Newbies looking for documentation

2004-12-20 Thread Gordon
Dear Revolutionaries (particularly fellow rev newbies) I was trawling around the rev website and I happened to read an article I had previously glossed over - the one about moving to rev from C++ or Java environments. I was never particularly fond of either of these languages - learning C++ from a

Re: Standalone cuts off stack

2004-12-20 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I have a stack with a menubar. When I try to build a standalone from it, the bottom of the stack is cut off by the height of the menubar. This does not happen if I build in MetaCard, so the problem is apparently with the distribution builder. I have added a command line in a preopenstack handle

Re: More questions from a newb

2004-12-20 Thread Pierre Sahores
Dan's Books first as the most usefull up to date Rev XTalk programming course we can get, the Rev lists archives in second position and the Rev doc for the details you will get in reading it :-) Best, Pierre Le 20 déc. 04, à 22:18, J. Landman Gay a écrit : On 12/20/04 2:13 PM, docmann wrote: Hel

Re: The game I´ve been talking about for so long... ;-)

2004-12-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
Hi list! I´ve been very quite the last few weeks. I´m on dial up until february as I am moving and sorrowly can´t keep up with the traffic on the list. I just want to let you know that I´ve uploaded the final version of the game I´ve shown on Malta to my server. mac classic: http://www.derbrill.com

Re: Standalone cuts off stack

2004-12-20 Thread SimPLsol
This bug should have been fixed over a year ago Adding a Mac OS menubar to an existing stack is a crap shoot. For some reason, adjusting the stack size in a preOpenStack handler does not work - but using the same handler in an openStack handler does. This is probably the best clue to where

Re: Standalone cuts off stack

2004-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/20/04 4:56 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: >>I have a bug report in about this, but it would be helpful if anyone >>knew the answer while I wait for it to be addressed. >> >>I have a stack with a menubar. When I try to build a standalone from it, >>the bottom of the stack is cut off by the height of

Re: Standalone cuts off stack

2004-12-20 Thread Martin Baxter
>I have a bug report in about this, but it would be helpful if anyone >knew the answer while I wait for it to be addressed. > >I have a stack with a menubar. When I try to build a standalone from it, >the bottom of the stack is cut off by the height of the menubar. This >does not happen if I build

Re: display a colored rectangle behind each line

2004-12-20 Thread Thierry Arbellot
On Monday, Dec 20, 2004, at 20:45 Europe/Paris, Erik Hansen wrote: --- Thierry Arbellot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bonsoir Jérome, I had the sample problem in one of my app. I used 2 different workarounds: 1. pad the line with enough space characters to make the line have the same width as the fiel

Re: More questions from a newb

2004-12-20 Thread Alan S. Golub
Doc - If you want a well-paced walkthrough of Rev and Transcript, with extremely helpful examples along the way, I think Dan's book can't be beat. Dan does a great job of explaining the concepts that are conveyed in the product documentation, and he does so in a way that the product manuals simply

Re: More questions from a newb

2004-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/20/04 2:13 PM, docmann wrote: Hello all, Very shortly I will be upgrading from Dreamcard to the Rev Studio edition and started thinking about printed documentation as well... I'm not at all new to programming in general, but transcript is so much different (vast) in comparision to other langu

More questions from a newb

2004-12-20 Thread docmann
Hello all, Very shortly I will be upgrading from Dreamcard to the Rev Studio edition and started thinking about printed documentation as well... I'm not at all new to programming in general, but transcript is so much different (vast) in comparision to other languages I've used, I figure I'll need

Re: Newbie: find, search command

2004-12-20 Thread Erik Hansen
--- "D.Rothe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > at the end of the field I simply used "filter > theField without empty". "That's brilliant!" -- Ken Ray yes it is. > on mouseUp > do FindData(tString, tData) > end mouseUp > > function FindData pStringToFind, pDataToSearch > repeat for each line tLi

Re: Can't build a standalone

2004-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeffrey Reynolds wrote: was this a natively build rev stack or a metacard stack brought over to rev? i have had the same issue when trying to build new rev apps out of stacks started in mc. one thing is to make sure all the stack resources (dialog boxes, message box, etc) are removed, rev handle

display a colored rectangle behind each line

2004-12-20 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Thierry Arbellot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonsoir Jérome, > > I had the sample problem in one of my app. > I used 2 different workarounds: > 1. pad the line with enough space characters to > make the line have the > same width as the field > 2. make the field transparent and display a >

Re: Standalone cuts off stack

2004-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/20/04 12:46 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 12/20/04 12:14 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone know what causes this or how to fix it? For now, I am building in MetaCard. Jacque, Do you have a 'resizeStack' handler in your stack? If so, keep in mind that on Mac, when it hides the m

Re: Can't build a standalone

2004-12-20 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Erik, --- Jeffrey Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have had the same issue when trying to build new rev apps out of stacks started in mc. one thing is to make sure all the stack resources (dialog boxes, message box, etc) are removed, rev handles this differently (ie message box can conflict

Re: Can't build a standalone

2004-12-20 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Jeffrey Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have had the same issue when trying to > build new rev apps out of > stacks started in mc. one thing is to make sure > all the stack resources > (dialog boxes, message box, etc) are removed, > rev handles this > differently (ie message box ca

Re: Bundle/Package Question

2004-12-20 Thread Rob Cozens
one approach to Scott's problem is to have the app recognize the situation, try not to let anything show, do the deed and then quit. That's exactly what my reVise standalone does...but it knows if the file/folder is to be compressed/decompressed by the file extension. Unless it's obvious which f

Re: Standalone cuts off stack

2004-12-20 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/20/04 12:14 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know what causes this or how to fix it? For now, I am building in > MetaCard. Jacque, Do you have a 'resizeStack' handler in your stack? If so, keep in mind that on Mac, when it hides the menubar, the resizeStack message

Standalone cuts off stack

2004-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
I have a bug report in about this, but it would be helpful if anyone knew the answer while I wait for it to be addressed. I have a stack with a menubar. When I try to build a standalone from it, the bottom of the stack is cut off by the height of the menubar. This does not happen if I build in

Re: Bundle/Package Question

2004-12-20 Thread Dar Scott
On Dec 20, 2004, at 8:29 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: When I hold a file over my app icon, for a tiny standalone I made, it doesn't light up, not even for stacks. Check your app's info.plist file, and add an entry for any file types you want supported. Dar, et al: I my case, the standalone responds to a

[ANN] Chatrev 1.3

2004-12-20 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hello fellow listers I have updated the chatrevserver, it uses now a different port. Also some enhancements to the ui of chatrev where made. These changes result in chatrev 1.3. This is a mandatory upgrade for user of my client, older versions will not work anymore. For marks client, you just ne

Re: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/20/04 5:04 AM, "Ben Rubinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I most often use backtick (don't know if this will come out in > email), and then do a replace: > > get "`C:\Ba\Ba.exe` `-E` `%1`" > replace "`" with quote in it Personally, I think SuperCard had the right idea

Re: Bundle/Package Question

2004-12-20 Thread Rob Cozens
When I hold a file over my app icon, for a tiny standalone I made, it doesn't light up, not even for stacks. Check your app's info.plist file, and add an entry for any file types you want supported. Dar, et al: I my case, the standalone responds to any dropped file or folder regardless of creato

Re: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 20/12/04 11:36 am, Alex Tweedly wrote > Now that I've seen that, I've changed my own way of doing it to method 5: > > function qq pWhat > replace "`" with quote in pWhat > return pWhat > end qq In HyperCard, I used often to use a function called "encTQR", which replaced the delta character

Re[2]: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread thierry
Hi Ben , Klaus, Alex and Richard and others, Transcript... So good ... but much more tasty with the spicies of this list :-) Merci beaucoup pour tout, Thanks for all, Vielen Dank fur alles, So many way to say it :-) Regards, thierry >>It's the glory of Transcript - so many ways to skin cats. >>

Re: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
At 11:04 20/12/2004 +, Ben Rubinstein wrote: It's the glory of Transcript - so many ways to skin cats. I like q too, but it depends on what you're doing. [...snip...] But it depends on lots of things - if there's just one quote, and you're using the value immediately in an expression, you migh

Re: make a shortcut on the win desktop....

2004-12-20 Thread Klaus Major
Bon jour mon ami :-) Hi, is there a way to create a shortcut on the desktop with Rev ? ... create alias (specialfolderpath("desktop") & "/name of alias.lnk") to file "C:/folder/file.xyz" ... On windows it is important to use the correct suffix ".lnk" which stands for "link"... Hope that helps :

Re: make a shortcut on the win desktop....

2004-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
thierry wrote: Hi, is there a way to create a shortcut on the desktop with Rev ? create alias ( specialfolderpath("desktop")&"/MyFile" ) \ to file "HD:Folder:OriginalFile" Don't ya' just love Transcript? :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation __

make a shortcut on the win desktop....

2004-12-20 Thread thierry
Hi, is there a way to create a shortcut on the desktop with Rev ? Regards, thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

build standalone by script...

2004-12-20 Thread thierry
Hi, looking to automate the build standalone ! i have an install script which gather all the information i need to burn an install-CD. the only thing i don't know how to put in it in the Build standalone. Any clue how do to it ? Windows only, please. Regards, thierry ___

Re: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 20/12/04 5:42 am, Dar Scott wrote >> q("C:\Ba\Ba.exe") && q("-E") && q("%1") > format("c:\\Ba\\Ba.exe \"-E\" \"&1\" ") (thanks for correcting!) > q() wins. It's the glory of Transcript - so many ways to skin cats. I like q too, but it depends on what you're doing. quote & "C:\Ba\Ba.exe"

Re: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein
on 20/12/04 4:31 am, Ken Ray wrote >> setRegistry( >> "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BioArchimed\shell\open\command\", >> quote & "C:\Ba\Ba.exe" & quote && quote & "-E"& quote && quote & "%1""e >> ) > > That's why I like the q() function, it makes it so much easier (I use it so > much, it's in my "standar

Re: ANN: Altuit ships altBrowser for Mac and PC

2004-12-20 Thread Pierre Sahores
Congratulations Chipp !!! I will test the Windows and MacOS issues in january... Best Regards, Pierre Le 20 déc. 04, à 08:11, Chipp Walters a écrit : From the RunRev website: We are extremely pleased to offer exclusively altBrowser, the first tool that allows you to display full html text inside

Re[2]: setRegistry...

2004-12-20 Thread thierry
>> q("C:\Ba\Ba.exe") && q("-E") && q("%1") DS>format("c:\\Ba\\Ba.exe \"-E\" \"&1\" ") DS> q() wins. DS> Dar Agree 100 % :-) thierry ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution