Re: Multilingual dialogues

On Oct 20, 2005, at 12:33 PM, David Bovill wrote: Thanks - sounds good. And perhaps if all the language stacks were substacks of stack "Translations" or then it would be easy to add another translation and a script could automatically figure out how many were available? Here is the tri

Re: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

The concept of "greediness of the *" has been introduced. Let's expand. What this means is that when you parse any html or xml file, you have to be very careful if you know a same tag can occur many times in your document. Simple example: The cat under the table is... if you use: put repl

Re: ANN: Image Jigsaw

Howard Bornstein wrote: On 10/24/05, Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've put the (very early) version of my jigsaw game up on RevOnline, and on www.tweedly.net/RunRev http://www.tweedly.net/RunRev/Image%20Jigsaw.rev -- File Not Found Sorry about that - I changed the name

Re: docWikis

Troy Rollins wrote: On Oct 25, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: I seem to remember a bug in it where it would only save the last comments? Well, that would put a damper on things. Would be nice to see that fixed, because it is probably the best way to have a system with longevity t

re: docWikis

Hi Tim, I found your comments really excellent. Thanks for them. So the first thing we should be doing is to create standards for the representation of code and snippets to guarantee interoperability, ease of update, and exchange. I proposed Hugh (the author of the scripter's scrapbook ) t

Re: docWikis

I think your best strategy would be to convince potential participants that their contributions will get recycled into other revDocWikis if yours does not grow and thrive. Accordingly, no contribution will ever be wasted. I'm coming in late, so forgive me is this has already been answered

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

Ken, Many thanks for the information. As you probably realized, the problem is not that I am unfamiliar with PCRE (I have used it for a long times, in PHP), the problem is more that I never realized that revolution was now correctly implementing PCRE. Sure, there is this mention at the ve

mk_libsmil1

Hi friends, i just uploaded a little stack to Rev-Online that will generate a SMIL file on the fly that you can use in a player-object. SMIL = Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Please use GOOGLE to learn more about SMIL. User: klausimausi Stack: mk_libsmil1 (Actually it is just o

stack while debugging

Another suggestion to improve debugging: I can interrupt a script with command + "." (mac). But this doesn't work when I have an answer dialog popping on. Because on a mac an answer dialog is in "sheet" mode, it needs to be dismissed before my keyboard events get to influence the stack beha

Re: Variable Watcher

Well, I have a command in a loop that sends the elements of an array to be stored in a database. I put a breakpoint on the line with the command, and watch the value of the array. I know it's changing, because if I re-click the array's name in the upper panel of the Watcher, it updates to t

Re: Variable Watcher

I'm using 2.6.1 on Tiger. Hm. Charles Hartman On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Jim Ault wrote: I used to see this once in a while in pre 2.5.1 on Panther. (2.2.1 probably). Found that relaunching Rev would get it working again. Now on 2.5.1/Panther and all is well. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 10/2

Blend Grc Bug

Found a new bug last night (running on Windows) I was playing around with the new 2.6.1 Vector Blend enhancement and I accidentally assigned the Blend ink to a group and instead of happily ignoring me like it does when you apply one of the other inks to a group, the program freaked out - the group

Re: Variable Watcher

On 10/25/05, Charles Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I have a command in a loop that sends the elements of an array > to be stored in a database. I put a breakpoint on the line with the > command, and watch the value of the array. I know it's changing, > because if I re-click the array's

Setting custom properties

I would like to be able to set a custom property to an evaluated string. In the following lines of script: put "apples" & cr & "oranges" into tList put "myGroceryList" & 3 into tName set the tName of this card to tList It appears that Run Rev will assign tList to the custom property myGrocery

Re: (Pre) ANN: Pattern Toolkit Gallery

Wilhelm Sanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As usual, there remains the question of the intentions and the > usefulness of such a tool. I think a number of answers are possible. > > In my experience it is a very creative tool, maybe mainly useless, but > somehow fascinating as I find myself spend

RE: database

Marielle... What is your site for the revdoc wiki again? Does it have the whole revDocs on it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marielle Lange Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 6:54 PM To: use Revolution How to Subject: RE: database "I must

Re: Setting custom properties

Jim Hurley wrote: I would like to be able to set a custom property to an evaluated string. In the following lines of script: put "apples" & cr & "oranges" into tList put "myGroceryList" & 3 into tName set the tName of this card to tList It appears that Run Rev will assign tList to the custom p

RE: docWikis

I just checked the webnotes for allowFieldRedraw, and they said "hkhfkj" Maybe the webnotes system isn't working yet? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Tweedly Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:38 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: R

RE: Blend Grc Bug

There's another bug where you can't set the blendlevel of the group! Another one when you stop dragging a control in the blend group where the selected control stops being transparent... but I haven't had a crash or a problem freezing rev with it that I remember... And I am in W2K... What's in

Re: mk_libsmil1

On 25 Oct 2005, at 12:06, Klaus Major wrote: Hi friends, i just uploaded a little stack to Rev-Online that will generate a SMIL file on the fly that you can use in a player-object. SMIL = Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Please use GOOGLE to learn more about SMIL. User: klausim

Re: docWikis

Lynch, Jonathan wrote: I just checked the webnotes for allowFieldRedraw, and they said "hkhfkj" Maybe the webnotes system isn't working yet? More likely is that I'm just not good at exploiting apparent weaknesses :-) Maybe the Web Notes special case the situation where the uploaded note

Re: mk_libsmil1

Konichi-wa Cragg-san, On 25 Oct 2005, at 12:06, Klaus Major wrote: Hi friends, i just uploaded a little stack to Rev-Online that will generate a SMIL file on the fly that you can use in a player-object. SMIL = Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Please use GOOGLE to learn more abo

RE: docWikis

I really like the wiki idea... Webnotes seems great on the surface... But having the docs in a wiki means we get to modify whatever we want. We can add comments after the initial document. We can link to examples, related webpages, and the like. We can even fix the original documents if absolutely

Re: Multilingual dialogues

David, Had a go with the Profile Manager - but not managed to get it to work reliably The problem I have with using the Profile Manager is, AFAIK, there is no way for the user to add a new profile at runtime; so you're stuck with the languages set up when the app ships. Updating menu & menu

Re: docWikis

Alex- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 7:44:04 AM, you wrote: > Maybe this is why a Wiki *might* work while Web Notes (based on the last > 9 months experience or so since they were introduced) demonstrably don't > work. I notice that the Web Notes I have uploaded have just disappeared into the void. I

2.6.1 QT audio bug

I have an invisible player that I am using to play audio. It worked fine in 2.6. It doesn't work in 2.6.1. On Windows it plays the first few words and then is cut off. Has anyone seen this? I am playing MP3 files (actually .swa file that have been renamed .mp3) Peter T. Evensen http://www

Re: Variable Watcher

Charles- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 4:52:47 AM, you wrote: > Well, I have a command in a loop that sends the elements of an array > to be stored in a database. I put a breakpoint on the line with the > command, and watch the value of the array. I know it's changing, > because if I re-click the

Re: docWikis

On 25 Oct 2005, at 03:26, Troy Rollins wrote: On Oct 24, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Why not use the user comment feature built into the Rev docs? I was wondering the same... wouldn't it be best to put them right where people are already looking? Sure - but they are "user do

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

Hi Peter, I have an invisible player that I am using to play audio. It worked fine in 2.6. It doesn't work in 2.6.1. On Windows it plays the first few words and then is cut off. Has anyone seen this? I am playing MP3 files (actually .swa file that have been renamed .mp3) if i remembe

RE: docWikis

For an example of how a note added to a doc could be useful, please look at this page: http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/runtime_revolution_docs/altid_property.cfm? wpid=213569 apologies if the link is broken, you might have to cut and paste the whole link into your browser for it to work. -Origi

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

Hi Peter, Try setting the player to visible, but move it off screen. Does that fix the problem? I remember some similar issues in pre-2.6 versions of Rev, and keeping the player visible fixed them. Maybe something got broken again between 2.6 and 2.6.1. Chris On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:54

Re: Constellation: any way to get equivalent of the selectedObject?

On 25 Oct 2005, at 05:54, Jerry Daniels wrote: David, I am having trouble with the concept of selecting something without the user touching it. We could, of course, make a preference for this behavior. ? That is the behaviour of Constellation no - select in object browser and manipulate

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

On 10/25/05 6:05 AM, "Marielle Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks for the information. As you probably realized, the > problem is not that I am unfamiliar with PCRE (I have used it for a > long times, in PHP), the problem is more that I never realized that > revolution was now correct

Re: Variable Watcher

I don't have time to check at this minute -- but I'll take Mark W's message (a little farther down the list) to mean that this has already been BZ'd . . . right? Charles On Oct 25, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: On 10/25/05, Charles Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I hav

Re: docWikis

Timothy Miller wrote: I think your best strategy would be to convince potential participants that their contributions will get recycled into other revDocWikis if yours does not grow and thrive. Accordingly, no contribution will ever be wasted. I'm coming in late, so forgive me is this has alr

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

That does fix the problem. It did work in 2.5 and 2.6. I guess something did get broken between 2.6 and 2.6.1 :( This is why I hated upgrading Metrowerks! It always broke something. Now I have to go find all my invisible players and make them visible and move them off screen. At 11:09 AM

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

Marielle- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 4:05:38 AM, you wrote: > Sure, there is this mention at the very bottom of the matchtext > function. "Changes to Transcript: The regular expression format > changed in version 2.0 to use PCRE compatible syntax". But when I > tried the PCRE syntax in versio

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

On 10/25/05 11:48 AM, "Mark Wieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marielle- > > Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 4:05:38 AM, you wrote: > >> Sure, there is this mention at the very bottom of the matchtext >> function. "Changes to Transcript: The regular expression format >> changed in version 2.0 to us

RE: Multilingual dialogues

Here's my link to TAOO's language GUI manager article I just put up! http://www.monsieurx.com/tiki/tiki-view_articles.php It's 4 scripts long, but there's far more in a new stack im building for the purpose of GUI language translations. While the real "dialog" version is not there yet, there is

Re: Phishy Paypal -- "those guys pushing the envelope"

Erik Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i did forward a phishy message to PayPal > and got an immediate response. me, too! and got (almost) immediately 2 PayPal scams! seems that those ù$^)* are very active... -- Revolutionario ___ use-revolutio

Re: Multilingual dialogues

OK - not clear how it works - as the important handler is missing? On 25 Oct 2005, at 19:33, MisterX wrote: Here's my link to TAOO's language GUI manager article I just put up! http://www.monsieurx.com/tiki/tiki-view_articles.php It's 4 scripts long, but there's far more in a new stack im bui

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

I had this problem in mc 251 with wav flies also. i have just kept them offscreen but visible since so I never noticed that they might have worked hidden there for a while in later versions of rev. with quicktime players its probably safer to keep them visible since playing them when not visib

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

Hi Peter, Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:54:01 -0500 From: "Peter T. Evensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 2.6.1 QT audio bug I am playing MP3 files (actually .swa file that have been renamed .mp3) Just a side note: It may have nothing to do with why the file doesn't play, OTOH, it might, if 2

Re: Variable Watcher

Charles- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 9:14:53 AM, you wrote: > I don't have time to check at this minute -- but I'll take Mark W's > message (a little farther down the list) to mean that this has > already been BZ'd . . . right? This particular issue (click on an array to display the elements, c

Re: Phishy Paypal -- "those guys pushing the envelope"

Erik Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i did forward a phishy message to PayPal and got an immediate response. me, too! and got (almost) immediately 2 PayPal scams! seems that those ù$^)* are very active... -- Revolutionario ___ Is it poss

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

Ken- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 10:28:36 AM, you wrote: > Actually, it *should* support the full form of PCRE, since that is the > library that was used when the put it into the engine. The bugs you identify > above are all enhancement requests, so they are not representative of actual > bugs wit

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

.swa files are .mp3 files, minus some tags, so the file formats are the same. At 01:44 PM 10/25/2005, you wrote: Hi Peter, Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:54:01 -0500 From: "Peter T. Evensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 2.6.1 QT audio bug I am playing MP3 files (actually .swa file that have been

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

On 25 Oct 2005, at 20:19, Mark Wieder wrote: Ken- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 10:28:36 AM, you wrote: Actually, it *should* support the full form of PCRE, since that is the library that was used when the put it into the engine. The bugs you identify above are all enhancement requests, so t

Textshift (Was: Re: vAlign Images in lines of text)

Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The answer is "yes", you can use the little-known "textShift" property of > text to shift the image (or the text, your choice) above/below the baseline. Note that this also useful for larger text sizes, as "superscript" is a bit too "low" (it seems to be be mi

Re: Variable Watcher

OK, I've posted it: #3204. Charles On Oct 25, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Charles- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 9:14:53 AM, you wrote: I don't have time to check at this minute -- but I'll take Mark W's message (a little farther down the list) to mean that this has already been BZ'd

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

On Oct 25, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: .swa files are .mp3 files, minus some tags, so the file formats are the same. To be more accurate, the audio compression used in swa is mp3. However, the file formats themselves are not identical, since, as you say, swa carries additional

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

Recently, Peter T. Evensen wrote: >>I have an invisible player that I am using to play audio. It >>worked fine in 2.6. > It did work in 2.5 and 2.6. I guess something did get broken between 2.6 > and 2.6.1 In my experience, invisible player objects have long been a problem, not just recently.

Re: Targeting Paint tools at a specific grouped image

Mike Doub wrote: Hello all, I am trying to create a set of controls that is made up of a few fields and an image. I am doing this inside of another group that is set up to manage the scrolling. I must be doing something wrong as any time I go to edit the image a new image is created the same s

Re: Jigsaw

Two people have separately asked (more or less) the same question - so I'll answer on-list in case there are others also wondering. "I tried to download your "Image jigsaw.rev" and it was wrong file type, or showed up as text , or ..." It's a browser problem, or a browser misconfig, or a m

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

>> Well, my BZ #2805 was filed as an enhancement because I realize that >> runrev implements *some* of the regular expression characters in the >> filter command, but not all. I realize the matchText function handles >> more of them, but whether this inconsistency is a bug or an >> enhancement requ

Re: Pre-Fab Profile Set?

Did you get a response from anyone else or is it just the two of us? Dan On Oct 24, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: Hi Dan, This is excellent news. Your server, my server, doesn't matter. If on mine, I can easily set up a password protected forum. Yahoo groups don't have my favor

Re: docWikis

Hi Jonathan What is your site for the revdoc wiki again? My site is not for revdoc... it contains snippets and code examples. http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=StandardsSMIL (for the page on SMIL standards, to be in context... though this page is quite empty for now)

AW: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

Hi Dave and all the others in this thread, > ... I guess the engine is confused about where the replacement > should be made. As far as I know, replaceText always works when the > above construction is used in combination with another expression > (e.g yx*, x*y, yx*z), so if it is a bug, I d

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

Thanks for the clarification. BTW, "Tags" does not imply XML. The non-audio info in MP3s are called tags: http://www.id3.org/ At 03:48 PM 10/25/2005, you wrote: On Oct 25, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: .swa files are .mp3 files, minus some tags, so the file formats are the same

OpenSockets and multiple stacks...?

Hello All... Not sure if this is possible, but I'd like to be able to have a single stack, let's call it the instructors stack, send out a text message to multiple stacks all within a single classroom network all at one time. The "multiple stacks" would be student stacks. I have had a look at

Re: docWikis

Could an expert scripter create a template rev stack that would wikify all the existing revdocs in one fell swoop and send them to their appropriate places in the wiki/web structure (however that works for wikis, no idea here). Just a question. I'm sure it's not easy or someone would have

RE: docWikis

So then, there is no actual online wiki containing the full revdocs... I happen to agree with you (Marielle) that it would be an excellent thing. I am willing to set it up if no one else wishes to do it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mar

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

So AFAICT we have a full and complete PCRE implementation here, with no 'real' bugs associated with it. I fully agree on the full and complete PCRE. Now I know it is there, I tested it and all the syntactic variations I know about are there. But how do I need to call this if not a bug? pu

Re: AW: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

On 25 Oct 2005, at 22:39, Thomas Fischer wrote: 2. I didn't want to sound too harsh, sorry. And if my reply sounded harsh, sorry too. 3. It seems that regular expressions are to be avoided in time sensitive parts of the script anyway. Playing around a little bit I found that the RegExp

RE: OpenSockets and multiple stacks...?

There should be no such restrictions... Presumably each computer in your network will have an IP address... So you just have a list of IP addresses and a repeat loop that sends the message out to the same port on each IP address in the list. It'll take a bit of tweaking to get it all worked out,

Re: docWikis

I would be most interested in seeing all the docs AND the tips and examples in one place. However, it would not be that bad to have two sites if they have pointers to entries in each other. However, it seems like keeping the pointers from breaking might be a concern. The best solution as

Re: OpenSockets and multiple stacks...?

> Not sure if this is possible, but I'd like to be able to have a single stack, > let's call it the instructors stack, send out a text message to multiple > stacks all within a single classroom network all at one time. The "multiple > stacks" would be student stacks. > > > I have had a look at s

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

On 10/25/05 5:15 PM, "Marielle Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So AFAICT we have a full and complete PCRE implementation here, >> with no >> 'real' bugs associated with it. What I meant was that no bugs were associated with it in Bugzilla. > I fully agree on the full and complete PCRE. Now

AW: long (?) filenames in players

Hi Klaus, is it really "Schlockche"? That sounds weird. But apart from this, if the system (whoever is doing the interpretation of the file path) understands the %20 encoding for space, you could try the same encoding for the extended charset: put empty into newString repeat for each chara

Re: Setting custom properties

Message: 12 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:26:47 -0700 From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Setting custom properties To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Jim Hurley wrote: I would like to be able to

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

Dave- Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 12:52:09 PM, you wrote: > The "filter" command doesn't claim to use regualr expressions. (only > matchText, matchChunk, and replaceText do) The docs for "filter" use > the term "wilcard expression", and in fact, a much richer set of > wildcards are allowed in fi

Re: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine + docWiki

All, What about using something like this as an interim solution to filter + regex? I'm sure this could be improved, but basically it just runs through the text one line at a time and uses matchText to filter in/out the matching lines. on regexFilter @t,expr local tmp,l,outLine repeat for ea

RE: docWikis

Jonathan, Congrats for your website. Nice addition to the family. Feel free to step on my toes... you are welcome to dance on them if you fancy :-). You insisted that you did it to check out how difficult it would be. Point taken. But the point made by Tim is an important one. You will ha

Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug

On Oct 25, 2005, at 2:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:44:34 -0500 From: "Peter T. Evensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 2.6.1 QT audio bug .swa files are .mp3 files, minus some tags, so the file formats are the same. I know, but I've had personal experiences

answer file with defaultPath

According to the documentation on the "answer file" command, setting its "with defaultPath" parameter should cause the system's dialog box to list the specified folder's contents. This is however not working on my Win2K (Japanese) machine. Despite setting a default path -- which is stored in a g

Re: AW: AW: How trim: Bug in RegExp engine

On 25 Oct 2005, at 23:39, Thomas Fischer wrote: -snip- 3. It seems that regular expressions are to be avoided in time sensitive parts of the script anyway. Playing around a little bit I found that the RegExp solution I suggested took far more time than any other solution (by about a factor

Re: OpenSockets and multiple stacks...?

Sarah Reichelt wrote: Not sure if this is possible, but I'd like to be able to have a single stack, let's call it the instructors stack, send out a text message to multiple stacks all within a single classroom network all at one time. The "multiple stacks" would be student stacks. I have ha

Re: answer file with defaultPath

Are you using Rev 2.6.1? This bug (# 3021) was reported fixed in that release. But I must say that on OS X 10.4.2, it also fails to honor the path passed to it as a paramter. It seems to behave as the docs describe it should behave without a path argument being passed. On Oct 25, 2005, a

Re: Help with image effect

MisterX wrote: Alex Here's the new script I made - note that now it's TAOO style ;) It applies to any control's rect... And it swaps layers at some point. The third parameter is a bit improved and the layer switch couldn't be smarter - no detection needed however it will switch one image's lay

Re: (Pre) ANN: Pattern Toolkit Gallery -- 21st century plaids

beautiful 21st century plaids reflecting the Scottish origin of Rev. Erik Hansen --- Wilhelm Sanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added a gallery of images to my website > (scroll down > on the left and select > "Pattern Art"). > > The images are examples

OT: Phishy Paypal -- reinstalling OS helps?

--- Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible a trojan on your computer is > covertly sending copies of your email to a bad > guy? As I understand it, the average Windows > machine connected to the internet is infected > with a couple of dozen malware items. > > Otherwise,

Re: OT: Phishy Paypal -- reinstalling OS helps?

On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Erik Hansen wrote: i did reinstall Windows. should that solve my problems? It can always help. Of course, it's STILL Windows. ;-) Firewall, AntiVirus, Anti-Spyware, Adaware, RootKit detection, and very judicious downloading are all highly recommended. Wow, w

Plain text or Unicodetext?

Hi, Is there a way to determine if the text returned from a dialog is ascii text or unicodedtext? I tried working with the chartonum, useunicode and baseconvert functions to no avail. I tried converting and comparing uniencoded versions with the original text and no go. I have tried what I k

video, frame grab, ftp question

Here is a challenge that I would like to meet using as much Rev as possible 1) satellite TV feed to decoder (black box) [this is a legal subscription feed by the way] 2) decoder channel to input on an old Mac G4 350 mH (probably RCA video input) 3) frame grab black/white only, perhaps every 5-10