Re: slooooowww typing in fields

Hi Tim, Sometimes it works okay. At other times, there's a short delay from keyboard to screen. Sometimes the delay gets longer and longer, until the thing is just useless. Quitting and restarting Rev usually helps. Whether I'm inserting text into the middle of a paragraph versus typing

Editing of table objects

I don't remember this has been evoked recently. In rev 2.6, when I created a table object, with cell editing on. When I edit it with the browse tool is on (running mode), it does crap. Basically, it adds to the end of the table data that had been there before but had been deleted in the mea

Re: Geometry Problem

Hi, Thanks a lot! It works fine now! Really good tutorial! All the Best Dave Hi Dave, You could be interested in the "How to Manage Resizing" tutorial (available from Tutorials Picker on my website) and especially by the Tips and Tricks" section. Note that the cRevGeometry properties are upd

Re: Little maths question

Well, ultimately I wouldn't want 1,2,3,4 and 2,3,4,1, but I could handle whittling it down to what I need. I just can't see a good way to generate the exhaustive list in the first place. Cheers, Mark On 12 Sep 2005, at 18:36, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Do they have to be in order? Would 1,4,2,

Re: Little maths question

Fantastic! I thought it had to be recursive...but when I started thinking about it, numbers started dancing uncontrollably (and unintelligibly) in front of my eyes. Thanks! Mark On 12 Sep 2005, at 20:12, Alex Tweedly wrote: Mark Smith wrote: This is probably really easy, but I'm so stupid

Re: slooooowww typing in fields

I just ran top, (OS 10.3.9), with Rev open, and CPU is 0.0% for Rev - are there prefs or options in Rev that keep the CPU busy? Mark On 13 Sep 2005, at 10:09, Marielle Lange wrote: Note you can always check how busy your computer is processing applications (that is the %CPU) using the "top"

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Re: Spelling check

Hi Xavier, To improve your spell checker, in case you haven't used it yet: Levenshtein Distance http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm "Levenshtein distance (LD) is a measure of the similarity between two strings, which we will refer to as the source string (s) and the target string (t). The dis

Re: Weird problem and I'm not sure what the subject should be

Yes, thank you. Turns out the app was built with Rev 2.2. I didn't realize that. And, sure enough, when I rebuilt it with 2.2 (well 2.2.1 actually), it worked perfectly. So there are some weird issues that happened with both revCopyFile and revCopyFolder somewhere between 2.2.1 and 2.5.

Re: Unicode Font Woes

Sivakatirswami, I have a suspicion that your Unicode problems are related to a larger issue that affects unicode rendering in general. If you haven't already, consider voting for Bugzilla bugs 2489, 2493, 2497, 2998, 3022, 3023 and 3085. There may be others. The more votes we get on these

Stack's Name Being Changed When Used as CGI

Hello everyone, I'm using a stack as a CGI. It's my first try and has been going well so far. I have the stack open when I'm writing CGI handlers, and I test those CGIs at the same time by submitting forms to be processed from my web browser. Naturally, this leads to some anomalies

Re: Stack's Name Being Changed When Used as CGI

Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello everyone, I'm using a stack as a CGI. It's my first try and has been going well so far. I have the stack open when I'm writing CGI handlers, and I test those CGIs at the same time by submitting forms to be processed from my web browser. Naturally, this lea

OPML - export

Has anyone got any scripts for converting tabbed outlines to XML / OPML I hate writing recursive functions :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscripti

Displaying PDF - Help! Urgent!!

Hello folks - I'm doing a quick 'n' dirty menu front-end for a CD and need to be able to display a multi-page PDF document. On Mac I'll just open it with "Preview" - but I need to know what is equivalent on PC. (I am a Windows dunce...) I have to do this tonight!! Gulp! Chris

Re: Displaying PDF - Help! Urgent!!

On 9/13/05 11:23 AM, "Chris Carroll-Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks - > > I'm doing a quick 'n' dirty menu front-end for a CD and need to be > able to display a multi-page PDF document. On Mac I'll just open it > with "Preview" - but I need to know what is equivalent on PC. (I a

Re: Poke a Shell Variable with xTalk?

I am not a shell or *nix guy, but I did find this today. Shows what and how to create variables (poke) At the bottom of the tech note on this Apple page updated for Tiger: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html --snip-- Q: Where does the shell environment come from ‹ environment

Re: Poke a Shell Variable with xTalk?

You can both read and write to shell variables in Revolution. So the following: put foo into $FOO put shell("echo $FOO") Results in what you would expect in the message-box :o) In other-words, what you are trying to do should work fine... Hope this helps! Mark. On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 07:52 -

Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

I have exhaustively searched the archived posts for information on gradient fills. A few posts made references to creating a gradient fill via scripting. I am a novice Rev programmer and do not claim to be a mathematician so I am having a tough time with this problem. Basically, I have a rectan

Re: Displaying PDF - Help! Urgent!!

Chris it's best to let the particular operating system decide the best way to open a PDF doc (as well as other types of docs as well). Hello folks - I'm doing a quick 'n' dirty menu front-end for a CD and need to be able to display a multi-page PDF document. On Mac I'll just open it with

Scripting conference - Multimedia stack uploaded

The stack for this Saturday's scripting conference is now available for you to download and study before we meet. Our topic this week is Multimedia, which is particularly timely, given the recent questions on the mailing list about streaming movies. Our speaker this week is Trevor DeVore who is

Calculating points of a mega circle..

Hi folks Anyone know how I would calculate the points of a circle given a specific number of required points and a massive radius. For example I'm looking to generate a list of 7200 points that describe a circle with a radius of 99 Any ideas how to go about this? Thanks, - TJ __

Re: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

subzero569 wrote: I have exhaustively searched the archived posts for information on gradient fills. A few posts made references to creating a gradient fill via scripting. I am a novice Rev programmer and do not claim to be a mathematician so I am having a tough time with this problem. Basica

Re: Calculating points of a mega circle..

Hi TJ, Hi folks Anyone know how I would calculate the points of a circle given a specific number of required points and a massive radius. For example I'm looking to generate a list of 7200 points that describe a circle with a radius of 99 Any ideas how to go about this? Thanks, - T

RE: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

Hi Josh check out my excellent utility GradientsNO2... http://www.monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=161 cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of subzero569 Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:17 PM To: use-revolu

RE: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

im so distracted by the loss of my 80gb drive and all its data I almost forgot last month's project updates on moireX volume 3 which does some really incredible gradients... still first story on http://monsieurx.com cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Spelling check

>To improve your spell checker, in case you haven't used it yet: >Levenshtein Distance >http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm Hi Marielle, Im not sure web emails come trough the lists filter hounds and many moderators ;) high 5 we don't get too much spam eh? ;) So sorry if this is a repeat, I added

Standalone Menu Question

Hi, I have a stack that does not use a menu bar, just one window with controls. When I make a standalone, RunRev adds a simple menu bar, which just has the application menu in it. My question is, how can I honour the "About Box" enrty? All I want to be able to do is it have the first entry sa

Re: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

On 9/13/05 12:48 PM, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Josh > > check out my excellent utility GradientsNO2... > > http://www.monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=161 Xavier - it seems you tool only lets you work on 2 or more objects at once... how to you assign a gradie

Re: Stack's Name Being Changed When Used as CGI

Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello everyone, I'm using a stack as a CGI. It's my first try and has been going well so far. I have the stack open when I'm writing CGI handlers, and I test those CGIs at the same time by submitting forms to be processed from my web browser. Naturally, this lea

RE: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

Hi Ken Just create a gradient and click colorize. I detects the selected objects... if you choose controls, you can do a gradient from the first to the last (not limited to two only). cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ra

RE: Calculating points of a mega circle..

yes, there is an easy way... Alejandro mentioned this demo I think http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-July/039736.html check it out... extremely nice demo with the answers you seek I think... Ken also has a nice tip about it at http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/

Re: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

On 9/13/05 1:26 PM, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ken > > Just create a gradient and click colorize. I detects the selected objects... Sorry, it doesn't work with a single object. All I did was create an new stack in Rev, drag out a draw rectangle, then open GradientsNO2, change the

Re: Calculating points of a mega circle..

Fantastic! Works perfectly! Thanks so much. - TJ On 9/13/05, Gordon Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi TJ, > > Hi folks > Anyone know how I would calculate the points of a circle given a specific > number of required points and a massive radius. For example I'm looking to > ge

RE: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

I create a new stack, double clicked a graphic into it, clicked on draw and had it! strange day... make sure: menu 1 is 3 first items selected menu 2 is "Back" make sure you're not drawing from to the same color... It works like a charm here... strange day... cheers Xavier -Original

RE: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

Ken I've seen a couple ways it doesn't work: if you select more than one graphic if one graphic overlaps the other (gets flaky or is it me?) top to bottom = bottom to top... hu? I'll do some revisions... but otherwise, im pretty sure it works... cheers Xavier -Original Message-

Re: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

Back to my original question: Is there a way for me to accomplish this gradient effect in scripting for a graphic rectangle? I appreciate the GradientsNO2 utility but the site disclaimer mentioned the code is locked until enough people register. So I can't glance at the code for a starting poi

RE: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

amazing how words are a good deterent for morale ;) the stack is not locked... it's an old thing... type "toplevel gradientsn2o" into the msg box (note I haven't renamed the internal stack name to no2) and then you can edit what you want... I'll see about mending the few things this great stack

Re: slooooowww typing in fields

Hi Mariele, Hi Tim, Sometimes it works okay. At other times, there's a short delay from keyboard to screen. Sometimes the delay gets longer and longer, until the thing is just useless. Quitting and restarting Rev usually helps. Whether I'm inserting text into the middle of a paragraph ver

Re: Problems with streaming audio

On 9/12/05, Brian Yennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howard, > > I believe the difference is that you need to avoid the "start player" > command altogether. If you use playRate and only the playRate to start > and stop the player, you may get better results... once you use "start" > the damage ma

Re: Problems with streaming audio

On 9/13/05, Mark Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you able to play the video with the same rtsp address in QT > itself? Maybe the address or the server is the problem. > Well, I don't know for certain that it's using rtsp, but yes, I can play the stream in QT, iTunes, RealPlayer, etc.

Using shell to run .vbp files

I have successfully used the shell command on Windows to run a .vbs script, but the same does not seem to work with .vbp files. I am unfamiliar with Visual Basic Projects (.vbp), so any guidance or suggestions where to begin would be appreciated. Kind Regards, Roger Eller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

RE: Using shell to run .vbp files

I believe those are for the visual basic IDE... cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:30 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Using shell to run .vbp files I have successful

Re: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

On 9/13/05 1:37 PM, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I create a new stack, > double clicked a graphic into it, What do you mean? I'm using 2.6 under OS X and double-clicking on the graphic rectangle and nothing happens. I have to drag out a graphic, or click and then draw one. Double-clicki

Re: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

On 9/13/05 1:40 PM, "MisterX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken > > I've seen a couple ways it doesn't work: > > if you select more than one graphic Actually, this works fine - in fact it was how it validated to me that one graphic *didn't* work. > if one graphic overlaps the other (gets flaky

RE: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

I have a virgin installation... Just had a major crash! all new... This is strange. when I double click the graphic I do get a new graphic... I select it, click on draw and it works... anyone else not getting that result? using 2.6 on a cheap and stupid but really fast pc... I posted my last ve

Re: Weird problem and I'm not sure what the subject should be

On 9/14/05, Chris Sheffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, thank you. Turns out the app was built with Rev 2.2. I didn't > realize that. And, sure enough, when I rebuilt it with 2.2 (well > 2.2.1 actually), it worked perfectly. So there are some weird issues > that happened with both revCopy

Re: Standalone Menu Question

> I have a stack that does not use a menu bar, just one window with > controls. When I make a standalone, RunRev adds a simple menu bar, > which just has the application menu in it. My question is, how can I > honour the "About Box" enrty? All I want to be able to do is it have > the first entry sa

Fwd: compiler curiosities

Grettings All, For the ones interested in about Turing's machines and the halting problem, have an eye on the "utm.rev" rev stack downloadable at . Use "ttag" as password to access to the transcript source code. See the english doc for more

Re: Poke a Shell Variable with xTalk?

Mark, yes, I did finally find in the docs this bit about poking the shell variables... I think now my wall of fire is ignorance on shell syntax. Let me be very specific This script builds a mult-part email msg and endeavors to send to our mail serve on the LAN via sendmail which has been en

Re: Unicode Font Woes

OK I'll look at these... I think in the interests of helping RunRev, we all need to be aware of an underlying cross plaftorm issue of which I am informed onl yesterday as follows by professor in Switzerland who is helping me on this matter. which is: many fonts will "apparently" work on th

Re: Poke a Shell Variable with xTalk?

This may help, then again, maybe it does not apply to your situation http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html Q: How long can my command be, really? A: Calling do shell script creates a new sh process, and is therefore subject to the system¹s normal limits on passing data to new p

animate light to dark

Dear all, I am trying to get a smooth animation of a background going from light to dark (and vice versa), but I'm having trouble making it fast enough, smooth enough and flicker-free. I think it is something to do with screen redraws in OS X (see Jim Hurley's BZ entry 2639), but maybe it's m

Re: animate light to dark

Recently, Michael J. Lew wrote: > I am trying to get a smooth animation of a background going from > light to dark (and vice versa), but I'm having trouble making it fast > enough, smooth enough and flicker-free. > ... > What I need is to have a large dark region behind some images get > light o

Re: Gradient Fills in WinXP - Revisited!

Josh, Did you receive a suitable answer to your question? If not, I can provide you a script which does what you wish. best, Chipp subzero569 wrote: I have exhaustively searched the archived posts for information on gradient fills. A few posts made references to creating a gradient fill via