Eric, forgive a naive question, but is it possible to use your
fantastic colour
picker instead of 'ask color; from inside one's scripts?
Thanks
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Richard wrote:
On 20.05.2005 08:37:01 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
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And more trivia:
>Got any? :)
None that I can think off... ;)
cheers
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Hi,
You just need to test the availability of the port(s) your app need to
access to, in sending get or post http testing procs to a distant
server. If the call is timing out, the firewall is blocking it. Else
you don't have to care about the firewall anymore.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And more trivia:
Atkinson's original vision for HyperCard didn't include a scripting
language, an idea that was suggested by Dan Winkler during the
development cycle.
I found this program long ago on a bbs. It was called MacCard or flashcard
or something like that.
Buried
>> And more trivia:
>>
>> Atkinson's original vision for HyperCard didn't include a scripting
>> language, an idea that was suggested by Dan Winkler during the
>> development cycle.
>>
I found this program long ago on a bbs. It was called MacCard or flashcard
or something like that.
Buried in one
Now, there's an idea for an xTalk Culture Game!
cheers
Xavier
On 20.05.2005 05:59:23 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>Hi Richard
>
>> Some trivia on the mysterious coincidences with HyperCard and
SuperCard:
>
>Remind me not to play the Trivial Pirsuit xTalk Edition against you...
>
>;-)
Hi Bob,
Buttons, fields, images, graphics, scrollbars, players and groups are
controls:
put the number of controls
repeat for each control tControl in this card
etc.
Hope this helps.
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
Le 19 mai 05 à 23:34, Bob Hartley a écrit :
At 21:38 19/05/2005, you wrot
As a side note, the revDeleteFolder will work in XP or W2K3 but still the
fact that they use a shell command instead of enhancing that bit of code
in the engine
brings a lot of questions... How hard would that have been? 15 minutes
coding for
any reasonable coder per platform (or for all platform
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> in the early '90s a magazine premiered called "New Media" -- anyone
> here have the first two issues?
I might. I definitely remember the first year or two it sported the cool
square format before it became more mainstream. I think I still have the
first issue
Heard back from Dan Winkler. He has looked at Rev and found it quite
positive.
He also reminded me of the company I couldn't think of before. It's
General Magic. A number of the HyperHeads were part of that aborted,
ahead-of-its-time effort. He says the Danger HipTop "is a great
reallizati
I know there's some kind of trick here to do this;
I have an unlocked, editable field with text. I select a portion of
the text, then option click on it for a popup that has a few options
to select from to do something to the text, like uppercase,
lowercase, etc.
This changing works with a butt
> Is this a) an accident, b) a good thing c) something that
> will be cleaned up in future versions of rev d) none of the
> above or e) all of the above?
hopefuly it's item C but given it's age i just as well might have to write a
real engine suggestion bugzilla ;)
I know rev means well otherwi
Richard Gaskin wrote:
One last bit of trivia:
Today the world's most popular multimedia authoring system is Flash, and
while we know it as a Macromedia product it was actually an acquisition.
Who originally produced it?
FutureSplash, a company owned by Charlie Jackson.
And in fact, FutureSplash
Hi Bob,
You can sponsor HotkeyN2O...
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Richard.
What a great trip down memory lane.
Thanks.
Dan
On May 19, 2005, at 8:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
What became of the creators of Hypercard? Were they involved in
any of
Hypercard's descendants?
Not directly, but there was a moment of widsom in which Silicon
Hi Richard
Some trivia on the mysterious coincidences with HyperCard and SuperCard:
Remind me not to play the Trivial Pirsuit xTalk Edition against you...
;-)
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Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
What became of the creators of Hypercard? Were they involved in any of
Hypercard's descendants?
Not directly, but there was a moment of widsom in which Silicon Beach's
Charlie Jackson (SB produced SuperCard) proposed to Apple's Jean Louis
Gassee that they establish a HyperT
On 5/19/05 8:53 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I filed a Bugzilla report on this. It happens after you use a
> multi-line comment (/* ... */) and the only fix is to quit & restart
Hi all, I tried that but didn't work. What did work, that I put the closing
"*/" on a line for it s
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:27:06 +0200
From: Eric Chatonet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: About pulldown menus with Mac OS (was:Re: [ANN] How-To stack
#008How to build a menu on the fly)
To: How to use Revolution
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well after a _long_ time away from a computer and the internet, I'm back. (and
there was much
rejoice)..
Anywho, I've released a new version of libSmtp (2.5.0) and have put up a new
website located at
a new address (it's still shaosean.tk, but some people were linking directly to
my "unitz.ca
Is there a way to figure out if the firewall on Mac OS X is running when a
program starts up? I want to be able to check that out, and warn the user if
it is running, since it causes problems in my program if it is.
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On May 19, 2005, at 5:12 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
Since your questions are related to HyperCard, I cross-post my
reply to the HyperCard list.
As to your question about SmallTalk, there certainly is a
relationship, which isn't revealed by the nature of the languages.
Ted Kaehl
Excellent, thanks Sarah... very helpful
On May 16, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
In this case, they may have simply no idea how pick the application
that would be used as their default PDF viewer... I think you meant
"I really [hate] the programs that open an application if it isn't
th
I filed a Bugzilla report on this. It happens after you use a
multi-line comment (/* ... */) and the only fix is to quit & restart
Rev.
http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2767
Cheers,
Sarah
On 20 May 2005, at 10:26 AM, Hershel Fisch wrote:
Hi all, I'm wondering why when hit co
Hi Jonathan,
Since your questions are related to HyperCard, I cross-post my
reply to the HyperCard list.
As to your question about SmallTalk, there certainly is a
relationship, which isn't revealed by the nature of the
languages. Ted Kaehler was on the original HyperCard team and
also particip
I saw some threads a while back about the old Externals Collection. I have used
them a few years ago.
I see their included with rev now. Do I still need to initiate them at startup?
Can I use them? I've misplaced the documentation that came with them, doesn't
rev still have it on their site?
EC> So I think that your problem came from another unidentified reason
:-)
I do, too. I'm a bit mystified since my problems disappeared when I
reinstalled runrev and I kept all my original plugins.
This used to happen due to some problem with the revPreferences stack.
It stops Rev booting at th
Peter T. Evensen wrote:
What does Variable Checking do in the Script editor, Script menu, and
where is that documented?
Selecting "Variable checking" is equivalent to setting
"explicitVariables" to true - and the meaning is documented under
Dictionary / explicitVariables (there may be additio
What does Variable Checking do in the Script editor, Script menu, and where
is that documented?
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On Mar 20, 2005, at 19:35, TaliesinSoft wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:15:20 -0600, Sunatori, Go Simon wrote:
I have created a Web Slide Show using JavaScript. It works
perfectly in
Safari on Mac OS X, but I am not sure about the other web browsers
and
other platforms. If there are any kind so
Hello,
I am working on indesign to xml projects, but now i m facing the problem of
unicode entities, my work flow is:
Input is XML then Paginate this xml document in indesign then export it as XML.
So my Input xml and Indesign exported xml should be same. but there is unicode
entity problem.
Dr.-
Thursday, May 19, 2005, 1:47:59 PM, you wrote:
DREB> Again, my thanks to all of you. Maybe I will see some of you in Monterey
DREB> next month?
S. Don't say that out loud. Monterey's supposed to be a secret for
those of us in the know. And especially don't tell people this url:
http://
Hershel Fisch wrote:
Hi all, I'm wondering why when hit colorize (in one of the script menu's
every thing turns purple as for comments.
You may have hit the same issue as Andre did a while ago - what I found
then was as follows (I'm sure I BZ'ed it then - but can't find it; I
will BZ it later
Hi all, I'm wondering why when hit colorize (in one of the script menu's
every thing turns purple as for comments.
Hershel
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Bill Atkinson, last I heard, was no longer doing tech stuff at all
but was focused on his rather considerable skills as a photographer.
(He's really good. Check out http://www.billatkinson.com)
Dan Winkler did some additional technology work for a few years. He
was involved in a project whos
AppleTalk was Apple's (chatty) proprietary protocol which worked over
LocalTalk hardware.
BTW, since SC was an HC descendent, it's no wonder that the language
name was similar.
My recollection from that time and one of Bill's interviews with some
rag was that they couldn't describe HC in any voca
and there there was ... localTalk, the wiring protocol over special
cables, then telephone wire.
And wasn't the first Apple network protocol called AppleTalk? Or am
I getting fuzzy here?
I was really confused at first when I read about Wildcard and Hypertalk.
[lol]
sqb
At 2:23 PM -0700 5/19/05
Jacque-
Thursday, May 19, 2005, 8:08:54 AM, you wrote:
JLG> I think Dave's astute observation about nested repeat loops was
JLG> accurate. When I remove the "repeat 1000" loop from both your test
Yes it was. I think Dar was trying to tell me the same thing, but I
ignored it at the time.
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At 21:38 19/05/2005, you wrote:
Hi Bob,
Hi Eric
Ok I got to the bottom of it. I thought of that command but I forgot to
declare a global (where the stack name was stored). Previously I was
deleting the lat field of the stack where the delete button was.
Thanks for directing me back to delete an
Thanks Dan...
Another historical question for you...
What became of the creators of Hypercard? Were they involved in any of
Hypercard's descendants?
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:23 PM
To: How t
As one of the Gray-Hairs around these parts -- and someone who has
authored books on both xTalks and Smalltalk as well as coding far too
many lines of both to be considered still sane -- I thought I'd take
a stab at your question.
There is virtually no real connection between the two languag
>From this discussion, it seems that there are two
nearly identical commands for deleting a folder that
have subtly different behaviors.
Is this a) an accident, b) a good thing c) something
that will be cleaned up in future versions of rev d)
none of the above or e) all of the above?
Best
Gordon
My sincere thanks to everyone who responded so quickly to my plea for help.
I now know where to go if I get stuck again.
The "select the foundChunk" worked for me. I also added "find empty" after
selecting to remove the outline box.
Again, my thanks to all of you. Maybe I will see some of you in
Hi Bob,
You could try something like:
delete last field
assuming that the deletion concerns always the last field created by
your button :-)
You can refer to an object by order, number, ID , name and much more ;-)
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
Le 19 mai 05 à 22:31, Bob Hartley a écri
Hi All
In my compiled app I have a button that will insert a field into a group on
a stack. I would like to be able to undo this last action. Is there a way
to do it?
All the best
Bob
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Hey Klaus
> Hi Xavier,
>
> > Klaus,
> >
> > I tried but there's not one single command that will do delete both
> > files and folders in the folder (i can't delete the folder
> because of
> > the extensive properties it has.)
> >
> > Except for this ugly thing...
> >
> > net use x: /d
> > net
Hello Roger,
It's always important for all of us who develop tools for the
community (and there are many on this list whose contributions are
much more important than mine) to get a gratifying feedback.
So, many thanks for your kind words.
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
Le 19 mai 05 à
Eric,
Thank you so much for making Color Picker! I used the built-in color
picker in Rev 1.1 all the time, then it was taken away. Your
implementation is MUCH improved over the that version. I like how it picks
from outside the stack window too. This is a great tool!
Roger Eller <[EMAIL PROTEC
Dennis Brown wrote:
If we all make an effort to fix stuff or add examples to the web
notes, perhaps everyone, even those not on this list will benefit.
H - I think I'd agree with Phil Davis from an earlier thread on the
topic of Web Notes - without someone watching over the content, you have
Eric Chatonet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So Smart Software a le plaisir d'annoncer la disponibilité de Color
> Picker 1.1 et Guides Picker 2.1.
Cool ! je fais suivre sur la liste revolutionfr :-)
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--- Varen Swaab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I¹m trying to find a way to find a way let a member
> on my web site
> ³authenticate² themselves within Rev so I could give
> them access to some
> additional features in my application. The web site
> is XML-RPC aware
> (blogger API, I
Hi everyone,
I¹m trying to find a way to find a way let a member on my web site
³authenticate² themselves within Rev so I could give them access to some
additional features in my application. The web site is XML-RPC aware
(blogger API, I think).
The problem is I have absolutely no idea how to mak
On May 19, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
on mouseUp
local elapsedTime, x, y, z
put the milliseconds into elapsedTime
put the number of controls on card id 200593 of stack "revIcons"
into y
repeat 1000 times
repeat with x=1 to y
add 1 to z
end repeat
end repeat
put
Dave-
Thursday, May 19, 2005, 5:28:28 AM, you wrote:
DC> Please ignore all my previous comments on this topic. I just now paid
DC> attention to the test script. The "limit expression" is in an inner
DC> repeat loop which is within a loop that repeats 1000 times. So
DC> naturally, the expression
-- English version ---
Hello,
So Smart Software has the pleasure of announcing the availability of
Color Picker 1.1 and Guides Picker 2.1.
These are maintenance versions to ensure the compatibility with
DreamCard/Revolution 2.5.1 whose submenus behaviour
Hi Xavier,
Klaus,
I tried but there's not one single command that will do delete both
files
and folders in the folder (i can't delete the folder because of the
extensive properties it has.)
Except for this ugly thing...
net use x: /d
net use x: \\bruegel\transfer$
Pieter Bruegel?
Junior or senio
Klaus,
I tried but there's not one single command that will do delete both files
and folders in the folder (i can't delete the folder because of the
extensive properties it has.)
Except for this ugly thing...
net use x: /d
net use x: \\bruegel\transfer$
del /f /q *.*
for /D %d in (*.*) do rd
On 5/19/05 2:00 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
I wrote up a new speed test here
and the loop that uses a variable seems to be running some 25 times
faster than the one that evaluates the limit each time.
I think Dave's astute observation about nested repeat loops was
accurate. When I remove the "repeat 10
Richard-
Thursday, May 19, 2005, 12:13:59 AM, you wrote:
RG> seeing, and in some ways consistent with what we would expect: how
RG> useful would it be to have a repeat loop which could affect the number
RG> of controls not counting the number of controls which govern it?
Right. So if you're not
Eric-
Thursday, May 19, 2005, 12:56:05 AM, you wrote:
EC> At startup, Rev explores the plugins folder to build its menu list
EC> and the cRevLoadInfo["load"] of each plugin stack:
EC> If it is ="startup", the stack is open.
EC> If it is = "chosen", nothing happens.
Thanks for the explanation. Th
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On May 19, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Dennis Brown wrote:
A good use of the Web Notes feature to correct the doc.
Dennis
Good idea - one of these days I'll remember the Web Notes feature
myself.
When I went to do it, someone had been there before me - so Thank
You, whoever you were
Hi Xavier,
...
The dir walking function is way way way too slow in this case -
60GBs of
data, over 7 files, etc...
Delete folder was so "intuitive" compared to the pletoria of
statements
required to do the same thing in other languages...
C'mon, i'm sure YOU can do this with a simple/nifty
Hi Kaveh,
Looking back at earlier mails on this list, I was told I could use "do
script" to send any message to Revolution. I think this worked
before, but
now it is not working.
I am using Rev 2.5.1 (Get Info tells me it's 2.6.2.40 (alpha 4)
Dragging this app to Script Editor does not open it a
Hi Levi,
Try something like:
on SetLinesSpacing pFieldName,pHeight
-- pFieldName parameter is the short name of the field
-- pHeight parameter is an integer
set the textHeight of fld pFieldName to pHeight
-- in fact this line is not compulsory
set the textSize of fld pFieldName to round(p
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to find a way to setup user configured line spacing for
a text field. There would just be 3 spacing options, single spaced,
double spacing, and 1.5 spacing options. The closest thing I've found
that relates to this is the "Fixed line height" property although this
woul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, im totally surprised again... I need to delete the contents of a
folder containing temporary items.
Only the folder is a 60GBs of folders and files and a zillion sub
folders...
Anyone managed to use the command
delete folder mypath if the folder in question was no
Hi Xavier,
Check the revDeleteFolder command :-)
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
Le 19 mai 05 à 16:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Well, im totally surprised again... I need to delete the contents of a
folder containing temporary items.
Only the folder is a 60GBs of folders and files and a
Well, im totally surprised again... I need to delete the contents of a
folder containing temporary items.
Only the folder is a 60GBs of folders and files and a zillion sub
folders...
Anyone managed to use the command
delete folder mypath if the folder in question was not empty???
if mypath is
Dennis Brown wrote:
A good use of the Web Notes feature to correct the doc.
Dennis
Good idea - one of these days I'll remember the Web Notes feature myself.
When I went to do it, someone had been there before me - so Thank You,
whoever you were
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Looking back at earlier mails on this list, I was told I could use "do
script" to send any message to Revolution. I think this worked before, but
now it is not working.
I am using Rev 2.5.1 (Get Info tells me it's 2.6.2.40 (alpha 4)
Dragging this app to Script Editor does not open it and complain
Reading about smalltalk and hypertalk on the web, it seems like there is
a connection, but I am not clear what the connection might be.
Was hypercard inspired by smalltalk, or something like that?
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A good use of the Web Notes feature to correct the doc.
Dennis
On May 19, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
At 11:09 AM +0100 5/19/05, Alex Tweedly wrote:
and (asin(2) = 1) does not cause an error: since (1 = 1) is
always false, the whole statement is always false and Revolution
nev
On 19 May 2005, at 11:40, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Dave Cragg wrote:
This, combined with the slight but consistent speed advantage of
the first method when referring to fields, makes me think we need
some re- confirmation of the notion that the "limit expression" in
a repeat loop is only evalua
At 11:09 AM +0100 5/19/05, Alex Tweedly wrote:
and (asin(2) = 1) does not cause an error: since (1 = 1) is always
false, the whole statement is always false and Revolution never
tries to evaluate the asin function.
Probably should be under 'if' and maybe under 'switch/case' as well;
hopefully
on Wed, 18 May 2005
Jim Hurley wrote:
> Now I see what you mean. It is much less noticeable
> on my Mac PowerBook. It is either an artifact of
that
> particular image, or a problem with Run Rev's
> "set the angle of." Probably the former.
Are you saving the image as GIF?
Maybe the edge coul
Dave Cragg wrote:
This, combined with the slight but consistent speed advantage of the
first method when referring to fields, makes me think we need some re-
confirmation of the notion that the "limit expression" in a repeat
loop is only evaluated once.
It is stated that way in the docs; und
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
Note: Transcript uses what is known as "short-circuit evaluation"
for logical operators. This means that value1 is evaluated first. If
value1 is false, the expression value1 and value2 is false regardless
of what value2 is (because the expression evaluates to false u
On 19 May 2005, at 10:20, Dave Cragg wrote:
On 19 May 2005, at 08:00, Mark Wieder wrote:
on mouseUp
local elapsedTime, x, y, z
put the milliseconds into elapsedTime
put the number of controls on card id 200593 of stack "revIcons"
into y
repeat 1000 times
repeat with x=1 to y
add
Hi Jim,
I take the opportunity to tell you my admiration for your stacks.
Trigo gurus are amazing :-)
As for your question (within Mac OS):
You said that "the icon in the tool box looks like a pull down menu,
but it is an impostor"
In fact, I think there are not any puldown menu according to such
On 19 May 2005, at 08:00, Mark Wieder wrote:
Jacque-
Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 8:03:53 PM, you wrote:
JLG> This came up on the MetaCard list back in the dark ages. Scott
Raney
JLG> said the engine figures out the variable so we don't have to,
and the
JLG> two should be identical in speed.
Maybe
Hello Xavier,
Le 18 mai 05 à 23:53, MisterX a écrit :
I just did some tests to verify it and I don't encounter this issue
here (Mac OS X).
In the Mac OS X IDE there is only a little problem: the usual File
Menu in the screen menubar highlights when File/Save/S but the right
save handler in th
Hi Mark,
As you can imagine it, I have a full plugins folder ;-)
And, of course, not only mine...
I move very often some plugins to a "Plugins Disabled" folder in
order to switch between various versions I am working on and then
restart Rev.
I did this hundreds of times: The only thing I can te
We have? On what list?
thanks,
Judy
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Chipp Walters wrote:
> As many of you may have already found out, Dan Shafer and I have put
> toghether a newsletter for Runtime Revolution users called: RevCentral
> Newsletter. Included are tips, notes on 3rd party add-ons, and other
>
Thanks, Eric!
I can't wait to have a look! (I've always found menus a scary place...).
Judy
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Eric Chatonet wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> After a previous angry mail about Rev inconsistency regarding
> disabled submenus items with successive releases of Rev, I revised my
> How-To
Mark Wieder wrote:
Jacque-
Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 8:03:53 PM, you wrote:
JLG> This came up on the MetaCard list back in the dark ages. Scott Raney
JLG> said the engine figures out the variable so we don't have to, and the
JLG> two should be identical in speed.
Maybe I'm still in the dark ages...
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