relative path to stack in send

2003-10-21 Thread Joel Rees
None of these seem to work: send gimmeSomeOThatStuff to stack ../Gurobaru stack.rev send gimmeSomeOThatStuff to stack file:../Gurobaru stack.rev send gimmeSomeOThatStuff to stack URL file:../Gurobaru stack.rev This works, but only if Gurobaru stack is already open: send

Re: cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

2003-10-21 Thread Joel Rees
Hi, Rob, and thanks for the comments ... Is there an easy way to set up something similar to file inclusion? Not that I've found or read of so far...and it would be nice if one existed. Example: Serendipity Library defines about 265 constants; but much of the code independence is lost

RE: Playing large sound files

2003-10-21 Thread Ken Ray
Thomas, What format is the sound file in? 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 Thomas J McGrath III Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 5:37

Newbie question #2

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Malloy
Sorry if I am asking something I should be able to find in the docs, but I HAVE looked. Still trying to port an OMO app to Rev, and get another puzzling error message. The script is a long one with a number of sections like the following. I want to take a number from one cell of a table, do a

Sound issues

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Hello all, I am doing a straight play command for an external sound file and am getting nothing but problems. I tried it first with an aiff file and then with an mp3 file of the same 3 meg sound file. All I get is garbled sounds instead of clean sound. What am I doing wrong??? on

Image Location Problem

2003-10-21 Thread RH
I'm loading a list of files from a folder. Once I have the list I iterate over the list and place the images into a scrolling group. However the first image always defies my set the location line. Example included: myimage1 ends up at 76,30 myimage2 ends up at 100,200 myimage3 ends up at

can a group act like a family?

2003-10-21 Thread erik hansen
can a group act like a family? or radio cluster? families are indexed by numbers: set the family of button Choice #1 to 3 which can, of course, correspond to group names, but that seems awkward. in browser mode, is there a was to make a group hilite a clicked button and dehilite whichever button

Re: cstorev Supercard convert problem - NTREV (New to the Revolution)

2003-10-21 Thread SimPLsol
OS X will swap RAM data to hard disk, and vice versa, as needed. So it is almost impossible to run out of memory in OS X. I have found, however, that limited memory will cause lots of swapping (you can tell this is happening by the sound of your hard disk and the spinning rainbow pizza cursor).

RE: Sound issues

2003-10-21 Thread Ken Ray
Thomas, You need to use a QuickTime player object to play your MP3s: on openCard global gMySound, gMySoundPath if gMySound then set the fileName of player 1 to /Users/mcgrath3/Documents/SCS/UnityCD Project/UnityCD Rev/media/Unity1.mp3 play player 1 end if pass openCard end

Detecting http proxy settings on Mac OS X

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Cragg
Hi Does anyone know a way to detect the current in-use http proxy settings on Mac OS X from within Rev? This is what I know so far. All the network settings (set in the System Preferences Network pane) are stored in the file /var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml. However, although this

Re: If Then statements

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Paul, I am very new to Rev but have been getting the same types of errors. I just put in the end ifs where they hang and figured it was just handled different in REV. I hope someone knows more about if this is true. On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 03:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Newbie question #2

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Malloy wrote: ...I want to take a number from one cell of a table, do a calculation on it, and put the result into another cell of the table (or spreadsheet in OMO). ---Calculate standard scores for DRS Attention subscale if cell 1,1 of fld 1065 is not empty then put cell 1,1 of fld

URL to downloads?

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
What's the URL to the FreeBSD build? The link at http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/downloads.html doesn't seem to be working... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com

Re: must restart in OS X after install ?? - re: Monks

2003-10-21 Thread sims
My Revolution CD, If Monks had Macs, is being beta tested now -- and several people on the list are testing it. By far the most reported bug is that under Mac OS 10.2 the program doesn't launch right after an install . Everyone has got it to launch -- some people after restarting the computer.

Re: Playing large sound files

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Ken, The sound files I have tried to play are aiff, mp3 and m4a as a last resort. I can make them anything if needed. Tom On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 03:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas, What format is the sound file in? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Deleting 1 line from a long list

2003-10-21 Thread Igor Couto
Hi all! I was wondering if the way that I'm going about a certain task is actually the easiest/fastest way. The task is: I have a list (return-delimited) of several hundred words. I need to delete ONE specific word from the list. Right now, I'm using a repeat loop, iterating through the list

Re: closefield-message lost

2003-10-21 Thread bleekerj
Hello list, in my current projekt there are two questions (Mac OSX, RR 2.1): 1) To save changed data in a stack, there is a ToBeSaved-Flag, which gets set, if the contents of a field is changed. Therefore each field has a closefield-handler, which sets the ToBeSaved-Flag. My problem: If

Rev Panther

2003-10-21 Thread Igor Couto
Hi all, I am going to be getting Panther on Saturday, and was wondering whether anyone knew if there is any incompatibility problem between Panther and Rev... I thought I might do the 'wise' thing for once, and try to find out whether installing Panther is something I should be doing to my

Re: Re: bookmark manger

2003-10-21 Thread Wolfgang M . Bereuter
On Montag, Okt 20, 2003, at 03:50 Europe/Vienna, Andre Garzia wrote: On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 10:17 AM, Wolfgang M.Bereuter wrote: Does here anybody know a crossplatform Bookmark-manger (idea: to have it on a USB stick and use it on 3 systems import and export hassfree from one OIS to

Re: Deleting 1 line from a long list

2003-10-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Igor Couto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I was wondering if the way that I'm going about a certain task is actually the easiest/fastest way. The task is: I have a list (return-delimited) of several hundred words. I need to delete ONE specific word from the list. Right now,

Re: can a group act like a family?

2003-10-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- erik hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can a group act like a family? or radio cluster? families are indexed by numbers: set the family of button Choice #1 to 3 which can, of course, correspond to group names, but that seems awkward. in browser mode, is there a was to make a group

Re: Uhh some questions on my HTTPd implementation...

2003-10-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, someone using my httpd server implementation or with better understanding of the http protocol can answer this question: Why opening http://localhost:8080/ on safari/mozilla works fine full of images and stuff and this code on

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 1, Issue 17

2003-10-21 Thread mark
Chipp wrote: check the Find and Replace command under the edit menu in the RR IDE... You are suggesting I should manually search for the word global then find all the globals I have used, and then change each one individually using the RR IDE Find and Replace? Or is there something I am

database query

2003-10-21 Thread Toma Tasovac
hello. i've started learning how to use rev with mySQL today -- it's very exciting. the database query builder is easy enough and i had no problems displaying the contents of the entire record set in the field -- but i'm having difficulties going beyond the query builder. could some kind

Re: database query

2003-10-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Toma Tasovac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello. i've started learning how to use rev with mySQL today -- it's very exciting. the database query builder is easy enough and i had no problems displaying the contents of the entire record set in the field -- but i'm having difficulties

Re: Uhh some questions on my HTTPd implementation...

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Cragg
At 12:38 pm -0200 21/10/03, Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, someone using my httpd server implementation or with better understanding of the http protocol can answer this question: Why opening http://localhost:8080/ on safari/mozilla works fine full of images and stuff and this code on mouseUp

Re: Rev Panther

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Charlesworth
Mine is working fine with Panther. - Original Message - From: Igor Couto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:42 AM Subject: Rev Panther Hi all, I am going to be getting Panther on Saturday, and was wondering whether anyone knew if there is

sending menupick to combobox button

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Swindell
I have a combobox button with several menuitems in it. Next to it is a plain radio button which serves to mark the state (on/off) of the combobox. When the radio button is cllcked, I need it to send a menupick to the combobox so that the current combobox's label's menupick script runs,

Re: sending menupick to combobox button

2003-10-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a combobox button with several menuitems in it. Next to it is a plain radio button which serves to mark the state (on/off) of the combobox. When the radio button is cllcked, I need it to send a menupick to the combobox so that the

Re: sending menupick to combobox button

2003-10-21 Thread Dave Cragg
At 7:38 am -0700 21/10/03, Mark Swindell wrote: I have a combobox button with several menuitems in it. Next to it is a plain radio button which serves to mark the state (on/off) of the combobox. When the radio button is cllcked, I need it to send a menupick to the combobox so that the

Re: sending menupick to combobox button

2003-10-21 Thread Rob Cozens
I have a combobox button with several menuitems in it. Next to it is a plain radio button which serves to mark the state (on/off) of the combobox. When the radio button is cllcked, I need it to send a menupick to the combobox so that the current combobox's label's menupick script runs,

Windows- altering an images layer inside a repeat loop

2003-10-21 Thread Ian Wood
Yet another request for help! My application pans a cubic QTVR and saves out snapshots for a video sequence. For the demo version I want to place an image beta040.gif over the QTVR player 1 as a watermark. Which works fine on OS X OS 9, but on WinXP and Win2000pro the image doesn't appear

Re: Uhh some questions on my HTTPd implementation...

2003-10-21 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: Thank you very much Dave I am patching all the code and will release a new version soon!!! thanks again! Cheers Andre Your server isn't writing any http headers. It looks like the other browsers are more forgiving than libUrl

Re: If Then statements/# Newbie question #2

2003-10-21 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Paul and Thomas, I hope this hasn´t been answered before. The new archives seem to resort the replies even if I sort by date. I guess I need some time to get used to it. I guess I know what the problem is: if cell 1,1 of fld 1065 is not empty then there is no cell in rev. cells are

URL to downloads?

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
What's the URL to the FreeBSD build? The link at http://www.runrev.com/Revolution1/downloads.html doesn't seem to be working... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site

Re: Testing new server upgrade for HTML

2003-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 04:35 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: This is a test of the emergency HTML broadcast system. Tune to your ... This sentence was formatted in bold face. I got plain text. This can be great for those who have trouble turning off HTML. Dar Scott

Re: Rev Panther

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Talluto
On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Igor Couto wrote: Hi all, I am going to be getting Panther on Saturday, and was wondering whether anyone knew if there is any incompatibility problem between Panther and Rev... I thought I might do the 'wise' thing for once, and try to find out

Re: Cells and tables

2003-10-21 Thread Paul Malloy
Thanks for the help. Am I correct in understanding that you cannot refer to a cell in a table field in RR, except as item xx of line xx of field xx? This seems to contradict the documentation, which uses the cell term and says a cell can be referred to by row,column... And is this line failing

RE: Windows- altering an images layer inside a repeat loop

2003-10-21 Thread Ken Ray
Ian, Is the alwaysBuffer of the player set to true? If not, set it to true and try again. If a movie is not buffered, you can't lay things on top of it. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Cells and tables

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Malloy wrote: Am I correct in understanding that you cannot refer to a cell in a table field in RR, except as item xx of line xx of field xx? This seems to contradict the documentation, which uses the cell term and says a cell can be referred to by row,column... And is this line

Re: cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

2003-10-21 Thread Alex Rice
On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 10:57 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Rob wrote: Example: Serendipity Library defines about 265 constants; but much of the code independence is lost because a constant must be defined in each script that uses it rather than in a master list that can be included in each

Re: cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

2003-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Maybe I should be submit a feature request? Joel and Rob- I think a global constant feature would be a really good enhancement request. It is not clear to me what this would look like. Would this go into the first stack, as startup

name of opening stack

2003-10-21 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, There is a stack1a and a stack 1b; both are able to open a stack2. How may stack2 get the name of the stack, which opened it? Any Ideas? Thany a lot! Richard Hillen. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rev2.1 Bug on a Dell Inspiron and some Dell Desktops - bugzilla #794

2003-10-21 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Barry Levine wrote: Rev 2.1.x on Windows (and Windows distributions built from either MacOSX or Windows versions of that revision) pushes the line of text up beyond the top of the field as soon as you specify a font and size. Clicking the fixed line

Re: Printing OS X Buttons ?

2003-10-21 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 02:06 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Hi Rolf, Just a quick copy+paste from the Limitations and Known Issues section in the What's new.txt file in the Revolution folder: -- Issue: On Mac OS and OS X systems, certain controls (scrollbars, standard buttons, radio

Edit Group problem

2003-10-21 Thread Graham Samuel
I'm experimenting to see how easy it is to add items to a group temporarily (to facilitate moving the items round the screen together, either by script of by the user dragging them and the group reacting to a 'grab' command) and later removing the items again. I've succeeded in adding an image

Re: cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

2003-10-21 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:16 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Maybe I should be submit a feature request? Joel and Rob- I think a global constant feature would be a really good enhancement request. It is not clear to me what this would

Re: Windows- altering an images layer inside a repeat loop

2003-10-21 Thread Ian Wood
Thanks again! alwaysBuffer of the player was set to false, because you cannot interact with the player when it is set to true. I'll have to code in a change to true when the 'Make Movie' button is clicked. Ian P.S. I'll be trying out some of the Rev bits from your site, there are a few

Need Icon for standalone, Visual Effects don't work, version info

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas Cole
I'm getting ready to distribute standalones for Mac and PC and I don't know how to make my program without the big diamond with the R in the middle of it. For the Mac side I can change the icon (which will be a fish) by choosing Get Info and pasting the fish graphic in there. But for the PC

Re: Testing new server upgrade for HTML

2003-10-21 Thread Heather Williams
Message: 2 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:38:15 -0600 From: Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Testing new server upgrade for HTML To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Monday, October 20,

Re: cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

2003-10-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Alex Rice wrote: global constant kVersion=1.234 and have kVersion be so defined in script in the entire project. Hmmm. This will require a decision on what is done if there is a conflict since all scripts are compiled independently. Would this also

Re: cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

2003-10-21 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Alex Rice wrote: global constant kVersion=1.234 and have kVersion be so defined in script in the entire project. Hmmm. This will require a decision on what is done if there is a conflict

Re: Cells and tables

2003-10-21 Thread Pär Lindgren
Den 03-10-21 19.00, skrev Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul Malloy wrote: Am I correct in understanding that you cannot refer to a cell in a table field in RR, except as item xx of line xx of field xx? This seems to contradict the documentation, which uses the cell term and says a

Quicktime movie

2003-10-21 Thread talbrech
Hi all. I am quite new to Rev, and am looking for some help on playing a Quicktime movie in Rev. How do I create the Quicktime file in the first place, and then how do I get Rev to play it? Is there a good resource for getting 'how-to' information like this? Thanks for the help. Tamee

Re: Cells and tables

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pär Lindgren wrote: Den 03-10-21 19.00, skrev Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul Malloy wrote: Am I correct in understanding that you cannot refer to a cell in a table field in RR, except as item xx of line xx of field xx? This seems to contradict the documentation, which uses the

Re: name of opening stack

2003-10-21 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard, Hello list, There is a stack1a and a stack 1b; both are able to open a stack2. How may stack2 get the name of the stack, which opened it? I would use a global var :-) Like: on mouseup global gReferrer put the short name of this stack into gReferrer toplevel stack2 end mouseup

qtvr2mov beta available

2003-10-21 Thread Ian Wood
Hi folks, Thanks for the help, the final (he said hopefully) beta is now out, enabling the user to make video sequences from cubic QTVR movies, enabling complex crossfades by importing into a video editor and also video pans for use on DVDs. http://www.azurevision.co.uk/qtvr2mov/ For OS 9,

Re: Quicktime movie

2003-10-21 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Tamee, Hi all. I am quite new to Rev, and am looking for some help on playing a Quicktime movie in Rev. How do I create the Quicktime file in the first place, You could use the revVideoGrabber to record QT movies from a camera... Thats the only way to create QT files in RR... and then how

Re: Quicktime movie

2003-10-21 Thread Ian Wood
Getting the movie into Rev is fairly easy, you add a QuickTime Player (bottom right in the tool bar), go to the inspector (properties in Rev 1.1.1) and click on 'source' which will open up an open file dialog where you can choose the movie file. Making the QT movie is a bit more complex. Is

Re: Playing large sound files

2003-10-21 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Klaus, Do all sounds need to have a controller in order to play? Is the controller just a Quicktime controller? Would the end user then need to have quicktime installed? - I hope not. Why did they not state this in the built in documents? - I played with AIFF, MP3 and MP4s for hours. If I use a

Re: cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Alex Rice wrote: global constant kVersion=1.234 and have kVersion be so defined in script in the entire project. Hmmm. This will require a decision on what is done if there is a conflict

Re: Rev2.1 Bug on a Dell Inspiron and some Dell Desktops - bugzilla #794

2003-10-21 Thread Barry Levine
Alex, The problem is limited to these Dell models and -only- with Rev2.1.x. When I run the problem stack in v2.0.3 IDE or compile with v2.0.3, the problem is gone. If I change the font height back to the original setting (the setting prior to the jump up), it does not resolve the issue.

Re: Playing large sound files

2003-10-21 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Thomas, Klaus, Do all sounds need to have a controller in order to play? Not at all! Its just so handy :-) You can start and stop a player (i suggest to hide the player in that case) with a script, of course... ... start player xxx ... ... stop player xxx ... etc... Is the controller

Re: Need Icon for standalone, Visual Effects don't work, version

2003-10-21 Thread Robert J Warren (howsoft.com)
I'm getting ready to distribute standalones for Mac and PC and I don't know how to make my program without the big diamond with the R in the middle of it. For the Mac side I can change the icon (which will be a fish) by choosing Get Info and pasting the fish graphic in there. But for the PC

[OT] Borrowing Your Words

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Shafer
As a free service at my newly emerging RevolutionPros Web site, I've been thinking about offering a sort of Best of the List section. In this section, I would place individual posts and message threads from this list. The idea is that over time we'd build a repository of the useful discussions

Re: Rev Panther

2003-10-21 Thread Igor Couto
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 12:29 AM, Paul Charlesworth wrote: Mine is working fine with Panther. On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 02:17 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: I have been using both with no problems at all. Guys, THANK YOU very much for the feedback! I can now wait for Saturday

Re: [OT] Borrowing Your Words

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 05:32 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I'm looking for community reaction. I won't start posting the new feature for a few days until I've given you a chance to respond to this idea and we've had time to air it adequately. Dan Shafer, Revolutionary Dan, Great! Sounds

Re: Deleting 1 line from a long list

2003-10-21 Thread Igor Couto
Thank you for all who replied with the EXCELLENT suggestions: On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 07:11 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Try the following : function fDeleteLine pList,pString if pList is empty then return empty if pString is empty then return pList set the wholeMatches to true put

Re: Deleting 1 line from a long list

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Igor Couto wrote: I'm going to try the 3 out, and see if one is any faster/easier to maintain than the others! You can use RevBench to compare snippets easily - it's at: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any

RE: Edit Group problem

2003-10-21 Thread Ken Ray
Graham, First of all, I would avoid editing the group and just address items in the group directly if you can. For example, if you do: delete image face.gif of grp TheGroup you don't need to be in editing mode to do it; you can be just on the card with the browse tool when the command

RE: Testing new server upgrade for HTML

2003-10-21 Thread Ken Ray
Yes, that's correct. The new list software now strips out all that gibberish and html formatting, so you needn't worry about it any more. Yay Thanks, Heather! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Re: relative path to stack in send

2003-10-21 Thread Joel Rees
None of these seem to work: send gimmeSomeOThatStuff to stack ../Gurobaru stack.rev send gimmeSomeOThatStuff to stack file:../Gurobaru stack.rev send gimmeSomeOThatStuff to stack URL file:../Gurobaru stack.rev This works, but only if Gurobaru stack is already open:

double trouble

2003-10-21 Thread sims
Problem - user loads app and every item in window is displayed twice. Every field, btn, image, grc. I've had this occur with two people out of many. Any idea whether this is Rev or hardware or OS 10.2.8 (both had 10.2.8), or maybe Aliens? ;-) atb sims

clear but unclear problem

2003-10-21 Thread sims
Problem: user clicks to go from one card in stack to another (stack has OS X metal ). When the next card is displayed, all fields, btns, images, etc are displayed but the background of the card is transparent (or does not exist) and the previous card is seen underneath all the controls of the