Re: Creating windowShapes in Rev

2004-01-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 02:30 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Maybe I'm naively using the right formats. PNG and GIF are the formats that allow you to create custom window shapes since these can contain the mask information needed for the window. Note that an 8 bit mask in a 24 bit PNG will get c

Re: Creating windowShapes in Rev

2004-01-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 02:30 PM, Dar Scott wrote: What was all the clambering about when this was first introduced? I mean clamoring, though there may have been some of the other. Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: Creating windowShapes in Rev

2004-01-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 02:13 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: I have heard of people having trouble with formats that do not work with a windowShape, but I have not seen any problem. Maybe I'm naively using the right formats. PNG and GIF are the formats that allow you to create custom window sh

Re: [OT] Market info

2004-01-01 Thread SimPLsol
Richard, I remember (vaguely) a series of studies some years ago (RAND Corp., I think) that concluded the average Mac user actually used three times as many applications as the average PC user. Paul Looney PS Of course "I" use a Mac. ___ use-revolution

Re: Creating windowShapes in Rev

2004-01-01 Thread Scott Rossi
On 1/1/04 12:57 PM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yep, as I hoped (but forgot I had it), GC started the conversion >> process and >> Rev finished it for display. Got a perfect 1-byte mask. Took a little >> over a >> minute from start to finish, and "voila!" > > What image format are y

Re: Creating windowShapes in Rev

2004-01-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 01:14 PM, Ken Norris wrote: Yep, as I hoped (but forgot I had it), GC started the conversion process and Rev finished it for display. Got a perfect 1-byte mask. Took a little over a minute from start to finish, and "voila!" What image format are you starting with

Re: Creating windowShapes in Rev

2004-01-01 Thread Ken Norris
Howdy folks, > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:36:35 -0800 > From: Ken Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Creating windowShapes in Rev >> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:10:05 -0800 >> From: Stephen Quinn Barncard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Creating windowShapes in Rev >> >> I agree. Graphic

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Ops
*very* nice and completeI thank you sir!!! - Original Message - From: "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 1:13 PM Subject: Re: Dual port video card > > On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Ops wrote

Re: CardName

2004-01-01 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 1 janv. 04, à 12:04, Klaus Major a écrit : Bonne Annee Yves and all :-) Hi everybody HAPPY NEW YEAR 2004 A question about cardname on Mac OS X I have a - stack A (10 cds) - stack B = drawer of stack A when I click a button in the open drawer (Stack B), I'd like to know which is the cardN

Re: [ANN] WindowLab

2004-01-01 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Scott, > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:52:02 -0800 > From: Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [ANN] WindowLab > > Following on the recent discussion of assembling custom window shapes, we've > posted an experimental version of a custom window builder that works from > within Rev. WindowLa

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Ops wrote: Thank you!! ...you know, now that you've all "clued me in"...when I *did* have limited time with this machine, I'm thinking that I saw the video "setup" as one "double-wide" monitor...it showed 2 "screens" side by sideI'll bet that's the

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Ops
I shall do so, and it shouldn't be a problem for my client or the app. Thanks Tom! - Original Message - From: "Thomas J McGrath III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 12:52 PM Subject: Re: Dual port video card This would

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
This would set the top left to one pixel more than monitor one's available screen space. However if the screen res is changed on monitor one to something other than 1280*1024 than the stack will be offset on "monitor 2" by the difference. You could get monitor 1's size and handle that via scrip

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Ops
Thank you!! ...you know, now that you've all "clued me in"...when I *did* have limited time with this machine, I'm thinking that I saw the video "setup" as one "double-wide" monitor...it showed 2 "screens" side by sideI'll bet that's the case and simply adjusting the loc of my stacks will get

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Hello, Although I don't know the answer off hand, I do have some info and a possible solution. The second monitor is actually showing a section of the Whole screen space. So if I open a stack and set it's location to an off-screen location, then it is not visible on/in the main screen area. Ho

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Ops
WOWI didn't know it'd be that simple!! That'd be GREAT!! It's a bit tough because I'm not done with the alpha version yet and have limited access to his production box. As soon as I get something *close* to an alpha working app, I shall take it to his business and test/experiment on the actu

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Ops, The app I'm working on for my client will run on a windows machine that has a video card with 2 monitor ports. The setup for this card shows 2 "resources" that correspond to the 2 monitor ports (\\\display\u1 and \\\display\u2). Offhand I don't know the vendor of the video card, but I

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Ops
The desktop *is* on each monitor.I don't quite know what you mean by "publishing video"sorry for my green-nessbut there is no video involved... Thanks!! - Original Message - From: "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, J

Re: Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Ops wrote: The app I'm working on for my client will run on a windows machine that has a video card with 2 monitor ports. Is the desktop on these two monitor ports? Or is this for publishing video? Dar Scott __

Dual port video card

2004-01-01 Thread Ops
The app I'm working on for my client will run on a windows machine that has a video card with 2 monitor ports. The setup for this card shows 2 "resources" that correspond to the 2 monitor ports (\\\display\u1 and \\\display\u2). Offhand I don't know the vendor of the video card, but I would assum

Re: Re Problem with counting numbers of groups in a stack

2004-01-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen King wrote: >> Stephen King wrote: >>> I have a small stack that has 20 groups (listed in the App browser). It >>> has a main and sub stack with no groups on the substack. ... >>> When I use "put the number of groups into NumF" >>> >>> In the IDE I get 20, as expected and the App runs fin

Re Problem with counting numbers of groups in a stack

2004-01-01 Thread Stephen King
Hi Richard, Thanks for the quick reply. I think an error rather than a crash as the app doesn't fall over completely. Should have been clearer on this. I know its the 21st group thats the problem because part of the code randomises the order of the groups and I traced via a log file the location

[OT] Market info

2004-01-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
For those of you who sell your software products for multiple platforms, this article from news.com might help explain why your Mac sales are disproportionately strong compared to Win sales (mine are for everything we make): Are Mac users s

Re: Problem with counting numbers of groups in a stack

2004-01-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen King wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just come across a problem with counting the number of groups, between > the IDE and built application. > I have a small stack that has 20 groups (listed in the App browser). It has a > main and sub stack with no groups on the substack. There are no plugin

Problem with counting numbers of groups in a stack

2004-01-01 Thread Stephen King
Hi all, I have just come across a problem with counting the number of groups, between the IDE and built application. I have a small stack that has 20 groups (listed in the App browser). It has a main and sub stack with no groups on the substack. There are no plugins in use (according to the Ap

Re: CardName

2004-01-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Klaus Major wrote: > Bonne Annee Yves and all :-) > >> Hi everybody >> >> HAPPY NEW YEAR 2004 >> >> A question about cardname >> >> >> on Mac OS X >> I have a >> - stack A (10 cds) >> - stack B = drawer of stack A >> >> >> when I click a button in the open drawer (Stack B), I'd like to know

Happy New Year!

2004-01-01 Thread Rod McCall
Happy New Year from Runtime Revolution! Thanks to all our customers, users and supporters across the globe and may 2004 be even more revolutionary than 2003! Best wishes to everyone. The Runtime Revolution Team ps. We look forward to meeting many of you during Macworld 2004. Dr Rod McCall

Re: [ANN] WindowLab

2004-01-01 Thread sims
Very , very nice Scott! Thanks. sims WindowLab allows you to experiment with different window mask shapes and build test windows with your masks, using only Revolution (no 3rd party bitmap editor needed). WindowLab is available via our stack player -- type the following in your message box: go

Re: CardName

2004-01-01 Thread Klaus Major
Bonne Annee Yves and all :-) Hi everybody HAPPY NEW YEAR 2004 A question about cardname on Mac OS X I have a - stack A (10 cds) - stack B = drawer of stack A when I click a button in the open drawer (Stack B), I'd like to know which is the cardName of the current card in stack A ??? Can you

CardName

2004-01-01 Thread Yves COPPE
Hi everybody HAPPY NEW YEAR 2004 A question about cardname on Mac OS X I have a - stack A (10 cds) - stack B = drawer of stack A when I click a button in the open drawer (Stack B), I'd like to know which is the cardName of the current card in stack A ??? Can you help me ? I've gone around w