Re: Playing back remote mp3 files

Recently, Jesse Sng wrote: > I'm trying to build a standalone browser that will allow the user to > select from a list of mp3 files and then either stream or download > them to his hard drive for local playback. > > What I'm trying to figure out now is what do I have to do to get the > QT player

Re: standalone problems

There is a bug that affects the filename and effective filenames in standalones that might cause your problem. See bug #2233. If you have non-standard characters in the file path (my student labs have folders with option-f (Ÿ) at the end of their names) then the path in the filename is screwed up a

Re: the IDE

Rodney Somerstein wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: There's a lot of code in the IDE, so I wouldn't begin to know all of the things it does. But to get a feel for which messages are intercepted you can do two things: - Read the frontScripts and backScripts that are active when the IDE is running. -

Re: Dates Handled Differently in XP Home?

Sarah ' Yes, my script uses the convert command, I'm examining dateItems to determine whether the code has expired. I'll search Bugzilla again with this new info. Thanks. On Sep 22, 2004, at 6:28 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/22/04 5:51 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: A followup. We've now had three o

Re: Playing back remote mp3 files

Jesse Sng wrote: What I'm trying to figure out now is what do I have to do to get the QT player to reference a file that's located on a web server? Just set the filename of the player to the URL. Note that with most MP3s QT will have to download the whole thing before playing. But if memory serv

Playing back remote mp3 files

Hi, I'm just starting to explore Revolution and have used Hypercard and Supercard extensively for stack and externals development since 1988 through the 90s. I'm trying to build a standalone browser that will allow the user to select from a list of mp3 files and then either stream or download

Re: revCopyFile different in 2.5?

Hello Christian, It worked like a charm the very first time I tried it! I've been hassling with that problem off and on for quite a bit. Fantastic. And now I can say that I have used a shell() command. Who knows where that may lead? Many thanks from rainy Washington state. -Scott Morrow Ele

Re: the IDE

Richard Gaskin wrote: There's a lot of code in the IDE, so I wouldn't begin to know all of the things it does. But to get a feel for which messages are intercepted you can do two things: - Read the frontScripts and backScripts that are active when the IDE is running. - Use UmbrellaMan to log e

Re: the IDE

Erik Hansen wrote: --- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... mouseUp was not sent when the pointer tool was active. I beleive it is sent by the engine with both tool modes, but the IDE traps it for its own purposes and does not pass it to your stacks. is there a account of what the IDE do

Re: Can't read text from file on OS 9

On 9/22/04 5:00 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's needed is a function to determine whether we're running under 9 > natively or in Classic. Here's one, it does the job but only when called by a standalone (adjusted for email display): function stsInClassicMode -- First,

Re: Dates Handled Differently in XP Home?

On 9/22/04 5:51 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: A followup. We've now had three of my client's customers experience the same issue, all on XP. The code works fine on all other OSes on which it's been tested. Does your script use the "convert" command? Are these customers international? This sounds a littl

Re: IDV3 tag writer?

On 9/22/04 7:37 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of a library for writing idv3 tags to mp3 files? > This was from a tip on my site: on extract_ID3v1 someData, @songTitle, @artist, @album, @aYear, @comments, @genre put char -128 to -1 of someData into last_128Bytes

Re: IDV3 tag writer?

Trevor DeVore wrote: On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:37 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Anyone know of a library for writing idv3 tags to mp3 files? Umm, I meant id3, not idv3. I wrote this a long time ago. It might work: function MP3Info pFile, pSize open file pFile for read Err the result read from file p

Re: IDV3 tag writer?

On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:37 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Anyone know of a library for writing idv3 tags to mp3 files? Umm, I meant id3, not idv3. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://li

RE: standalone problems...

> >dear all, > >my very first app run fine in rev, but the standalone version don't run >at all (also a basic action as open a file fail...). > >probably I'm making some horrible mistake, but I can't figure which one! > >can someone take a look to this app? Rev Online, Users space, OTTO; the >file

IDV3 tag writer?

Anyone know of a library for writing idv3 tags to mp3 files? -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Documentation stack and lost work

On 22/09/2004, at 11:19, Alister wrote: When I mis-type something into the "find text" box of the (new v2..5) Documentation stack, the "No entries match your filter criteria" alert appears. Hit to close the alert Hit to delete the characters I typed . but not quick enough. The dialogue

Re: the IDE

--- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... mouseUp was not sent when the > > pointer tool was active. > > I beleive it is sent by the engine with both > tool modes, but the IDE > traps it for its own purposes and does not pass > it to your stacks. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Reveal file on Windows

On 9/22/04 5:57 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Cool tip, Trevor! > > Thanks for checking this out Ken. I can live with the protected folder > stuff (I say that now but I bet next project I will need to get around > that ;-). Also, BTW, the "official" page for this is: http

Re: rev stats

At 10:59 AM -0400 22/9/04, Bob Hartley wrote: I have some stacks that will do several different statistical tests (I'm working on a stats learning program for biomedical scientists). What tests are you after? Hi all I know there is a hypercard statistics stack. Is there one for rev? All the be

Re: revUnloadSpeech rev2.5

I think there is a bug, but I have not gone to bugzilla again (I did report a previous bug). First of all, at least with my tests, if you do not call revUnloadSpeech then a standalone will not quit properly and remains in the task list under Windows (XP at least). Here's the fix. If you launc

Re: Reveal file on Windows

On Sep 22, 2004, at 3:43 PM, Ken Ray wrote: You can keep your joy - this works all the way back to Windows 95 (I tested it). The only thing that might stifle a bit of your joy is that if you are trying to reveal a file that is in a protected folder (or in the case of a basic Windows 98 install,

Re: Dates Handled Differently in XP Home?

A followup. We've now had three of my client's customers experience the same issue, all on XP. The code works fine on all other OSes on which it's been tested. Strange. Dan On Sep 22, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Are there any documented or known differences in the way dates are handled

Re: strange detective behaviour in 2.5

Not clear. But my guess is that it is to do with a stackfiles entry in the home stack? basically stackfiles - still there or absent in some stack :) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolutio

Re: Reveal file on Windows

On 9/22/04 3:05 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking through the archives to find out how to reveal a file on > Windows and have it selected in Win Explorere but didn't find anything > on it. After querying my good friend Google about it I came across > this. To reveal

standalone problems...

dear all, my very first app run fine in rev, but the standalone version don't run at all (also a basic action as open a file fail...). probably I'm making some horrible mistake, but I can't figure which one! can someone take a look to this app? Rev Online, Users space, OTTO; the filename is XMLa

Re: Can't read text from file on OS 9

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Trevor DeVore wrote: I have a weird problem here. I built a standalone for OS 9 using 2.5. I'm testing under Classic but a client is testing on a machine running OS 9. In the code I use put URL ("file:"&pPath) into tMyVar to get text from a file. Th

Re: Can't read text from file on OS 9

sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Trevor DeVore wrote: >> I have a weird problem here. I built a standalone for OS 9 using 2.5. >> I'm testing under Classic but a client is testing on a machine running >> OS 9. >> In the code I use put URL ("file:"&pPath) into tMyVar to get text from >> a file. The path is

Re: Can't read text from file on OS 9

On Sep 22, 2004, at 6:43 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: Problem is that all the new systems from Apple will not boot into 9 directly. Everyone better treat their old dino-bots well. Wonder if my older machines will gain value as programmers need them now. my iMac-that-belives-that-it-is-actually-luxo

Re: get URL and decompress()

jbv wrote: Mark, Try adding base64 encode/decode to the process for files that are used over the internet. I know that it adds a little more size to it but it does protect it from all those OS differences. just tried it and it works. it only adds 20% to the file size. Thanks a lot. The combinatio

Re: Can't read text from file on OS 9

On Sep 22, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Trevor, I had similar problem here, it was a bug that happened only running the stack under classic emulation, on REAL MacOS 9.x it worked fine... so it was labeled low priority in bugzilla. (or might even be solved by now). Try setting your star

Re: revUnloadSpeech rev2.5

I've noticed that as well. On Sep 22, 2004, at 11:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is 'revUnloadSpeech' no longer needed in rev2.5? The command does not appear to be recognised. /H ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.co

Re: Sidescroller games?

On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Hi, I just had a student tell me that he wanted to use Java or something other than Rev for his game project because he wanted to do a side-scroller game. I think I recall somebody posting a link to a simple example??? Judy, I think that you can make

Re: get URL and decompress()

Hi again, Could it be related to the charset property ? I'm on Mac OS9, and I upload my compressed text file to the Linux server via ftp. When I download that same file to my HD with a ftp client and compare the content with the original file using BBedit, I get the same thing. But when I download

Sidescroller games?

Hi, I just had a student tell me that he wanted to use Java or something other than Rev for his game project because he wanted to do a side-scroller game. I think I recall somebody posting a link to a simple example??? Any additional information or pointers would be greatly appreciated! Judy

Re: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

Ops, my mistake... richard, there's an PAD editor compatible with the "windows" PAD files for the Macintosh, it's built in filemaker and its available on the net from http://www.chickengirl.com/padmaker.php it's called PADMaker and it works. MacPAD is just a plist with couple tricks, and the

Re: Reveal file on Windows

Thank you thank you thank you! -- Frank Web Photos Pro: Software for Photo Bloggers and Other Photo Power Users See us on the web at http://www.webphotospro.com/ On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Trevor DeVore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Reveal file on Windows explorer

Re: revSpeak and revListen

I would think Rev could store the scripts necessary for speech listening and "do script" these directly to the 'speech recognition server'. When I have time I will play with these more and let you know. For now I have uploaded to my user space a simple stack to show the AS Say command and t

Re: Reveal file on Windows

Hi Trevor, I was looking through the archives to find out how to reveal a file on Windows and have it selected in Win Explorere but didn't find anything on it. After querying my good friend Google about it I came across this. To reveal a file on Windows you can use pass commands to explorer.e

Re: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

Frank Leahy wrote: On Sep 22, 2004, at 3:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Monte Goulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="US-ASCII" One intere

set printColors to false ?

Hello, set printColors to false : is it possible to use this to choose Black Ink in "Print Settings" of Printer Dialog Window (EPSON Stylus Color 740 ; G4 Mac OS X 10.3 ; a Revolution's stack) I should like to choose Black Ink as default parameter of my printer, I don't want to have the printer

RE: here's a weird one

Frank, You're a genius! Thank you! Never would have thought to try that. I'm glad there's a work around for it. It's filed as bug #2232. Thanks again, Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:02 PM, Frank Leahy wrote: Richard, I downloaded MacPADEdit 1.0 from the web, and it had checkboxes for all sorts of release platforms -- Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS, Mac OS X, etc. -- and I was able to generate a PAD file that showed my product as being released on Windows

Reveal file on Windows

I was looking through the archives to find out how to reveal a file on Windows and have it selected in Win Explorere but didn't find anything on it. After querying my good friend Google about it I came across this. To reveal a file on Windows you can use pass commands to explorer.exe. explor

get URL and decompress()

Hi list, I have a text file that contains compressed data (using the compress() function). When I open it as local file and try to decompress it, everything's fine. But then I try to put it on a server, and access to it as follows : get URL "http://www.myDomain.com/myFile.txt"; put decompress

Re: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you

On Sep 22, 2004, at 3:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Monte Goulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [OT] PAD files, MacPAD, and you To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" One interesting possibil

Re: here's a weird one

Aha! Try setting a unique value for CFBundleIdentifier. Rev does not create that property, so I added it to a standalone here, and the setting seems to stick. If this works for you, I recommend that you Bugzilla this so that it can be fixed for a future version. On Sep 22, 2004, at 2:56 PM, C

Re: Can't read text from file on OS 9

On Sep 22, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If you're running in OS 9 natively I'm stumped. But if you're running Classic under OS X this is caused by paths being handled differently in OS 9 and Classic. You could account for this if it was possible to know if you're running 9 natively

Re: rev stats

Rev can import HyperCard files, I think. However, if you are referring to hyprstat.sit, I tried to download it (on my Mac running OS X) and discovered that the file is missing: The Mac downloads an HTML file, with an extension of .sit, and thinks that it is a Stuffit archive, so it tries to open

Re: Can't read text from file on OS 9

On Sep 22, 2004, at 4:23 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I have a weird problem here. I built a standalone for OS 9 using 2.5. I'm testing under Classic but a client is testing on a machine running OS 9. In the code I use put URL ("file:"&pPath) into tMyVar to get text from a file. The path is one

Re: strange detective behaviour in 2.5

Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, I am trying to build a simple stack with 2.5... it's my iBlog program, it has one substack called "shortcuts". When I try to build the thing, Rev shouts that PupCMS also has a "shortcuts" stack and that this is bad. The cool thing is that I never opened PupCMS which

Re: Can't read text from file on OS 9

Trevor DeVore wrote: I have a weird problem here. I built a standalone for OS 9 using 2.5. I'm testing under Classic but a client is testing on a machine running OS 9. In the code I use put URL ("file:"&pPath) into tMyVar to get text from a file. The path is one retrieved from the answer fil

strange detective behaviour in 2.5

Hi Folks, I am trying to build a simple stack with 2.5... it's my iBlog program, it has one substack called "shortcuts". When I try to build the thing, Rev shouts that PupCMS also has a "shortcuts" stack and that this is bad. The cool thing is that I never opened PupCMS which is my own content

Re: rev stats

Bob Hartley wrote: I should have been more specific. What I'm after is something that can perform statistical analysis. I found a hypercard stack on this site but it is a mac file. http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html JonesLib.mc may help:

Can't read text from file on OS 9

I have a weird problem here. I built a standalone for OS 9 using 2.5. I'm testing under Classic but a client is testing on a machine running OS 9. In the code I use put URL ("file:"&pPath) into tMyVar to get text from a file. The path is one retrieved from the answer file command. On OS X

Re: rev stats

At 06:46 22/09/2004, you wrote: Bob, Hi Chipp. I should have been more specific. What I'm after is something that can perform statistical analysis. I found a hypercard stack on this site but it is a mac file. http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html All the best Bob You may wish to check ou

RE: here's a weird one

Does anyone at all have further information on this? I now have two customers that have called in with the issue. I'm hoping it's just a property I can set in the info.plist file. Anyone know for sure? Thanks again, Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally -Original Message---

revUnloadSpeech rev2.5

Is 'revUnloadSpeech' no longer needed in rev2.5? The command does not appear to be recognised. /H ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Error message - Revolution 2.5

On 9/22/04 3:34 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote: Hello, when I start Revolution 2.5 I get the message below (this has been the case both earlier on and after I updated today - both on Windows XP and Mac 10.3.5): A stack Answer Dialog in file /Applications/Revolution 2.5/license.rev is already in me

Re: [ANN] libDatabase Article and source

On Sep 22, 2004, at 8:38 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: you're THE MAN Tu es el hombr (heck, I can't get that language right) libDatabase is very impressive. I remember when you helped me with PHP and packing data for my Revolution project, I went coding just like libDatabase. I pu

RE: No Disk error & MountedDisks

Any drive letter that is in the volumes and not mounted results in the system error, Jay. As it is the OS that responds, I am guessing the call is pretty low level with no fast-reacting workaround. /H From: "Jay Madren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:12:25 -0400 Subject: RE:

Re: No Disk error & MountedDisks

Jay- Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 4:12:25 PM, you wrote: JM> a way to test each drive. Using (there is a file...), I don't have a JM> problem with any of them using except the floppy. It pops up the error JM> dialog that Hugh mentions. Interesting. But on my win2k systems put (there is a file

Re: Stack corruption in Windows only

Nevermind - - - I went through the stack systemmatically, and tracked it down. Since I had hundreds and hundreds of objects, I thought it was take a long time, but it really wasn't too bad (about 1/2 hr). I still don't know why one of my images was "corrupt", but getting rid of it and re-imp

Re: [ANN] libDatabase Article and source

Trevor, you're THE MAN Tu es el hombr (heck, I can't get that language right) libDatabase is very impressive. I remember when you helped me with PHP and packing data for my Revolution project, I went coding just like libDatabase. I put things in arrays, and the like, but lib

revCopyFile different in 2.5?

Hello Scott, I think, if I understood what you wrote, I found a solution : Here is what you can do (in a script) : put PathOfSourceFile (e.g. "/Library/Receipts/BranchProposalSystem1.pkg") into tSource put PathOfDestination into tDestination (e.g. "/Users/userName/Desktop") put ("cp -R -p ""e&tS

Stack corruption in Windows only

I've got a stack that I've been working on in Mac OS X 10.3.5. It's been working great without any problem on the Mac, using Revolution 2.5. I take the exact-same stack file and try to open it up in Windows in Revolution 2.5, and it says that it is corrupted. Searching the archives, it soun

Re: revSpeak and revListen

Hear Here ? ;-) On Sep 21, 2004, at 5:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unsure if it would be possible, but just as runrev has created revSpeak I could see real uses for a revListen command. At least on Windows, the SAPI 5.1 TTS engine appears to also support speech conversion to text. Could ru

Error message - Revolution 2.5

Hello, when I start Revolution 2.5 I get the message below (this has been the case both earlier on and after I updated today - both on Windows XP and Mac 10.3.5): A stack Answer Dialog in file /Applications/Revolution 2.5/license.rev is already in memory. The Revolution UI does not distinguish s

[ANN] libDatabase Article and source

Hi list, I've posted a short article and source code for libDatabase which is a little library I use for dealing with databases. You can find out more about it here: -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] _