Re: OT Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

On Jan 3, 2004, at 9:41 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I-Tunes is the 'BETAMAX' to the rest of the online Music 'VHS'. And those who invest in the 'beta' technology will end up not being able to use the scores of other hardware, software and media retail/online outlets for their music needs. While I

Re: spontaneously resizing fields

On Jan 3, 2004, at 5:13 PM, Wouter wrote: That's strange. Over here it is working as it should, showing the focusborder when the text is selected. Did you reset the showFocusBorder to its true state after experimenting? Or do you have somewhere inside a frontscript a piece of code that traps a

Re: spontaneously resizing stacks

On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:16 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: I am having spontaneously resizing stacks. I have a stack with one main card with a minimum height of 389. But when I open it by clicking a button on the main stack the substack opens with a height of 89. Any idea why and how to prevent it? I've no

Re: revGoURL on 10.2.3

On Jan 3, 2004, at 6:15 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: Can anyone confirm revGoURL is working on MAC OSX 10.2.3 update? it also works on 10.3.2 if you mistyped... Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make mac

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

On Jan 3, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I think the hockey puck mouse must have been a cruel joke by some hardware designer at apple. FWIW the hockey puck design fit very nicely in the hands of little children. My friend has a couple of little kids and those mice work perfectly for them.

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jan 3, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I think the hockey puck mouse must have been a cruel joke by some hardware designer at apple. FWIW the hockey puck design fit very nicely in the hands of little children. My friend has a

Re: linefeed question

On 1/4/04 3:47 PM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 11:36 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> I bet that is it. But I wonder why it would be there. I am doing a read >> until CRLF... > > Though the Revolution CR is not the ASCII Carriage Return, but the same >

Re: Issues with stack rectangle settings?

On 1/4/04 12:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/3/04 7:17 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: I have this one substack that just *never* seems to open where I want or with the size I want. All the other substacks do. Just not this one. It is driving me crazy. I have reported a bug wher

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:39 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Also, while setting the screenGamma to 2.2 on the Mac does solve the color matching problem, it creates an even larger color perception difference between the two platforms. IMHO, not necessarily a good idea. Thinking about this issue more, and load

question about foregroundColor setting

I have the following statement in my handler: set the foregroundColor of the last line of field "chatField" to msgColor If I manually set the variable msgColor beforehand to "#00" it works fine. But if I take the value of msgColor from an array element (I think this is what is causing the pr

Re: load, url and repeat

At 4:42 pm +0100 3/1/04, Ludovic Thébault wrote: How use the url command in a loop ? I want to get a lot of web page which an url like this : http://domain.com/page.php?ID=88 I just need to change the number of ID to get all pages. But it's seem that the loop is too fast to get the info, even wi

Re: question about foregroundColor setting

On 1/4/04 1:47 AM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following statement in my handler: > > set the foregroundColor of the last line of field "chatField" to msgColor > > If I manually set the variable msgColor beforehand to "#00" it works > fine. > > But if I take the va

Re: question about foregroundColor setting

On 1/4/04 7:13 PM, "Scott Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/4/04 1:47 AM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have the following statement in my handler: >> >> set the foregroundColor of the last line of field "chatField" to msgColor >> >> If I manually set the variable msgCo

Change alphaData More Than Once?

It seems you can set the alphaData of a target image to the alphaData of another image. Very nice. But it also seems that setting the alphaData of the target image to anything else after that point causes the image to display incorrectly. Also, if I store the original alphaData of the target ima

Re: Filter with more than one parameter

At 19:29 03/01/2004 -1000, you wrote: I think I'm missing something really simple: OK here is how I did it with checkboxes. (with the help of sarah) you can download the rev file from http://www.gla.ac.uk/~rh82p/ and use an copy any bit of it you wish. see screenshot here http://www.gla.ac.uk/~

Re: linefeed question

--- Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One approach is to remove the numToChar(13) > characters. is numToChar(13) somehow safer than "return"? = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sha

Copy from menu vs Copy with CMD+C

I set up an Edit menu with a Copy item with a script to "copy" when selected. I also added an option CMD+C for that item. If I select text in a field (lockText true, traversalOn true) using the menu item directly, the selected text gets placed in the clipboard. But if I use the CMD+C instead, the

htmlText question

If I do something like set the htmlText of field "chatField" to the htmlText of field "chatField" & "test" Then it adds a line of bolded text to the field. The entire htmlText for that field then looks like Tao: back to normal? test Tao: now Why, though, if I then put "doug" after field "c

Re: htmlText question

Hi Doug, If I do something like set the htmlText of field "chatField" to the htmlText of field "chatField" & "test" Then it adds a line of bolded text to the field. The entire htmlText for that field then looks like Tao: back to normal? test Tao: now Why, though, if I then put "doug" afte

RE: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

You're correct. JPG's (and GIF's) aren't affected by screenGamma, and work well on both platforms. It's the PNG's that are affected. I've been using JPG's as 'background images' when I need an animated GIF overlaid on top of them. -Chipp > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [m

RE: Change alphaData More Than Once?

Hi Scott, I have previously documented this and posted a basic work-around. I have a stack at my site, or you can just: open stack URL "http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/testComposite.rev"; best, Chipp > It seems you can set the alphaData of a target image to the alphaData of > another

RE: linefeed question

Last I checked, return can mean different things on different platforms. By using the numToChar function, you can be certain of only a specific character code. -Chipp > > > One approach is to remove the numToChar(13) > > characters. > > is numToChar(13) somehow safer than "return"? > > = > [

Re: question about foregroundColor setting

the second instance 'probably' has quotes put in around it versus the first which you put in without quotes. I don't know this but have been stumped by the quote thing before. Tom On Jan 4, 2004, at 5:13 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: On 1/4/04 1:47 AM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have

Re: Mac Hypercard to Windows Rev

I have Mac system 7 hypercard stacks I want to convert to Windows revolution. I copy the files from the mac to a windows formatted floppy. I copy from the floppy to a Windows NT (sp4) machine. I run revolution from the Windows machine and attempt to OPEN the file. This results in sparks and

Re: XP GIF display oddities

In a message dated 4/1/04 4:08:53 AM, Chipp Walters, Altuit, inc writes: >So, try reprocessing you GIF's and see if it doesn't solve your >problems. It should. > Thanks Chipp, I will follow this up, but what puzzles me is that a/ My images are 40k black and white products of the ever relia

Re: htmlText question

On 1/4/04 9:49 PM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe: > > ... > set the htmltext of fld "chatField" to the htmltext of fld "chatField" > & "doug" > ... > > to add "plain" text? > > And > > put fld "chatField" into fld "chatField" > > will reset the field to unformatted text.

Re: question about foregroundColor setting

I thought of that, but in both cases the values are character strings. That is, in both cases the value of the parameter evaluates to a character string, so it should be the same. There are no caveats about taking values from array elements are there? doug On 1/4/04 10:04 PM, "Thomas J McGrath I

Re: htmlText question

Hi Doug, On 1/4/04 9:49 PM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe: ... set the htmltext of fld "chatField" to the htmltext of fld "chatField" & "doug" ... to add "plain" text? And put fld "chatField" into fld "chatField" will reset the field to unformatted text... Hope that helps...

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

>Alex Rice wrote > >On Jan 3, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: >> As fine as Macs are for creating print and video, last I heard, they >> only had a 3% marketshare for all computers. So, all those other >> computers are viewing on 'non-Mac' gamma settings. I'm with Richard >> and believe Appl

Re: htmlText question

On 1/4/04 10:47 PM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > >> On 1/4/04 9:49 PM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Maybe: >>> >>> ... >>> set the htmltext of fld "chatField" to the htmltext of fld "chatField" >>> & "doug" >>> ... >>> >>> to add "plain" text? >

Re: linefeed question

You are obviously spoiled by Rev ;) Whenever you put text from the hard drive into a field in Rev its line ending gets transformed into "return", that means linefeed (LF). This happens because different platforms uses different line endings for their files (Win: CRLF Unix: LF Mac: CR). However t

Re: linefeed question

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 03:50 AM, erik hansen wrote: One approach is to remove the numToChar(13) characters. is numToChar(13) somehow safer than "return"? It is not the same. In Revolution "return" means the line end char which is numToChar(10), the same as lineFeed, LF, CR and return. S

Re: Change alphaData More Than Once?

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 05:59 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: I have previously documented this and posted a basic work-around. Is there a current bugzilla entry? Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/lis

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

Just a side bar comment on standards that is slightly off-topic. What Apple knows and what Apple does has unfortunately cost them many opportunities. For proof, visit this little web site... Seventeen years is very nearly half the entire epoch of commercial computing

Re: Change alphaData More Than Once?

On 1/4/04 4:59 AM, "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have previously documented this and posted a basic work-around. I have a > stack at my site, or you can just: > > open stack URL "http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/testComposite.rev"; Thanks for the reference Chipp. I've

Re: Change alphaData More Than Once?

On 1/4/04 9:08 AM, I wrote: > Thanks for the reference Chipp. I've been trying to understand the parts > but one thing confuses me. In your sample, it appears that you can > essentially restore the target image by setting its alpha/imageData > properties to that of another image. In the followi

Re: Mac Hypercard to Windows Rev

Jacque- Saturday, January 3, 2004, 9:16:44 PM, you wrote: JLG> This is a good tip. I have had many stacks that crash Revolution and/or JLG> MetaCard because I forgot to compact them before trying to do a JLG> conversion. It's a good idea to compact at least twice in a row, and I JLG> usually do

Re: htmlText question

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 04:38 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: set the htmlText of field "chatField" to the htmlText of field "chatField" & "test" Doug, Try appending or transforming your HTML before setting the HTMLText. put "" into field "maintext" set the HTMLText of field "mainText" to "test"

Re: revGoURL on 10.2.3

Right ;-) 10.3.2 great... I wasn't sure if rev was using the reportedly broken GURLGURL... I've been delaying on the upgrade... will go for it, thanks. Sannyasin Sivakatirswami Himalayan Academy Publications at Kauai's Hindu Monastery [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.HinduismToday

Re: Change alphaData More Than Once?

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: To further demonstrate the problem, I added Chipp's images to my test stack, which shows that Chipp's images can be repeatedly updated. My images will only update once. So Chipp's images are "better" than mine, but why? I have had tro

Re: question about foregroundColor setting

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 06:41 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: There are no caveats about taking values from array elements are there? There should be none that affect this. Array elements can't be arrays. They can be (internal) numbers. Perhaps the chunk is empty. (I don't know if this would be

Re: Copy from menu vs Copy with CMD+C

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: But if I use the CMD+C instead, the text immediately gets deselected and nothing gets copied to the clipboard. What might I be doing wrong? Is your handler even being executed? Maybe an IDE frontscript is stealing it. Dar Scott

Re: htmlText question

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 07:27 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: Actually, all I'm trying to do is occasionally put a styled line into the field. :) I use my own commands for appending lines. You might have one for appending a bold line and one for appending a line not bold. This also keeps my lin

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

Martin Baxter wrote the best explanation of the Mac gamma I've read yet: >> Alex Rice wrote >> >> On Jan 3, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: >>> As fine as Macs are for creating print and video, last I heard, they >>> only had a 3% marketshare for all computers. So, all those other >>> comp

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

On 1/4/04 10:57 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In short, if the problem of color correction is universal, why can't there > be a universal solution? IMHO, I would say because of the hardware, or the way the hardware is manufactured. To be done well, color correction must be do

Re: Change alphaData More Than Once?

Hmmm, I checked it out (on a Mac) and the only differences I see are (using PropList which compares the properties of two objects - one of my altPlugins) is that: the opaque property of your image is set to true whereas the opaque property of my image is set to false. It appears one cannot 'se

brushed metal look and platforms other than OS X?

When I open a stack set for metal look in an OS X app it looks fine. But in OS 9 and Windows the stack looks like the yellow background color I set earlier for the stack. In the View emulator it looks sort of metal for both of those platforms though. Does the metallic look just not work in platf

speech and platforms other than OS X?

I am using a speech alert in OS X, and it works in the OS X standalone app. But it doesn't work in Windows or OS 9. In OS 9 it even hangs for about a minute. Is OS X the only platform for which the speech works? doug ___ use-revolution mailing list [EM

Re: Copy from menu vs Copy with CMD+C

On 1/5/04 3:24 AM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> But if I use the CMD+C instead, the text immediately gets deselected >> and >> nothing gets copied to the clipboard. >> >> What might I be doing wrong? > > Is your han

Re: htmlText question

On 1/5/04 3:33 AM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 07:27 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> Actually, all I'm trying to do is occasionally put a styled line into >> the >> field. :) > > I use my own commands for appending lines. You might have one for > appen

Open Recent File

Using OS 10.2.8 and Rev 2.1.2. Not having found a way to delete menu items in the Open Recent File of the File menu after searching the documentation, preferences etc., is there a way to delete the items? I have accumulate about 15 items so far. I must be missing something. TIA Regards B

Re: brushed metal look and platforms other than OS X?

Brushed metal is mac os x only, like drawers and sheets. On Sonntag, Jan 4, 2004, at 23:53 Europe/Zurich, Doug Lerner wrote: When I open a stack set for metal look in an OS X app it looks fine. But in OS 9 and Windows the stack looks like the yellow background color I set earlier for the stack

Re: speech and platforms other than OS X?

it should work on xp as far as i know, there was a problem which made it not work, but i do not know if it has been resolved. On Sonntag, Jan 4, 2004, at 23:54 Europe/Zurich, Doug Lerner wrote: I am using a speech alert in OS X, and it works in the OS X standalone app. But it doesn't work in Wi

Re: brushed metal look and platforms other than OS X?

Thanks. The View emulations shouldn't tease us like that then! :) (B (Bdoug (B (BOn 1/5/04 8:14 AM, "Bj$B!0(Brnke von Gierke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B (B> Brushed metal is mac os x only, like drawers and sheets. (B> (B> On Sonntag, Jan 4, 2004, at 23:53 Europe/Zurich, Doug Lerner wr

Re: speech and platforms other than OS X?

This was 2000. (B (Bdoug (B (BOn 1/5/04 8:14 AM, "Bj$B!0(Brnke von Gierke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B (B> it should work on xp as far as i know, there was a problem which made (B> it not work, but i do not know if it has been resolved. (B> (B> On Sonntag, Jan 4, 2004, at 23:54 Europe

Japanese display issues/questions

The docs say: - You display double-byte text in its correct language by setting its textFont property to a Unicode font. You can either put the text into the field and set the textFont in a handler or the message box, or manually enter the text after using the operating system¹s built-in text

Resizeable problems

Howdy, How do I set the resizeable of a stack to false. Nothing I've tried works. How do I get rid of the resize drag box in the lower right corner of the window? I can't find a way to do that either. Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Japanese display issues/questions

With regards to my previous question, it seems I can get what I want with something like: set the htmlText of field "chatField" to the htmlText of field "chatField" & CR & the htmlText of field "input" I'll keep fiddling. Thanks, doug ___ use-revolut

Re: Change alphaData More Than Once?

>To further demonstrate the problem, >I added Chipp's images to my test >stack,which shows that Chipp's images can be >repeatedly updated. My images will >only update once. In this machine, running windows 98, both sets of image get masked fine multiple times. But I noticed a black image fill

RE: Open Recent File

Try setting the number of items to 0 in the Files & Memory section of the Prefs. Then set back to 15. That will clear it. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert > Presender > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 5:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Resizeable problems

On 1/4/04 8:28 PM, Ken Norris wrote: How do I set the resizeable of a stack to false. Nothing I've tried works. This drives me nuts, I constantly mis-type the command. There is no "e" in "resizable": set the resizable of this stack to false How do I get rid of the resize drag box in the lower

Re: htmlText question

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 04:01 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 07:27 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: Actually, all I'm trying to do is occasionally put a styled line into the field. :) I use my own commands for appending lines. You might have one for appending a bold line and

Re: Resizeable problems

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 10:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: How do I set the resizeable of a stack to false. Nothing I've tried works. This drives me nuts, I constantly mis-type the command. There is no "e" in "resizable": set the resizable of this stack to false Is there some way to catch