Re: Accessing other stacks in LibCGI

2004-08-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Rodney Tamblyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Terry, > > You *think* (you'll need to check this) you can > access data in custom > properties of stacks, but not fields, when the stack > is accessed by the > command line engine. e.g. you can start using a > stack, and execute a > function

Re: AppleScript won't compile (?)

2004-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Marian Petrides wrote: > On Aug 19, 2004, at 11:52 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Sarah Reichelt wrote: >>> This is very odd. I have always recommended that AppleScripts only >>> be transferred to Rev after they have been tested in the AppleScript >>> editor, and have never had a script that worked i

Re: Accessing other stacks in LibCGI

2004-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Terry Vogelaar (de Mare) wrote: I'll try a tip someone mailed me personally and if that doesn't solve anything, I put everything in a text file. That seems to be the simplest. And the simplest is often the best solution. In my experience you can access properties of objects, and even create them

Re: AppleScript won't compile (?)

2004-08-19 Thread Marian Petrides
That's odd because when I try to compile this script in AppleScript editor it gives me a compile error at exactly the same spot: Syntax error: expected comma but found identifier with the highlighted word (identifier) being chapter. M On Aug 19, 2004, at 11:52 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Sarah

Re: Accessing other stacks in LibCGI

2004-08-19 Thread de Mare
Rodney Tamblyn heeft op vrijdag, 20 aug 2004 om 01:56 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven: Hi Terry, You *think* (you'll need to check this) you can access data in custom properties of stacks, but not fields, when the stack is accessed by the command line engine. e.g. you can start usin

Re: Accessing other stacks in LibCGI

2004-08-19 Thread Rodney Tamblyn
Hi Terry, You *think* (you'll need to check this) you can access data in custom properties of stacks, but not fields, when the stack is accessed by the command line engine. e.g. you can start using a stack, and execute a function that may (for example) retrieve data stored in a custom property

Re: Rev 2.5b2 dox not working yet?

2004-08-19 Thread Marian Petrides
Thanks On Aug 19, 2004, at 6:49 PM, Bill wrote: Same thing happened to me. I didn't like the hang when asking for dictionary so I went to bugzilla with it which is now bug #2030 On 8/19/04 5:50 PM, "Marian Petrides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I try to look up an item in the docs (dictionary:

Re: Rev 2.5b2 dox not working yet?

2004-08-19 Thread Bill
Same thing happened to me. I didn't like the hang when asking for dictionary so I went to bugzilla with it which is now bug #2030 On 8/19/04 5:50 PM, "Marian Petrides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to look up an item in the docs (dictionary: player object) > I get an appropriate list

Rev 2.2 Windows player object bug

2004-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
All, A few weeks ago I remember reading a thread regarding a player object bug in Rev 2.2 Windows that caused a sound to stop playing before it reached its end, but only if the player object was invisible. The workaround was to move the player offscreen. I've searched the archives and bugzilla

Re: Stack is momentarily solid white (flicker) - OSX

2004-08-19 Thread Ken Ray
>> I've looked at the archives (nada) and tried fiddling with >> alwaysBuffer, bufferhiddenImages and screenNoPixmaps to no avail. >> >> Any thoughts, haters of flicker? >> >> Best, >> >> Jerry >> > My stacks and stand alones in OS X occasionally open up TOTALY Black, > nothing can be seen. >

Rev 2.5b2 dox not working yet?

2004-08-19 Thread Marian Petrides
When I try to look up an item in the docs (dictionary: player object) I get an appropriate list at the left but highlighting and/or double clicking on an item does not change the text at the right--I keep getting what appears to be the entry for xmlerr Is this expected behavior (ie, an area th

Re: Questions about Altbrowser and SVG

2004-08-19 Thread jbv
Bob, Thanx for all the advices. Nevertheless, Flash is far from being the perfect solution (at least for my project) : if you want your animation to react and being modified according to the user's previous actions, you need to set up complex Transcript / Actionscript interaction (a real nightm

Questions about Altbrowser and SVG

2004-08-19 Thread Bob Warren
JB, In my opinion, Chipp's advice to go for Flash to do your animations is undoubtedly the best solution for various reasons. However, it is perfectly possible to do animations in SVG using a SINGLE SCRIPT, not a succession of scripts as you had in mind. (In fact, it probably wouldn't work as a su

Re: bug reporting for 2.5B2

2004-08-19 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Thanks Kevin, that's clear.. Just in case any newbies are lurking on this thread. Don't take these comments the wrong way. Make not mistake about it: Revolution is the best tool on the market and my favorite oftware and has allows us to do things (as non-programmers) that we would have otherwis

Re: Accessing other stacks in LibCGI

2004-08-19 Thread Andre Garzia
On Aug 19, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Terry Vogelaar (de Mare) wrote: I tried both of your solutions, but the problem doesn't seem to be loading the stack into memory. The test function function functionInAgenda return "Works!" end functionInAgenda indeed returned the string, although it was in the other

Re: Accessing other stacks in LibCGI

2004-08-19 Thread de Mare
Andre Garzia heeft op donderdag, 19 aug 2004 om 19:16 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven: I usually stick to using text files with libCGI, I never tried a content stack like that. I would suggest you try one of these: First option: Make agenda a substack of your mainstack, this way it

Re: Accessing other stacks in LibCGI

2004-08-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Terry, I usually stick to using text files with libCGI, I never tried a content stack like that. I would suggest you try one of these: First option: Make agenda a substack of your mainstack, this way it would load anyway. Second option: try using go invisible stack , on your libraryStack hand

Re: 2.5 Beta 2 and verbose log

2004-08-19 Thread Marian Petrides
Believe it or not, I did look there and somehow (don't ask me how) I missed it. Musta been brain-dead. Thanks. M On Aug 19, 2004, at 10:44 AM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Aug 19, 2004, at 4:02 AM, Marian Petrides wrote: Is there a way to prevent RevOnline from starting up whenever I launch Rev. I c

Re: Simulating password entry

2004-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
Thanks to all who sent suggestions. Here's what I came up with (beware line wraps): global passwd on keydown whichKey put word 2 of the selectedChunk of me into sChar put word 4 of the selectedChunk of me into eChar if eChar > sChar then -- some text is selected delete char sChar to eCh

Re: Stack is momentarily solid white (flicker) - OSX

2004-08-19 Thread william griffin
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:53:28 -0500 From: Jerry Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Stack is momentarily solid white (flicker) - OSX To: Use Revolution List use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=fl

Re: Script shortcut in b2?

2004-08-19 Thread Bill
For the first time ever in 2.5b2 it works fine for me. I like it much better than the old mouse-over thing which never worked. On 8/19/04 10:46 AM, "Devin Asay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before I bugzilla this, could anyone confirm whether the command-option > click shortcut for opening scrip

Re: Simulating password entry

2004-08-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Devin, What about using my bullet font? It is in the section "More downloads" on my software homepage: http://home.wanadoo.nl/mark.sch/software/main.html There is a bitmap version and a truetype version. The font should not be used with commercial projects. Mark Devin Asay wrote: All, I'm writi

Re: 2.5 Beta 2 and verbose log

2004-08-19 Thread Troy Rollins
On Aug 19, 2004, at 4:02 AM, Marian Petrides wrote: Is there a way to prevent RevOnline from starting up whenever I launch Rev. I couldn't find a preference that allowed me to do this. It significantly slows down the launch of Rev and there are times when I have either a slow internet connectio

Re: bug reporting for 2.5B2

2004-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kevin Miller wrote: On 19/8/04 4:32 am, "Sannyasin Sivakatirswami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was under the impression that all the bugs were fixed in 2.5B2... We have never stated that all bugs will be fixed in this, or any other release. We have fixed the vast majority of the issues reported,

Re: Cross-platform fonts...what is everyone else doing?

2004-08-19 Thread Peter T. Evensen
At 11:18 AM 7/28/2004, you wrote: I think I will probably go with a runtime solution, such that when a stack opens for the first time it quickly checks every field for a non-empty font/size/style and resets it to the correct font for that platform. I don't have that many controls that are bolde

Script shortcut in b2?

2004-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
Before I bugzilla this, could anyone confirm whether the command-option click shortcut for opening scripts is working for you in 2.5b2? I'm on Mac OS X 10.3.5. I know it was working in b1, and I thought it was working at first under b2, but I can't make it work. (Yes I did check the preference

Re: Simulating password entry

2004-08-19 Thread Devin Asay
Yes, I know about ask password, but I want a login dialog with more than one field: user name and password. User name should be in clear text, but the password obscured. I would love it if ask password gave you a multi-field option, but since it doesn't, I have to roll my own. Actually, with so

Re: bug reporting for 2.5B2

2004-08-19 Thread Kevin Miller
On 19/8/04 4:32 am, "Sannyasin Sivakatirswami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to whine too much but: > > I was under the impression that all the bugs were fixed in 2.5B2... We have never stated that all bugs will be fixed in this, or any other release. We have fixed the vast majority of the i

Accessing other stacks in LibCGI

2004-08-19 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Hi all, While LibCGI helped me a lot in building my website, there is one issue I can't resolve yet. I have a 'content' stack and I want to access information in another stack named 'agenda'. And I can't figure out how. I tried: lock messages start using "path/to/agenda.rev" put functionInAgend

Prevent RevOnline launches (was:2.5 Beta 2 and verbose log)

2004-08-19 Thread Jan Decroos
Marian Petrides wrote: >Is there a way to prevent RevOnline from starting up whenever I launch >Rev. I couldn't find a preference that allowed me to do this. Sure! See: Preferences -> General -> Automatically launch Revolution Online Jan __

Re: Fields, Margins, Tab on Return

2004-08-19 Thread SimPLsol
Chipp, I unchecked the Fixed Line Height. All of the lines disappeared (as one might expect) but the cursor still autotabbed out of the field at line 3. Thank you for the suggestion. Paul Looney PS. Hopefully the final solution will allow me to keep the lines in the field. ___

Re: Fields, Margins, Tab on Return

2004-08-19 Thread SimPLsol
Thank you Ken. I do appreciate it. Am I the only one who thinks there are entirely too many "work arounds" like this in Revolution? Sizing fields should be fundamental, logical and easy. Zero margins should be zero margins. What newby is ever going to discover this? Previous posts said Revoluti

Re: Fields, Margins, Tab on Return

2004-08-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Check out the fixedLineHeight property. I suggest setting it to false. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Questions about Altbrowser and SVG

2004-08-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi JB, If you haven't already, go to http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/altBrowser.htm and download the altBrowser demo. It's a standalone which is a stack with embedded browser. Check out the help file in the menu for info on the browser commands supported. We're putting the final touche

Re: 2.5 Beta 2 and verbose log

2004-08-19 Thread Marian Petrides
Is there a way to prevent RevOnline from starting up whenever I launch Rev. I couldn't find a preference that allowed me to do this. It significantly slows down the launch of Rev and there are times when I have either a slow internet connection or no internet connection at all--and thus have n

Re: Questions about Altbrowser and SVG

2004-08-19 Thread jbv
Bob, Chipp, Thank you both for answering my questions. > > THE altBrowser and the SVG plugin are not connected. The altBrowser simply > shows in a stack whatever you might show in the Internet Explorer. So if IE > has the SVG plugin, then it is possible to show the SVG in the stack. But if > IE

Re: Questions about Altbrowser and SVG

2004-08-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Bob, Thanks for answering all the questions. You are correct on all of them. JB, If you need faster redraw of vector graphics, considering using Flash in altBrowser. As you know, Flash can animate and redraw very fast. Of course if you purchase altBrowser, you get a license to redistribute it wi