Speed of different versions of MC?

2013-02-12 Thread David Epstein
nt that scripts simpler to design but less efficient to parse would cause no detectible lag. Many thanks for any thoughts. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: IDE Interoperability

2009-04-27 Thread David Bovill
2009/4/27 Björnke von Gierke > I have been thinking into a similar direction lately. The main issue is > about how to decide what is a component and what isn't. For example a script > editor contains stuff for debugging, auto-completion (... sometimes), > colorisation, undo handling, etc. > So s

IDE Interoperability

2009-04-27 Thread David Bovill
I'd be real interested in starting to use / develop for the MC IDE, but don't want to have to switch between applications. Here are my thoughts on some future directions for discussion: 1. Separate as many as possible MC IDE components out as standalone componenets that can be used in any Re

Re: Span Tags in HTML

2009-02-10 Thread David Bovill
2009/2/10 Ray Horsley > Thanks Brian but I'm afraid including the tags doesn't render > anything either. I've also tried including a document declaration as in the > example below but I'm still getting nothing rendered. (That's the trouble > when working with externals. You can't open them up

Where do Command-C and Command-V get handled?

2008-11-11 Thread David Epstein
cripts to be called when the command-key combinations are used? Many thanks. David Epstein (MC2.5 on Mac OSX 10.4.) ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

When can MC find stacks?

2008-10-13 Thread David Epstein
tack of a. the defaultStack? Yes b. the stack whose script contains the "go" command? c. some other open stack? d. a stack that is in use? 6. Other conditions I haven't thought of? A related question: Is it good practice to use the file extension ".

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-24 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Richard - maybe you could advise - I want to develop some plugins for all 3 environments - Rev, MC and Galaxy. At the moment I use Galaxy, but as it looks like I am going to make a custom Script Editor, I thought I would start to use MC again more seriously. "Develop" is not quite the right

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-22 Thread David Bovill
Hmmm... still failing on OSX - I've tried changing the pList in copied Rev bundle - renamed things as stated. Put the Home and help and tools stack at the same level for 2.9 On OS X you need to copy the executable from the the Revolution bundle in * > Revolution.app/Contents/MacOS/Revolution*

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-22 Thread David Bovill
On a basic note - can't really find installation notes in the group: On OS X you need to copy the executable from the the Revolution bundle in * > Revolution.app/Contents/MacOS/Revolution* to * > MetaCard.app/Contents/MacOS/MetaCard* Doesn't really any anything about getting the home stack insta

Home as a Plugin

2008-08-22 Thread David Bovill
I've read the instruction about installing MC - and remember some earlier discussions and experiments along the lines of installing it within the Rev environment. I've got an experimental stack which switches the default menubar from Rev to MC... was wandering if anyone has a set up with MC IDE as

Re: There's no place like Home

2008-08-22 Thread David Bovill
Going to install MC on a new machine. Whats the latest strategy for interop with RunRev? Can you switch between the environments? ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Metacard 2.5 to Revolution 2.9 glitch

2008-07-11 Thread David Epstein
ndlers in scripts of my stacks in use. Is there some file format change that is affecting things? Or does the fact that my stacks are "Metacard" files cause a problem? Can anyone offer a diagnosis or remedy? Many thanks. David Epstein __

Avoiding openField on resumeStack

2008-01-12 Thread David Epstein
behavior? I only want an insertion point if the user clicks on the unlocked field itself, not if he simply brings the stack to the front. Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman

Printing a PDF with Metacard

2007-09-04 Thread David Epstein
a player object that contains a PDF? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-16 Thread David Bovill
How about what the marketing people would say - give on a ".mc" extension and colour it yellow or soemthing and the other one a ".rev" extension and colour it blue? Talking of which - how do you tell which environment you are in? If there is no way can I suggest we have something in the backscrip

Re: Plugins

2007-07-16 Thread David Bovill
On 16/07/07, Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgot to answer the last question. Let me put it this way: Docs? We don't need no stinking docs! :-D Seriously, since this is all done on a volunteer base, you should not exspect a documentation of our work. No expectations - and i am hap

Plugins

2007-07-16 Thread David Bovill
I took a quick look at the Plugins interface for MC - it differs from Revs naturally :) My question regards the plugin API - is it the same as Revs - so are plugins compatible? Are there any docs? ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
I'd say so - best if it says its going to do it first and its an option. On 15/07/07, J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert Brenstein wrote: >> If the Finder window is closed during the installation there's no >> problem. If anyone knows how to fix that, I'll implement it. > > Isn't

Re: Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
:) On 15/07/07, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can't imagine what that could be? After all if Jerry can do it with Galaxy then it can be done with MC can as well? Dialogs... seems to me that if you dynamically hack out the stackfiles lines in RunRev: Ask Dialog,/Users/da

Re: Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
Can't imagine what that could be? After all if Jerry can do it with Galaxy then it can be done with MC can as well? Dialogs... seems to me that if you dynamically hack out the stackfiles lines in RunRev: Ask Dialog,/Users/david/Desktop/Revolution Studio/2.8.1-gm-1/Toolset/revaskdialo

Re: Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/07/07, Mark Schonewille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are one or two experts who tried this. It appears that closing the Rev IDE and firing up the MC IDE isn't that much of a problem. Closing the MC IDE and restarting the Rev IDE with all globals, locals, properties and everything else

Re: Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
On 15/07/07, Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are the stack names fixed in the engine (now that would be a bad idea) I'm afraid this is the case. OK - that officially sucks MC uses other differnet stacks (stored as "Answer dialog" and "Ask dialog" as substacks of "mctools.mc") tha

Answer and Ask Dialogues

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
A few related questions: 1. How and where are the ask and answer dialogs called? Are the stack names fixed in the engine (now that would be a bad idea) - or is it a script in the IDE? If so can't we just rename these stacks and hack the script - so we can have both IDEs open at the same

Re: Automated setup file uploaded

2007-07-15 Thread David Bovill
With a little fear and trepidation I downloaded and installed successfully! In the introduction it would be reassuiring to say that the existing Rev installation won't be touched? In my igorance, which could possibly (but I'm sure unlikely) be shared by future users, I wrongly selected the: "Se

Re: IsAstack ( )

2007-07-13 Thread David Bovill
I have not found any problems with name space collision using the technique Chipp described. Locking messages and loading a stack with the same name into memory seems fine - you just remove it from memory using the file name (long stack name). I tested it quite a bit and routinely run through 40 o

Re: IsAstack ( )

2007-07-04 Thread David Bovill
On 02/07/07, Brian Yennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Reading from a file should be perfectly safe even if it is in use - writing is the dangerous one. True - but I see no advantage over using the built in exists() function and removing the stack from memory afterwards - it is not subject to

Re: IsAstack ( )

2007-07-02 Thread David Bovill
sure there are better ways. On 02/07/07, J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Bovill wrote: > These are the functions I have: > > function stack_Exists someName >-- will not add stack to memory > >set lockmessages to true >put the mainstacks i

Re: IsAstack ( )

2007-07-02 Thread David Bovill
These are the functions I have: function stack_Exists someName -- will not add stack to memory set lockmessages to true put the mainstacks into stacksInMemory put empty into shortStackName if exists(stack someName) then put true into safeExistence put not(shortStackN

MetaCard IDE

2007-06-09 Thread David Bovill
Its been a while since I have been on this list! At Richards prompting I have just downloaded and tried out the Metacard IDE - and I must say the interface has changed :) Which prompts me to ask a couple of questions: 1. Is there is a change list - or anything like that? 2. What are the prio

Copying an image, or part of it, to the clipboard

2007-03-09 Thread David Epstein
-- eg for use in import snapshot repeat with i = 1 to 4 add item (1 + (i+1) mod 2) of s to item i of r end repeat return r end shiftedRect Any insights about this would be greatly appreciated. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Making a pasted image opaque

2007-03-01 Thread David Epstein
a white area is clicked, I'd like to make the image I've pasted fully "opaque". Is there a way to script this transformation? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Controlling PDFs in Player Object on Mac

2006-10-14 Thread David Epstein
In case anyone else wonders about this question, I have found a solution by trial and error. This may not be the best way (and the "play" command, according to the MC help, should be replaced in future development by the "start" command, although there is no mention of "start step"), but it seems

Controlling PDFs in Player Object on Mac

2006-10-12 Thread David Epstein
ike 75 times (z-1) where z is the number of pages in the PDF. But "set the currentTime of player 1 to (n-1)*75" does not consistently cause page n to be shown. Does someone know how to do this, or where I can learn how to do this? Ma

Disregard previous

2006-09-10 Thread David Epstein
Hope nobody has been puzzling over my problem with the property palette, which I just solved. Turns out my own handler executed a "select empty" on suspendStack, which unselected the group, and so made the group property palette no longer appropriate. Dav

Disappearing property palette objects

2006-09-10 Thread David Epstein
e a remedy? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Re: Is the clipboardData really an array?

2006-02-24 Thread David Epstein
Many thanks to Jacqueline Landman Gay for a very thorough and lucid explanation. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Is the clipboardData really an array?

2006-02-23 Thread David Epstein
d 1   put the clipboardData into myArrayVar   put return & "***" & the keys of the clipboardData after fld 1   put "***" & the keys of myArrayVar after fld 1   put "***" & the clipboard after fld 1 end mouseUp Any insights? David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Copying fields and their contents

2005-09-24 Thread David Epstein
his method, and this would make sense to me since copying a field (as distinguished from creating a new field) should copy its properties.  But now I am only getting the empty field. Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runre

Networked stacks

2005-08-08 Thread David Epstein
exemplify this? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Toxic Text Crashes MC 2.5

2005-05-19 Thread David Epstein
ill not crash my program in the future. Since I can't inspect the htmlText in question, I can't really know what's wrong with it. Anyone have any related experiences, insights, or suggestions of how to proceed? Thanks very much. David Epstein _

Debugging dragDrop handler crashes Metacard

2005-02-09 Thread David Epstein
Using MC2.5 on OSX 10.2, I am writing a fairly complicated "dragDrop" handler, which decides what text to insert at the dropChunk, and whether to preserve or delete the chunk that was originally dragged, and then carries out those decisions. I'm handling and not passing both the dragEnd and dragDr

Re: Option and shift keys down undetected

2005-01-31 Thread David Epstein
ventually, or is there some more specific reason for optimism? Thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Option and shift keys down undetected

2005-01-29 Thread David Epstein
ply to scripts that check "the commandKey" (always returning "up"), even though command-letter combination commands still work. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Option and shift keys down undetected

2005-01-28 Thread David Epstein
but then it returns. And just now it returned very promptly. The option key is not completely disabled even when this condition strikes; for example, with the pointer tool selected, option-dragging will successfully duplicate a button. Is there a recognized cause or cure for this problem? Many th

Really simple date question?

2004-09-29 Thread david
In the message box: put the date into test convert test to dateitems put test So why on my system do I get 2 in the hours item? Dalylight saving off and Greenwhich mean time set. Tested on windows and Linux? ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Dates and rounding problem

2004-09-28 Thread david
I'm working on an app that does a lot of date calculations. I need to be able to round the seconds to exact days, but when I use convert like this: convert date to short date convert to seconds I get the date rounded to sometimes two, or sometime 3 hours after midnight (depending on which

Re: Shall I scrap the idea?

2004-09-27 Thread david
Andre Garzia wrote: I can try to help! I am grounded home today! what are we coding? It's not for 3 weeks Andre! So we got time to plan that. The date is Saturday 16th. Objective is to code the most impressive thing we can to show off what Rev can do in a day + should be something people want.

Re: Internet communication through a Firewall

2004-09-25 Thread david
Chipp Walters wrote: Alejandro, Firewalls and proxies can be a big problem for software developers. There is a setting called "the httpProxy" you might want to take a look at in Rev (don't know if it exists in MC). Also (which may well not be the prob in your case) +- may be saying the obvious

Re: Basic scrollbar question

2004-09-22 Thread david
Ken Ray wrote: Also not sure how to control the marks - it would make sense if they were representing the pageInc value - but it is a smaller setting. It actually represents the pageInc value *plus one* (I'm assuming for the "0" setting). So if I set up a scale with a min of 0 and a max of 100

Re: Using php

2004-09-21 Thread david
Pierre Sahores wrote: Yes, it's a server side app directly speaking trought html forms on the client side and binded to a rock solid SQL databases server on the back-end. It works as a remplacement solution (and paradigm !) to the less stuitable Java-based stuffs built to run on top of Tomcat or

Basic scrollbar question

2004-09-21 Thread david
I have this scroll bar - horizontal, scale style, with showValue off I am using it as a control to allow scrolling from a start date to an end date (dates in seconds). So I set the start and endValues. Next I set the lineInc to 24*60*60 which jumps a day - ok But I have to set the pageInc as foll

Re: Using php

2004-09-21 Thread david
ning set up on root protected ports - or am I only getting half the picture here? david --- End Message --- ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Another associative array question: keys and delete

2004-05-02 Thread David Tremmel
Actually, in testing what was going to be my initial response, I discovered that it's actually trivial, but tough to find. This will do the trick: delete variable myArray[unwantedKey] Regards, Dave On May 1, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Raymond E. Griffith wrote: I have an associative array from which

IAC (native port listening not possible): how about externals/named pipes?

2004-04-26 Thread David Bovill
der an open source license), or just let us know that we are barking up the wrong tree - drop us a line? david ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

IAC (native port listening not possible): how about externals/named pipes?

2004-04-23 Thread david
the code will be released under an open source license), or just let us know that we are barking up the wrong tree - drop us a line? david --- End Message --- ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Looking for Pre -2.5 Engine for PC

2004-03-02 Thread David Bovill
Is there an archive of engines somewhere still ? Thanx ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Revolution and my license...

2003-09-20 Thread David Bovill
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: Sorry, I apparently forgot the smiley. Thanks... I got the smiley on my system - in fact I got a nice big chuckle :) I'm going to download today. A question though - have the downloads moved over to the one month try out? And if so is this going to work after expiration?

Revolution and my license...

2003-09-16 Thread David Bovill
OK - so how do I / can I get my license working in Rev? Besides the little 'ol problem of not knowing where I put it (i've been using my home stack)? I've got a license for 2.4.3 but not 2.5 yet... am I out or in luck :) ___ metacard mailing list [EMA

IDE - progress update

2003-09-15 Thread David Bovill
driven web site 4) Read and write to web site from within MC If anyone is interested in helping with the coding it is fairly interesting stuff - particularly interested in anyone who wants to play with web site creation and .mt scripting as I've set

Re: [ANN] IDE Development Option

2003-09-12 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: If this seems useful to folks, let's talk about how this can be enhanced/developed/customized/etc. Maybe we can start getting some work done. A way nifty gadget, Scott. Great. I think it's granular enough for now. Uploading doesn't replace stack but uploads a copy to the

Re: space

2003-09-12 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Dual-use options seem optimal for all. There are a great many very smart, experienced people with a demonstrated interest in producing free software who use only Rev. Those enhancements that work in both IDEs benefit from the combined brainpower available to both camps. Agr

Re: space

2003-09-12 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: If someone's willing to pay for a neutral host with more space for at least a few years I'm game to use it. OK - so I'll set this up by the weekend. Robert Brenstein wrote: If we really stick to distributing just MC IDE, then sure, 20 mb will suffice. It would be wrong to

Re: SourceForge vs Yahoo

2003-09-11 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: MisterX wrote: it's probably changed now but this was yahoo's agreement.. By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-11 Thread David Bovill
Dave Cragg wrote: One possible problem not discussed so far is the inclusion of libUrl with the IDE. The same (identical) library script is distributed with Rev, and I don't imagine they would like it to be covered by any of the more restrictive licenses. (And I don't suppose it could be.) The

Re: SourceForge vs Yahoo

2003-09-11 Thread David Bovill
MisterX wrote: it's probably changed now but this was yahoo's agreement.. By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable ri

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-11 Thread David Bovill
Ken Ray wrote: The only concern about PD I have is that it is just that: public domain. Anyone can take what we have and do whatever they want with it, including marketing it commercially. In other words, PD may be too a broad license. Do we care? No. If someone wants to take the MC IDE (MINUS

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-10 Thread David Bovill
J. Landman Gay wrote: After reading all the responses, I'm going to vote for this. It seems to me that public domain is the easiest solution, doesn't require any special handling, allows anyone to do anything without legal entanglments, and is just generally easier to manage. So I vote for pub

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-09 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Has anyone checked: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html I read it. It seems a good discussion of GPL issues as they relate to libraries. What do you see as the implications for the MC IDE? GNU use LGPL (lesser GLP) for libraries - and the reasons they argue

Re: metacard digest, Vol 1 #788 - 13 msgs

2003-09-09 Thread David Bovill
Ray G. Miller wrote: Do we have the SourceForge URL yet? http://sourceforge.net/projects/opn-repository/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-09 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Robert Brenstein wrote: Creating distribution packages, as Scott used to do, may not be worth the effort for this group, but it may be desirable to have an option to make engines available on IDE web site for a single-stop downloading. We do not have to have them, but... A l

Re: Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-08 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: David Bovill wrote: The simple story is to use the LGPL if you may wish to distribute the open source code with 'linked' libraries (read IDE or engine here) which is not GPL'd. Hmmm I had never considered including the Rev engine with the MC IDE di

Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

2003-09-08 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Monte Goulding wrote: I don't think LGPL is really inteded for this kind of thing. It's more for libraries that can be included in commercial apps without breaking the license or making the commercial app open source. The difference is that with LGPL you have no problem distr

Re: MC IDE's home

2003-09-08 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: Cool. What's the URL? I thought you couldn't set up a project there until you had a file ready to go ( Better still send me your user name and I'll register you as chief poobah! Think you should get an email with all the instructions sent to you and can play to your he

Re: MC IDE's home

2003-09-08 Thread David Bovill
Richard Gaskin wrote: I asked Scott if we could have an FTP account set up for the IDE project at metacard.com. While that won't work, he suggested setting the project up at SourceForge.net. In accordance with his wishes, I'll set up the project's home there as soon as we get a copy of mctools.m

Re: MC IDE - next steps

2003-08-26 Thread David Bovill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - It would be essential also to track versions. David Bovill was hinting at CVS and it's a possibility but I had an idea were we could track these as customproperties instead. Im sure there's advantages to both as well as disadvantages. The essential would b

Re: MC IDE - next steps

2003-08-26 Thread David Bovill
lationship with RunRev and explicitly and clearly laying out the core purpose and principles of the project. david ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: New tool proposal for the MetaCard IDE

2003-08-25 Thread David Bovill
I would be happy to support your work here Alejandro: Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi developers, Can I propose a Bezier Drawing tool for the MC ide? I could prepare something for the middle of the next week. It will include a tool to modify polygon graphics using bezier curves. Who could help me to r

Re: Unicode problem--Japanese book

2003-08-25 Thread David Bovill
I think you need to use the unicodetext property not the text property: set the unicodetext of fld 1 to the unicodetext of fld 2 Thomas McCarthy wrote: Up to MC 2.4 I was using the htmltext property to do all my Kanji, but it's a real drag. With 2.5 I tried the unicode feature, but have run int

Re: Script Limits and solid IDE evolution!

2003-08-15 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 13:13, Klaus Major wrote: > > I still think the free StarterKit was the best thing ever. > > One could play with it, get used to the app and even build useful > things :-) > > ...and 30 (contiguous?) days may be not enough, even with no script > limits... > 30 days is n

Re: Script Limit

2003-08-15 Thread David Bovill
This is exactly the sort of service / product that will be destroyed by the proposed change. My situation is similar for open source programming books - students / readers need to be able to do limited coding. The fact that this does not effect anyone with a licenced home stack is clear, but irrel

Announcing the new Open Source IDE (you just can't code with it)!

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 13:30, Robert Brenstein wrote: > Since using 'do' one can relatively easily work around the 'set > script to' restriction (performance issues aside), we can only expect > further elimination of 'do' in standalones (do limit set to 0) in a > near future. It would be a logic

RE: SoCal RevDevCon: August 26

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
If you set up a video stream - I can toast you from here (London)! Monte can join us for breakfast (Australia) and Chipp - how about some live action footage from the ranche ? On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 01:05, Monte Goulding wrote: > Yes it made me green with envy given OZ-RUG has a grand total of 4 m

Re: MC & OpenGL (update)

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:00, Tuviah M Snyder wrote: > WW4 Bush hasn't started WW3 yet, give him some time. > > Please contact me offlist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to work with > you on this. > Which feature Tuviah - WW3 or the OpenGL thing? _

Re: ? How to get the pixel color without relying on mouseColor

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
- now you should have the 8 end convolutedGetPixelColor Hope you get the principle - I have some functions on another machine that work with imagedata if you are still stuck? david ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: MC & OpenGL (update)

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 15:50, jbv wrote: > > I had a look at 3D Lingo (I dropped Director around version 4, andit made > me feel strange to go back to this crappy sprite stuff)... > Please don't take it personal, but it's the typical example of what > I'd like to avoid... Snap - left around the sa

Re: Script Limits vs dynamic programming

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 22:31, Dr. John R. Vokey wrote: > Thus, > rather being an essential part of metacard/RR, this dynamism becomes a > feature *only* licensed users (developers?) can use, but can't retain > in the stacks they produce. > for some, at least me, it is the dynamism that is

Re: Script Limits

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:12, jbv wrote: > And BTW again, did anyone contact Kevin privately about this > script limit thing, as suggested in his original message ? > And did anyone get an answer ? > I'm not so interested in the content of the answer, but much more in > knowing if any answer has be

RE: SoCal RevDevCon: August 26

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 03:59, Chipp Walters wrote: > > If you set up a video stream - I can toast you from here (London)! Monte > > can join us for breakfast (Australia) and Chipp - how about some live > > action footage from the ranche ? > > Sure, but there's not much live action here considering

Re: Script Limits

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 09:40, Robert Brenstein wrote: > What I meant in my earlier post is that maybe Rev can introduce > procedure to lift these limits for specific projects (they could > review them to ensure that the app can't be used to bypass their > licensing and thus reduce sales) for a r

Re: Script Limits and solid IDE evolution!

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
Fine rant Xavier - you sure know how to turn a crafted argument into a plate of spaghetti! On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 11:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First, without the 10 line script limit, I would be using java or VBS > and would have never made a test product to justify buying MC let > alone ren

Re: tip - group margins

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:24, Shari wrote: > > > >The key is to remember that objects like groups have margins which > >are automatically applied, therefore in my situation I needed to do > >the following: > > > >set the margins of group "crop" to 0 > > > >~ Rodney > > The margins, or the borderW

Kiddy Paint - Digital Camera's and Twain drivers.

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
I am making a sound and music machine for my daughter - unfortunately I can't find the work i did a couple of years back on this and am running out of time (it's a birthday present)- so am looking for any MC/Rev bits and pieces that I can use to cobble this together. The bits: 1) Pretty k

Script Limits and the Open Sourcing IDE

2003-08-14 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 06:23, Mark Talluto wrote: > > > Hi Jeanne, > > I dropped him a line earlier today. I am taking advantage of his > invitation to discuss this. Talking about his openly may be helpful. > We can figure out ways to live without this in the event this is going > to happen.

RE: Script Limits

2003-08-10 Thread David Bovill
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 04:53, Chipp Walters wrote: > In order to create the next generation: a new and much faster version of RR, > we're going to have to remove the 'set the script' command and treat > Transcript just as other compilers-- like C++, etc.. > > Would this make a difference? IOW, if

Re: MC & OpenGL (update)

2003-08-09 Thread David Bovill
My understanding is that WW4 has begun. On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 09:56, jbv wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a bit surprised by the lack of response to > my post from 2 weeks ago regarding the best > way to implement openGL in MC... > > Has everybody lost interest in that feature ? > Or is everyone on va

Re: MC & OpenGL (update)

2003-08-09 Thread David Bovill
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 13:05, jbv wrote: > > But my main question regarding the implementation of > openGL in MC was : how end users would like to access > 3D properties and functions from within MetaTalk scripts... > Anyone who has some experience with openGL coding > in C/C++ or Java knows that u

Re: Script Limits

2003-08-08 Thread David Bovill
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The problem with the 10 line limit in the Starter Kit is that it's both > > too big and too small. > > > > It's too small in that anyone unfamiliar with Revolution thinks it's > > worthless. > > This is just a classic missed mark

"Just in case...": a suggestion

2003-08-03 Thread David Bovill
Adopting a core technology such as a programming language is a major investment. Most people qualify the risk of this investment by going with the big-boys - just in case. On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 05:12, Chipp Walters wrote: > Dan, most excellent point! This is and should be a huge concern for thos

Does raisePalettes not work in OSX?

2003-07-21 Thread David Epstein
i.e., behave like a normal document window, while still looking like a palette (with the narrow title bar)? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard

Re: Passing (lot's of) data to a process...

2003-06-13 Thread David Bovill
> with this. I remember someone saying that the "command.com" command ( used > by > the shell() command ) was not so reliable. > So, i gave up with this solution. BTW, i was on WIN 98 box. > Yes - I think this is not a problem in Linux? > Then, instead of passing from metacard to Perl a full pro

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