Re: Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dennis, Nice tests :-) I agree: The conclusions are a bit hard to understand... I am inclined to think that for intensive calculations (repeat for each pixel tPixel ;-) global arrays would be always preferable. In most cases and *practically*, custom properties "slowness" (as I explained i

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-04 Thread Judy Perry
And, here, I'm just hoping that I wake up in time ;-) Judy On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > Hi Jacque, > Now you're not even trying to get the date & time right :-) > > Why not post it in seconds? On your system, convert your local date & > time for the conference into seconds and pos

Re: Where are my sub-menus?

2005-07-04 Thread Judy Perry
Raskin would be horrified. Judy On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Jon wrote: > It reminds me of the > recent Windows (XP?) feature where menu entries disappear if you don't > use them enough. I disable this on every system I encounter. ___ use-revolution mailing l

Re: [Bug 2813] High Speed Array Subprocessor instruction extensions

2005-07-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
This is where OPTIONAL 'typing' would be very, very useful. sqb http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2813 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-07-04 17:28 --- After giving this much thought, I don't believe that it is needed to have a seperate arra

CocoaMySQL -- was : How do I make simple multiple user access app?

2005-07-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
I could never figure out how to use phpMyAdmin to actually let me ENTER data (if it does at all), not just build the structure. Often I'll use CocoaMySQL to build the schema and stuff the database with data, then use my app after that. It uses an easy to use spreadsheet metaphor to enter data.

Re: ("sqlite", filepath...)

2005-07-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Michael, You should check out these two properties: the address the filename You can find the path to the standalone using 'the address property'. You can find the path to a given stack using 'the effective filename' property. Michael Mandaville wrote: How can I program a new database,

Re: Making Revolution faster using dimensioned arrays

2005-07-04 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/4/05 9:33 PM, "Dennis Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The advantage of such an arrangement is not only speed, but also > compactness. If we are interested in speed it is likely that we have > a large quantity of data. Arrays in Transcript today have a large > overhead due to the key str

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 05/07/2005, at 1:01 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote: Gives me 7/9/05 6:00 AM, which is the correct Hawaii Standard Time (HST) for 12:00 PM EST. Now the question is, will this match EST in the winter when most of the US switches to Daylight Savings and we don't. Jim I think it will still show you

RE: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-04 Thread Jim Bufalini
Gives me 7/9/05 6:00 AM, which is the correct Hawaii Standard Time (HST) for 12:00 PM EST. Now the question is, will this match EST in the winter when most of the US switches to Daylight Savings and we don't. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

Re: Parameter checking

2005-07-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
You can use RegEx to see if an incoming param matches a set of strings or numbers. The basic rules are: 1) Put what you're looking for in brackets 2) If you actually have a range to check, you can use the hyphen between (even for letters). So, for example, if you are checking to see if p1 i

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Gives me 12:00 PM EST which is correct. On Jul 4, 2005, at 9:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: get "1120924800";convert it to short date and time;put it ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Making Revolution faster using dimensioned arrays

2005-07-04 Thread Dennis Brown
To all the speed freaks, I know that I have pushed for faster array processing and have even proposed an "Array sub-processor" as a possible solution. However, after giving this much thought, I don't believe that a separate array sub-processor is needed to solve the problem of speed. Tran

Re: Parameter checking

2005-07-04 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/4/05 9:05 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Secondly, has anyone any suggestions of the best way to do this? I > can do it in a long-winded manner, but I feel sure that some RegEx > wizard (Ken, are you listening), would be able to come up with a > really neat way to solve thi

Re: quick dirty ftp transfer?

2005-07-04 Thread Derek Bump
Alex Shaw wrote: the stacks reside on different networked machines, and i need to simply transfer large files from client stacks to a simple backup server stack so i was just hoping to wrap a simple transfer mechanism around the libURL commands without having to setup a specific ftp server We

Parameter checking

2005-07-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi All, I have a stack that contains a set of commands for talking to a serial device. The commands & functions all get a set of parameters, each with only one character. The characters vary: some parameters are numeric, some alphabetic. The ranges vary, so one parameter could be any lett

("sqlite", filepath...)

2005-07-04 Thread Michael Mandaville
How can I program a new database, made with altSQLite, to put the database in the same folder i.e., the filepath, where the user created a new stack from the application? Is there a certain piece of code which picks up the name of their file (chosen by the user) and then automatically put into the

Re: path to the stack?

2005-07-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I'm trying to create a text file that will be the prefs file for a standalone. I'm running this script on a development stack under rev 2.6 on Mac OS X 10.4.x and getting nothing back: put the filename of this stack into thePath thePath stays empty after that runs. Is "this stack" the main

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-04 Thread Ray Stace
Returns 7/10/05 2:00 AM in the time zone for Sydney Australia. Might not get many 'live' participants at that time ;­) On 5/7/05 11:26 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What a great idea. It is no surprise it comes from the lady who will be > doing the conference on dates and

RE: path to the stack?

2005-07-04 Thread Jim Bufalini
kee, Try using effective as in : put the effective filename of this stack into thePath or, if you just want the path: set the itemDelimiter to "/" get item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack put it into thePath if you want a terminating slash change last line to: put it & "/" int

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/4/05 7:09 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > Hi Jacque, > >> The scripting conference stack for this weekend has been uploaded for >> you to study in advance. This week's conference is on Groups and >> Backgrounds, presented by veteran educator Judy Perry. To download >> the stack and to get inf

Re: path to the stack?

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Shafer
Kee No clue what might be going on here. IWOMM (It Works On My Machine). I can't get that property to return empty no matter what I do EXCEPT if I run it before I've saved the stack. Then, of course, it has no filename property (or, more accurately, that property is empty). And, yes,

Re: path to the stack?

2005-07-04 Thread Mark Smith
Is this a case for specialFolderPath("preferences") ? Mark On 5 Jul 2005, at 02:12, kee nethery wrote: I'm trying to create a text file that will be the prefs file for a standalone. I'm running this script on a development stack under rev 2.6 on Mac OS X 10.4.x and getting nothing back: put

path to the stack?

2005-07-04 Thread kee nethery
I'm trying to create a text file that will be the prefs file for a standalone. I'm running this script on a development stack under rev 2.6 on Mac OS X 10.4.x and getting nothing back: put the filename of this stack into thePath thePath stays empty after that runs. My plan was to take this

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-04 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi Jacque, The scripting conference stack for this weekend has been uploaded for you to study in advance. This week's conference is on Groups and Backgrounds, presented by veteran educator Judy Perry. To download the stack and to get information about the date and time, go to the usual we

Re: quick dirty ftp transfer?

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Shaw
hi dave the stacks reside on different networked machines, and i need to simply transfer large files from client stacks to a simple backup server stack so i was just hoping to wrap a simple transfer mechanism around the libURL commands without having to setup a specific ftp server regards al

Re: Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-04 Thread Dave Cragg
Hi Eric You're right of course (and Richard too). But it's useful to know for those times when you do need to access custom properties frequently. As you pointed out, one of the advanatges of custom properties is their persistence when a stack is saved. And one of the advantages of global

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 22, Issue 14

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
Richard Gaskin wrote: Since each pass through the loop involves checking for the same number of steps (4), could a stop option in the repeat statement be helpful? step option ? That might help a bit - I'm not quite sure how you'd add a "step" option to the "repeat for each char" form (nb

Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
The scripting conference stack for this weekend has been uploaded for you to study in advance. This week's conference is on Groups and Backgrounds, presented by veteran educator Judy Perry. To download the stack and to get information about the date and time, go to the usual web page:

Re: Kevin Miller's scripting conference chat log

2005-07-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/4/05 12:39 PM, Rodney Somerstein wrote: >> During our last scripting conference, Kevin Miller gave a presentation >> on Revolution 2.6 and answered questions from the participants about >> Revolution and future plans. I have posted the transcript of that >> portion of the conference, and you

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 22, Issue 14

2005-07-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Since each pass through the loop involves checking for the same number of steps (4), could a stop option in the repeat statement be helpful? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Fourt

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 22, Issue 14

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
Malte Brill wrote: Hi Alex, here is the fastest we have been discussing in chatRev until now. ( chatrev.cjb.net ) Thanks to kWeed, Mark and BvG! Still room for optimization though. Thanks Malte (and others on chatrev). Interesting approach to use lines instead of arrays - but I think that

Re: PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

2005-07-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: Good news: That's just a filtering thang; from your own script you can set a player to a PDF and it'll display nicely. But not in the property settings for the player object? So I need to script the player to respond to an event to open a file at runtime. Seems kinda clu

Re: Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-04 Thread Dennis Brown
On Jul 4, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Dennis, I agree since I provide many tools for the community that are made to run in the IDE. So I never use globals but I prefer to refer to some custom properties stored in specific custom property sets in my plugins or in the revPref

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Shafer
I'd be inclined to have the More Info button outside the field and have it activate only when appropriate (e.g., when the user has scrolled all the way through the field or reached a certain point or whatever). But that's just me. Dan On Jul 4, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: Oh

Re: PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Shafer
On Jul 4, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dan Shafer wrote: On OS X 10.4.1 with Rev 2.6.1, PDFs are not among the file types one can load into a QT Player. Unless, of course, I'm missing something. At least I don't seem to be able simply to point a QT Player at a PDF file; the fi

Re: PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

2005-07-04 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aiyo! (Lamentations) Windows won't play PDFs in QT... Richard: did that windows machine have QT 7 for Windows loaded? I'm sure you know this already but Apple just released QT with H.264 format capabilities for Windows just a few weeks ago... so I just wanted to check if this was happenin

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-07-04 Thread Jon
Malte: The goal was general image manipulation. That includes 1) generating histogram information 2) calculating transfer functions 3) applying transfer functions 4) computing brightness for a pixel 5) modifying brightness for a pixel etc :) Jon Malte Brill wrote: I got a question: Is th

Naming conventions [was: Food Fight]

2005-07-04 Thread Robert Cailliau
Dennis, Here is what I have been using since Hypercard in the late 80's, augmented now for Revolution: (and see some further comments at the end) Robert. Naming conventions Identifiers start with a capital and each word in the name

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Charles Hartman
Cool! On Jul 4, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: WOW - I would love scrolling text fields with pictures! -- and buttons! (At the moment I'm doing this is a non-scrolling field inside a scrolling group, but aside from being tedious that has other disadvantages, such as the scrol

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Charles Hartman
Oh, I think as a generalization that makes excellent sense. In this particular case, it may or may not. This is a straight, lame, read- this-card tutorial app; some cards are too long not to scroll (already less than ideal from a UI standpoint, but I don't want to make the stack as big as th

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
WOW - I would love scrolling text fields with pictures! -- and buttons! (At the moment I'm doing this is a non-scrolling field inside a scrolling group, but aside from being tedious that has other disadvantages, such as the scroll-wheel not working right.) To get scroll wheel support you c

Re: Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, I am sure you are right but I was thinking in a practical way. Most globals are not hundreds of elements. Often a Boolean value is enough (at the very worst a dozen of lines). Then it does not seem *practically* significant if it takes 20/1000 of 1 millisecond instead of 1/1000 of 1 mi

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Shafer
Just my two cents -- and it's a holiday here so my brain may be otherwise engaged -- I think putting buttons into scrolling fields is a terrible UI idea. By definition, it puts certain functionality out of the reach of the user until and unless s/he scrolls the field. Lotus NOtes allowed th

Re: PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

2005-07-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: On OS X 10.4.1 with Rev 2.6.1, PDFs are not among the file types one can load into a QT Player. Unless, of course, I'm missing something. At least I don't seem to be able simply to point a QT Player at a PDF file; the file name is dimmed in the file dialog. Good news:

Re: Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: On 4 Jul 2005, at 20:07, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Dennis, I agree since I provide many tools for the community that are made to run in the IDE. I agree too. :) So I never use globals but I prefer to refer to some custom properties stored in specific custom property se

Re: Printing to PDF on OS X

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Shafer
Your stack works fine on OS X 10.4.1 with Rev 2.6.1 here. I get a PDF with the card in it. Dan On Jul 3, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can print 1 card to a pdf. The following produced a pdf ok, but it was blank... on printMe open printing with dialog if

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-07-04 Thread Malte Brill
Ooopsie wrong header , sorry! Hi Alex, here is the fastest we have been discussing in chatRev until now. ( chatrev.cjb.net ) Thanks to kWeed, Mark and BvG! Still room for optimization though. on mouseUp put the milliseconds into gorb put 0 into counter put 0 into newValue put 0 into

Re: Parameterising an application

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
Ken Ray wrote: On 7/4/05 12:45 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you'd like to restart the discussion, go ahead... it seems to be very popular indeed... No - I'd really like *not* to restart it, or to re-tread old ground (esp. for those of you who'd be seeing it again so

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 22, Issue 14

2005-07-04 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Alex, here is the fastest we have been discussing in chatRev until now. ( chatrev.cjb.net ) Thanks to kWeed, Mark and BvG! Still room for optimization though. on mouseUp put the milliseconds into gorb put 0 into counter put 0 into newValue put 0 into line 768 of newHistogram repeat

Re: PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Shafer
On OS X 10.4.1 with Rev 2.6.1, PDFs are not among the file types one can load into a QT Player. Unless, of course, I'm missing something. At least I don't seem to be able simply to point a QT Player at a PDF file; the file name is dimmed in the file dialog. Dan On Jul 3, 2005, at 2:40 PM

Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
Is there something else I ought to do (or not do) here ? Create a new mainstack Create a button in it (all default values) edit the card script to say on mouseMove put the loc of button "button" into tLoc put item 1 of the mouseloc into item 1 of tLoc set the loc of button "button" to tLoc

Re: Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-04 Thread Dave Cragg
On 4 Jul 2005, at 20:07, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Dennis, I agree since I provide many tools for the community that are made to run in the IDE. I agree too. :) So I never use globals but I prefer to refer to some custom properties stored in specific custom property sets in my plugins or

Re: regular expressions

2005-07-04 Thread Dan Shafer
JavaScript defined a regex class fairly early on to insulate users of that xTalk-like language from the rigors of RegEx syntax, which can be not only daunting but is inherently unreadable, sort of like assembly language. Dan On Jul 3, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Marielle- Sunda

Re: Parameterising an application

2005-07-04 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/4/05 12:45 PM, "Alex Tweedly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Ray wrote: > >> >> (Here we go again...) ;-) >> >> Sorry, Robert, but there were two VERY LONG threads on the Improve Rev list >> recently about this, >> > Since 90% of the folks on this list doesn't, and can't, see what's be

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
Malte Brill wrote: I got a question: Is the goal only to add the charToNum values for Red,Green and blue for each pixel? I´m not sure If I understand the original script correctly. If so there is a very speedy alternative. If not could you please explain in a few words of pseudo code what t

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-07-04 Thread Malte Brill
I got a question: Is the goal only to add the charToNum values for Red,Green and blue for each pixel? I´m not sure If I understand the original script correctly. If so there is a very speedy alternative. If not could you please explain in a few words of pseudo code what the script needs to d

Re: regular expressions

2005-07-04 Thread Jon
Marielle: My personal reaction to statements like "of course it is very easy to make errors and quite difficult to keep track of what you are effectively doing" leaves me pretty much uninterested. Some of us do well with terse and complex languages. I'm on the other end, wanting visual clari

Re: (no subject)

2005-07-04 Thread Jon
Marielle: Thanks for your thoughts. Others on the list have demonstrated to my satisfaction that there is no easy way to actually use the Rev language to manipulate the arrays in an efficient manner, Jim's comments notwithstanding. If I'm willing to use externals of any sort, it is easy to

Re: Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dennis, I agree since I provide many tools for the community that are made to run in the IDE. So I never use globals but I prefer to refer to some custom properties stored in specific custom property sets in my plugins or in the revPreferences stack. BTW, I found that referring to custom

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-07-04 Thread Jon
The stack is still available from www.jonbondy.com/jlbimage.rev :) Jon Geoff Canyon wrote: I still can't download this from RevOnline. If I'm the only one then fine, but otherwise can you make it available for download in some other way, or at least try re-uploading it to RevOnline? On

Re: Where are my sub-menus?

2005-07-04 Thread Jon
/curmudgeon_mode=on I'd rate this kind of undocumented, uncontrollable, and quirky "feature" as exactly the kind of thing to avoid. I understand that the intent is good, but the result is clearly confusion. How about a preference to control this behavior, and some documentation? It reminds

Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-04 Thread Dennis Brown
Hi All, I have searched all over BZ looking for an enhancement to the global or local declarations that provide the missing Stack level scope in Transcript because I wanted to add my votes to it, but I can't seem to find it. Could someone point me to it, otherwise I will enter it. Global

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Judy Perry
Richmond, As you are probably less of a goober than I, take a look at imageSource. While in my current harried state I was not able to get it to work, I know that others have. This allows you to do precisely what you desire (well, okay, I don't know about the precision part...). Judy On Fri, 1

Re: making my first video game

2005-07-04 Thread Judy Perry
Kinda like Asteroids? Didn't somebody on this group do one of those? (I may have it on my university's ftp server... will have to take a look if nobody else has located it already). Judy On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > Hello All, > > I hope I'm not asking for too much hand- > holdin

Re: Parameterising an application

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
Ken Ray wrote: (Here we go again...) ;-) Sorry, Robert, but there were two VERY LONG threads on the Improve Rev list recently about this, Since 90% of the folks on this list doesn't, and can't, see what's been discussed on the Improve list, that's not especially helpful. and the bottom

Re: Kevin Miller's scripting conference chat log

2005-07-04 Thread Rodney Somerstein
During our last scripting conference, Kevin Miller gave a presentation on Revolution 2.6 and answered questions from the participants about Revolution and future plans. I have posted the transcript of that portion of the conference, and you can download it here:

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
Geoff Canyon wrote: I still can't download this from RevOnline. If I'm the only one then fine, but otherwise can you make it available for download in some other way, or at least try re-uploading it to RevOnline? Geoff - did you not see the email from 6/29 where I posted the central part o

Re: making my first video game

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Tweedly
Nicolas Cueto wrote: Hello All, I hope I'm not asking for too much hand- holding on this one. The shooting effect in the old space invaders game is what I'm after. I'm studying Tuviah Snyder's "Bouncy" stack to learn about multiple objects moving at the same time (the invaders) and the movi

[ANN] Ken Forgot To Upload Files (was "RevZilla 2.0.3 Available")

2005-07-04 Thread Ken Ray
'nuff said... Download link should work now... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: making my first video game

2005-07-04 Thread Thomas McGrath III
In an old SC stack I broke down the collective movements of mutliple object that needed to move. Instead of move object 1 from 0,0 to 50,50 end and then move object 2 from 0,0 to 40,40 end etc. I tried a script where: repeat this list until all moves are done move object 1 from 0,0 to 10,10 mo

RE: compileIt for revolution?

2005-07-04 Thread MisterX
Geoff did you get a corrupted zip archive too? yop! Xav > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Geoff Canyon > Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 18:06 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: compileIt for revolution? > > I still can't do

[ANN] New Tutorial available from So Smart Software

2005-07-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Paris, Mon, 4 Jul 2005 18:25:00 +0100 -- English version - Hello, So Smart Software has the pleasure of announcing the availability of a new tutorial: How to Manage Resizing This stack explains how to position, scale, etc. all controls in a card

Re: Parameterising an application

2005-07-04 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/2/05 4:16 AM, "Robert Cailliau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Methods (1) and (2) have the disadvantage that I need to separate the > declaration from the value assignment and/or need to write code in an > initialisation routine. Method (3) is in some sense worse because > when I change my m

[ANN] RevZilla 2.0.3 Available

2005-07-04 Thread Ken Ray
Just a quick note to let you know there was a couple of bug fixes in the latest release that were causing submission errors when making changes to existing bugs. You can get it at the usual places - RevOnline, RevNet, and my web site at: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/downloads/R

Re: compileIt for revolution?

2005-07-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
I still can't download this from RevOnline. If I'm the only one then fine, but otherwise can you make it available for download in some other way, or at least try re-uploading it to RevOnline? On Jun 24, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Jon wrote: If anyone wants to try to help me speed optimize my image

Re: making my first video game

2005-07-04 Thread Dave Cragg
On 4 Jul 2005, at 15:37, Nicolas Cueto wrote: Derek Bump offered: That's a lot of script to process. Say 1 ship, 1 to 50 shots, 10 Alien Crafts and don't forget the powerups, upgrades and scrolling background. Oh, I'm not aiming to make a space invaders game. What I'm after is a space

Re: CGI and AppleScript

2005-07-04 Thread David Brooks
I've used Dispatcher successfully BUT if the form has a textarea space, it quickly can send in many bytes. In my hands, there seems to be a 2^11 (2048) byte cut off in what dispatcher will forward to RunRev. Dave Brooks On Jun 29, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: And if so is

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Mathewson wrote: I have just downloaded the SuperCard 4.5 demo and found they have a new feature: allowObjects this lets the user embed object (images and so on) inside FIELDS: WOW - I would love scrolling text fields with pictures! -- and buttons! (At the mome

Re: making my first video game

2005-07-04 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Derek Bump offered: > That's a lot of script to process. Say 1 ship, 1 to 50 shots, 10 Alien > Crafts and don't > forget the powerups, upgrades and scrolling background. Oh, I'm not aiming to make a space invaders game. What I'm after is a space invaders-like feature, namely, multiple shots. An

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi son of Matthew :-), WOW - I would love scrolling text fields with pictures! ImageSource was introduced in Rev 1.1 Specifies an image to be displayed in place of the specified character in a field. set the imageSource of character to {imageID |imageName |imageURL | empty} So... Best Re

Re: making my first video game

2005-07-04 Thread Derek Bump
Nicolas, Someone may prove me wrong, but that type of game might be a little too intense for Revolution. I do hope that someone will prove me wrong as I'd love to make my own Space Invaders style game! Problem is that you've got multiple objects moving at the same time. That's a lot of scri

Re: How do I make simple multiple user access app?

2005-07-04 Thread Keith Martin
Marielle Lange wrote: Just in case not. I wonder if you know of PhPMyAdmin (wrongly named as what it does is administer MySQL db). and Stephen Bancard added: And if you have a Mac, CocoaMySQL (client) is far better for managing a MySQL database than the server-based phpMyAdmin, in my op

Parameterising an application

2005-07-04 Thread Robert Cailliau
Hello, When building an app containing several stacks, one may want to use some constants that are to be used by more than one of the stacks. E.g. I may want to use a set of colours or some dimension such as a fontsize that should be available everywhere. Yet I do not want to declare the va

Re: quick dirty ftp transfer?

2005-07-04 Thread Derek Bump
Dave Cragg wrote: You could use the libUrl ftp commands, but you'd need to go through an ftp server. I'm not sure, but I gather from your mail that you don't want to do that. I think you'd be much better off taking advantage of Sockets, but if your looking for quick and dirty then FTP is a

Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Mathewson
I have just downloaded the SuperCard 4.5 demo and found they have a new feature: allowObjects this lets the user embed object (images and so on) inside FIELDS: WOW - I would love scrolling text fields with pictures! Richmond __ See Mathewson's so

making my first video game

2005-07-04 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello All, I hope I'm not asking for too much hand- holding on this one. The shooting effect in the old space invaders game is what I'm after. I'm studying Tuviah Snyder's "Bouncy" stack to learn about multiple objects moving at the same time (the invaders) and the moving paddle (the space gun)

Re: Tiger, HC and Reports

2005-07-04 Thread Charles Hartman
Only if you want to use applications that demand it -- of which, by now, there are at least dozens. Or if you want a Safari that performs at decent speed . . . On Jul 4, 2005, at 8:11 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Is there any compelling reason (really) to use Tiger at all at this time? I

Re: design problem: fonts and spacing

2005-07-04 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks again. By the way, there are some errors to watch out for on this page. It says Lucida Console and Monaco are monospace; they're not. It also says New York and MS Serif are sans serif (!). I don't know if there are others. Charles Hartman On Jul 3, 2005, at 10:05 PM, Marielle Lange

Re: Fwd: Tiger, HC and Reports

2005-07-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
Is there any compelling reason (really) to use Tiger at all at this time? I don't see any earth-shattering features. sqb ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your s

RE: Hosting Stacks?

2005-07-04 Thread Jim Bufalini
What about if the standalone is zipped? Everyone uploads and downloads zips -Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Engle Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 1:13 AM To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Hosting Stacks? Does anyone know a g

Re: Hosting Stacks?

2005-07-04 Thread revinfo1155
Don't know a free one but mac idisk does it hassle free. jack -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: How to use Revolution Sent: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:29:25 +0100 Subject: Re: Hosting Stacks? Quoting Eric Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does anyone know a good free webhost that a

Re: Hosting Stacks?

2005-07-04 Thread rev
Quoting Eric Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone know a good free webhost that allows stacks and standalones to be > uploaded? Well not standalones, but if you want to share stacks there is revonline. cheers bob ___ use-revolution mailing list us

Hosting Stacks?

2005-07-04 Thread Eric Engle
Does anyone know a good free webhost that allows stacks and standalones to be uploaded? Neither yahoo nor yahoo briefcase allow me to upload stacks (or standalones) :( I have some goodies i would like to share :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?

Re: quick dirty ftp transfer?

2005-07-04 Thread Dave Cragg
On 4 Jul 2005, at 09:29, Alex Shaw wrote: hi I haven't had much time to disect libURL but does anyone know if it is easy/possible/done to rig up a quick ftp-like transfer between 2 (or more) stacks using a combo of the libURLftpUploadFile and libURLDownloadToFile commands? Alex, can yo

quick dirty ftp transfer?

2005-07-04 Thread Alex Shaw
hi I haven't had much time to disect libURL but does anyone know if it is easy/possible/done to rig up a quick ftp-like transfer between 2 (or more) stacks using a combo of the libURLftpUploadFile and libURLDownloadToFile commands? I just want to take advantage of the ability to send large f

Fwd: Tiger, HC and Reports

2005-07-04 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi all, Christopher Rosien sent me the following mail: can interest HC users. Début du message réexpédié : FYI, here are two posts to the HC list that suggest the problem with and a workaround for Tiger, HC and Reports under Tiger http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/message/24932