RE: Bug submission

2003-09-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Hey Ken, Good question, Chipp. I just installed Lindows a few days ago and I promised Mark Chia that I'd have a Linux version of RevZilla working... so give me a couple of days and I may have an answer for you. I'm a relative Linux newbie, so I'm not sure where the cookies are hiding...

RE: Variable Watcher bug

2003-09-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Neil, This was just recently discussed, along with fixes posted by Jan Schenkel. Search for: Best version of Rev to use for debugging? -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Phillips Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:49 PM To:

Re: Lobbying for Votes for my Bugs!

2003-09-19 Thread Igor Couto
Dear Jeanne, Thank you for your reply: On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 02:39 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 11:29 AM +1000 9/19/2003, Igor Couto wrote: Very true. Nevertheless, if the majority of the bugs fall into the same level of 'severity', and there are only a limited number of

Re: Breakpoint problem - how to get out of it?

2003-09-19 Thread Graham Samuel
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:30:36 -0500, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the IDE doesn't allow one to have two or more stacks open with the same name, I can't just copy and paste objects and scripts from the corrupt version to a new file based on an earlier, non-corrupt backup. You

RE: Bug submission

2003-09-19 Thread Graham Samuel
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:44:05 -0500, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [the clearest explanation of Bugzilla voting I've seen so far,then] 2. I have something to add to this particular report (my experience involved a different earlier version and also a different version of the MacOS than the

Re: Bug submission

2003-09-19 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 12:27 PM, Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote: I have wasted a lot of time during the last 2 years reporting bugs - Im tired of that. These bugs are serious not cosmetic. I have bought 2 rev licenses in the last years to deliver a program to my costumers, but was

Re: Unicode with answer file and manipulating text fields

2003-09-19 Thread Joel Rees
Hi, I am trying to implement double-byte support for an application I am updating for a customer. I have some things working with Unicode but the majority I have not been able to figure out yet. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me. Setup: Mac OS X.2.6 Input Menu

Drawing with Text

2003-09-19 Thread Thomas Fuerstner
Can somebody tell me, how it's possible to draw text on a JPEG and then save the JPEG together with the text as one picture to hard-disk ? - Thomas Fuerstner ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Drawing with Text

2003-09-19 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Thomas, Can somebody tell me, how it's possible to draw text on a JPEG and then save the JPEG together with the text as one picture to hard-disk ? You will need a field to write in (on top of the JPG) and then simply export a screenshot of that area... Hope that helps... Drop a line,

EBCDIC to ASCII converter

2003-09-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: EBCDIC to ASCII converter Hi all... Has anyone maybe created a converter for EDCDIC files to plain ASCII? I know there are several available as C-routines and conversiontables are available on the web, but why invent the wheel several times Regards, Ton Kuypers

Re: Drawing with Text

2003-09-19 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Thomas, you can try placing a field over your JPEG, set its opaque to false and then export a snapshot. From the dictionary: export snapshot from rect 0,0,200,200 to file Nav.jpg as JPEG Hope this helps, Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list

Bug submissions, Feature requests and Voting

2003-09-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi All, I figured I'd better put in my two eurocents' worth before the end of the discussion this time ;-) Frankly, I think voting on bugs is a _bad_ idea. Not only does this send the wrong message (if you have a problem, you better lobby around for enough votes) but unless it is balanced out by

Re: Bug submissions, Feature requests and Voting

2003-09-19 Thread Igor Couto
Hey, Jan! On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 10:11 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: I figured I'd better put in my two eurocents' worth before the end of the discussion this time ;-) Frankly, I think voting on bugs is a _bad_ idea. I agree totally! However, rather than appearing to be trying to teach

Re: Breakpoint problem - how to get out of it?

2003-09-19 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 01:35 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: I do think this inability to have two stacks in RAM each called 'myStack' or whatever is a weakness of RR. Really there should be more robust scope/naming rules, so that the name of every stack should IMO be in principle be in a

enhancements #667-670

2003-09-19 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 06:11 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Voting should then be reserved for feature requests, so we can share our views on what we really need and what would be helpful but isn't all that urgent. I think that voting for a bug and voting for a enhancement are qualitatively

Re: Unicode with answer file and manipulating text fields

2003-09-19 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Tuviah Snyder wrote: Okay, but how do I determine what to do at runtime? On my system I have three different file names that I am testing with: 1) All english characters 2) All japanese characters 3) Uses european characeters (é) If I use

Re: Pros and cons of where to store image data

2003-09-19 Thread Barry Levine
Ken, Yes; that (QT-compatible) should work fine; but that's not incompatible. Let's use as an example the mpeg2 decoder that is an optionally purchased add-on (from Apple). It may very well work in your Rev app as long as you name it as what your app expects (myMovie.mov in my example rather

Re: Breakpoint problem - how to get out of it?

2003-09-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/19/03 2:35 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: Well, the corrupt stack is really a file with a lot of stacks in it, and because it's corrupt, RR 2.0r2 (the only version that will open it at all) tends to go off into some kind of loop at the drop of a hat, so the suggested technique is likely to lead

RE: Bug submissions, Feature requests and Voting

2003-09-19 Thread Ken Ray
I figured I'd better put in my two eurocents' worth before the end of the discussion this time ;-) Frankly, I think voting on bugs is a _bad_ idea. Personally, I had always looked at voting as being important for upcoming feature enhancements (which is the way it was built into RevZilla

Re: Bug submissions, Feature requests and Voting

2003-09-19 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 06:11 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Voting should then be reserved for feature requests, The distinction might be fuzzy. The solutions for some bugs (timing, empty textFont, rectangle outline) must be cast as enhancements. Also, some enhancements open the doors for

Re: My menu bar is gone...HELP

2003-09-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Mark Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I open my Revolution files or launch Revolution from the Start menu, I no longer get the floating menu bar. Since I don't have the menu bar, I can't search through the documentation to figure out how to make it reappear, nor can I choose the

Re: Breakpoint problem - how to get out of it?

2003-09-19 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I've experienced the same problem and it is annoying. I use sub-stacks to store my libraries and I have to rename the library with a different prefix for each program so if I have two programs open at the same time I don't

Re: Bug submissions, Feature requests and Voting

2003-09-19 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, Sep 19, 2003, at 15:07 Europe/Vienna, Igor Couto wrote: What revolution needs is a plug-in that IS the bug reporting system, to be shipped with the program. I seem to have seen that someone (was it Ken Ray?) who is developing a Rev-like interface to Bugzilla. Something along those

Re: Bug submissions, Feature requests and Voting

2003-09-19 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, Sep 19, 2003, at 15:07 Europe/Vienna, Igor Couto wrote: Bug reporting systems should also be EASILY searchable (and Bugzilla isn't), and it should help novices file reports that are appropriate - ie, directed at the appropriate area, using the correct jargon, etc. If that doesn't

Rev. Developers Meeting

2003-09-19 Thread SimPLsol
The monthly meeting of the Southern California Rev. Developers (including Northern California, Central California, and Wisconsin) will be held Wed. evening, Sept. 24th. The featured topic will be databases (including a presentation by Rob Couzens of SDB, a multi-platform, multi-user db written in

Re: Pros and cons of where to store image data

2003-09-19 Thread Ken Norris
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:01:00 -0600 Subject: Re: Pros and cons of where to store image data From: Barry Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] your best advice to your customers is to stick with the standard QT movie (assuming you want to give them the info on how to change the movies displayed at

Re: Just need some advice

2003-09-19 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Thomas Cole wrote: I will test the standalones on the different platforms, but this is my first project on Revolution. Any Hey, look outs! would be much appreciated. re: fonts, Arial is definitely the sans serif font with the least differences

Re: Breakpoint problem - how to get out of it?

2003-09-19 Thread Yves COPPE
Le vendredi, 19 sep 2003, à 09:35 Europe/Brussels, Graham Samuel a écrit : On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:30:36 -0500, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the IDE doesn't allow one to have two or more stacks open with the same name, I can't just copy and paste objects and scripts from

Re: Pros and cons of where to store image data

2003-09-19 Thread Barry Levine
Ken, My app runs on OSX and XP (probably other Windows, as well). I haven't compiled it for OS9 yet but I know it will work there, as well. I use a QT Player object for referencing .mov and .wav files. Now, I know that may seem like a bizarre combination but I remember reading somewhere that