Re: Setting fonts

2005-07-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Charles, Some clues which can help: 1. Combining a specified font and a "not specified" font: If you have a field with no font specified (use owner's font) and then you set the font for some lines, for instance, to Courier New (selecting these lines and choosing the right font in the Text

Re: Voice command

2005-07-05 Thread Dan Shafer
Not sure how this would be handled in Rev, but OS X has these capabilities in some form or another. I'm experimenting with a new program called iListen that claims to take dictation and voice commands for OS X. Dan On Jul 5, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Paul Salyers wrote: Does Rev have any kind

Voice command

2005-07-05 Thread Paul Salyers
Does Rev have any kind of voice command where I could speak into a mic and the spoken words will print in a text box? Also interested in having where the speakers/head pones will play what is to be read by the user from a varabels . any help here? Paul Salyers PS1 - Senior Rep. [EMAIL P

Re: mySQL database query

2005-07-05 Thread Dan Shafer
James What constitutes "the correct data" to display after the deletion? Empty fields? Previous record? Next record? In some sort of sort sequence? Once you can define that, I think writing a bit of Transcript to give you what you want is pretty easy but there's no sort of de facto ru

Setting fonts

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
This is a pretty newbie question; what I'm looking for is the right general direction to take. This Dreamcard stack will need to run under the Player on both Mac (where I'm writing it) and Windows. The app centers on many cards that are full of information, usually in a scrolling text field

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
Oh yes, I'm doing that all over the place for cross-references (from one card to another in a Reference substack). The buttons in question are navigation on a different level -- connections to further information on some detail of the topic a card addresses. Sorry to jump in so late in this

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Dan Soneson
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 the bigg

Re: is within rectangle

2005-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Nicholas, try: if (item 1 of the loc of [A], the top of [A]) is within the rectangle of [B] Nicolas Cueto wrote: Hello All, Further to my "invaders" game-making (which, thanks to the List, is almost done), I now'd like to check when the leading edge of one object -- its bottom, in this case -

mySQL database query

2005-07-05 Thread James Spencer
As long as we are talking about mySQL, is there a way to programatically refresh a database query? I have a master/detail form which includes a button to delete the currently selected record and this works fine insofar as it deletes the record from the database but the fields and table all

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

2005-07-05 Thread James Spencer
Having spent the last few days finally getting mySQL to work here, from the research that I did over the last days, the problem with all of these things, Rev, CocoaMySQL, YourSQL, etc. all may have related to the major change that mySQL did with how it hashes passwords with version 4.1. If

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

2005-07-05 Thread Dan Shafer
Well, I re-downloaded YourSQL and tested it and it ran first time just very nicely. So maybe I had an earlier version that wasn't quite ready. Thanks for the reminder/pointer. I'm going to poke at it a bit, see if I can tick it off. dan On Jul 5, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:

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

2005-07-05 Thread Dan Shafer
Hi, Steven I'm still migrating to Dreamhost but the CocoaMySQL issue was separate. I did look at YourSQL and as I recall wasn't impressed (or it didn't work for some reason). I was using both of these tools on a local (OS X) MySQL database. dan On Jul 5, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Stephen Barnc

Re:

2005-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
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RE:

2005-07-05 Thread Alen Ljubas
Need trial number for Revolution and Dreamcard !!! You are not send a message with trial serial number.Please, Send trial number. Thank you. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

RE: ANN Spring things

2005-07-05 Thread MisterX
Jim, You're too modest ;) Good job though! That's a nice graphic on the Rev website ;) cheers Xavier > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jim Hurley > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 18:54 > To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Subje

Re: PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

2005-07-05 Thread Sivakatirswami
H.264 is Apple's latest hi-definition format for video. It's really quite incredible (go www.apple.com and then quicktime) I don't have a window's machine handy... Andre is checking it out. On Jul 05, 2005, at 6:24 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Sivakatirswami wrote: Aiyo! (Lamentations) Wi

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

2005-07-05 Thread Dan Shafer
that may have been the problem, Trevor. When I noticed CocoaMySQL hadn't been updated in a long time, i figured I'd be better off finding a more active project to use anyway. dan On Jul 5, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jul 5, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: But CocoaMySQL

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

2005-07-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
Dan, you said you were migrating to Dreamhost. Did you make sure your local machine or network's IP is included with your user info ? Also all names and pw must be lower case... it takes a bit of futzing to make it all happy. I'm a 'late adopter' to Tiger so I haven't tested it. Development s

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
We tried really hard to find a conference time that would accomodate everyone all around the world. It proved impossible, largely because we couldn't figure out a way to prevent the earth from rotating. So to fix this problem, I am working on a little stack called "TimeWarpGadget". This sta

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

2005-07-05 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jul 5, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: But CocoaMySQL appears broken with Tiger. At least it didn't work for me. Refused to connect to any of my databases. I downloaded the MySQL Administrator from the MySQL site. Works great but doesn't allow me to manage database content. So what? I u

I am back...

2005-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, I am now back from RevConWest and my little trip to Hawaii. I finally managed to migrate my files to the new laptop. So I am now able to see and help with the list, something that was impossible with three computers trying to manage the same mail account... irgh, IMAP is not tha

Re: Help!!! Lost Some Stack Data

2005-07-05 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I just opened a .rev stack and a major object group that I have been working on has disappeared! I really don't fancy putting it all in again! I do have a Standalone that had the missing group in to, is there anyway to retreive this from the Standalone so I can put it back into a .rev file?

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

2005-07-05 Thread Dan Shafer
But CocoaMySQL appears broken with Tiger. At least it didn't work for me. Refused to connect to any of my databases. I downloaded the MySQL Administrator from the MySQL site. Works great but doesn't allow me to manage database content. So what? I use Rev! Dan On Jul 5, 2005, at 1:59 PM, St

Re: Where are my sub-menus?

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/5/05 4:16 PM, "Thomas McGrath III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard, > > No, this is happening with normal applications but it is an OS > preference. It's also a "per-application" preference as well; Word, Excel, Outlook, etc., all have this in they're "Customize" dialogs. Ken Ray Son

is within rectangle

2005-07-05 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello All, Further to my "invaders" game-making (which, thanks to the List, is almost done), I now'd like to check when the leading edge of one object -- its bottom, in this case -- makes contact with the leading edge of another -- i.e., its top. I tried: if loc of [A] is within the rectangle

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Charles, That's so true and maybe we will see some great changes in HIG in the future. But I wonder if the interface should match the point unless of course as an example. Of course you can do it, but is it then more like an artists statement or a designers point? Will the users of the Tutori

Re: Help!!! Lost Some Stack Data

2005-07-05 Thread David Burgun
Hi Eric, I checked in the App browser, it's gone. I will take a look at the disassembler but I only have a Mac so if it's windoze only I probably out of luck, although I do have both a MacOS X and WIndoze Standalone. Thanks for your help, I'll try to rescue it a bit more, else it's typing it all

Re: Where are my sub-menus?

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Richard, No, this is happening with normal applications but it is an OS preference. If you don't use certain menu items in MS Outlook then they are hidden from view (not really gone) and they are replaced with a blank line with a double arrow at the right hand side that when pressed will then

Re: Help!!! Lost Some Stack Data

2005-07-05 Thread Bob Hartley
On 05/07/2005 21:54:25, Bob Hartley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just opened a .rev stack and a major object group that I have been > > working on has disappeared! I really > don't fancy putting it all in again! > > I do have a Standalone that had the missing group i

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

2005-07-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
another reason to use a local MySQL client such as CocoaMySQL is that it can be much more secure than a web based utility such as phpMyAdmin or Escuel as the MySQL server only works with IPs one specifies. (at least with my ISP). I could never figure out how to use phpMyAdmin to actually let m

Re: Help!!! Lost Some Stack Data

2005-07-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, I never tested it but you will find on RevNet: Disassembler stack Very simple app to convert a MetaCard or RunRev standalone back to the plain stack: .exe --> .mc Very preliminary, but it seems to be working: send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sjoerd Op 't Land S2 Software www.s2the

RE: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-05 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I would suggest adding a second dimension to your time-array. This allows for time travel without violating causality. (just make sure you don't get stuck in the inner dimension - might give a whole new meaning to idea of getting back to your roots) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Help!!! Lost Some Stack Data

2005-07-05 Thread Bob Hartley
You wrote: > Hi, > > I just opened a .rev stack and a major object group that I have been > working on has disappeared! I really don't fancy putting it all in again! > I do have a Standalone that had the missing group in to, is there anyway > to retreive this from the Standalone so I can put it b

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/5/05 12:34 AM, Judy Perry wrote: And, here, I'm just hoping that I wake up in time ;-) Give us your phone number and we'll start calling you at 5 AM just to make sure. ;) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperacti

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/4/05 8:45 PM, Ray Stace wrote: Returns 7/10/05 2:00 AM in the time zone for Sydney Australia. Might not get many 'live' participants at that time ;)­ Unfortuntely, that's the right time for the Aussies. Actually, everyone who has reported in about the seconds conversion has given the rig

Help!!! Lost Some Stack Data

2005-07-05 Thread David Burgun
Hi, I just opened a .rev stack and a major object group that I have been working on has disappeared! I really don't fancy putting it all in again! I do have a Standalone that had the missing group in to, is there anyway to retreive this from the Standalone so I can put it back into a .rev fil

Re: Stack Level Local/Globals

2005-07-05 Thread Dennis Brown
Ok folks, I posted the following BZ for the stack level variables. Vote for it if you want it. Dennis - http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2975 Summary: Stack scope variable

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
Sure -- though this is exactly not (if not _exactly_ the opposite of) the tutorial situation I'm talking about. That is: if the *abstruseness* of some information is part of the point of that information, doesn't an interface for getting at it that makes the path to it *not* automatic reinf

Re: [ANN][EN][FR] Stacks Picker 1.1 and Encoded Text Picker 1.1

2005-07-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi John, The new version of Encoded Text Picker allows to use the Text menu of Revolution. But may be it's not enough :-) As I am always fond of new features coming from users feedback (the best ones), I shall implement this request and let all know shortly :-) Thanks for your interest abou

Re: Message to Listmom: a couple of blank lines after list text.

2005-07-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
As if to prove me wrong... the listserv just did what I requested. It appears to be intermittent with this feature <-here is my last line of msgsqb---> ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please vis

Message to Listmom: a couple of blank lines after list text.

2005-07-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
Just a little annoyance, but I've noticed that since Rev has changed web providers that their footers are exactly on the next line after the last line after the message. (note example below) This has led to confusion (at least for me) as it appears that the footer is part of the message it cont

Re: sleep

2005-07-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
Us older guys do 'power naps'... heh heh sqb Jim- Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 7:06:41 AM, you wrote: JH> P.S. Don't you people ever sleep? I'm having trouble keeping up with the list. ...sleep is overrated... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

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

2005-07-05 Thread Stephen Barncard
I just VOTED. thanks Stephen- Monday, July 4, 2005, 10:23:01 PM, you wrote: SB> This is where OPTIONAL 'typing' would be very, very useful. That's Bugzilla #2783... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: Where are my sub-menus?

2005-07-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Jon- Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 9:42:37 AM, you wrote: J> Well, the OS, for one. The feature is called Personalized Menus. The J> doc says "Personalized Menus keeps the Programs menu clean by hiding J> items you haven't used recently, while still keeping other programs J> easily accessible. You ca

Re: Multiple Choice Editor stack

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Douglas Gilliland wrote: As a Dreamcard newbe I am going through the tutorial movies on the web site. I've authored two programs for my high school Chemistry students and would now like to construct some quizzes that go along with the programs. I viewed the Multiple Choice Quiz movie but can't

Re: [ANN][EN][FR] Stacks Picker 1.1 and Encoded Text Picker 1.1

2005-07-05 Thread John Ridge
Eric, I *love* the encoded text picker - I have too many thumbs to type HTML otherwise! You know the acronym WIBNI? "Wouldn't It Be Nice If..." - something the developer really doesn't want to hear - but WIBNI you allowed also in plain-> HTML (does it make sense for URLencode?) the option to cha

Multiple Choice Editor stack

2005-07-05 Thread Douglas Gilliland
As a Dreamcard newbe I am going through the tutorial movies on the web site. I've authored two programs for my high school Chemistry students and would now like to construct some quizzes that go along with the programs. I viewed the Multiple Choice Quiz movie but can't find the stacks that the mov

Re: Where are my sub-menus?

2005-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jon wrote: "What application and which of its menu items do this?" Well, the OS, for one. The feature is called Personalized Menus. The doc says "Personalized Menus keeps the Programs menu clean by hiding items you haven't used recently, while still keeping other programs easily accessible.

RE: ANN Spring things

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 7 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:27:32 +0200 From: "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: ANN Spring things To: "'How to use Revolution'" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" (snip) So what's the point? What's the value in this? How do you

Re: Where are my sub-menus?

2005-07-05 Thread Jon
"What application and which of its menu items do this?" Well, the OS, for one. The feature is called Personalized Menus. The doc says "Personalized Menus keeps the Programs menu clean by hiding items you haven't used recently, while still keeping other programs easily accessible. You can ga

Re: XML

2005-07-05 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Ken, On 7/5/05 9:29 AM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like the Rev external does not add an encoding header (?) like: (Like Apple does...) as exspected nor does it saves the file as UTF8 unicode, so it would work crossplatform :-/ Only this simple header is added: which

Re: PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

2005-07-05 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richard, Sivakatirswami wrote: 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

Re: PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

2005-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sivakatirswami wrote: 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 che

Re: Where are my sub-menus?

2005-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Judy Perry wrote: > 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. > > Raskin would be horrified. So would the authors of the Microsoft Human Inter

Re: insert text at cursor

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/5/05 5:42 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All. > > I cant find the answer to this on in the docs or list archive. > > I can use a button and revgourl to go to my webmail page and the cursor is in > the first field, however, I would like to paste in the username at th

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Judy Perry
Not if Lind, Johnson & Sandblad are correct. In fact, I rmember being in a situation many moons ago in which I was failing a third semester calculus class (working my way up from an "F" to a hoped-for "C"). As I had eventually noticed that my instructor tended to just take exam problems that were

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Monday, July 4, 2005, 6:26:33 PM, you wrote: JLG> I am curious to know if this works for all time zones everywhere. For JLG> those who want to try it, run this in the message box: JLG>get "1120924800";convert it to short date and time;put it This is great. Can you get this added to

Re: XML

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/5/05 9:29 AM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like the Rev external does not add an encoding header (?) like: > (Like Apple does...) > as exspected nor does it saves the file as UTF8 unicode, so it would > work crossplatform :-/ > > Only this simple header is added: > > w

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
I'll love to see it finished too . . . It may be a while; it's got *lots* of finicky little pieces. On Jul 5, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I would love to see your stack when finished. GL Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PR

Re: Making Revolution faster using dimensioned arrays

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ray
> Having a variable length string type is another fine point. Does it > make sense to have a variable length string type at all, since > Transcript is already very robust in the string area. Perhaps it is > sufficient to have only a fixed number of chars that are padded out > with a "blank" char

Re: ANN Spring things

2005-07-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 7:06:41 AM, you wrote: JH> P.S. Don't you people ever sleep? I'm having trouble keeping up with the list. ...sleep is overrated... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.r

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Judy Perry
Yes, and one of my favorites to use in teaching is "The Art of the Obvious" (Lind, Johnson & Sandblad, CHI 1992). While it is largely concerned with "automatically processed components of the task of reading frequently used documents", the authors contend that their findings suggest "implications

Re: Parameter checking

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Ray
On 7/5/05 5:07 AM, "Dave Cragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5 Jul 2005, at 03:21, Ken Ray wrote: > > >> >> So, for example, if you are checking to see if p1 is between A and >> P (case >> insensitive), you can do this: >> >> if not matchText(p1,"(?i)[A-P]") then exit to top >> >> OR

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

2005-07-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Stephen- Monday, July 4, 2005, 10:23:01 PM, you wrote: SB> This is where OPTIONAL 'typing' would be very, very useful. That's Bugzilla #2783... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

[ANN][EN][FR] Stacks Picker 1.1 and Encoded Text Picker 1.1

2005-07-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Paris, Mon, 5 Jul 2005 17:40:00 +0100 -- English version - Hello, So Smart Software has the pleasure of announcing the availability of 2 updated freeware plugins for DreamCard/Revolution you can dowload from my web-site: Stacks Picker 1.1 Categ

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread John Ridge
on 5/7/05 1:25 pm, Alex Tweedly wrote : No. You never say anything about erasing at the old location (in fact, I don't know if there is any way to do that). To change the location of an object you set its location - and it disappears from the old location and appears at the new one. Nothing else

RE: ANN Spring things

2005-07-05 Thread MisterX
I agree with Eric... potentialissimo! So the spring, the ferrari colors... Actually makes me think that Rev can catchup to Catia... http://www.ibm.com/catia - the runrev of car industry and manufacturers, testers and designers. This kind of program opens your mind just as Rev would... I like ca

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Glenn E. Fisher
On July 5, 2005 6:31:06 AM CDT Tom III wrote: 2 cents: I agree. It is not good moving buttons in fields or groups. It makes it too hard for users to develop a motor plan for those buttons. A motor plan is what happens during touch typing or even during walking where our muscles develop a plan to

Re: Making Revolution faster using dimensioned arrays

2005-07-05 Thread Dennis Brown
On Jul 5, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Dennis wrote: "These declared arrays would run 10 to 100 times faster than the type-less ones for the kind of operations that are required by image processing, AI, statistics, and many other applications." Jon wrote: Given the detai

Re: ANN Spring things

2005-07-05 Thread Jon
Jim Hurley wrote: P.S. Don't you people ever sleep? I'm having trouble keeping up with the list. I think Rev is becoming too popular. Maybe we need to do something about that! :) Jon ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev

Re: ANN Spring things

2005-07-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Jim, Amazing! When maths reach natural effects :-) Thanks for your post. Le 5 juil. 05 à 16:06, Jim Hurley a écrit : I have been working with springs and have developed a few utilities which might interest others. The iconic spring is easily described geometrically, but difficult to de

XML

2005-07-05 Thread Klaus Major
Hi friends, i am currently learning XML (in Rev) and have a little question, that could not be answered with the Rev docs... Quote from the www3 school :-) XML is a cross-platform (SIC!), software and hardware independent tool for transmitting information. But Rev's XML is NOT? I created a

Re: Making Revolution faster using dimensioned arrays

2005-07-05 Thread Dennis Brown
On Jul 5, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Ken Ray wrote: I really like this idea, Dennis, but I'm not sure I like the approach to dimensioning, only because of Transcript's history of being able to interpret things as strings, even if not quoted. So is: local myArray[100,300]="false" a boolean array, o

ANN Spring things

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Hurley
I have been working with springs and have developed a few utilities which might interest others. The iconic spring is easily described geometrically, but difficult to describe in terms of its Cartesian coordinates and so they are a good candidate for Turtle Graphics. For some of applications

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Thomas McGrath III wrote: This is only in the IDE in 'work' mode. If you switch to the pointer(versus selection arrow) there are no droppings. No it's not. I think it is "IDE-only" on OSX, but on WinXP it happens all the time - even when I build a standalone and run that. Is it a bug or a

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Alex, Could not we call that an IDE worrying dysfunction dedicated to programmers? There's a little chance to encounter this feature in any standalone or even in any stack normally used :-) Actually, I encountered this in "normal" stack usage :-) The Mac versio

Re: Making Revolution faster using dimensioned arrays

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dennis wrote: "These declared arrays would run 10 to 100 times faster than the type-less ones for the kind of operations that are required by image processing, AI, statistics, and many other applications." Jon wrote: Given the detailed work that Alex (?) did a week or two ago with my al

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Robert, This is only in the IDE in 'work' mode. If you switch to the pointer(versus selection arrow) there are no droppings. Is it a bug or an anomaly? There are many anomalies when working in the 'work' part of the ide. Tom I somehow doubt this is a bug. It's an engine bug since it a

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Robert Brenstein
This is only in the IDE in 'work' mode. If you switch to the pointer(versus selection arrow) there are no droppings. Is it a bug or an anomaly? There are many anomalies when working in the 'work' part of the ide. Tom I somehow doubt this is a bug. It probably works same in both modes, the

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Charles, I am a firm believer in "Rules are meant to be broken" and KISS (Keep it simple stupid). I am also a Rebel at heart so I take the suggestions from people about good form and then 'see' what it might look like in real life. If my alternative solution works and is good enough than I go

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
This is only in the IDE in 'work' mode. If you switch to the pointer(versus selection arrow) there are no droppings. Is it a bug or an anomaly? There are many anomalies when working in the 'work' part of the ide. Tom On Jul 5, 2005, at 5:46 AM, John Ridge wrote: Then Inspect the button,

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Alex, Could not we call that an IDE worrying dysfunction dedicated to programmers? There's a little chance to encounter this feature in any standalone or even in any stack normally used :-) Le 5 juil. 05 à 14:22, Alex Tweedly a écrit : Dave Cragg wrote: On OS X, I get the droppings

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
John Ridge wrote: But on further reflection - this is the behaviour you have scripted! You haven't said anything about erasing the remains of the last "set the loc". The "grab" command presumably does pay attention to this... Yes? No. You never say anything about erasing at the old location

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dave Cragg wrote: On OS X, I get the droppings too, (I always wondered what the technical term was. Thanks.) but only when the button is selected and is set as default. It seems the droppings are left by the selection handles, and not the button. Is that the same on Windows? No. When I

Re: Scripting conference Groups stack uploaded

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
returns: 7/9/05 12:00 PM in Pittsburgh, PA, USA Tom On Jul 4, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Ray Stace wrote: get "1120924800";convert it to short date and time;put it Macintosh PowerBook G-4 OSX 10.3.9, OS 9.2.2, 1.25 GHz, 512MB RAM, Rev 2.6 Advanced Media Group Eagle Works Art & Sculpture Seman

Re: Making Revolution faster using dimensioned arrays

2005-07-05 Thread Jon
"These declared arrays would run 10 to 100 times faster than the type-less ones for the kind of operations that are required by image processing, AI, statistics, and many other applications." Given the detailed work that Alex (?) did a week or two ago with my algorithms, I am not at all sur

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
Yes, but couldn't it be argued that in this sense a tutorial app -- in effect, just a slicker & thinner alternative to a textbook -- has requirements-on-the-user's-attention different from a normal, "productive" app? Even *opposite* requirements? Slow 'em down! Block that skimming! OK, I kn

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Thomas McGrath III
2 cents: I agree. It is not good moving buttons in fields or groups. It makes it too hard for users to develop a motor plan for those buttons. A motor plan is what happens during touch typing or even during walking where our muscles develop a plan to those activities without having to think a

Re: quick dirty ftp transfer?

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Shaw
hmmm.. no netbios or samba here (don't like em) so looks like good old raw sockets will have to do :) looks like i have to print out libURL, thanks derek regards alex Well, if the networks are connected then you can just copy the file to the different machine. This eliminates the need for a

insert text at cursor

2005-07-05 Thread rev
Hi All. I cant find the answer to this on in the docs or list archive. I can use a button and revgourl to go to my webmail page and the cursor is in the first field, however, I would like to paste in the username at the cursor and tab to the next field to enter a password. I tried the first step

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread John Ridge
But on further reflection - this is the behaviour you have scripted! You haven't said anything about erasing the remains of the last "set the loc". The "grab" command presumably does pay attention to this... Yes? John *** on 4/7/05 10:04 pm, Alex Tweedly wrote :

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread Dave Cragg
On 4 Jul 2005, at 22:04, Alex Tweedly wrote: 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

Re: Parameter checking

2005-07-05 Thread Dave Cragg
On 5 Jul 2005, at 03:21, Ken Ray wrote: So, for example, if you are checking to see if p1 is between A and P (case insensitive), you can do this: if not matchText(p1,"(?i)[A-P]") then exit to top OR this: if not matchText(p1,"[A-Pa-p]") then exit to top Ken, I think you need to ma

Re: Button leaving behind droppings

2005-07-05 Thread John Ridge
on 4/7/05 10:04 pm, Alex Tweedly wrote : 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 tL

filepaths and seeing clearly

2005-07-05 Thread rev
Hi All I have to share this wee story about how I have been battering my head on the wall due to filepaths. I hope it can be of use to some. Here goes.. I have an app which has a components folder with externals in it. I can use absolute paths on mouseUp set the hideConsoleWindows t