reference another stack

2003-01-10 Thread John Cuccio
I have a rev program running on one mac. I will call this the server. I have another program running on another mac, I will call this remote, that make reference calls to a stack on the server. The remote program I am using the stackfile property to place the name of the stack. Every thing works

Re: reference another stack

2003-01-10 Thread Klaus Major
Hi John, I have a rev program running on one mac. I will call this the server. I have another program running on another mac, I will call this remote, that make reference calls to a stack on the server. The remote program I am using the stackfile property to place the name of the stack.

Klaus Major's Christmas Tree Problem

2003-01-10 Thread Mathewson
Those of us cheap-jacks who are still developing with unlicensed versions don't have access to the RR2 Alpha builds. However we can all glory in Klaus Major's Christmas tree (see User Contributions) by opening it in Metacard 2.4.2 using my Bagic Mutton (shameless plug) also downloadable from User

Re: Klaus Major's Christmas Tree Problem

2003-01-10 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richmond, a happy new year to you :-) Those of us cheap-jacks who are still developing with unlicensed versions don't have access to the RR2 Alpha builds. However we can all glory in Klaus Major's Christmas tree Fortunately it will last at least until next christmas and will definitevely

Re: List etiquette and general helpful hints

2003-01-10 Thread Heather Williams
Guys! Please! take a look at the last digest that just arrived in my inbox. More than half of it was Not Discussing Revolution. You've all had your say. I've listened, laughed at some, torn my hair out at others, and now I'm saying Subject Closed. If you still have strong feelings on how the list

OT--List etiquette and general helpful hints

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Hurley
Bernard Devlin wrote: I would like to suggest that the policy of the list should be that off-topic posts pushing religious, moral or political views are banned. I suspect discussions of cheese and other comestibles may be unlikely to cause much offence. Bernard I would like to

Re: OT--List etiquette and general helpful hints

2003-01-10 Thread miscdas
[snip] Jim Hurley writes: Bernard Devlin wrote: I suspect discussions of cheese and other comestibles may be unlikely to cause much offence. Bernard ... I am consoled by the thought that the early bird may get the worm, but it is the second mouse who gets the cheese. Jim Hurley --

Revolution 2.0; XML Pull Parser?

2003-01-10 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi, I have a question about the method used to parse XML with Revolution 2.0. Many of the XML parsers available for building applications are based on a push technique that gathers all the information found in a well-formed XML document and places it in some kind of nested array. The latest

Curious Group-Related Behavior

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi All, My mystery of the day: I'm testing a stack that has (visible) two groups and three individual fields. If I select either group and start editing it, the last individual field remains visible. If I copy/paste a group into a new stack, only the grouped controls are moved; so why does

A Box Question A Box Request

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Cozens
The question: Is there a way to set the line width of the box drawn around text whose textStyle is box? The request: It would be nice to be able to specify different top/bottom colors for text whose textStyle is threeDBox, so that threeDBoxed text will display differently than the field that

Re: Arabic, CE and ME versions...

2003-01-10 Thread manuel companys
Le Thursday, 9 Jan 2003, à 03:46 US/Central, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : - FileMaker takes use of Unicode fonts, but we have to use special CE-fonts for countries like Poland or Russia, because of the special chars. Normally you don't need Unicode for WE, CE or Cyrillic unless the

Re: Any MacWorld Attendees On This List

2003-01-10 Thread Bill Lynn
What specific features in Rev 2.0 would have made the difference for your project's needs? With the base cost of Director plus the cost of rewriting everything from scratch, such a migration is an expensive option. Granted, but I like Transcript much better than Lingo. Having come from a

putting away plugins

2003-01-10 Thread Steve Messimer
Hi I am creating an application that uses a plugin. I want to restrict the use of the plug-in to the application that accompanies it. Uses by other rev Stacks would not be allowed. The first part of this (determining under what conditions the plugin will launch) I know how to do. The problem I

RE: white ask and answer dialog box in standalone

2003-01-10 Thread Jerry Daniels
Tekpa, I have put the following into the startUp handler in the mainstack of my standalone: if word 1 of the systemVersion is NT and word 2 of the systemVersion 5 then put queryRegistry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors\MenuBar) into tColor answer tColor if tColor then put word

Re: Any MacWorld Attendees On This List

2003-01-10 Thread Judy Perry
Amen! Lingo is just plain ugly by comparison. I suspect you may be right about Macromedia's committment to Director as well: (1) Look how long it took them to get out an OSX version. (2) Look at how much the two product lines of Flash and Director seem to becoming either redundancy or merging

Re: FTP progress bar

2003-01-10 Thread Vikram Singh
The new library provides a hook into the url status with the function libUrlSetStatusCallback. You dont need to poll for url status (with urlstatus), it updates itself and sends any message you desire. You can try this button script: on mouseUp put url binfile:test.txt into url ftp://un:[EMAIL

Re: Any MacWorld Attendees On This List

2003-01-10 Thread Troy Rollins
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Klaus Major wrote: If you want some real applications, MC/RR is the only choice. Not to throw water (or petrol) on it , but I do think that there have been an application or two made with Director. Also, Director is on version 9, RR has yet to

Re: Any MacWorld Attendees On This List

2003-01-10 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Rob, Sigh. Dare I say amen again? Judy On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Rob Cozens wrote: however, it leads to some interesting conjecture as to what it would have been like to create those same applications in QuickTime Interactive (aka HyperCard v3).

Re: Any MacWorld Attendees On This List

2003-01-10 Thread Judy Perry
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Troy Rollins wrote: Not to throw water (or petrol) on it , but I do think that there have been an application or two made with Director. Also, Director is on version 9, RR has yet to deliver version 2. Questioning Macromedia's commitment to the product, and comparing it

another crash variation

2003-01-10 Thread BSpurgeon
I think I may have managed to get the longest crash-free period so far on a small, simple application I built with Revolution by tweaking it last Monday or Tuesday to set the Appearance Manager to OS Emulated, as many discussions here have suggested. I run the application on OS 9. But now,

Window whiteout

2003-01-10 Thread Graham Samuel
Folks, I am completely foxed by the following problem. I can't find anything doing the Google searches or in the Revo documentation. So apologies if this is a well-known issue which I have missed. This problem shows up on two different Mac G3s running Revolution 1.1.1 under MacOS 9.2.2 (my

RE: textFont - empty

2003-01-10 Thread Ivers, Doug E
I guess I can do my own workaround for each stack design, but it requires some bookkeeping/hassle. Some of the inheritance elegance is lost. (As an idealist, things like this really chafe me.) -- D -Original Message- From: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Window whiteout

2003-01-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Graham Samuel wrote: Folks, I am completely foxed by the following problem. I can't find anything doing the Google searches or in the Revo documentation. So apologies if this is a well-known issue which I have missed. I've imported some stacks from SuperCard using the tools

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1013 - 15 msgs

2003-01-10 Thread Steve Messimer
on 1/10/03 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you set the destroyStack to true before closing the stack? Also, what is the benefit of having a plug-in listed in the Plugins menu if it cannot be run? Richard, Yes, this works! Now as for the reason: The

Re: another crash variation

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Cozens
If the user has text in a field selected and presses a button that says save this stack, then the stack crashes. If no text is selected and the user presses the same button, then the stack does not crash, but saves itself. Actually, to be truer to the script of the button, it says, set cursor

New Math

2003-01-10 Thread Judy Perry
First, an update about the irregularly-shaped buttons issue. Apparently, if one simply uses a GIF with transparency, the transparent areas do not respond to mouse events. This is my experience. Am I correct about this? Second: I have some funny math going on. It's the same States Quiz. I'm

Re: List etiquette and general helpful hints

2003-01-10 Thread erik hansen
--- Wolfgang M. Bereuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, Jänner 9, 2003, at 09:34 Uhr, Troy Rollins wrote: On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 03:27 PM, erik hansen wrote: you are right. And YOU are posting in HTML. ;-) ich spreche kein HTML. wass soll ich denn machen?

Re: Any MacWorld Attendees On This List

2003-01-10 Thread Jim Lambert
run inside a browser, there is nothing anywhere near as powerful as ShockWave. So true. Which makes the sweet smell of Death now lingering about Director so disconcerting - and too familiar. OMO, HyperCard, ... Jim Lambert ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: New Math

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Cozens
Second: I have some funny math going on. It's the same States Quiz. I'm trying to have the stack keep a running track of the number of correct answers, the number of attempts, and then divide the former by the latter and multiply by 100 for an accuracy percentage. For simple math, such as 3

Re: New Math

2003-01-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Judy Perry wrote: 6/7 = 4286 (6/7)*100 = 85.714286 with the usual value of numberFormat. Note that they both end in 4286. Could you be using a short field with right justification? If that is the case, maybe the left part of the answer is pushed