protected page. revGoURL http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] More on this problem... The site uses an HTML post form to log in which points to index.php. I've tried passing the username and password to the address of the page (targetserver.com/index.php) within the URL string, like the above. But I'm still getting the browser's security alert message and being dumped on the site's home page (default). What else can I try? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Does revGoURL Auto-Encode URLs?
Hey Mark: If you haven't looked at the site I mentioned, don't bother. I think I know what's going on -- I believe they have a php script that expects some variables to be sent when logging in, so we're not going to figure it out any time soon. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Tray icon transparency (XP and Vista)
Recently, Eric Chatonet wrote: the PNG looks fine as expected everywhere else except in Win tray. But I can see icons, not all, in Win tray that do show some transparency. I believe Windows systems up through XP only support 256 colors (and thus 1 level of transparency) in the systray icons. Vista may be different (don't have it front of me to check). Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Window Sizes on Different Macs
Recently, Gregory Lypny wrote: I think I have a lot to learn about resolution and differences between displays. I developed a stack that is 887 x 657 on an iMac with a screen that is 1920 x 1200. I transferred the stack to work to use on an older iMac whose display is 1024 x 768. What happens at work is that the width of the stack displays fine but a strip along the bottom (with all the darn buttons) is cut off. Should I have known that this would happen? What am I doing wrong? Either my math is wrong or your measurements are off. You say your stack is 657 pixels high, and your old iMac screen is 768 pixels high. You *should* have 111 pixels to spare (minus the height of the menubar) for displaying your stack. The only other thing I can think of is perhaps checking the windowBoundingRect property. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
Shift+Click Item List?
Hi List: I have an item list field here with multipleHilite and nonContiguousHilite properties enabled, but it seems I can't use shift+click to select a range of lines (control+click works OK). This should be possible, yes? Anyone know how to set it up? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Shift+Click Item List?
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: I have an item list field here with multipleHilite and nonContiguousHilite properties enabled, but it seems I can't use shift+click to select a range of lines (control+click works OK). This should be possible, yes? Anyone know how to set it up? Strange - shift+click seems to work here on OS X, but control+click doesn't. Here the engine's working same as always in the MC IDE. I can Shift-drag, Shift-click, and toggle individual items with Cmd-click (not sure Control-click ever did anything on Mac, but on Win it does what Cmd-click does on Mac). Which version of the engine are you using, Scott? I'm running 2.8.1 here. Thanks for the reality check. I'm running 2.8.1 as well. I'll go back through my scripts but I don't think I have anything messing with the shiftkey... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Deleting bits of words ?
Recently, Richmond Mathewson wrote: delete .jpg of fld PICNAME (where fld PICNAME contained the word 'tree.jpg') and it didn't work. Should be grateful for ideas on how to do this. Here's one way: replace .jpg with empty in fld PICNAME Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Vista problem with Capture
Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: I'm using Rev 2.8.1 and trying to capture the screen, and I keep getting a black rectangle. I've had many users of ButtonGadget report the same thing-- but funny thing is I can't get it to reproduce on my Vista machine at home. Is it a brand new machine with Vista installed, or did you upgrade the system? Just a shot in the dark, but if it's a new system (actually, maybe even for an upgraded machine) you might check to see if some new video drivers may be available for the graphics card, or perhaps there's a Windows update (unlikely I know). Otherwise, I myself haven't tested a lot on Vista lately. Let us know if you find out anything. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: supported audio formats in the play command.
Recently, Peter T. Evensen wrote: What audio formats does the play command support? Evidently it doesn't support mp3. For audioClips, WAV and AU are good choices. MP3 is only supported by the player object. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Do stacks have controllable levels?
Recently, Paul Gabel wrote: Is there a consistent method of controlling stack levels? IMO, the only way to really make sure one stack is displayed above another and stays there is to make the upper stack a palette. This may not work in your situation (ie if you're using stacks with standard decorations) but for the most part this arrangement is relatively foolproof. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Do stacks have controllable levels?
BTW, not sure if this is what you're trying to do, but you might want to take a look at a demo stack that features a sliding panel similar to the drawer command. Execute the following in your message box: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/slider.rev; This uses a palette stack as the parent window and toplevel stack as the slider. Maybe it is of some use. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
ZIP Library Details?
Anyone have experience with the new ZIP library -- specifically the revZipSetProgressCallback command? The docs say a callback is sent with several parameters, including pGlobalProgress. But the value of this parameter appears to be identical to the value of pItemProgress. I expected global to mean the progress of the decompressing an entire archive, and item refering to individual files within the archive. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Stack Transparency Background only?
Recently, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: When setting blend mode (transparency) of a stack, such that the background shows thru all objects are also transparent. Is there a way to make it so the background only is transparent? The only way to do this currently is to use the windowshape property, which is basically using an image to define the transparent and opaque regions of the stack. In doing this you loose the ability to have a resizable stack, but you will get the effect you're looking for. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: 3D wireframe demo stack
Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: last night I purchased Malte Brill's Animation Engine library from RevSelect.I spent a few hours and created a very interesting little 3D viewer stack. I only needed 2 functions from Malte's library to do this-- it's pretty simple. Just enter into the message box: go stack URL http://www.gadgetplugins.com/chippstuff/3Dviewer.rev; The words freakin awesome come to mind. Very cool. How does the loadModelFromFile command work? Part of Animation Engine? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: BMP file problem
Recently, ron barber wrote: Is there a way to open monochrome BMP files with Rev or to change the format of the files using Rev? Did you try opening the images using a player object? (QuickTime may or may not help here.) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Any suggestions on how to onion skinning?
Recently, Ken Ray wrote: I'm working on a program with my son that does simple card-based animation, but one of the things he asked how to do in Rev stumped me, and that is doing an onion skin I would try overlaying a translucent screen capture of the prev or next card. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Text orientation to vertical
Recently, mfstuart wrote: Can runrev support the 90 degree (vertical) orientation of text? I'd like to have this applied onto a push button. Not real text -- you need to use a rotated image. In theory you could apply the image to the button as an icon. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Testing if there is an Internet Connection
Is there a way to test if the machine you are running on currently connected to the Internet? As suggested, grabbing the HTML (put URL...) from a large, well known site is one way. But if the goal is to have your stack interact with your own site, it would be better to test that site since being connected to the Internet will not help users if your site is not responding. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Getting vScroll movement of a field scrollbar
Recently, James Hurley wrote: I would like the buttons to scroll with the field. I was wondering, do you even need to capture the scroll *before* scrollbarDrag? Can't you just capture the scroll at the beginning of your scrollbarDrag handler? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Generating custom windowshapes within Rev
Recently, Ian Wood wrote: we can have fully automated windowshapes, maybe even with the possibility of *resizable* custom shapes... Yes, this is quite doable. You just can't do it with live dragging, or as smoothly as resizing a normal window. This kind of stuff would be a *lot* easier if we could also use graphics (as opposed to images) to define the window region. Building mask images on the fly is major pain and slow. Finally, I hate to throw out vaporware promises, but one of the tools in development over here will allow for easy construction of custom windows natively within Rev, complete with shading and rendered appearances. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Images Miscolored
Recently, Bridger Maxwell wrote: A friend of mine cooked up a fix. He created an automator action that will change all the files from png to jpg by making a new jpg image and pasting the png into it. Apparently, when simply saving the png to a jpg (from Preview) it does not solve the problem. This is definitely a Revolution problem, because the images display just fine in every other program, but I don't even know how to submit a bug like this when I am not sure what causes it or exactly why the fix works. Can anyone give me a hint on this? As Jacque explained, it probably has to do with the reading (or lack thereof) of gamma information in the file. FWIW, you might want to see this post from September: http://www.nabble.com/-Not-Quite-OT---Possible-Fix-for-PNG-Color-Shift-to125 11893.html#a12511893 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Images Miscolored
Recently, Mark Smith wrote: Here's a function that should strip the gamma-correction out of a file. I can't see any before and after difference in the files I've tried it on, but maybe it could help. A great effort Mark, but in fact the script seems to shift the colors of test images I tried over here even more out of whack. :-) Not sure if you ever saw this but many months ago I posted an example stack that shows imported PNGs with color shift present. go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/colorshift.rev; Depending on your monitor settings, the color difference may not be apparent, but it is there (I recently swapped monitors and now the color shift is less apparent even to me). If you look closely at the boxes on the left, you'll see they are slightly off color-wise (actual RGB values are displayed for clarity). As mentioned in a previous post, I went through more than half a dozen tools claiming to remove the gamma data that causes this shift, and with my tests, the only tool that was able to do anything was PngOptimizer. I haven't put Adobe CS3 apps to the test yet, but I've heard that the gamma color shift is either fixed, or can be removed in the latest apps. Who knows. In any event, any further developments you try in this area are greatly appreciated, as this is an issue that has plagued us folks using images for a long time. What would be really cool is to be able to export PNG data to a variable within Rev and modify that, as opposed to having to export to an external file (hint hint). Thanks again for your efforts. Best Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: blendlevel of stack/window
Recently, Peter Brigham wrote: I'm experimenting with blendlevels, with some success, but it's trial and error, like everything. The docs say that a blendlevel of 0 is transparent, 100 is opaque, and this is true for images and other objects (nifty effects!), but for stacks it's the opposite Not sure if your docs are written wrong, but blendLevel has always been 0 = no blending 100 = full blending (invisible) You might try using the message box as a test: set the blendLevel of this stack to 20 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
[OT] Universal Keyboard Option?
Hi List: Not completely off topic... I'm wondering if anyone has a recommendation for using a single keyboard in a Mac/Win cross platform setup -- in other words, using one keyboard for data entry on two different computers (Mac/Win). I seem to recall hearing about some solution many years ago that would handle this, but can't recall what it was. (BTW, I'm not looking for a KVM switch to switch between 2 systems, but rather a software or hardware solution that allows one keyboard to enter data on either system.) Any suggestions? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
Version Decoding Needed (was OT: One Customer's Experience)
I have an alert confirmation sitting on my Vista screen that reads: Confirm - Replace 1.1.4 BIOS with 1.1.10 BIOS? So is the 1.1.10 version newer or older than 1.1.4 ? My gut reaction was to abort, but then I realized maybe they mean 10 is greater than 4. Anybody think this is a bit ambiguous? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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] Universal Keyboard Option?
Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: This is a bit old..but I built a GUI for Mac a couple of years ago for Synergy.. Very nice, thanks. Synergy is a good solution for multiple machines, though it hasn't been updated for a while (2006?). Would be nice if the ability to copy bitmaps across clipboards was fixed, but otherwise it works well. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Play a Song From CD
Recently, Mark Greenberg wrote: I'm updating a stack originally made in another multimedia authoring tool. It was easily scripted in that tool, so I'm thinking it should be easily done in Rev as well. Here's the scenario: 1. Student launches stack and clicks to begin the game. 2. Stack prompts student to put in the music CD. 3. Student puts the music CD into the computer. 4. Stack plays a small portion of one song. 5. Student identifies song (or property of song like tempo, style, key, etc.) 6. Repeat steps 4 5 until done. It seems easy enough, but I can't get to first base with this stack. I have experimented with the simple starter code below just to see if I can get a song to play from CD, and all I get is static. Can anyone help me out here? Here's the thing Mark: the files on audio CDs are not directly accessible by Rev -- the audio must be played by an appropriate player, which can be controlled by Rev, or the audio must be converted into a format which Rev can handle natively. To do the former, one can use AppleScript on Macintosh to control a player, such as iTunes, and MCI (or possibly Rev's new VB support) on Windows to control CD playback. It may seem odd that there is no built-in CD control, but I would guess in these days of digital music files the demand for CD control is not that great. A few years ago, I took a stab at making a Mac based iTunes controller called Conductor, which you might want to take a look at (I hope it still works): http://www.tactilemedia.com/conductor/conductor_demo.zip Someone else on the list may have additional input on this. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Creating .icns files on Mac.
I need to find another alternative to creating .icns files on the Mac. I can create a standard 128 x 128 png on the PC and would like a program to convert it to the requisite Mac .icns file. I use Iconographer http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html Don't want to dis a solution that works for people but apparently Iconographer hasn't been updated in years. See this post from way back: http://www.nabble.com/Make-icons-on-a-Mac--to228853.html#a232690 YMMV. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Does the Player object support AVI and WMV on Windows?
Recently, Ian Wood wrote: The Player object is a QuickTime player, so setting dontUseQT to false isn't going to do a lot... This isn't the case, unless the Rev guys changed things recently. In fact, the docs say: Use the dontUseQT property to test operation of a stack using the built-in MCI video on Windows systems... The lack of QT functions on a system allows the player use the available multimedia facilities of the machine -- ie WMP, in the case of Windows -- to play media. The available controls are much more limited, but playback is certainly there -- I've delivered CD titles based on this functionality. I'm just not sure if this was ever fully documented in terms of the range of available functions/features. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Board game with pieces / scrolling images in sync?
Recently, Joshua Lawrence wrote: how does adding/removing pieces during play work when the pieces are grouped with the board? Are 'out-of-play' pieces actually on the board at all times, but you make them invisible when necessary? Or do you add/remove pieces to the group via scripting throughout a game session? I would suggest changing the visibility of the pieces or moving them off screen but keep them in the group. Moving objects in and out of groups is more complicated and probably not worth the effort in your case. Remember that moving an object outside the current rect of a group will cause the group to scale to encompass the object, so you may want to lock the group first to maintain its dimensions. hide graphic myCoolPiece set top of graphic myCoolPiece to -100 Also, is there a good tutorial on using relative positions? The Rev docs seem to be skimpy on the subject. If I understand what you're asking, this is easy. The following examples create instantaneous moves: [move an object upward 20 pixels] set the top of graphic coolPiece to the top of graphic coolPiece - 20 [move an object to another object's position] set the loc of graphic bot1 to the loc of graphic bot2 Keep in mind you have 9 positional descriptors for objects you can reference: - topLeft top topRight - left loc right - bottomLeft bottom bottomRight If you want to achieve more animated movement, see the move command in the docs. There are also tons of examples in folks' User Spaces on RevOnline. If you want to dive deep, take a look at Animation Engine: http://revstudio.runrev.com/section/revselect/arcadeengine/ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: tapping into finder events
Recently, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: The suggestions posted to my questions have all required polling, which is peridic comparison of what was with what is now. This is scary inefficient compared with getting delta messages as they occure. Not sure if you've already come across this, but it *looks* like the underlying principles may be what you're after (for OS X only): ... the FSEvents API. This API provides a mechanism to notify clients about directories they ought to re-scan in order to keep their internal data structures up-to-date with respect to the true state of the file system. (For example, when files or directories are created, modified, or removed.) It sends these notifications in bulk, possibly notifying the client of changes to several directories in a single callback. By using the API, clients can notice such changes quickly, without needing to resort to recursive polling/scanning of the file system. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/FSEvents_Ref/FSEve nts/index.html Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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 interesting project?
Recently, Andres Martinez wrote: As far as I know RR cannot play two simultaneous sounds. Using player objects, you can play several sounds simultaneously (one sound assigned to each player). You can also play an imported sound and a player simultaneously. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
Another Revolution?
So, while visiting Macworld San Francisco this week, I chanced upon a small booth that had the word HyperCard in the description. I was prepared to dismiss whatever goofball developments the guys there were showing, but after talking to them for a while, I think they have an interesting take on x-talk (for them it's HyperTalk). Called TileStack, their intention is to create a HyperCard-type development environment, but starting from the Web side using Javascript libraries and server-based logic, instead of starting from the desktop side. All coding will use the HyperTalk (TileTalk?) language and if I recall correctly, the initial IDE will be a Web-based front end. The interesting possibility about this is that, if it is ever released, stacks will be immediately sharable by a much larger audience than x-talk tools which require players/standalones (I believe only Javascript is needed to run a stack, thus the potential for delivery could be equal to or maybe even greater than Flash, which requires a player). Obviously, there are a lot of questions to be answered, and it wasn't clear to me how far along they are, but they have a simple puzzle demo on their site and they are collecting email addresses of interested parties for early access. http://tilestack.com/ FWIW. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: [off]VMWare vs. Parallels
Recently, Mikey wrote: has anybody tried it vs. Parallels and done a performance comparison? Bill Marriott posted this on the list about 12 days ago: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBenchmark / The reviews appear fairly unbiased/non-partisan. Remember as always, YMMV. And price is pretty irrelevant at this point. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Apple HIG updated
Recently, Ian Wood wrote: apparently Apple updated their Human Interface Guidelines to include Leopard during MacWorld... I'd like to know, who's the brain trust (dare I say genius?) who decided that folders in the dock should display icons of their contents, rather than the folder icons themselves. I'm quite curious what was behind this (idiotic) decision. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Virtual print driver for Windows
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need a virtual print driver for Windows that will allow me to preview printouts without actually sending them to paper. Does anyone have recommendations? Acrobat on OS X allows you to print to a PDF -- does it not do the same on Windows? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Apple HIG updated
Recently, Devin Asay wrote: I'd like to know, who's the brain trust (dare I say genius?) who decided that folders in the dock should display icons of their contents, rather than the folder icons themselves. I'm quite curious what was behind this (idiotic) decision. Yes, that was a completely crazy idea. I made myself folders inside the relevant folders, called them Apps, Docs etc (note the leading space that makes then sort to the top) and gave these folders the same icons as the folders they were in. This gives me a much better representation of the folders/ Lots of folks are looking for ways to fix this problem it seems. The following is a good solution for Apple's UI decision-maker: http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=92393stc=1d=119601538 2 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
Maintain Selection After Edit?
Hello List: I am building a small editor stack that can change the name of a Rev object in another stack. I want to be able to select an object in a stack, apply the name change from a field in the editor stack, and close field in the editor stack, which would be essentially like scripting select empty. But I don't want to use select empty because I want to maintain selection of currently selected object. Any ideas on how to close the editor field but maintain the current selection? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Fixed Width Fonts #2
Recently, Mark Swindell wrote: Is there for Rev to determine which system fonts are of fixed width? If not directly, then indirectly? Comparing widths of i and w on a font by font basis? How might this work? Tried your idea using the following: Created two 18pt text fields, put W into fld 1, I into field 2, ran the following function: return (formattedWidth of fld 1 = formattedWidth of fld 2) Results were false with Rev's default font, true with Monaco and Apple Mono (OS X). Seems like a valid direction. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Fixed Width Fonts #2
Recently, Mark Swindell wrote: Curious thing, though. I created a script ( below) which works fine when I run it line by line in the debugger, and _sometimes_ when I run it from a button, and then the next time (s), from the same button, it just chugs along and and returns nothing. Any ideas? Well, I tried a couple of things: 1) I added all font names to a variable list, rather than an actual field -- you should do this to save some speed 2) I removed the wait you had in your code and got around 5 to 6 seconds to process all the fonts I have loaded here (I have kind of a lot loaded) 3) I added a lock screen and surprisingly got an instantaneous result (less than 1 second); I can't say if all the font results are accurate, but I recognize a number of monospace font names so I assume they are correct Here's what I ran from a button on a card (I removed your object/global references to simplify the test): on mouseUp put i into field skinnyLetter put w into field fatLetter put the fontnames into vAvailableFonts sort lines of vAvailableFonts lock screen put the seconds into S repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of vAvailableFonts set the textfont of field skinnyLetter to line x of vAvailableFonts set the textfont of field fatLetter to line x of vAvailableFonts --wait .05 seconds -- needs time to evaluate, maybe? dunno put the formattedwidth of fld skinnyLetter into vSkinny put the formattedwidth of fld fatLetter into vFat if vSkinny = vFat then put line x of vAvailableFonts return after temp end if end repeat answer the seconds - S cr cr temp end mouseUp HTH. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Maintain Selection After Edit?
Recently, Malte Brill wrote: Any ideas on how to close the editor field but maintain the current selection? maybe store the selectedObject in a var,; select empty; select previous selectedObject on close / exitField? Thanks. I have tried this, and while functionally it does what I asked, it looks unprofessional, as you can see the selected object lose/regain focus, as well as the editor lose its data, and then re-populate its fields. I suppose I could lock the screens of all related stacks, but I was hoping for a cleaner solution. :-) Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Fixed Width Fonts #2
Recently, BNig wrote: I modified the code to not need to use fields at all (I'm using the templateField), and I discovered a speed increase (at least on my machine). somehow it doesnt filter for monospaced fonts. You probably meant if w1 = w2 then in the code but still, when debugging, w1 and w2 are always 0, so w1 and w2 are always equal and the names of all fonts are returned. Yes, I think this is right. I don't believe formatted-anything returns a useful measurement unless you query a physical control on a card. At least, this has been my experience in the past. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
[ANN] Movie Finder Demo Posted
Hello List: Some months ago, I was inspired by all the mashup/API stuff happening on the Web and came across a Google-powered RSS feed for movie listings (built by isnoop.net). It occurred to me that this type of thing could be incorporated into a Rev app and I wound up putting together a widget/gadget of sorts that illustrates its use. You enter your ZIP code, hit enter, and the stack finds theaters in the area, from which you can view current movies and showtimes. There is also Google Map link that links you to browser directions for the currently selected theater -- done by a less elegant scraping of Google HTML, but it seems to work (this is a bit of a cop out -- ideally this feature should be incorporated using revBrowser, but that's a project I'll save for version 2...). I think it would be great to see more of this kind of thing done in the Rev community to demonstrate the possibilities of Rev apps that use current technologies. Anyway, I thought folks might find this fun and/or useful. The stack was built in Rev 2.8.1 and tested on OS X, Vista and XP (apologies to international listmembers, the stack is set up to work only with US ZIP codes). All of the key code is in the card script. To view the stack, execute the following in your message box: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/moviefinder.rev; Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: PDF within a stack?
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to include a PDF within a stackfile on cd under windows? If you want to embed the PDF data in a stack you could store the PDF as binary in a custom property. Something like: set the uPDFdata of this stack to url (binfile: pathToOrigPDF) I want the user to enter a password, if the password is correct the pdf file should either be saved to harddisk or openend. Is this possible? Once the user is granted access, you write out the PDF data to the drive. To get the PDF to display within Rev, you will need to use the revBrowser external (it is also possible to use a player object to display a PDF, but this method is not without its difficulties). If the PDF doesn't need to display within your stack, you could simply launch it once it has been copied to the drive. If you want to minimize easy access to the PDF itself, you might be able to write the file to Rev's temp directory (untested). put the tempName into pdfPath set itemdel to / put private.pdf into last item of pdfPath put the uPDFdata of this stack into url (binfile: pdfPath) HTH. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: [ANN] Movie Finder Demo Posted
Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: The list doesn't hilite correctly on PC, but it works just fine. Yeah, what's up with that? It's just linkText. Is that a Windows bug? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: about Voyager Expanded Books
Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: I'm not sure what Quark had at the time that was competitive, but there was something, hence buying and killing the competition. Quark Immedia Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Doing my own geometry
Recently, Chipp Walters wrote: You can grab my altLayout manager at: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altPluginDownload/Downloads.htm ... I think I got it a couple hundred years ago from Scotty Rossi. No, I believe that would be Chipp -- any alt- thing is part of the vast empire (altEmpire) that is Altuit. (I know how much he likes being called Scotty;-) I'd rather be called coach. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Doing my own geometry
... I think I got it a couple hundred years ago from Scotty Rossi. No, I believe that would be Chipp -- any alt- thing is part of the vast empire (altEmpire) that is Altuit. I need to read better -- now I see that you (Chipp) were the dude responding to the geometry thread. How do you like me lecturing you about your own company? :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime?
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/iphone-adobe-flash-support-coming-275317.php Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design -Original Message- From: Terry Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:41:14 To:use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: AW: AW: Flash or Quicktime? Another issue you may wish to consider, is how powerful a machine the playback will be on. A recent cient of ours had to forgo the Flash solution in favor of QT because Flash is considerably more processor intensive than QT...by a lot. This is apparently one of the reasons the iPhone doesn't support Flash. Terry... ___ 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 ___ 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
DirectoryWalk a Remote Server?
Hello List: Has anyone created a routine to conduct a recursive directory listing of a remote server? I don't believe the old directoryWalk script in the archives can be used as it relies on setting the directory property. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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 defaultstack
Recently, rand valentine wrote: I'm using Rev 2.8.1 Studio, MacBook Pro, 4gb memory, Leopard, and now Revolution does not recognize the card or stack that I'm in when I execute a script. So every field reference must be specified for the card it's on and the stack it's in, i.e., one can't just designate: fld whichField rather it must be fld whichField of cd whichCard of stack whichStack I've been playing with setting the defaultstack to the toplevel stack, but that doesn't seem to help. Any way to fix this? Thanks. One thing you might try/consider... If you're referencing objects across multiple stacks, or just running into general object reference issues, try to avoid manually building object references, and use the object's long id. In my experience, I've found the engine can get confused (or even start generating gibberish) if you reference objects using a description that you build yourself (ie fld whichField of cd whichCard of stack whichStack). In my case, the situations were very complex and difficult to reproduce -- once I started using long id references, the script errors I was getting went away. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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
Reliable Cursor Changes?
Hello List: I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a reliable way to do rollover cursor changes in Rev. I'm trying to clean up a client's multimedia stack who has lock cursor handlers all over the place, and I'm wondering if there's a simpler way to define which objects trigger cursor changes on rollover (mouseEnter/mouseLeave). Most of the controls are buttons, but there are a few images, fields and what-not. I've been playing with mouseMove and trying to set the default cursor based on custom user properties, but so far am not having success. Thanks for any suggestions. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Reliable Cursor Changes?
Hi Mark: I just tried this in a new stack... seems to work. on mouseEnter switch (the RollOverCursor of me) case 1 set cursor to 76 break case 2 set cursor to hand break default reset cursors end switch lock cursor end mouseEnter on mouseLeave unlock cursor end mouseLeave My stack is running under a standalone environment -- I'm not sure if this changes things but I had to modify your script a bit to get the cursor to revert to normal (I'm only using 2 rollover states): on mouseEnter if the uRolloverCursor of the target then set cursor to hand lock cursor exit mouseEnter end if unlock cursor reset cursors end mouseEnter on mouseLeave unlock cursor reset cursors end mouseLeave Thanks for your suggestion -- simple and seems to be working as needed. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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] gmail behaviour
Recently, Kay C Lan wrote: The strange thing is that both FireFox and Safari start at the exact same 'https:' login page, it's only after you've entered your details that Safari (after toing and froing between https: and http:) ends up on http: whilst FireFox ends up on https: FWIW, on my 10.4.11 system, both browsers land on http pages (neither shows as secure). FF = 2.0.0.12, Safari = 3.0.4 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Trapping pasteKey message in the Rev IDE
Recently, Terry Judd wrote: Terry, you can override nearly any message by trapping it in a frontScript handler inserted into the message path after Rev loads. Plugins generally work well for this as they're loaded after Rev's own frontScripts. Hi Richard - I actually tried inserting a frontScript with a pasteKey handler included but it never fired. Given that there doesn't appear to be any Rev frontscript for pasteKey I assumed that this and related message are somehow handled differently in the IDE - but I'm only guessing. Hi Terry: I was all prepared to dismiss Richard's suggestion because I SWEAR I've tried to do what he said before, but when loading the following as a frontScript, I get the behavior I want (and I think you do to): on commandKeyDown K if K = v then put A paste occurred wait 20 with messages put pass commandKeyDown end commandKeyDown Using Rev 2.8.1 Win/Mac the above seems to work as expected. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: 2.9 beta browser?
Recently, Eric A. Engle wrote: Also, quicktime supports flash so I assume rev that supports quicktime also supports flash? (h! off toe xperiment!) Apparently not: http://geekglue.blogspot.com/2008/02/quicktime-74-removes-all-support-for.ht ml I tried some tests last night and as far as I can tell, it is gone. The only recourse for Flash in Rev now is revBrowser. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: 2.9 beta browser?
Recently, Jiro Harada wrote: I tried some tests last night and as far as I can tell, it is gone. The only recourse for Flash in Rev now is revBrowser. I created an external to play Flash movies (including FLV videos) in Rev. And I also created an application (F-ab) using the external. Yes, Jiro, I remember seeing a post about your application. Do you make your external available to other Rev developers or just the F-ab application? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ 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: Japanese on Revolution
Recently, Dave Cragg wrote: In addition to the wrapping issue, you'll have to watch for the mac/iso conversions that Rev automatically does in fields when changing between Mac and Windows. Japanese text that is Shift-JIS coded, for example, is the same on Mac and Windows. But Rev will try to convert when you switch platforms. One way round this is to keep the text in a custom property and load it into a field when needed, on openCard for example. Another option is to store the text as external files in their own folder and read them in at runtime or when needed (what I did in my project). This way writers/editors can easily make corrections to simple text files and you just need to dump the new files into the main folder when you make updates. Regards, Scott _ Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia Design Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How to pass data to a launched process
Recently, Gene Kennedy wrote: I have read the Transcript dictionary descriptions of the process-related commands namely: Open Process, Close Process, Write to Process and Read from Process but do not have an understanding yet as to how one actually sets up the inter-application process. What I'd like to do is to create two applications A B. Normally only app A would be running however under certain conditions I would like App a to open process B then send it some initialization data. Then, after process B has done its work, send data back to process A (or have process a Read from Process B). What do you use as a container in each app to send and receive the data to and fro? Does anybody have an example they would be willing to share? One way to do this (actually two ways) is AppleEvents on MacOS and DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) on Windows, which requires Tuviah Snyder's external collection. I've done this on the Windows side only, just by following the examples in the external stack. Let me know if this is of any use to you. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Brightness and Contrast
Recently, Marten van den Berg wrote: I already tryed to perform such a repeat loop for the brigthess case, but an imagae has a lot of pixels to process. I works but is far to slow. For now I'm using a white and a black image blending over the original image which works fine for displaying, but actualy I want the possibility to alter the original image. Hi Marten: I'm wondering if you might be able to share the code you used to affect your image. Thanks Regards, Scott _ Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia Design Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Installing a CD on Windows, Unix
Recently, Richard D. Miller wrote: I'd like to hear recommendations on Windows installation programs. I've used WiseInstall for a couple of years (recommended by Richard Gaskin). Last I checked it was about $200 for basic install features and $400 for editable scripts. I started with the basic version but quickly realized script editing was key. I've used it to created several moderately complex installs and it has worked well for me. Regards, Scott _ Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia Design Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Doesn't operate properly in Windows, answer command
Recently, Richard D. Miller wrote: Secondly, I can't get the Answer command to work at all during runtime on Mac or Windows. ASK works fine, but Answer does nothing. Works fine in development mode, but not during Runtime. The answer dialog is simply an additional stack that you need to include in your own stack if you're going to distribute your stack separately from the development environment. I think it's called Distribution Builder in Rev or something similar -- make sure review all the options here when building your stacks as standalones. Regards, Scott _ Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia Design Creative Director Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Multilingual interface
Recently, Terry Vogelaar wrote: Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? I don't know if they're bright ideas, but here's what we did. We used a single stack to display content, with all text content, button labels, alerts, etc stored in external text files. All the files were grouped in folders by language, and were provided by the client's translators. The benefit of this arrangement was the client could edit content as often as they wanted, and all we had to do was swap the new text files with the old. We could also give development versions of the stack to the client, and they could edit text and see the results of the editing in place, without having to know anything about MC. The stack had a language selection screen presented at startup. Selecting a language simply told the stack which set of external content to use when loading the content into fields on various cards. Alert/error dialog messages were all stored in a single text file for each language, and were read into a global variable at startup for easy access. This setup seemed to work ok, especially since text translators were located all over the place and had different schedules for turning around translations. It is a lot of external files to manage, but if there's going to be a lot of editing taking place, external files are much easier to deal with. FWIW, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: messages to buttons when the mouse is already down
On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 02:50 PM, Michael J. Lew wrote: I would like to track the movement of the mouse through an array of buttons by hilighting each button that the mouse (button already down) passes over. However, the mouseEnter, mouseMove, mouseWithin messages are only sent to the first button because that button receives the mouseDown event and is the target. Similarly the mouseControl function (yes, it took me a couple of tries to notice that it was a function and not a message!) only returns the target. Not sure exactly what your difficulty is here. The mouseEnter and mouseLeave messages should be enough to do what you want. If you know the names of all the buttons you want to respond and they're unique, you could do something like the following: First, establish a custom property stack to store the names of all your buttons: set the uTrackButtonNames of this stack to buttonName1, buttonName2, buttonName3 etc. Then place the following in the stack script: on mouseEnter if word 1 of the name of the target is not button then exit mouseEnter if short name of the target is in the uTrackButtonNames of this stack then \ set the hilite of the target to true end mouseEnter on mouseLeave if word 1 of the name of the target is not button then exit mouseLeave if short name of the target is in the uTrackButtonNames of this stack then \ set the hilite of the target to false end mouseLeave These handlers will only respond to button mouse events and even then only when the button names are part of the master name list stored in the custom property. Also, if you want to update which buttons respond and which don't, simply update the master list. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Re Hiding Data
Another option is continue using the source file externally but either 1) encoding it, such as using base 64 or some other encoding scheme and/or compression, or 2) placing the data within a user property of a stack, and password protecting the stack. FWIW, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Password protecting to hide data
On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Richard D. Miller wrote: I'm interested in this idea of password protecting the stack, but it's not clear from the documentation how this is done. It's pretty straightforward: set the password of stack myStack to mypassword Make sure you save your stack to have the password applied. Then, to unlock a stack via script: set the passKey of stack myStack to mypassword To remove password protection from a stack: set the passKey of stack myStack to mypassword set the password of stack myStack to empty And save. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Password protecting to hide data
On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 02:15 PM, I wrote: On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Richard D. Miller wrote: I'm interested in this idea of password protecting the stack, but it's not clear from the documentation how this is done. It's pretty straightforward: set the password of stack myStack to mypassword Make sure you save your stack to have the password applied. Then, to unlock a stack via script: set the passKey of stack myStack to mypassword To remove password protection from a stack: set the passKey of stack myStack to mypassword set the password of stack myStack to empty And save. I suppose it's worth mentioning that I do all this stuff from the message box -- these script snippets are not to be placed in your stack. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Password protecting to hide data
The password protects the scripts of a stack and the ability to copy anything out of it. It does not prevent opening a stack if you have MetaCard or Revolution. If you're trying to completely hide your data, you can try these options (there may be others): 1) place your data in the script of a stack, or an object in the stack, and password protect the stack; you will then need to set the passkey of the stack before you try to extract the data (you may need to comment the lines so MC/REV doesn't try to treat your data as a script) 2) encode your data in an external text file using base64encode or other encoding scheme 3) store your encoded data in a user property of a stack You'll have to try these and see if any is workable for your situation. On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 09:14 AM, Richard D. Miller wrote: I have no success with this process. I create a new stack, with one field. I put some data in it. I set its password from the message box. I save it. Nothing happens. I can open the stack later and see everything in it. I can freely access the content of the field. If I ask for its password, it gives me back an encrypted password. I can't get this to work. Are you certain it works in OS9 with 1.1.1? What could I be missing? Richard It's pretty straightforward: set the password of stack myStack to mypassword Make sure you save your stack to have the password applied. Then, to unlock a stack via script: set the passKey of stack myStack to mypassword To remove password protection from a stack: set the passKey of stack myStack to mypassword set the password of stack myStack to empty And save. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Irregular Shaped Windows and Transparency
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 02:15 AM, Matt Denton wrote: I'm trying to find out if there is a relatively easy way to simulate or create irregularly shaped windows with transparency, similar to Audion on the Mac. I'm hoping there is a way to do it across most common platforms: Mac OS9, PC and again under OSX, I haven't seen it under Windows. Easy is a relative term. Custom window shapes can be done in MC/REV on OS9 (Odo WDEF) and Windows (RunRev external collection) but apparently there is not yet any way to handle this on OSX. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Irregular Shaped Windows and Transparency
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 10:20 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: Custom window shapes can be done in MC/REV on OS9 (Odo WDEF) and Windows (RunRev external collection) but apparently there is not yet any way to handle this on OSX. Interesting. Do you know if this supports levels of transparency or just one bit masks? Until OSX (and possibly XP), no system has ever supported higher than 1 bit masking, as far as I know. Even Audion on OS9 used a hack of clipping portions of the desktop within the player window and then placing a shadow graphic on the clipped region to make it appear as if the player cast dropshadows with variable translucency (8 bits). But it still used a one bit mask. So the answer to your question is, one bit masks only for pre OSX and XP systems. We'll have to wait and see what is possible on OSX and XP. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: controlkeydown
On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 04:30 PM, Pierre Delain wrote: Sorry but when I use controlkeydown T (without the quotes, as you say), I get a result, but the result is the same whatever the key. I if press ctrl F or ctrl G, for example, the result is exactly the same as ctrl T!! So the question remains : how to use controlkeydown to get a different result for ctrl T or ctrl F? The following works for me: on controlKeyDown K if K = T then doMyTstuff if K = F then doMyFstuff end controlKeyDown Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Window positions
On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 03:46 AM, Richard D. Miller wrote: In the runtime mode (i.e. when starting up and running with a standalone stack and associated stacks), will Rev automatically update and save the topleft position of stacks under Windows, or must this be updated by script? I thought saving was automatic. We have users telling us they believe they are moving stacks to certain positions on the screen, shutting them down, then re-opening them, only to find they are not re-opening to the last location where they had left them. I'd like to hear feedback on this behavior. Stacks need to be saved in order to have window positioned saved. Window positions cannot be saved in standalones but you can set windows positions in a preOpenStack handler. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Polling the mouse state
On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 03:27 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: Doesn't grab do what you want? I think it suspends other messages while the user is dragging and automatically exits when the user lets go of the mouse button. No, drag doesn't let me check whether the object has been dragged into the bounds of another while the dragging is still going on. -- I need to do the exact same thing in an eduware game stack. I'll be watching for the solutions while trying my own. Is this what you folks are trying to do? http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Drawing speed
On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 06:22 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: I concede the difficulties in speedily running color vs. black and white, and the improvement in the current release is much appreciated. However there remains a considerable gap between MC/RR and HC. For example, the following script draws concentric boxes of ever decreasing size. on mouseUp clean put 100 into a put 300 into b put 2 into da choose the line tool put the ticks into startTime repeat 50 --draw boxes of ever decreasing size drag from a,a to b,a drag from b,a to b,b drag from b,b to a,b drag from a,b to a,a add da to a subtract da from b end repeat put the ticks - startTime into field 1 choose the browse tool end mouseUp on clean repeat until the number of images = 0 delete image 1 end repeat end clean This script takes 265 ticks on average in RR and 30 ticks in HC on cards of identical size. (I realize that this can be done more efficiently with the rectangle tool and that a graphic would be faster than an image. My purpose was to measure the drag speed. ) The discrepancy would be less in Windows. Since I'm fairly entrenched in graphics work, this post caught my eye. One thing you need to keep in mind with MC/REV is that usually, not always, but usually there are similar ways to achieve what you've done before using alternate methods. For example, I ran the above script and timed a rough average of 111 ticks. Then instead of choosing the line tool, I chose the pencil tool, and drawing time was reduced to 37 ticks. Adding a lock screen reduced the overall time to 9 ticks -- virtually immediate. In my case, to properly implement Turtle Graphics, I hunger for a speedy monochromatic drawing mode. I seem to recall my experience in Turtle Graphics (around 20 years ago!) involving the creation of a list of points that the Turtle then rendered by dragging from point to point, with pen up and pen down instructions. I would imagine the above mentioned pencil tool will achieve what you need with no time penalty. And also you get the benefit of color (back in those days the only screen color was phosphorescent green...). Hope this helps. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director, Tactile Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Polling the mouse state
Recently, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: If you have a specific need that seems to require repeat while the mouse is down, post it and we'll see if we can figure a way around it. -- Not exactly, but, how about this: on mousestilldown put max(81,min(557,the mouseh)) into x put max(167,min(287,the mousev)) into y set the loc of me to x,y end mousestilldown ...This is an oval (made round) button with the hilite set to true. It 'sees through' a black-filled rectangular box, like a spyglass, so the user can see portions of a color image underneath. It stays within the borders of the box as you drag it around. The user is looking for an object. When they find what they believe is the correct object, release the mouse button If I understand your request, this is one way you could do the above. Make 3 small graphics named box 1, box 2 and box 3 within the region you define. Then place the following script in your oval: on mouseDown set the uAllowMove of me to true end mouseDown on mouseMove x,y if not the uAllowMove of me then exit mouseMove set the loc of me to (max(81,min(557,x))),(max(167,min(287,y))) end mouseMove on mouseUp set the uAllowMove of me to empty put box1,box2,box3 into bList repeat for each item B in bList if within(me,loc of grc B) then put You found box B exit repeat else put empty end repeat end mouseUp on mouseRelease mouseUp end mouseRelease - This should display the name (in the message box) of any box graphic that falls within the oval when the mouse is released. BTW, did you look at the drag example I posted a few days ago? http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/drag_sample.mc You might find this useful. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
