Re: Loading menus, Plug Ins...

2003-11-04 Thread Ron
HI, This is not helpful toward a solution but my experience and (non)solution is the same as sims. Usually, the hanging occurs after a crash or lock out of Rev or some other app. I've never just had it happen without a previous lockup. Ron What do you do when Revolution hangs starting up at

Re: Loading menus, Plug Ins...

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 3, 2003, at 11:23 PM, sims wrote: Each time I have to trash my Rev, open a new one (I now keep a folder with revolutionosx.dmg and my Reg code handy on my desktop). Open new Rev, input Reg, reset various items, set my script font to something readable, get rid of the icons in menubar,

2 pixel beveled separator: how?

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Rice
I'm trying to make a 2 pixel beveled separator (like one sees near the top of Internet Explorer on Windows, and Safari on Mac OS X). Horizontal and vertical. Using a line graphic- I can't do it. Using a button I can get the horizontal separator to look OK, but the vertical separator is eluding

Diff algorithm

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Anyone implement a diff algorithm in xTalk? My goal is to compare the words in two blocks of text and output a combined block of text showing words present in the first block but absent in the second (deleted) in red with a strikeout, and words present in the second but absent from the first

Re: Losing the amateur.

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 3, 2003, at 4:10 PM, Judy Perry wrote: This doesn't violate the license agreement? (Okay, obviously, I didn't read it...). Have one of your grad students read it for you ;-) It looks like a player would not be violating the license agreement, however these would violate: -- script

Re: 2 pixel beveled separator: how?

2003-11-04 Thread Vikram Singh
yeah the shadowcolor doesn't seem to update.. in the meanwhile you can set the hilite of the button to true. vikram Original Message --- I'm trying to make a 2 pixel beveled separator (like one sees near the top of Internet Explorer on Windows, and Safari on Mac OS X).

Re: 2 pixel beveled separator: how?

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 4, 2003, at 12:49 AM, Vikram Singh wrote: yeah the shadowcolor doesn't seem to update.. in the meanwhile you can set the hilite of the button to true. Hmm... that doesn't work for me. OK I just discovered this way: style = shadow button, hilite = false, height or width = 3 this works for

Re: Loading menus, Plug Ins...

2003-11-04 Thread sims
I added both of our comments to Bugzilla Bug 242 RR 2.0.2 halts the startup process at loading plugins RR 2.1 here with this problem. sims ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Pointer tool not working

2003-11-04 Thread Sarah
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 09:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Three other things I don't understand are: 1. Why, when I close Launcher.rev and then open it again, does it change from Modeless to TopLevel by itself? 2. Why does Launcher.rev open automatically when I launch Revolution? (I

Re: ideas wanted for secure display of media resources

2003-11-04 Thread Ian Wood
This is a nice idea, but you will have trouble on Windows due to the wonders of the random drive letter assigned to the optical drive. I've run into this problem when creating a QuickTime CD portfolio. With LiveStage you could set the sprite to check for the presence/contents of an XML file

Re: Making Windows application icons on Mac

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Brown
I successfully used the BMPtoICO utility and was able to add an icon to a Windows standalone from my Mac. Unfortunately only the 16 color format would work. I am spoiled by the higher quality look of OS X and Windows XP icons... Is there any way to add a better icon to a Windows Rev app than a

Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-04 Thread Russell
Hi people What got me started on this different size windows here. I decided as an exercise in design I would emulate a window off the application I was on. Now if I wanted duplicate this application a good place to start would be off the menu. And each procedure off the menu collects

Tabbed buttons

2003-11-04 Thread Jim Hurley
I have an opening stack with 1 card. On this card is a 5 tab button. Each tab opens a different stack. When the stack opens, one of the tabs is selected (of course.) If I want to select *this* tab the button does not receive a menupick message and I cannot execute the item pick of that tab.

Re: Tabbed buttons

2003-11-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jim Hurley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an opening stack with 1 card. On this card is a 5 tab button. Each tab opens a different stack. When the stack opens, one of the tabs is selected (of course.) If I want to select *this* tab the button does not receive a menupick message

Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-04 Thread Jim Hurley
One more word on this subject. I think many of us may have missed the new Rev command introduced in 2.0: RevChangeWindowSize. I just stumbled on it myself. As defined in the docs: revChangeWindowSize newWidth, newHeight [,animation [,cardNumber [,totalTime]]] With examples:

Re: Losing the amateur...

2003-11-04 Thread Dom
Pierre Sahores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps are we a little mistaking us about what the computer's software markets are and are'nt Houla ! je crois, Pierre, que tu lances la une belle polemique ;-))) That's somewhat polemical, IMHO... That said, overall I do agree with you... --

Re: Opening stacks

2003-11-04 Thread Rob Cozens
I actually got 2.0.3, but the license doesn't work. It should, though,...until 2.1...it did for 2.0.1. When v2.0.2 was released on July 29th I received a new v2.0.2 unlock code from Heather. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm And I, which was two

Re: ideas wanted for secure display of media resources

2003-11-04 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 4, 2003, at 3:27 AM, Ian Wood wrote: This is a nice idea, but you will have trouble on Windows due to the wonders of the random drive letter assigned to the optical drive. I've run into this problem when creating a QuickTime CD portfolio. With LiveStage you could set the sprite to

Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-04 Thread Scott Rossi
I think many of us may have missed the new Rev command introduced in 2.0: RevChangeWindowSize. I just stumbled on it myself. As defined in the docs: revChangeWindowSize newWidth, newHeight [,animation [,cardNumber [,totalTime]]] With examples: revChangeWindowSize 100,120

RR DIGITAL MEDIA PRESENTATION - help?

2003-11-04 Thread Eric Engle
I'm presenting a presentation about MC/RR on friday to my class in digital media. Most of my work is not so visual, so I'm hoping I can borrow a stack (with credits of course) illustrating some wowie stuff to the students. Basically I'm trying to sell them on the idea of RR as a wonderful

Re: 2 pixel beveled separator: how?

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Rice
On Nov 4, 2003, at 6:06 AM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: I tried both of those and did not like them at all. Finally I just used the built in object library HR rule VR rule. They did the trick for me. THAT's what I was looking for. Thanks - sometimes I forget that the Object Library is there- I

Re: RR DIGITAL MEDIA PRESENTATION - help?

2003-11-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Eric, I'm presenting a presentation about MC/RR on friday to my class in digital media. Most of my work is not so visual, so I'm hoping I can borrow a stack (with credits of course) illustrating some wowie stuff to the students. Could you explain the term wowie a bit more? ;-) Wowie Zowie,

Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Russell, Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 07:13:52 -0500 From: Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes How can an application be constrained to one 5x8 or whatever size window. ? -- set resizeable of stack x to false HTH, Ken N.

Re: Cross Platform Build - my first

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Rice
On Oct 29, 2003, at 5:05 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: I have been going back and checking each object on the background and find that I know nothing about REV It appears I thought that a group would override an object and as such have dozens of groups to 'simplify' my updating of object

Re: PreNewbie database question

2003-11-04 Thread Toma Tasovac
Sarah, I tried downloading MySQLtests.rev from your site but the link seems to be broken, no such file exists. Am I doing something wrong? All best, Toma On Nov 3, 2003, at 5:51 AM, Sarah wrote: At my web site, I have two Rev stacks for testing MySQL: MySQLtests.rev is the more complete and

using Distribution Builder's Save Distribution As... option

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Rice
Who is using the DB Save Distribution As... option? How do you deal with Revolution upgrades? Just toss all of your saved distribution builder stacks and start over? Keep using the old distribution builder stacks? It seems like distribution builder uses the old xtalk style of design where the

bugzilla and my bugs

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Rice
On some bugs I'm listed as reporter, but they don't show up in the preset query my bugs. (#862 for example) Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco

Moving Buttons...

2003-11-04 Thread Dan Friedman
How would you do this... On a card, you have a bunch of buttons that are grouped together (group ButtonGroup). You want to let the user move the buttons around - but you want to prevent any of the buttons from overlaping. I have this in the card script to handle the movement: on mouseMove if

Re: PreNewbie database question

2003-11-04 Thread Sarah
Sorry about that, I had changed the file name to eliminate the space but forgot to change the link to match :-( It's fixed now. Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/ On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 04:36 am, Toma Tasovac wrote: Sarah, I tried downloading MySQLtests.rev

Develop on Windows or Mac?

2003-11-04 Thread Paul Stary
I have used Mac since 1984, but have developed some reasonable PC skills in the last 10 years. I still work on Mac for personal productivity, but find myself moving lots of my engineering stuff to PC just because that's the world view. Since I am soon to have both a G4 1.25 GHz. (Dual Boot)

Re: Develop on Windows or Mac?

2003-11-04 Thread Ray Bennett
Hi Paul. I'm sure you'll get lots of opinions on this one. I've lived on Macs and Unix boxes for years and years. We've developed, over the past year, a product that is cross platform - meaning that it has a market that requires Mac and PC support. Alas, the Mac will likely account for less

Re: Cross Platform Build - my first

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Alex, Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:25:56 -0700 From: Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cross Platform Build - my first wondering if the Distribution Builder is an AI or something which would explain the erratic results. -- Huh? Now that's an interesting idea. A bot for a