Re: Plain text posts please

2002-02-26 Thread Terry Vogelaar
>> Do you think of somewhat like >> http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/? > -- > This goes nowhere. Is it supposed to be an actual website, or just musing > what might be? All I get is the eternal beachball. Maybe your e-mail client thinks that the "?" is part of the URL too.

Re: Plain text posts please

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/26/02 1:30 PM, Richard Hillen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you think of somewhat like > http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/? -- This goes nowhere. Is it supposed to be an actual website, or just musing what might be? All I get is the eternal beachball. Ken N.

Re: Ready-made buttons and fields

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/26/02 7:39 AM, Terry Vogelaar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I get the point. Let's say 'most text-based data'. I mean Adobe, > Macromedia and Microsoft plan to use XML widely, so why should we smaller > developers stay behind? -- I see what you mean, and from that perspective, I

Re: reordering lists

2002-02-26 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
> I must be missing something: the engine *never* centers a selection, > and the only time it changes the scroll at all is if you select a line > with a script that would not otherwise be visible in the field. Hm. I just did a test in MC 2.4.2b1 and it doesn't happen any more. Did something cha

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #229 - 12 msgs

2002-02-26 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 06:54 PM, Scott Raney wrote: > I must be missing something: the engine *never* centers a selection, > and the only time it changes the scroll at all is if you select a line > with a script that would not otherwise be visible in the field. Maybe it's me that miss

Re: Help please?

2002-02-26 Thread Ian Summerfield
Try this, you'll have to introduce a wait, otherwise on today's fast computers it all happens within a fraction of a second that you don't see it! Unlock screen should redraw the screen. on mouseDown repeat 45 times lock screen set the textSize of character 4 of line 1 of field "Txtfie

one button, many cards?

2002-02-26 Thread Zac Elston
Is there a way to create a button (say a back or forward button that moves between cards of a stack) and have that button show up on all the cards automagically? can I just set some property of the button to enable this? thanks -zac ___ use-revolutio

Re: reordering lists

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Ray
Scott, > I must be missing something: the engine *never* centers a selection, > and the only time it changes the scroll at all is if you select a line > with a script that would not otherwise be visible in the field. Now > someone might make an argument that having the default be to allow an > i

Help please?

2002-02-26 Thread Sam Griffith
Hello all, I'm trying to find out how to get a text field to redisplay during a handler? Below is the code I want to do. It animates a character getting bigger and smaller 45 times. Any help would be appreciated on mouseDown repeat 45 times set the textSize of character 4 of line 1

Re: A helping Hand with Graphics speed and masks

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/26/02 4:38 AM, Matt Denton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there speed fiends, > -- Hi Matt, I can't answer your queries because I'm too new to RR to be that far into the inner sanctum, but you should know your post ended up with three copies in succession on the list. Ken N. __

Re: OOP in Rev

2002-02-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mat Korica asks: > So how do the standard object-oriented programming concepts translate into > the Rev world? How do I make classes, subclasses, instances, etc. Traditional OOP per se is not easily done in an xTalk. There are common elements between xTalk and OOP systems, but each model has un

Re: Mouse polling

2002-02-26 Thread David Vaughan
Charles On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 02:49 , you wrote: I don't have the time to give a solid and detailed response to the mousepolling controversy. Suffice it to say that I need to do detailed mousepolling within repeat structures. snip On 13 February you wrote: Hi, This bit of code do

Re: OS 9.1

2002-02-26 Thread Ian Summerfield
> Occasionally when opening object properties one layer (eg > script) "tears" away from the rest and won't unstick from the mouse. > Or when resizing the script window the bottom right corner won't > unstick from the mouse. I get this too. I moved from OS 9.2.1 to OS X instead, it happens less

Re: Plain text posts please

2002-02-26 Thread Richard Hillen
Hello Ken wrote: > PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE: ARCHIVE THIS LIST. If you were using it to learn, > like many of us, you'd see the value of that immediately. Do you think of somewhat like http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/? Richard. __

Re: Little generic arrows (id 201317)

2002-02-26 Thread Ian Summerfield
On 26/2/02 6:02 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed: > > > When I set the little arrows up exactly as stated above without any script, it > does nothing when clicked up/down. However, if I insert the little arrows > button directly from the object library, it automatically inse

Re: Selected Text

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Vlahos
Yves and Klaus, Thanks for the solution. It works great. Bill On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 11:51 AM, yves COPPE wrote: >> I would like to move selections from one field to another. What I have >> written is to simply show both list fields and clicking a line in one >> field adds the in

Re: ready made buttons etc

2002-02-26 Thread Judy Perry
While what I know would fit on the proverbial head of a pin, I too would be interested, particularly in developing examples and/or templates for k-12 instructional uses. Judy On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Steve Messimer wrote: > on 2/25/02 8:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at > How about starting the beast our

Re: Ready-made buttons and fields

2002-02-26 Thread Judy Perry
I may be asking a really stupid question here, but with rev's touted HC-compatibility, shouldn't it be a piece of cake to 'import' the HC stacks into rev examples? Judy PS: sorry about the wierd line-wraps -- looks crappy under my telnet app too. > > In a message dated 2/25/02 8:09:30 PM, [EMAI

Re: reordering lists

2002-02-26 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 03:18 AM, Ken Ray wrote: > > >> It seems that a revolution listfield (with "autohilite" "listbehaviour" > >> + > >> "click to toggle" checkboxes all true) wants to scroll the hilited line

re: Is there a message watcher?

2002-02-26 Thread Victor Eijkhout
>From: Devin Asay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Is there a Message Watcher >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >One of my favorite HC development tools is the Message Watcher. I've >looked for this but haven't found anything equivalent in Rev. Am I >just overlooking something?

Trouble with sliders part 2

2002-02-26 Thread Dr. Chris Kirtley
Dear all, Just a follow-up to my preveiou message about sliders. I have now made a standalone of my project: http://engineering.cua.edu/biomedical/labs/gait/Insole/SmartSole.exe - fiddle with the sliders and watch the graphs change. I was surprised to find that it works BETTER than the source co

Re: Selected Text

2002-02-26 Thread Klaus Major
HI bill, try this: > I would like to move selections from one field to another. What I have > written is to simply show both list fields and clicking a line in one > field adds the information to the other with the following script: > > on mouseUp > put return & the selectedText after field

Re: reordering lists

2002-02-26 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 03:18 AM, Ken Ray wrote: >> It seems that a revolution listfield (with "autohilite" "listbehaviour" >> + >> "click to toggle" checkboxes all true) wants to scroll the hilited line >> to >> the vertical centre of the field, at all times, and of course that's > r

Re: A helping Hand with Graphics speed and masks

2002-02-26 Thread Scott Rossi
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 03:49 AM, Matt Denton wrote: > I'm building a cute little app that displays a series off five animated > objects, based on a series of timed events, animating usually only one > object at a time. I'm having a lot of trouble getting the 'speed' up > and keep

Re: searching lists

2002-02-26 Thread Steve Messimer
on 2/25/02 8:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are not on a Mac you can mix the methods by saving relevant files > to disk (faster than copy-paste) and using your newly-minted database > Rev stack to auto-read and delete all files in that directory at > intervals, savi

Re: ready made buttons etc

2002-02-26 Thread Steve Messimer
on 2/25/02 8:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It would be great if one of you knowledgeable rev people would create a stack > of ready made buttons and ready made fields. Some of you remember that > hypercard included these in their software. These sure would help beginni

Selected Text

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Vlahos
I would like to move selections from one field to another. What I have written is to simply show both list fields and clicking a line in one field adds the information to the other with the following script: on mouseUp put return & the selectedText after field "groups" end mouseUp It works

Re: Mouse polling

2002-02-26 Thread Scott Raney
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 Charles Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have the time to give a solid and detailed response to the > mousepolling controversy. Suffice it to say that I need to do detailed > mousepolling within repeat structures. Unfortunately I think we can't let you off that

Scroll bar crash

2002-02-26 Thread Dr. Chris Kirtley
Dear all, I've just started with Revolution, although I used to be a big Supercard scripter. I have a couple of scroll bars that are causing my application to crash. They work fine for a few scrools then crash - it seems to be when I dwell too long on the drag operation. I do have a lot of cod

Re: Little generic arrows (id 201317)

2002-02-26 Thread Prodevm
On 24/2/02 9:59 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed: Hello, I am trying to associate the Little generic arrows (image ID 201317) with a field, to display a range in the set numbers (1-30) when clicked up or down.  I have set the cTargetField to the field name, and I have set MInVa

Mouse-poll stress

2002-02-26 Thread Charles Silverman
I wanted to apologize for being too strident on my previous post. I've been pretty stressed about the mousepolling not working for me. Regards, Charles Silverman ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/

Mouse polling

2002-02-26 Thread Charles Silverman
I don't have the time to give a solid and detailed response to the mousepolling controversy. Suffice it to say that I need to do detailed mousepolling within repeat structures. My work evolves creating alternative input solutions for kids with disabilities. I've been writing software for this pop

Re: Ready-made buttons and fields

2002-02-26 Thread Terry Vogelaar
> "Ken Norris (dialup)" wrote: >> I am >> working on XML handling at the moment, because I think XML should be the way >> all data should be stored. > -- > Why? It's like saying all images should be stored in .gif files. > > Best regards, > Ken N. OK, I get the point. Let's say 'most tex

OOP in Rev

2002-02-26 Thread Mat Korica
So how do the standard object-oriented programming concepts translate into the Rev world? How do I make classes, subclasses, instances, etc. Thanks, Mat --- Make a FREE food donation to hungry people around the world. http://www.thehungersite.com ___ u

Re: Ready-made buttons and fields

2002-02-26 Thread Stgecft
In a message dated 2/26/02 7:25:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I am sure that nicely commented scripts will be appreciated ? :-) >> You are so right. It is alwas great when someone put the script as an example to the problem or the solution to a problem . I have been copying many of t

A helping Hand with Graphics speed and masks

2002-02-26 Thread Matt Denton
Hi there speed fiends, I'm building a cute little app that displays a series off five animated objects, based on a series of timed events, animating usually only one object at a time. I'm having a lot of trouble getting the 'speed' up and keeping timing consistent across platforms/machines.

Re: Ready-made buttons and fields

2002-02-26 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Randy and all, > > In a message dated 2/25/02 8:09:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << It would be great if one of you knowledgeable rev people would > create a > stack > of ready made buttons and ready made fields. Some of you remember that > hypercard included these in their software.

Re: Ready-made buttons and fields

2002-02-26 Thread Stgecft
In a message dated 2/25/02 8:09:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << It would be great if one of you knowledgeable rev people would create a stack of ready made buttons and ready made fields. Some of you remember that hypercard included these in their software. These sure would help beginni

A helping Hand with Graphics speed and masks

2002-02-26 Thread Matt Denton
Hi there speed fiends, I'm building a cute little app that displays a series off five animated objects, based on a series of timed events, animating usually only one object at a time. I'm having a lot of trouble getting the 'speed' up and keeping it consistent. I know some clever cookies on

Re: Ready-made buttons and fields

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/25/02 9:02 PM, Terry Vogelaar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am > working on XML handling at the moment, because I think XML should be the way > all data should be stored. -- Why? It's like saying all images should be stored in .gif files. Best regards, Ken N. _

A short comment on speed

2002-02-26 Thread David Vaughan
In early February we had some discussion on speed of Revolution compared with HC. My own experience at the times was that RR was about the same speed, but in colour of course. The activities at the time involved retrieving information on multiple cards. Today I converted another of my HC stack

Re: finding topics already discussed

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/25/02 1:43 PM, David Vaughan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My own solution is more platform-dependent, in that I simply save any > potentially interesting post on disk and use Sherlock's content search > to find even oblique references. -- Sure. I am on, um, six group lists at the mo

OS 9.1

2002-02-26 Thread Greg Wills
Greetings all My apology for not paying attention at the time (You know how it is, don't attend unless it is relevant to you. I do remember some discussion ages ago about OS 9.x). I have installed OS 9.1 (to run iMovie2) from OS 9 and Rev is finding life very difficult. For example.

Re: Commercial success with Rev

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/25/02 5:45 PM, Richard D. Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hope those folks get all the support they need, because Rev could become a > truly revolutionary tool for us all. -- Agreed...and much congrats! All the best, Ken N. ___ use

answer error problem

2002-02-26 Thread sims
Problem: When the answer error pops up, I have to click it twice in order to dismiss it. The cursor appears as a hand prior to first click... The cursor turns into an iBeam after the first click and stays an iBeam while over the "OK" button unless moved - if moved, it becomes a hand and can then

Re: Polling the mouse

2002-02-26 Thread Curry
Scott Saults wrote: > My 2¢? Revolution should drop "the mouse" function, unless it can be made > to work in a reliable, predictable way, as documented. I can live without it. Why not take the second option? I say make it work in a reliable way--let it just indicate the real-time mouse button p