Rev and alternative input devices

Hello All, (B (B>From a BBC article about young pupils learning Spanish by dancing (!), I was (Binterested to discover that a "dance-mat" can be connected to a PC. This got (Bme pondering... (B (B... are there other mat-like input devices for the PC? (B (B... could this dance-mat or other s

Re: SpellCheck (re-inventing the wheel)

After seeing this thread on SpellCheck I've added a stack to revonline under Utilities -> "Spell Checker in OSX" or Scott's user space. This stack demonstrates how to use Jean-Baptiste LE STANG's < http://www.lestang.org/ > free Scripting Addition XSpell.osax to add OSX's spell checking abil

Re: [OT] Win convention question

Pat Trendler wrote: I don't know if this is of any use. Interesting reading, anyway. A lot of apps seem to break these specs. Design Specifications and Guidelines - Integrating with the System http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch11d.asp Then click: In

Re: [OT] Win convention question

Richard, I don't know if this is of any use. Interesting reading, anyway. A lot of apps seem to break these specs. Design Specifications and Guidelines - Integrating with the System http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch11d.asp Then click: Installation (c

Re: Printing Crashes Rev in OSX

Actually, the drop-through is exactly what I'd expect. ;-) Otherwise, how would you execute more than one case in a switch statement? On Feb 1, 2005, at 8:09 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: one would not expect the switch to dropdown to "quit" since quit was not chosen, but that appears to be what ha

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

Sivakatirswami wrote: Highly unlikely, but happy to do an autopsy on the script editor (oops, he's still alive!) if I knew how... can I force it to topLevel somehow? Of course, I would need to do that at the very moment the cursor goes away... no recipe yet for his occasional shyness. The Object

Re: Printing Crashes Rev in OSX

OK problem solved and an important lesson learned. he who fails to "break" on each case may experience strange anomalies the culprint was in the menu selection switch statement case "Print" printTranscript case "Quit" save this stack quit break end switch changing this to case "Print"

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

Highly unlikely, but happy to do an autopsy on the script editor (oops, he's still alive!) if I knew how... can I force it to topLevel somehow? Of course, I would need to do that at the very moment the cursor goes away... no recipe yet for his occasional shyness. My cursor still regularly disa

Printing Crashes Rev in OSX

Mac OSX printing greyscale to a Xerox Docucolor 3535. The following seems to be a simple enough: on printTranscript put the cHeader of me into tPrintTranscript put cr & cr after tPrintTranscript put fld "Transcript" after tPrintTranscript revShowPrintdialog, true,true revPrintText tPrint

Re: Expression calculations in message box

Wow, that's a good one. Verified on Rev 2.5, OS 10.3. I have seen some serious wonkiness before in the message box handling of expressions. I remember I had to put an expression involving arrays into a handler in the stack I was working on and invoke that to evaluate it correctly; I was quite su

Set scrollbar values to decimals -- 1/100's ths

I set a scroll bar number format to "#.00" but I am unable to set the beginning and ending values to a decimal value.. Are we only allowed positive whole integers ? (That's what I seem to be limited to...) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolutio

Re: check box help

Checking and unchecking the button is the same hiliting it. Just make a new check button and put the following script in it. on mouseUp if the hilite of me is true then beep else end if end mouseUp You should only hear the beep when putting a check in the box. Bill Vlahos On Feb 1, 2005

Scrollbar documentation

I've never used scroll bars and now need to figure it out... having trouble with the docs. which say: "The scrollbar object has a number of properties and messages associated with it. To see a list of messages that can be sent to a scrollbar as a result of user actions or internal Revolution ev

Re: check box help

on mouseUp if the hilite of me then -- do checked stuff else -- do unchecked stuff end if end mouseUp Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/ On 2 Feb 2005, at 12:24 pm, Paul Salyers wrote: How do you make a check box carry out instructions when checked or not

check box help

How do you make a check box carry out instructions when checked or not checked? EX: Do one thing when checked, do another thing when unchecked Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://ps1.SoftSeven.org ___ use-revolution mailing list u

Re: [OT] Win convention question

Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: > On Feb 1, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> On a Mac, you customarily install an app by dragging the app or a >> folder from a DMG to your drive. Uninstalling means simply dragging >> it to the trach, and any preferences files are left behind. >> >> On Windo

Expression calculations in message box

Open a new Runrev session. Open the message box (single line) Type into it put 1 into m; put ((m)+9) What value should appear ? I expected 10 - but I actually get 1 If I put a space between the two "("s - i.e. put 1 into m; put ( (m)+9) then I do indeed get 10. Don't see the same problem whe

Re: [OT] Win convention question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can't possibly be expected to track down prefs files for each user on a multiuser system. Consider that the uninstaller may be running on a system where the software would be accessed by users who have roaming profiles on a windows server; the p

Selecting or deleting in an image by color or color range?

Oops, The script worked for everything I tried. I guess in theory it might possibly erase unintended colors, although the odds of this are slim. In imagedata the colors are handled as a set of four, with the first entry always being zero. My solution might, trying to delete the color 0,12,12,

[OT] Win convention question

On a Mac, you customarily install an app by dragging the app or a folder from a DMG to your drive. Uninstalling means simply dragging it to the trach, and any preferences files are left behind. On Windows I use Wise Install to copy the app into its own folder in /Program Files/, and when the a

Re: Searchable archives?

Mark, thanks for the response. Scott B. Steinman, O.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.O. Professor, Southern College of Optometry Chair, Open Source Purely-Graphical Programming Language Initiative (www.ospgli.org) Author, "Visual Programming with Prograph CPX", Manning/Prentice-Hall, 1995 (www.manning.com/steinm

Open Control Panel via Shell in Rev

Hi Derek, This page http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_adv/conpanel.asp should answer your

Selecting or deleting in an image by color or color range?

Here's something I would use: (put in the script of the image) on mouseUp put the mousecolor into mcolor put numtochar(0) & numtochar(item 1 of mcolor) into hexcolor put numtochar(item 2 of mcolor) & numtochar(item 3 of mcolor) after hexcolor put numtochar(255)&numtochar(255)& numtochar(255)&numt

shell start

You'll need to separate that into two different lines. Try putting a return after myLocation. If you're still having problems, I've found that sometimes if you write all the shell data to a temporary .bat file it will work better. That way also you can debug by examining the .bat to make sure th

Re: Quoting the list

Dan- Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 10:33:01 AM, you wrote: DS> That's a new standard on me, Mark. Where does the clipping take place? DS> Are clients supposed to handle this? Most modern email clients not made by Microsoft will handle the delimiting properly when you reply to a message. I believe t

Re: Open Control Panel via Shell in Rev

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oops - apparently some windows programs (including control.exe) release the shell immediately after starting. So yeah, that shouldn't stall the stack then. Cool. On Feb 1, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Derek Bump wrote: Note: this will stall your app until the

merge 3 channels to form rgb

Hi All. If I had 3 greyscale images (or indeed 3 rgb's) how would I merge each image to form an rgb? IE image one into red image2 into green image 3 into blue Anyone done this cheers bob -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.

Windows radio buttons

Hi All, I normally just use & develop for Mac OS X but I am currently working on a small app for Windows as well. My problem occurs when people use the keyboard to activate a radio button. I have set up all the buttons in the correct tab order, so when tab is pressed, the dotted outline moves f

Re: Quoting the list

On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: ...in addition, if folks would use the standard net signature delimiter of (see my signature below) then much of the redundant garbage would automatically be clipped. I knew something similar was popular in usenet. Is that an email standard? What

Re: Bugzilla

Derek Bump wrote: I do worry that so many bugs remain in Unconfirmed status for so long Yes, makes me think that no one cares about my bugs. ;) If there was ever a cue for someone at RunRev to chime in on the list, I think I just heard one... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporatio

Re: shell start

I re-looked at the Sons of Thunder site and realized my mistake. The following works... replace "/" with "\" in myLocation get shell("cd " & myLocation & " & start SBUnet.exe " \\ "e& targetURL "e) Thanks for the help! Derek Bump Dreamscape Software __

Re: Disappearing Mouse!!??

On Jan 27, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: My cursor still regularly disappears. (OSX) I thought it was my stack (objects on top of the text field) but, it still happens not infrequently in the script editor... Could an errant image object have wound up in your copy of the script editor?

Re: Bugzilla

> Add the other status options, put your email (or a substring like > "dreamscape") in for "reporter" and click the "Remember this as my > default query" checkbox. Thank you for the suggestion. I will do that. > I do worry that so many bugs remain in Unconfirmed status for so long Yes, m

Re: Open Control Panel via Shell in Rev

> get shell("control inetcpl.cpl") Works Perfectly! > Note: this will stall your app until the control panel is closed. This didn't happen at all, but we'll see when it becomes a standalone. :) Thank you! Derek Bump Dreamscape Software Compress Im

Re: Bugzilla

Derek Bump wrote: Am I the only one. I'd like to be able to view my bugs, but when I click the "My Bugs" link it always says "zaroo" bugs found. About the only way I've been able to keep a list is to vote for every bug or enhancement I find. Or am I doing something wrong? The preset query fo

Re: Open Control Panel via Shell in Rev

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yep: get shell("control inetcpl.cpl") Note: this will stall your app until the control panel is closed. The .cpl files are in c:\windows\system32 (modify if needed to suit your installation; e.g. d:\windows or e:\winnt or whatever); you don't need to

Open Control Panel via Shell in Rev

Anyone know how to open a Windows Control Panel, let's say Internet Options, via the Windows Shell in Rev 2.5? Derek Bump Dreamscape Software Compress Images Easily with JPEGCompress http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com ___

Selecting or deleting in an image by color or color range?

Can an image have a selection by color or color range from within Runtime so as to delete that color or range of colors in the image? It would be like the eraser tool for a color. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://l

Re: Problem when building standalone on OSX

Thanks a lot Richard. JB ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Bugzilla

Am I the only one. I'd like to be able to view my bugs, but when I click the "My Bugs" link it always says "zaroo" bugs found. About the only way I've been able to keep a list is to vote for every bug or enhancement I find. Or am I doing something wrong? Derek Bump Dreamscape Software _

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 103

On 1/31/05 11:40 AM, R. Hillen wrote: Hello Frank, I would guess that you are using OSX 10.3.7; right? That could explain your DNS-Problem, as Apple has changed its DNS-calls. So If I start Apple Mail, I have to wait 50 seconds. Apple told, that it is a bug, so wait for 10.3.8 or return to 10.3.6.

Re: Standalones

Well, I entered an enhancement request in bugilla (#2570). I realised this could be useful to me too as I almost always use my Windows machine for development (it being newest and therefore fastest), but still need to support my legacy Macs for the forseeable future, and currently am struggling to

Re: Ackkk!

Hello Richard, Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:40:22 +0100 From: "R. Hillen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 103 Hello Frank, snip Please, if you are using the digest list, don't return the entire list like you did, select out the particular item, and copy/paste to

Using RunRev with Microsoft Access

Does anyone know of a good source of information for getting RunRev and MSAccess communicating; maybe an example stack? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: shell start

> get "cd" && mylocation & cr & \ > "start sbunet.exe" > get shell(it) > > not tested but I use it everyday!... Well, I tested it and nothing happened. Any other ideas? Derek Bump Dreamscape Software Compress Images Easily with JPEGCompress http:

Re: Quoting the list

Dan Shafer wrote: That's a new standard on me, Mark. Where does the clipping take place? Are clients supposed to handle this? It's quite an old standard (or more properly convention - AFAIK it's not part of any "standard document" as such). I must admit, I thought it was an obsolete standard - d

Re: Quoting the list

Mail.app on OS X quotes either the entire message or the selected portion of the message. So what I try to do is select the portion of the message to which I'm replying before I hit reply. Seems to work well when I remember to do it! On Feb 1, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Judy Perry wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb

RE: shell start

you should separate the command lines get "cd" && mylocation & cr & \ "start sbunet.exe" get shell(it) not tested but I use it everyday!... cheers Xavier > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Derek Bump > Sent: Tuesday, February 0

[OT] Re: Quoting the list

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> A lot of email clients are set up by default to put the entire >> message quoted below the new reply. Mine is too. Judy Perry wrote: > Mine does too (PINE). Manual rearrangement is not trivial. Precisely. Readability takes effort, and thereby reduces n

Re: Quoting the list

Mine does too (PINE). Manual rearrangement is not trivial. Sorry... Judy On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: > A lot of email clients are set up by default to put the entire message > quoted below the new reply. Mine is too. ___ use-revolut

shell start

Can anyone please tell me why this isn't working... get shell("cd " & myLocation & " start SBUnet.exe " "e& targetURL "e) I'm trying to launch another instance of my program, with the URL I supply. Unfortunatly it doesn't do anything. This should work...shouldn't it? Derek Bump Dreamscape So

Re: Quoting the list

That's a new standard on me, Mark. Where does the clipping take place? Are clients supposed to handle this? Dan On Feb 1, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Mark- ...in addition, if folks would use the standard net signature delimiter of (see my signature below) then much of the redundant garb

Re: counting the amount of items in a csv

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmm... put URL ("file:" & WhicheverCSVFile) into Fred put the number of items in line 1 of Fred into TheKount Should have the same effect, but it is a bit shorter. On Feb 1, 2005, at 12:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: open file WhicheverCSVFile read fro

Re: counting the amount of items in a csv

sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >I am interested in counting the amount of items in the first line of a >csv. > >How would I do this? First off, be aware that CSV is evil. CSV isn't *one* file format, it's an arbitrary collection of independently-developed file formats which differ from each other in a

Re: Quoting the list

Mark- ...in addition, if folks would use the standard net signature delimiter of (see my signature below) then much of the redundant garbage would automatically be clipped. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolu

Re: Quoting the list

Dan Shafer wrote: >> ...it sometimes seems like there's a lot of redundant quoting >> going on on the list, > > Yeah, this issue surfaces from time to time on all the lists > I subscribe to. Ultimately, people simply forget to do the > editing. I've been championing the cause for years to no avail.

Re: Searchable archives?

Scott- Monday, January 31, 2005, 9:00:37 PM, you wrote: SS> Is there a searchable archive of this mailing list available anywhere? You might try the plugin at http://www.ahsoftware.net/ArchiveSearch.html. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-r

Re: Quoting the list

Yeah, this issue surfaces from time to time on all the lists I subscribe to. Ultimately, people simply forget to do the editing. I've been championing the cause for years to no avail. Dan On Feb 1, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Mark Smith wrote: Just an enquiry really...I'm no expert on netiquette, but it s

Subject: Re: Quoting the list

[...] would it be a good idea to only quote as much of a thread as is really necessary? A timely reminder. Thank you Mark. /H ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Standalones

Maybe, but why wouldn't something that easy have been implemented already? I don't have any inside knowledge but suspect there may be more to it. If, in buiilding the Mac resource fork, MacOS routines are utilised, these would presumably have to be emulated in the engine in order to assemble the re

Re: Quoting the list

Just an enquiry really...I'm no expert on netiquette, but it sometimes seems like there's a lot of redundant quoting going on on the list, where posts and replies are quoted and requoted many, many times, which makes the list that much harder to read. In fact someone (no doubt by accident) has

SuspendStack on CloseStack

Having problem in understand a strange behavior for a stack of mine, I realised that the doc explains that the suspendStack message is also send when closing a stack. But I need to distinguish two situations: (1) when user click on another window than the default stack (which is that the curren

Re: Socket timeout not working with libUrl

If this is an OS X 10.3.7 issue, some people have been able to kludge a fix for it by entering their ISP's DNS server addresses into the relevant pane in Network preferences. But if it is the identified 10.3.7 problem, you would be likely to have experienced long delays in opening Apple's Mail

Re: Standalones

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The other possibility, of course, would be to allow the standalone to be built directly on the Windows machine, but to internally binhex the standalone during construction. Then you'd just use a standard tool on the Mac (Stuffit Expander, for exampl

Re: Problem when building standalone on OSX

jbv wrote: I have a script that uses "the long name of this stack" to find the path of the currently running stack and to a DATA folder located at the same level. Everything works fine for ages on MacOS9, Win and MC for OSX, but when building the standalone with Rev 2.5 on OSX, the following string

Problem when building standalone on OSX

Hi list, I have a script that uses "the long name of this stack" to find the path of the currently running stack and to a DATA folder located at the same level. Everything works fine for ages on MacOS9, Win and MC for OSX, but when building the standalone with Rev 2.5 on OSX, the following string

[ANN] Find & Replace patch now available...

Fix for Rev 2.5 Find&Replace stack. Turns out there's a problem with shared group references. It manifests itself in a spinning busy icon which never stops and no hits seen in the fields below. I've created a patch stack: go URL "http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/altRevSearchFix.rev"; Th

[ANN] Find & Replace patch now available...

Alex, No Need to fix, tracked it down last night. Turns out there's a problem with shared group references. It manifests itself in a spinning busy icon which never stops and not hits seen in the fields below. I've created a patch stack: go URL "http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/altRevSea

[ANN] Find & Replace patch now available...

Alex, No Need to fix, tracked it down last night. Turns out there's a problem with shared group references. It manifests itself in a spinning busy icon which never stops and not hits seen in the fields below. I've created a patch stack: go URL "http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/altRevSea

Re: Socket timeout not working with libUrl

Sarah, Unfortunately there's two types of being "disconnected". One where you've no net connection at all, and one where you're on a LAN, but not connected to the Internet. Here in Cornwall I have only modem access, so I've a LAN but no net connection most of the time, which is how I stumbled

Re: copy image from application browser

On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: copy image from application browser To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed (perhaps RR will give us the 'code'

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 16, Issue 103

Hello Frank, I would guess that you are using OSX 10.3.7; right? That could explain your DNS-Problem, as Apple has changed its DNS-calls. So If I start Apple Mail, I have to wait 50 seconds. Apple told, that it is a bug, so wait for 10.3.8 or return to 10.3.6. Hope it explains. Richard. Message:

Re: Socket timeout not working with libUrl

On 1 Feb 2005, at 01:33, Sarah Reichelt wrote: 2) If I open the socket with a domain address, e.g. www.webphotospro.com, Mac OS X does a DNS lookup, puts up the rainbow rotating color cursor, and hangs until the DNS lookup fails. On my machine this takes 60 seconds (apparently it's dependent

Re: Success with Sending email without a SMTP Server!!!!

kee nethery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The solution is to have your IP address be listed as an MX for the > domain you are sending from. Fixed IP mandatory, no luck ;-< -- ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://list

Re: Searchable archives?

Bob Hartley wrote: At 05:00 01/02/2005, you wrote: Is there a searchable archive of this mailing list available anywhere? I use http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com I could never remember the format for that URL so I added a search box for the list archive to this page:

Re: Searchable archives?

At 05:00 01/02/2005, you wrote: Is there a searchable archive of this mailing list available anywhere? Hi Scott I use http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com cheers bob -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 2