In a message dated 07/08/2004 01:46:57 AM,
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did anyone here, by chance, implemented common data strucutres like
stacks and queues, like stacks with first in last out behaviour and
first in first out behaviour... I want to use Stacks, Queues and Graphs
(we call
In a message dated 08/07/2004 05:35:55 GMT Daylight Time,
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Hmm... did you use libColor for this? That's what it was created for?
No, Monte, it doesn't use libColor so, for those of us who are
dyed-in-the-wool MetaCard users, it does not need Revolution to work
Hi all
I have put up the first part of a total beginners guide on a page I have
http://www.gla.ac.uk/~rh82p/mydb.html
Just to give you an idea of what I envisage.
All the best
Bob
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Hi all. I am starting a personal project of building controlling and
driving software done in Rev for an automated drilling machine which I
am also building to do various book binding/paper drilling tasks.
So, has anyone done or come across any Rev application which deals
with CNC machine
on Wed, 07 Jul 2004
Chipp Walters wrote:
Y'know, in my mind, I think 'the interface *IS* the
program.
For the user, this is the case. You assume the
users point of view, and this is a must for commercial
applications. ;-)
top-down programming for me always begins first with
a blueprint
Hi there
I agree. I share the same method. The interface
*tells* me what needs
to be programmed and how. ;-)
Well the data required first tells me what has to be included then the
interface is made and then the code to drive the data-interface is next. So
similar for me.
Interesting!
If a group's backgroundBehavior property is true, the group is also
in the message path for any cards it is placed on.
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What you are describing is the former. What I want is the latter.
Troy,
That is indeed what the Rev Dictionary says...I stand corrected.
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Rob Cozens
CCW,
did anyone here, by chance, implemented common data strucutres like
stacks and queues, like stacks with first in last out behaviour and
first in first out behaviour...
Hi Andre,
I have used LIFO queues in HyperTalk and Transcript.
The queues are simply global or declared local variables
CLIPS has released an updated version of code that includes bug fixes
and funtionality.
After speaking with Alex at Mindlube , who did the original CLIPS
externals for Revolution (REVClips) , he said that he will be unable to
continue supporting these externals for Revolution.
Not being a
David Vaughan wrote:
On 08/07/2004, at 8:47, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I have a string containing 25 characters, how do I extract the
eight characters starting at position 5 in the string?
[In BASIC this would be left$(5,8) or some such.]
This should be a simple thing to do but
Thank you, Bob... You'd have thought I could spell it corrctly by now!
/H
www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk.htm
The URL below has an extra T in learning so use
www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk.htm
Cheers
Bob
A personal reference library database organiser of your all code snippets,
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On Jul 8, 2004, at 4:20 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
It should work just that way. I opened a new stack in Rev, grouped a
couple
of objects, set the backgroundBehavior of the group to true and put
this
script in the script of the group:
on Test
answer Hello
end Test
Then I created a button that was
I (and many others) have noted that there is really insufficient
information on how to connect to a USB device. Since USB devices are so
common now, that would be a very useful short tutorial topic.
Given the marketing on the Express web page, I'd recommend developing
tutorials AND sample
Troy Rollins wrote:
I'm putting together some documentation stacks for my recently finished
Rev app. These are mostly long fields of text with interspersed
screenshots, etc. I like Rev's ability to scroll groups, and am using
that to create fairly long scrolling streams of content, perhaps 3x
Chipp Walters wrote:
I also find I *rarely* need to work with arrays, as using List data
(variables with lines with tab delimited items) are almost as fast
And sometimes faster. I had to write a query engine for one of my
client's projects, and found that using repeat for each line is about
On Jul 8, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Anyone have any tips for working with groups which are taller than
the card it is displayed on? Do you temporarily make the stack window
as tall as your monitor will allow and then size it down before
publishing?
I don't think I understand
On Jul 8, 2004, at 10:01 AM, Marian wrote:
I dug up a copy of 2.0.3 and I see that the
Help menu is entirely different from that found in 2.1.2. I, too,
could not find an option to Search Documentation.
Maybe this feature was added in 2.1? Does anyone know?
The Search Documentation was a Plugin
In Rev 2.0.1 I follow this menu path:
Development/Plugins/Search Revolution Documentation
Bernard
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The last few times I've tried to get RevNet this is what happens:
1. After pressing the button in GoRevNet (using Rev 2.2.1 on Mac OS
10.3) the download of 132K proceeds normally.
2. The RevNet stack comes up and looks normal. The first card contents
are all there. The bottom says, RevNet
First, are a background group's scripts available in a preOpenCard
message if the background exists on the card that is being entered?
Yes.
Once again I verified with a simple test: make a stack with two cards, the
first card has nothing on it and the second has a group with
In doing some testing, we're having some problems with an application where
it just unexpectedly quits when running under OS X. So far I have been
unable to reproduce the problems on my own computers, but others in my
office are reporting that this is happening.
So what I'd like to do is create
Rob-
A while back a friend invented a cross between a queue and a stack
(you could get items off either end) and named it a quack.
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Mark-
I started on a CNC controller some time last year. I'll dig out what
I've got and send it to you. The hard part isn't figuring out the CNC
protocol (the G commands and such) but getting the controller part
right so you don't snap off drill bits or have things flying across
the room.
--
Hi Mark,
Rob-
A while back a friend invented a cross between a queue and a stack
(you could get items off either end) and named it a quack.
A couple of years ago my father crossed a pheasant with a duck!
He named it ehm... Harold :-)
-Mark Wieder
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Regards
Klaus Major
[EMAIL
Jim Lyons wrote:
The last few times I've tried to get RevNet this is what happens:
1. After pressing the button in GoRevNet (using Rev 2.2.1 on Mac OS
10.3) the download of 132K proceeds normally.
2. The RevNet stack comes up and looks normal. The first card contents
are all there. The bottom
Chris Sheffield wrote:
Is there some kind of all encompassing message that gets
sent that can be used to extract information about other
messages?
You might find UmbrellaMan useful -- see the Stacks listing in RevNet.
It's sort of an umbrella for catching events and posting them to a
list in
I'm in... just last night started pulling together what I can find of my
handouts.
Mine will be simple things -- the first is an intro to Rev and a walk
through of making a simple presentation stack. I have some others on
various animation techniques, dialogue boxes, math (simple, again; with
On 7/7/04 9:50 PM, David Vaughan wrote:
On 08/07/2004, at 8:47, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I have a string containing 25 characters, how do I extract the
eight characters starting at position 5 in the string?
[In BASIC this would be left$(5,8) or some such.]
This should be a
When you start Lose Your Marbles, your computer may stop responding
(hang):
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=189344
and more at http://jill.jazzkeyboard.com/qarticles.html
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It is with some hesitation that I offer this in connection with this
discussion of books and documentation.
Some years ago I wrote a small book: LOGO Physics, Holt, Reinhardt
and Winston
It was intended to provide a workbook for students of LOGO, to
advance their LOGO skills and allow them to
On Jul 8, 2004, at 7:33 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Yes, the only way I could implement queues and stacks was using box
lib, I wanted to see if someone managed to implement them without
it... I think I'll release this code next week, some new data
structures are always a good thing to have.
One
Well, I couldn't resist. I dug up a copy of 2.0.3 and I see that the
Help menu is entirely different from that found in 2.1.2. I, too,
could not find an option to Search Documentation.
Maybe this feature was added in 2.1? Does anyone know?
I have to admit, I didn't know it (the Help menu Search
Hi, I think the columnByNumber() doesn't work properly with
PostgreSQL.
By the way does any body know Sarah's web site ? There is a sql stack
I'd like to see.
Thanks
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At 7:13 AM -0500 7/8/2004, Marty Billingsley wrote:
Er.so how *do* you use the Search Documentation tool?
I launch Rev 2.0, go to the Help menu
...
The search dialog was added in 2.1, I'm afraid. ;-) But I think my
initial search tool was available as a plugin in 2.1 - check
Development
Marian,
If you want to see some really raw sample stacks the likes of which you
mention at the end of your post, try seeing if you can anonymous ftp into
my department's server:
lupus.ecs.fullerton.edu
-- jperryl
-- public
Try AdvancedButtons.rev.zip, ButtonsButtonsButtons.rev,
MapStack.rev,
OT, obviously, but did the png transparency issue ever get resolved?
Judy
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Marian Petrides wrote:
John
I am using v 2.1.2, developing primarily on Mac but running on Mac (OS
X) and Win XP, doing some tweaking in WinXP, too.
I use a PNG for the background for all my
And I think it's very different now from v. 1, which we had been using
(the demo version) in my lab for the last couple of years. Always threw
me for a loop when I'd be up in front doing a demo and would be about to
show how to search... and... where the *%! is it??
;-)
Judy
On Thu, 8 Jul
I wasn't so much asking for myself, however, but rather advocating that
we show some easy whiz-bang stuff to prospective purchaser
(home/hobbyist/K-12 market). Seems to me there was a little animation
tutorial or something in the bundle with Rev 1.0, but I was thinking of
something that would
to Elizabeth Dalton
i have a (less than RR cost) set of RR manuals ... if you interested, email
me at
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monika
Elizabeth Dalton
ps - the printed manuals seem quite expensive.
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Amen!
See comments below (if interested).
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Elizabeth Dalton wrote:
Essentially, if you claim newbies can do this stuff with Express, show
them how. These should be bundled with the RR download and explored in
tutorials similar to the Independent Study tutorial. It wouldn't
Nice idea, Jim. I've downloaded it and I'll go through it over the next
few days.
Many years ago there was a book (actually a mini-series) called
Programming for Poets that taught fundamental programming to
right-brain types, avoiding math almost completely and focusing a great
deal on string
A..., hence your frustration.
That's really a shame and one which I don't understand. I mean, I bought
the book despite suspicions that goodly parts of it would be WYYY over
my head. It's a bit why I keep my Rev license current to the level I can
afford (despite not 'needing' it to
I have a HC stack I'm converting and it has a number of send tabkey
commands in the script. However, I find that any handler that contains
the words send tabkey results in an error message saying that the
handler can't be found. Can someone kindly tell me what takes the place
of send tabkey in
I have a stack with a field that contains a line of text. I want to
programmatically select (hilite) a portion of the text. If I use something
like:
select word 1 to 4 of field 1
wait 2 seconds
...that works fine. However, each card on which the field appears will have
a different sentence with
Great!! I suspected as much. I expect I will have the same problems.
However, I need to make this work and will put a fair bit of effort into
it. As a jackleg tool and die machinist in an other life I might
manage to triumph over the vagaries of inanimate objects such as CNC
drills taking
Thanks, Richard. I'll take a look. Sounds like it might do exactly what I
want.
Chris Sheffield
Software Developer
Read Naturally
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To: How to use
I can't speak for Mark Weider but I wish to use some of my older Macs
for this task. I remember looking into this a number of years ago and
something about a stand alone adapter being required for Macs which I
think would run from the ADB connnection. I will look into this in any
case and if
Mark M,
I don't know how related this might be but I have been playing with
robot controllers and X10 stuff for a while and also with Telescope
software. Anyway, One thing I have found for any serial devices is that
the key serial to usb issue is using the Kensington High Speed serial
adapter.
Hi Dan,
HyperCard came with a bunch of starter stacks accessible through the
Home stack. The most interesting for me as a newbie were in the Stack
kit section, especially Stack templates, Readymade buttons,
Readymade fields and even Background art. This meant that with only
copy paste, I
Hi Bob,
Great start, friendly writing and lots of screen shots. Scanning
through the page, I came across a stack I though I recognized :-) A
closer look revealed that it was indeed my calendar stack - I'm glad
you like it. You then give instructions on how to insert one of the
calendar stacks
Now that I hear that Players don't have to use QT on Windows, I'm
wondering, is there a streaming video media format which works with
Windows that does not require Quicktime?
Aside from streaming, can a player use an MPEG4 file on Windows without
QuickTime? DiVX?
--
Troy
RPSystems, Ltd.
I think you need to use a send in time message. Basically, each gif
will have a goToNextFrame hander which will advance to the next frame
or back to frame 1 of it is at the end. Then you can use a line like:
send goToNextFrame to img Gif A in gSpeedA ticks (or milliseconds)
were gSpeedA is a
There have been some great ideas about how to enhance the documentation
for Revolution. Maybe it's time to do something with all that energy -
I've put together a Yahoo Group for discussion on enhancing the Rev docs:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevDocs/
The aim of the group is to pool the
Rob,
nice setup you have! I am debuging and clearing my cursed comments on
my data structure lib, I'll release it soon, I am just implementing
some more code... I've implemented a LIFO Queue using box lib by Dar
Scott, actually, the box lib is almost a second nature to me, sometimes
I think I
On Jul 8, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Elizabeth Dalton wrote:
- A stack which can be used to control Lego Robots through the USB
port (for a student who wants to control robot behavior, and this
would also address the USB issue), or, if the Lego version isn't where
you want to go, a little stack about
Chris,
I can't tell you from memory but there are some ways to grokk inside
the Rev engine when a error occurs and see why, like informations on
context and the like. That might help you, if you look inside Rodney
and Monte libCGI code, you'll see their error routine, it does just
that.
since
On Jul 8, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Rob-
A while back a friend invented a cross between a queue and a stack
(you could get items off either end) and named it a quack.
Mark,
ahuauhahuahuahuahuauhahuhua... I just imagine the talk:
BOSS: what's that structure?
DEVELOPER: thats a recursive
- A stack which can be used to control Lego Robots through the USB
port (for a student who wants to control robot behavior, and this
would also address the USB issue), or, if the Lego version isn't
where you want to go, a little stack about building and controlling a
very simple robot from
Hi,
When attempting to display pinyin (a romanization of Chinese) in a
field, I encounter a spacing problem, in which vowels with tones appear
to have an extra space before and after them, causing the word they are
in to look very strange. For example, the word jian (see) looks like
ji a n.
On Jul 9, 2004, at 12:20 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
I would love to be able to do this. I downloaded all the opcodes at
one point but it fell off the priority list :-( I have used USB to
serial converters with Rev with great success as they are just
considered to be serial ports. There is a
On Thursday, July 8, 2004, at 10:11 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
Hi, I think the columnByNumber() doesn't work properly with
PostgreSQL.
By the way does any body know Sarah's web site ? There is a sql stack
I'd like to see.
Yes, I know :-) The SQL stacks on my page are only tested with MySQL,
so
Hi folks,
I am implementing a simple CS Datastructures lib, I am using Box
Sequences by Dar Scott. I was implementing my functions like
function ds_push
...
end ds_push
when calling get ds_push() all I receive is a unknown handler... the
others works... all handlers without underscore
Thomas-
Thursday, July 8, 2004, 7:12:50 PM, you wrote:
TMI Mark M,
TMI I don't know how related this might be but I have been playing with
TMI robot controllers and X10 stuff for a while and also with Telescope
TMI software. Anyway, One thing I have found for any serial devices is that
TMI the
On Jul 8, 2004, at 10:25 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
function ds_push
...
end ds_push
when calling get ds_push() all I receive is a unknown handler... the
others works...
I don't have any problem in a quick test. Could you be using the
function as a command? That wouldn't explain the other
On 7/8/04 1:33 AM, Greg McIlhiney wrote:
Any pattern that I select displays perfectly on the screen.
But when I print the card, the rect is very dark gray. There's a pattern
in it but it does not resemble the selected pattern.
Now I've tried almost every thing I can think of to work/test around
On Jul 9, 2004, at 1:54 AM, Dar Scott wrote:
Dar,
actually DS stands for Data Structure... since Rev already have a push
function, I prefixed all functions with DS for they are the dsLib. I
was just trying to implement this new and funny Quack data structure
when my revolution engine was
Recently, Andre Garzia wrote:
anyone want help me build a Rev Controled mindstorms lego robot?
I would really dig on doing this -- I have a MindStorms (v1) kit. But I
think the bigger issue as stated is USB communication: this really needs to
be figured out, or the RunRev folks need to
On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:36 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
I would really dig on doing this -- I have a MindStorms (v1) kit. But
I
think the bigger issue as stated is USB communication: this really
needs to
be figured out, or the RunRev folks need to acknowledge that it's not
possible at this time. In any
Hi Folks,
my new implementation of iBlog reached Alpha, meaning, it is usable! It
can manage templates and post to any blogger.com account and any blog
engine compatible with the Blogger API 1.0
I need to polish the interface and do some better error handling
routines. If you don't own a
Le 8 juil. 04, à 08:45, Monte Goulding a écrit :
Hi,
yes,
sometimes, I display an answer DLOG with an icon ? for example and
other times an icon ! (in the same stack) and an other time an icon
x
with global grevAppIcons, you can easily to that
before displaying the answer you code :
put the
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