Re: List etiquette suggestion

2004-01-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i'd prefer if people would turn off their sigs on lists, as well as trimming off the added list sig.. sometimes the sigs are bigger than the actual message.. -Original Message- > > One thing that would help is if people adhered to the RFC-standard ___

RE: wait with messages...

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Ken, Thanks for the explanation. How would you use: wait for messages and wait with messages ?? Would it be something like: wait for 4 seconds with messages ?or: wait for messages (pauses handler until *any* message is received? and why would I ever use this?) I have a feeling there's some g

Re: Can't delete option question...

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
What do you mean by "currently running"? The stack is actually closed. It doesn't appear in "the openStacks". It's actually been closed for a while at the time that message is sent. doug On 2/1/04 2:23 PM, "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most likely you're trying to delete the stack that

RE: wait with messages...

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Ray
Chipp, I usually use the form: wait until with messages which allows for normal idle-time message processing while Rev waits. For example, one thing that has been bugged in Bugzilla is that opening up a popup menu remotely: popup (long id of btn "ContextPop" of card 1 of stack "MyStack") a

RE: Icons, big "answer" box

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Ray
> 2. I have made some icons for Windows applications so you see > an icon for the application that you can click on (one that > isn't the icky default runrev icon. TThe icon I have is a > fish, but it has a white square around it. I want it to not > be framed in this way. What am I doing wrong?

RE: Can't delete option question...

2004-01-31 Thread Ken Ray
Most likely you're trying to delete the stack that is currently running. The message box can do it because it is a different stack. You could try to: send "delete stack" && quote & vgName & quote to me in 20 milliseconds which would give enough time for the rest of the script to run before the

Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

2004-01-31 Thread Bruce Robertson
> > revHTTPd is an embedable (hell my english is horrible sometimes) > server, it's a frontscript (a button), you put it on a stack, and then > it is able to serve itself and it's substacs like they were web apps. > You can try my home revHTTPd server and learn more about it at > http://home.soapd

Can't delete option question...

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
A certain stack is closed and I want to delete it in a script. My code looks like: if vgName is not among the lines of the openStacks then if exists(stack vgName) then delete stack vgName end if end if This causes a "can't delete object" error when run at the delete st

Re: List field behavior

2004-01-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/31/04 5:39 PM, Robert Presender wrote: Is this the effect you are looking for: delete line 2 of field [fieldName] wait 1 second -- to see deletion put "New line 2" & return before line 2 of field [fieldName] No. This just adds a blank line in line 3 of 4. My problem is that I wa

Re: List etiquette suggestion

2004-01-31 Thread Bruce Robertson
> Frank- > > One thing that would help is if people adhered to the RFC-standard > signature trimmer of -- (That's dash-dash-space) on a line by itself. > Most modern email clients will trim everything after that > automatically when replying. > > -- I thought that destroyed digest readers abili

Re: find (and table fields)

2004-01-31 Thread David Squance
And while our gurus are thinking about table fields, coincidentally, I've been trying to find the syntax for getting the contents of a cell in a table field. The glossary says a cell is specified by its column and row numbers (eg: 1,2), but playing with a table and the message box, I can't 'put' t

Re: FlashMX and Runtime Revolution

2004-01-31 Thread erik hansen
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can embedd in revolution a web browser with > altbrowser.dll from altuit. > Within this box you can display a flash movie. how many minutes max? thanks, Erik Hansen = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org _

find

2004-01-31 Thread hershrev
Hi, I'm trying to make a find field search in a Table field (according the instructions in the doc.) some how it doesn't work. example: I have a closed curser query result list in a table field and made a search field to search according the text entered it should go to the correct line and se

[ANN] Enhanced QuickTime External 0.5.0

2004-01-31 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Thank you, Trevor! This is an important addition to Revolution's abilities, and cross-platform, no less! -KK ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

base64encode & decode in a standalone

2004-01-31 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi, I believe that I read about this somewhere but I can't find it in the list archives. I have a save file function that compresses then base64encodes some data as it puts this data into a URL using binfile: This works on Mac10.2.4 in the IDE but it doesn't work in the standalone. The base64

[ANN] Enhanced QuickTime External 0.5.0

2004-01-31 Thread Trevor DeVore
I've uploaded the latest version of the Enhanced QuickTime External. This version adds some new features and fixes a lot of little bugs. * QTVR enhancements - qtQTVRSwing, qtQTVRSwingStop. Enables for smooth transitions from current pan, tilt, zoom position to a user specified pan, tilt, zoom

Re: Transcript line continuation

2004-01-31 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 05:05 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: try this instead and see if that works, if yes then its time for a bugzilla entry about the \ and handler declaration on xxx , , , , , end xxx Naw, it is time to buzilla me. I "simplified" the exam

Re: Icons, big "answer" box

2004-01-31 Thread Björnke von Gierke
You can also try to wrap your messages yourself so instead of: answer "very long text that stretches the message box way beyond the screen borders." you could write answer "very long text that stretches the message box" & return & "way beyond the screen borders." On Sonntag, Feb 1, 2004, at 0

Re: Transcript line continuation

2004-01-31 Thread Björnke von Gierke
try this instead and see if that works, if yes then its time for a bugzilla entry about the \ and handler declaration on xxx , , , , , end xxx On Sonntag, Feb 1, 2004, at 00:52 Europe/Zurich, Dar Scott wrote: I'm having trouble with something like this: on xxx \

Transcript line continuation

2004-01-31 Thread Dar Scott
I'm having trouble with something like this: on xxx \ , , , \ , , end xxx I get a compiler error. What am I doing wrong? Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/list

Re: iconic crash boom bam

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Tom, I haven't had any trouble with this method on XP. Haven't tested much on Win98. The reason for the flash is that you can't 'lock screen' across a send command. You could do something like save the window rect to a property, then move the stack to an offscreen position, then minimize. On

Re: Movie question

2004-01-31 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Yves COPPE wrote: It's not a problem for me to save the image on the H.D. and then retrieve the filepath to display it... I can delete the image file on another step of the script Will it work on Mac OS X ? OS X and Windows right now. I still need someone to co

Re: Movie question

2004-01-31 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 31 janv. 2004, à 19:46, Trevor DeVore a écrit : On Jan 31, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Yves COPPE wrote: I'm waiting impatiently... will it be possible to extract the first image of a quickTime file(knowing the filepath to the file) without having to display it first ? and then display the image in

giFT- modular daemon and Revolution

2004-01-31 Thread michael
This would make for an interesting Rev project... http://gift.sourceforge.net/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Movie question

2004-01-31 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jan 31, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Yves COPPE wrote: I'm waiting impatiently... will it be possible to extract the first image of a quickTime file(knowing the filepath to the file) without having to display it first ? and then display the image in a image control Yes but right now you have to save t

Re: List field behavior

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Cozens
Bob, Is this the effect you are looking for: delete line 2 of field [fieldName] wait 1 second -- to see deletion put "New line 2" & return before line 2 of field [fieldName] ? Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm "And I, which was tw

Re: Movie question

2004-01-31 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 31 janv. 2004, à 19:19, Trevor DeVore a écrit : I actually started updating the docs for the next release last night and I should post it sometime today. There is a function that will save a still image from any movie on your harddrive to a file. You can pass the time where the still image

Re: FlashMX and Runtime Revolution

2004-01-31 Thread michael
"You can embedd in revolution a web browser with altbrowser.dll from altuit. Within this box you can display a flash movie." I hope altuit works on a mac version of the web browser. Are there any other Rev web browsers that are cross-platform? Ideally a mac, linux and windows capable browser woul

Re: Movie question

2004-01-31 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jan 31, 2004, at 4:46 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Bon jour Yves, 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 possib

Re: Question about the newImage message

2004-01-31 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Doug, The docs say: "Sent to a new image right after it’s created." What is the definition of "created"? "created" means a: by script "create image..." or b: created manually, after releasing the mouse with the image-tool active It seems that when I clone a stack that contains an image t

Re: List field behavior

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Bob, 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, Line 3 moves to line 2's position and the number of lines is 2. If I add a line

Question about the newImage message

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
The docs say: "Sent to a new image right after it¹s created." What is the definition of "created"? It seems that when I clone a stack that contains an image that the newImage message is sent. Is that right? It seems that the image was previously created...? doug

Re: when is a title not a title?

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
On 1/31/04 10:51 PM, "Malte Brill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > >> set the title of a stack to "xxx" > > creates a custom property called "title" > > If you want to change the titlebar you might either set the name of the > stack or the label of the stack. > > Like: > > set the lab

Re: when is a title not a title?

2004-01-31 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Doug, > set the title of a stack to "xxx" creates a custom property called "title" If you want to change the titlebar you might either set the name of the stack or the label of the stack. Like: set the label of this stack to "blah" Regards, Malte _

Re: Movie question

2004-01-31 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Or, you can use quicktime to set a frame in the movie as the poster frame and then do a screen/picture capture of that frame and use that and then when the movie starts they would be the same. Tom On Jan 31, 2004, at 6:46 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Bon jour Yves, Hi list, On Mac OS X 10.3.2 with

revVideoFrameImage pause

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
It seems that the revVideoFrameImage command takes a noticeable amount of time - like a quarter of a second or more - to work. If you are doing other things during that time, like text input, it is very noticeable because your other interaction pauses. What I'm trying to do is capture a frame eve

Re: iconic crash boom bam

2004-01-31 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Chipp, Wow, what a difference a send can make! I get a flashing of the screen in the final setting of the decorations in OSX. Do you know any way to stop that? Also, I wanted to put this in a distributable project but "I can not afford" to have it crashing due to this. Are we 100% sure it does

Re: Movie question

2004-01-31 Thread Klaus Major
Bon jour Yves, 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 ?? a: can wait a little until Trev

Re: Some advice on video frame grabbing

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
On 1/31/04 7:12 PM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With regard to > Weird thing 2 > - > You know my original problem of the grabbed frame not showing up in the > target image? If I quit the IDE, then the first time I try it it will work. > But for subsequent times it will no

when is a title not a title?

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
I'm having lots of weird things happen this evening. :) I set the title of a stack to "xxx". If I put the title of stack "thisStack" it returns xxx If I look at the stack inspector for the stack it correctly says the title of the stack is xxx But the title in the titlebar is di

Re: Some advice on video frame grabbing

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
There are several things happening that are strange: Weird thing 1 - If I close the stack in which I am embedding the video grabber window, sometimes the stack's closeStack handler is not being called. I know it isn't being called because it is doing various things, like setting the hi

Re: FlashMX and Runtime Revolution

2004-01-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm new to the list and new to Runtime Revolution. Wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction regarding FlashMX and Runtime Revolution integration (I'm interested in knowing how to "put" Flash into a stack and interact with cards). Thanks. You can embedd in revolution a web browse

Re: Some advice on video frame grabbing

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
On 1/31/04 6:14 PM, "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> set the defaultStack to "theStackWithTheVideo" >> >> You mean the stack with the video grabber window in it? > > Yep >> >> Well, as a test I can do that in the sample stack. It would be hard to >> do as >> a test in my curr

Re: Some advice on video frame grabbing

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
set the defaultStack to "theStackWithTheVideo" You mean the stack with the video grabber window in it? Yep Well, as a test I can do that in the sample stack. It would be hard to do as a test in my current app now considering how complicated it has gotten. But weirdest of all - it worked one time!

Re: Some advice on video frame grabbing

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
On 1/31/04 5:57 PM, "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug, > > I haven't used video frame grabbing, but I might suggest some things to > look at: > > When you call: > revVideoFrameImage userImageWidth, userImageHeight, "videoimagedata" > > you might want to include before it: > > s

Re: Some advice on video frame grabbing

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Doug, I haven't used video frame grabbing, but I might suggest some things to look at: When you call: revVideoFrameImage userImageWidth, userImageHeight, "videoimagedata" you might want to include before it: set the defaultStack to "theStackWithTheVideo" (I assume it is not a palette, if it is

Some advice on video frame grabbing

2004-01-31 Thread Doug Lerner
I have a question for you experts. I basically copied scripts from the sample video stack (where this works correctly), and most of it seems to be working in my stack. But when I try to grab a frame from the video grabber window it does not display in the target image after I use the "set imageDat

Re: iconic crash boom bam

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Thomas, Sorry, I see you are on the Mac. This works for me on Mac OSX in the stack script: on unIconifyStack send unIconifyMe to this stack in 30 milliseconds end unIconifyStack on unIconifyMe set the decorations of this stack to empty end unIconifyMe in the 'minimize me' button script on

Re: iconic crash boom bam

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Thomas, I'm on my Mac right now, so I can't check it out. But I remember similar problems. I seem to recall the fix is in setting the decorations to default, then iconifying. Also, check out the resumeStack message as well. Another thing you might try is using the "send" command. For instance

wait with messages...

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Scott, (and anyone else who) I use send "fred" to this cd in 30 milliseconds all the time, but I'm really not sure what wait with messages and wait for messages do The docs don't explain it very clearly...at least not to me:-( Does it: wait until any message whatsoever fires and then continue

Re: Error Trapping for Linux Process

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Glen, I'm not sure I understand the problem. Can you be more specified? I would expect if the handler could not get 5 lines, it would know this and would count the lines and assume the process has quit if less than 5, no? Then it would cancel any pending messages (requests). -Chipp On Jan 30,

Re: Minimize

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Thomas, Certainly you can. You just need to check the iconify message and change the decorations when it gets minimized. Then on uniconify, you set 'em back to empty. I've done this with success on projects. best, Chipp On Jan 30, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Hello, Does anyo

Re: tips on refreshing images in fields?

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
on refreshImage pImgName if the filename of img pImgName is not empty then put the filename of img pImgName into t set the filename of img pImgName to empty set the filename of img pImgName to t end if end refreshImage or do the same with imagedata On Jan 30, 2004, at 6

Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

2004-01-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Thomas, Nope, it's all done with Registry settings...that's why it is only XP (I'm pretty sure it works with any Windows OS). I don't know how/why/if to set the MIME types and FILETYPES on the Mac. On the PC, I end up editing Registry keys for both ButtonGadget and Internet Explorer. best