Re: Speed

2002-02-23 Thread Scott Raney
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 Jim Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > The pencil tool in MC is not the same as the pencil tool in HC. (The > above script draws an altogether different figure in HC.) In HC the > pencil tool draws black if the initial screen point is white and > white if the ini

Re: Polling the mouse state

2002-02-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: >> on mouseRelease >> mouseUp >> end mouseRelease > -- > Is this some kind of backup redundancy for PC's? As far as I know, the > mouseUp message gets sent automatically when you release the mouse, and > doesn't need a separate handler. You need this

Re: Polling the mouse state

2002-02-23 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/23/02 12:47 PM, Scott Rossi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 uAll

Re: My Entry for the RR Wish List

2002-02-23 Thread David Vaughan
Although I voiced support for a CompileIt!-style product, the need is far less than existed in HC, as I continue to learn. While we are floating the idea though, I envisage a separate product from Rev, as was CompileIt! from HC, rather than inbuilt capability. Why? Because no-one should fiddle

avoid the standard find dialog?

2002-02-23 Thread Till Bandi
I would like to have my own find dialog so I wanted to trap the standard dialog that wi get by commandKey & F. I tried with a commandKeyDown handler but had no success. Can anyone give a hint how to do this? Another variant of the Question: What is the equivalent in RR to the HyperCard handler

Re: Polling the mouse state

2002-02-23 Thread Scott Rossi
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

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #218 - 14 msgs

2002-02-23 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 11:51 PM, use-revolution- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Without these keywords and capabilities, the result wouldn't truly be > xTalk > any more in my opinion. I don't want a situation in the future where I'm > not > able to script a line like "repeat until the mo

Re: Polling the mouse state

2002-02-23 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/20/02 10:47 PM, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: My Entry for the RR Wish List

2002-02-23 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/22/02 4:35 PM, David Vaughan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 04:23 , Rob Cozens wrote: > >> Before Revolution, >> CompileIt was my second-most important application behind HyperCard. > >> However, it appears from the List traffic that many people still >> f

Re: CompileIt! was cool

2002-02-23 Thread Rob Cozens
>how do we get xcmds to work in Revolution? Do >I really need to recompile them? I cannot get any of my custom externals to >work at all (do they need to be 'ResEdited' into Revolution?). Hi John, I don't know how it works in WindNix, but on Macs I believe you must, indeed, insert the external i

Re: My Entry for the RR Wish List

2002-02-23 Thread Rob Cozens
>Since it seems to be the vertical platform-specific stuff where we need the >most help, it may bring us the biggest bang for the buck to have some means >of making OS calls directly in the language. We'd have to type our vars, >but that's a small price to pay for all that flexibility. Richard,

CompileIt! was cool

2002-02-23 Thread JohnRule
<< I got to thinking how much CompileIt helped me to expand my << HyperTalk applications' capabilities That's funny, I just 'resurrected' my copy of CompileIt! yesterday. I started going through some of the xcmds and xfcns I wrote (MidiToolz), and I realized what a powerful compiler that was. Y

Speed

2002-02-23 Thread Jim Hurley
>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, th

Re: resizing window via card properties

2002-02-23 Thread Stgecft
Try using the on openCard command of each card you want to resize. You will still only be able to use the setting of stack command (Width & Height) but it will accomplish the same thing. I don't belive you can reset the width & height of single cards because they are part of the exixting stac

Re: Using Profile Manager--How?

2002-02-23 Thread Kevin Miller
On 22/2/02 7:35 pm, Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked and answered > > I am trying to get some stacks to look like mac os 9 or mac os x. Profile > manager seems to be the way to do this, but it doesn't work as expected. Is > there an easy way to make all th

Re: Download in progress

2002-02-23 Thread Dave Cragg
At 6:05 am +0100 23/2/02, Terry Vogelaar wrote: >How do I make a progress bar that indicates when a (not too small) text file >on the internet is downloaded? >So I probably need to know how do I know how large a file on a server is and >how do I know how many bytes are already downloaded. You nee

Re: RR1.1 Animation Tutorial problem

2002-02-23 Thread PERPHARMACEUTIC
Dave, If you have a "on preOpenCard", "on openCard", or pre/open-stack command that sets the coordinates of the object, try putting the first-frame, animation coorinates of the object into the pre/open settings. If you don't have that object set for pre/open commands, then I wouldn't have a clue.