Re: Button vs. Message box scripts; P.S. Invert matrices?

2003-03-29 Thread Jim Hurley
on Fri Mar 28 09:55:01 2003 Jim Hurley wrote: I ran the following single line in the msg box: >revrotatepoly graphic "MyPoly", 90 and sure enough, the graphic "MyPoly" rotated 90 degrees. But the button handler: On mouseUp revrotatepoly graphic "MyPoly", 90 end mouseUp return an error: "Chunk sour

RE: Introduction and a question

2003-03-29 Thread Ken Ray
Edwin, That's very strange. Can you let us know what version of Rev you're using and whether the listField's group is acting as a background (I'm pretty sure it does) or the other fields have any of their sharedText properties set to true? That would help track this down, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder

Re: Button vs. Message box scripts; P.S. Invert matrices?

2003-03-29 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Fri Mar 28 09:55:01 2003 Jim Hurley wrote: >I ran the following single line in the msg box: >revrotatepoly graphic "MyPoly", 90 >and sure enough, the graphic "MyPoly" rotated 90 >degrees. >But the button handler: >On mouseUp >revrotatepoly graphic "MyPoly", 90 >end mouseUp >return an error: "C

Make an entire card scroll?

2003-03-29 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Valetia asked: * What is the recommended or easiest way to make a group scroll? * How do you position the portion of the content that cannot be seen before the group is scrolled? 1) Determine the size of stack window needed. 2) Position all objects in visible portion of stack window. 3) Group

externals APIs?

2003-03-29 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 05:32 PM, erik hansen wrote: The Rev External SDK mentions "You may also find one of the HyperCard books that cover externals useful." Is the De Voto, Kamins, Winkler book the one being referred to? correct I bought a copy of _Hypertalk 2.2 The Book_, 2nd ed. It lo

Introduction and a question

2003-03-29 Thread Edwin Gore
Just wanted to do a quick introduction.   New to using Revolution, but I was a old Hypercard/SuperCard/Toolbook hand several years ago.   Found out about Revolution through Richard Gaskin's FourthWorld site, and was intrigued enough to download the free version, and then buy the Student fo

Re: List Behaviour

2003-03-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
Check the hilitedLines of the field. On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 01:12 AM, Jez wrote: I want to get the line number in a scrolling list field that the user clicks on. If I set the "Hilite Lines and Selected Text" property on I can use LineOffset(the selection,me) to get the line number.

Re: Recursive subfolder file scanning

2003-03-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
The Rev compared to REALbasic white paper on the runrev web site has an example stack included that does exactly this. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/us

Re: Group Background Behavior

2003-03-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
I can think of a couple ways to do this with Navigator. The easiest is probably this (not tested, you might have to play with it): 1. On the Stack menu, choose the source stack. 2. On the Card menu, choose Card List. 3. Hilite the cards you want to copy. 4. Go to the command panel and enter this

Re: How to rotate a graphic

2003-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ken Norris wrote: > I'm guessing you mean using an _image_ with text in it as part of the > picture, in which case the whole thing should rotate, but not text as a > property value, in this case, the name or label. > > Is that what you mean? Yes -- you can try it out and see for yourse

Re: Group Background Behavior

2003-03-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
I'm not sure if it's included in the beta. You can always get a copy at the url I included: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/navigator On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 01:16 AM, Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote: sounds great, but where is the Navigator in 2.0 beta4.?? I have an Application Browser - not mor

Re: List Behaviour

2003-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jez wrote: > I want to get the line number in a scrolling list field that the user clicks > on. If I set the "Hilite Lines and Selected Text" property on I can use > LineOffset(the selection,me) > to get the line number. But what if I don't want that property set ? Is > there a way I can

Re: How to rotate a graphic

2003-03-29 Thread Ken Norris
** > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:28:15 -0800 > Subject: Re: How to rotate a graphic > From: Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Recently, "Ken Norris" wrote: > >> Nothing appears to work on a circular/oval graphic. At least it's name, >> which appears as text in it, doesn't turn. > > You

Re: List Behaviour

2003-03-29 Thread Ken Norris
** > From: "Jez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: List Behaviour > Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:12:34 - > > I want to get the line number in a scrolling list field that the user clicks > on. If I set the "Hilite Lines and Selected Text" property on I can use > LineOffset(the selection,me) >

Icon queries

2003-03-29 Thread Graham Samuel
I'm reaching the stage with my first Revo development of trying to build a saleable version of the app - in fact three versions, Mac OS9, Mac OSX and Windows. I am gradually solving various problems. The next big thing is the Icon Question. When I used to develop using SuperCard on pre-X Macs,

send to msg substack

2003-03-29 Thread Stephen Messimer
Hi, I am attempting to send a message to a substack of a plugin. The script doesn't work because the msg can't find the stack. Here's the script. on preOpenStack send ckState to stack "xData" -- ckState is a handler in a substack (xData) of a plugin located in the Rev plugins folder end pr

Re: Make an entire card scroll?

2003-03-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Scott, >> What is the best way to make an entire card scroll (thereby achieving an >> effect similar to that of a web browser)? > > Place all the content of the card in a group and scroll the group. Is there a section within the RR docs or anywhere else that explains how this is done? Althou

Group problems

2003-03-29 Thread Jez
I have several scrolling list fields which have the "Hilite Clicked Lines and Selected Text" property on, all working fine. I put these into a Group and strange things start happening - the entry I click on often seems not to be selected at all, but I click around a bit and return and suddenly its