At 8:28 am +0200 21/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>make a little handler in your stack that says
>
>on putGlobal what
> do "global" && what
> do "put" && what
>end putGlobal
>
>That should help.
Certainly does. This is what I was missing. At any point I can make a
variable global, then access it.
hi
usually try not to get to caught up in these sort of things but i saw
this quote from a ex-Macromedia worker (unconfirmed) on slashdot..
"Adobe will kill off Director within 3 years."
Good thing the revolution has all ready started :)
regards
alex
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Alex Shaw wrote:
usually try not to get to caught up in these sort of things but i saw
this quote from a ex-Macromedia worker (unconfirmed) on slashdot..
"Adobe will kill off Director within 3 years."
But Macromedia was likely to kill it off themselves in 3 or 4 years
anyway. Think about it: Wi
Hi,
I would just like to say thanks to everyone that helped me resolve
this problem! It is obviosuly FUNDAMENTAL to the whole RunRev
experience, but I had missed it. I have had the IDE crashing all over
the place and all kinds of weird behavour for ages, now that I've
fixed the the whole RunRev
Signe Marie Sanne skrev:
sims skrev:
I need to play video on both OS X and Windows machines which will
for the most part be business computers - corporate office machines.
The Mac part I can figure out and will be able to use QuickTime.
Some PC machines will not have QuickTime installed and will no
At 1:08 PM +0200 4/21/05, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
I just uploaded the stack "mciMpegVideo" to RevOnLine. It can be
found either in User spaces under "sms", or under Programming. If
anyone finds out how to avoid flickering in closeVideo, I would be
grateful to get the scripts.
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Hi Marie,
At 1:08 PM +0200 4/21/05, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
I just uploaded the stack "mciMpegVideo" to RevOnLine. It can be
found either in User spaces under "sms", or under Programming. If
anyone finds out how to avoid flickering in closeVideo, I would be
grateful to get the scripts.
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Klaus,
>This does indeed shed some light on the (for me) mysterious
>mciSendString stuff... :-)
I just [re-]discovered yesterday that there's a full mcistring tutorial in
the
metacard tools. MCtools stack -> Tools Menu -> Last item ->
Tools.metacard.com
and click on the mci demo...
cheers
Xa
Hi Xavier,
Klaus,
This does indeed shed some light on the (for me) mysterious
mciSendString stuff... :-)
I just [re-]discovered yesterday that there's a full mcistring
tutorial in
the
metacard tools. MCtools stack -> Tools Menu -> Last item ->
Tools.metacard.com
and click on the mci demo...
tell m
Na Klaus,
Sorry to hear that! ;)
I thought I had found the "right" stuff ;)
I'll send you what I find as I find it. Sorry if it's obsolete news ;)
Why is it that the programmers that implement this cannot document it
or make it clear for the users I wonder?
cheerios
Xavier
On 21.04.2005 14:
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Now if only more people would read the archives *before* posting the
questions, the list would have more answers to fewer questions
(allowing time for things to catch up...)
On Apr 20, 2005, at 9:28 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
We try to answer question
Hi X,
Na Klaus,
Sorry to hear that! ;)
I thought I had found the "right" stuff ;)
I'll send you what I find as I find it. Sorry if it's obsolete news ;)
Don't worry, it's the thought that counts... ;-)
Why is it that the programmers that implement this cannot document it
or make it clear for the us
Here's a question, as much philosophical as practical, and I wonder
what the list makes of it.
I have an app for keeping track of stock and futures trades. The data
is effectively a list of days, each day containing a list of open
trades, one per line, with the details as items in each line.
C
The problem with the archives is that
a) responses here are very fast (in other words, y'all make it easy),
and the culture is permissive
b) Honestly, the archive search tools are not as easy to use
c) Most of the responses are not so complicated as to discourage the
responders from telling the noo
On Apr 20, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Marisa K. wrote:
Hi Trevor,
Thank you agian for your suggestion. You are right about the database
of UTF-8. :-)
However, I've tried on that, too, but the result is the same!!
I wrote script as:
on openCard
global tID
set the unicodeText of fld testDB to uniEncode(
It's the beauty of RR and SC and HC before it - the language lets you
do things a zillion different ways, and the environment lets you do
things a zillion different ways, too.
If the volume of trades that you are tracking isn't enormous, then who
cares? Do what's easy. Don't think of a stack as
Hi JB
may I ask you where did you get a rev 2.5 engine cgi Linux?
I thought there was only the rev 2.0 engine cgi available is there
a new engine cgi also for mac and windows?
I should install the cgi rev engine on a FirstClass server. In MACOX
it works fine ... I put the engine on the cgi
I'm with you, Richrad. Who cares? Director is old and redundant. It
hasn't been innovative in quite a while.
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2.5 has *been* out for Linux. It's the other *NIX platforms where Rev
has been coming up short -- BSD, Solaris, Irix, etc.
On Apr 21, 2005, at 11:30 AM, paolo wrote:
Hi JB
may I ask you where did you get a rev 2.5 engine cgi Linux?
I thought there wa
I am really baffled debugging what should be a non-problem, but I must
be missing something basic. I was trying to debud why my script would
not work and I worked it down to this symptom.
I made two sliders that go from 1 to 44, increment 1, show value. The
first one "startQ" works as expecte
On Apr 21, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Dennis Brown wrote:
I am really baffled debugging what should be a non-problem, but I must
be missing something basic. I was trying to debud why my script would
not work and I worked it down to this symptom.
I made two sliders that go from 1 to 44, increment 1, sho
Thanks Mark,
I also just "fixed" the problem by putting a script into the sliders
(slider 1 also started generating crazy values the more I tested it).
on mouseup
set thumbPosition of me to round( thumbposition of me)
end mouseup
So I can fix it, but it still doesn't explain why I should have t
Hi Dennis,
Your problem is with the numberFormat property:
By default, the numberFormat property is set to 0.##.
BUT (see the docs) the numberFormat of newly created scrollbars is set
to empty.
So you have a scrollbar whose behaviour accords with default
numberFormat value and another with sc
Thanks for the kind words. Reviewers seem to be very hot or very cold
on it.
you've read it once more than I have!
On Apr 20, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
And Dan, as an owner of HTML Utopia... I want to thank you... without
your book I don't think I could have made the bridge from t
On Apr 21, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Dennis Brown wrote:
Thanks Mark,
I also just "fixed" the problem by putting a script into the sliders
(slider 1 also started generating crazy values the more I tested it).
on mouseup
set thumbPosition of me to round( thumbposition of me)
end mouseup
So I can fix it
Thanks Eric,
Setting the Value Format for the slider let me see that the slider does
not increase in unit values of the scale marker even though the scroll
distance on bar click is set to 1. I guess the units were close
because of the sizing I applied to the object so that it appeared that
it
Hi,
I have the following scripts in CARD script of Card 1 - this is to
avoid problems when doing saves etc. in the IDE.
If I run the Stack, click the dirty button and then click the window
close box, I get the following events:
closeStackRequest
closeStack
And it saves as Planned - ALWAYS
I
Hi all,
Here is a problem that is probably something really stupid that I'm
doing, just can't figure out what.
In my application when I create a new substack the window comes up
black. There is no color property in the inspector, the window is just
black. I can change the color of the window by
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Okay, sounds like the background color of the main stack is black.
This is inherited by the substacks (and thus the dialog boxes) of that
stack unless you explicitly specify a background color of the
substacks.
On Apr 21, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Varen Sw
On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Varen Swaab wrote:
Hi all,
Here is a problem that is probably something really stupid that I'm
doing, just can't figure out what.
In my application when I create a new substack the window comes up
black. There is no color property in the inspector, the window is just
Thanks, you're absolutely correct, the color was inherited from the
mainstack. I'm not sure I would have figured that out myself even if I
spent a day on the problem. I'm grateful for this discussion to help
with problems like this!!
Varen
On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
On Apr 2
I am confused
can someone help me Thanks
I have a for each repeat statement in my script. The global "theKeys"
holds a list of valid images that can be clicked.
If it is a valid key/image then I want to find out what line it is on
in that global since I have a field that I want to hi
Recently, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> repeat for each line x in theKeys
> if x = theKey then -- after the third sweep it comes to x = three
>
>-- this is where I need the actual line number that three is in
> theKeys global which in this case is 3
> put line x into theblend -- does
I'm afraid that gets me "three" and not the line number 3 which is what
I needed.
I am now trying to use the lineoffset on the global using the short
name of the target with the global list of images.
Thank you
On Apr 21, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Rev cgi is great also on the windows platform... I fixed all the problems
and now it works!
Ciao Paolo
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Thomas,
You can always just add your own counter to the loop:
put 0 into lineNumber
repeat for each line x in theKeys
add 1 to lineNumber
...
end repeat
HTH
- Brian
I'm afraid that gets me "three" and not the line number 3 which is
what I needed.
I am now trying to use the lineoffset on t
Yes that would work. I forgot because I am not used to the (new to me)
repeat for each and was more concerned if there was a way built into
the repeat that did it. I was so concerned that I forgot that I could
role my own.
I did end up using the lineoffset and that works for what I am doing,
b
Thomas McGrath III wrote:
PS.. I have decided to take on our Director programmer after reading the
threads about Adobe buying MM out. Before I felt that he had a lot of
time invested and although I knew I could do this I didn't want to push
him out. Now however I figured that it was a good time
Yes that would work. I forgot because I am not used to the (new to me)
repeat for each and was more concerned if there was a way built into
the repeat that did it. I was so concerned that I forgot that I could
role my own.
Yah- many other languages supply a way to fetch the "key" as well as
the
Dear Revvers
This is probably a very simple question, but when I'm
adding text to a scrolled field, how do I make it
autoscroll down so that it's always showing the last
line of added text?
Best
Gordon
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set the vscroll of field "yourfield" to the formattedheight of field
"yourfield"
On Apr 21 2005, at 23:58, Gordon Webster wrote:
Dear Revvers
This is probably a very simple question, but when I'm
adding text to a scrolled field, how do I make it
autoscroll down so that it's always showing the las
Gordon,
(B
(BHere's how I was taught to do it:
(B
(Bon doScrollCheck
(B ---MAKE SURE FIELDS ARE SCROLLED TO MAX SO READER CAN VIEW MSG
(B put the formattedHeight of field "fWhatever" into tHeight
(B set the scroll of field "fWhatever" to tHeight
(Bend doScrollCheck
(B
(BCheers,
(BNico
Thanks, I did not know that the lineoffset would slow it down. In my
case i only have between 3 to 18 items to work with so speed should not
be affected. i will revisit my code and look at a counter method.
This started out because I have set a goal for myself to both optimize
my code using my
The problem with the archives is that
a) responses here are very fast (in other words, y'all make it easy),
and the culture is permissive
b) Honestly, the archive search tools are not as easy to use
c) Most of the responses are not so complicated as to discourage the
responders from telling the noo
Mark Smith wrote:
I have an app for keeping track of stock and futures trades. The data is
effectively a list of days, each day containing a list of open trades,
one per line, with the details as items in each line. Currently, I have
this data in an array, with the keys being the date of each d
I'm making a menu bar for a cross-platform application.
I can place the menu bar and it shows properly, that's good, but when I
check the option to "Set as Menu Bar on Mac OS" all the images and
controls on the stack slide up to fill the space where the menu bar
was. I'd like the menu bar to sho
Varen Swaab wrote:
I'm making a menu bar for a cross-platform application.
I can place the menu bar and it shows properly, that's good, but when I
check the option to "Set as Menu Bar on Mac OS" all the images and
controls on the stack slide up to fill the space where the menu bar was.
I'd like
To make a Mac app look like a Windows app just clear the menuGroup
property of the stack (uncheck the checkbox you set labeled "Set as
Menu Bat on Mac OS").
Richard,
If I uncheck this checkbox then the menu will stay in the stack window
in Mac OS and not move to the top of the screen.
I'm tryi
Sorry, there was a major typo in my previous post which changed the
meaning of my question...
I meant to say:
"I'm trying to figure out how to move the stack and to the top of the
screen in Mac OS but ***NOT*** resize the stack window when it does."
On Apr 21, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Varen Swaab wro
Varen Swaab wrote:
To make a Mac app look like a Windows app just clear the menuGroup
property of the stack (uncheck the checkbox you set labeled "Set as
Menu Bat on Mac OS").
Richard,
If I uncheck this checkbox then the menu will stay in the stack window
in Mac OS and not move to the top of t
--- Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... to initialize stuff, placing the init
> scripts in the first card of
> your main stack causes the scripts to
> run only when the main stack is
> opened (preOpenStack, openStack, openCard,
> etc).
and if any of your mainstack cards
may be deleted?
On 22 Apr 2005, at 8:35 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Thanks, I did not know that the lineoffset would slow it down. In my
case i only have between 3 to 18 items to work with so speed should
not be affected. i will revisit my code and look at a counter method.
If you have a long list, it is fast
Assuming that an individual substack consists of a single card
containing perhaps 7 or 8 fields, each with <5 KB of text, plus a few
pop-up menus and buttons, how many substacks can be associated with a
single mainstack? Only one substack would be open at any given point,
but I might have as m
Recently, Erik Hansen wrote:
>> ... to initialize stuff, placing the init
>> scripts in the first card of
>> your main stack causes the scripts to
>> run only when the main stack is
>> opened (preOpenStack, openStack, openCard,
>> etc).
>
> and if any of your mainstack cards
> may be deleted?
F
Recently, Scott Rossi wrote:
> Or you can go through all substacks and place blocking handlers in each (open
> preOpenStack, end preOpenstack, etc).
Actually the following is a little more clear:
on preOpenStack
end preOpenStack
on openStack
end openStack
Etc.
These are placed in your su
Richard
After further research I suppose what I'm asking is whether the
EditMenus property for a stack can be disabled so a stack doesn't
resize when it's menu bar is changed from true to false and from false
to true. So that the EditMenus property has only the effect to show the
menu bar and n
Hey, does anyone know WHY 'table fields' keep initial capitalizing each
word when I tab out of that field?
Is there a way to turn this off? I need exact names in the table.
TOm
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Hello all,
I am playing with tables for a database driven interface.
I used to use comma delimited items with CR delimited lines in a text
document. Is there a better way to do this, I am trying with a table
field.
The interface needs three criteria (Key columns one two and three) and
then anyw
Actually it is only the upper most top left table field that wants to
capitalize the first letter. The ones below it will stay lower case if
I typed it that way.
This is weird to me?
Tom
On Apr 21, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Hey, does anyone know WHY 'table fields' keep initial
--- Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recently, Erik Hansen wrote:
>
> >> ... to initialize stuff, placing the init
> >> scripts in the first card of
> >> your main stack causes the scripts to
> >> run only when the main stack is
> >> opened (preOpenStack, openStack, openCard,
> >> etc).
--- Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I'm reading you correctly, you just trap the
> message, get the direction
> of the arrowkey and process accordingly.
> on arrowKey pDir
> if the shiftKey is down then put 10 into
tIncr
> else put 1 into tIncr
> put the selectedObject into tObj
>
Hi everyone,
I'm working on an application which has about 25 .png files imported
via the image library. We recently discovered an aesthetic problem
with the images which required me to import new images into the stack's
library.
When I imported the new images I noticed some wrong images being
Varen Swaab wrote:
Richard
After further research I suppose what I'm asking is whether the
EditMenus property for a stack can be disabled so a stack doesn't resize
when it's menu bar is changed from true to false and from false to true.
So that the EditMenus property has only the effect to show
Varen Swaab wrote:
I'm working on an application which has about 25 .png files imported via
the image library. We recently discovered an aesthetic problem with the
images which required me to import new images into the stack's library.
When I imported the new images I noticed some wrong images
Hi Varen
I think the issue is this...
http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2449
Not the first or last time. You'll find some solutions and answers to your
questions there I hope...
Im writing a library to avoid the issue altogeter and have both images and
any references reass
On 4/21/05 6:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Cards may seem more "natural" to someone coming from HyperCard because
with HC you had no choice: it had neither arrays nor custom properties
to store them in, and the built-in sort command only worked on cards;
you had to use an external for anything e
J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 4/21/05 6:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Cards may seem more "natural" to someone coming from HyperCard because
with HC you had no choice: it had neither arrays nor custom
properties to store them in, and the built-in sort command only worked
on cards; you had to use an e
Richard,
I haven't tried your suggestion yet but it seems to solve the problem.
Thanks very much for your help!
Varen
On Apr 21, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Varen Swaab wrote:
Richard
After further research I suppose what I'm asking is whether the
EditMenus property for a stack ca
Because it was added in v2.0 or so...late in the game...
sqb
If HC had a sort command then why were there so many sort externals
floating around?
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Hi Kurt,
You can open as much script windows or property palettes as you want...
Don't you?
To do this there are not thousands of stacks (or substacks) in the IDE.
Think of such an architecture to solve your problem:
Create a template substack (only one!) and clone it on the fly when
needed :-)
A
These all make sense to me in what I am doing but I want a visual
field to do my testing and was wondering if there is a better
recommended way to handle many calls to a field by line first then
first three items and then finally by last three to seven items?
Again, I used to use comma delimite
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