Grab, move, yet constrain.

2003-01-30 Thread Ryno Swart
Another penny has eventually dropped. The "grab" command is just what I wanted for moving a group of images around, as it is the only way I know where the cursor keeps to its place in the group. But now, can I constrain this movement? Top, bottom, left, right? Thanks for the help. Ryno Swart.

Re: Line Tracing

2003-01-30 Thread Sarah
Hi Roger, I'm not quite sure what it is you are trying to do. If you stop the screen from updating, you won't see your graphic move. It will appear to leap from the start position to the end. Do you want to see it follow a path, but not see anything else happen? If so, perhaps you should consi

re: Line Tracing

2003-01-30 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks to Gary Rathbone and Jim Hurley for their suggestions, but the Lockscreen property does not work, and although Jim's script is very clever, it results in a very choppy motion compared to repeatedly setting the loc of an object via an equation of motion (such as a projectile.) Any other

Re: Color at a location on the screen

2003-01-30 Thread Matt Denton
Hi Klaus check the "screenmouseloc " entry in the index. Thanks for the tip, I thought of doing something like this but the ol' mouse would be jumping around all over the place. I worked out a compromise: because I knew the object I wanted to get the colors from, I grabbed the imageData and

Re: Color at a location on the screen

2003-01-30 Thread Matt Denton
Hi Klaus Thanks for the tip, I thought of doing something like this but the ol' mouse would be jumping around all over the place. I worked out a compromise: because I knew the object I wanted to get the colors from, I grabbed the imageData and worked out the RGB value from the raw data: on se

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1082 - 16 msgs

2003-01-30 Thread Matt Denton
Hi Jeanne, Yes thanks good tip, I guess I should be clearer: I want to rotate the bitmap by 90 degrees, plus the containing rect of it too. Basically rotate an image by 90 degrees, keep same shape rotated by 90, same dimensions except Horizontal is now Vertical and vice versa. Portrait to La

Re: Setting Pixels - More answers to suggestions

2003-01-30 Thread Sarah
Hi Robert, Yes, an XCMD is like a DLL only for Macs. It means external command (there are also XFCNs - external functions). I have a script that converts RGB <-> HSV if you are interested. As Monte and others have shown, scripting in different ways can dramatically alter the speed of execution

Re: Putting an object in a specific group

2003-01-30 Thread Sarah
You can use the contextual menu. Select your new object, cut it then right-click or control-click on the group and select "Paste into group" Sarah On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 02:56 pm, Jim Witte wrote: This seems like a very silly question (yes, I have looked in the manual), but how d

RE: Printing Docs

2003-01-30 Thread Howard Bornstein
>I found that having the fixedLineHeight of my fields that I'm printing true >fixed a number of problems I had printing on Windows. Thank you Monte. I'll try this. Howard Bornstein D E S I G N E Q www.designeq.com ___ use-revoluti

RE: FAQs from this list...

2003-01-30 Thread erik hansen
p.s. lists.runrev.com/revolution/education/usercontributions.html -- Jim Hurley (LOGO) = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com __

RE: FAQs from this list...

2003-01-30 Thread erik hansen
RR URLs www.HyperActivesw.com -- J. Landman Gay www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm -- Ken Ray www.tactilemedia.com/download/ -- Scott Rossi www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Tutorials.htm -- Chipp Walters www.oenolog.com/who.htm -- Rob Cozens www.fourthworld.com/rev/ -- Richard

Re: Printing Docs

2003-01-30 Thread erik hansen
--- Jan Schenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, if I remember correctly, someone printed > all the > docs to a PDF file ; but I can't find the link > at the > moment. If he or she doesn't speak up or > someone else > doesn't have it mirrored, I'll make it > available somewhere if you like. w

RE: Printing Docs

2003-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
> I am running into this problem (again) with an app I'm readying for > release. There appear to be serious problems with Rev printing, not just > from the TD. I've had my app tested on 5 different printers under XP and > none of them print. They all have the most current drivers. > I found that h

Re: Printing Docs

2003-01-30 Thread Howard Bornstein
>Other people have reported problems when printing, but >these were nearly always resolved by upgrading the >printer drivers. Let's hope RunRev 2.0 fies some of >these problems. I am running into this problem (again) with an app I'm readying for release. There appear to be serious problems with R

RE: FAQs from this list...

2003-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
Don't forget the Wiki at:http://wiki.macitworks.com/revdocs/ Monte > > > This resource should be one of the first things "newbees" > > should be made aware of... > > ...as well as the searchable list archive available at... > http://www.fourthworld.com/rev/ > or > http://www.google.com/advanc

RE: Setting Pixels - More answers to suggestions

2003-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi All I never read the original problem but I just made a custom paint tool with this: -- button script on mouseUp InitialiseImageData InitialisePaintColor end mouseUp -- card script local lImageData,lPaintColor,lMouseDown on InitialiseImageData put the imageData of image 1 into lImag

Re: Printing Docs

2003-01-30 Thread Dave LeYanna
Same kind of stuff I got with my 2000 machine, Got 1/32 point type with my 98 machine. Checked HP website on their drivers page and they don't even have an old one there! Searched Google Groups (what would we do without them?) and found a customer care page for HP that said look on your OS CD. S

Re: Random generator exercise

2003-01-30 Thread miscdas
Mr. Couch, Here is twist on your random string generator. ## This routine builds an alphanumeric string that is approximatly 50% alpha (52 characters)and 50% numeric (50 characters). ## This results in nearly equal probability that an alpha or a numeric character is selected. ## Characters ar

Re: Printing Docs

2003-01-30 Thread Ken Ray
Dave, I opened Rev 1.1.1v2 in Win XP and printed the "&" page from the Dictionary to an HP LaserJet 4100 printer over an internal network. It printed very strangely; I got about 20 pages, each with 1 chunk of information (either a line or a paragraph) and a footer, spaced out with about an two inc

Re: Can I embed PDF driver in a Rev stack built for distribution?

2003-01-30 Thread Claus Dreischer
Ray Bennett wrote: Very clever idea, Geoff! Thanks! I'll give it a go. What about an image reference within PDF? For instance, if I wanted to change the logo on the letterhead, but could guarantee that it was exactly the same size logo everytime? Don't want to change this into a PDF threa

Re: Printing Docs

2003-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Dave LeYanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would just like to know if anybody CAN print from > the Rev. docs little > print button? If they can and everything looks like > they would expect, then > I will assume that there is something wrong with my > configurations(s). I > get different (a

Re: public beta?

2003-01-30 Thread Judy Perry
Troll... On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Printing Docs

2003-01-30 Thread Dave LeYanna
I would just like to know if anybody CAN print from the Rev. docs little print button? If they can and everything looks like they would expect, then I will assume that there is something wrong with my configurations(s). I get different (all ugly) results from different platforms (Win98 - 2000) o

RE: FAQs from this list...

2003-01-30 Thread Gary Rathbone
> This resource should be one of the first things "newbees" > should be made aware of... ...as well as the searchable list archive available at... http://www.fourthworld.com/rev/ or http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com Regards Gary Rathbone __

Re: FAQs from this list...

2003-01-30 Thread Dave LeYanna
VERY nice resource! I have only browsed it a little and it looks as though most of the function require on-line access to use. I am quite often off-line with my notebook (redeeming the time) and would probably like to flag certain things to be available locally. I'll play with it some more. Thi

line tracing

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Hurley
Roger Guay wrote: I would like to trace a line by moving a small brightly colored graphic (say via an equation of motion). This would require that I prevent the screen from updating while the graphic is in motion. I've done this in other APDs but I can't seem to find the way to do it in RR. An

RE: Line Tracing

2003-01-30 Thread Gary Rathbone
> This would require that I prevent the > screen from updating while the graphic is in motion... Check out 'lockscreen' in the Rev help. Sounds like it'll do the job. Regards Gary Rathbone ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://li

Re: FAQs from this list...

2003-01-30 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 09:29 AM, Dave LeYanna wrote: I would be willing to start one if the work won't be a duplication or help if there are already efforts afoot. I know that there is a lot of editing involved and am aware of what I'm getting into. Any thoughts? I think that the

Re: Serendipity Library Update 20030123

2003-01-30 Thread Rob Cozens
Stupidity doesn't have an upper-limit @;-P "Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee.", eh Judy?:{`) [I have responded privately to all other posts on this thread from those with whom I had not previously communicated.] -- Rob Cozens http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm "War is NEVER inevitabl

Re: New AltPlugin updates... Thanks Rob Cozens.

2003-01-30 Thread Rob Cozens
Thanks Rob! Always happy to help where I can, Chipp. Mine was a small addition to a tool I very much needed. IMFO, every developer should have your plugIn installed. -- Rob Cozens http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm "War is NEVER inevitable!" German Chancelor Gerhard Schroeder, 2003 ___

Re: Displaying two cards in different windows

2003-01-30 Thread Rob Cozens
It needs to switch to images back and forth at a preset interval. Currently, I've got the switching set up by alternatively going to one of two cards in a stack. But can I let the user view (and edit) both of these cards at once, to create graphic objects ('open cd ## in new window'?)? Or i

Line Tracing

2003-01-30 Thread Roger Guay
I would like to trace a line by moving a small brightly colored graphic (say via an equation of motion). This would require that I prevent the screen from updating while the graphic is in motion. I've done this in other APDs but I can't seem to find the way to do it in RR. Any ideas? Thanks

FAQs from this list...

2003-01-30 Thread Dave LeYanna
I wonder... There are a LOT of good threads that are very appropriate for a list FAQ. Have there been any attempts at making one? I'm kinda new to REV and the available resources. Some of the best ways for me to learn is to read the DOCS, read the groups, do tutorials and study the code of other

Ask dialog box

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Hurley
I am not very familiar with the fine points of RR on the PC. So this may be a well known issue for many of you. I ran a stack generated on the Mac (where it runs as expected) on the PC but ran into quirky behavior. The Ask dialog box didn't disappear entirely after clicking OK. It hung around

Re: Setting Pixels - Congratulations Monte!

2003-01-30 Thread Dave LeYanna
GREAT JOB folks! djl At 02:04 PM 1/30/03 -0200, you wrote: Monte has beat us ALL to the punch! Making his recommended alterations to the little test routine shows us that there is no substitute for a good knowledge of the timing aspects of the Transcript language. The timings on my machine are s

Re: htmlText and images

2003-01-30 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mike, ... What worked (reliable even in a standalone): set the filename of image "test" to URL "http:filepath" set the filename of image "test" to "http:filepath" Its strange, but if I first issue the URL form, and then the same path without URL then it works! I do not know what is happe

Setting Pixels - Congratulations Monte!

2003-01-30 Thread Robert J Warren \(Howsoft.com\)
Monte has beat us ALL to the punch! Making his recommended alterations to the little test routine shows us that there is no substitute for a good knowledge of the timing aspects of the Transcript language. The timings on my machine are similar to his. Thanks Monte! So now I can apply all that has

Re: Color at a location on the screen

2003-01-30 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Matt, Hello Does anyone know how to find the color at a location on the screen? I've got a small clear circle that drags constrained horizontally over a color bar to select a color. The mouseColor works perfectly as long as the cursor is over the color, but as the clear circle is constrai

Re: htmlText and images

2003-01-30 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On Donnerstag, Jan 30, 2003, at 12:11 Europe/Zurich, Mike McManus wrote: ... Though it took some tweaking of a simple "put the htmltext of into field". Didn;t clean up all the oddball html stuff in some cases. The HTMLText property is not intended for "real" HTML pages, it is mainly for th

List users in Las Vegas Area

2003-01-30 Thread Robert Presender
Hi, If there is a list user(s) in the Las Vegas area who would like to contact me for our mutual help for a better understanding of RR, please contact me off list. Thanks. Regards ... Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Las Vegas, Nevada ___ use-revolution mail

Re: How to prevent stack closure?

2003-01-30 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On Donnerstag, Jan 30, 2003, at 12:26 Europe/Zurich, Graham Samuel wrote: ... I now find that if the content of the stack has changed, on clicking the 'close' box, even when the browse tool is chosen, I always get a 'Save changes before closing?' message from the Development environment. My C

Color at a location on the screen

2003-01-30 Thread Matt Denton
Hello Does anyone know how to find the color at a location on the screen? I've got a small clear circle that drags constrained horizontally over a color bar to select a color. The mouseColor works perfectly as long as the cursor is over the color, but as the clear circle is constrained to the

Maximum printable area on a page

2003-01-30 Thread Graham Samuel
I know how to find out the page size and the margins of a page when preparing to print from a Revolution stack (via global properties), but I haven't seen anything that allows a script to determine the printable area on the page - this would normally be expressed as the minimum margins a print

How to prevent stack closure?

2003-01-30 Thread Graham Samuel
This seems a naive question compared with the current list preoccupations, but here goes: I'm designing an app where the user can 'open' a window (stack) which gives some additional info about what's happening, and can then 'close' it again at will, either by a menu action or by clicking the

Re: htmlText and images

2003-01-30 Thread Mike McManus
Why do I need to download the image? It is part of the html page not a stand alone image I want to install. See my last post for a little more detail if I am not clear. It's still early here. On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 05:17 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: On Mittwoch, Jan 29, 2003, at

Re: htmlText and images

2003-01-30 Thread Mike McManus
All very good points. Yes I am including the internet library. Otherwise the other html data would not tranfer. All of which works very well. Though it took some tweaking of a simple "put the htmltext of into field". Didn;t clean up all the oddball html stuff in some cases. The problem is th