Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Well, at least from the mc stack, you just run it and it seems to intercept the call on the designated port. You can manually change the port in the launch stack as well. PRetty cool stuff. On 3/16/06, Jim Ault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 3/16/06 6:54 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/16/06 6:54 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The default port in mchttpd is 8080 -- on my Mac I use: > > http://localhost:8080/ Woiks very good... cool. Is there a tutorial about how to put this in action on my G4 that has a static IP? I know that Apache would be t

Re: Developer Annoyance #1

2006-03-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Good point Jim, I really like 'call' as it doesn't create a context for the handler/function. Check it out in the dictionary. Jim Ault wrote: Ooops, I got the wrong idea from your use of value(merge... etc You can use the 'send' or 'call' commands to use a function outside the message hierar

Re: Pass - is it really needed

2006-03-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep, I'd prefer Constellation not place a 'pass' automatically in handlers. I'm sure Jerry will add it as a preference some day :-) -Chipp But, you gotta love the tabbed browsing AND the GREAT debugger which doesn't flake out for no apparent reason. Jerry's told me he's worked really hard on

Re: Pass - is it really needed

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas McGrath III
That is correct. I finally see how powerful Constellation is in my work flow. On Mar 17, 2006, at 12:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thomas McGrath III wrote: The reason I ask is that when I insert a new command it throws in a pass with that commands name by default. This isn't native Revo

Re: Busy Again

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Well it's 1:30 AM and I have now finished 134 Functions and Commands for my little library. Only about 30 or 40 more to go. I do love the challenge of scripting in three different languages as well. Transcript, Applescript and Python. I think it is frying my brain to a crisp. But when you

Re: Developer Annoyance #1

2006-03-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Err... can't you make it a Handler use send and check for the result??? send "calc VarA, VarB" to btn "source" put the result into localResult of course calc is not a function but a handler with a return statement. Cheers andre On Mar 17, 2006, at 2:55 AM, Jim Ault wrot

Re: Developer Annoyance #1

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
Ooops, I got the wrong idea from your use of value(merge... etc You can use the 'send' or 'call' commands to use a function outside the message hierarchy, even in another stack. As Andre has shown send "calc VarA, VarB" to btn "source" put the result into localResult where... on calc VarA, VarB

Re: Developer Annoyance #1

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
Ahh, if you are trying to make embedded quotes as in 'the formatted string' construct ? where localResult should be the string ofcalc(varA,varB) of btn "source" You can do the a few ways depending on your starting and ending strings and your preference ONE put "calc(varA,varB) of btn ""e&"so

Re: Developer Annoyance #1

2006-03-16 Thread Andre Garzia
Err... can't you make it a Handler use send and check for the result??? send "calc VarA, VarB" to btn "source" put the result into localResult of course calc is not a function but a handler with a return statement. Cheers andre On Mar 17, 2006, at 2:55 AM, Jim Ault wrote: I'm not sure tha

Re: Developer Annoyance #1

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
> I'm not sure that this is the right direction for any language to be > headed. Please explain why we can't have the following syntax: > > put calc(varA,varB) of btn "source" into localResult > Please explain what you mean by this.. I don't understand what you are trying to do What is 'calc(

Developer Annoyance #1

2006-03-16 Thread Arthur Urban
I think a new syntax needs to be made available for calling functions outside the message hierarchy. The existing mechanism does not lend itself to high readability or maintainability. Consider the following, if you will: put 1 into varA put 2 into varB put value( merge("calc([[varA]],[[var

Re: Icon for OS X compiled .app not showing :-(

2006-03-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Garrett Hylltun wrote: But after the standalone was saved, the icons I made are not being used at all for the .app in finder. It's using the default icon from OS X as if mine didn't exist or something. As you know now, Mark's suggestion works. So does zipping and then unzipping the standalo

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
Perhaps using set the wholematches to true put lineOffset("on" && pHandlerName, pScript) into tStart if tStart is 0 then put lineOffset("function" && pHandlerName, pScript) into tStart put (lineOffset("end" && pHandlerName, pScript) +1 into tEnd answer tStart & cr & tEnd Jim Ault Las Vegas On

Re: Pass - is it really needed

2006-03-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thomas McGrath III wrote: The reason I ask is that when I insert a new command it throws in a pass with that commands name by default. This isn't native Revolution behavior. Are you using Constellation? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Collabyrinth VPN
Michael Well, I was looking for solution to fasttrack an entirely different project when I ran across Revolution. I've been running it on a Groundhog Day WinBox, but it's dive-time for me, most certainly. This list is also a very fertile group, I think, and that's helped immensely. Sometimes

RE: [ANN] tm|color and tm|gradient Updates

2006-03-16 Thread Scott Kane
> If you all haven't seen the URL's below, you should take a minute and > have a look! Agreed. Fantastic stuff! Scott K -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.4/283 - Release Date: 16/03/2006 ___

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
The reason I think Roberts is more the ticket is that it deals with the case where you have a handler 'jumpHigh' as well as a handler 'jump' later in the script -- this means we need to check for the end of the handler name - which could be a space if there are parameters, or cr if not. We can av

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Tom- Thursday, March 16, 2006, 5:25:12 PM, you wrote: > But, I would like to get just one of the handlers from a script via > script:put handler "FooBar" of the script of card "Foo" into tBar Here's a simplified version of what I do: -- pHandler is the name of the handler to extract -- pScr

Re: [ANN] tm|color and tm|gradient Updates

2006-03-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Wow Scott! Very impressive. I didn't know you could do all these things with your product. Cool! If you all haven't seen the URL's below, you should take a minute and have a look! -Chipp Scott Rossi wrote: - tm|color, our non-modal color chooser, now supports marker colors (fill and line)

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Smith
Sorry, using the third parameter to lineOffset means we have to do this: return line tHandlerBegin to (tHandlerBegin + tHandlerEnd) of pScript On 17 Mar 2006, at 03:04, Mark Smith wrote: return line tHandlerBegin to tHandlerEnd of pScript __

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Smith
The reason I think Roberts is more the ticket is that it deals with the case where you have a handler 'jumpHigh' as well as a handler 'jump' later in the script -- this means we need to check for the end of the handler name - which could be a space if there are parameters, or cr if not. We can avo

Re: Busy Again

2006-03-16 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Thomas McGrath III wrote: Hey you guys and gals, I just have to say that since my last project I was being rather sluggish in jumping on the 'new' project. Well, yesterday I started twiddling around writing a couple of handlers and 'seeing' where they might lead. Next thing you know Transcri

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Ault wrote: > On 3/16/06 10:13 AM, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: >> I would enourage those interested in web apps grab >> Dr. Raney's mchttpd.mc and play with it a while. >> It's a thing of beauty to just open the stack, >> click the "Start" button, and call it with your >> browser. > > I am beginni

Re: [Slightly OT] Amazon's New Storage Plan - Someone Do a Rev Interface?

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 10:56:54 AM, you wrote: I spent about 20 minutes today at the Software Developer's Conference in the south bay with one of the S3 developers from Amazon, and he confirmed most of what we have been thinking... > I read the docs, there appear to be no magical/auto

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Mark and Robert, I needed to check for functions as well. So I adapted the script from Mark into this: function getHandlers hName,tControl put the script of card tControl into tScript put tScript get lineOffset("on " & hName,tScript) if it = 0 then get lineOffset("func

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Smith
This is more the ticket - except I don't think we need to deal with 'on' and 'function' separately, lineOffset picks up the 'on' in 'function'. Cheers, Mark something like (not tested; watch line wraps) put extractHandlerFromScript(the script of cd "Foo","FooBar") into tBar function

Re: Pass - is it really needed

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Thanks Robert, I wasn't sure but that was what I was thinking. Your response verifies that for me and I feel I can keep treating Pass the way I normally do. I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something crucial. Thanks again, Tom On Mar 16, 2006, at 8:57 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: I

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Smith
Not tested, but something like this should work: function getHandler hName,tControl put the script of control tControl into tScript get lineOffset("on " & hName,tScript) if it = 0 then return "not found" put it into startLine get lineOffset("end " & hName,tScript) return line startLin

Re: Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
Hello friends, I know how to get the script from an objects script via script: put the script of card "Foo" into tBar But, I would like to get just one of the handlers from a script via script:put handler "FooBar" of the script of card "Foo" into tBar Anyone know how to do this easily? T

Busy Again

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hey you guys and gals, I just have to say that since my last project I was being rather sluggish in jumping on the 'new' project. Well, yesterday I started twiddling around writing a couple of handlers and 'seeing' where they might lead. Next thing you know Transcript just sucked me right

Re: Pass - is it really needed

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
Hello friends, I am writing a lot of commands and functions for a library and was wondering if the Pass handler name was a necessity? I mean, If I am not using a handler name that is a part of transcript then do I really want the handler to pass after running it? What would be a reason I woul

Re: Icon for OS X compiled .app not showing :-(

2006-03-16 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Mark Talluto wrote: On Mar 16, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Garrett Hylltun wrote: Looking into the .app resouces shows both icons, and the plist file does name the icons appropriately. Am I doing something wrong? You can force the icon to update in the finder by Option dragging a copy of the appli

Pass - is it really needed

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello friends, I am writing a lot of commands and functions for a library and was wondering if the Pass handler name was a necessity? I mean, If I am not using a handler name that is a part of transcript then do I really want the handler to pass after running it? What would be a reason I

Re: Evolution of Revolution?

2006-03-16 Thread Garrett Hylltun
I'd like to see the Linux GUI Framework updated to something like GTK 2 or QT. The current gui framework is ugly and looks outdated on a linux box of today. Just do that and I'd be happy! :-) One of the main reasons I bought Rev Studio was to develop for Mac, Linux and Windows, but as it is

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Peter, As a fellow 'coffee' drinker, welcome to the list. "We keep what we have by giving it away." works real well in this environment too. Easy Does It, Tom On Mar 16, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Collabyrinth VPN wrote: This is pro bono stuff for the fellowship AFAIC, for keeping me sober sinc

Get a handler from a script

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello friends, I know how to get the script from an objects script via script: put the script of card "Foo" into tBar But, I would like to get just one of the handlers from a script via script:put handler "FooBar" of the script of card "Foo" into tBar Anyone know how to do this eas

RE: Evolution of Revolution?

2006-03-16 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> I'm seriously considering buying Rev, but I'd like to know > where the developers are taking this product. Does anybody > know what's in store down the road in terms of enhanced > controls, language features, and the like? I know that's a > rather open-ended question, but surely there's much

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow Peter, great! As one of the "lurkers" who has been toying with Revolution before taking a dive, this is indeed inspiring. Thanks, Michael On Mar 16, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Collabyrinth VPN wrote: Wally As (your) luck would have it, we're working on exactly such a document for the poor u

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Collabyrinth VPN
Wally As (your) luck would have it, we're working on exactly such a document for the poor unfortunates who will inherit the servers once I've wrought havoc on them. This is pro bono stuff for the fellowship AFAIC, for keeping me sober since 1979, so by all means, when it's done and relativel

Re: Icon for OS X compiled .app not showing :-(

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 16, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Garrett Hylltun wrote: Looking into the .app resouces shows both icons, and the plist file does name the icons appropriately. Am I doing something wrong? You can force the icon to update in the finder by Option dragging a copy of the application you made. I

RE: Icon for OS X compiled .app not showing :-(

2006-03-16 Thread Scott Kane
> I should mention though that the dock icon is correct. Sometimes rebooting can solve this. Scott -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.4/283 - Release Date: 16/03/2006 __

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/16/06 10:13 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would > enourage those interested in web apps grab Dr. Raney's mchttpd.mc and > play with it a while. It's a thing of beauty to just open the stack, > click the "Start" button, and call it with your browser. Hi, Richard, I am

Re: Positioning the Message Box ?

2006-03-16 Thread Wally Rodriguez
I imagine that there is a way to intercept the calls to the message box from your original code since Constellation can basically replace it with it's own integrated message box. Worth a try depending on what might take longer to do... W. On Mar 16, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon w

Re: Icon for OS X compiled .app not showing :-(

2006-03-16 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Garrett Hylltun wrote: Rev 2.6.1 I should mention though that the dock icon is correct. Thanks, -Garrett ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pr

Icon for OS X compiled .app not showing :-(

2006-03-16 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Rev 2.6.1 Greetings, Ok, made .png files in sizes of 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 and 128x128. Put them all in Icon Composer and saved the file as a .icns file. Then I picked that file as the icons in the standalone settings for OS X and selected the dialog png files and so on. I used the same .icn

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Wally Rodriguez
How about a tutorial on how to set up Rev to use FastCGI. For those of us for whom a lot of these terms are totatlly new, it would be great to be able to take advantage of some of these tools. I know I'm already salivating at the possibilities of merge(), something I just learned about on t

Re: How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
On 3/16/06 1:48 PM, "Stephen Barncard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you put the command in a 'try' structure?> > Syntax: > try >statementList > catch errorVariable errorStatementsList >[finally cleanupStatementsList] > end try >snip > > Use the try control structure to execute a

Re: set the graphic "G" to x,y,....

2006-03-16 Thread thierry
Oups, bad typo, sorry. the command is: set the points of graphic "G" to listPoints thierry Hi all, Testing Rev27 on Win32, with my demoStack, i found that the command : set the graphic "G" to listPoints is 5 times slower on Rev27 than on Rev21. because, i'm using this command in a

Positioning the Message Box ?

2006-03-16 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi Robert, Thanks for the feedback. I realized that there were alternate solutions (such as a substack), but I am a lazy "git", and I want to limit the modifications to my Hypercard stack scripts while converting. I even wrote a "Hypercard to Revolution" script conversion script, to help me in m

set the graphic "G" to x,y,....

2006-03-16 Thread thierry
Hi all, Testing Rev27 on Win32, with my demoStack, i found that the command : set the graphic "G" to listPoints is 5 times slower on Rev27 than on Rev21. because, i'm using this command in a loop it's really not too good :-( the anti-aliasing is off. Does anyone saw that and has a clu

Re: Positioning the Message Box ?

2006-03-16 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 3/17/06, Francis Nugent Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi from Paris, > > I have an update on my own question. When I position the > message box, > > show message box > set the rect of window "message box" to 394,681,802,826 > > it goes to the right place. But when I display any data in

Re: How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread Stephen Barncard
Have you put the command in a 'try' structure? Syntax: try statementList catch errorVariable errorStatementsList [finally cleanupStatementsList] end try See also: catch keyword , end try keyword , finally keyword , lockErrorDialogs property , throw control structure Summary: Exec

Re: Evolution of Revolution?

2006-03-16 Thread Jonathan Lynch
In my experience, most of the shortcomings can be overcome. And once they are overcome, you can save reuse the solution forever. For example, the table object in Rev is imperfect. It is good for some things, but it does not do what I need it to do as a user interface. So, I created my own table o

Evolution of Revolution?

2006-03-16 Thread Arthur Urban
I'm seriously considering buying Rev, but I'd like to know where the developers are taking this product. Does anybody know what's in store down the road in terms of enhanced controls, language features, and the like? I know that's a rather open-ended question, but surely there's much more room

Re: How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
Graham Samuel wrote: Thanks for the reply, but my point is that the 'create folder' function doesn't appear to me to return anything in 'the result' when an error occurs: 'the result' just goes on being empty - but the command does apparently generate an error text because I can see it in

Minimize stack...

2006-03-16 Thread Gilberto Cuba
Hi, I have a Rev 2.6 in a Debian Sarge distributions, and I tried to minimize my application in KDE, it work very fine, but I tried to minimized in GNOME that is not work. Why? How I can minimize my application in GNOME? Best regards, Gilberto Cuba ___

[ANN] tm|color and tm|gradient Updates

2006-03-16 Thread Scott Rossi
Greetings List: We're happy to announce some minor updates to tm|color and tm|gradient plugins for Revolution 2.6.x. - tm|color, our non-modal color chooser, now supports marker colors (fill and line) and includes a few bug fixes. - The radial fill option in tm|gradient, a gradient building tool

Re: How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Ault
> Thanks for the reply, but my point is that the 'create folder' > function doesn't appear to me to return anything in 'the result' when > an error occurs: 'the result' just goes on being empty - but the > command does apparently generate an error text because I can see it > in the message box. So

Re: How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread Graham Samuel
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 at 07:55:07 -0800, Rob Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Graham, As 'create' is not a function, I don't see any other way for it to return a value. Commands can return a value in "the result." create folder myPath get the result if it is no

Re: to many mails

2006-03-16 Thread Camm29
Read your subscription info ! It explains why you get mails , always read the small print ! Regards - Original Message - From: "marcus graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:56 AM Subject: to many mails > dont send any mails > > ---

Revolution 2.6.1 and 2.7 on osX86

2006-03-16 Thread dreamscapesoftware.com - List
Does Revolution 2.6.1 and 2.7 function on a Intel Mac? Reason I ask is because I tried the osx86 thing and got it to work, but Revolution won't load. The icon bounces once and then nothing. Any ideas? -- Derek ___ use-revolution mailing list use-

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Collabyrinth VPN
Richard Thank you for the kind invitation! Given that I'm writing these server programs in aid of a certain well-known 12 Step program's online activities, and that it's doubtful I'll be at either event, more's the pity, please be advised you can Fed-Ex any kind of high-test caffiene-laden pr

Re: How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mar 16, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've turned up some, but I have too many for Win32 and very few for OS X. While I winnow the Win list down to a manageable subset of common culprits, if someone out there has a link to OS X error codes I'd certainly appreciate it, and sh

Re: How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: I have a path in a variable say myPath, and I execute create folder myPath sometimes the folder can't be created (if the directory is protected etc) and if I execute the above in the message box in these circumstances, I see the text can't create that directory B

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Elliott wrote: Rev works just fine with FastCGI. Fwiw, I'd be happy to set up some benchmarks and publish the results next week, if it helps. That would be enormously helpful. Thank you! If you come to RevCon West in June or Euro RevCon in November I'll buy the beverage of your choic

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Collabyrinth VPN
Forgive the intrusion from a 'lurker', but as I've learned so much from you all the last three months, it's time I gave something back. I'm developing using Ruby on Rails on both Windows XP Pro SP2 & (Knoppix) Linux simultaneously. Rev works just fine with FastCGI. Fwiw, I'd be happy to set u

Re: [OT] Major Flood in Kauai - Swami??

2006-03-16 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha, yes, we are fine... Thanks for asking. The reservoir that broke is about 20 miles north of us. It's been raining for 4-5 days, almost none stop, yesterday it rained steadily for 20 out of 24 hours. We think the storm has moved on... Seven people missing.. several found washed out

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: With the caveat that I am hardly a Rails expert and certainly have not done a lot of work with Rev on the server side either, let me see if I can clarify my earlier point here. I know that what I'm going to say is probably so trivial to many reading this thread that it will seem

Re: ANN: Displacement Scaling of graphic objects

2006-03-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Jim Hurley wrote: The "stopTurtle" stack is an interpreter I wrote in Transcript to implement TG. To check it out, in the msg box, run: go url "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/StopTurtles.rev"; It includes a TG dictionary and a few examples. OK Jim, now you're just showing off! Ni

Re: Positioning the Message Box ?

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
Hi from Paris, I have an update on my own question. When I position the message box, show message box set the rect of window "message box" to 394,681,802,826 it goes to the right place. But when I display any data in it, it RETURNS to its original position (It happens so quickly during my s

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, Marielle- Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 5:22:34 PM, you wrote: Simple: "A method for outputting Java byte-codes equivalent to MetaCard scripts has been designed, but implementation has been delayed until the serious performance, compatibility, and functionality limitations in Java have

Re: Making the move...

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Marielle- Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 5:22:34 PM, you wrote: > Simple: "A method for outputting Java byte-codes equivalent to > MetaCard scripts has been designed, but implementation has been > delayed until the serious performance, compatibility, and > functionality limitations in Java have b

Re: How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Graham, As 'create' is not a function, I don't see any other way for it to return a value. Commands can return a value in "the result." create folder myPath get the result if it is not empty then beep answer error it end if

Positioning the Message Box ?

2006-03-16 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I have an update on my own question. When I position the message box, show message box set the rect of window "message box" to 394,681,802,826 it goes to the right place. But when I display any data in it, it RETURNS to its original position (It happens so quickly during my s

Re: ANN: Displacement Scaling of graphic objects

2006-03-16 Thread Jim Hurley
Jim Hurley wrote: In the message box: go url "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ScaleMe3.rev"; Oh my. To those of us who are math-impaired, this is astounding. It is also funny you should post this right now, because just two days ago I was thinking how I would like to write a fractal

Re: Faking soft dropshadows

2006-03-16 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/15/06 8:51 PM, "Ian Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the new import/export snapshot abilities in Rev 2.7, it just got > much easier to do certain kinds of image manipulation, and I finally > got around to making a stack that will add relatively convincing > dropshadows to a copy any im

Positioning the Message Box ?

2006-03-16 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I like to display information in the message box (an old Hypercard habit !) during execution of some of my routines (Print, etc.). So I thought I would control the position and size of the box to sit it under my stack window. When I execute the command : set the rect of window "m

How does 'Create Folder' give its result?

2006-03-16 Thread Graham Samuel
I have a path in a variable say myPath, and I execute create folder myPath sometimes the folder can't be created (if the directory is protected etc) and if I execute the above in the message box in these circumstances, I see the text can't create that directory But if I do this by scrip

Educational stacks

2006-03-16 Thread Stgoldberg
In a message dated 3/15/06 12:34:17 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has used Revolution in creating > 1. A multiple choice quiz stack? > 2. A multimedia "training" stack ? > My interest is in the "look and feel" from the user experience and how > self-contained training modules

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 30, Issue 36

2006-03-16 Thread Stgoldberg
In a message dated 3/15/06 12:34:17 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has used Revolution in creating > 1. A multiple choice quiz stack? > 2. A multimedia "training" stack ? > My interest is in the "look and feel" from the user experience and how > self-contained training modules

Printing fields with images included by « set t he imageSource of such char »

2006-03-16 Thread André . Bisseret
Hi ! On each card of an App. I have differents texts ; some are including images that are put there by means of one char on a line (ex. : £,§,€…) whose imageSource is set to an image number (the images are in a special substack). I want the user be able to print the text of this fld. My first

Re: [OT] Spotlight and Tiger

2006-03-16 Thread Ian Wood
On 16 Mar 2006, at 12:20, Kay C Lan wrote: Then again, is the spotlight db only used by spotlight or is a corrupt db likely to effect other things? Why can FileBuddy find the file and not spotlight, I assume they use the same db? Offhand, I can't think of anything else it would affect, othe

Re: [OT] Spotlight and Tiger

2006-03-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On 3/16/06, Ian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like the database files have got seriously corrupted somehow. > Thanks for the links about rebuilding the database. Note that the rebuild may take several hours... H. I think I might leave it until next time I have to watch paint

Re: [OT] Spotlight and Tiger

2006-03-16 Thread Ian Wood
On 16 Mar 2006, at 04:18, Kay C Lan wrote: On 3/16/06, Stephen Barncard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is anyone else annoyed with this horrible 'feature' of an otherwise great OS? You miss the most annoying feature of all. Spotlight is invariably WRONG. I fail to find folders or files whi

Re: [OT] Spotlight and Tiger

2006-03-16 Thread Stephen Barncard
Which costs about the same as than a copy of Path Finder! There's an excellent Spotlight tutorial DVD by Rick Ligas at http://www.discoveryourmac.com/ Just in case anyone's interested. -Chipp -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - __

Re: [OT] Spotlight and Tiger

2006-03-16 Thread Chipp Walters
There's an excellent Spotlight tutorial DVD by Rick Ligas at http://www.discoveryourmac.com/ Just in case anyone's interested. -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

Re: Faking soft dropshadows

2006-03-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Never mind, I was using Rev 2.6 not 2.7 and because the file format changed, rev couldn't recognize your stack. Thanks, looks nice! -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: Faking soft dropshadows

2006-03-16 Thread Chipp Walters
I get: No Such Card. Perhaps you should check the URL? In the message box: go url "http://www.azurevision.co.uk/rev/dropshadow_004.rev"; ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib