-Chipp wrote:
Webmailman,
Do you have a URL for this review, or is it as anonymous as you are?
Hmmm, did you read the whole post? I thought this was a very clear reference:
In issue 224 (Christmas 2004), Paul Hudson gives readers his
Dar Scott skrev:
On Dec 22, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
I have a stack I use to figure out Unicode numbers for various symbols -
the one thing I found was that any use of Unicode in a field really
requires that the whole field be in Unicode. Otherwise, it gets
confused. Have others
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Brian Thomas wrote:
So now you're telling me that this script won't work in Dreamcard and
there is no way to fix it. -- I have to ask Mark to put the Read Me
back in? --
Yes.
If the Monks stack is the only one running at the time, what's
changing the defaultFolder?
Alex Tweedly wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
If the Monks stack is the only one running at the time, what's
changing the defaultFolder?
Nothing - it never gets set in the first place. See the Bugzilla
entry I mentioned (2294) for the full details, but the important
part of it is ...
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Paul Salyers wrote:
I'm a formal VB user and will most likely switch to Revolution. The main
problem I'm having is to make a program web interactive it will cost
another $79. I wish Revolution would make a web page object like VB has.
Oh-well so far all else is better. I like the more English
Hello,
the bug of disappearing menus in rev 2.5 seem to be fixed, as i saw it
in bugzilla.
But how fix it on my rev app ?
I've the last release.
Thanks.
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Please check the Hardware acceleration.
I did all of this before posting to this group. The consistent
problem that I find (and the reason I am posting) is that the only
application that is giving me problems is -anything- RunRev. Again, I
reiterate, everything else works, RR doesn't.
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On Dec 22, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Gordon Webster wrote:
We should concede them a minor point about the rev
documentation though. Yes, all the info is there -
somewhere - but it's arranged more like a jigsaw
puzzle than a book and when I'm trying to learn a
Thanks for your quick answer.
I had already test the method 1.
I have tried everything you told me to do (method 2) and it still does not
work.
The dialog box in preopenstack is always empty.
Best regards.
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Does anyone know of any web sites with sample source code that is free.
Paul: All components of Serendipity Library are open
source--http://wecode.org/serendipity/.
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Hi Paul,
Hi
My script has a list field where each selection is utilized in turn.
I would like the selection to be unhilited in turn after it is
utilized,
so that as the repeats are worked through the highlights turn off.
Possible?
This doesn't work --
repeat for each line mychoice in the
On Dec 22, 2004, at 11:52 PM, Mark Stuart wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm a brand new user to Dreamcard that needs to access MySQL
databases, and
I need a tutorial to guide me thru the steps of building an example
application.
Hi Mark,
I have a library at my site
Hi Paul,
Hi
My script has a list field where each selection is utilized in turn.
I would like the selection to be unhilited in turn after it is
utilized,
so that as the repeats are worked through the highlights turn off.
Possible?
This doesn't work --
repeat for each line mychoice in the
On Dec 23, 2004, at 8:58 AM, Jean-Claude SERRANO wrote:
Thanks for your quick answer.
I had already test the method 1.
I have tried everything you told me to do (method 2) and it still does
not
work.
The dialog box in preopenstack is always empty.
Sorry, I gave you a sys_appPath function that
If you buy altbrowser, do you also by the right to incorporate it into
standalone applications that are distributed to others, or must the
license be purchased separately for every person who receives the
standalone?
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Hi Jonathan,
If you buy altbrowser, do you also by the right to incorporate it into
standalone applications that are distributed to others,
yes!
From Chipp's FA page:
Can I distribute altBrowser with my commercial RunRev apps?
Certainly! That's exactly why we designed it. The only restriction is
John Rule wrote:
Please check the Hardware acceleration.
I did all of this before posting to this group. The consistent
problem that I find (and the reason I am posting) is that the only
application that is giving me problems is -anything- RunRev. Again, I
reiterate, everything else works,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul Salyers wrote:
I'm a formal VB user and will most likely switch to Revolution. The main
problem I'm having is to make a program web interactive it will cost
another $79. I wish Revolution would make a web page object like VB has.
Oh-well so far all else is better.
I've written this script to format a dictionary entry:
on preOpen
set the useUnicode to true
set the textFont of field Glyph to Aboriginal Sans,unicode
set the textFont of field Display to Aboriginal Sans,english
set the htmlText of field Display to i the htmltext of field
POS \
If you are setting the htmltext, then don't you need to use p /p or
br to create returns and linefeeds?
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On 12/23/04 10:57 AM, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry I wasn't clear
I want to unhilite EACH line after something is done with that
particular line .
The highlights would go off one after the other as the repeats are
worked through, thus indicating to the user the progress of the
Sorry to say , I think the whole printing lib needs to be enhanced. I
definitely think that every body should give there full vote for it .
http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=1619
when it comes to business applications with out these enhancements you
are dead
besides
On 12/23/04 12:57 PM, Lynch, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are setting the htmltext, then don't you need to use p /p or
br to create returns and linefeeds?
Yes, you need to put p in front of each line, and /p at the end of
each line, and use BR when you want a blank line. Also, in
On 12/22/04 3:27 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
The biggest issue (perhaps the only one left) with XP printing is that
text at the right edge of a field does not print. In other words, the
field is x units wide, Rev allows the line of text to be x+y units wide,
and the extra y pixels get cut
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
A number of other moderately priced multimedia authoring systems
offer web
objects. Runrev should indeed consider to integrate a web control, too.
Unfortunately both Neobook and MMB are only available for Windows.
Well, that
With everyone talking about printing faults, I figured I should bring up one
that I have noticed for a long time (even since MetaCard).
When I print an Image, it comes out all spotty looking. Almost like it was
printed on a 2 Dot's per Inch printer (Seriously).
Any ideas on this issue? The
I can't find anything related to this in the archives, so maybe some
kind soul can help me out here.
I want to write some prefs to a prefs file in the users library folder
(this is OS X)
I do this:
on savePrefs
put file: specialFolderPath(Preferences) /MyPrefs into fName
put thePrefs into
Mark Smith wrote:
I can't find anything related to this in the archives, so maybe some
kind soul can help me out here.
I want to write some prefs to a prefs file in the users library folder
(this is OS X)
Try this and see what you get:
on savePrefs
put file: specialFolderPath(Preferences)
On Thursday, December 23, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
on savePrefs
put file: specialFolderPath(Preferences) /MyPrefs into fName
put thePrefs into URL fName
end savePrefs
This works fine in theIDE, but not at all in the standalone. The file
is simply not updated.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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That bug already has my 5 votes. Sorry, bugzilla won't let me give it
more (believe me, I tried). Also, that bug does not correctly address
this issue.
I can't really use revPrintField as my layout is a highly complex
multipage layout which needs
On Thursday, December 23, 2004, at 03:15 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
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That bug already has my 5 votes. Sorry, bugzilla won't let me give it
more (believe me, I tried). Also, that bug does not correctly address
this issue.
I can't really use
Just a thought...
An odd work-around...
Couldn't you make an image of the layout that you wish to print, then
print the image?
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It would be very slow, particularly with a PostScript laser printer
(like mine), but it has some real merit as a temporary work-around.
I'll definitely give that a try.
On Dec 23, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
Just a thought...
An odd
I think I've discovered something, but if possible I'd like it to be
confirmed (or alternatively, to know that I'm wrong, and then I can go
back to debugging).
I have some script local variables, used in multiple handlers within the
card script. I expected them to be reset at start up, and to
Let the flames begin!!
Flame, flame, burning hot
Rise up now and scorch the lot.
Let the stench of flesh a-burning
Leave them all with stomachs churning.
WOW! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Looks like a lump of coal in
your stocking this Christmas--HO-HO-HO!
If issue 224 isn't
Maybe we just don't wish to waste time playing detective - do you really
have nothing better to do than taunt?
COUGH,COUGHgetalifeCOUGH
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To:
On Dec 23, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
The docs are a bit vague
The value of a script local variable is retained between handlers,
but is lost when you quit the application, when you close the stack
(unless its destroyStack property is false), or when the script is
re-compiled.
which
I'm trying to get out on VB thinking and into Rev
I searched under exist and fount nothing. Can some1 help with this code?
It checks to see if c:\winnt\ exist if so then it works from that director,
else it works from the c:\windows\ directory
This is one of the headaches that programmers can
Paul Salyers wrote:
I'm trying to get out on VB thinking and into Rev
I searched under exist and fount nothing. Can some1 help with this code?
What you need is thethere is a operator.
if there is a folder C:\winnt then
etc.
There may be a better way - but please check it first (I only have
On the use-rev list Paul Salyers wrote:
I'm trying to get out on VB thinking and into Rev
I searched under exist and fount nothing. Can some1 help with this code?
Hmmm this is another interesting search anomaly.
Had you searched for the English singular verb form exists (e.g. if
this exists
Thanks Richard and Mark.
Further investigation following your suggestions shows that the problem
is not what I thought. In fact the special folder path stuff works
fine, it's the XML stuff that builds the prefs that's screwing up.
Since it works fine in the IDE , and I'm including the XML
Following on, I remembered seeing something on the list about Rev 2.5
not building correctly, so I built the standalone with Rev 2.2.
Hey presto! All works.
This seems to suggest that 2.5 is not attaching libraries properly, (or
at all). Has this been bugzilla'd?
Thanks for the suggestions,
On Dec 23, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
(i.e. I call one of the handlers within the card script from
preOpenStack, that sets an initial value, but that value appears to be
lost. I know it's probably a bad idea to call a card handler from
preOpenStack, and I'll be changing that anyway
Dar Scott wrote:
The key word might be re-compiled.
I would have thought that it would be re-compiled only once and that
at first use.
Here is a way to find out if it is being compiled twice and when. Use
a later version and put in a new command in the script. Then open the
stack on an
On Dec 23, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
call setL x of card 2 of me
I also tried send and send in time.
Maybe you forgot to Close and Remove from Memory?
Dar
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This may not be needed; I tried what I thought you said and it worked
for me.
On Dec 23, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Here is a way to find out if it is being compiled twice and when.
Use a later version and put in a new command in the script. Then
open the stack on an earlier
Dar Scott wrote:
On Dec 23, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
(i.e. I call one of the handlers within the card script from
preOpenStack, that sets an initial value, but that value appears to
be lost. I know it's probably a bad idea to call a card handler from
preOpenStack, and I'll be
I cold not find issue 224 and any search with Dreamcard or
Revolution showed up nothing.
still not clear.
Tom
On Dec 23, 2004, at 3:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let the flames begin!!
Flame, flame, burning hot
Rise up now and scorch the lot.
Let the stench of flesh a-burning
Leave them all
At the PCPlus website. That was where I searched and found nothing.
On Dec 23, 2004, at 6:01 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I cold not find issue 224 and any search with Dreamcard or
Revolution showed up nothing.
still not clear.
Tom
On Dec 23, 2004, at 3:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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You can manually copy the external into the 'externals' dir in the same
loc as the standalone (windows/UNIX) or in the Contents/MacOS folder
inside the bundle for OS X.
On Dec 23, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
Following on, I remembered seeing
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On
The review doesn't appear to be available online, which is why he can't
give us a URL for it (either that or there wasn't actually a review)
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On Dec 23, 2004, at
I can find no dedicated Mac OS X game engine for point-and-click adventure
games in the spirit of Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Sam Max.
Do you know of any point-and-click adventure games made with Revolution?
General multimedia tools don't take care of the low-level game management
and
Roger Kenyon wrote:
Do you know of any point-and-click adventure games made with Revolution?
Here's a great 5-CD one with a gorgeous soundtrack:
http://www.alidagame.com/
The game was originally developed for Mac OS in SuperCard, and recently
ported to Windows using Rev.
I'm preparing to do an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let the flames begin!!
I've been rather surprised by the reaction to the review excerpts posted
here. While webmailman had been anonymous (and likely to remain so
after the flaming), a simple search in the use-rev archives shows at
least one prior post from that
Richard:
Could you tell me more about the text adventure game within If Monks Had
Macs. I went to the site, but it is, well, less than lucid.
I am mainly interested in point-and-click adventure games (such as Day of
the Tentacle, Monkey Island, or Sam Max), but text adventure with
Revolution is
Roger Kenyon wrote:
On 12/23/04 7:11 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
rivertext.com
Richard:
Could you tell me more about the text adventure game within
If Monks Had Macs. I went to the site, but it is, well,
less than lucid.
Oh, it's quie lucid. But If Monks Had Macs is hard to
On 12/23/04 2:57 PM, Paul Salyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to get out on VB thinking and into Rev
Well, as some of us here have a lot of time invested in both (I've been
using VB since VB 3), don't hesitate to ask your questions here.
I searched under exist and fount nothing. Can
I thought I had used Unicode control pictures (U+2400 up) on OS X, but
now they don't work. All I get is a box with ctl in it. Was there a
change in Revolution, fonts, me or OS X that changed this? I get this
with every font!
Dar
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On Dec 23, 2004, at 8:34 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
I thought I had used Unicode control pictures (U+2400 up) on OS X, but
now they don't work. All I get is a box with ctl in it. Was there a
change in Revolution, fonts, me or OS X that changed this? I get this
with every font!
I'm using OS X
At 04:57 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
So - there are obviously VB to rev converts - are there any Rev to VB
converts?
Where do I find a VB to Rev converter?
Paul Salyers
PS1 - Senior Rep.
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On 12/23/04 10:23 PM, Paul Salyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 04:57 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
So - there are obviously VB to rev converts - are there any Rev to VB
converts?
Where do I find a VB to Rev converter?
Unfortunately there isn't one since the structure and formats of both
On Dec 23, 2004, at 9:05 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
I thought I had used Unicode control pictures (U+2400 up) on OS X,
but now they don't work. All I get is a box with ctl in it. Was
there a change in Revolution, fonts, me or OS X that changed this? I
get this with every font!
I'm using OS X
Richard Gaskin wrote:
I just hope they keep it separate, even if they do bundle it. Engine
size still matters to me, and it's too easy to add stuff that I rarely
if ever use -- I'd hate to see a 5MB engine, and stuff adds up.
Heck, if I had it my way I'd like to see QT broken out into a
Hello again,
(B
(BBoth methods advised by Thierry Arbellot and Dar Scott worked... on Win2K
(Bbut not on Win98SE.
(B
(BThe result I got for hostAddress on a local computer was...
(B
(B0.0.0.0
(B
(B.. when I tried both Thierry Arbellot's...
(B
(B put "255.255.255.255:43222" into
C'mon Richard, I know it's Christmas, but you may want to take your rose
colored glasses off for a second:-)
If anyone's at fault for flaming, it's Mr. Anon. Certainly, the points
you make are correct, but please don't mistake your intimate knowledge
of PC Plus and their prior business with
Hmmm! Google reveals this to be one of the many PC magazines (UK
based), and the review is not available online. So for the many non UK
list members not very accessible - tho I guess it may be posted at some
time. In the meantime unless someone else buys the magazine and posts
their thoughts
James Richards wrote:
Hmmm! Google reveals this to be one of the many PC magazines (UK based),
and the review is not available online. So for the many non UK list
members not very accessible - tho I guess it may be posted at some
time.
Their distrubution in the States isn't bad. I've picked up
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