RE: Speed of 'sliding a field'

2002-04-03 Thread Chipp Walters
David, I've been having 'choppy' transitions lateley as well (on a PC600). So I've started using set the dontuseQTeffects to true and it seemed to help quite a bit. -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Kwinter Sent:

Re: no message to startUp

2002-04-03 Thread John
This is a bug then? Should this be posted to the improve list so that it makes the to be fixed list? I don't know if bugs are picked up from this list or not... John Miskimins On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 07:58 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 10:51 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

preopenbackground error, license exceeded

2002-04-03 Thread Almesjö
Forgot to mention that the error seems to be in the revLibraries. It's a repeat loop in the preopenbackground handler (in the revLibraries) that throws the error about exceeding the license-limit..? Message: 2 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:59:10 -0800 (PST) From: Niklas Almesjö [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no message to startUp

2002-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
Concerning startup sent to stack but not card... On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 09:09 PM, John wrote: This is a bug then? Or documentation problem. It is inconsistent and adds a new concept concerning message paths. The documentation says openStack et al are sent to the card. If this is

Re: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-03 Thread Mark Paris
Yes, I got the same error running on mac 9.2 when I did that, so I just went back to the previous release on mac and started working on windows for windows releases. I don't believe I've tried building (for windows) with the beta 2 on mac yet, though. Mark - Original Message - From:

Resizeing stack proportionally

2002-04-03 Thread malte brill
Hi there, I wrote the following script to resize my stack in a 4:3 ratio on resizestack set the width of stack main to the height of stack main/100*133.33 set the rectangle of image back to the rectangle of stackmain set the location of imageback to the width of stackmain/2,the height of

Re: Resizeing stack proportionally

2002-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, February 6, 2040, at 07:06 PM, malte brill wrote: Is there a more elegant way to scale the stack proportionally? Replace the resize corner with a control of your own? Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Revolution for CGI Scripts

2002-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 06:53 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: 1. Why is there no quit in your examples? These scripts are running on a remote server... there is no GUI as you understand it. just a) the engine b) the scripts... no interface as such. I get it. I was picturing each cgi

Listing directory files

2002-04-03 Thread Dave
Is there an easy way in Revolution to list the names of all the files in all the folders of a specific folder? I used to use an XCMD for such a thing and would like to find a native way to do it. Thanks! -- David Retiarius Enterprises ___

Re: Listing directory files

2002-04-03 Thread Ken Ray
Dave, You need to cycle through all the files and folders manually using the directories() and files() functions. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Revolution List

Re: Listing directory files

2002-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 01:19 PM, Dave wrote: Is there an easy way in Revolution to list the names of all the files in all the folders of a specific folder? If you are comfortable with writing recursive functions, I bet you can write a small function to do this with folders(),

Re: Speed of 'sliding a field'

2002-04-03 Thread Ian Summerfield
I have a G3 450MHz running OS X Revolution 1.1.1b2. It took 27 ticks to run. BUT, I was missing the effect - is that what you mean by choppiness? I added an unlock screen before the end repeat, the effect is nicer. I also added a timer, here's the revised script: on mouseup put 135

Revolution.out window when disconnect from database

2002-04-03 Thread KEITH SPIELDENNER
Hello, I am connecting to a SQL 7 database through the Microsoft ODBC SQL 7 driver on a Mac and have encountered two annoyances. First, even after passing the user and password through the revdb_connect() command, I am presented with a dialog asking for user and password. No entry is needed,

Re: Speed of 'sliding a field'

2002-04-03 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On a 333 Mhz G3 iMac, this script ran too fast for me to see what was supposed to happen - it just jumped into place with 1 or 2 intermediate steps. I put a wait for 1 tick line on the repeat loop and then it worked beautifully. Is there something else happening at the same time that could be

Re: MOD function does not work! So be warned!

2002-04-03 Thread David Vaughan
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 01:59 , Rob Cozens wrote: snip A final note: Someone else mentioned the mod operator is supposed to be used with integers, so anyRealValue mod anyBase is non-sequitur. I didn't see anything in the documentation restricting the use of mod to integers; OTOH,

Re: Listing directory files

2002-04-03 Thread David Vaughan
Dave Several varieties of such recursive scripts were published just a few weeks ago. Check the archives or else write again and many of us (judging from last time) will publish again if you prefer not to reinvent it. regards David On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 07:04 , Dar Scott wrote:

Re: Rev and tail-recusion

2002-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 03:33 PM, James Witte wrote: Does the demo version of Rev have any limits on depth of recusion? Does Revolution handle tail-recusion correctly (as a jump without building a call frame, like Scheme and C# and unlike Java)? In the documentation...

Re: Speed of 'sliding a field' - PASTE BUG!

2002-04-03 Thread Ian Summerfield
Ah, I think I've just found what slows it down. I think everyone who tried it probably did what I did, create a new stack, a new scrolling field, a button for your script, and clicked the button. We see a rect zoom open (well, some bits of it). I just found that if I put some text in the

Re: MOD function does not work! So be warned!

2002-04-03 Thread Michael D Mays
Rob Cozens of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on 4/3/02 9:59 AM on testMod put 249 into var1 put var1 into var2 add 1.0 to var1 repeat 10 add 0.1 to var2 end repeat put (var1=var2)((var1 mod 5)=(var2 mod 5)) end testMod On the Mac with PPC numerics as I understand it 249

Re: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-03 Thread Richard D. Miller
I posted a question regarding this almost two weeks ago, but haven't received a response from the Rev folks. It's a matter that needs to be addressed. What IS the story with the distribution engine for Windows? -- Richard Miller The Wood Exchange.info http://www.thewoodexchange.info

Re: How do I break out of runtime?

2002-04-03 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 6:46 AM -0800 4/3/2002, Barry Levine wrote: When I double-click on a .rev stack, Revolution launches into the runtime(?) mode and I can't figure out how to break out back into the development mode without quitting Rev and then launching Rev directly (and then opening the stack). That's right;

FP scripts

2002-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
Lately, we have had some questions and explorations concerning binary floating point numbers in Revolution. Here are some functions that can be used to examine the floating point representation. You can use them to log intermediate values in confusing calculations. Or you can use them to

Re: FP scripts

2002-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 08:59 PM, Dar Scott wrote: This last one does not indicate +inf and so on. Whoops. I forgot 0. It will look like 1*2^-1023. It is all zero bits. It, too, is special. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list

RE: Rev 1.1.1 Release

2002-04-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, I posted a question regarding this almost two weeks ago, but haven't received a response from the Rev folks. It's a matter that needs to be addressed. What IS the story with the distribution engine for Windows? You can find the latest 1.1.1 at RunRev's site in the download section.

Trailing Zero Suppression

2002-04-03 Thread Richard Harrison
Hi there, Does anyone have a good trailing zero suppression routine for eliminating trailing zeroes from decimal numbers? Thanks, Rick Harrison ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Spreadsheet Style Display (.mc to .rev)?

2002-04-03 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 8:11 PM -0800 4/3/2002, Steve L wrote: I have downloaded the file that was recommended here: Jacque Landeman Gay's Pseudotable, which is at http://www.hyperactivesw.com/downloads/pseudtbl.mc.hqx. However, this file is in .mc format, how could this be used/converted to .rev format? Revolution

Database-type data but without a server?

2002-04-03 Thread Barry Levine
I'm making an educational math game that will have a series of multiple choice questions. I did something like this about 12 years ago in HyperCard and stored the test question and the four choices in, respectively, one background field and four card-layer buttons. Each additional question

Re: Speed of 'sliding a field' - PASTE BUG!

2002-04-03 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 12:35 AM +0100 4/4/02, Ian Summerfield wrote: Then I wondered what would happen if I put a LOT of text in the field. I typed: This is a test. I selected all in the field and paste, paste, paste, about 10 times. Note that at this point, the field contains 14 + 14 * 10 = 154 characters.

RE: Trailing Zero Suppression

2002-04-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Rick, Try this (or someting like it) on mouseUp put killTrail(5123.54001000) end mouseUp function killTrail val if val contains . then if last char of val is in 123456789. then return val else delete last char of val return killTrail(val) end if else