[ANN] Revolution Updates Now RSS Feed

2006-01-15 Thread Ken Ray
For those of you who have subscribed to the Rev-Updates email service at my site (or those of you who *wanted* to, but never have) this is to let you all know that I now have changed this over to a convenient RSS feed, which can be connected to by going to this page: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Marielle Lange
(For some reason, I cannot post on revdocs, which has anyway become inactive, so I put my reply here) > Am sitting here with Marielle and have been discussing the wiki > strategy we wish to see at least. The aim is to work on this with or > without RunRev support in January. I have registered t

changing default buttonshapes

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Langers
Hello, I just wondered if it were possible to change the default shapes of buttons linked to a specific platform ? e.g. I wanted to use the Win radiobuttons on OS X is that possible ? and how ? Does anybody have an example ? Christian L. ___ use

Re: changing default buttonshapes

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Christian, Menu View/Look and Feel/Windows Emulated :-) Le 15 janv. 06 à 11:23, Christian Langers a écrit : I just wondered if it were possible to change the default shapes of buttons linked to a specific platform ? e.g. I wanted to use the Win radiobuttons on OS X is that possible ? an

Re: changing default buttonshapes

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Langers
Bonne fin de matinée Eric ;-) Do you think I should look at the code in Rev itself to see how it's done ? Christian Le 15 janv. 06 à 11:26, Eric Chatonet a écrit : Hi Christian, Menu View/Look and Feel/Windows Emulated :-) Le 15 janv. 06 à 11:23, Christian Langers a écrit : I just won

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Sivakatirswami
Marielle: I've been lurking on your initiative for some time as I am indeed in your boat "non-profit-education user" of rev. I fully agree: 1) we should not host the Docs 2) the docs are fine as they are: what are needed are examples! And thus your shared code library site concept is perfe

Re: changing default buttonshapes

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Chatonet
Christian, Le 15 janv. 06 à 11:30, Christian Langers a écrit : Bonne fin de matinée Eric ;-) Merci :-) Do you think I should look at the code in Rev itself to see how it's done ? It's engine built-in. The code to set it is: set the lookAndFeel to "Windows 95" See lookAndFeel property in

Re: changing default buttonshapes

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Langers
Somewhere I read that you can customize the look of your controls (not only the look and feel but replacing the actual controls by others)... or am I wrong ? Christian Le 15 janv. 06 à 11:59, Eric Chatonet a écrit : Christian, Le 15 janv. 06 à 11:30, Christian Langers a écrit : Bonne

Re: changing default buttonshapes

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Chatonet
Christian, As icons are images you can build any custom control using images. As an example, have a look at Chipp Walters utilities/plugins... or mine :-) Le 15 janv. 06 à 12:19, Christian Langers a écrit : Somewhere I read that you can customize the look of your controls (not only the loo

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Charles Hartman
I really like the "cookbook" model of mutual help at, for example, http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python In various languages, I've found that after the initial bootstrapping phase (Dan Shafer's book can help people through that), the cookbook approach is very efficient: I

Re: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin Miller
On 11/1/06 02:19, "Jesse Sng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that Apple has shipped some machines that are running on Intel > processors, I'm wondering if there are announcements on the part of > RunRev as to when there might be Universal Binary editions of > Revolution? Universal binaries won'

Re: [ANN] Audio Waveform display

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
Sivakatirswami, I think the audio to midi functionality exists in a few of the pro sequencing packages, but you might take a look at Melodyne : http://www.celemony.com/ I don't know of anything that can extract a single voice from a recording of a full band/orchestra/choir. Perhaps it can

Re: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Kevin, May we understand that Universal binaries Rev will be Rev 3.0 planned to be shipped at the end of the year (or something like :-)? Not fully obliged to reply :-) Le 15 janv. 06 à 14:55, Kevin Miller a écrit : On 11/1/06 02:19, "Jesse Sng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that Appl

Re: Formatting numbers

2006-01-15 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 21 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:40:10 -0800 From: Marty Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Formatting numbers To: Revolution User List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Does somebody have a suggestion for formatting numbers with co

Re: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Kevin Miller
On 15/1/06 14:00, "Eric Chatonet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May we understand that Universal binaries Rev will be Rev 3.0 planned > to be shipped at the end of the year (or something like :-)? Any plans we may or may not have for Revolution 3.0 are not in any way related to Universal binaries.

Re: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Chatonet
Kevin, Thanks for this clarification. Le 15 janv. 06 à 15:30, Kevin Miller a écrit : On 15/1/06 14:00, "Eric Chatonet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: May we understand that Universal binaries Rev will be Rev 3.0 planned to be shipped at the end of the year (or something like :-)? Any plans w

Re: Portable Apps..?

2006-01-15 Thread Rob Cozens
Jim, All stated that it would NOT be accepted in any corporate environment in Europe as corporations were banning the use of such devices by people in the office. No employees were allowed to use such a device in the office. I must say I'm surprised to hear this. From my limited experience,

sound recording stack available?

2006-01-15 Thread Kurt Kaufman
In Rev Online - User spaces under "sms" I have a stack called RecPlayWawMCI which may be of help. Thank you; this seems to be exactly what I was looking for. -Kurt ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Message from Marielle

2006-01-15 Thread Marielle Lange
Hi Scott, Many thanks for your recommendation. I went for heartinternet www.heartinternet.co.uk/> which had been recommended on this list, I believe. They have free 24/24 "chat support", 100% uptime guaranteed, unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth for a price I can afford. When I connected

Re: Portable Apps..?

2006-01-15 Thread sims
sims wrote: All stated that it would NOT be accepted in any corporate environment in Europe as corporations were banning the use of such devices by people in the office. No employees were allowed to use such a device in the office. At 8:18 AM -0800 1/15/06, Rob Cozens wrote: I must say I'm su

Re: [ANN] Revolution Updates Now RSS Feed

2006-01-15 Thread Gregory Lypny
Very nice, Ken. Thanks. Gregory On 15-Jan-06, at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 23 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:00:25 -0600 From: Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ANN] Revolution Updates Now RSS Feed To: Use Revolution List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type:

Revolution Preferences

2006-01-15 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, I was wonder whether there is a way to set default properties for object in Revolution. I notice in Revolution's Preference window that default object sizes can be set. It would be nice to be able to set default field properties such as font and text size. Would that s

Re: Revolution Preferences

2006-01-15 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Gregory, You set the default font and size of all fields in a stack by setting the font and size of the stack itself in the property inspector. By default, all objects inherit the properties of their owner unless you set them differently. See Property Inheritance in Docs/Topics/Properties

Re: [ANN] Revolution Updates Now RSS Feed

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, January 15, 2006, at 04:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you who have subscribed to the Rev-Updates email service at my site (or those of you who *wanted* to, but never have) this is to let you all know that I now have changed this over to a convenient RSS feed, which

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Marielle Lange wrote: (For some reason, I cannot post on revdocs I just posted a test message moments ago. Seems to work well. Feel free to contact me offlist to determine the source of the problem. which has anyway become inactive, so I put my reply here) Yes, a community is only as act

Re: PDF and PPT

2006-01-15 Thread Rick Rice
I know this must have been covered before, but how do I open a PDF file and/or a powerpoint file from within Rev? When you say, "open", what do you mean? I mean do you want to launch PowerPoint or Acrobat reader from within Rev and pass it the document so it displays properly in that program,

Rev in High School

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Greenberg
Fellow Revolutionaries, just a note to let you know of some progress in getting Revolution into the classroom. I have been awarded a $10,000 grant to train students to program game-like Rev stacks that help learners understand academic topics. My district has authorized an elective course

Re: Rev in High School

2006-01-15 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Mark, This is fantastic news. How did this happen? I think learning how you were able to do this might help in other states as well. A description from first contact to final acceptance might be useful. Tom On Jan 15, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Mark Greenberg wrote: Fellow Revolutionaries, just a n

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Judy Perry
Which, of course, really goes back to the Hypercard model of pre-built widgets ala the Buttons and Fields stacks (don't recall their exact names at the moment) that many of us have requested since Day 1. And, while it's wonderful that individuals such as Marielle and others wish to 'fill the gap'

Re: Image Corruption

2006-01-15 Thread Marty Knapp
Thanks Chipp and Jim, I'll have to do some more experimenting here. I am having some weird problems though. They manifested themselves when I started building standalones with a menubar. If I remove the menubar, there seems to be no problem (just a standard Rev default menubar with no changes

Re: xml and utf-8 attribute

2006-01-15 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/14/06 3:33 PM, "praxMatrix Internet Services" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a lot of trouble getting the right characters to appear for an > XML attribute. The file loads correctly and displays the English words with > no problems but the translation attribute returns garbled charac

Re: Rev in High School

2006-01-15 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/15/06 12:17 PM, "Mark Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fellow Revolutionaries, just a note to let you know of some progress > in getting Revolution into the classroom. I have been awarded a > $10,000 grant to train students to program game-like Rev stacks that > help learners understa

Re: Rev in High School

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Greenberg
Step 1: My wife clipped a tiny notice from the paper that the Qwest Foundation was granting money to teachers for "innovative use of technology in the classroom." Step 2: I researched the grant and contacted the organization that was managing the grant process and money. Step 3: I atte

Re: xml and utf-8 attribute

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Waddingham
> I'm having a lot of trouble getting the right characters to appear for an > XML attribute. The file loads correctly and displays the English words with > no problems but the translation attribute returns garbled characters. The > XML is encoded as UTF-8. I've tried implementing the various sugges

Re: PDF and PPT

2006-01-15 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/15/06 11:58 AM, "Rick Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, thanks Tom and Alex for your suggestions. > However, Ken asked the question the way I should have. > What I want to do is launch PowerPoint and/or Acrobat reader from > within Rev and pass it the document for display outside of R

Re: revCreateXMLFromFile parsing entities?

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Waddingham
I missed this first time round, but as this is related to a post I just made, I thought I'd go back and retrospectively comment :o) On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 16:06 -0600, Peter T. Evensen wrote: > I get an error saying that "Entity 'cent' is not defiled" if I have the > following in my XML file: > >

Re: Revolution Preferences

2006-01-15 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/15/06 10:52 AM, "Gregory Lypny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was wonder whether there is a way to set default properties for > object in Revolution. I notice in Revolution's Preference window > that default object sizes can be set. It would be nice to be able to > set

Re: Rev in High School

2006-01-15 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Mark, This is very inspiring to me and I'm sure many others on this list. Thanks for posting this. Tom On Jan 15, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Mark Greenberg wrote: Step 1: My wife clipped a tiny notice from the paper that the Qwest Foundation was granting money to teachers for "innovative use of

Re: Revolution Preferences

2006-01-15 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thank you, Eric. I tried an example using the Property Inspector, and although it's not particularly intuitive, it appears to work. Once I get the hang of it, I think it will save me a lot of time. Gregory On 15-Jan-06, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gregory, You set

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Marielle Lange
(For some reason, I cannot post on revdocs I just posted a test message moments ago. Seems to work well. Feel free to contact me offlist to determine the source of the problem. Thanks for that...The problem was due to an email of mine that has become inactive (my ed.ac.uk one) and yahoo ver

Re: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Jesse Sng
We'll publish more information on this when we start the test cycle for a universal version. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Development Tools Ok. Thanks Kevin, I look forward to hearing more news about this, e

RE: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Scott Kane
Jesse, > Ok. Thanks Kevin, I look forward to hearing more news about this, > especially also information on how Rev is currently doing on Rosetta > for those who might have to work with that during the interim. What is Rosetta? Scott ___ use-revolu

Needed: A shortcut to help user install downloaded fonts

2006-01-15 Thread Kresten Bjerg
HI After the long discussion on font installation in March,(3/3/05 - 30/3/05) and my (unanswered) posting last week on the same topic, I got the following idea: If a downloadable standalone / with an installer/ comes in a folder, in which my fontsuite is included, couldnt an answer dialogue be

Re: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Swindell
I think you are right, Judy. These things ought to come out-of-the- box, as well. Rev resources are plentiful, but newbies aren't going to be able to make sense of much of what is available. It strikes me that one large searchable/navigable stack comprised of all of the scripting conferenc

RE: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Jesse Sng
Jesse, Ok. Thanks Kevin, I look forward to hearing more news about this, especially also information on how Rev is currently doing on Rosetta for those who might have to work with that during the interim. What is Rosetta? Scott Rosetta is the PowerPC emulator that runs on the Intel Macs.

RE: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Scott Kane
Mark, > I think you are right, Judy. These things ought to come out-of-the- > box, as well. Rev resources are plentiful, but newbies aren't going > to be able to make sense of much of what is available. I agree. I love Rev. But it took me quite a while to come to grips with it. Compared t

RE: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Scott Kane
> Rosetta is the PowerPC emulator that runs on the Intel Macs. It > allows existing PowerPC code to be executed on the new intel macs > transparently. That includes the current version of Revolution which > I assume is able to run flawlessly already. > > The question of course is whether the p

RE: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Gorton, Stephen (Oxygen)
Being a newbie but having a development background with lower level languages, I agree -completely-. It would be a great bonus having at least some sort of crossover docs like c++ -> Rev, from a coding point of view, its just that the syntax and the way you think about everything is greatly differ

RE: Architecting the Doc Solution

2006-01-15 Thread Scott Kane
> Being a newbie but having a development background with lower > level languages, I agree -completely-. It would be a great > bonus having at least some sort of crossover docs like c++ -> > Rev, from a coding point of view, its just that the syntax > and the way you think about everything is

RE: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Jesse Sng
Thank you for taking the time to explain it. It's the fist I've heard of Rosetta. Scott It's supposed to run really fast on the new Macs and that's the only reason why Apple can release their Intel Macs so soon without fear of incompatible software or the lack of upgrades. Jesse _

RE: Rev on Universal Binary

2006-01-15 Thread Scott Kane
> It's supposed to run really fast on the new Macs and that's the only > reason why Apple can release their Intel Macs so soon without fear of > incompatible software or the lack of upgrades. I was wondering how they were going to achieve that... Scott ___

Re: Needed: A shortcut to help user install downloaded fonts

2006-01-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Kresten, We've just finished developemnt on the altFont external which will allow Mac and PC users to embed fonts with their applications. They are temporarily installed until: 1) The developer removes them or; 2) The OS restarts We're currently testing them and will have them for sale at Al

Universal Binaries and the 2.7 cycle

2006-01-15 Thread Mathewson
1. Am I right in assuming that RR 2.7.* will be a 'pay' upgrade rather than a free one, as it involves a significant feature upgrade (Universal Binaries) ? 2. Presumably 'Universal Binaries' refers to Standalones only, and a stack authored on Dreamcard 2.6.1 will be directly transferable to an Int

Off Topic / On Topic: Those Yahoo Groups ?

2006-01-15 Thread Mathewson
After the "November/December Cafuffle" over what was and what was not the acceptable topic-range on the RR use-list Richard Gaskin set up a rev-biz Yahoo group and I set up a rev-Graphics group - and they died a rapid and perhaps predictable death. I would be grateful if users could e-mail me dire