Comparison to AppleScript Studio

2003-02-23 Thread Geoff Canyon
Some of you may be aware of the Rev Docs wiki, which I set up awhile back (if you're not, I invite you to have a look). The pages of a wiki are editable by anyone, including you: http://wiki.macitworks.com/revdocs/ A few months ago I put up some pages comparing Revolution to REALbasic. The

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2003-02-23 Thread yves COPPE
Hi Jan and the others when I choose a file with this path : (on mac OS X.2.4 and Rev 1.1.1) /HD/users/myName/folder with long name/text file the folder with long name is so the name of somebody then "-" and his birthdate (dd-mm-) for example : yourname-24-02-2003 if the number of cahrs of thi

Re: Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-23 Thread Geoff Canyon
Almost no question you're right. It sounds like you're taking the right steps. Good luck finding space to get the G4 set up. On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 01:55 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: ** Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:11 -0800 Subject: Re: Rough day on the Revolution front From:

Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-23 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Ken Norris wrote: "...It's a Mac PowerBook 1400c, 133mHz, 48mb RAM, 1.2g HD, under OS 8.6. Up until a couple years ago, it was still a fairly powerful machine, but it tends to be a little wimpy with newer apps these days...[...]... I have a 128mb CF card in the PCMCIA slot as a formatted volume

Re: Custom button icons

2003-02-23 Thread Sarah
The easiest way I find is to make a new temporary stack and use it as a holding place. Select the icon you want in one of the standard libraries and click "Insert image into stack". It will appear in your holding stack. Leaving it selected, change to your library and click "Move (or Copy) selec

Re: Getting images from folder

2003-02-23 Thread Sarah
I think you need something like: set the fileName of image "myImage" to pathToFile Look up "fileName" in the docs and check the examples there. Did you actually set the name of your image to 1 or are you meaning to refer to the first image? Setting the name of an object to a number is not

Getting images from folder

2003-02-23 Thread Tim Hart
I want to keep my pictures seperate from the app itself. I want to be able to call the pictures when i want them. I just can't seem to get the scripting right. I am trying: put image "whatever" into image "1" or put URL "file:whatever/ehatever.jpg" into image "1" please help ___

Getting images from folder

2003-02-23 Thread Tim Hart
I want to keep my pictures seperate from the app itself. I want to be able to call the pictures when i want them. I just can't seem to get the scripting right. I am trying: put image "whatever" into image "1" or put URL "file:whatever/ehatever.jpg" into image "1" please help ___

RE: Double-clicking a document in Windows

2003-02-23 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Graham, You can't easily open a doc in an already opened application by double-clicking on the document, because it will launch another instance of the application. What you need it 'intra-application communication' for instance: when the app launches, it checks a temp txt file to see if an ins

How to resize an Animated Gif

2003-02-23 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi everyone on the list! Recently, while testing version 04 of "EPSimport", I found this unexpected feature. A resized Animated gif. To check this for yourselves, do the following: 1) In the message box write: Create image This empty image will appear in the center of the topstack. 2)Resize thi

Re: Rough day on the Revolution front

2003-02-23 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:15:11 -0800 > Subject: Re: Rough day on the Revolution front > From: Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This definitely sounds like a memory issue. How much physical memory > and virtual memory does your computer have? How much is assigned as a > preferred

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2003-02-23 Thread Yves COPPE
Hi everybody and for Jan I find the problem when I use a long name for a folder the result gves something like /HD/user/userName/.../the truncated long name of the folder#465ED/Text the long name of the folder is truncated and ends with "#465ED" what's that ?? thank for your help -- Greetin

Re: pathway

2003-02-23 Thread Geoff Canyon
Have you tried the open file commands? (as opposed to the url access commands?) Also, you might be able to use AppleScript to do what you want. On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 02:29 AM, yves COPPE wrote: Hi again, I ask my question Perhaps, I get no response because my question is not clear :

Double-clicking a document in Windows

2003-02-23 Thread Graham Samuel
I've read Ken Ray's excellent article on 'Setting Document Associations in Windows', and I think I understand it as far as it goes. Trouble is, the depth of my ignorance is so profound, I don't know where to look for more information - I am totally ignorant of command-lines (well, at least sinc

Re: pathway

2003-02-23 Thread yves COPPE
Hi Yves, IIRC, RunRev only has problems with long filenames, not long paths. Try to find out what the correct pathname would be by using the following script. on mouseUp answer file "Find the file with the long pathname" if the result is "Cancel" then exit mouseUp else put it into fld "ThePa

Icon for a standalone on MacOSX

2003-02-23 Thread paolo mazza
How can I set an icon for my standalone application on MacOSX? Using the application builder of Revolution I can set an icon only for Windows standalones? What about Mac? Ciao, Paolo ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev

Re: pathway

2003-02-23 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- yves COPPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > again, I ask my question > Perhaps, I get no response because my question is > not clear : > > Mac OS X.2.4 with Rev 1.1.1 > I want to access a text file from a script. > the pathway is the following > /HD/user/myname/xxx/text filename. > > bu

pathway

2003-02-23 Thread yves COPPE
Hi again, I ask my question Perhaps, I get no response because my question is not clear : Mac OS X.2.4 with Rev 1.1.1 I want to access a text file from a script. the pathway is the following /HD/user/myname/xxx/text filename. but the name of the folder xxx may not be changed and is too long (the