isUpperCase(), anyone?

2003-08-14 Thread Kjetil Rå Hauge
Is there any way to do a simple Unicode-compliant check of whether a character is uppercase? I figured that this would do it: function isUpper x set the useUnicode to true --must be uppercase if the lowercased x is not equal to the original x: return charToNum(x)

Rev CGI on he.net (was Re: [ANN] searchable use-revolution list archives)

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 01:40 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Sure! That would be great... having a really fast ISP that supports Rev is a great thing... I can confirm you can run Rev headless version on a he.net account. Just a hello world test. (connected to server via ssh) # cd bin # curl -O

Centering an object in a window

2003-08-14 Thread Barry Levine
I'm not sure if this is the proper method but it worked so I thought I'd post it. on centerTheObject global theObject set the loc of theObject to (item 1 of the localloc of the loc of this stack) ,\ (item 2 of the localloc of the loc of this stack) end centerTheObject In the script that

Re: How to to recover the automatic number after insertion in a MS Access database

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jérôme_Rosat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to recover the value of an automatic number field of a table after inserting a new record in a MS Access database. Best regards, Jerome Bonjour Jérôme, One way might be to simply fetch the maximum value of this field back from the

Re: Losing track of time

2003-08-14 Thread Howard Bornstein
What are you using to calculate the exact timing? Have you tried storing the seconds (or ticks) when the send is queued, capturing it when the message is sent, and calculating elapsed time? Nah, I'm doing it very low-tech. I start the timer exactly on the hour and when it chimes I look at my

Re: Menu Items of a Popup menu

2003-08-14 Thread Barry Levine
Klaus, Thanks. It was so straightforward that I missed it. Here's how I actually used it: on openStack put revSpeechVoices() into button myVoices -- now the user may choose from any available voice end openStack Regards, Barry On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 12:04 America/Denver,

RE: HyperGASP

2003-08-14 Thread Monte Goulding
Anyone familiar with HyperGASP. If so, is there anything like it for Rev? (It was a programmers support tool for Hypercard). Hi John I don't think there's anything existing at the moment. Just what exactly did you use HyperGASP for. I'm sure it wouldn't be all that tricky to create a plugin

Re: Tools palette

2003-08-14 Thread Sarah
Thanks to everyone who responded to this: at least I'm not alone :-) I am getting closer to a diagnosis, I think although it is still inconsistent. It only seems to happen after opening a script editor window, and closing with the close button instead of using Enter, Enter as I usually do. I

RE: Plain text only please!

2003-08-14 Thread Ken Ray
I did a web search and it doesn't look like you can from the AOL 8 client. If, hoewver, you respond from the web via aol.com, it will come through as plain text (or so I have read). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original

Re: point math

2003-08-14 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 06:27 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: This is definitely not SQML compliant but having your own markup language means never having to say you're sorry. gees! I must be getting old, it's SGML, Standard Generalized Markup Language. Several of my resent posts

Cmd-2,3

2003-08-14 Thread curry
This week my Cmd-2 and 3 (go prev and go next) stopped working. I've reset prefs, then installed the latest version of Rev, but it still doesn't work. Cmd-1 and 4 (go first and go last) do work. In system prefs (Mac 10.1) it seems that all the universal access features are turned off. What's

Re: point math and moving to the music

2003-08-14 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, me you :-) Yep! me you you me me you you me Now we're dancing :-) Ok, but who's supposed to lead? Or are we doing some sort of free-form-tango? :-D Mark Not sure this helps ;-) Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de ___

FTP times out, and then all others blocked

2003-08-14 Thread RGould8
The FTP documentation in Rev is great, but in my situation I'm still in need of more advice. I'm trying to create a folder on an FTP server by creating a dummy file and then deleting it. This works, but in some cases the server times out. If I make a subsequent attempt, I get the Error Previous

Re: Want radio behavior in pushbuttons

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Lyons wrote: It was a little bit of a shock when I saw that we can't set the family property of any kind of buttons to make them work like radio buttons together like we could in HC. Put them in a group. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish

Want radio behavior in pushbuttons

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Lyons
It was a little bit of a shock when I saw that we can't set the family property of any kind of buttons to make them work like radio buttons together like we could in HC. But undaunted, I unset the auto-hilite properties of the two pushbuttons I was working on and put mouseDown scripts in them. In

Possible to make a Fetch-like app in Rev?

2003-08-14 Thread RGould8
Can anyone tell me if it's technically possible to make an app that works like "Fetch" on the Mac? I basically need to write an app that: 1) Permits the user to drag-and-drop a graphic, powerpoint or QT file onto the Revolution stack and automatically upload it to an FTP server. 2) Detects

Re: Pass A URL to cover all Win bases

2003-08-14 Thread FlexibleLearning
In a message dated 13/08/2003 12:34:27 PM GMT Daylight Time, Scott Rossi writes: Just curious why you see a need for this? In MC the docs say to set the shellCommand to "cmd.exe" on NT systems, and WindowsME is seen by MC/Rev as a Windows (not NT) system. Does cmd.exe work better on ME? Hi

Excessive Quoting

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Shafer
I hate to sound cantankerous (a long-held character trait I've been trying to give up recently) but Heather's note about text-only posts gave me the freedom to ask something I've been meaning to ask for a long time. Could we all try to be far more judicious about what we quote from posts to

Re: Menubar Anomalies

2003-08-14 Thread Sarah
Hi Rob, I have seen the same sort of results: your modal stack has no menubar of it's own, so in the IDE, it just uses the default Rev menu for whatever state it is in. When you run the standalone, it looks up the hierarchy to find a menubar to display and the one it gets to is the

Re: Text-to-Speech question

2003-08-14 Thread Ken Norris
on 8/14/03 6:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:46:11 -0600 Subject: Text-to-Speech question From: Barry Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are there any properties or functions that I can use to query Rev for the following speech details: What is the

Re: A tip when using externals and cloning stacks

2003-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/03 8:51 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Just thought I'd save someone else days of searching and experimenting by handing out this tip Loading externals has been iffy for more than one of my projects, and remains a perpetual problem. I've found that externals will load fine on my machine, but

How to update?!

2003-08-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, i downloaded a couple updates from rev page... revLibrary.rev revDistributionBuilder... but i don't know how to install thoose things... Andre Alves Garzia 2003 BRAZIL http://www.soapdog.org

A Newbie Question on best practices with revolution 2.

2003-08-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, Altought I am not a programmer newbie, I am a revolution newbie. I fiddle with revolution since the early days when it went public for I was fond of hypercard, I am now in the process of buying a license to complete my first commercial product. The problem is that I think I am not

Re: Windows Version Numbers

2003-08-14 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought the following might prove helpful for folks doing version detection on Windows... [much stuff deleted to conserve bandwidth] put word 2 of the systemVersion into V if word 1 of the systemVersion = Windows then switch case V=4 and V4.1 put Windows 95

Re: Regular expressions - detecting whitespace

2003-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/03 2:33 PM, Jim Witte wrote: What kind of regular expression can I use to detect if a string is entirely whitespace (space, tab, or return)? I tried ^([\s|\t|\n]*) but that didn't work. If you aren't set on using regex, there's a fast native way that I always use: if the number

Re: Excessive Quoting

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
curmudgeonliness Dan Shafer wrote: Could we all try to be far more judicious about what we quote from posts to which we are replying? Extra bonus points if could we also quote in standard top-to-bottom reading order. With a mix of readable (new at bottom) vs. comprehensive (new at top) styles

Re: For true beginners

2003-08-14 Thread Sylvain Bouju
Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things like a phone dialer, an MP3 playlist, a graph maker, a set of stack templates, etc. I think that a very basic but multi-plateform adress book, with some import/export capabilities with the most used actual PIM would be a good learning tool, IMHO

Re: Arrays and custom properties

2003-08-14 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Steve, Jan Schenkel wrote: You can't save data inside a stand-alone. However, you can save the data in a separate stack that you don't include in the stand-alone. Hope this clarified it, If the separate stack is a .rev file, and it is loaded with the command start using c:xxx.rev or some

Re: I speak French, so I think that I can't use Revolution, aaaaargh.

2003-08-14 Thread Pierre Sahores
François Cuneo wrote: Je vais voir si je peux mettre un thème Revolution sur notre forum. J'avertirai ici si ça se fait. -- François Cuneo Site Web dédié au Macintosh http://www.cuk.ch E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most we speak about RR/MC,... and it would be cool to speak about

Re: Losing track of time

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Yennie
Is it possible that scripts are running at the time when the message is meant to be delivered? Messages won't be delivered in the middle of running handlers unless you use an asynchronous call such as wait with messages. For example, try this: global sTime on mouseUp put the seconds into

Re: I speak German, so I think that I can't use Revolution, merde:-)

2003-08-14 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 4:46 AM -0700 8/8/03, Klaus Major wrote: P.S. I would really love to hear a little bit more form edinburgh on this list... Some sort of affirmation or stuff, just to make their customers feel safe or secure... (This is hard to express as a non-native english speaker... You get the picture...:-)

Re: Losing track of time

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 11:30 AM, Howard Bornstein wrote: The problem is that, for example, if I set the timer to chime every hour, I am losing about 5 seconds each time I cycle through. Originally, this was because I had the play chime2.wav command before the send reminder command. So

Re: unzip (not gzip/zlib)

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: I think there are, but I forgot the name. Clue: I think they are maintained by a site right here in New Mexico at Las Cruces or White Sands or something like that. Thanks Dar- you are right it's http://www.info-zip.org They have

Re: what selected text?!

2003-08-14 Thread sims
Hi all, I'm trying the most basic thing with a button and text in a field. My buttons script is on mouseUp put the selectedText end mouseUp I select text in the field, push the button, and all that happens is the text de-selects. I'm just trying to get a handle on how to work with text so I can

Re: Externals [was: How to place revVideograbber bundle inside of the app bundle? ]

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Yennie
Won´t work. When trying to load the externals the defaultfolder is outside of the app bundle (is it called package in english? It is Paket in german) So this would expect the external in a nasty little folder called contents/MacOS/ which lives next door to myapp.app This folder doesn´t exist

Re: How to place revVideograbber bundle inside of the app bundle?

2003-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/6/03 8:58 AM, Malte Brill wrote: I tried setting the externals of the stack at runtime in the openstack handler. (looked for the first item of the effective filename that has .app as the last four chars, then took that item, added /Contents/Resources/revvideograbber.bundle to it and then set

Re: PICTs on MSWindows?

2003-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/5/03 4:02 AM, Joel Rees wrote: Can Revolution play use PICT images directly on MSWindows boxes, or will it be necessary to convert the images to a MS-specific or non-Mac standard file format? PICT images can only be displayed on Macs, so you'll have to convert them. Gif and jpg are the most

Re: Make games with Revolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Judy Perry
Hmmm... 3 months? I'll have to go through my students' work; their semester group project is to make a game. I also have an independent study student who is doing on on the Aztec empire in rev, but don't know if he can get it done well in the next three months. Perhaps this is the encouragement

Re: Revolution speed sucks?

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Yennie
I also didn't mean to bash anyone back, if that's how it came across. In any case, I just didn't want Andy to feel singled out or shot back at. Now that we've all kissed and made up, back to it! Andy, I downloaded your Perl script and it's actually quite readable for Perl (which is in fact a

How to use Automatic query builder to insert a record!

2003-08-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, I just moved from my rev 1.0 to rev 2.0 and well, it's 2:38 in the morning and i can't stop coding. I am exploring the new database features and I have a doubt. I made a simple address book app for me, I am using a MySQL database and using automatic query builder. All my fields are

Re: Teams

2003-08-14 Thread Troy Rollins
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In the meantime, I've worked in teams of four or five with Rev stuff and we did it with no special tools at all. We used a modular aproach with multiple stack files, having defined a few rules about how the parts fit together and

Re: Teams

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Dar Scott wrote: Now is it more progress or less progress if my code is half the size it was the day before? Ha Ha! I knew this could be a touchy subject. IMHO, this is progress. It indicates to me reaching a point where you have organized the problem or solution better, probably reduced much

Re: Arrays and custom properties

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Klaus Major wrote: If you only store data in that stack, you can simply access these (custom props etc...) by passing the filename like: ... set the uCData[tCustID,name] of stack path to your/stack.rev to fld customerName ... Thanks, I would not have thought of this. Sometimes I get rigid

Re: How can I inspect imported sounds?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Talluto
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Graham wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:45:43 -0700, Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preferences - Application Browser - Show audio clips Oh well... I did say it was probably obvious! Was not that obvious to me when I needed that info recently.

Re: serial Import, no Nulls?

2003-08-14 Thread Sarah
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 01:36 am, R. Hillen wrote: So it is possible for me to read 8-bit-Data incl. NULs from the serial port using Windows or Mac OS. On Mac OSX I have from my old Mac-OS-days a serial stealth-adapter and found for it a OSX driver. But until now I didnt succeed in

RE: Script Limits

2003-08-14 Thread Ken Ray
This was a thread that was on the MetaCard list that generated a ton of posts, and before anyone who is reading this for the first time thinks that Rev is going to tweak the scriptlimits and start a new avalanche of posts on THIS list, let me assure you that Kevin sent a follow-up email yesterday

Re: [ANN] searchable use-revolution list archives

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Cool! Will I be able to use checkboxes to check items I want checked, like tooltips and button labels and names and label fields? (I wish the IDE put some sort of word like label in the names of labels automatically. Mine end up

Re: what selected text?!

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Steve Ralston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying the most basic thing with a button and text in a field. My buttons script is on mouseUp put the selectedText end mouseUp I select text in the field, push the button, and all that happens is the text de-selects. I'm just

Re: Revolution speed sucks?

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Yennie
Amen! BTW, I did indeed out of curiosity port the Perl code behind this thread almost line-by-line into MetaTalk. The result? No matter how hard I tried the Perl code ran at least 10% faster. Not a big difference, but the MetaTalk was NOT a clear winner by any means. That doesn't mean Perl is

Re: Possible to make a Fetch-like app in Rev?

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 09:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me if it's technically possible to make an app that works like Fetch on the Mac? I basically need to write an app that: 1)  Permits the user to drag-and-drop a graphic, powerpoint or QT file onto the

Re: Amazing Splash Screen Effect...

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Rossi
On 8/5/03 4:40 PM, Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hang in there. Antialiasing images is coming to Rev soon! Why would one want to use rev to anti-alias an image? It's graphics that are required. Agreed. I would argue that currently there are several means to deploy antialiased

Re: Inconsistent results

2003-08-14 Thread Sarah
Hi Barry, My guess would be that first time through, the selectedText selectedLine are not defined. Perhaps clicking the button changed the selection. Here is how I would start: put the hilitedLine of fld users into theLine put the selectedText of fld users into userToDelete Then ask for

RE: HyperGASP

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Shafer
Found this description of this $75 product on the product site at http://www.calibanmw.com/hg30.html. It appears to be currently maintained. Not clear whether it could be made to work with RunRev or not. Everything you need to develop rich, sophisticated multimedia presentations and Web pages

Re: Tools palette

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Sarah wrote: Has anyone else had the problem of the Tools palette disappearing and not coming back? Sometimes, it just disappears. It is still ticked in the Tools menu and de-selecting/selecting it there does no good. Command-T doesn't help either - the only solution is to shut down

graphic antialiasing [was Re: Amazing Splash Screen Effect...]

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 06:30 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: The lack of anti-aliasing means that Rev can't really claim to be a multimedia tool and also is a disadvantage for charting etc in data management and representation apps. Well it's still a multimedia tool either way, in my book :-)

Re:Open Sourced Externals

2003-08-14 Thread WIlliam Griffin
In reference to open sourcing the externals. if this is going to happen, I would be happy to host them. I could probably cover about 100 megs of these. Maybe 200 megs tops. How many are there? I don't actually know how to make an externa myself but seeing on the games that will be followed by

Re: Arrays and custom properties

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 05:20 PM, Alex Rice wrote: However, it's roughly 25% slower to use the filename form of set the uCData[...] of stack filename, instead of having the stack open already, by go invisible, and then referring to it like set uCData[...] of stack name Do I still save

Re: QuickTime with Win2000 Client

2003-08-14 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 4:44 AM -0700 8/10/03, Revoca Support wrote: With Windows2000 clients are files show as images, but not with the QuicktimePlayer, when the files should be readed from a server. Movies or sounds, witch are played with the QuickTime - player, are played from CD's and from lokal HD's but not from

Re: Amazing Splash Screen Effect...

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Talluto
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 05:30 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: 1) Scale up 200 - 400 (using bilinear or bicubic, the default works fine) 2) Apply a Median filter 3) Scale back down. Sounds easy enough! Works good. You can check out what it looks like at the bottom of this page:

Re: GPS systems

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 04:41 PM, cteno4 wrote: Has anyone had any experience with getting GPS data from a GPS unit into metacard or rev? No, but I have done it in the past with LabVIEW and serial. I'm working on a data collection system for a research project and am hoping to grab

Re: Revolution speed sucks?

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Yennie
From a first glance, these tips should buy you an initial speedup, and are mostly GUI-related. 1) Don't read line-by-line through a field. Instead of: repeat for each line gameLine in fld gamelist do this: put fld gamelist into gameList repeat for each line gameLine in gameList You also refer

Re: Menu items of a popup menu

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Shafer
On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Barry Levine wrote: In the Properties of a popup, I can type in a list of what I want the popup to display when it is mouse-down'd, so to speak. If I wish to fill that popup dynamically, how do I accomplish this? Doesn't look like menu items has anything

Re: I speak French, aaaaargh.

2003-08-14 Thread erik hansen
stick around, J. --- Jérôme_Rosat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bonjour François, Après avoir lu ton article sur Revolution je suis à deux doigts de l'acheter. Malheureusement je vois plusieurs points négatifs: - absence de documentation en français - absence d'une version française du

Re: [ANN] searchable use-revolution list archives

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: Don't you use OLM.net? If not, someone here mentioned that they use it and were able to get it up and running with them. That was me! ;-) Although I am on OLM, I was actually thinking that it would be great to have a choice between ISPs that can handle Rev well... If

Re: Teams

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 04:48 PM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: (although a small amount of code that works is a lot better than a lot of code that doesn't, it is unfortunately a necessary management function to track progress in some way or another.) Now is it more progress or less progress if

Re: Database management

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Andre Rombauts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! I've posted several messages related to database management and CGI scripting with Revolution 2.02 but don't need any answer... :-( Are my questions so stupid? I am an educator, not a professionnal programmer... Presently I have

Re: [ANN] searchable use-revolution list archives

2003-08-14 Thread sims
I frequently use google to search this list's archives, but unfortunately the google index usually lags a month or so. Here is a new web search of the use-revolution list archives: http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi Alex Rice, Software Developer Very nice! Thanks. sims --

Drag rearranging in scrolling fields

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Witte
Hi, Has anyone written a stack to implement drag rearrangement behavior in a field? I want to be able to put text into a field, then drag lines around to rearrange them, and then get a list of lines that have been moved. Thanks, Jim ___

Re: Unable to switch to version 2.

2003-08-14 Thread taillade
Le mardi, 12 aoû 2003, à 18:02 Europe/Paris, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi Michel, Are you able to open the vgstack.rev as a main stack in Rev 2.xx ? If not, your are probably using MacOS X. Try, as a workaround, 1.- to save vgstack.rev as a mainstack if it is not, from within Rev 1.1.1. 2.-

Re: [ANN] searchable use-revolution list archives

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Talluto
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Sure! That would be great... having a really fast ISP that supports Rev is a great thing... Ken, Don't you use OLM.net? If not, someone here mentioned that they use it and were able to get it up and running with them. Best regards,

Re: Losing track of time

2003-08-14 Thread Howard Bornstein
Is it possible that scripts are running at the time when the message is meant to be delivered? Nope, at least not in my tests. Two simple scripts: on mouseup global sendID cancel sendID put fld TheTime into timer if timer is not empty then send reminder to this stack in timer*60

Re: Revolution speed sucks?

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
Andy, grab some coffee and lets chat. On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 12:29 PM, yoy wrote: Still, Perl is much faster. I generated another 50,000 games (Powerball) and with error checking and print OUT and it took only 5 seconds. The price you pay for a gui?? Maybe I just wrote better perl

Re: New user

2003-08-14 Thread Vikram Singh
The folder: Components help tutorials excercises And information is provided in Independent Study tutorial. Also, be sure to search the archives of this list at: http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi Vikram - Original Message - From: Giles Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Windows Version Numbers

2003-08-14 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ken Ray wrote: Just curious... what version numbers did they return, and for what OSes? Sorry, I didn't have to time to go over to the test facility and determine if there were in any alternate version numbers. But I can tell you that one of the problem systems included Win98G,

Re: visual effects/copy to clipboard/print field

2003-08-14 Thread erik hansen
--- J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A common mistake is to put the visual effect in quotes. HyperCard required it; Revolution forbids it. Take out any quotation marks you may have around visual effects, even if they are more than one word. odd. you would think the expression

[ANN] New website with Revolution files

2003-08-14 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Oops! Forgot to write: All of these links seem to work only if I copy them, paste them into the address text box of I.E. 5.23 (OS X) and hit return. Why this is so? -No idea! http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/BezierLine1_1.zip

Re: Using numbers to access elements in arrays

2003-08-14 Thread Trevor DeVore
On 8/8/03 Martin Baxter wrote I heartily agree that more array flexibility would be welcome in Revolution, and PHP does spoil us rotten in that respect. In the case you cite, just sorting the keys by item 1 might not necessarily end up with the result you assume above. To get that reliably I

Re: unzip (not gzip/zlib)

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Alex Rice wrote: I need to unzip files in Rev. These are .zip files not .gz files. Is there a Rev external for this? Are there any public domain C libraries for this? I think there are, but I forgot the name. Clue: I think they are maintained by a site

RE: [ANN] searchable use-revolution list archives

2003-08-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Alex, Thanks for this exceptionally valuable tool. Now, someone should make a plugin for it (hint). -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

RE: Save as Image

2003-08-14 Thread Ken Ray
Wonderful! I'll make a note of that on the tip page... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Friedman Sent: Wednesday, August 06,

Re: Revolution speed sucks?

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 02:29 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: * He asked for advice, got it, and thanked everyone repeatedly for it * He already posted the URL for his perl script * He readily admits that the difference may be that his perl script was better written! * He and several list

Long File Name Woes in OS X

2003-08-14 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Here we work entirely in a Mac OS X environment... Despite my best efforts at the source end of a particular work flow, for a sound archiving project, we are still getting long file names from PC users on our team...where Windows allows, e.g. GD_dharmapuram_speech-02-04-83.aif Since these

Ext Collection: Opensourcing

2003-08-14 Thread Vikram Singh
Now that Rev is on the roll and many of the External Collections's features are inbuilt, is it possible to open-source that external, so novices like me can get an idea how to write externals. I mean learning things like launching Color-Picker. It might also be just the kind of freeware that

Re: For true beginners

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Norris wrote: Richard Gaskin's work on this, with his extensive comments on the why's, where's and how to write scripts to execute no matter what platform you do a build for is just brilliant. As I read through some of the postings here I can sometimes tell when when other people are

Re: Externals [was: How to place revVideograbber bundle inside of the app bundle? ]

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Yennie
[snip] Oh wait... *I think* this will work: set the externals to just revvideograbber.bundle (no path). And put the revvideograbber.bundle into the folder Your.app/Contents/MacOS , right alongside the actual executable. [/snip] If this doesn't work, you might try setting to

Re: For true beginners

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Robinson
Ken all on this thread. There is my 2 cents worth. I am not a beginner or a pro, I am somewhere in-between depending on what I am try to do (as my posting today about the scroll-wheel on my mouse will tell you). I also started with hypercard 1.x, but you could not build a standalone application

Best way to repeat on a timer?

2003-08-14 Thread RGould8
I've got an app that needs to poll the user's network settings every 3 seconds. I'm presently doing this by calling a unix command via the shell command in Revolution on Mac OS X. The problem I'm having is that, while this seems to work, it makes dragging the application window very jittery when

Re: Tools palette

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 14 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:16:48 +1000 From: Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tools palette To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone else had the problem of the Tools palette disappearing and not coming back? Sometimes, it just disappears. It is still ticked in the

RE: Revolution speed sucks? Combined reply.

2003-08-14 Thread Monte Goulding
Monte and others, My .rev stack is available at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/foxcat/OmniLotto.rev There are bugs in it so for best results go to the Prefs stack first and click the OK button then press the Start button on the mainstack. I'm still scratching my head on that issue. I'm

Missing Icon - half cleared up

2003-08-14 Thread Barry Levine
Well, I RTFM and found the reference to the gRevAppSmallIcon and gRevAppIcon. That resolves the mystery of the disappearing app icons in my standalone. However, the missing question icon (as in 'ask question my message ') is still not found. Would someone try this and let me know if it's just

Re: How to examine Rev stacks?

2003-08-14 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 8:05 AM -0700 8/5/03, Jim Lyons wrote: One or more folks here recommended looking inside the Independent Study stack in the rev docs for an education in how to write scripts correctly. I've been trying for a little while to do that (even checked last month's list archive) but with no luck -- if

Re: Convert frequency to RGB

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 09:24 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: But I have had a thought about how to simulate a continuous variation in frequency of emerging light rays. So I would like a formula which allows for a continuous variation in color of the graphic lines. But I'll bet that someone has

Re: Full justified text

2003-08-14 Thread Kjetil Rå Hauge
Is there some free softwares to use for have full justified text and which are scriptables ? Text-Edit Plus and Style. Have a look at versiontracker.com. -- --- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo, PO Box 1030 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway Tel. +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140

Re: I speak French, so I think that I can't use Revolution, aaaaargh.

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Brenstein
Thank you for all your answers. I'm really not sure that it's a bug as Klaus says. One more time, I had exactly the same problem with RealBasic and the file's names. I had a conversion with a variable to do with UTF8 and all was in order. So maybe I'll put the problem in the bug database but...

How to to recover the automatic number after insertion in a MS Access database

2003-08-14 Thread Jérôme Rosat
How to recover the value of an automatic number field of a table after inserting a new record in a MS Access database. Best regards, Jerome ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: I speak French, so I think that I can't use Revolution, aaaaargh.

2003-08-14 Thread François Cuneo
Ok, so it's a bug. I hope it will be corrected in the next release! Friendly François -- François Cuneo Site Web dédié au Macintosh http://www.cuk.ch E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] De : Robert Brenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Répondre à : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:10:08

revOpenDatabase question.

2003-08-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, i am using de 30-day-trial edition and revOpenDatabase is returning: revdberr, restricted under current license what does that mean? I can try to use this command? cheers Andre Garzia 2003 imac2 ibook p100 e uma torradeira ___

Re: Update available for license.rev

2003-08-14 Thread Danny Grizzle
On 8/4/03 9:26 PM, Bruce Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My educated guess would be that if you are supposed to be replacing a file, than the replacement should have the same name (and be in the same location) as the file it is replacing... Just an educated guess,,, So your educated

Re: Resizing groups AND their contents

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jim Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got 3 fields which I've grouped together (using the group button on the toolbar). If I drag one of the resize handles of the resulting object, it appears that the group resizes, but the fields inside do not, resulting in some of the

Re: Database management

2003-08-14 Thread revolution
Andre, Here is my understanding of your situation: you have a W2K box which is where your database is located. If you are working locally at the screen of this computer (either physically at the machine, or via something like Terminal Services), then you can access the DB on that machine from

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