BGs

2005-04-03 Thread Klaus Major
Hi friends, short question: I have 2 groups whith their backgroundbehaviour set to false!!! They are not placed on any card, but same result, if theiy are already placed on some OTHER cards... Now i do: create cd place bg eins onto this cd on a card where there is NO bg placed yet! Works fine,

Re[2]: Python and Rev

2005-04-03 Thread thierry
Hi, DS Back in the early days when I was beginning to explore Rev and was DS doing a good bit of Python work, I remember experimenting with calling DS Python scripts from Rev using the shell() command and having some DS success. I suspect that approach has some real potential when we want DS

Re[3]: set a prop after get url a stackfile

2005-04-03 Thread thierry
Hi Eric, Dan and Klaus, ÉC May be I did not understand correctly this thread :-) half of it :-) i was trying this in a different context. In your example, the it contains the path to the stack. In my example, the it contains the downloaded file (binary) of the stack. Imagine we have a stack

Re: shell() not waiting - not hiding

2005-04-03 Thread Derek Bump
Perhaps, it is writing to the console instead of stdout. This is probably what is happening. Is there any way to test for this? Also, what about the start process command. Can I utilize that command to run a Console program in the background, and get all information that it presents? Derek

Re: BGs

2005-04-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Klaus, I thought the act of Placeing a group made it a background group. In fact I can not Place a group from the menu unless it is a background group. So if it shows up under the menu item then it must be a bg group. Once I start playing with the groups and script placing and or menu placing

Re: Bug reports in standalones

2005-04-03 Thread Derek Bump
This looks like a great facility but I haven't found any instructions about how to use it. For example, can I get the text of the error to appear on the screen? How is the email feature implemented (I didn't seem to get any of the emails)? The 'save report to file' is working well, but I'd

Re: BGs

2005-04-03 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Thomas, Klaus, I thought the act of Placeing a group made it a background group. well, it looks like, but i don#t think this is the documented(?) and desired behaviour... You can placeAND remove ANY group (BG or NOT!) onto/from any card without having its backgroundbehaviour set to true! See

ANN Nine ball with spin and sound

2005-04-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Added a little sound to the game. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

RE: shell() not waiting - not hiding

2005-04-03 Thread MisterX
launch process doesn't return info but it does keep track of the application running via the openedprocesses function. It has some interests but the shell is much more standard IMOHO... You can start a shell with the start (see start /? or /help) DOS command to make the shell return directly to

Re: set a prop after get url a stackfile

2005-04-03 Thread Éric Chatonet
Hi Thierry, go invisible url http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/NineBallWithSpin.rev; -- very nice work :-) put the short name of this stack set the uTest of this stack to Done save this stack -- as xyz delete this stack -- memory cleanup Le 3 avr. 05, à 18:00, thierry [EMAIL PROTECTED] a

RE: Python and Rev

2005-04-03 Thread MisterX
get ready folks! /. is on the same brainwave or plane of thought... http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/04/03/0715209.shtml?tid=156tid=8 I like a multi-language approach to programming! Maybe Rev can drive the Python GUI somewhere... cheers Xavier -- http://MonsieurX.com/runrev

Re: BGs

2005-04-03 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's what my test made clear... place bg xyz... WILL set the backgroundbehaviour to true! But setting that prop to false again does NOT work! I still don't think this is correct! Any other hints and opinions are very welcome Klaus,

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

2005-04-03 Thread thierry
ÉC Hi Thierry, ÉC go invisible url ÉC http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/NineBallWithSpin.rev; -- very ÉC nice work :-) Indeed :-) ÉC put the short name of this stack ÉC set the uTest of this stack to Done ÉC save this stack -- as xyz ÉC delete this stack -- memory cleanup Excellent ! i

Re: ANN Nine ball with spin and sound

2005-04-03 Thread Thomas McGrath III
OOPPS, username: mcgrath3 file: Nine ball with spin and sound On Apr 3, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Added a little sound to the game. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

RE: Python and Rev

2005-04-03 Thread MisterX
From the Python faq, regarding how to use python as a script lead to this jewel. I believe it means that you can run python directly in the shell or did I get it wrong? This'd'be cool! http://www.python.org/doc/faq/windows.html#id3 cheers Xavier ___

Re: ANN Nine Ball with Spin (English)

2005-04-03 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 17 Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 08:45:25 -0800 (PST) From: Alejandro Tejada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANN Nine Ball with Spin (English) To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Jim, Your have make better an already

RevOnline's fingerprinting

2005-04-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
Does anyone know a way to change (or remove) the fingerprint that RevOnline uses to keep track of your stacks to allow updating ? I put one stack up on RevOnline, then copied the stack to give me the start of my next project (at least, that's what I think I did). Now when I try to put the new

Re: RevOnline's fingerprinting

2005-04-03 Thread Andre Garzia
On Apr 3, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Does anyone know a way to change (or remove) the fingerprint that RevOnline uses to keep track of your stacks to allow updating ? I put one stack up on RevOnline, then copied the stack to give me the start of my next project (at least, that's what

Re: ANN Nine ball with spin and sound

2005-04-03 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 6 Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 09:45:00 -0400 From: Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANN Nine ball with spin and sound To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Added a little

The Breakpoint adventure (free scripts inside!)

2005-04-03 Thread MisterX
Hello folks, After a few crashes and additions to bugzilla 2483, I've come up with a safe script to prevent the breakpoint bug crash boom bang that overjoyed my second holliday sunday morning with regular bugzilla-bullying! Hope the third is the charm ;)

Re: shell() not waiting - not hiding

2005-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 3, 2005, at 10:00 AM, MisterX wrote: You can start a shell with the start (see start /? or /help) DOS command to make the shell return directly to runrev right away but you will not get an answer back - you need to pipe it to a file instead which is not that hard to watch and catch

[ANN] RevZilla 2.0

2005-04-03 Thread Ken Ray
I'm proud to announce that RevZilla 2.0 is now available, and includes the following features: - Direct login - no more cookies! - Works in Rev 2.5, MetaCard, and can be run as a standalone - Can now respond to or change bugs and re-submit - no need to go to Bugzilla for this anymore!

Re: BGs

2005-04-03 Thread Dan Shafer
This behavior seems only slightly surprising on reflection but I agree it should be better documented. Copying a background from one card to another *duplcates* the background so that changes made to one of them will not be reflected in the copy. Placing a background seems to me to at least

Re: Python and Rev

2005-04-03 Thread Dan Shafer
A couple of years ago, I wrote a chapter in a small booklet published by O'Reilly that consisted of a collection of case study/success profiles of Python projects, all (or at least most) of which were fairly serious apps. Python was my favorite language until I adopted Rev and, from a language

Re: Python and Rev

2005-04-03 Thread Dan Shafer
On Apr 3, 2005, at 9:25 AM, MisterX wrote: Maybe Rev can drive the Python GUI somewhere... Just before I climbed on the Rev bandwagon -- a move I do not regret, just to be clear -- I was working on an Open Source Python project called PythonCard, an attempt to reproduce some of the ease of

Re: Python and Rev

2005-04-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dan Shafer wrote: On Apr 3, 2005, at 9:25 AM, MisterX wrote: Maybe Rev can drive the Python GUI somewhere... Just before I climbed on the Rev bandwagon -- a move I do not regret, just to be clear -- I was working on an Open Source Python project called PythonCard, an attempt to reproduce some of

Re: RevOnline's fingerprinting

2005-04-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
Andre Garzia wrote: On Apr 3, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Does anyone know a way to change (or remove) the fingerprint that RevOnline uses to keep track of your stacks to allow updating ? I am really guessing here, but check for strange custom props or custom prop sets begining with

Where is reshape polygon?

2005-04-03 Thread Jim Hurley
Where is reshape polygon in 2.5? I'd look it up in the documentation, but that aspect of 2.5 doesn't work on my OS X 10.2.3--sadly. Jim BTW, The question I posed earlier--how do you create an arc--turned out to be really simple. My apologies to those who have already responded. (I get the

More trouble with print dialogs

2005-04-03 Thread graham samuel
I am now trying to implement a printing scheme for the PC version of my current app. I have constructed a handler that prints a multipage document. Its input parameters are a title and the text to print. It works - no frills, but it does the job. In my 'File' menu don't have a simple one-item

Re: ANN Nine Ball with Spin (English)

2005-04-03 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Scott, Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:04:41 -0800 From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANN Nine Ball with Spin (English) Make sure you didn't just click the link -- you need the entire line in your message box, not a Web browser: go url

Rename Duplicate

2005-04-03 Thread Dwayne Rothe
Hi All, Trying to find the easiest way to rename a (new)string if it already exists in a list! If a user tries to add an existing name to a list I want it to be named the same but adding a digit to the end. e.g Example exists so name new entery to Example(2), Example(2) exists so name new to

Re: 1010 error code HELP

2005-04-03 Thread Brian Thomas
Brian, Are you using any externals? I believe I used to get that error when a shared library was missing for an external... I'm not using externals and Monks works on other G3 iMacs. Does anyone else have any ideas Hi. I just a got an email from an If Monks had Macs customer who consistently

Re: [ANN] RevZilla 2.0

2005-04-03 Thread Mark Talluto
Thanks Ken for this. It is a truly useful program. I personally use it way to often. ;) Mark Talluto -- CANELA Software http://www.canelasoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread Ken Ray
I've got two lists - one with is the comprehensive list that is return-delimited, like: 3 5 6 7 11 14 18 21 And another list which is the list I would like to *remove* from the comprehensive list: 5 6 11 18 Which should give me: 3 7 14 21 I can of course do a repeat loop through the small

Re: 1010 error code HELP

2005-04-03 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Are you using any externals? I believe I used to get that error when a shared library was missing for an external... I'm not using externals and Monks works on other G3 iMacs. Does anyone else have any ideas What about any Rev externals or Quicktime? There was a problem at some stage with the

Re: More trouble with print dialogs

2005-04-03 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Well, this works OK **unless** the user chooses to call the 'Page Setup' item, which uses 'answer printer' as expected by Rev. The trouble with this is that this opens a dialog which includes not only stuff about the page and paper settings, but also a 'print' button. If the user presses this,

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread simplsol
Ken, Is it possible to skip the remove items when the comprehensive list is built? Paul Looney -Original Message- From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Use Revolution List use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 22:04:54 -0500 Subject: How to get the difference between two

Re: 1010 error code HELP

2005-04-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Brian Thomas wrote: 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. That domain appears to have an incomplete list. Using Google I found several

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/3/05 10:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, Is it possible to skip the remove items when the comprehensive list is built? Nope... good thought, though... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread Monte Goulding
I've got two lists - one with is the comprehensive list that is return-delimited, like: 3 5 6 7 11 14 18 21 And another list which is the list I would like to *remove* from the comprehensive list: 5 6 11 18 Which should give me: 3 7 14 21 I can of course do a repeat loop through the small list

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Apr 3, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Ken Ray wrote: I can of course do a repeat loop through the small list and remove those items from the comprehensive list, but I'm wondering if there's a faster way to do this. Some wild ideas: 1. Convert the smaller list into a regex and use replaceText(). 2.

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: I've got two lists - one with is the comprehensive list that is return-delimited, like: 3 5 6 7 11 14 18 21 And another list which is the list I would like to *remove* from the comprehensive list: 5 6 11 18 Which should give me: 3 7 14 21 I can of course do a repeat loop through the

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread simplsol
Ken, Would it help to 1. mark cards that need to be removed 2. sort by marked cards 3. delete the marked cards Still a repeat loop, but each card would not have to be evaluated during the loop. Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list

RE: Python and Rev

2005-04-03 Thread Thomas McCarthy
I just remembered that HyperCard allowed scripting in AppleScript in its stacks and objects. Wouldn't it be nice if Rev also did that with Python? To further muddy the waters... While looking into other tools, I discovered Ruby, a language designed by a Japanese no less. And I found a IDE

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/3/05 11:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, Would it help to 1. mark cards that need to be removed 2. sort by marked cards 3. delete the marked cards Still a repeat loop, but each card would not have to be evaluated during the loop. Well, the problem is that it is

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/3/05 10:49 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With 10,000 lines in my main list and 5,000 lines in my exclude list, it takes only 25 milliseconds to use this on my single-processor PBG4 1MHz: Unfortunately this is something that will be executed in a loop several thousand times,

Re: Python and Rev

2005-04-03 Thread Judy Perry
Neither I nor my Python-loving spouse has ever been able to get PythonCard working. Is it possible? Judy On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Dan Shafer wrote: Just before I climbed on the Rev bandwagon -- a move I do not regret, just to be clear -- I was working on an Open Source Python project called

Re: How to get the difference between two lists?

2005-04-03 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 4 avr. 05, à 07:23, Ken Ray a écrit : On 4/3/05 10:49 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With 10,000 lines in my main list and 5,000 lines in my exclude list, it takes only 25 milliseconds to use this on my single-processor PBG4 1MHz: Unfortunately this is something that will be