revExample plugin

2003-06-06 Thread Alex Rice
I've been playing around with the revExample plugin. It's a good example stack. But there are some things I'm in the dark about. 1) How does one edit and save a plugin stack? If I make changes to the script in revExample, then close the stack, I get stuck in a loop that says "Do you want to sav

Re: Using Superscript and Subscript in Fields

2003-06-06 Thread Paul Charlesworth
Thanks for posting the application, but it didn't seem to work on my PowerBook with RR-2 and led to repeated force-quits even when I made a build, I am not sure what is wrong at this point. What I have found so far with messing is that to create the electron configurations I would need to code

Re: Using Superscript and Subscript in Fields

2003-06-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 03:50 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: The line that needs fixing is: repeat until char tNum+1+j of field 1 is in quote & " " & "," & "." & quote then How do I get a "return" and end of field into this--between the quote pair? put " ,." & return into endingChars repeat until

Re: Using Superscript and Subscript in Fields

2003-06-06 Thread Jim Hurley
--__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 00:12:56 -0400 Subject: Using Superscript and Subscript in Fields From: Paul Charlesworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello All: I would like to represent the electron configuration of elements using superscript

RE: Content Management System

2003-06-06 Thread Dan Shafer
I've just started poking around with Chipp Walters' CMS, Hemingway. While the program isn't written in Revolution, he has a PC-only client that is. And I'm impressed with the client as well as with the overall capability of Hemingway. I don't know if the client (HemPC) is extensible in RunRe

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1453 - 15 msgs

2003-06-06 Thread Ken Norris
on 6/6/03 10:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 1 > Subject: Slide Controls ? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 05:54:16 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> I should like to include a slide control in various >> stacks

TWAIN support?

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas Rodriguez
Hi again, Does anyone know how to pilot a TWAIN-compatible scanner directly from within Rev? Thomas Rodriguez ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Rev 2 video library

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas Rodriguez
Hello, I can't succeed on using the rev video library: every time I try to call the "revInitializeVideoGrabber" handler, it returns an error: revInitializeVideoGrabber "QT","10,10,200,200" -> Message execution error: Error description: send: error in message expression This happens on an iBook

RE: Yikes! E-mail harvesting possibility?

2003-06-06 Thread Ken Norris
** > From: "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Yikes! E-mail harvesting possibility? > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:14:08 -0500 > >> It is perfectly reasonable to communicate with individuals >> via the list. If the RR list moderators could remove >> e-mail addresses from the di

Re: Scroll to -- another newbie question

2003-06-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Duane, I am programming a dictionary. I would like my find field to work like the "scroll to" function on the Transcript Language Dictionary. Trouble is I can't seem to figure out how to make that work. Can anyone give me any hints? Yo :-) Put this into the script of your find fld: on keyUp

RE: Yikes! E-mail harvesting possibility?

2003-06-06 Thread David Vaughan
On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 00:26 Australia/Sydney, "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is perfectly reasonable to communicate with individuals via the list. If the RR list moderators could remove e-mail addresses from the digests I belive they would do us all a favour. Perhaps, but sometim

Re: Slide Controls ?

2003-06-06 Thread Ken Norris
* > Subject: Slide Controls ? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 05:54:16 -0400 > > Presumably 'scrollbar'? I have done that already: that is > not really my sticking point. > > What I do need to know is how to get the position of the > button on the slide to return a

2 colors for 2 line btn labels?

2003-06-06 Thread erik hansen
set the foregroundcolor of line 1 of \ btn "bXilo" to blue Message execution error: Error description: Chunk: container is not a button or field TD: • The foregroundColor of a button is used for the text of the button. is there a way to set different colors for different lines in the label on a

Re: can't access database functions from an inserted script

2003-06-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
I experienced the same problem when I started working on my first DB app. My setup was as follows: SplashStack - this stack is the executable that is built by Distribution Builder MainStack - This stack has the interface and is launched by SplashStack and starts using DatabaseStack as a librar

converting Vectors to Bitmaps with mask

2003-06-06 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Tue Jun 3 14:01:01 2003 Chipp Walters wrote: >Here's how I would approach it. >[snip] >1) Create your vector graphic >2) Convert it to a bitmap with import snapshot >the rect of the graphic (be sure to use the window ID) >3) Re-render your vector graphic so that it is >black on white, thus cr

1.1.1 Buttons in 2.0

2003-06-06 Thread Dan Friedman
I opened a stack created in 1.1.1 in 2.0. All the buttons that were set as "Standard" appear as if they were 1.1.1's "Rectangle" buttons. And the "Rectangle" buttons don't have the same appearance as a new rectangle button. If I delete the original button and create a new one it's fine. Can any

RE: RE: Yikes! E-mail harvesting possibility?

2003-06-06 Thread Edwin Gore
What about having whatever script it is that processes the emails into the web pages simply automatically inserts "*4 random characters*" after any @ symbols that it sees. That makes it easy to see the real address, but the randomized "no spam" inserted into the middle makes it very hard to har

Non-functioning links in Documentation

2003-06-06 Thread Edwin Gore
I'm stilling finding some links in the help for 2.0 release version that don't work, at least under Windows 2K and XP Home. An example is Development Guide:Windows & Dialog Boxes:Tips:Minimize Revolution to an Icon Clicking on the topic does nothing. I'll send any others that I find along. Ed

record sound problems

2003-06-06 Thread Dan Soneson
I am using Mac OSX 10.2.5, Rev 1.1.1 AND have tried the new sound routines in Rev 2.0r2. Has anyone found the solution to the recording problems that surface in standalone app on OSX? The sound recording works just fine within Revolution, but it seems no matter what compression scheme, sample

Accessing bundle unix calls

2003-06-06 Thread RGould8
I'm trying to wrap a unix file within a Revolution app and then execute it within the program on a later screen.  This works, except if the user puts the application in a folder that has spaces in it.  My unix file is called "PPPSetup", and it accepts parameters (username/password).  Here's what

Re: again IMPOSSIBLE TO SAVE

2003-06-06 Thread Sarah
I had this sort of problem when I had a file with a non-standard character. You also have a non-standard character in your file name. If you change this, I'm sure your save problems will disappear. Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/ On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 01:27 am, Em

Re: problems with PAINT project

2003-06-06 Thread David Squance
Mark, Have you checked the memory available? I found some odd problems early on with the trial version, and am pretty sure it was simply because RR ran out of memory. I may need to be corrected (being somewhat of a newbie), but I understand that RR tends to keep stuff in memory until the program

RE: Hacking inside the license file ????

2003-06-06 Thread Monte Goulding
> If I wish to modify certain aspects of the 'Home' stack or > its substacks I am unable to because when I open it within > MetaCard I get a message about 2 stacks with the same name. > > Is there a way round this? > Use the plugin achitecture for things you whald have put in the home stack int H

spreadsheet-type field

2003-06-06 Thread Barry Levine
So we've got this very nice spreadsheet kind of field that one can use for a grid of cells if one carefully intercepts all user mouseclicks and keystrokes to make sure that the user doesn't click where he should not or type what he should not. It seems to me that this type of field is somewhat

Re: mouse function problem

2003-06-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Beck wrote: I'm a happy user of Rev 1.1.1, but I found a problem with the mouse function which I am having trouble working around. It seems that in certain instances the mouse funciton gets stuck returning "down" when the mouse is actually up. In addition to what others have said, there is mo

Can't import an image in 2.0

2003-06-06 Thread Edwin Gore
I have worked with images before, but only as controls, and setting the image of the control to a file. Today, I decided to fool around with windowShape for somethign I am working for. I selected the "Image Library" menu item, selected my stack in the pull down on the library window, but nothin

can't access database functions from an inserted script

2003-06-06 Thread Eric Peden
For some reason, when I insert a script from a utility stack into the back from a main stack, the inserted script is unable to call any database functions. I am building a system for providing interaction between an instructor and students in distance learning classes. This system has an admini

Re: Script Improvement Advice

2003-06-06 Thread Cubist
In a message dated 6/5/2003 3:22:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >Message: 11 > sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >What I tend to do is put the script in the card and then call the >routine from the button e.g. > >In the button > >On mouseup > DisplayElement > --this invokes the handler named Dis

Revolution Birthday Present

2003-06-06 Thread Heather Williams
Dear list members, Revolution's anniversary is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, and celebrate the arrival of 2.0, we'd like to show our appreciation of this great community. This list and the people on it are a great resource for all Revolutionaries. I hereby institute the annual Revoluti

Re: mouse function problem

2003-06-06 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 10 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 20:42:30 -0700 Subject: mouse function problem From: David Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, I'm a happy user of Rev 1.1.1, but I found a problem with the mouse function which I am having trouble working around. It

standalone problems

2003-06-06 Thread Emmanuel Companys
I built a macOS X standalone using a 64 mac under macOs 10.2.6. 1°) Window difficult to use: the button at the bottom: you have less than 1 mm to put the mouse pointer in! ut I succeeded. 2°) the revSpeak command does not work and the remainder of the handler is ignored. Here is a piece of it

RE: Yikes! E-mail harvesting possibility?

2003-06-06 Thread Ken Ray
> It is perfectly reasonable to communicate with individuals > via the list. If the RR list moderators could remove > e-mail addresses from the digests I belive they would do us > all a favour. Perhaps, but sometimes on-list conversations become off-list ones, and in order for someone to email so

Re: How-to build a font sub-menu?

2003-06-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Simon, On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 10:50 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: You might want to take a look at "Recipe for populating a Text menu" in the Cookbook. Mmm, OK, where do I find it? There's a tutorial on using the Menu Builder, but that doesn't talk about sub-menus. There's nothing t

Content management system

2003-06-06 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Has anyone made a Content management system for a Website using RunRev as CGI-app? Terry ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Script Improvement Advice

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Charlesworth wrote: > Then my few days of learning to program kicks in and I get a little > confused with what comes next. Do I create that property using script > or the property inspector? If so, how and how do I call it? In Revolution Development Guide, choose "Values & Properties" --

Re: How-to build a font sub-menu?

2003-06-06 Thread Emmanuel Companys
Le vendredi, 6 juin 2003, à 06:26 Europe/Paris, Simon Brown a écrit : On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 10:50 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: You might want to take a look at "Recipe for populating a Text menu" in the Cookbook. Mmm, OK, where do I find it? There's a tutorial on using the Menu Build

Re: How-to build a font sub-menu?

2003-06-06 Thread Simon Brown
On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 10:50 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: You might want to take a look at "Recipe for populating a Text menu" in the Cookbook. Mmm, OK, where do I find it? There's a tutorial on using the Menu Builder, but that doesn't talk about sub-menus. There's nothing that I can

Rép : Build Distribution & Speech problem

2003-06-06 Thread Emmanuel Companys
The following post did not show up in my in-box, so I am sending it again. Excuse me if you already received it. BEGINNING OF THE RESENT POST De: Emmanuel Companys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Ven 6 juin 2003 12:50:48 Europe/Paris À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Rép : Build Distribution & Speech pr

Pasting from Web Browser

2003-06-06 Thread Bruce Lewis
I select and copy some text in Safari. I paste it into a field in a Revolution stack. Text sizes and styles are lost. With Internet Explorer they are retained. Does anyone know why this would be and whether there is a way to use Safari and retain the sizes and styles when pasting? Strangely en

Ego-Boosting no longer supported?

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
Damn! My ego is no longer being massaged by the use-list because within the last 20 minutes all contributions are coming up with a generic originator. When, oh, when, will I be able to stop shouting "Ug, Ug, Ug" and beating my chest through the jungle all by myself? Richmond Mathewson --

Re: Build Distribution & Speech problem

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
After I made the standalone there was also a file named revspeech.bundle, which in my case was in the data folder. In my case the "Standalone-acOSX- ..." folder contained two icons: the RR of the application and an EMPTY data folder. I found the revspeech.bundle folder in "Components/global env

Re: Slide Controls ?

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I should like to include a slide control in various >> stacks. >> >> Ideally as the user slid the control back and forwards >> along the control bar a value (let us say between 0 and > 1) >> would be returned to a holder (e.g. Xnumber) which could >> then be used

Re: Build Distribution & Speech problem

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
Thank you for replying this fast, Sim. But I am still not through... :-( Le vendredi, 6 juin 2003, à 12:17 Europe/Paris, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I didn't know some externals were necessary to use the revSpeak command, and from Alex and SIm's posts I can't gather what I have to do. - whic

Slide Controls ?

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
> I should like to include a slide control in various > stacks. > > Ideally as the user slid the control back and forwards > along the control bar a value (let us say between 0 and 1) > would be returned to a holder (e.g. Xnumber) which could > then be used to control things such as volume, r

Re: Slide Controls ?

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
Hi Richmond, I should like to include a slide control in various stacks. Ideally as the user slid the control back and forwards along the control bar a value (let us say between 0 and 1) would be returned to a holder (e.g. Xnumber) which could then be used to control things such as volume, ra

problems with PAINT project

2003-06-06 Thread mitchell mark
I'm having trouble with a PAINT project. It's just a stack that (Ballows quick$B!!(Band (Beasy painting, so you can choose your paint color from a palette. But (Bthere are two problems: (B (B (B 1. It crashes all the time, whether in the Rev UI or a stand-alone. (BIt will work fine fo

Re: Build Distribution & Speech problem

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
I didn't know some externals were necessary to use the revSpeak command, and from Alex and SIm's posts I can't gather what I have to do. - which files are necessary? Make sure that you check "All others" in the "inclusions" when making the standalone so that the revspeech.bundle gets added. si

Re: Slide Controls ?

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I should like to include a slide control in various > stacks. > > Ideally as the user slid the control back and forwards > along the control bar a value (let us say between 0 and 1) > would be returned to a holder (e.g. Xnumber) which could > then be used to contro

spreadsheet-type field

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
on Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:13:17 -0600 Barry Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So we've got this very nice spreadsheet kind of field Hmm. I've not started on RR 2 yet but, reading the various posts on this I suspect what we've got is a very nice database report kind of field with some enhancem

Slide Controls ?

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
I should like to include a slide control in various stacks. Ideally as the user slid the control back and forwards along the control bar a value (let us say between 0 and 1) would be returned to a holder (e.g. Xnumber) which could then be used to control things such as volume, rates of play,

Re: Build Distribution & Speech problem

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
I didn't know some externals were necessary to use the revSpeak command, and from Alex and SIm's posts I can't gather what I have to do. - which files are necessary? - where do I get them? - where do I put them? I've only done this for Mac OS X. After I made the standalone there was also a fil

Re: Build Distribution & Speech problem

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
I didn't know some externals were necessary to use the revSpeak command, and from Alex and SIm's posts I can't gather what I have to do. - which files are necessary? - where do I get them? - where do I put them? I am using macOS 10.2.6 and want build distributions for macOS, macOS X and Windows.

Re: distribution window

2003-06-06 Thread use-revolution-admin
set the height of stack "revdistributionbuilder" to 400;save stack "revdistributionbuilder" I followed John's advice: my window is fixed. Thank you. Since the "Stack inspector" item is disabled, we have to use the msg box. Manuel ___ use-revolution

Re: Some little questions about Data Stacks

2003-06-06 Thread François Cuneo
One more time, thank you Rob! -- François Cuneo Site Web dédié au Macintosh http://www.cuk.ch E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Yikes! E-mail harvesting possibility?

2003-06-06 Thread Mathewson
Quite. Apart from the harvesting aspect there is the simple fact that the e-mail digests contain all the e-mail addresses of the contributors. So far I have not been able to identify any of the piles of SPAM I seem to get as originating from somebody having subscribed to the e-mail digest - but a

Re: again IMPOSSIBLE TO SAVE

2003-06-06 Thread Emmanuel Companys
Le vendredi, 6 juin 2003, à 01:37 Europe/Paris, Sarah a écrit : I had this sort of problem when I had a file with a non-standard character. You also have a non-standard character in your file name. If you change this, I'm sure your save problems will disappear. It did! Thank you, Sarah. Now, is

Re: table calculations

2003-06-06 Thread Graham
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 01:14:45 -0700 (PDT)Jan Schenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Hi Graham, As Yves already suggestted, you can use a field per column, and that ought to suffice for most purposes, as you can then align per column, etc. And grouping them and adding some setProp and getProp handler

Hacking inside the license file ????

2003-06-06 Thread Mathewson
> If I wish to modify certain aspects of the 'Home' stack or > its substacks I am unable to because when I open it within > MetaCard I get a message about 2 stacks with the same name. > > Is there a way round this? > Use the plugin achitecture for things you whald have put in the home stack int HC

RE: Way to kill off apps if running

2003-06-06 Thread Ken Ray
You can use the tip here: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm?_proc002 To get the AppleScript to get a list of running application processes. To kill one off, I'd assume you'd have to use AppleScript to "tell" that application to quit. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Em

RE: Rev 2.0 ERROR on Windows XP

2003-06-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I have tried the reboot/reinstall, but it did not work. Next, I will try Monte's recommendation. It looks to me like this is something that RunRev will need to tackle for the next update. Thanks everyone! Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: External SDK

2003-06-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 11:19 AM, Alex Rice wrote: On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 07:17 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I just went to http://www.metacard.com/get.html and downloaded the external samples from there. I also downloaded metacard to test the sample external with and everything work

again IMPOSSIBLE TO SAVE

2003-06-06 Thread Emmanuel Companys
Most of the difficulties disappeared when I delete all 1.1.1 files; but NOT ALL of them!. The worst deals with saving and the file name. 1°) I can save the stack I am working on, and even modify its name and/or label, BUT (for instance) "put name of this stack" returns "Litteris 1.1.1 ß" "put t

Re: External SDK

2003-06-06 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 07:17 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I just went to http://www.metacard.com/get.html and downloaded the external samples from there. I also downloaded metacard to test the sample external with and everything worked fine except on OS X you need to change the name of the

Re: Removing text styles

2003-06-06 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jim Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I run the following handler, the style of the > text is not plain. > It retains the text shift. > > on mouseUp > >put "Now is the time." into field 1 >set the textshift of char 3 in field 1 to 3 >set the textstyle of char 1 to -1 of f

Way to kill off apps if running

2003-06-06 Thread RGould8
I need Revolution to determine if "System Preferences" or "Internet Connection" is running in Mac OS X, and if so, QUIT them.  I was looking in the Transcript dictionary under "processes", but that just appears to be internal Revolution processes.  Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

Re: Some little questions about Data Stacks

2003-06-06 Thread Rob Cozens
François, et al: To the best of my knowledge, an external stack can have whatever extension you script support for. One fact of Mac OS life for which I see no workaround is that once you create stacks & stack-opening standalones that support your File Type & Creator codes, you must be careful n

Re: Hacking inside the license file ???? [OT]

2003-06-06 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Mathewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do people get imprisoned for INTENTIONS or for > ACTS ? > > Sorry, Whoops > > Richmond Mathewson > You will go to a maximum security penitentiary, where you will receive no conjugal visits. Except from some big guy you don't wa

Re: External SDK

2003-06-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Trevor, we'll give it a try then. > From: Trevor DeVore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:17:01 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: External SDK > > I just went to http://www.metacard.com/get.html and downloaded the > external samples fr

Re: mouse function problem

2003-06-06 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, David Beck wrote: > I'm a happy user of Rev 1.1.1, but I found a problem with the mouse function > which I am having trouble working around. It seems that in certain instances > the mouse funciton gets stuck returning "down" when the mouse is actually > up. This seems to only be a proble