Trapping The Keypad 'Clear' Key

Hello, all! I was wondering if anyone knew what message is sent when a user presses the 'CLEAR' key that is located in the keypad area of an extended keyboard (the one right next to the '=' sign, which sometimes doubles up as the 'Num Lock' key). I know that keyboards differ from system to sys

Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3

Hi Ken, Hi Klaus, Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:28:16 +0100 From: Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3 No version of QT ever supported exporting to MP3, not even QT Pro. Unfortunately... --- Hmmm. Are you sure? Yes :-) Ken N. Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTEC

how do you manage your script library?

Like many folks I'm sure, I have developed a library of commonly used scripts over time. It is a stack file. Whenever I start up Rev, it's the first thing I open. In the past, when building my standalone, I made the library stack a substack before building. I'd rather keep it separate. So I

Re: Scripting PDF files

Ken, I was curious about this and copied this text with correct line break into a button in a new stack and and threw up a blank text field and hit the button and nothing happened. What else am I missing to test this? Thanks Tom On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 01:40 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Here

Re: how do you manage your script library?

In the past, when building my standalone, I made the library stack a substack before building. I'd rather keep it separate. So I discover that the distribution builder can indeed include separate stack files, however, I want the library stack to end up in the executable, not in a separate fil

Re: Command Option

Sannyasin wrote: This never worked consistently from day one... still broken here, not completely, sometime it does, sometimes it doesn't I can't get the recipe either. A nuisance of one who used SuperCard for years and really depended on this as a tool. Also, I can never quite get comfortable wit

Re: Get shell broken on Panther?

On Oct 28, 2003, at 7:24 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: ditto -rsrcFork "someFile/path/file.txt" "somefolder/OnTheServer/" *Does* work in the Panther terminal... just not any more from within a Rev script... can someone test and confirm? For me ditto does work from a shell on Rev 2.1.1RC on

Re: Command Option

On Oct 28, 2003, at 7:49 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Hello All, I did something?!?!?!? Now when I hold down the command and option key over controls I do not get the script window. Don't know what I did, but was hoping you guys might straighten me out on it. It only works intermittently fo

Re: Panther Install Question

On Oct 28, 2003, at 4:48 PM, Brian Maher wrote: Obviously, I did not set the permissions as well as I thought I did. Can anyone give me the correct way to do this? Sounds like you did it correctly, but if you want to do it a different way, try this from the Terminal (as an admin user) chown -R

Re: Scripting PDF files

On Oct 28, 2003, at 11:40 PM, Ken Ray wrote: on mouseUp answer file "Select a file:" if it <> "" then put it into tSrcPath put tPath & ".pdf" into tDestPath put "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert" into tConvertApp get shell(tConvertApp && "-f" && tSrcPath && "-o" && tD

re: Command option

Jacqueline wrote: That's what I do. Here is part of my frontscript: on tabKey if controlkey() = "down" then if the tool = "pointer tool" then choose browse tool else choose pointer tool else pass tabKey end tabKey This lets me control-tab to change tools. I never could get used

RE: Trapping The Keypad 'Clear' Key

Igor, Trap the rawKeyDown or rawKeyUp message and look for 65407. I'm pretty sure it's the same on all platforms, but haven't tested it yet. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: Command Option

Thomas, When it quits working, just click the messages key off then back on and it should work fine for you. -Chipp > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas J > McGrath III > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

printing of text baselines

Has anyone run into trouble getting text baselines (showLines property) to print correctly on Windows? They don't show up at all for me on Windows2000. I am using a modified version of the revPrintText function to include the showLines property. Also, the showLines, when they do print, show up

RE: Still no good PNG

With the checkerboard showing in Photoshop, click the Save to Web button and make sure you select the 24 bit output with tranparency. I don't know if LE supports this as I don't use LE. -Chipp > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken Norris

Re: Get shell broken on Panther?

Great, Thanks, Alex for confirmation... last night I shut down my computer completely (usually don't do that) and this morning on re-boot, fresh log in, ditto is now working from within Rev. ... go figure ;-) On Oct 29, 2003, at 5:08 AM, Alex Rice wrote: ditto -rsrcFork "someFile/path/file.tx

Re: Scripting PDF files

Thanks for all the suggestions for scripting PDF conversions. They each have their advantages and I'm saving them all for future use. Unfortunately, they all convert existing documents, and none of the supported file formats provide for complex document structures. I have a print layout stack w

Re: Panther Install Question

At 8:19 am -0700 29/10/03, Alex Rice wrote: On Oct 28, 2003, at 4:48 PM, Brian Maher wrote: Obviously, I did not set the permissions as well as I thought I did. Can anyone give me the correct way to do this? Sounds like you did it correctly, but if you want to do it a different way, try this fro

Re: Panther Install Question

On Oct 29, 2003, at 11:56 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: While I agree it's normally proper for an app to store its preferences in another place, there's a good case for Rev doing it the way it does. It allows keeping multiple copies of Rev on the machine, each with its own set of prefs. This is useful w

script locals and script inheritance

I need to make some changes (borderColor, showLines) to revPrintText which is in btn "revPrintBack" of stack "revLibrary". At first it seems easy: just make my version of revPrintText in the script of my print button. This version of revPrintText appears before the builtin version, and so it ge

Re: Scripting PDF files

On Oct 29, 2003, at 11:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions for scripting PDF conversions. They each have their advantages and I'm saving them all for future use. Unfortunately, they all convert existing documents, and none of the supported file formats provide for comp

Re: Scripting PDF files

On Oct 29, 2003, at 11:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions for scripting PDF conversions. They each have their advantages and I'm saving them all for future use. Also, maybe it could be done with a script, from the GUI's "Save as PDF" side of things, using this:

RE: Scripting PDF files

Late on this thread... I have a work flow where I also build complex reports with Rev, which I then render them in HTML. Currently, I manually use Acrobat's native "Open Web Page" command to create PDFs from the HTML. However I am also looking for a solution where a PDF can be created on the f

Re: Scripting PDF files

On 10/29/03 2:42 PM, Mark Powell wrote: Late on this thread... I have a work flow where I also build complex reports with Rev, which I then render them in HTML. Currently, I manually use Acrobat's native "Open Web Page" command to create PDFs from the HTML. However I am also looking for a sol

Re: Scripting PDF files

On 10/29/03 2:19 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Jaqueline- it would be a good & easy enhancement to request. In the meantime you might be able to do it with an external to call PMSessionSetDestination right before printing. It would be worth a try at least. If I knew how to write externals. ;) Maybe s

quote in a string literal?

Is true that one cannot define a constant string with quotes in it? something like constant commandString = "%s -b -v -xzy \"%s\"" -- error Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable

Some weird things about Revolution ;-)

I have a template stack to create daily log reports (for internet connections). The template stack is really a "template" (in Finder sense) so, when I double-clik this stack, it creates a copy. It imports the daily log, then changes its name* according to the day. But -- it seems that *another* s

Re: Scripting PDF files

Le mer 29/10/2003 Ã 21:49, J. Landman Gay a Ãcrit : > On 10/29/03 2:42 PM, Mark Powell wrote: > > > > http://www.activepdf.com/en/Products/WebGrabber/Start.asp > > > > This would presuppose that you have HTML in your flow, which you may not > > want to do. And it presupposes that it can be driv

Re: Scripting PDF files

On Oct 29, 2003, at 1:51 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If I knew how to write externals. ;) Maybe some creative individual will volunteer. It sounds like this would be a fairly popular external. Sorry I may have spoken too soon. Anyone who can try it: The function requires 5 parameters. The last 3

Re: xcode

On Oct 25, 2003, at 1:30 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Let us know if you try xcode for making an external. XCode does open, convert and compile the external.pbproj (Project Builder project) in the usual externals.tgz sdk. That's about all I can say definitively. HTH Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Min

Re: quote in a string literal?

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 02:12 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Is true that one cannot define a constant string with quotes in it? something like constant commandString = "%s -b -v -xzy \"%s\"" -- error That seems to be the case. However, the context of format() allows such a literal. There mig

Re: Still no good PNG

On Oct 28, 2003, at 8:11 PM, Ken Norris wrote: Howdy, I'm stumped. Nothing I do makes the image show up properly. I want a blended translucent image for all platforms mode. In SC I could do it by setting inks, but in Rev's All Platforms mode, the middle of the image where the blend occurs is

RE: How to set the cursor??

Ray, I understand the need to use the lockCursor property when using mouseEnter, which is sent I thought just ONCE, but still do not understand why it is necessary when using mouseWithin, which I had thought was sent continuously. Else, what is the difference between mouseEnter and mouseWithin?

Cross Platform Build - my first

Hello All, I hope everyone is doing fine. I have been building a standalone for CD distribution at my company. It is a project that uses content from Powerpoint and I have been exporting PPT as PNG and referencing them on each slide. I can then update/correct them in PPT and auto replace them i

Re: Still no good PNG

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 Ken Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm stumped. > > Nothing I do makes the image show up properly. I want a blended translucent > image for all platforms mode. In SC I could do it by setting inks, but in > Rev's All Platforms mode, the middle of the image where

Re: Command Option

If you click the Messages button in the toolbar twice it usually fixes the problem with the command-option thing. I'm pretty sure it was Kevin Miller who gave me that workaround. It seems that the problem can be reliably triggered if you cancel all messages in a script and sometimes if you have

RE: Cross Platform Build - my first

Tom, > c. OS Classic does not load mpegs or audio or png > images as referenced > - links are NOT ok > Classic seems to have lost the reference path yet I built them all at > once so nothing changed on my end. Any ideas??? This may have to do with the path differences between OS X and Cl

RE: quote in a string literal?

Yes, that is correct. (unfortunately) 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 > Alex Rice > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:13 PM > To: H

Re: Cross Platform Build - my first

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Ken Ray wrote: c. OS Classic does not load mpegs or audio or png images as referenced - links are NOT ok Classic seems to have lost the reference path yet I built them all at once so nothing changed on my end. Any ideas??? This may have to do wit

Re: Trapping The Keypad 'Clear' Key

Dear Ken, Thank you for the reply! On 30/10/2003, at 2:59 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Trap the rawKeyDown or rawKeyUp message and look for 65407. I'm pretty sure it's the same on all platforms, but haven't tested it yet. This is *precisely* what I'm concerned about, though: will this number be the same

mciSendString for volume

I'm trying to set MIDI volume on Windows so that my stack can control the volume for playing .mid files when not using QuickTime. I looked for info on mciSendString and was successful in playing a file, but haven't been successful in finding volume. Here's the all-purpose handler I use for tryi

Re: Newbie questions

Hi Paul, Some-one else has already told you that "name" is a reserved word, so that it what breaks this script. An easy way to find out if you have used any reserved words is to "Colorize" your scripts. From the Script Editor, turn on "Live Colorization" in the View menu, of choose "Colorize"

Cross Platform Build - my first

Thomas, You might want to build a simple stack with default settings for all of the buttons, fields, and other objects you plan to use. See if the objects then conform to what you would expect for the individual platforms. From that point you could "tweak" individual objects to see whether th

Re: Newbie questions

On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 07:54 am, Paul Malloy wrote: > I am running into a very basic problem: None of my > scripts execute. For example, I have this script in card 2 > > on closecard > global name, age, education, occupation, gender, handedness, marital > put fld "name" into name An

Cross Platform build - my second build

Hey all, Well, I cleaned up all of my extra groups and button borders etc. and rebuilt the Win/OSX/Classic apps. Problems: 1. A couple of animated text fields do not keep their fonts. I changed them and did the build and it looks like they switched back. I used the same font as in other non-an

Re: mciSendString for volume

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 08:05 PM, curry wrote: mci "set mid volume to 30" Wild guesses to try: mci "setaudio mid volume to 30" mci "set mid volume to .3" midiOutSetVolume Oh, wait. That last one might take an external. (I put my MCI reference is storage; sorry.) Maybe the new fmod

Re: Pointer tool not working

This may be the same problem I had. I was told to turn off the receive messages and turn it back on. It worked for me. Tom On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 12:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently created a stack ("Launcher.rev") to act like HyperCard's Home stack. It works OK, but jus

RE: iGame3D FMOD & Revolution

> We are eager to receive your comments. Sweet stuff! Wonderful job, guys! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mai