Re: Problems reading from files in the Classic environment

2003-10-24 Thread Jan Decroos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I came across the situation recently where I developed an app under OS X that was destined for delivery under OS 9. Its core functionality is to read and display a series of html files. To ensure interoperability, the path to these files is constructed using the apps

revmenubar out of sight

2003-10-24 Thread Ernst M. Reicher
Hi listmembers, today when I started Revolution as usual there was no revmenubar. On Windows XP ctrl.-O worked so I opened stack revmessagebox.rev and looked up the rect of stack revmenubar.rev and it was -32000,-32000,-31336,-31933 ?? Regards, Ernst

Re: Problems reading from files in the Classic environment

2003-10-24 Thread Martin Baxter
I'm doing get url file access all the time under MacOS 8.6 and 7.6 without any problems. But I haven't yet upgraded to rev 2.1 and I'm still using 2.0.3 What version of rev are you using ? When you say Classic -I guess you mean 68k MacOS ? I've found there are significant differences there

Movies (compressed audio) don't work in my standalone distribution

2003-10-24 Thread noslen
I'm a newby with amateurish hypercard scripting ability who is trying to get a lot of QuickTime compressed sounds (4:1 IMA, MP3 new MPEG 4 ACC) to work in standalones for my music students. I use the new control command from the object menu to insert a lot of players that I render invisible

Re: How do I delete substacks?

2003-10-24 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, The rub is that I have no idea how those resource stacks became substacks of my main stack. I am guessing it happened during an attempt at building a distribution. If you don't believe in pixies, then this could be the explanation ;-) Mark Have nice evening... Regards Klaus Major

Re: Linux PPC Version?

2003-10-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hello Igor, Two years ago, i had, one hand, to develop, maintain and update Metacard-based applications servers running under Linux x86 and, second hand, two development laptops to do the job. The both laptop were running Suse-Linux 7.3 Pro, one on a Compaq x86 notebook, one under an IBook2. It

Windows sound and music--help!

2003-10-24 Thread curry
I'm trying to get my game onto Windows from Mac and it has background music continually, as well as foreground sounds. This can be accomplished with two or more players when QuickTime is present, or with one player for music and playing sounds directly with play command when QT is not

Re: Close window doesn't quit standalone

2003-10-24 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 09:38 AM, Scott Slaugh wrote: I had this problem with a program I created. What I ended up doing was putting the following handler into my stack script: on closeStack quit end closeStack It's probably not the best way of doing things, but it seems to work.

Re: Close window doesn't quit standalone

2003-10-24 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 09:34 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: I have a standalone which doesn't quit when I close the window on OS X. Any pendingMessages? Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Windows sound Help

2003-10-24 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
If you don't find any other solutions then you may want to have two versions of your sound files for with or without QT installed and then load them accordingly. One can be sampled at a lower volume setting and the other at normal volume setting. I do this in an external sound app. I don't

Re: Close window doesn't quit standalone

2003-10-24 Thread Marty Billingsley
Bill Vlahos writes I have a standalone which doesn't quit when I close the window on OS X. To get the app to quit I have to select Quit from the application menu. I'm using 2.1 release. The standalone destroystack option is checked during the build. Is this the expected behavior or a bug? How

Re: Close window doesn't quit standalone

2003-10-24 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 11:01 AM, Marty Billingsley wrote: This is expected behavior for a Mac application. (I don't know if it's expected for an RR standalone with the destroystack option checked.) I often have to point out to my students that on a Windows machine closing the last

Re: cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

2003-10-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/24/03 9:52 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: I have no doubt this is workable; but I see nothing here to convince me that a cat skinned your way is necessarily better or worse than a cat skinned my way. Nope. My only point is that there is already a reasonable way to implement global constants, and

Resizing stack

2003-10-24 Thread Jim Hurley
I don't think I understand the new resizing utility in 2.1 I have a rectangle graphic, centered on the screen. I would like to resize it as the stack is resized so that halving the width of the screen haves the width of the rectangle. It should also keep the rectangle centered on the screen.

revSpeak Windows

2003-10-24 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, I had a student report a problem he was having using speech in Rev. He said it wouldn't work in Windows 98, but that it ran at least initially in 2000 but then stopped working. He's checked the speakers, etc. Didn't do any upgrades to his system; does not know the version of the SDK he's

Re: a function for custom properties

2003-10-24 Thread erik hansen
--- Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a function for custom properties: all custom properties are preceded by u: uNote, uBeat, etc. put u(note) # note the quote function u pParam return (the u pParam of this stack) end u returns this string: the unote of this

Re: a function for custom properties

2003-10-24 Thread Klaus Major
Hallo Erich, ... Hmmm... I will stick with IT :-) yeah, that should be: ... out of curiosity, where do you stick by it? Oops, typo... ...will stick TO it ;-) thanks for the feedback (zuruckFressen?). Enjoy your meal, eet smakelijk, bon appetite, mahlzeit :-D Erik (Erich) Er oder ich? [EMAIL

RE: a function for custom properties

2003-10-24 Thread Phil Davis
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of erik hansen Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:50 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: a function for custom properties --- Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a function for custom

Windows sound and music--help!

2003-10-24 Thread Kurt Kaufman
With regard to MIDI on Win systems using QT: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-October/ 024475.html Since Dell is a popular PC brand, I would try and test a few desktop and notebook models, if possible. -Kurt ___ use-revolution

Re: Play sound until done but I want to still interupt

2003-10-24 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Thomas, Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:28:46 -0400 From: Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Play sound until done but I want to still interupt What I want to script is something like: repeat until the sound is done allowing interrupts - or - repeat until the sound is done

Panther strangeness

2003-10-24 Thread Mark Swindell
I just installed Panther and via Revolution 1. RC1 .rev projects want to open in Classic as standalones. H. What's up with that? If I open Revolution 1. RC1 and open from within the program they act normally. Mark ___ use-revolution mailing

RE: Large sound files

2003-10-24 Thread erik hansen
--- Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- stack/background/library script: global gMySound # true/false on openCard if gMySound then put the soundPath of this card into tSoundPath -- custom card prop ... global gMySound instead of a custom STACK prop because you will be using