Do we have synthetic speech in WindowsXP yet?

2004-08-21 Thread Barry Levine
I was plating with RealBasic and was shocked to discover that synthetic speech worked on WindowsXP. Is this something that Rev now supports? The last time I asked (about a year ago), the answer was no. Thanks, Barry ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMA

RE: Critter (Meme PacAttack!!!)

2004-08-21 Thread william griffin
Fancy! Last couple of days I've been thinking of how to pull of games in in Björnke's RevChat, two the problem of direction vectors in rev and a multiplayer player vs player Pac-Man crossed my mind not even twelve hours ago. Funny Björnke's chat pretty much started as a part of his mission for h

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

2004-08-21 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
flicker confimed here... and also the occasional completely blank stack, until resize (OSX) No recipe, needs to be bugZilla'ed On Aug 21, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 8/21/04 12:30 PM, "Jerry Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ken, et al., Where to do you put the lock/unlock screen in ord

Re: Critter

2004-08-21 Thread Ken Ray
On 8/21/04 9:17 PM, "Jim Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got time to play for a few minutes? Create a new stack and make an oval > graphic about 32 by 32 pixels. Set its arcAngle to about 330 degrees. > Set the _stack_ script to: > > on mouseMove x,y >if x,y is within the rect of grc 1 th

RE: Critter

2004-08-21 Thread MisterX
Cool. Here's the script I made last week that does something similar! A bit smoother in movement thanks to the speed differentiator. Then I tried yours by duplicating my oval. I just pasted your script and even in development mode, I had my graphic follow yours! ;) Im also working on bouncing, gr

Critter

2004-08-21 Thread Jim Lyons
Got time to play for a few minutes? Create a new stack and make an oval graphic about 32 by 32 pixels. Set its arcAngle to about 330 degrees. Set the _stack_ script to: on mouseMove x,y if x,y is within the rect of grc 1 then exit mouseMove get the loc of grc 1 set the startAngle of grc 1

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

2004-08-21 Thread Ken Ray
On 8/21/04 12:30 PM, "Jerry Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken, et al., > > Where to do you put the lock/unlock screen in order to get rid of > opening stack flicker? (See below for details.) > > - Before and after you go to the stack? Tried this and flicker still > there. > - On preOpens

Re: simple libSMTP send example, help

2004-08-21 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, August 21, 2004, at 04:35 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: This is a perfect case for a CGI that stores the data so that I can gather the data that comes in. I've never done that before and I doubt that earthlink has the proper privileges for setting it up. I know that my earthlink domains

Re: simple libSMTP send example, help

2004-08-21 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, August 21, 2004, at 04:28 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Have you considered trying to invoke their email program to send the message; like a browser does with a "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ? Not that I have any idea how you'd go about doing that :-( That's what I'm doing now, if they reme

Re: simple libSMTP send example, help

2004-08-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
At 16:09 21/08/2004 -0700, Mark Brownell wrote: On Saturday, August 21, 2004, at 04:10 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: put "smtp.btinternet.com" into mServer put "25" into mPort I'm trying to get users of a standalone app to send me a message. Can they send using my mServer, "smtp.earthlink.net" or do

Re: simple libSMTP send example, help

2004-08-21 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, August 21, 2004, at 04:10 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: put "smtp.btinternet.com" into mServer put "25" into mPort I'm trying to get users of a standalone app to send me a message. Can they send using my mServer, "smtp.earthlink.net" or do I need to some how learn how the example gets t

Re: simple libSMTP send example, help

2004-08-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
At 07:31 21/08/2004 -0700, Mark Brownell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get libSMTP to work for a basic simple email send. If I use this to add the libraries with the stacks added to my main stack already: on openStack start using stack "libEmail" start using stack "libSmtp" end openStack on close

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

2004-08-21 Thread Jerry Daniels
Scott, Ken, et al., I have found a way to eliminate the flicker: 1. I set the loc of the stack to "-5000,-5000" 2. Then I set did a "go to the stack" 3. Then I moved the stack to the desired location No flicker of any kind. But there is a caveat: This works great with any stack as long as its style

Re: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread Roger . E . Eller
John Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/8/04 6:00 pm, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> MS already removed the linux side of things in VPC. The xbox SDK will >> surely run under it, so you seriously still should consider getting a PC. >> > > No one should ever seriously consider b

Re: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread John Dixon
On 21/8/04 6:00 pm, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MS already removed the linux side of things in VPC. The xbox SDK will > surely run under it, so you seriously still should consider getting a PC. > No one should ever seriously consider buying a PC! _

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

2004-08-21 Thread Jerry Daniels
Scott, The alwaysBuffer approach I have tried already, but thanks for the suggestion. I think you're suggesting that I go invisibly to the stack and then show it. Is that what you mean? I'll try that. Thanks, Jerry On Aug 21, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Jerry Daniels wrote:

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

2004-08-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jerry Daniels wrote: > Where to do you put the lock/unlock screen in order to get rid of > opening stack flicker? (See below for details.) > > - Before and after you go to the stack? Tried this and flicker still > there. > - On preOpenstack? Tried this and flicker still there. > - On pr

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

2004-08-21 Thread Jerry Daniels
Ken, et al., Where to do you put the lock/unlock screen in order to get rid of opening stack flicker? (See below for details.) - Before and after you go to the stack? Tried this and flicker still there. - On preOpenstack? Tried this and flicker still there. - On preOpenstack? Tried this and flic

Re: Edit menu recipe?

2004-08-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/21/04 5:50 AM, Frank Leahy wrote: Many thanks for the suggestions. I tried yours Jacqueline, and while it came close, I had problems with paste in particular where the selection point after the paste was in the wrong place (it was before the pasted data instead of after it). Not sure why

RE: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread MisterX
Roger, Testing linux on a pc in vmware is also nice... And with the virtual nets or connections, it's just like using a terminal server, no drop in performance, near real time refresh over gigabit nets! But not for newbies who dont RT[F]M... Dar, I dont know how you managed, but we run VMW vir

RE: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread MisterX
MS already removed the linux side of things in VPC. The xbox SDK will surely run under it, so you seriously still should consider getting a PC. Dell's price is not high and that's 130% of the price for a good abit or asus clone. You can actually buy a good PC for the price of a 40GB ipod in the

Re: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread Dar Scott
On Aug 21, 2004, at 8:08 AM, MisterX wrote: Besides, VPC compared to VMWare is like a toy car compared to a real car. Some time ago I evaluated VMWare and VPC on W2K (or maybe an early XP). Though VMWare described some better features, they did not work well. VMWare attempts to use the host OS

Re: Edit menu recipe?

2004-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank Leahy wrote: The other thing that's interesting is that "the selectedChunk" was reporting the wrong field number for me (it would return field 21 when it should have been field 12 or field 14). Do you have a recipe for reproducing that? Unless something was very recently changed in the en

Re: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread Michael Young
Sivakatirswami wrote: Thanks for everyone's input. As always, many ways to describe an elephant.. Our Apple repair-lady was here today. She said "Forget VPC, you will not only waste time but destabilize your whole system if you plan to do anything else on that machine." But, I would be running VPC

simple libSMTP send example, help

2004-08-21 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi, I'm trying to get libSMTP to work for a basic simple email send. If I use this to add the libraries with the stacks added to my main stack already: on openStack start using stack "libEmail" start using stack "libSmtp" end openStack on closeStack stop using stack "libEmail" stop using

RE: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread Roger . E . Eller
> Besides, VPC compared to VMWare is like a toy car compared to > a real car. HP sells VPC as a virtual server now if this puts > you in the picture. We use it a work to validate clusters and > run experimental system installs. But vmware doesn't work on > macs unfortunately. If you primarily deve

RE: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread MisterX
> M$ bought VPC and they killed Real PC. > They are going to use the powerpc chipset in their new Xbox. > And they are going to use VPC as emulator. Sounds like Steve Jobs and PowerComputing to me ;) Besides, VPC compared to VMWare is like a toy car compared to a real car. HP sells VPC

Re: OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC

2004-08-21 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 21 août 04, à 12:38, Wouter a écrit : Interesting..., even if M$ is so much often like the weather ;-) But if you read links like this one, may be something will come up after the release of the new Xbox. http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,61065,00.html M$ bought VPC and they killed Real

Re: No one uses W2k (was OT: Virtual PC vs "Real" PC)

2004-08-21 Thread Bill
Wow - that is so different from the web statistics on my server. I have never seed that many Macs! I see 3% Mac OS and 90% Windows XP with linux and other as the rest. Do you have a lot of access from France? I understand that there are a lot of Macs there as well as in Australia. On 8/21/04 3