Re: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread xbury . cs
Dear uncle Bob, ;) If you find a Command key with an apple or a trefle key on a PC, call me,t hat keyboard is worth a fortune!!! In the RevDoc it says... Normally, you can stop a handler while it's executing by pressing Command-period (on Mac OS or OS X systems) or Control-period (on Unix or

Re: HyperCard Address Stack Conversion

2004-05-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 21 May 2004, at 2:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.Convert HyperCard Address stacks from the Macintosh to the PC 2.Provide the ability to create, delete, modify, and search cards 3.Provide the ability to print a single card or to print an entire report of cards within the

Re: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread xbury . cs
Hi everyone, Maybe someone can explain this GUI distortion field If i browse slashdot with the discretebrowser (a basic html browser for RR), a link will be resolved via the linkclicked message really fast, no prob. But the link

Re: linkclick problem (was terminate script from keyboard)

2004-05-21 Thread xbury . cs
So here I am in my own monologue! I found the problem and 2 bugs... HTML without a CR after a BR causes 2 bugs... 1 setting the dont wrap will make a very very long line that is not wrapped and which overprints itself over and over! 2 causes problems resolving the linkclicked message...

Re: linkclick problem (was terminate script from keyboard)

2004-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here I am in my own monologue! I found the problem and 2 bugs... HTML without a CR after a BR causes 2 bugs... 1 setting the dont wrap will make a very very long line that is not wrapped and which overprints itself over and over! 2 causes problems resolving the

RE: How do I retrieve MIDI input?

2004-05-21 Thread Ken Ray
Have you looked at MidiPipe? http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10541 It has an AppleScript Trigger that might help (I don't know much about Midi, but found this after a search)... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

RE: How do I retrieve MIDI input?

2004-05-21 Thread xbury . cs
Ken, I can't help you for the Mac but for the PC, you can use MIDI-OX which can do all you want with MIDI including merging different inputs (USB or MIDI) into any number of channels... Output is also possible naturally... http://www.midiox.com enjoy Xavier On 21.05.2004 09:30:05

Re: Palette redraw problem

2004-05-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
Before I bugzilla this, I wanted to check to see if anyone else has hit this snag and whether there is a work-around for it. I have stack that opens a tool palete. I want the palette to disappear when the stack is not frontmost, and reappear when it is. I scripted a suspendStack handler and a

Re: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Xavier! I just built a test stack with a single button and a single fld on Windows XP. In the button script I put: on mouseUp repeat 10 times put hello cr after fld 1 end repeat end mouseUp I can interrupt the script by pressing Ctrl-period -Chipp

Re: Plugins shut when suspending dev

2004-05-21 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Sarah, Yep, all my plugins kick out also, the same way. I just don't typically suspend the IDE :-) -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Frontscript to simulate modal dialog

2004-05-21 Thread Frank Leahy
Hi, I tried Sarah's suggestion of creating a frontscript that would allow a progress dialog to act like a modal dialog does (can't bring other windows to the front, etc.). Here's the script I tried: on mouseDown put the rect of window Thumbnail Progress into theRect -- this is the progress

Re: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread xbury . cs
Chipp, You had to say that to make it work here! Problem fixed! I swear I tested this as hard as I could... There goes reality again! BUT: sometimes the errors reported are not always Aborted ... Im not going to test this further but thanks! So has anyone found how to resolve menu shortcut

RE: Synchronized scrolling fields

2004-05-21 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks for responding, Sarah and Ken. Greg Sarah, Yes, only the data field will have scroll bars. Your suggestion generally works fine for synchronized vertical scrolling, although some additional tinkering with the handler is required to deal with the field being emptied and data

RE: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread Springer, Paul
OK, here was the situation I originally had the problem with; I have added one line to Chipp's script. How would you stop this? on mouseUp repeat 10 times put hello cr after fld 1 answer hello end repeat end mouseUp -Paul -Original Message- From: Chipp Walters

RE: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread xbury . cs
Paul, You dont... you click 1 times OK... With some luck, you get QuickKeys to do it for you... ;) On the old HyperCard IDE you could press cmd-. when you had teh mousedown in the OK button which would get executed as a queued event after the mouse went up... (Does it work on Macs today?)

Embedded?

2004-05-21 Thread John Rule
If RunRev wants to make some money, they should develop a Pocket PC version of the engine. They bought the embedded technology, so why not put it to use? At least on Linux embedded PDAs! By the way, can anyone from RunRev comment on the state of the embedded offerings? I may be interested... JR

RE: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread FlexibleLearning
OK, here was the situation I originally had the problem with; I have added one line to Chipp's script. How would you stop this? on mouseUp repeat 10 times put hello cr after fld 1 answer hello end repeat end mouseUp Force quit, or add a keydown test in the loop. /H

RE: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread Rob Cozens
How would you stop this? on mouseUp repeat 10 times put hello cr after fld 1 answer hello end repeat end mouseUp 1. on mouseUp repeat 10 put helloreturn after field 1 answer hello with Goodbye or Hi back if it is Goodbye then exit repeat

RE: terminate script from keyboard

2004-05-21 Thread Springer, Paul
Thanks to all for the suggestions. Of course my original problem was how to get out of a situation like this when you inadvertently coded it. Changing the script to provide an escape hatch is easily done after the fact but I'm afraid I don't usually plan my bugs so carefully. What I was asking

deleting lines from a text file

2004-05-21 Thread rand valentine
I've experimented a bit with attempting to delete lines from a text file. The following simple script should readily allow the deletion of a line, no?? -- on mouseUp answer file what file? put file: it into theFile delete line 2 of url theFile end mouseUp This produces an error of type

Re: html tag for page break?

2004-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/20/04 9:34 PM, Pat Trendler wrote: Thanks for your help Mark. I already have the text from the fields in a variable. I don't want to restrict the printed page to a certain number of lines, but I want to force a new page after a particular field has been printed. Use: print break after

Re: Palette redraw problem

2004-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/21/04 3:26 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: Before I bugzilla this, I wanted to check to see if anyone else has hit this snag and whether there is a work-around for it. I have stack that opens a tool palete. I want the palette to disappear when the stack is not frontmost, and reappear when it

Re: Palette redraw problem

2004-05-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: I have stack that opens a tool palete. I want the palette to disappear when the stack is not frontmost, and reappear when it is. I scripted a suspendStack handler and a resumeStack handler to manage this: on suspendStack hide palette myPalette end

Re: Imported Video Clip Won't Play

2004-05-21 Thread Roger Guay
Thank you, Pierre. Your solution works. I seem to be having other problems with this particular file which is not RunRev related. It seems that I can import this file into Quicktime Pro and export it to a .mov file OK, but if I then try to edit the converted file, I lose the sound. Thanks

Weird Font Problems/PC only

2004-05-21 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, For aesthetics as well as cross-platform issues, my stack uses Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS fonts. The problem I am running into is that, mid-way through the stack on a PC, either the font 'reverts' (?) to Lucida something-or-other OR it retains the correct font but decides to change the font

Re: deleting lines from a text file

2004-05-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 09:20 AM, rand valentine wrote: Could someone else verify this, so that I know it's a bug and not bad karma :-)? Thanks. I see this on OS X 10.2.8 using Revolution 2.2. The file does not seem to be modified. I tried this with an empty file and a five line file made

RE: How do I retrieve MIDI input?

2004-05-21 Thread Ken Ray
Thanks, Xavier, but I think you were referring to Christopher, who started this thread. :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

Re: HyperCard Address Stack Conversion

2004-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/20/04 11:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have reviewed the Runtime Revolution archives, visited numerous Runtime Revolution related Web sites, and talked to several Runtime Revolution consulting firms as well as Runtime Revolution technical support. No one has been able to offer a

RE: Modal-like dialog box without using modal?

2004-05-21 Thread Ken Ray
I want to stop the user from doing anything else, i.e. I want the dialog box to be modal. But if I make the dialog box modal, the make thumbnail process stops running. Oh, one other possibility is to move the make thumbnail process *to* the modal dialog and leave the progress dialog

RE: Frontscript to simulate modal dialog

2004-05-21 Thread Ken Ray
Frank, The only thing you can do about this AFAIK is to have a resumeStack handler on the other windows that have code that checks to see if the progress window is in open, and if so, to re-open the progress bar window (which will bring it to the front). You'll have an odd toggle sort of

Re: Palette redraw problem

2004-05-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 5/21/04 11:25 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: You've thrown down the gauntlet -- this sounds like a good challenge. Can you explain why the palette needs to disappear when not top most? Sure. The palette is a tool palette. Another substack is an object editing area where the user can design stuff;

Re: QuickTime capabilities question

2004-05-21 Thread Graham Samuel
On Thu, 20 May 2004 21:47:10 -0700 (PDT), Erik Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Graham Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found out that you can't force Windows users to install QT, but that's another story... so what do you use, Windows Media Player? brimming with curiosity, Hi Erik Well,

Re: QuickTime capabilities question

2004-05-21 Thread Graham Samuel
On Thu, 20 May 2004 21:57:38 -0700, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found out that you can't force Windows users to install QT, but that's another story... Of course you can't force anyone to install anything, but if the benefits are

Re: problems with send and macosx .3.3

2004-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sorry, my delimiters are numToChar(1) and numToChar(2).. logins/passwords are iso-8859-1 (aka us-ascii) chars only.. -Original Message- Could the passwords that don't work include any of the delimiters in tTransactionData? ___

Re: Palette redraw problem

2004-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacque wrote: I have stack that opens a tool palete. I want the palette to disappear when the stack is not frontmost, and reappear when it is. When faced with a mysterious issue related to OS events I've found if nothing else works sometimes it's useful to add a timer to allow the OS to complete

Re: Palette redraw problem

2004-05-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: You've thrown down the gauntlet -- this sounds like a good challenge. Can you explain why the palette needs to disappear when not top most? Sure. The palette is a tool palette. Another substack is an object editing area where the user can design stuff;

Re: QuickTime capabilities question (naive response)

2004-05-21 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Graham Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found out that you can't force Windows users to install QT, but that's another story... Of course you can't force anyone to install anything, but if the benefits are compelling enough it's not hard to get users to choose to install QT, and

Re: Palette redraw problem

2004-05-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: When faced with a mysterious issue related to OS events I've found if nothing else works sometimes it's useful to add a timer to allow the OS to complete whatever it's doing before doing your next thing. Arg, I just read this after posting a more complicated

[freenet-support] Bug: Missing DNS gives no error

2004-05-21 Thread Ole Tange
I just restarted my node which had run perfectly for more than a week. But for some reason it would not start. The log ended with: May 21, 2004 2:00:35 PM (freenet.node.Main, main, NORMAL): Starting Freenet (Fred) 0.5 node, build #5082 on JVM Blackdown Java-Linux Team:Java HotSpot(TM) Client