Re: FlashMX and Runtime Revolution

2004-01-30 Thread Ian Wood
AFAIK you can't do anything with MX. You can interact with Flash within a QuickTime player, but you will have to save back to Flash 5 (for QuickTime 6), or Flash 4 (for QuickTime 5). Ian Wood Panoramic photography, from web to billboard, sunrise to moonrise http://www.azurevision.co.uk On 30

Re: Non-blocking way to open MS Word files?

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Dave Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I sent this message to the list a while back but never got a response. I'm hoping this time I'll fair better. I still haven't been able to come up with a solution on my own. I'm writing a Windows app with Rev and need a way to open files

Re: multiple instances of standalone under Windows

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Chris Sheffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a way to check if another instance of a standalone is already running, and if so close the one that was just opened? I have an application running under Windows and need to keep the user from opening multiple instances of it.

revChangeWindowSize

2004-01-30 Thread rodney tamblyn
When I call revChangeWindowSize on my PowerBook G4, using syntax such as revChangeWindowSize 500,700,slide,1,1000 ... the window resizes so that only the titlebar is visible (ie height = 0 ) It will adjust the width, but no matter what value I set width (param 2) it doesn't work. Any ideas

Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
I found the messages that take place when images and graphics are deleted: deleteGraphic and deleteImage (of course). I wonder why they don't appear in the Message Watcher window though? Anyway, one question I have it - there are two ways of deleting a message - if I do it manually or if a

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Brian Yennie
I've never tried it for this sort of message, but generally the trick is: lock messages ... do something unlock messages HTH, Brian Anyway, one question I have it - there are two ways of deleting a message - if I do it manually or if a handler does it. In the case of the handler, I want to

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
I notice that, but wonder about the timing of how that works. According to the docs, the deleteGraphic message (for example) is sent when a graphic removed from the stack. But when, message-timing-wise, is it removed from the stack? If I say lock messages delete graphic a unlock messages Have

web cam capture

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
Just some general questions to the group - I notice that Revolution has video camera capturing features. It seems that this would be hard to implement across platforms, different camera models and different interfaces (USB and Firewire - like iSight). How do people find the robustness and

revInitializeVideoGrabber question

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
In the IDE, if I try the docs example: revInitializeVideoGrabber QT,100,100,200,200 in the message window, the following error occurs: Message execution error: Error description: send: error in message expression Am I getting ahead of myself? doug

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Brian Yennie
Yes, this should block it. Try it out. A typical use of lock messages is to navigate to a card/stack without triggering openCard/openStack/etc. lock messages delete graphic a unlock messages Have I really blocked the deleteGraphic message from being sent? Or is it being sent after the messages

Re: clone and it

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Yves COPPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something strange with clone command : Mainstack A with 2 subtacks B and C In stack C , a card named Movies and a btn with the script : clone player xxx of grp yyy of cd movies of stack C answer the id of it the answered id is good,

Re: revInitializeVideoGrabber question

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the IDE, if I try the docs example: revInitializeVideoGrabber QT,100,100,200,200 in the message window, the following error occurs: Message execution error: Error description: send: error in message expression Am I getting ahead of myself?

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that, but wonder about the timing of how that works. According to the docs, the deleteGraphic message (for example) is sent when a graphic removed from the stack. But when, message-timing-wise, is it removed from the stack? If I say

Re: revInitializeVideoGrabber question

2004-01-30 Thread Thierry Arbellot
Hi doug, The doc is wrong, a parameter is missing. The correct syntax is : revInitializeVideoGrabber the short name of this stack,QT,100,100,200,200 Regards. Thierry. Le Friday, 30 Jan 2004, à 12:18 Europe/Paris, Doug Lerner a écrit : In the IDE, if I try the docs example:

tips on refreshing images in fields?

2004-01-30 Thread rodney tamblyn
If you've set an image in a field (using imagesource) are there any tips on ways to make the images refresh and display properly when the field is scrolled up and down (I tend to find after scrolling that the images do not display correctly until the screen is redrawn by force, eg change tool,

Re: tips on refreshing images in fields?

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- rodney tamblyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've set an image in a field (using imagesource) are there any tips on ways to make the images refresh and display properly when the field is scrolled up and down (I tend to find after scrolling that the images do not display correctly

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
On 1/30/04 9:10 PM, Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that, but wonder about the timing of how that works. According to the docs, the deleteGraphic message (for example) is sent when a graphic removed from the stack. But when,

revdberr: invalid database type

2004-01-30 Thread Sjoerd Op 't Land
Hello all, At the moment I'm desperatly trying to get a database connection to work from within a CGI script. I keep getting the 'revdberr: invaldid database type' as connection ID. The database type supplied is correct (tried both 'MySQL' and 'mysql'). I also tried if Revolution has the

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But... does the above example block all messages associated with delete graphic? Why would it? doug When you do a 'lock messages' the engine will eat _all_ the messages it would have sent, including the 'deleteGraphic' message. Let's explain this

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
Thanks for your reply. But... how do you know which are the messages that are blocked? For example, the following seems logical too: 1. lock messages (all messages are blocked) 2. delete graphic a - graphic gets deleted 3. unlock messages - messages continue again 4. the unlock

Re: revdberr: invalid database type

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Sjoerd Op 't Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, At the moment I'm desperatly trying to get a database connection to work from within a CGI script. I keep getting the 'revdberr: invaldid database type' as connection ID. The database type supplied is correct (tried both 'MySQL'

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply. But... how do you know which are the messages that are blocked? For example, the following seems logical too: 1. lock messages (all messages are blocked) 2. delete graphic a - graphic gets deleted 3. unlock

Re: Non-blocking way to open MS Word files?

2004-01-30 Thread xbury . cs
Just in case it might help... if you use the shell() function to launch a process, you will be blocked. If you dont want to be blocked, use start to have the shell launch the process and liberate your shell. Start /? = START [title] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED] [/LOW

Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Chipp, Does this use an external .dll file? Is that why it is only XP? Tom On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Doug, Check out www.buttongadget.com and download the free trial. Then go to the buttonsets web page and click on any picture of a button. By just clicking on the

Minimize

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello, Does anyone know if I can put a Minimize button in my special window stack. The stack has decorations set to empty and has no window border at all. I do not want to use the standard window decorations. The problem is that windows people are telling me that the stack does not show up in

Re: Rev fails to recognize Chinese

2004-01-30 Thread Friedrich F. Grohmann
Thanks, Ron. I'll try to follow your suggestions. I do not know specifically what is happening in these cases but there is a known issue with some Japanese characters that lead to a similar result. You can search bugzilla for japanese and unicode to find out more about this and related bugs.

re launching a windows stack

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello all, Same stack as before. Users are complaining that the CD is set to auto launch but if they want to re-open it once the CD has already been inserted and they have quit the program they can't find the stack file. Problem is in order to launch in windows the stack file is in a folder

Re: web cam capture

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
doug, The video capabilities were camera independent so IF the camera can be accessed by 'other' programs it probably can be accessed by REV. In the case of iSight which apple says is not meant to be accessed by other apps, REV can see it just fine AND control all kinds of features in it that

RE: multiple instances of standalone under Windows

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Sheffield
Chipp, This sounds great, unfortunately I need something that'll work on Win98 as well. :-( Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chipp Walters Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:01 PM

Re: server load with Rev net apps

2004-01-30 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 29, 2004, at 5:48 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Sorry Alex, you are mistaking in about solution 2 : the MC/Rev engine is able to do lots more than the documentation describe, in about TCP/IP n-tier apps. Sure- if we are talking about TCP/IP n-tier apps :-) The original question sounded as if

RE: multiple instances of standalone under Windows

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks for the suggestions, Dar, but I think maybe not understand the 'accept' thing. It sounds like it should work, but I'm not quite getting it. You don't by chance have a code sample do you? How will I know if the accept command fails? Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally

Re: multiple instances of standalone under Windows

2004-01-30 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:18 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Funny it works fine from here. Try again? Weird, in Safari I get the custom page not found error. If I use Explorer then it works fine. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: multiple instances of standalone under Windows

2004-01-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 09:13 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, Dar, but I think maybe not understand the 'accept' thing. It sounds like it should work, but I'm not quite getting it. You don't by chance have a code sample do you? How will I know if the accept

Re: multiple instances of standalone under Windows

2004-01-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Dar Scott wrote: constant lockPort = 46144 I think one of the weaknesses of the 'accept' method for checking for multiple apps is the potential of collisions here. The other problem is that this will not work if tcp/ip networking is not set up for some

Re: [OT] browser plugin patents - warning!

2004-01-30 Thread Alex Rice
Just in: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml? type=technologyNewsstoryID=4244611section=news SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on Thursday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office may come to its rescue and cancel a patent that could force the world's biggest software

Re: [OT] PC-ing A Mac

2004-01-30 Thread Ken Norris
on 1/29/04 4:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:10:47 -0800 From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] PC-ing A Mac A painfully amusing read: http://www.overclockers.com/tips1133/index.asp At least the leftover parts might be used for

displaying messages returned from shell

2004-01-30 Thread Barry Levine
I'm using the shell function to call some routines; creating a disk image is a good example. There is some verbose data returned which, if you use answer shell(etc., etc.) provides a dialog with -all- of the responses from the shell at one time. Is there a way to provide this feedback to the

Kudos to RunRev

2004-01-30 Thread Frank Leahy
I have been working on a photo album product idea for the last month or so. The UI is now finished (album list with mini cover photos, photo albums with drag and drop to move images, full-size image window with scrolling or scale-to-window, multiple thumbnail and image re-sizing options, ftp

Re: Threads? [was] Re: displaying messages returned from shell and Re: Socket Time Out Interval

2004-01-30 Thread Scott Rossi
On 1/30/04 1:04 PM, Frank Leahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Between these two email threads lie a common question/issue -- threads. Why are there no lightweight threads available in RunRev? It seems as though there's a threading model somewhere underneath. I wonder why it hasn't been made

Re: Threads? [was] Re: displaying messages returned from shell and Re: Socket Time Out Interval

2004-01-30 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 30, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: But overall, using send in and wait with messages constructs allow the equivalent of threaded events. It's good for things that are coded in transcript, but it does not work if you are dealing with blocking IO, shell scripts, system calls, etc. -

Re: web cam capture

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
Thanks, Tom. I'll try some more. My initial tests failed, but I'll keep at it. By the by, Apple does say that iSight is meant to be accessed by other apps. That is their excuse for not bundling iChat with it, which so many Jaguar users complain about. doug On 1/31/04 12:37 AM, Thomas McGrath

Re: Threads? [was] Re: displaying messages returned from shell and Re: Socket Time Out Interval

2004-01-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 02:32 PM, Alex Rice wrote: On Jan 30, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: But overall, using send in and wait with messages constructs allow the equivalent of threaded events. It's good for things that are coded in transcript, but it does not work if you are

age calculator

2004-01-30 Thread Douglas Mackay
Hello all , i am struggling to understand the scipts in this program . the prorame was downloaded from http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/developerdownloads/usercontributions.html the things I dont understand are : It wont calculate my age from thease two inputs : date of birth

Re: web cam capture

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Doug, Apple said the iSight would not work with iPhoto or iMovie and was not meant to do such. Also iChat will not let you access the built-in controls found in iSight. REV let me control everything. I mean everything. The focus on the iSight is way cool. Other features are great as well.

iconic

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Can anyone explain to me why set the iconic of this stack to true does not send it to the dock like the docs say it will? I have all decorations off for the stack. I need them off for space reasons. But I still want to minimize my window. The docs don't mention a relationship for iconic with

RE: Windowscript

2004-01-30 Thread Ken Ray
If you want to know more about Tom and what he's been up to, you can go to: http://www.sbuniv.edu/~tpittman/IttyBitty/Pittman.html Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

List field behavior

2004-01-30 Thread Robert Presender
I must be doing something wrong. Help will be appreciated. Using OS 10.2.8 and 2.1RC1 I have a list field with three lines in a test stack. When line 2 is deleted (via msg box), line 2 is deleted but line 3 does not move into line 2's place. The number of lines still shows 3. In SuperCard,

iconic

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I am having a real problem with the iconic property. The docs say that you can set the iconic of a stack to true to minimize it BUT with my stack which has the decorations off it not only does not do anything but it also stops all of my buttons from executing. The buttons highlight normally

iconic crash boom bam

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I created a new stack with decorations set to empty and the rect of the window set to the screen size. I put a button on my no decorations stack to iconic it. It seems (no docs to support it) that the iconic will not work with out the decorations set. BUT when I temporarily set the decorations

a good PC analog to iMovie for RunRev?

2004-01-30 Thread erik hansen
is there a good PC analog to iMovie for RunRev?. thanks, Erik = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

Re: Suppressing a message?

2004-01-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/30/04 7:59 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: snip 4. the unlock messages took place essentially instantly after the graphic was deleted, but before the deleteGraphic message was sent (since it is a separate message that is sent when the graphic is actually removed from the stack). This may be where

avoiding weird effects when moving the video grabber window

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
When the video grabber window first appears it is in the upper left corner and then jumps into my step because I have set its rectangle in the openStack handler. Similarly, when I move the stack containing the video grabber, first the stack moves and then the video grabber comes after it. Any

Question about the revVideoGrabIdle loop

2004-01-30 Thread Doug Lerner
If you have the following in a handler: repeat while recordvideo is true revVideoGrabIdle wait for 1 millisecond with messages end repeat then the handler never finishes, right? I have this in my openStack handler. It seems to work ok, but is it ok to never actually

Movie question

2004-01-30 Thread Yves COPPE
Hi list, On Mac OS X 10.3.2 with rev 2.1.2 I have Qt file this Qt file can be acessed by a filepath which is in a variable : filepathTomovie I'd like to take off from this QT file the first picture to display in an image control Is it possible ?? thank you. Greetings. Yves COPPE [EMAIL

Re: Socket Time Out Interval

2004-01-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le ven 30/01/2004 à 17:01, Ray Horsley a écrit : Hi Pierre, That did the trick! Thanks again, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software Good Evening Ray, Have fun and, please, believe me : even if the MC/Rev engine is mostly undocumentend in about its ability to be used to develop