Re: Save stack working?

2002-11-15 Thread Ken Ray
David, Where is the stack being saved? If is being saved in the same directory as Rev, it is because the directory needs to be set to the location of your stack. When you make your stack a standalone, its location will be the default, but until it's a standalone, the Rev app's folder is the

Can´t open driver

2002-11-15 Thread Chris Pastl
I´m interested in developing applications on Mac OS 9 which can connect to a USB driver. So tried to open a driver called USB Serial Driver using the following code: open driver USB Serial Driver for binary update But the program says that it can´t open that file. What´s wrong? The Driver is

Re: The RR programming model

2002-11-15 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, November 15, 2002, at 04:33 Uhr, Judy Perry wrote: I don't know if I told you this previously, but I have entered a second master's degree program in instructional design and technology.. Anyway, they've approved as a final project for me to design a series of tools/tutorials to

Re: swf files?

2002-11-15 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, November 15, 2002, at 05:09 Uhr, Troy Rollins wrote: Thanks to all... All infos have been very helpful... But my question was not exact enough, should be: *without* QuickTime sorry The good news is that through QuickTime, you can already do a lot with SWF files, providing they

Re: Save stack working?

2002-11-15 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Dave, I've tried the following script to try to setup a preferences-like file for windows. I can't seem to get it to save the stack to the defaultFolder area of my standalone. Is save stack screwed up or am I? :-) It seems pretty simple. on mouseUP put prefs.dat into prefsFile

Re: swf files?

2002-11-15 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Wolfgang, On Freitag, November 15, 2002, at 05:09 Uhr, Troy Rollins wrote: Thanks to all... All infos have been very helpful... But my question was not exact enough, should be: *without* QuickTime the answer is simple: You can't :-( ...unless someone is willing to write an external...

why the hell does this not work??????

2002-11-15 Thread Oliver Hardt
gals and guys: i am pretty much pissed off right now. below is a snippet of code that is driving me nuts. this code simply displays something on the screen and then *should* ask the user whether that should happen again or whether the program should go on and do something else. this

Re: Hilite With Transparent Button

2002-11-15 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Scott, I requested this feature when Revolution was in beta testing. Kevin added it to the list, but I don't know where it stands at this point. Hey, you want pixel inversion, just draw a white object (black on the Mac, I think) with its ink set to srcXor on top of your object. Once

Re: swf files?

2002-11-15 Thread Troy Rollins
On 11/15/02 6:41 AM, Wolfgang M. Bereuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All infos have been very helpful... But my question was not exact enough, should be: *without* QuickTime Actually, I understood that, so it must have been my answer that was not complete enough. More directly to the point - I

Re: why the heck does this not work??????

2002-11-15 Thread Troy Rollins
On 11/15/02 8:32 AM, Oliver Hardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and this is the problem: the answer question dialogue ONLY pops up, when i run the stack from within RunRev UI (i.e., i start RR, and then use the File menu to open the stack). it *doesn't* pop up, when i simply double click the

Re: 1.5 (now 2.0)

2002-11-15 Thread Rob Cozens
So I may still end up with 314 instead of 157 images, and I'm looking among the tools on my Mac to see if I have anything that creates animated gifs. Try GifBuilder http://www.mac.org/graphics/gifbuilder/ Thanks, Sarah. I just sent out an inquiry to someone who has done image manipulation

Re: Showing/Hiding Images on mouseLeave...

2002-11-15 Thread Rob Cozens
Are there any essential differences in the properties and/or behavior of graphics and images? Besides those already mentioned, you should go through the docs and check out the respective properties. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask. No specific questions, Scott; just

Re: Project Management Software

2002-11-15 Thread Bill Vlahos
It actually was chartConstructor which prompted me to look into this. All I know is that it is a Cocoa app and I don't believe the author is interested in taking it cross platform. I have purchased it and like it a lot although it seems to be fairly basic in its current form. I contacted the

RE: Project Management Software (OffTopic?)

2002-11-15 Thread Gary Rathbone
I still think a program written in Rev that did both GANTT and PERT charts could be killer. Only if it could handle the four types of float calculations, milestone slippage (preferably graphical) and resource levelling (with applicable re-analysis of the critical path). Also a client server based

Sound not playing sometimes. Why?

2002-11-15 Thread Barry Levine
I have a stack with a player object. No matter how I assign the fileName property or play the sound (via transcript or the message box), I have at least one audio file that will not play some of the time. My audio files are all AIF 22KHz, 16bit, mono. It was suggested that I first set the

DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange

2002-11-15 Thread Roger Kingston (OmniBus - Stanford)
In a past life, I used to integrate Toolbook (Asymetrix) applications with Winword and EXCEL using DDE. This allowed me to pass data to and from MS documents and then remotely run macros in MS to format, chart or mail-merge, etc. This was extremely powerful and pretty reliable. Now I am an

SSL/HTTPS/etc

2002-11-15 Thread Iago
Is there any currently existing way (free or commercial) to enable Revolution to download SSL-encrypted (https://) URLs? If there is, Revolution is pretty much what I'll recommend to my manager as the way to build some standalones for our purposes at work... Without it, it's pretty

Re: Sound not playing sometimes. Why?

2002-11-15 Thread Marian Petrides
Full length of the sound's file name appears to be an issue. If one exceeds certain limit for full pathname/filename then the sound (or video) file appears not to play. I suspect that the files that play properly have file names that are (a trifle) shorter than those which do not play properly

Re: The RR programming model

2002-11-15 Thread Mat Korica
Going back to the original question about the programming model, I tend to think of Rev as an object oriented language with preset objects. To talk in C++ speak for a moment, you can instantiate a button, give it data (name, size, color, custom properties etc), and give it methods (mouseUp,

Re: problem with socketID

2002-11-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 02:54 PM, Zac Elston wrote: on mouseup open socket to host:25|mysocketname read from socket mysocketname until linefeed answer it close socket mysocketname end mouseup This looks like the trouble area. on mouseup local mySocket put

Script Analysis

2002-11-15 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi All I'm looking for a script analysis tool. I'm mainly interested in being able to choose an object and a message and view all script that is executed in response to that message. I guess this would involve firstly parsing the code to find custom functions and handlers then parsing the

Re: Open Program with RR

2002-11-15 Thread erik hansen
--- Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: splash screen stack with a menu of stacks... definitely the easiest and most flexible route. what exactly IS Home in RR? Home still exists, but it's not the home stack we know from HyperCard. it looks like an engine backward-compatibility

repeat string: how?

2002-11-15 Thread Alex Rice
In Perl one can do this in a string context to get a 20 strings concatenated into a string. fu x 20 = fufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufu Does Transcript have any syntax similar to this, or do I have to write a loop to build up a string this way? Alex Rice, Software Developer

RE: why the heck does this not work??????

2002-11-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Hey Oliver. I see you are (often) frustrated. Profanity isn't necessary in order to get a quick answer in this forum. Here's a suggestion which might help (it helped me early on learning about RR). I spent some time reading the archives for RR and MC. It's amazing what you can find there. Takes a

RE: Showing/Hiding Images on mouseLeave...

2002-11-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Hey Igor, check out put img 1 into img 2 this way you don't have to 'unpack' them If you're using tranparent images, you may have to: set the width of img 1 to the width of img 2 set the imagedata of img 1 to the imagedata of image 2 set the alphadata of img 1 to the alphadata of image 2 I

Re: Sound not playing sometimes. Why? FOUND IT!

2002-11-15 Thread Barry Levine
Eureka! I found the problem -and- the solution. Firstly, thanks to the listas who provided suggestions. Though none of them provided the ultimate answer, they caused me to examine other paths which led me to the happy ending. Speaking of paths (as was one lista): I had a resources folder at

Re: DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange

2002-11-15 Thread Ken Ray
RR can do DDE using the old Externals Collection available on the RunRev site, but my understanding is that DDE is to be phased out as of WindowsXP. Maybe someone more knowledgeable about MS/Windows can elaborate. Well, Scott, I'm currently running XP on a laptop, and the DDE external works

Re: swf files? (OT)

2002-11-15 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Do you really see such an importance for shockwave like for flash? Imho the filesize is to big. Flash is a killer because of its small size... Sometimes I think MM will let it die slowly together with Director and blow Flash then up with a Pro version up to a new Director... Not really.

Re: repeat string: how?

2002-11-15 Thread Ken Ray
In Perl one can do this in a string context to get a 20 strings concatenated into a string. fu x 20 = fufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufufu Does Transcript have any syntax similar to this, or do I have to write a loop to build up a string this way? You have to write a loop. Ken Ray

Re: DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange

2002-11-15 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 11:49 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: RR can do DDE using the old Externals Collection available on the RunRev site, but my understanding is that DDE is to be phased out as of WindowsXP. Maybe someone more knowledgeable about MS/Windows can elaborate. In my project I

Re: Script Analysis

2002-11-15 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I'm looking for a script analysis tool. I'm mainly interested in being able to choose an object and a message and view all script that is executed in response to that message. I guess this would involve firstly parsing the code to

Re: Script Analysis

2002-11-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jan Schenkel wrote: I'm looking for a script analysis tool. I'm mainly interested in being able to choose an object and a message and view all script that is executed in response to that message. I guess this would involve firstly parsing the code to find custom functions and handlers

Re: Script Analysis

2002-11-15 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Schenkel wrote: I'm looking for a script analysis tool. I'm mainly interested in being able to choose an object and a message and view all script that is executed in response to that message. I guess this would involve firstly

Re: Script Analysis

2002-11-15 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Schenkel wrote: [snip] What would be kind of nice in that department is a system that keeps track of which pieces of code have not run yet. That would need to be handled deeper in the engine, but it should be doable and would be