Re: Function Newbie question/Use of Transcript and Turtle Graphics in education

2002-12-10 Thread erik hansen
--- Jim Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, TG in Revolution is pretty much a > finished product. The > biggest problem I was having was drawing speed. > The real breakthrough > came when Scott Rossi suggested using the > pencil tool rather than the > line tool. Remarkably, the pencil

Re: Sequential Layout of Script-created Objects

2002-12-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 07:04 PM, erik hansen wrote: i was afraid something like this would happen. a recent DeVoto (co-author of The Book) posted that x is only calculated once. maybe that lets the former go faster. Maybe the poster was thinking of something like this: repeat while

Re: Sequential Layout of Script-created Objects

2002-12-10 Thread erik hansen
--- erik hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> repeat with x = the number of controls of > > group > > >> "grpButtons" of stack down to 1 > > > or > > > put (the number of controls of group > > "grpButtons" > > > of stack) into tot > > > repeat with

Re: Sequential Layout of Script-created Objects

2002-12-10 Thread erik hansen
--- Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> repeat with x = the number of controls of > group > >> "grpButtons" of stack down to 1 > > or > > put (the number of controls of group > "grpButtons" > > of stack) into tot > > repeat with x = tot down to 1 > > a little faster and you can see the total

Re: Create Image, Hide Image

2002-12-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
erik hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: are there any problems with bringing in an image as an icon or saving an icon as an image? HC has a useful 2-tone editor, MC i don't know about for editting icons and/or images. all of my HC>MC icons have somehow become images in a RunRev group. maybe ther

Re: how to share cards between substacks?

2002-12-10 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 05:51 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: you can open a card of one stack in the window of another stack so that may provide the effect you want. You will just need to keep track of which stack you opened it in so you can return to the correct card. That is an elegan

Re: Passing selectedField Location between Stacks

2002-12-10 Thread Bernard Devlin
Jacqueline, I tried this, but to no avail: >have you tried seting the defaultstack to the one >with the selection? Robert, I did have something like this in mind as my workaround. I managed to save the selectedChunk, field and stacks into the other stack, and then use these to reconstruct the s

RE: how to share cards between substacks?

2002-12-10 Thread Monte Goulding
you can open a card of one stack in the window of another stack so that may provide the effect you want. You will just need to keep track of which stack you opened it in so you can return to the correct card. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beh

Re: how to share cards between substacks?

2002-12-10 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 05:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: copy to Aha! I should have figured it was as easy as that. Also I overlooked the "How To move cards from one stack to another" in the online docs :-) Thanks, Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultant

Re: how to share cards between substacks?

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: > I have a few cards which I need to reuse in several substacks. I could > put the cards in the mainstack, or their own substack. How can I > programmatically do something like this? > > insert card "the card" of stack "sharedCards" into this stack > set the script of card "the c

how to share cards between substacks?

2002-12-10 Thread Alex Rice
I have a few cards which I need to reuse in several substacks. I could put the cards in the mainstack, or their own substack. How can I programmatically do something like this? insert card "the card" of stack "sharedCards" into this stack set the script of card "the card" to "..." What's the

Re: Runrev as an expert system shell

2002-12-10 Thread Judy Perry
You know, people might actually be interested in such a thing, especially if it paired wine suggestions to foods. Judy -- who likes just about any kind of wine other than White Zinfandel. > Alex Rice wrote: > > > What is the occasion? ___ use-revolutio

Re: Create Image, Hide Image

2002-12-10 Thread erik hansen
--- "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Changing the filename property of an > existing > >>> image will change the image it displays, so > all > >>> you need is a single, permanent image > object > >>> that a script can update to contain > different > >>> image content. > > > > is t

Re: Runrev as an expert system shell

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: > After thinking about the wine expert system vs. scotch, I am wondering > if people usually drink scotch with meals or not? It could start out > with a question like this > > What is the occasion? > 1) lounging at the club > 2) cards or billiards game > 3) with a meal > 4) after

Re: 2.0 - (OT) Malt

2002-12-10 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Montag, Dezember 9, 2002, at 01:33 Uhr, Rod McCall wrote: Ok, for what its worth I couldn't agree more. Even better for me though I live next door (well for another month) to the Scottish Malt Whiskey Society! Lets put it this way their menu is large and isn't usually for food! I would n

Re: Runrev as an expert system shell

2002-12-10 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 04:06 PM, Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote: This offer sounds great... Therefore the winner of the malt should imho be: Alex Rice! ;) Thanks I appreciate that, unfortunately I quit drinking alcohol a few years ago. I would want the person providing the expert kno

Re: Runrev as an expert system shell

2002-12-10 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Dienstag, Dezember 10, 2002, at 07:48 Uhr, Alex Rice wrote: Below is an expert system which comes with CLIPS. It's for selecting a wine based on the user's preferences. If someone will write a similar system for scotch & whiskey, I will translate it into CLIPS and write a RunRev GUI for i

RE: System Language

2002-12-10 Thread Monte Goulding
Thanks Alex for clearing up the issue. I'm actually expecting Raney will chime in at some point and tell us that it's a bug in OS X not anything with Australians being a day ahead of the pack ;-) Cheers & beers from down under Monte ___ use-revolution

Re: Passing selectedField Location between Stacks

2002-12-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
Thanks for the suggestion. It was a "mouseUp" handler, so I changed it to "mouseDown" but it didn't make any difference. I think the issue is actually to do with moving from stack to stack: the selectedChunk only refers to the character numbers in a (numbered) field. There is no reference to a

Re: Saving the clipboard

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Friedman wrote: > My standalone contains several stacks files. During the course of activity > in my standalone, I copy objects from one stack to another. I want to > preserve the clipboard text during the copy/paste of objects. You could also use "copy to " option or the "clone" command t

Re: [OT] All this talk of Whisky...

2002-12-10 Thread David Vaughan
On Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002, at 04:58 Australia/Sydney, Manuel Companys wrote: Le mardi, 10 déc 2002, à 17:46 Europe/Paris, Rod McCall a écrit : As the word "whisky" has popped up on this list a bit recently we've decided to give away a bottle of single malt to one of our users. Basically all you

Primitive Rev. WebBrowser

2002-12-10 Thread Rick Harrison
Someone on this list once mentioned that they had constructed a primitive Revolution WebBrowser using socket routines etc. I'm starting a project using sockets and I thought it might be good idea to see this example before getting into hours of frustration. Any help is greatly appreciated in adva

Re: why won't my videoclip play?

2002-12-10 Thread Ken Ray
> I'm now doing what you say - but I am not clear where this leaves the > idea of a video clip or movie played directly, i.e. not in a player > object. Maybe I should simply forget about it. As far as I can see, > my player object is playing a QT file (external to the player) not a > clip - is this

Saving the clipboard

2002-12-10 Thread Dan Friedman
Hello! My standalone contains several stacks files. During the course of activity in my standalone, I copy objects from one stack to another. I want to preserve the clipboard text during the copy/paste of objects. Here are the calls I am using to save the clipboard text: on aLongRoutine --a

Re: Passing selectedField Location between Stacks

2002-12-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bernard Devlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the issue is actually to do with moving from stack to stack: the selectedChunk only refers to the character numbers in a (numbered) field. There is no reference to a stack. So it seems logical to me that if one is to click on another stack, tha

Re: Create Image, Hide Image

2002-12-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Rob Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps it's not supported in MC, but in the RunRev dev menu I can select "New Referenced Control", designate a gif file in a folder, and assign a specific id to the referenced image in its properties palette. I assign that id as a button's icon, and it w

Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi Signe, I live in the UK - so I'm almost in Europe ;-) The PC is configured with "English (United Kingdom)" as the input locale. I've developed the palette (with some help from the kind people here). It works very satisfactorily, and very similar to your description. If I can get the final p

Re: Passing selectedField Location between Stacks

2002-12-10 Thread Bernard Devlin
Thanks for the suggestion. It was a "mouseUp" handler, so I changed it to "mouseDown" but it didn't make any difference. I think the issue is actually to do with moving from stack to stack: the selectedChunk only refers to the character numbers in a (numbered) field. There is no reference to a

Runrev as an expert system shell

2002-12-10 Thread Alex Rice
Below is an expert system which comes with CLIPS. It's for selecting a wine based on the user's preferences. If someone will write a similar system for scotch & whiskey, I will translate it into CLIPS and write a RunRev GUI for it (next year sometime). All you would need to write is a bunch of

Re: [OT] Relevant but not unrelated to All this talk of Whisky...

2002-12-10 Thread Jim MacConnell
Hoping for 2.0 really soon especially since lots? of people will be looking for it due to the January MacWorld - Productivity Beat - (page 20) US edition? Blurb for Rev 2.0 and SuperCard 4.0. Not the best time to have to say... coming soon Jim PS I know this doesn't really count as

Re: [OT] All this talk of Whisky...

2002-12-10 Thread Rod McCall
At 10:13 10/12/2002 -0800, Rob Cozens wrote: Basically all you have to do is post a *relevant* message to this list between now and Christmas day. Hi Rod, Does that mean *relevant* to whisky? By relevant I mean chatting about something to do with Revolution and not simply posting a message w

Re: [OT] All this talk of Whisky...

2002-12-10 Thread Rob Cozens
Basically all you have to do is post a *relevant* message to this list between now and Christmas day. Hi Rod, Does that mean *relevant* to whisky? If it isn't wine, tequila or gran manier, I couldn't possibly comment. :{`) Happy Holidays to all at Run Rev! -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Sof

Re: [OT] All this talk of Whisky...

2002-12-10 Thread Manuel Companys
Le mardi, 10 déc 2002, à 17:46 Europe/Paris, Rod McCall a écrit : As the word "whisky" has popped up on this list a bit recently we've decided to give away a bottle of single malt to one of our users. Basically all you have to do is post a *relevant* message to this list between now and Christmas

Re: Checkboxes

2002-12-10 Thread David Vaughan
On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 22:30 Australia/Sydney, Jez wrote: Please someone tell me how I can set and retrieve the status of a checkbox ! set the hilite of button <> to true | false get the hilite of button << checkboxname>> or put the hilite of << checkboxname>> into <> regards David

Re: Checkboxes

2002-12-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please someone tell me how I can set and retrieve > the status of a checkbox ! Hi Jez, Check the 'hilite' property in the Transcript Dictionary. Hope this helped, Jan Schenkel. = "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."

Checkboxes

2002-12-10 Thread Jez
Please someone tell me how I can set and retrieve the status of a checkbox !

Re: why won't my videoclip play?

2002-12-10 Thread Graham Samuel
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:50:19 -0600 "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Organization: Sons of Thunder Software Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graham, What you should do is: [then - as ever - a very clear explanation] I'm now doing what you say - but I am not clear where this leaves the idea of a

revGoURL.. and after that ?

2002-12-10 Thread Jacques Hausser
Dear all, I'm opening a local server with revGoURL "afp://username:password@servername/volumename" and my program reads and writes happily from or to several files on this server, nicely considering it as a volume. (it doesn't work with URL, but with "open file" and so on, it is OK). my pro

Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Signe. Thank you for going to the trouble of doing that. I think that this indicates that it is some setting in Windows 2000. Given that one cannot know what the user's settings are (and that as an application developer one probably shouldn't rely on being able to reconfigure these), and given

Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread Manuel Companys
Le mardi, 10 déc 2002, à 09:02 Europe/Paris, Signe Marie Sanne a écrit : Bernard, I just downloaded Revolution on my Windows 2000, made a standalone and tested the accented letters. Here on my (Norwegian) keyboard everything works fine. In development mode there's a problem with accent aigu (

Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread revolution
Signe. Thank you for going to the trouble of doing that. I think that this indicates that it is some setting in Windows 2000. Given that one cannot know what the user's settings are (and that as an application developer one probably shouldn't rely on being able to reconfigure these), and give

Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Signe, I thought this was a plausible explanation, so I built a distribution for Win32 and tried it, but still a Rev app does not trap these key combinations and translate them into 'international' characters. I think this is starting to look like a bug. >- when I press the 'AltGr' key it open