ATTN: Marty BillingsleyA

2005-08-21 Thread Judy Perry
Marty ( et al ): Now that NECC 2005 is an in-the-past kind of thing, do you have any reports of how it went and/or any online summarization of how your presentation went? I'd like to post it for my fellow grads in the MS in Instructional Design and Technology program Kindest thanks, Judy

Re: Sends getting lost

2005-08-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
Looks good to me. On Aug 20, 2005, at 10:55 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: like this? on mouseUp send myHandler to control Thang in 10 secs end mouseUp -- in the script of control Thang: on myHandler videoThings ... end myHandler ___

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Aug 20, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Is it just Flash in general or Macromedia products (specifically, Director) in particular? I've noticed this as well... Judy On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Geoff Canyon wrote: As people have said, Flash can't have shaped windows in the first place,

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-21 Thread Judy Perry
Yeah, I understand... but I had to use it for my MS in IDT... and it was P-A-I-N-F-U-L-L and E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E.. (had to pay $1,000+ for data recovery). Colin Holgate from the HC list finally alerted me that there was a serious problem with running it under classic that ate up all CPU

Uncomplete Externals SDK Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Joel Guillod
In the RunRevExternalSDK found at: http://downloads.runrev.com/resources/externals/revexternalssdk.zip many features remain undocumented in the Externals stack and the other files. I know this has been a recurring and annoying problem for many years and that a great step has been made last

Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress

2005-08-21 Thread Joel Guillod
Thanks for the nice 16x16 24-frame animated gif ! I wonder to know if there is a way in Revolution that animated gif are going to be automatically animated during the execution of a script. This is in fact the reason of your new 'chasing arrows' to show the user that a process is currently

strange message watcher window

2005-08-21 Thread Jon
I'd not used the Message Watcher until this morning. I was a bit surprised to see the Clear button on top of what seemed to be a data entry field, and the data entry field lying on top of the Suppress button. Am I being too picky, or misunderstanding the UI? www.jonbondy.com/rev.jpg :) Jon

Re: strange message watcher window

2005-08-21 Thread Pat Trendler
Jon, Just resize the width (drag) of the window. I think from memory it stays put once you've done that. Not sure if this still happens in the latest build (108). You can also lose buttons on the script error window if it isn't wide enough - fooled me at first. Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress

2005-08-21 Thread Howard Bornstein
On 8/21/05, Joel Guillod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the nice 16x16 24-frame animated gif ! I wonder to know if there is a way in Revolution that animated gif are going to be automatically animated during the execution of a script. When I tested it, the animation ran automatically

Simple question: html link in browser opening a Rev Stack?

2005-08-21 Thread david bovill
Been a while since I've done this - can someone help? From memory there are 1 or 2 things that must be set up for this to work properly: 1. Mime types set up on local machine so that the browser recognises stack as something to be opened by Rev 2. Possibly mime types set on http server

NECC roundup (was ATTN: Marty Billingsley)

2005-08-21 Thread Marty Billingsley
Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marty ( et al ): Now that NECC 2005 is an in-the-past kind of thing, do you have any reports of how it went and/or any online summarization of how your presentation went? I'd like to post it for my fellow grads in the MS in Instructional Design and

Changing a stack script on the fly and other stuff

2005-08-21 Thread Jason Vickers
This may seem a little complicated. At least, it does to me :-P. Hopefully my description is understandable. I have a stand alone app that clones a stack so users can change and save information for later retrieval. Much of the scripting is put on the stack level. When the stack is

Re: Uncomplete Externals SDK Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Derek Bump
Joel Guillod wrote: Some of the callback functions not documented or with wrong documentation: The SDK's problems actually go a whole lot further than just incomplete documentation. A lot of the callback functions that I wanted to use, like GetImageByID, were not even *in* the SDK. It's

The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint

2005-08-21 Thread david bovill
Or should that be The revolution will not be Televised? I am excited to announce the first Revolution coding sprint for the new digital television era! I've just put up a wiki page for those of you from the Rev community interested in the project:

Digital Signatures and SSL

2005-08-21 Thread david bovill
I need a couple of things from the opnSSL library that i can't find in the Rev docs: 1) SHA1 digital signatures 2) AES - why is this not in the list of cypher names? Thanx in advance (if anyone has a clue :) ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: ISAM

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Saturday, August 20, 2005, 5:55:34 PM, you wrote: I need an ISAM methodology to pull it off cleanly. Man - wish I could acees just dBase or Pardox. g Have you tried ODBC access to dBase files? There are some weirdnesses with the Paradox driver depending on which version you're using,

Re: Uncomplete Externals SDK Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Joel- Sunday, August 21, 2005, 12:19:31 AM, you wrote: feedback, did I miss something? Is there an other complete documentation for externals? Stay tuned. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: Changing a stack script on the fly and other stuff

2005-08-21 Thread Ken Ray
On 8/21/05 9:09 AM, Jason Vickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to prevent future saving to this stack, I want to comment out the on closeStack portion of the stack script. Well, you're going to run into problems with changing scripts at runtime - there are script limits (10 lines I

Re: Uncomplete Externals SDK Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
Derek Bump wrote: Joel Guillod wrote: Some of the callback functions not documented or with wrong documentation: The SDK's problems actually go a whole lot further than just incomplete documentation. A lot of the callback functions that I wanted to use, like GetImageByID, were not even

Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint

2005-08-21 Thread Andre Garzia
Some years ago, I used Rev to code our chromakey based character generator for our TV show... it works fine!!! :P If you're trying to build things for TV I think you should look into Trevors Quicktime External which can do some nice tricks with Videos. Also if you fell confortable with

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-21 Thread Scott Rossi
As people have said, Flash can't have shaped windows in the first place, so this animation is out of consideration. My experience with Flash movies in general is that they happily take up 100% of my 1.2gHx CPU. Recently, Judy Perry wrote: Is it just Flash in general or Macromedia products

Re: Changing a stack script on the fly and other stuff

2005-08-21 Thread Jason Vickers
Ken, Thanks for that suggestion. The original script you gave me didn't work (maybe it waasn't supposed to, though), but I did modify it to look for a value in a hidden field [ if sName mc and (field trial card 1 nosave) then ]. Using the control card, I added a line to set the field

Re: Uncomplete Externals SDK Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Derek- Sunday, August 21, 2005, 7:13:17 AM, you wrote: The SDK's problems actually go a whole lot further than just incomplete documentation. A lot of the callback functions that I wanted to use, like GetImageByID, were not even *in* the SDK. It's been a while since I've looked at it, but

Re: strange message watcher window

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Jon- Sunday, August 21, 2005, 4:52:21 AM, you wrote: button. Am I being too picky, or misunderstanding the UI? Neither, I think. It's weird. Very weird. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: strange message watcher window

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Pat- Sunday, August 21, 2005, 5:19:50 AM, you wrote: You can also lose buttons on the script error window if it isn't wide enough - fooled me at first. Still fools me now and then. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing

ANN: Some routines for Spotlight

2005-08-21 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, Since I started using MacOS X Tiger, I became very fond of Spotlight since it reminds me of BFS. Spotlight has support for very advanced queries using nested boolean logic and cool metadata filters but those features are not exposed in the normal spotlight ui. To access those

Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress

2005-08-21 Thread FlexibleLearning
You are most welcome, Joel. And Howard, you are not actually stopping the animation which continues in the background. As in the original posting and repeated when uploaded to ssBk Online, set the repeatCount of the image ID to -1 to start the animation and 0 to stop it. /H

Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Sunday, August 21, 2005, 9:48:17 AM, you wrote: PS: Ken Ray XML Library makes a good job parsing RSS Feeds, beware of spec war, there are at least 3 RSS specs out there in the wild, also Five, if you don't count 0.93 or the Metalog API... in chronological order (although all are in

Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint

2005-08-21 Thread Andre Garzia
On Aug 21, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Andre- Sunday, August 21, 2005, 9:48:17 AM, you wrote: PS: Ken Ray XML Library makes a good job parsing RSS Feeds, beware of spec war, there are at least 3 RSS specs out there in the wild, also Five, if you don't count 0.93 or the Metalog

Rich Interface Examples For FileMaker Folks

2005-08-21 Thread Todd Geist
Hello Everyone, I am going to be demonstrating Rev to a bunch of FileMaker Pro developers at the FileMaker Developer's Conference and I am looking for some example stacks that would get them fired up. I want to show them something that they can't easily do in FM and really plays to Rev's

Re: ANN: Some routines for Spotlight

2005-08-21 Thread Andre Garzia
Yves, I am trying here with accents and special chars... it appears that mdfind returns a mixed string. Like I have this file called çedilha (which is wrong portuguese, but serves right for our experiments). mdfind will return a string using with the ç encoded in what I think is more

Re: Rich Interface Examples For FileMaker Folks

2005-08-21 Thread Dan Shafer
Todd What's the timing? I've got an old project that does something fairly cool: it places house icons on a map to reflect data in a database showing new housing starts and then lets the user drill down to the stats. I haven't tried to convert it to Rev but I've been tempted. If

Re: ANN: Some routines for Spotlight

2005-08-21 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 21-août-05 à 19:53, Andre Garzia a écrit : Folks, Since I started using MacOS X Tiger, I became very fond of Spotlight since it reminds me of BFS. Spotlight has support for very advanced queries using nested boolean logic and cool metadata filters but those features are not exposed

Re: ANN: Some routines for Spotlight

2005-08-21 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 21-août-05 à 21:20, Andre Garzia a écrit : Yves, I am trying here with accents and special chars... it appears that mdfind returns a mixed string. Like I have this file called çedilha (which is wrong portuguese, but serves right for our experiments). mdfind will return a string

Re: ISAM

2005-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Kane wrote: If your product is on the net anyway... Create as many MySQL databases you need from a full service web host such as Dreamhost for $10/month. No maintenance, no fees, dead simple management. Thanks for the reply, but it's a desktop application. I need an ISAM methodology

Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint

2005-08-21 Thread Ken Norris
Hi David, Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:40:08 +0200 From: david bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint It will be hopefully the first of several similar sprints taking place over the next 3 months Looks fascinating, but I've never heard

Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint

2005-08-21 Thread Andre Garzia
On Aug 21, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Ken Norris wrote: Hi David, Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:40:08 +0200 From: david bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint It will be hopefully the first of several similar sprints taking place over the next

Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress

2005-08-21 Thread Howard Bornstein
On 8/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Howard, you are not actually stopping the animation which continues in the background. As in the original posting and repeated when uploaded to ssBk Online, set the repeatCount of the image ID to -1 to start the animation and 0 to

Re: Rich Interface Examples For FileMaker Folks

2005-08-21 Thread Hershel Fisch
On 8/21/05 2:49 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just whatch out that they shouldn't show you things that Rev can't do,memorizing printing settings. Todd What's the timing? I've got an old project that does something fairly cool: it places house icons on a map to reflect data in a

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-21 Thread Dan Shafer
And now they are to be one company. I shudder. I'm thinking of abandoning Mac and Windows and becoming a Linspire guy who doesn't depend at all on software megaliths like these clowns (Adobe), who have from the beginning played like bullies on the playground. On Aug 21, 2005, at 9:49 AM,

Re: ANN: Some routines for Spotlight

2005-08-21 Thread Thierry Arbellot
Yves, Andre, I don't have Tiger to test mdfind, but if I understand well the problem, OS X filenames are UTF8 encoded. The following function will convert from UTF8 to ANSI, just replace thefilename with the actual string to decode. put unidecode(uniencode(thefilename,utf8),ansi) I hope this

Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress

2005-08-21 Thread FlexibleLearning
And Howard, you are not actually stopping the animation which continues in the background. As in the original posting and repeated when uploaded to ssBk Online, set the repeatCount of the image ID to -1 to start the animation and 0 to stop it. Right. I realize that. How much of a

Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint

2005-08-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
Ken Norris wrote: Subject: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint It will be hopefully the first of several similar sprints taking place over the next 3 months Looks fascinating, but I've never heard of the word 'sprint' used this way. Exactly what does it mean

Re: strange message watcher window

2005-08-21 Thread Jon
Oh. I gave up on the script error window. It is NEVER the right size. Sigh Jon Pat Trendler wrote: Jon, Just resize the width (drag) of the window. I think from memory it stays put once you've done that. Not sure if this still happens in the latest build (108). You can also lose

Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding

2005-08-21 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Andre, Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:33:46 -0300 From: Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The television will be Revolutionised! - first coding sprint Well here in Brazil we use the word sprint to mean desesperatly running in one direction. Heh -- well, Here in the US it

Re: Rich Interface Examples For FileMaker Folks

2005-08-21 Thread Todd Geist
Dan, Thanks! That sounds awesome! But Probably not enough time. My presentation is a week from tomorrow. Nothing like waiting for the last minute to get the juices flowing. :) But hey if you have the time, I would love to see it! Thanks again! Todd On 8/21/05 11:49 AM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL

Re: time anomaly

2005-08-21 Thread Jim Ault
You should test this first. My test have a slightly different 'result' So I could say that appointment is at 2PM, convert it to a date and time, and have it come up with today at 2PM. Or 54 would be the time right now with the seconds equal to 54. 54 is the seconds, but not (time right now),

RE: ISAM

2005-08-21 Thread Scott Kane
Hi Sichard, I believe both of them offer an ODBM interface, as does Rev. Any idea where I can find them for Windows and Mac? I've been looking evrywhere for them ODBC drivers in OSX require a Microsoft product to be installed (on Windows they are installed by default). Any ideas

Re: Rich Interface Examples For FileMaker Folks

2005-08-21 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Todd, You are welcome to show any of the following: MagicCarpet ButtonGaget HemPC (uses a SQLserver database for Content Management) You can find them at www.altuit.com contact me offlist if you need any help. best, Chipp ___ use-revolution

General Intersect

2005-08-21 Thread Roger Guay
Greetings, I would like to find a simple way to determine if a button target intersects with any other button on the card. Is there a way to script: if intersect(button target, any other button) then do something I appreciate your help. Cheers, Roger

Re: General Intersect

2005-08-21 Thread TJ Frame
You can use the intersect function built into the language. - TJ On 8/21/05, Roger Guay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I would like to find a simple way to determine if a button target intersects with any other button on the card. Is there a way to script: if intersect(button

Re: General Intersect

2005-08-21 Thread TJ Frame
PS: that works to check specific objects, if you want to test for a series of objects, such as all buttons, use a repeat loop and cycle through your list of potential targets for a hit. On 8/21/05, TJ Frame [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use the intersect function built into the language.

[ANN] ReplaceText Bug and STS XML Library

2005-08-21 Thread Ken Ray
-- IF YOU DON'T USE THE SONS OF THUNDER XML LIBRARY -- YOU CAN IGNORE THIS POST Hey everyone... I'm sorry to shotgun this email, but I know that there are dozens of you who have downloaded the Basic version of my XML Library, and many who have purchased the

RE: ISAM

2005-08-21 Thread Scott Kane
Hi Sichard, Sorry - I meant Richard, not Sichard. :-( Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: ISAM

2005-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Kane wrote: Hi Sichard, Sorry - I meant Richard, not Sichard. :-( That's okay, I meant OBDC and not OBDM. :) Any idea where I can find them for Windows and Mac? I've been looking evrywhere for them ODBC drivers in OSX require a Microsoft product to be installed (on Windows

Re: Blowing in the Wind

2005-08-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Geoff Canyon wrote: As people have said, Flash can't have shaped windows in the first place, so this animation is out of consideration. Look at this option to have custom shape windows in flash: mProjector. http://www.screentime.com/faqs/mProjector/index.html Visit my