[Slightly OT] - Of Ajax, Ruby on Rails, and 37 Signals

After the discussion here over the last couple of days about the Ajax programming technology for quick-response Web apps, the Universe converges once again in a piece on Salon.com focusing on a Chicago- based firm called 37 Signals and its well-received Web apps. The apps were written in an

Re: computerized speech

There are other voices around for use with Apple's built-in speech. I don't remember where I found mine. Also there are opensource and third party voices as well. search the net Tom On Aug 9, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: Is Apple's built in text-to-speech the best there is or are t

Re: two more noob questions re "find" command

Regarding the single-line message box command, I was trying to enhance the "find" script that Sarah generously posted for my benefit. It uses the single-line message box. Tim, You can easily change my script to se the multi-line message box instead. Cheers, Sarah _

Re: Repeat until (0r "while") not working

Katir, If you wanted to do it in a repeat loop: repeat with x = the number of lines in tFinalTranscript down to 1 if line x of tFinalTranscript is "" then delete line x of tFinalTranscript end repeat Sivakatirswami wrote: I'm missing something very simple here, Goal: delete empty lines be

Re: ANN: Dragging along a fixed path

Very useful Jim.. I can se that coming in handy with my PerspectiveTools app.. I'll share it with the group when it's ready for prime time On 8/9/05, Jim Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The stack below allows one to drag a control along a constrained > path, e.g. a graphic or image along

Re: Repeat until (0r "while") not working

On 8/9/05 8:17 PM, "Sivakatirswami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm missing something very simple here, > > Goal: delete empty lines beginning and end of text chunk Try this: function trim pWhat local tRetVal get matchText(pWhat, "(?s)^\s*(.*?)\s*$", tRetVal) return tRetVal end trim Tr

Re: Icon Composer File Stopped Working

I just noticed this, so I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but my Icon Composer file for the OS X standalone icons no longer works. I can still see the icons using Preview, and it's still set to use the proper file in Standalone Application Settings, but my standalone builds no longer

Repeat until (0r "while") not working

I'm missing something very simple here, Goal: delete empty lines beginning and end of text chunk --- put fld "transcript" into tFinalTranscript # clean up extra lines at beginning and end repeat while ((line 1 of tFinalTranscript) is empty) delete line 1 of tFinalTranscript end

Re: computerized speech

Mark, Wasn't there a thread a while back on this? I seem to recall people liking voices by AT&T? But they were commercial voices... Sorry. Wish I could recall better. Judy On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Mark Swindell wrote: > Is Apple's built in text-to-speech the best there is or are there > alternati

[FR][EN] French Resources

Bonjour, Je suis tombée sur ceci par chance: Un forum sur revolution en français. Dans ce forum, il est mentionné que la documentation de revolution serait maintenant disponible en français.

Re: [Semi-OT] Interesting article

On Aug 9, 2005, at 7:18 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: I wonder, what has been the "oohhh, this is interesting" moment for the new users on this list. My 2 more cents: I think elsewhere in your post you put your finger on part of the problem. Many people on the list came to Rev from Hypercard.

Re: computerized speech

And is there any way to convince the TTS system -- on Mac or Windows -- to stress a word differently (or more strongly) than the internal dictionary tells it? (Recent example from the news: do we say "SUBmariner" or "subMAriner".) Is this something that can be controlled through Rev's inter

RE: [Semi-OT] Interesting article

The proof by the absurd! Well done Marielle! You show a good ability to read between the lines :-). I have been reading a huge deal on web applications recently. Honestly, it made me anxious about the future of revolution. My thoughts are that rev needs a new graphic engine below the new

Re: computerized speech

Thanks Phil. ATT seems to have the best sounding synthesizer of those I could demo. Much clearer than OS X's. Not cheap, though. I never use Windows... does XP have built in speech as Macs do, or does one have to supply one with a Rev project to be sure TTS works? What about earlier

Re: two more noob questions re "find" command

Timothy Miller wrote: It still seems like I am the only amateur do-it-yourself end user on the list. It's easy to be defensive, in that position, though that's no excuse. I also admit I'm prone to absent minded scripting errors. I still wonder if Dreamcard is intended for people like me, and

Re: two more noob questions re "find" command

Thank you for your kind reply, Ken. I understand you didn't mean it as I heard it. It's a constant danger with email, especially on lists and newsgroups. I admit I was defensive. It still seems like I am the only amateur do-it-yourself end user on the list. It's easy to be defensive, in that

Re: computerized speech

Mark - Check out "Conversational Computers", an article on speech synthesis in Scientific American, June 2005, starting on p. 64. Among all else there, you'll find some excellent sources of additional voices offered by vendors like IBM, AT&T and many others. Some of the vendors let you downlo

Cool External load unLoad libary stack handler Script (was:Standalone App Question)

Had to rename this gem so that it could be easily searched and found in the Rev Use-List!!! Thanks Trevor :-) -Chipp Trevor DeVore wrote: That being said, I prefer a different method when dealing with externals. When using externals I like to be able to load/unload the external whenever

computerized speech

Is Apple's built in text-to-speech the best there is or are there alternatives that give more natural sounding results? How about on the Windows side? Thanks Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

RE: [Semi-OT] Interesting article

Marielle said, > Hi Geoff, > > Yes, the topic is very hot. Everybody is moving in that direction: The proof by the absurd! Well done Marielle! So many choices, so many unsecure issues on the net... as we know, revolutions (not an intented pun but an interesting meme twister agent) happen in a

Re: two more noob questions re "find" command

On 8/9/05 1:56 PM, "Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ken, > >> On 8/8/05 7:14 PM, "Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 1--If I use the "find" command in the single-line message box, is >>> there any way to get the foundchunk? How? >> >> get the found

Re: Standalone App Question

On 8/9/05 1:01 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On thing to note here Ken, is that if you assign the externals to a > substack then removing the externals from memory isn't as > straightforward as just closing the substack. Good point, Trevor. > Assigning the externals to a stac

Re: two more noob questions re "find" command

Hi Ken, On 8/8/05 7:14 PM, "Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, 1--If I use the "find" command in the single-line message box, is there any way to get the foundchunk? How? get the foundChunk :-) Well, thanks, you did try to help, and sent a smiley too. I knew that. Typing

Re: Barn Door Open Problem

Recently, David Burgun wrote: show image 1 hide image 1 set the fileName of image 1 to "myfile.jpg" Or anything that doesn't use "visual effects" it works fine. In fact if I use one-word effects like dissolve it works too. Just tried doing this: show image "ImageSplash" with "barn doo

Re: Barn Door Open Problem

OK, so my SWAG was wrong. Sorry. So I did some testing. Rev 2.6.1 on OS X 10.4.2. Script: on mouseUp set the explicitVariables to true hide image 1 show image 1 with visual barn door open set the explicitVariables to false end mouseUp Everything works exactly as I expect. I tried remov

Re: Barn Door Open Problem

Recently, David Burgun wrote: > show image 1 > hide image 1 > set the fileName of image 1 to "myfile.jpg" > > Or anything that doesn't use "visual effects" it works fine. In fact > if I use one-word effects like dissolve it works too. > > Just tried doing this: > > show image "ImageSplash" wit

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

Maybe the DC Player is just not well understood or described. There's precious little in the docs about it. I found, e.g., that if I copy the Player and put it into a folder outside the Rev app folder and put a Rev stack in the same folder, the following behavior is true: 1. Double-clicki

Re: Barn Door Open Problem

Ok, I see, well if I just do: show image 1 hide image 1 set the fileName of image 1 to "myfile.jpg" Or anything that doesn't use "visual effects" it works fine. In fact if I use one-word effects like dissolve it works too. Just tried doing this: show image "ImageSplash" with "barn door open"

Re: Standalone App Question

On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:52 AM, Ken Ray wrote: However, there is an approach that gets around all of this (suggested to me by Trevor and it works great): make a stack (I call it "externals"), and attach all of your external to it. Then, when your first stack loads, load up the "Externals" stack

Re: Standalone App Question

On 8/9/05 9:15 AM, "David Burgun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. How do I setup the externals property in a Standalone App > > 2. I assume I have to do it in Splash.rev, is this correct or do I > have to do in seperately in each on Stack1.rev, Stack2.rev and > Stack3.rev OK. Here's the situat

Re: Barn Door Open Problem

I didn't make myself clear. The image is undoubtedly still there. But if, inside your script, you have explicit declaration of variables required, then my question -- and I don't have the answer at hand -- is whether if you named the image, say "pic1" and then did: show image "pic1" with

Re: Standalone App Question

On Aug 9, 2005, at 7:15 AM, David Burgun wrote: Splash.rev Stacks/Stack1.rev Stacks/Stack2.rev Stacks/Stack3.rev In the Splash Stack, I have setup the Standalone options as follows: In the Copy Files Section: I have Stacks/Stack1.rev, Stacks/ Stack2.rev and Stacks/Stack3.rev From this I have

Re: Barn Door Open Problem

Hi, No, the image is definitely there, since other parts of the code reference it just fine, also this was working before and only broke when change something completely unrelated. Also if I do the exact same from the Message Box it works fine. Thanks anyway Dave Dave... Just a SWAG but

Re: Barn Door Open Problem

Dave... Just a SWAG but I suspect the complaint about the unquoted literal applies to the name of the image, not the visual effect. Since you have preferences set to declare locals within handlers, there's probably no declaration for an image called "1". On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:34 AM, David

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

Charles Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, this does NOT happen if you open the player by double- > clicking the stack. (This assumes that, under OSX for instance, the > stack's "Open With" is set to the Player rather than to Dreamcard.) But -- this is exactly what I am doing!!

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Macs, the Online Viewer will display if you leave the Player in the > same folder as the IDE. If you move the Player outside that folder, Rev > Online will not open. Thanks, that does the trick! :-) But -- if the changes in my stack are correctly s

ActiveX control for Rev in PowerPoint ?

Does anybody know of an ActiveX control that will enable a stand-alone stack to be run in PowerPoint as an embedded object, just like you can with Flash ? Tnx, Bob... Bob Earp - White Rock, BC _ Take charge with a pop-up guard bu

ANN: Dragging along a fixed path

The stack below allows one to drag a control along a constrained path, e.g. a graphic or image along a closed polygon path--see cards 2 and 3. (The polygon may not have any obtuse angles--angles greater than 180 degrees.) (Of course one can easily program the control to move along a graphic:

Has anyone used VEX Robtics with Revolution?

Has anyone used the VEX Robotics with Revolution? It currently uses a PICs processor with a C compiler and EasyC. It is a serial device so I'm sure a Keyspan High Speed Serial Adapter will work for USB interface. There was talk earlier about USB control from within Rev and this might be a great

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

Dom wrote: It runs nicely, excepted for this d* "revOnline Viewer" which pops every time ;-> On Macs, the Online Viewer will display if you leave the Player in the same folder as the IDE. If you move the Player outside that folder, Rev Online will not open. I thought it was the same

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

BZ 2379 is close to this. It deals with turning off the RevOnline. For my money, what it should do is present a dialog with two buttons (perhaps nice large pictures, like RevOnline): "Open a Stack from Online" and "Open a Stack on Your Computer" The first would bring up the RevOnline viewer

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

Peter T. Evensen wrote: It was my understanding that the online viewer launches in the Player every time, because there is NO OTHER WAY to open a stack! Again I say this is bad UI design. Unless you know to hit the folder icon, you don't know how to open your stack file. There are other wa

data filtering revised (now trim outliers) + php files

Dear all, I noticed a few issues with my stack (I had the very stupid idea to do a cosmetic change and then recompile and upload a new version of the files) and I posted a revised version of my stack, now called "Trim Outliers" For the rev file (look for trim outliers):

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

> It was my understanding that the online viewer launches in the Player every > time, because there is NO OTHER WAY to open a stack! Again I say this is > bad UI design. Unless you know to hit the folder icon, you don't know how > to open your stack file. You can also just drag a .rev stack o

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

By the way, this does NOT happen if you open the player by double- clicking the stack. (This assumes that, under OSX for instance, the stack's "Open With" is set to the Player rather than to Dreamcard.) So that's as it should be. But the user ought to be able to do it the other way (start th

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

Hear, hear! If you want to BZ this, I'll certainly vote for it. Charles Hartman On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: It was my understanding that the online viewer launches in the Player every time, because there is NO OTHER WAY to open a stack! Again I say this is bad U

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

It was my understanding that the online viewer launches in the Player every time, because there is NO OTHER WAY to open a stack! Again I say this is bad UI design. Unless you know to hit the folder icon, you don't know how to open your stack file. Most Players I've seen, if they don't receiv

Standalone App Question

Hi All, I have an external command that I have tested running under the RunRev IDE. I now want to build a standalone. I have setup the Standalone Structure as follows. I have Stack that is a basically just a Splash Screen. It just displays an image for a few seconds and then calls another st

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

Dom wrote: It runs nicely, excepted for this d* "revOnline Viewer" which pops every time ;-> In the IDE - menu Edit / Preferences / General - uncheck "Automatically launch RevOnline" In the Player - click on Rev logo (top-right) and check either "Never check for updates" or "Check up

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

Dan Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DreamCard will, I suspect, play an increasing role in their revenue > model as they bring online ways for people like you to deploy stacks > to others who have the Player and pick up a little toll booth fee > along the way. Pardon me for jumping in the

Re: [Semi-OT] Interesting article

On 09.08.2005, at 08:14, Chipp Walters wrote: Sorry, can't sell to those in California w/out some ridiculous out- of-state alphabet tax. Maybe an email to Arnold would help... pls don´t, even the smalles insult could force him going back to Austria... brr!! ==;o( regards Wolfgang M.

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 23, Issue 27

- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:00 PM Subject: use-revolution Digest, Vol 23, Issue 27 Send use-revolution mailing list submissions to use-revolution@lists.runrev.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http:/

Re: problems with popups

I wrote... > under Windows. I'm using a 'rectangle' type button to popup the 'popup' > type button (popup btn "historyMenu" at the bottomLeft of me) and the > following happens (auto hilite of 'rectangle' button is true) on > mouseDown > > 1. 'rectangle' button hilites > 2. popup menu displays,

Barn Door Open Problem

Hi, That's got to be the weirdest subject line when you consider we are talking about a programming environment! I changed a script that was created by an older version of rev. It has a line in it: show image 1 with visual effect barn door open When I hit apply on the script I get a unquo

Re: [Semi-OT] Interesting article

He actually cornered the market on vowels and then re-defined it as a shortage. Gotta give him props. If you don't, he busts your head. Dan On Aug 8, 2005, at 11:14 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Sorry, can't sell to those in California w/out some ridiculous out- of-state alphabet tax. Maybe an e

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

David Welcome to the Revolution from YAHR (Yet Another HyperCard Refugee). You're gonna love it over here. I feel the same way you do: RunRev *could* charge a LOT more for this product and justify it. But it's a competitive marketplace with lots of free and Open Source tools and techn