Re: Syntax problem

2005-05-06 Thread Varen Swaab
Sarah & Ken Thanks to your suggestions I've got the problem licked. The url is now loading as intended. Sometimes it's the easiest problems that stump us the most. Var On 5/5/05 11:41 PM, "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/6/05 12:50 AM, "Varen Swaab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Unicode

2005-05-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Thomas, Thank you so much, Within 1 minute of downloading your helpful stack file I figured out how to do it. Double unicodetext was needed at both ends to make it work. set the unicodetext of field "Messages" of card "Messages" of / stack "Editor" to the unicodetext of field gChangeMessages

Re: Cursor issues in Tiger

2005-05-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Chipp, Paul, I too have seen this, but not only in Tiger, but Panther and even WinXP. The cursor just seems to get stuck after leaving an editable text fld. I think Jerry Daniels has a bug report on this. My fix is to 'start using stack "altCursorLib"' i know you are no Metacard man ;-), bu

Re: Tiger problems...

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
We have a bunch of Applescripts that we fire from from SC that are broken under Tiger. These are all to control and manipulate movies with QTPlayer. Apple actually seem to have changed the syntax for scripting with QTPlayer. Ughhh. I suppose this is a QT7 issue rather than Applescript pe

Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
Hello folks - just thought you might like to know about a weird issue I came across the other day. Not a bug in Rev, but weird behaviour on Windows that cost me hours (probably days) and about 20 CD-Rs... If you get a list of folders (using "the folders" ) on WIndows running from HD the lis

RE: Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread MisterX
Chris, You should try next time to burn mountable "images" of cds or virtualCDs. Look it up, it's great. Built in Nero, VirtualCD, the was an alladyn tools and an even better shareware in my macos times - macImage or something. Others like ultraIso, winIso, etc, etc, etc do the same for different

Re: Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
Xavier - I did try "virtual cd rom control panel", but it didn't seem to want to mount any images I made from Toast on Mac (whichever format I chose ISO, UDF etc...) so I gave up with it. I'm afraid I am a bit of a Windows dunce. I make my CD's on Mac using Toast, so if you know of a spec

Pencil doesn't trigger mousedown?

2005-05-06 Thread MisterX
In the quest for a cool shift-horizontal/vertical dragging functionality of the pencil as previously requested and often missed, i added the bit of coded needed to ResizeN2O. It works for draging objects in a primitive way but the pencil doesn't trigger the mousedown event!!! Any ideas anyone? T

Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-06 Thread Dennis Brown
Brian, This brings up a good point that has been bugging me for years. It is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS that the Rev documentation built in to the IDE is so full of errors. How many repeat questions and confusion by folks trying to learn Rev are the result of wrong or missing documentation. D

Re: Unicode

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Klaus, Of course there is none. When I saw your response I was heading out the door to get the dogs in and only saw the first unicodetext. I thought "Yeah I tried that." but really had not. You know, when you find yourself adding a little frustration when figuring something out it never helps an

Re: [ANN] RevZilla 2.0.1 Available

2005-05-06 Thread simplsol
Ken, Thank you for such a prompt response, I (for one) appreciate it. Revzilla is such a wonderful tool, I wish more revers would take advantage of it - and vote for bug #2387 (the date/time problem). Paul Looney -Original Message- From: Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Use Revolution List

Re: Pencil doesn't trigger mousedown?

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Xavier, I don't know what mouseDown event you are needing but recently I fought the mouseDown and the mouseDown won. I did use other listers advice and start a self running loop (send checkMouse to me in 50 milliseconds) and look for an "if the mouse is down" or "if the mouse is up" in the chec

Re: Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-06 Thread Derek Bump
Dennis Brown wrote: Stupid Doc errors AND small bugs in the IDE that are ignored (because GOOD programmers can find an undocumented workaround) make a bad impression about the quality of Revolution. I agree. I tried fixing errors or problems way back when using MetaCard and when RunRev first

Unicode question

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello, I was wondering if once the unicodetext of a fields content has been set if that field will then Keep that characteristic always. Or do I then always have to use the "set the unicodetext of" when I am putting text into fields? Is this the same for variables as well? set the unicodetext o

Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-06 Thread Dennis Brown
[I am resending this message, because it seems to have been lost in the mail] Brian, This brings up a good point that has been bugging me for years. It is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS that the Rev documentation built in to the IDE is so full of errors. How many repeat questions and confusion by

Re: Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-06 Thread Dennis Brown
Wow, that was weird. The new Tiger mail.app suddenly decided that mail from me or on this subject was Junk. I found my message and responses along with several good messages in my junk mail folder just now. Sorry for the resend. Tiger users, watch you junk mailbox. Dennis On May 6, 2005,

Re: Tiger problems...

2005-05-06 Thread Ken Ray
On 5/6/05 4:32 AM, "Chris Carroll-Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a bunch of Applescripts that we fire from from SC that are > broken under Tiger. These are all to control and manipulate movies > with QTPlayer. Apple actually seem to have changed the syntax for > scripting with QTPlay

Re: Tiger problems...

2005-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chris Carroll-Davis wrote: We have a bunch of Applescripts that we fire from from SC that are broken under Tiger. These are all to control and manipulate movies with QTPlayer. Apple actually seem to have changed the syntax for scripting with QTPlayer. Ughhh. I suppose this is a QT7 issue

Re: Documentation Errors [Was: naming variables...]

2005-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dennis Brown wrote: This brings up a good point that has been bugging me for years. It is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS that the Rev documentation built in to the IDE is so full of errors. How many repeat questions and confusion by folks trying to learn Rev are the result of wrong or missing docum

Re: QT Applescript. Bit OT (was Tiger problems...)

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
(Sorry folks, this is going off-topic, I think. But I'll post just in case someone has a suggestion!!) Could it be a licensing issue? Does QT7 require a new Pro license to script some features? Richard - I don't think that is it. They have definitely changed stuff. I don't have things to

Re: Unicode

2005-05-06 Thread Dan Friedman
Thomas, I don't know what your project is, but thought you might want/need to know that Rev does NOT print unicode text. I have spoken with Jacqueline and she tells me "they are working on it". Hope this doesn't ruin your day... -Dan ___ use-revoluti

Re: Unicode

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Dan, Thanks for the heads up but thankfully I won't need to print at this time. Later it might be nice to print my data base with unicode text but for now it's not an issue. Thanks Tom On May 6, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Dan Friedman wrote: Thomas, I don't know what your project is, but thought you mig

[ANN] Pen Tool v2

2005-05-06 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Developers, Download the stack "Pen Tool v2" from: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/penToolv2.zip This stack shows a pen tool similar to the bezier pen tool of vector ilustration software. i'm working in the companion three selection tools for this tool and integrating all my previous wo

RE: [ANN] Pen Tool v2

2005-05-06 Thread MisterX
Beautiful work Alejandro!!! The only critique i got is that it feels more illustractor (3 clicks+ drag) like than the simpler Freehand interface (2 clicks-drag) (if i got it correctly ;) - finally a professional looking line graphic tool in Rev ;) smooth animation too, im officially impressed! c

Re: Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread Kat
Toast uses a proprietary disc image format. I don't know of any other app that will open them. If your Mac is networked to the PC, try mounting the image on your Mac, mount the volume on your PC via "my network" or something Windows-specific like that, and burn it over the network. Cheers, Ka

ANN/RFD Python in Rev - no probs!

2005-05-06 Thread MisterX
Hi Guys, Any python users in the list interested in a planned project to have python executed from Rev or compiled as dlls for RunRev including WinMFC and COM apis are welcome to join. Finally a possible way to do compileIt in RunRev. I dont have a Mac to see how this can be done but gnu-c compil

RE disk image formerly Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread Stephen Barncard
CHECK OUT Dragon Burn for Mac (they also make NTI CD & DVD - Maker 7 for PC...-I never used it). From their site: "Supports virtually all popular image file formats: .bin, .cue, .cdr, .dmg, .iso, and .ncd.". As I remember, the .iso image I created by DB in Mac was viewable on a pc. Good software

RE: RE disk image formerly Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread MisterX
That's a good one for the faq ;) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Stephen Barncard > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 20:03 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: RE disk image formerly Folder list order > > CHECK OUT Dragon Burn for

OT: awk features in Python

2005-05-06 Thread MisterX
Just on last quick word from the python documents: ActivePython 2.4 documentation Section "Whetting Your Appetite:" ... "Because of its more general data types Python is applicable to a much larger problem domain than Awk or even Perl, yet many things are at least as easy in Python as in those

Re: ANN/RFD Python in Rev - no probs!

2005-05-06 Thread Dan Shafer
xav. Count me in, in spades. This would be my ideal coding universe. Need to check out PythonCard (http://www.pythoncard.org), an Open Source project trying to approach this from the other side (Python scripting in an HC/Rev kind of IDE world) for possible cross- pollination. Alex Tweedly

Re: RE disk image formerly Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Carroll-Davis
This sounds perfect. I'll have a look! Thanks, Chris On 6 May 2005, at 19:11, MisterX wrote: CHECK OUT Dragon Burn for Mac (they also make NTI CD & DVD - Maker 7 for PC...-I never used it). From their site: "Supports virtually all popular image file formats: .bin, .cue, .cdr, .dmg, .iso, and .ncd

Re: ANN/RFD Python in Rev - no probs!

2005-05-06 Thread Glen Bojsza
XMan, I am very interested in this as well. Years ago I was hoping that Pythonware by Pythonworks was going to solve this problem but they died in the end. Glen On 5/6/05, Dan Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xav. > > Count me in, in spades. This would be my ideal coding universe. > > N

selected question

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hey guys, I have a field that I highlight a word in and want via script to cut that word. In my button I started with: get the selected text of field "Message" of card "SMS" of stack "Games" but I get a error in object expression. Could someone point out what I am doing wrong? thanks Tom Thomas

[ANN] Pen Tool v2

2005-05-06 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Fri May 6 Xavier Bury wrote: > Beautiful work Alejandro!!! Thanks! You are welcome! :) > The only critique i got is that it feels more > illustrator (3 clicks+ drag) > like than the simpler Freehand interface (2 > clicks-drag) (if i got it correctly ;) - > finally a professional looking li

Re: selected question

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Sheffield
Hi Tom, There shouldn't be any space between selected and text. Should just be "get the selectedText", etc. Chris Sheffield Read Naturally On May 6, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Hey guys, I have a field that I highlight a word in and want via script to cut that word. In my butt

Re: RE disk image formerly Folder list order

2005-05-06 Thread Kat
Good recommendation! Dragon Burn does create a standard ISO disc image. It's just about as capable as Toast for most tasks, and has a very cool interface as well. Much more informative than Toast's. I wrote an article about them for my local Mac User's Group newsletter. There's a rewrite of

RE: [ANN] Pen Tool v2

2005-05-06 Thread MisterX
> > The only critique i got is that it feels more illustrator > (3 clicks+ > > drag) like than the simpler Freehand interface (2 > > clicks-drag) (if i got it correctly ;) - finally a professional > > looking line graphic tool in Rev ;) > > i'll check how Macromedia do this in FreeHand. it's

a little message path issue

2005-05-06 Thread Chris Sheffield
Dear List, Okay, let's see if I can explain this. I have a group that contains an image as a background and several custom buttons placed on the top of it. The background image has a "stick out tab sort of thing" on it's left side. The idea is to place the group on the right side of the win

Re: a little message path issue

2005-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chris Sheffield wrote: Dear List, Okay, let's see if I can explain this. I have a group that contains an image as a background and several custom buttons placed on the top of it. The background image has a "stick out tab sort of thing" on it's left side. The idea is to place the group on th

Re: selected question

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I see that, now. Thanks Tom On May 6, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Hi Tom, There shouldn't be any space between selected and text. Should just be "get the selectedText", etc. Chris Sheffield Read Naturally On May 6, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Hey guys, I have a field

Re: a little message path issue

2005-05-06 Thread Derek Bump
I think what would help in your situation is a mouseEnter script that tests whether or not the mouse is within any of the items in that group, and not just the image or the group itself. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software ___ Compress Images Easily with JP

Re: a little message path issue

2005-05-06 Thread Dar Scott
On May 6, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Does that make sense? Should I be handling different messages besides mouseEnter and mouseLeave? A mouseWithin perhaps? I'm kind of stuck. Can someone help? Just a wild untested idea typed right into the email: local moveID local barState = "

Unicode woes

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
OK, I am now on my second week of beating the pants off of Director. Our Director Guru took 2 months to build what I might be able to finish in 2 weeks. I would say I am 85 % done. I have 2 sections left and the problem of Unicode. The problem: I am able to get Unicode text into rev by pasting

Re: Unicode woes

2005-05-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
On May 6, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: OK, I am now on my second week of beating the pants off of Director. Our Director Guru took 2 months to build what I might be able to finish in 2 weeks. I would say I am 85 % done. I have 2 sections left and the problem of Unicode. The prob

Problems with resource mages

2005-05-06 Thread docmann
Hello folks, I've built a simple test stack where I imported a dozen images fom a folder directly into the stack as resources. Then I added a blank graphic object for use as a container to display the images in. Next step was to add a text field (named "search") in order to enter the name of an ima

Re: Unicode woes

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Trevor, Thanks for the reply, are you saying that I can: put field "unicodestuff" into gVariable and then: set the unicodetext of field "field" to gVariable P.S. I am working with mixed fields that have both English and Asian languages in them. Tom On May 6, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

Re: Unicode woes

2005-05-06 Thread Trevor DeVore
On May 6, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Trevor, Thanks for the reply, are you saying that I can: put field "unicodestuff" into gVariable and then: set the unicodetext of field "field" to gVariable P.S. I am working with mixed fields that have both English and Asian languages in them

Re: Unicode woes

2005-05-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Thanks, Got it. Of course all of this playing around caused my REV to crash Thanks Tom On May 6, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On May 6, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Trevor, Thanks for the reply, are you saying that I can: put field "unicodestuff" into gVariable and the

Re: Problems with resource mages

2005-05-06 Thread Chipp Walters
Doc, It's easier than you think: put img "fred" into img "ginger" -Chipp docmann wrote: I have no problems displaying images into my container using either a local file or URL location, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to display an image directly from within the stack file itself.

Re: Problems with resource mages

2005-05-06 Thread docmann
That works great, Chipp! Geesh I was trying to make it much harder than it is. Much appreciated. :) -Doc- On 5/6/05, Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doc, > It's easier than you think: > > put img "fred" into img "ginger" > > -Chipp > > > docmann wrote: > > > I have no proble

RE: Problems with resource mages

2005-05-06 Thread MisterX
Doc, Just dont try to set the id of an image to an existing image thinking it will do the same thing as a url. ;) boom... You'll find lots of examples like that in xosmedialib.rev on Monsieurx.com/forums -> releases cheers Xavier > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailt