Re: Speech in standalone - help!

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
Sarah - thanks for this tip. I'll try this and let you know! Chris On 1 Apr 2005, at 04:58, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I need some advice on how to get speech working in a standalone app. I'm working on a (for me) big video script-writing utility that I want to feature a preview facility using

Transparent stacks/cards?

2005-04-01 Thread André Rombauts
How do I make a stack transparent? A card? Is it possible to move a stack wtih controls set as empty? My aim is to design an application as a movable 'skin' on the desktop... André ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Print Margin strangeness [was Re: ]

2005-04-01 Thread graham samuel
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:32:48 -0600, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had written: Well, I did that - I was already using the printMargins settings (72 all round) to calculate where on the card to put the field that contains the print content, but at your suggestion at the last minute, just

Re: Transparent stacks/cards?

2005-04-01 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, André Rombauts wrote: How do I make a stack transparent? A card? Is it possible to move a stack wtih controls set as empty? My aim is to design an application as a movable 'skin' on the desktop... There are a couple ways to do this, if I understand your question: 1) execute the

Re: Printing examples?

2005-04-01 Thread graham samuel
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:49:07 +1000, Dwayne Rothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graham, I think RunRev is definately limited in it's print functions especially when using win os. I have been trying to find a way to have the default Windows print preview window appear from runrev. Type

Re: Best way to ask the user to wait?

2005-04-01 Thread graham samuel
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:10:06 -0800, Trevor DeVore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:14 AM, graham samuel wrote: I'd like to put up a kind of advisory note to the user saying something like Please wait while we process your request I don't want any reaction from the user, such as

Re: Problem solving methods in software development

2005-04-01 Thread David Vaughan
On 01/04/2005, at 19:05, Alejandro Tejada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Developers, Long time ago, surfing the net i found a forum, where the administrator supervised the threads and when a question was responded correctly or a problem was solved, he (or she) closed the message thread and added a

Re: Printing examples?

2005-04-01 Thread graham samuel
Thanks to all who replied: I'm getting good advice on this. Chipp, thanks for your example of print with preview: I was doing something a bit like this, but your solution is better thought out, I gladly admit. On one point I don't quite concur. You wrote: Call the PageSetup function (answer

Re: Speech in standalone - help!

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
Still doesn't work! Arghh. You were correct, the externals folder in the bundle was empty, but copying the revSpeech bundle there didn't solve it. Neither did altering enableLibraries path to point to it. I've just noticed this in Rev docs: Important! When you install a new external by

Re: Speech in standalone - FIXED!

2005-04-01 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
Phew! At last got it working. Something very very odd going on with file paths somewhere. It turned out to be part Revs fault - not copying revSpeech.bundle into externals folder in app bundle, and part my fault doing something odd with file path. Right, now for Windows... Thanks for your

Printing tip -- open and close printing

2005-04-01 Thread Bill
I discovered something by accident when printing on my mac os x. The command open printing is quit powerful. I can do the command, then do some stuff like so: set the printmargins to 0,0,0,0 open printing with dialog print card Form1 from 0,0 to 612,792 -- do stuff here print card

contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello to the list, I have a question regarding contains versus is in. If I run the below script in an dragEnd handler it works with the 'is in' version. But when I swap to the contains version it skips the app part completely. The script is at the card level and the drag drops on a button. Any

Re: contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I mean a dragDrop message. On Apr 1, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Hello to the list, I have a question regarding contains versus is in. If I run the below script in an dragEnd handler ___ use-revolution mailing list

launch ?

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello to the list, I have another question. The command below for opening a folder works with quotes best. The launch app works with out the qoutes. But the launch 'file' does not work at all until I put the with .app which I didn't want to do. Any ideas how to force a document/file to open

Re: About variable.

2005-04-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Martin Baxter wrote: I don't find custom properties are very convenient for storing arrays. Is everyone else using custom property sets for this ? An overview of using custom props as array storage: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2002-July/006149.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: --if myAlias contains .exe or .app then if myAlias contains .exe or myAlias contains .app then Dar -- ** DSC (Dar Scott Consulting Dar's Lab) http://www.swcp.com/dsc/ Programming

Re: The Campain Trail

2005-04-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Derek Bump wrote: Imagine if you could create your own lookAndFeel types (otherwise known as Skins). This would be a HUGE advantage. You could make your own buttons, fields, menus, whatever. All in all, giving you the ability to make a user experience that much more interesting. What's

Re: Quicktime with Rev... New Question

2005-04-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Swindell wrote: Is there a way to flip the QT player in Rev so that it is orientated vertically rather that horizontally? I would like it to run alongside a page of text from top to bottom, not underneath from side to side. Not directly, but it's not as difficult as it might seem to make

Re[2]: set a prop after get url a stackfile

2005-04-01 Thread thierry
Hi Klaus, Dan and all, thanks for your help as usual :-) but can't make it work :-( KM Simply do this AFTER it has been downloaded: KM ... KM get url http://aStackFile; KM put the short name of stack it into myTargetstack KM save stack myTargetstack as xyz in fact, i did try in local,

Re: Hints for porting apps from Mac to Win

2005-04-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Klaus Major wrote: Hi friends, i just found an interesting article on the net, it is about realbasic but it is written very common, so take a look, i found it very helpful... http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/03/25/realbasic.html A good article indeed. It's disappointing that they chose

Re: Greek text in Rev fields under Linux

2005-04-01 Thread Richard K. Herz
Dar wrote: Try a simple test like this (with or without setting the font): on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of field field to numToChar(0x222A) end mouseUp You should get a union symbol. Didn't work. Got a dashed box in the field. Thanks. Rich

Re: Re[2]: set a prop after get url a stackfile

2005-04-01 Thread Dan Shafer
You made a tiny but important mistake. On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:49 AM, thierry wrote: in fact, i did try in local, so: put url ( binfile: theFullpath ) into aAnonymousStack Instead of put, use get and don't put it into anything. get url (binfile: theFullPath) put the short name of it into

Re: Quicktime with Rev... New Question

2005-04-01 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark and Richard and all, Mark Swindell wrote: Is there a way to flip the QT player in Rev so that it is orientated vertically rather that horizontally? I would like it to run alongside a page of text from top to bottom, not underneath from side to side. Not directly, but it's not as

ANN Nine Ball with Spin (English)

2005-04-01 Thread Jim Hurley
I couldn't resist adding spin (English) to Nine Ball. There are some things you can't do without it. For example there are occasions when you can't sink a ball without scratching--unless you can put spin on the cue ball. It is also needed on occasion to position the cue ball for the next shot.

Re: The Campain Trail

2005-04-01 Thread Klaus Major
Hi friends, Derek Bump wrote: Imagine if you could create your own lookAndFeel types (otherwise known as Skins). This would be a HUGE advantage. You could make your own buttons, fields, menus, whatever. All in all, giving you the ability to make a user experience that much more interesting.

Re: contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
OOOHHH well that makes sense.. Thank you very much. Tom On Apr 1, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Dar Scott wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: --if myAlias contains .exe or .app then if myAlias contains .exe or myAlias contains .app then Dar

Re[4]: set a prop after get url a stackfile

2005-04-01 Thread thierry
Hi Dan, DS You made a tiny but important mistake. DS On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:49 AM, thierry wrote: put url ( binfile: theFullpath ) into aAnonymousStack DS Instead of put, use get and don't put it into anything. DS get url (binfile: theFullPath) DS put the short name of it into

Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Howard Bornstein
On Mar 29, 2005 10:15 AM, Melitón Cardona Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this in a field: IPAE 16 IPAE 1 IPAE 7 LAG 1 JKAL 3 JKAL 11 JKAL 2 and I wish to get this (same alphabetical order, sorted numeric by second word of each): IPAE 1 IPAE 7 IPAE 16 LAG 1 JKAL 2 JKAL

Re: ANN Nine Ball with Spin (English)

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
LOL... I hate when it does that.. On Apr 1, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: Run Rev has this nasty habit of literally interpreting the code instead of what you meant. Thomas J. McGrath III SCS 1000 Killarney Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15234 412-885-8541

Re: Re[4]: set a prop after get url a stackfile

2005-04-01 Thread Klaus Major
Bon soir Thierry, Hi Dan, DS You made a tiny but important mistake. DS On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:49 AM, thierry wrote: put url ( binfile: theFullpath ) into aAnonymousStack DS Instead of put, use get and don't put it into anything. DS get url (binfile: theFullPath) DS put the short name of it into

Re: Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Untested clean-up of that code: on mouseUp put empty into sorter-- these two lines are mainly to make me feel a little better, put empty into sorteddata -- coming from a background in lower-level languages like Pascal repeat for

Re: The Campain Trail

2005-04-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Derek Bump wrote: Elements already under complete control by Rev developers: - Window shapes using images - Button appearances using images This is very true. I would just like to create the button look only once, and then have it apply to all buttons immediately. I find this to be a lot

Re: Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Howard Bornstein
On Apr 1, 2005 12:55 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Untested clean-up of that code: Your clean-up code needed a little cleaning up. :-) on mouseUp put empty into sorter -- these two lines are mainly to make me feel a little better, put empty into sorteddata --

Re: contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 1, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: OOOHHH well that makes sense.. --if myAlias contains .exe or .app then if myAlias contains .exe or myAlias contains .app then Thirty years ago I designed a language that would allow that and have it do what you want. It used what I

Re: Re: Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, like I said, it was untested ;-) Also, that last char (the CR which you said is needed to separate the lines) is separating the last line from a blank line which was not in the original field. That CR should indeed be removed before sorting in

Re: contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Indeed, there is only one data type in Rev: strings. So that approach would not really work here. On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: OOOHHH well that makes sense.. --if myAlias

Re: contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 1, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote and signed: Indeed, there is only one data type in Rev: strings. Yes. If you squint just right. One might say 1.89 types if you allow .8 for arrays and .09 for the result of arithmetic. (And there are a few times when there is a critical

Re: contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Yennie
--if myAlias contains .exe or .app then if .exe is in myAlias or .app is in myAlias then set the cmyFolder of the target to app else if myAlias contains . then -- haven't figured out how to tell if it is a file yet else if (there is a file myAlias) set the cmyFolder of the target to

Re: The Campain Trail

2005-04-01 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard Gaskin wrote: Most of the stuff you'll need to define a skinning mechanism for your app can be done in Rev. If you find elements that have you scratching your head post 'em here and we'll see what we can come up with. Yep, I agree. I've created a bunch of tools to help be 'skin' Rev

Re: The Campain Trail

2005-04-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Most of the stuff you'll need to define a skinning mechanism for your app can be done in Rev. Yep, I agree. I've created a bunch of tools to help be 'skin' Rev apps. One is 'Interface Designer.' There's a picture of it along with some of the apps it's

Mutilated Faq filenames (was: SearchDocs XML- final)

2005-04-01 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
I took a second look at the way the Faq files' addresses are displayed in the search results and think Jerry Balzano's complaint makes some sense. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Jerry Balzano [EMAIL PROTECTED] had written: Wilhelm - This is awesome! FYI, however, on my Mac (OS 10.3), I am getting

Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/1/05 11:42 AM, Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 2005 10:15 AM, Melitón Cardona Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this in a field: IPAE 16 IPAE 1 IPAE 7 LAG 1 JKAL 3 JKAL 11 JKAL 2 and I wish to get this (same alphabetical order, sorted numeric by

Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Howard Bornstein
On Apr 1, 2005 4:22 PM, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/1/05 11:42 AM, Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 2005 10:15 AM, Melitón Cardona Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this in a field: IPAE 16 IPAE 1 IPAE 7 LAG 1 JKAL 3 JKAL 11 JKAL 2

Re[2]: set a prop after get url a stackfile

2005-04-01 Thread Éric Chatonet
Hi Thierry, Dan and Klaus, May be I did not understand correctly this thread :-) But, as it was possible with HC, you can get or set any property of any stack silently i.e. without going to it. For instance, try this: answer file Choose any stack: put the script of stack it -- that's for

Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/1/05 3:38 PM, Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have used the same code as yours, however, it doesn't preserve the original alphabetic order (which I assumed he wanted--if not then your code is perfect). My code (and Frank's) ends up with the list sorted like this:

Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Yennie
Here's on last stab at using Rev's built-in sort: sort lines of fld 1 numeric by (lineOffset(word 1 of each, fld 1)*10 + (word 2 of each)) Woo hoo! Everyone loves cryptic one-liners! =P - Brian On 4/1/05 3:38 PM, Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have used the same code as

Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Alex Tweedly
Brian Yennie wrote: Here's on last stab at using Rev's built-in sort: sort lines of fld 1 numeric by (lineOffset(word 1 of each, fld 1)*10 + (word 2 of each)) Woo hoo! Everyone loves cryptic one-liners! =P I don't know if that quite gets it if the input were IPAE 1 LAG 2 IPAE 3 LAG 4

1010 error code HELP

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Thomas
Hi. I just a got an email from an If Monks had Macs customer who consistently gets a 1010 error under Mac OS 9.1. This error does not (per Appleerrorcodes.com) appear to be a Mac OS error. At 4:52 PM -0500 4/1/05, Clare N. Shumway wrote: I just installed If Monks___ from the CD to my computer

Re: Re:

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Yennie
Ah, yes- I guess it's all in our different assumption about the data format =). I assumed that all of the first words were already grouped together... but you're right- my version was grouping the first item and then sorting the second. So if you _want_ the first items grouped, it'll do that

Re: 1010 error code HELP

2005-04-01 Thread Brian Yennie
Brian, Are you using any externals? I believe I used to get that error when a shared library was missing for an external... Hi. I just a got an email from an If Monks had Macs customer who consistently gets a 1010 error under Mac OS 9.1. This error does not (per Appleerrorcodes.com) appear to

Re: contains or is in

2005-04-01 Thread Cubist
On Apr 1, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Dar Scott wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: --if myAlias contains .exe or .app then if myAlias contains .exe or myAlias contains .app then You need to think more paranoid. How can you be *certain* that the substrings .app or .exe

Re: 1010 error code HELP

2005-04-01 Thread Thomas McGrath III
This came from a realBasic site: FWIW - HTH http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/realbasic-nug/2000-09/ msg00966.html 1010 is bad shared library It probably was looking for an extention that was not present (such as QT 4) and couldn't continue without it. I have tested a7 built

is (u e) = (u umlaut) still true?

2005-04-01 Thread Erik Hansen
is (u e) = (u umlaut) still true? that used to be acceptable usage. you could also use ss for that B looking thing. Erich Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Socket progamming Tutorial

2005-04-01 Thread Kevin J
Are there any good tutorials on socket programming for revolution? Thanks Kevin ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

[ANN] Bezier Line 2s

2005-04-01 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Developers, Download the stack Bezier Line 2s from: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/bezier_line_2s.zip Another step in the bezier graphics direction... ;-) Now, you see a closed bezier graphic to play with. Use only the arrow tool that is provided with this stack to move the handles