Re: sort container

2002-01-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 9:59 PM +0100 1/19/02, yves COPPE wrote: >in the doc, I read : >The sort container command is a stable sort. This means that if the sortKey for two >items or lines is the same, sorting does not change their order, so you can do two >successive sorts to create subcategories within the major so

Re: sort container

2002-01-19 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 12:59 PM -0800 1/19/2002, yves COPPE wrote: >Let's suppose a tabstop fld > >the first column contains dates >the second text > >I'd like to sort the fld so that >it's sorted by date (first column) >and afterwards sorted by text (alphabetically) > >in this case the sortkey changes first it's ite

Re: replacetext

2002-01-19 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 5:40 PM -0800 1/18/2002, Bob Rasmussen wrote: >To Rev documentation folks: > >Given the subtle distinction between commands and functions, I think >it would be a good idea in the Rev documentation to give examples >only of usage in proper context. That is, please don't show functions >alone on

Re: Building in serial number scheme

2002-01-19 Thread Rob Cozens
>I'd appreciate hearing any thoughts on ways to build in serial number >protection...at least into one main opening stack. Hi Richard, Before I describe my approach, let me point out its limitations: 1. It is Mac-specific. 2. It only works on hardware/OS combos where the Apple System Profile

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac - digression

2002-01-19 Thread David Vaughan
Well, I'm on a Mac (OS X 10.1.2) and I get the funny "" as well. Mine have a little mark atop them. Perhaps it is a PC mail handler in between us. No worries. What with Yves testing my French and Klaus calling on Latin (and happily not saying so in Deutsch) this site is fascinatingly diverse as we

Re: Multilingual interface

2002-01-19 Thread Rob Cozens
>Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Terry, et al: You should also take a look at Revolution's Profile Manager Tutorial. >From page 2: "...you can use the Profile Manager to create multiple language versions of your application,..." I have not looked further into this

Type and Creator - Klaus Major

2002-01-19 Thread yves COPPE
Title: Type and Creator - Klaus Major Hello, I've found why your function doesn't work  : function ye_olde_filetype el_patho   put the directory into old_dir   set the itemdel to "/"   put last item of el_patho into the_file   delete last item of el_patho   set the directory to el_patho   put t

sort container

2002-01-19 Thread yves COPPE
Hello, in the doc, I read : The sort container command is a stable sort. This means that if the sortKey for two items or lines is the same, sorting does not change their order, so you can do two successive sorts to create subcategories within the major sort categories. I can't apply it to t

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac

2002-01-19 Thread yves COPPE
Hello J'y pense : au lieu de m'exciter à écrire le plus correctement possible en anglais, je peux écrire directement en français. Là il n'y aura pas de fautes ! Comprenne qui pourraŠ -- Salutations. Yves COPPE Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revo

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac

2002-01-19 Thread yves COPPE
Hello, Sorry Klaus, my English is absolutely not perfectŠ ameliorate means better your script indeed doesn't work on my mac but your theory is correct; If I write "set the typefile to "8BIMJPEG" Šit works fineŠ I'll work on it furtherŠ I want to thank you very much for your help in this big prob

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #125 - 5 msgs

2002-01-19 Thread yves COPPE
>Thanks a lot Yves!!!:) >Effectivly Rev is sometimes limited but it's a real pleasure for an >HyperCard lover to be able to use millioncolors graphics and quicktime >movies!!! That's definitivly the Holy Grail i was looking for!;) > >Thanks again! > >AD > Salut, je suis belge. Ma langue maternell

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac - digression

2002-01-19 Thread yves COPPE
>OK, I've withstood my curiousity long enough - what do the uppercase "S" >letters stand for in text like the excerpt below: > >"So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy >justSanythingS" > >I've seen that use of the uppercase "S" in a few posts recently - is this a >new

Building in serial number scheme

2002-01-19 Thread Richard D. Miller
I'd appreciate hearing any thoughts on ways to build in serial number protection...at least into one main opening stack. I'm not concerned with a "foolproof" system (should one even exist!)...just something that will stop most folks from running my program without a correct serial number. Is there

RAPID SEQUENCE of audioclips using the PREPARE command

2002-01-19 Thread J. Scott Saults
In use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #112, Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have you tried using the "prepare" command on all the audioClips before you >attempt to run the script that Scott Rossi supplied? > >Kind regards, > >Kevin I made a couple of attempts to incorporate the 'prepare' comm

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac - digression

2002-01-19 Thread Troy Rollins
William T. Simmons wrote: > "So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy > justSanythingS" Odd. Actually on the Mac this shows as an "ellipsis" e.g. "..." "So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy justŠanythingŠ" Er, no William - actually ye

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac

2002-01-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Yves, > Hello, > >> >> function ye_olde_filetype el_patho >> put the directory into old_dir >> ##always a good idea to save and restore the original directory ! >> ##a MUST if you work with relative paths for images etc... >> >> set the itemdel to "/" >> put last item of el_patho into th

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac - digression

2002-01-19 Thread William T. Simmons
OK, I've withstood my curiousity long enough - what do the uppercase "S" letters stand for in text like the excerpt below: "So if you can ameliorate your function, it will be possible to copy justSanythingS" I've seen that use of the uppercase "S" in a few posts recently - is this a new Internet

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac

2002-01-19 Thread yves COPPE
Hello, > >function ye_olde_filetype el_patho > put the directory into old_dir >##always a good idea to save and restore the original directory ! >##a MUST if you work with relative paths for images etc... > > set the itemdel to "/" > put last item of el_patho into the_file >##the filename >

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #125 - 5 msgs

2002-01-19 Thread Aurélien Durand
Thanks a lot Yves!!!:) Effectivly Rev is sometimes limited but it's a real pleasure for an HyperCard lover to be able to use millioncolors graphics and quicktime movies!!! That's definitivly the Holy Grail i was looking for!;) Thanks again! AD (Yves is a french name, right? Because je suis moi-

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac

2002-01-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Geoff Canyon wrote: > Note that a SimpleText file has no resource fork, but does have a type and a > creator. This is not actually the case. If you add any style (bold, italic, etc) of other style edits, flags are added to the resource fork. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director T

Re: Multilingual interface

2002-01-19 Thread Scott Rossi
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

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac

2002-01-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 19/1/02 4:01 PM, Klaus Major at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (long description of how to copy a binary file on a Mac, without losing > the type and creator codes snipped) This is perfectly good as far as it goes, but will still lose anything that might be in the resource fork of the file. If y

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac

2002-01-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 5:01 PM +0100 1/19/02, Klaus Major wrote: >But the OS looks for the information about the "Type" (what kind of file is it) >and "Creator" code (what app created that file) INSIDE that namely file. > >These info is stored in the "resource-fork" of an file. File type and creator are stored in th

Re: Doesn't operate properly in Windows, answer command

2002-01-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 19/1/02 11:28 AM, Richard D. Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What you say is true...if you use the Distribution builder. If you try > running a stack by simply launching it first without Rev running, the Answer > command is not available. I understand what is happening now, but it should

checking if a path is relative?

2002-01-19 Thread Almesjö
Is there any way to check if a path is relative or absolute? On windows I think an absolute path always contain a ":", and a relative can not contain ":". But on Mac.. an absolute path does not contain ":". Anything else you can check for? any ideas appreciated, Revolution rocks! /Niklas ___

Re: Multilingual interface

2002-01-19 Thread Rob Cozens
>Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Hi Terry, Here is how I handle them: * Dates, times, and numbers are are stored unformatted in a database and are formated when displayed according to Mac OS Control Panel specifications. * Data labels and other on-screen literal te

Re: Printing field text

2002-01-19 Thread yves COPPE
>Hello, >Do you know how i can print just the content (text) of a field, and not the >complete card, with the command "print"? > >Thanx > >AD > _ Simply use "revPrintField fieldDescriptor" BUT ! 1) use first : revShowPrintDialog true,true -- shows both dialogs so you can use the page setUp Dia

Re: copy a image/binary file on a mac

2002-01-19 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour Yves, hi Devin and all, >> P.S. What you got is definitively a jpg-file, anyway... >> Try to set the filename of an MC image to that file >> et voila... :-D > > Yes I'm working on a Mac > > Thanks. > -- Greetings. > > Yves COPPE here is the promised explanation of how to copy an image (a

Printing field text

2002-01-19 Thread Aurélien Durand
Hello, Do you know how i can print just the content (text) of a field, and not the complete card, with the command "print"? Thanx AD ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Does destroystack work?

2002-01-19 Thread Richard D. Miller
I'd like to know the verdict on destroystack. I simply cannot get it to work in the development environment in OS9. Does it work during Runtime on a Mac? Does it work properly in Windows...during development and runtime? I've got several thousand images I prefer to imbed in relatively small stack

Re: FTP progress feedback

2002-01-19 Thread Dave Cragg
At 8:54 am -0500 17/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I am using the put URL ftp command to transfer files to a server. >Can someone offer a suggestion of how to get the percent completed of an >FTP in progress to show in a progress bar? > > Hi. Tracking the urlStatus isn't "officially" suppo

Re: Doesn't operate properly in Windows

2002-01-19 Thread Richard D. Miller
I'd really like to know if others are running it this. Is it possible to build a stack on the MacOS side and then edit the same stack on the Windows side? Perhaps I'm encountering a problem exclusive to VirtualPC? Thanks. Richard > First problem. I created it in Mac OS 9.1. Using 1.1.1b. Dragge

Re: Doesn't operate properly in Windows, answer command

2002-01-19 Thread Richard D. Miller
Scott: What you say is true...if you use the Distribution builder. If you try running a stack by simply launching it first without Rev running, the Answer command is not available. I understand what is happening now, but it should either be pointed out or corrected. I like to think I can launch t

Multilingual interface

2002-01-19 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Hi all, Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Creating two (or more) separate stacks gives a lot of extra work; especially during development. I was thinking about some kind of a language-preference that gives all the buttons another label and give some fields another cont