Re-2: Typing foreign characters in RunRev (unicode !)

2005-02-15 Thread boehmisch
On Microsoft PCs you have to set up system control (Systemsteuerung) languages and regions (Regional- und Spracheigenschaften) installing the languages you like I am using hebrew und greek therefore I had first to install the language tools for languages writing right to left (you need the OS

re: typing foreign characters

2005-02-15 Thread Lars Brehmer
Hi List (especially foreign character typers!) I've been following this thread because I had similar problems and questions last year. Here is the weirdest thing I found out back then, and to my knowledge on one has posted this interesting litlte fact yet, at least I never saw it: In Rev (and

Bridging between Mac and PC

2005-02-15 Thread Kresten Bjerg
Creating cross-platform revolution applications, from mac (OS 9) to windows PC creates a need for bridging . CDs of course may be a vehicle. A firewire harddisk may be another (allthough uncertainties about its formatting (FAT 32?)) but it seems logical that a direct fire-wire connection

Re: Bridging between Mac and PC

2005-02-15 Thread Dan Shafer
We use local network file sharing for this. Mixing Mac and Windows for this kind of thing is nearly trivial. Dan On Feb 15, 2005, at 5:50 AM, Kresten Bjerg wrote: Creating cross-platform revolution applications, from mac (OS 9) to windows PC creates a need for bridging . CDs of course may be a

Re: Subscribe gmane to this list?

2005-02-15 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I've recently come across Gmane, an interesting service that attempts to make mailing lists more usefully accessible. ... I'd propose that this list would be subscribed with posting allowed for list members only, and with email addresses encrypted. Several

Re: Bridging between Mac and PC

2005-02-15 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
With OS9 you will need some networking software on the Mac to make it talk to the PC via filesharing using a x-over cable or patch cables through a hub (on OSX its built in.) I had the system set up on my old system and it worked well, but was a little 'non mac like' in its set up, but i guess

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen Barncard
Hi, Does anyone know if its possible to rotate a QT movie using Rev. We recently had to take some video using a camera sideways orientation - so I either have to rotate the video 90 degrees or turn the monitor over! I am sure I have read somewhere that QT Pro can do this, but I don't really

sound file help

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Salyers
play audioClip 01 -- Play sound file 1 wait until the sound is done Dear Rev Programmers, I use the above command to play a wav file, I need to know 2 things 1) Will Rev use any sound file in place of a wav? 2) Is there a way to stop the sound file when you want to for want ever reason? Thank

Re: sound file help

2005-02-15 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Paul, play audioClip 01 -- Play sound file 1 wait until the sound is done Dear Rev Programmers, I use the above command to play a wav file, I need to know 2 things 1) Will Rev use any sound file in place of a wav? With the play ac xyz you can only use UNCOMPRESSED WAV and AIF files, and

Random Help

2005-02-15 Thread MisterX
Hey ya there! I dont know what random number of you are annoyed by the fact that the random function in RunRev doesn't include zero. Was zero such a bad invention?. I wonder. But after quite a few random based applications and discoveries, im quite inclined that is less productive

Re: Random Help

2005-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
MisterX wrote: Hey ya there! I dont know what random number of you are annoyed by the fact that the random function in RunRev doesn't include zero. Was zero such a bad invention?. I wonder. But after quite a few random based applications and discoveries, im quite inclined that is less productive

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen King
Sounds perfect Trevor, I'll give it a go. Many thanks Steve Hi, Does anyone know if its possible to rotate a QT movie using Rev. We recently had to take some video using a camera sideways orientation - so I either have to rotate the video 90 degrees or turn the monitor over! I am sure I have

Re: character messes up hierarchal pulldown menus

2005-02-15 Thread Ken Ray
On 2/14/05 5:16 PM, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've come across this problem and was wondering if anyone knows of a workaround. On OS X if you have an symbol in a child menu item then the child is elevated to a parent. Put the following text in a pulldown button:

Re: character messes up hierarchal pulldown menus

2005-02-15 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 15, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Trevor, I tried exactly what you proposed on both Rev 2.2 and 2.5 and got the proper result. I'm on 10.3.4, if that makes any difference... Hmm, possibly. I'm running 10.3.7 on one computer and 10.3.8 on another. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango

Re: Random Help

2005-02-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Feb 15, 2005, at 11:11 AM, MisterX wrote: But anyway, if you want to vote a random number of points for the random sake or emotional release of using random(it+1)-1 instead of random(it) You can write a function that does what you want and put that into your common library. I'd rather see

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen King
Just one point Trevor, The link mentions Mac and Windows for the beta, but the download zip seems to only contain Mac. (I'm on PC unfortunately). Am I misunderstanding something Cheers Steve - Original Message - From: Stephen King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen King
Oops! Think I found it right on the top of the pile! EnhancedQT.dll I guess. Cheers Steve - Original Message - From: Stephen King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev Just one point Trevor,

Re: Rotating a QT movie in Rev

2005-02-15 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Stephen King wrote: Just one point Trevor, The link mentions Mac and Windows for the beta, but the download zip seems to only contain Mac. (I'm on PC unfortunately). Am I misunderstanding something I just downloaded the beta ZIP archive and it has: ./Documentation

Re: copy field to stack of unknown name

2005-02-15 Thread Bob Hartley
At 03:02 14/02/2005, you wrote: Hi Bob, Hi Sarah. I'm still stuck on this. Helpp everyone. :-) I think you are on the right track, but the stack name (or stack file name) needs to be a global or custom property if scripts in other objects are going to access it. I tried doing this in

Re: copy field to stack of unknown name

2005-02-15 Thread Bob Hartley
PS I also tried this in the main stack global tStackName, tFileName and a button that had on mouseUp copy field TextField of stack Armbase Database Designer to card 1 of stack tFileName end mouseUp and didn't get any luck with this either cheers bob -- No virus found in this outgoing

Re: copy field to stack of unknown name (I might have it. Need advice)

2005-02-15 Thread Bob Hartley
At 20:57 15/02/2005, you wrote: PS I also tried this in the main stack OK I think I may have it. How do I add an axtension in the script onto the end of the gliobals IE tStackName and add .abd on the end. I tried on mouseUp copy field TextField of stack Armbase Database Designer to card 1 of

Programmatically Hiding Windows Files?

2005-02-15 Thread Dan Shafer
Is there a way I can't seem to find to set the Hidden attribute of a Windows file to true? On OS X, a file whose name begins with a period is hidden, so my idea works fine there. But on Windows, such files are treated like any other. Dan ___

Re: copy field to stack of unknown name

2005-02-15 Thread Dan Shafer
On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Bob Hartley wrote: --on the other stack I have a button that has the script on mouseUp copy field TextField of stack Armbase Database Designer to card 1 of stack tFileName end mouseUp Probably too obvious, so forgive me if I'm off base, but: 1. Is the global

Re: copy field to stack of unknown name

2005-02-15 Thread Bob Hartley
At 22:36 15/02/2005, you wrote: On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Bob Hartley wrote: --on the other stack I have a button that has the script on mouseUp copy field TextField of stack Armbase Database Designer to card 1 of stack tFileName end mouseUp Probably too obvious, so forgive me if I'm off

Re: copy field to stack of unknown name

2005-02-15 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Try this: on mouseUp global tStackName copy field TextField of stack Armbase Database Designer to card 1 of stack tStackName end mouseUp Cheers, Sarah On 16/02/2005, at 6:50 AM, Bob Hartley wrote: --on the other stack I have a button that has the script on mouseUp copy field TextField of

Linked text question

2005-02-15 Thread Mark Swindell
How can I control linked text so that if I pass my mouse over textgroupA in field myField1, corresponding text in myField2 and myField3 would also hilight? In other words, I want specific text linked to brother text in other fields on the same card. Example: Field myField1 contains the word

Re: Programmatically Hiding Windows Files?

2005-02-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Dan- Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 2:33:41 PM, you wrote: DS Is there a way I can't seem to find to set the Hidden attribute of a DS Windows file to true? put shell(attrib +h yourFileName) into bitBucket -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Programmatically Hiding Windows Files?

2005-02-15 Thread Dan Shafer
Cool! I'll try that. Thanks, Mark. I never think of the shell. Dan On Feb 15, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Dan- Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 2:33:41 PM, you wrote: DS Is there a way I can't seem to find to set the Hidden attribute of a DS Windows file to true? put shell(attrib +h

Re: Launch pdf on cd

2005-02-15 Thread Stephen Van Esch
Folks: Sorry to be returning to the well yet again but I've really hit a wall with this. I've followed Chipp's script as follows: -- on linkClicked pLink if pLink contains pdf manual then launch manual.pdf end if end linkClicked on viewPDF_MacOSX pPDFpath if AppleScript is not among

Re: Launch pdf on cd

2005-02-15 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Stephen Van Esch wrote: Sorry to be returning to the well yet again but I've really hit a wall with this. I've followed Chipp's script as follows: ... With no success. I didn't go through your code line by line but perhaps you're not replacing the / characters in the file path

Re: Launch pdf on cd

2005-02-15 Thread Sarah Reichelt
-- THIS ASSUMES YOU'VE JUST DOWNLOADED A .PDF FILE -- AND THE CREATOR AND FILETYPE AREN'T PROPERLY SET put tell application quote Finder quote cr into tScript put set the creator type of file quote pPDFpath quote \ to quote CARO quote cr after tScript put set the file

Re: sound file help

2005-02-15 Thread Judy Perry
According to the dos: Supported audio files include WAV, AIFF, AU. As for stopping, check out the stop and play stop commands. Judy On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Paul Salyers wrote: 1) Will Rev use any sound file in place of a wav? 2) Is there a way to stop the sound file when you want to for want

Re: Launch pdf on cd

2005-02-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Stephen, Couple of things. First, if the PDF is going to already be on a CD, then you don't need to set it's fileType or Creator Code. Sarah's right, you can't change a file on a CD. Next if you need to find the path to the PDF and it's in a folder next to the application, then you can always use

Re: Linked text question

2005-02-15 Thread Thomas McGrath III
This is perfect for custom properties or a container for these 'linked' words. So if the selected word is in container whichone then find hilite any of the other words in that container in field 2, etc. as a script You will have to have a predefined list of 'linked' words for each

race conditions with file/folder creation?

2005-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Over the years I've had a small handful of WebMerge customers who tell me that WebMerge will sometimes report that it can't write a certain file. In each case the error happens after a large number of files (20,000) have been successfully written in the same run. It's worth noting that the

Re: race conditions with file/folder creation?

2005-02-15 Thread Mark Talluto
On Feb 15, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Any of you familiar with limits on the number of files that can be written to a given directory, or other related factors like FAT issues? Here is some least useful information. I wrote a test app for a database I was developing. My stress