Re: creating my own tools palette

2006-04-09 Thread Xeubie Tsu
Interesting, thank you. Do you know anything about Software at the Speed of Thought and could you recommend it for learning transcript? I'm looking for a comprehensive source for learning the language at the moment. Oakes From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: Revolution software to black listed nations

2006-04-09 Thread kee nethery
On Apr 8, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Kee, assuming I promise not to have our legions of defense attorney subpoena you to come to court to testify as an expert witness after we have carefully coached you under hot lights without sleep, food or water for three days... (smile).

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-09 Thread Dan Shafer
I started calling it Ringy Dingy Park. That way, whatever telephone/telco conglomerate owns it, I'm right. :-) Dan On 4/8/06, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 5:09:14 PM, you wrote: Kinda like I can't say SBC park. I always call it PacBell park.

Re: dogma

2006-04-09 Thread sims
At 4:12 PM -0700 4/8/06, Mark Wieder wrote: Come the Revolution, all handlers and functions must forthwith be named Revolution. All controls must also be named Revolution in order to be recognized by the Revolution language in the Revolution environment. In addition, all custom properties must

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Garrett Hylltun
David Vaughan wrote: On 09/04/2006, at 9:26, Garrett Hylltun wrote: The intent of the code is far too obvious for you or anyone else here to say any different. Ah, the sweetness of certainty; the certainty of not knowing. You're just upset because your belief that bug free is impossible

Re: OT Forums

2006-04-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Alex, lost a month? g We had april fools day already. ;-) All the best, Malte Today is March 9th - but I want it to still be a weekend, I don't want to go back to Thursday :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Dear Rev Team Fellows, Please, follow the proposal instead of driving us to add administrative tasks to our Rev's time... Thanks Jacque and Mark ;-) Best Regards, Hi Jacque, Yes, it is possible to install an addition to the forum that lets use choose whether to use the web based

Help: script only works when in debug mode

2006-04-09 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi I placed the following handler in a 'parent' button (called Btn1 and Label set to 1) size 40 by 40. The objective is to produce a row of 10 evenly spaced buttons numbered 1 to 10, 10 pixels apart. on mouseUp select me repeat with n = 2 to 10 clone the selectedobject select it

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Apr 8, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I don't think anyone is attacking your programming prowess here. It's just that by providing a one line script and calling it a 'program' you invite questions. Am I coming off as defensive? It's not my intent. Based on your post: On Apr 8,

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
Well, Marielle, I've been accused of it. Dan too, I'll bet. And the both of us in a single breath, I'll wager (I wonder just how many people avoid a forum in which the two of us reside; or me alone, for that matter). Sometimes these things happen due to the differences between bodily-present

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
I guess I am fortunate that googling me turns up people other than me or me in my other incarnation as an amateur historian. 'Cuz otherwise I'd be so obviously toast... Anybody got the butter handy??? (hiding... don't hate me, Marielle: I'm just in an uncharacteristically good/wine-lubricated

Re: ArcadeEngine Forum is moving

2006-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Malte! Best of luck! Judy On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, Now that Runtime has their forums online, ArcadeEngine support forum is moving to our new RevSelect forum here - http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=27 I am looking forward to see you there.

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread David Vaughan
On 09/04/2006, at 17:44, Geoff Canyon wrote: I think you and I are agreed: the software itself is bug free. There seems to be debate over whether a bug in the code's context -- requirements, the engine, the OS, etc. -- qualifies as a bug in the software. I think it doesn't, but I can

A little question.

2006-04-09 Thread damien
Hi all, I have see something strange on the Revolution Studio Box (the image who is on www.runrev.com). When you look logos who are in the box, you can see MacOS, Linux, Windows and RedHat. Why there is the RedHat logo here instead of the Solaris logo ? (I am not a sun lawyer, but is it

Re: Had Revolution for over a year and I still can't run a stack file

2006-04-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
Chipp Walters wrote: Hi Len, Sorry to hear you're having problems. I've been running all versions of Rev since 1.0 and haven't seen it on XP, though I have no doubt it exists. Here's a suggestion you might try. It has to do with your video drivers. Turns out the Rev engine is very

Re: OT Forums

2006-04-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
Malte Brill wrote: Hi Alex, lost a month? g We had april fools day already. ;-) A - I thought I'd got a lot done this month !! Didn't realize it had been a 40-day month already :-) -- Alex Tweedly http://www.tweedly.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked

Re: creating my own tools palette

2006-04-09 Thread Jerry Muelver
Xeubie Tsu wrote: Interesting, thank you. Do you know anything about Software at the Speed of Thought and could you recommend it for learning transcript? I'm looking for a comprehensive source for learning the language at the moment. Check out the Online Scripting conferences --

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Robert Brenstein
Straight out of the box, Revolution Media provides the features of a word processor, a presentation tool, a movie player, a calculator and many more standard applications. Does this mean it is now possible to type Chinese in a field without having the application crash with some of the most

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Jerry Muelver
Robert Brenstein wrote: Does anyone who got Media can tell us if the list of features of a word processor include things like paragraph-level formatting and full justification? And numbered and unnumbered lists, graphics insertion with text flow-around, assignable text and paragraph

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

2006-04-09 Thread Robert Brenstein
Lynn What is the thinking behind this? I am a little put off by the change. Hypercard had hypertalk, supercard had supertalk, director had lingo and Revolution had Transcript. I love the name transcript. My initial reaction was the same, but after sleeping on this, I concluded that the

RE: Help: script only works when in debug mode

2006-04-09 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi Providing an answer to my own post here. It seems to be a timing problem. When I replace move the selectedobject relative 18,-32 without waiting with move the selectedobject relative 18,-32 in 1 tick the code executes perfectly. But setting the lockmoves property to true before the loop

Re: Help: script only works when in debug mode

2006-04-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Ian, I was just about to respond when I saw you answered your own post. The without waiting is the culprit. The computer doesn't wait to move one while the other is moving to it's new location and as such is getting the wrong coordinates to figure out what the relative is. I'm surprised

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jerry, I don't have a copy of Media so take this with a grain of salt, but I don't think that RRs idea of a word processor is the same as ours. I do not believe that anything in the capabilities present in 2.7 are different in Media and so that would mean there are no new abilities for

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

2006-04-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Robert, I guess I'm just resistant to change because I'm still not that happy about it. But after a nights sleep I am more willing to see how it plays out for the long road. There are a lot of changes happening lately so I assume they have a plan and are sticking to it. I guess that's

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote: I am happy to see Revolution making steady progress, and one sentence on the home page in particular did not fail to raise my spirits wildly: Straight out of the box, Revolution Media provides the features of a word processor, a presentation tool, a movie player,

RE: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Does this mean it is now possible to type Chinese in a field without having the application crash with some of the most common characters? Is Devanagari no longer garbled? I would love to introduce my students to Revolution Media, but living in Taiwan and working in a field in which

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-09 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 22 Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:52:17 -0700 From: Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Snip) Meander thru the book store, look at the shelves and see the impact those names have... a variety of reactions, I would imagine. The C++ primer as thick as your arm. Now imagine Revolution snuggled

Re: Please drop this thread

2006-04-09 Thread Marielle Lange
Lynn, Hi kids, The argument has gone on too long. Note that I don't know of any argument. I didn't read the list. Simply because I am not interested in endlessly arguing with Richard and I know too well how much Richard likes to lock himself in endless arguments. But I am interested

Re: Revolution software to black listed nations

2006-04-09 Thread James Spencer
On Apr 8, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Has anyone studied out carefully the issue of shipping Rev stacks to countries on the US state department embargo list? These being currently (found in many typical EULA's) Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, military or

End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Good (Sunday) morning, The amount of biting argument on the list has reached unacceptable levels, after the warning yesterday. I am going to direct support to begin deleting list subscriptions if I come back from Sunday breakfast and there's still a stream of them coming in. Best regards, Lynn

Re: Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: On Sat Apr 8, 2006, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: In v2.7 the dev and runtime engines are separate, and I can't get the dev engine to run without an IDE and I can't get the runtime engine to run at all without being bound to an app. I solved this for

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 7:32:05 PM, you wrote: No, Candlestick was re-christened Monster Park a couple of years ago, and the 49er's still play there. The Giants play at PacBell, aka SCC, aka ATT, aka ETC ETC ETC Park. I know, but those old habits... Candlestick had some class. I've

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Geoff- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 12:44:31 AM, you wrote: On Apr 8, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I don't think anyone is attacking your programming prowess here. It's just that by providing a one line script and calling it a 'program' you invite questions. Am I coming off as

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Garrett- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 11:30:44 PM, you wrote: You are correct. I went back read the thread again and I do not see Mark making any statements to that regard. I apologize to Mark for my mistake. Cool. I *was* wondering a bit at your logic. But I think I'll back my way out of this

Re: dogma

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
sims- sims (low profile) I think you lost your low profile by quoting the original text in its entirety. But not to worry - I understand Malta is well fortified and withstood the Turkish siege, so you should be fine. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Register at Forums to See Everything

2006-04-09 Thread Judy Perry
Ditto. And amen! Judy On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote: Please, please install the capability to use email with the forums. This will allow you the same degree of control over content that you want, and will not inconvenience those of us who just don't have time to click their way

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 8 Apr 2006, at 12:07, David Vaughan wrote: So tell me what could go wrong? ;-) I realised while cooking the salmon this evening (crocodile being off the menu) that Geoff had inadvertently provided a wonderful case study on bugs. Any link to Geoff in the following is purely

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 10:04:03 PM, you wrote: Saturday, April 8, 2006, 3:03:13 PM, you wrote: !!! -- Exclamation would actually be a pretty cool name if you think ...it would probably just remind me of has-been bivalves... Painful, Mark, that certainly was ;-) Sorry... I

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media; Announce Revolution Forums

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Mark, I still find myself calling it Candlestick... Still? What do you call that older ballpark down the peninsula? :{`) Rob ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Robert, my database handling tasks usually are complex enough that I use two-bar progress, one progressing through main tasks and another progressing withing a given task since each of those tasks has a different dynamic. Interesting concept; thanks for sharing it. Rob Cozens CCW,

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Alex, The other method would replace the last line with something like if ticks()-lastTicks 5 then set thethumbPosition of scrollBar Progress Scrollbar to recordsProcessed put ticks() into lastTicks end if My logic says to me that handler

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Garrett, So tell us, did your parents just take up the hind end and accept it as normal performance? Pretty much. Or did they go after the builder? Take them to court? Did they win in court? Not to my knowledge, no, no. Was the builder held responsible? N/A Did your parents

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Geoff, The thing is, that is not a bug. The programmer did not make any error in his code at all. You've removed the smiley; so I'm taking back some of that slack. The original request was for bug-free SOFTWARE, not a bug-free CODE snippet. The code works as it was intended. So

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Apr 9, 2006, at 2:04 AM, David Vaughan wrote: As for my posts referring to your code, Geoff, I hoped I had made it sufficiently clear already that I was using it as a jumping off point to elaborate on the issues of what is a bug and differences in user experiences, and nothing at all

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/9/06 10:18 AM, Lynn Fredricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good (Sunday) morning, The amount of biting argument on the list has reached unacceptable levels, after the warning yesterday. I am going to direct support to begin deleting list subscriptions if I come back from Sunday breakfast

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Apr 9, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: Geoff, The thing is, that is not a bug. The programmer did not make any error in his code at all. You've removed the smiley; so I'm taking back some of that slack. The original request was for bug-free SOFTWARE, not a bug-free CODE

Re: Media word processor question

2006-04-09 Thread Jerry Muelver
Tom, even with a poll, we'd still be left with the dual issues of specification and implementation. What I'm after is to emulate in Revolution what I've already done in Windows with WikiWriter (http://hytext.com/ww), only with slicker cross-platform features. The idea is fairly simple markup

Re: Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

2006-04-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
Rob Cozens wrote: Hi Alex, The other method would replace the last line with something like if ticks()-lastTicks 5 then set thethumbPosition of scrollBar Progress Scrollbar to recordsProcessed put ticks() into lastTicks end if My logic says to

OT by now: Candlestick park

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Rob- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 9:32:28 AM, you wrote: I still find myself calling it Candlestick... Still? Still as in where do the Giants play? ...I'll take ballparks for $1000, Alex... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
Amen! We're Revolutionairies, but most of us are polite. We just don't react well to 'crackdowns'. On 4/9/06 10:18 AM, Lynn Fredricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good (Sunday) morning, The amount of biting argument on the list has reached unacceptable levels, after the warning yesterday. I

RE: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I know you're frustrated with the negative threads, but this is a list serv, and people have a right to voice their opinions, whether negative or positive. If you don't like what someone has to say, then contact them off list and politely ask them to stop and give them good reason why

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Apr 2006, at 00:07, Garrett Hylltun wrote: I'm sure you're right though, I'm sure were not being singled out for something derogatory. It's obvious the intent, which had nothing to do with you. Which adds to your puzzling reply on this. Almost all those names that were listed are

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Bob Warren
Good (Sunday) morning, The amount of biting argument on the list has reached unacceptable levels, after the warning yesterday. I am going to direct support to begin deleting list subscriptions if I come back from Sunday breakfast and there's still a stream of them coming in. Best regards,

Restore Field Selections?

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
Hi, Do I need to restore the field selection after switching cards? I have a stack with two cards and in card 2 the user selects an item in a list field and it gets selected ok, they then switch to card 1 and then back to card 2 but the current selection is lost when card 2 re-appears. Is

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Cousin Geoff, I would argue that code that matches the specification _is_ bug-free. I grant you that from the perspective of a programmer delivering software to a client or employer, if one has met the specs one might contend her work is bug-free. But I would err on the side of caution

Re: Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

2006-04-09 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
On Sun Apr 9 ;2006, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: If I read you correctly it's pretty much the same as yours -- I think. I'm using a standalone with a very simple stack attached to it only because I couldn't get the Rev runtime engine to run on its own. Did I understand

Re: dogma

2006-04-09 Thread Phil Davis
This is completely unrelated to the discussion, but might be good for comic relief. Every time I see the word 'dogma' I remember the bumper sticker: My karma ran over my dogma It happens! Phil Davis ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Dogma [OT]

2006-04-09 Thread Marian Petrides
And I think of the hilarious movie of the same name (Dogma) starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. On Apr 9, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Phil Davis wrote: This is completely unrelated to the discussion, but might be good for comic relief. Every time I see the word 'dogma' I remember the bumper

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Jim Ault
In a way, I like the long, over-done threads.. Don't have to read them, but you do get to know more about who's out there. I pretty much just delete them and let those who have the time, gently pursue their bantering. Now if I was required to read them or they got in the way, then I would

Re: Restore Field Selections?

2006-04-09 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/9/06 12:57 PM, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Do I need to restore the field selection after switching cards? I have a stack with two cards and in card 2 the user selects an item in a list field and it gets selected ok, they then switch to card 1 and then back to card 2

Re: creating my own tools palette

2006-04-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Xeubie Tsu wrote: Interesting, thank you. Do you know anything about Software at the Speed of Thought and could you recommend it for learning transcript? I'm looking for a comprehensive source for learning the language at the moment. Many people have said that this book helped them a lot.

RE: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Perhaps there should be an Outside area on the forum so listers could take it Outside. There's an Off-topic forum set aside exactly to take care of everything that isnt technical. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution, Ltd

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread jeffrey reynolds
Lynn, I am sending you this off list to try and clear some things up first and directly with you, that being said... Is this for real? Sorry i find this much more troubling than any of the discussions going on. I spent some time reviewing the posts of the last week or so and while there

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread jeffrey reynolds
Ken, I totally agree. this threat disturbed me more than anything i have ever seen on this list. I fear its a big black eye for rev the company. jeff reynolds On Apr 9, 2006, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good (Sunday) morning, The amount of biting argument on the list has

RE: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi Jeff, I am sending you this off list to try and clear some things up first and directly with you, that being said... That was surprisingly on-list for an offlist post :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Worldwide Business Operations Runtime Revolution, Ltd

RE: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Bob Warren
Lynn Fredricks wrote: Ken, some offenders have been warned several times offlist over the last two days. Also, I have received many complaints offlist from list members who are fed up. This list is for technical, Revolution oriented topics. If someone has a problem with rules enforcement,

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Lynn, et al: The amount of biting argument on the list has reached unacceptable levels, after the warning yesterday. I am going to direct support to begin deleting list subscriptions if I come back from Sunday breakfast and there's still a stream of them coming in. Point of

Re: Help: script only works when in debug mode

2006-04-09 Thread Ian McKnight
On 09/04/06, Thomas McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian, I was just about to respond when I saw you answered your own post. The without waiting is the culprit. The computer doesn't wait to move one while the other is moving to it's new location and as such is getting the wrong

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
jeffrey reynolds wrote: Ken, I totally agree. this threat disturbed me more than anything i have ever seen on this list. I fear its a big black eye for rev the company. I have to agree, and the heavy-handed approach displayed here has never before been witnessed on this list. Heather has

Re: Restore Field Selections?

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Apr 2006, at 19:19, Ken Ray wrote: On 4/9/06 12:57 PM, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Do I need to restore the field selection after switching cards? I have a stack with two cards and in card 2 the user selects an item in a list field and it gets selected ok, they then

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Marian Petrides
While I agree with Ken, Jackie, et al, might I suggest that we put an end to this thread and instead send our feedback directly to Lynn off- list? (As I just did.) Marian On Apr 9, 2006, at 2:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: jeffrey reynolds wrote: Ken, I totally agree. this threat disturbed

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Apr 2006, at 19:33, jeffrey reynolds wrote: Lynn, This list has been very stable and as lists go pretty civil. yes once and a while there are little firestorms, but all and all its very self moderating (except for a few of the comments that were posted that went into illegal areas

Re: Help: script only works when in debug mode

2006-04-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Ian, have you thought about dropping move alltogether and using set the loc instead? Assuming the name of the first button is Btn1 on mouseUp lock screen repeat with n = 2 to 10 clone me set the name of it to Btnn set the left of btn (Btnn) to the right of btn

RE: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Is the Rev list now to become a totally corporate forum where only 'how do i...' questions are posted and no frank discussions are allowed? If so that will totally kill what i This is not about off-topic posts, its about some insults being traded between users on this list and then piles of

Text-to-Speech Loop Behaves Oddly

2006-04-09 Thread Iden Rosenthal
The following is the script of my button. The idea is to read some text from a field and then say it back sentence by sentence. When I put the debugger on and step through the script it reads it properly. But when I don't have a breakpoint in the script it just reads the last sentence in

Re: Help: script only works when in debug mode

2006-04-09 Thread Ian McKnight
On 09/04/06, Malte Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ian, have you thought about dropping move alltogether and using set the loc instead? Assuming the name of the first button is Btn1 on mouseUp lock screen repeat with n = 2 to 10 clone me set the name of it to

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Geoff Canyon wrote: On Apr 9, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: Geoff, The thing is, that is not a bug. The programmer did not make any error in his code at all. You've removed the smiley; so I'm taking back some of that slack. The original request was for bug-free SOFTWARE, not a

Re: Text-to-Speech Loop Behaves Oddly

2006-04-09 Thread Iden Rosenthal
Never mind. I found the function revIsSpeaking which when put inside the loop in the construct wait until revIsSpeaking() is false pauses the loop for each phrase to be spoken. On Apr 9, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Iden Rosenthal wrote: The following is the script of my button. The idea is to read

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Geoff, et al: Well, my international (from an american viewpoint) friend, how about this: on mouseUp -- display the date answer the system date with OK end mouseUp The requirements are stated clearly in the comment, so the long date is out. The system date should work properly for you,

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread David Burgun
On 9 Apr 2006, at 21:04, Rob Cozens wrote: Geoff, et al: Well, my international (from an american viewpoint) friend, how about this: on mouseUp -- display the date answer the system date with OK end mouseUp The requirements are stated clearly in the comment, so the long date is out.

View smaller.

2006-04-09 Thread Ryno
I need to have my working window displayed at 50% and at 25% (or whatever), and still be able to edit its content. Think the zoom effect of programs like Photoshop. How can I do this? Ryno. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: The engine, the IDE, and The Big Grok (was [Ticket#: 2006040510000641])

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Burgun wrote: Once you understand the separation of the engine and the IDE in RunRev, you can see that the concept of the engine and all it's cool features is sound. However, when a new user evaluates RunRev, unless they understand xTalk, they don't immediately see this separation and

Re: View smaller.

2006-04-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Ryno, this is not completely thought through, but it helps to get you started. Ideally you store original dimensions in a custom property and use that. Also there might be cases where this fails (groups with lockLoc set to true) that need special treatment... If you use many controls it

Windows Player Won't Play What Plays On Mac

2006-04-09 Thread Iden Rosenthal
I have a one field one card stack with three sentences of text. I want to highlight each sentence (well ideally each word as it is read but that I am leaving for right now) as it is read. What I have written works fine on the Mac using the Player for Mac. It doesn't play on the Windows

Re: Windows Player Won't Play What Plays On Mac

2006-04-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Iden Rosenthal wrote: I have a one field one card stack with three sentences of text. I want to highlight each sentence (well ideally each word as it is read but that I am leaving for right now) as it is read. What I have written works fine on the Mac using the Player for Mac. It doesn't play

Re: Restore Field Selections?

2006-04-09 Thread Ken Ray
On 4/9/06 2:32 PM, David Burgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it doesn't reset, it uses the same data each time it is opened. I put the code in the openCard handler, but you suggested the preOpenCard call, it works ok in openCard, but would it be better to put it in preOpenCard? I thought that

Re: OT Forums

2006-04-09 Thread Andre Garzia
On Apr 9, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Malte Brill wrote: Hi Alex, lost a month? g We had april fools day already. ;-) A - I thought I'd got a lot done this month !! Didn't realize it had been a 40-day month already :-) Once I was coding and though: hey this was a

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread David Vaughan
On 10/04/2006, at 1:56, David Burgun wrote: The real problem here is if the marketing department get ahold of it, they will make it into a feature ! e.g. this Application is supposed to tell you the time in the USA, it's so cool you don't have to figure it out for yourself, thereby

Recent posts

2006-04-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, I just spent 3 days in Montelimar in a recording studio, and came back to Paris (without any nougat !) to find 3 days worth of posts. It took me 3 hours to plough through the posts to make sure I didn't miss anything important. Mostly, they talked about haggis !(HAGGIS

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread David Vaughan
On 10/04/2006, at 2:37, Geoff Canyon wrote: The question is this: what do you think is the upper limit for _completely_ bug-free code? Was your code bug-free the first time you wrote it, no typographic errors or any other changes? Do not answer that because it is only a lead-in to the

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread David Vaughan
I forgot to mention the sixth actor, although alluding to it in my very first line below: inverse time. David On 10/04/2006, at 10:21, David Vaughan wrote: On 10/04/2006, at 2:37, Geoff Canyon wrote: The question is this: what do you think is the upper limit for _completely_ bug-free

Re: Runtime Revolution Ships Revolution Media

2006-04-09 Thread Dan Shafer
You know, I reacted a bit negatively at first as well. Overnight, I began to think about it a bit more (I clearly need to get out more.) Visual Basic is the name of the IDE and the language. Same with RealBASIC. Then there's Borland's Delphi, which is a development environment for Object Pascal.

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Bob Warren
jeff reynolds wrote: Ken, I totally agree. this threat disturbed me more than anything i have ever seen on this list. I fear its a big black eye for rev the company. --- Me too. It makes me want to hang up my haggis. (By the way how do you people

Re: End all Negative Threads Now -- Big Whoops!

2006-04-09 Thread jeffrey reynolds
Big, big whoops on my part. My sincere apologies Lynn and to the list, i thought i had put Lynn's email address in in place of the revlist, but i guess i didn't. It was not meant as a back door posting, just an honest mistake, in hitting the send key w/o making one last check of the

Bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Paris, Many - many years ago, I came across a simple program written to print out paychecks (in 1401 AutoCoder, for anybody who wants to know). The input to the program was you've guessed it ... punched cards, containing basic information, such as : 1 - a code (1 for man, 2 for

Re: Recent posts

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Francis- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:15:03 PM, you wrote: For anybody out there still using punched cards Draw a diagonal line across the top of your card deck with a biro, drop the deck on the floor, and then put the deck back into 100% sequence with NO hassle ! Did it often !

Re: [Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
David- Well put. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Recent posts

2006-04-09 Thread Marian Petrides
Neat idea. Not that I have a use for it now, but it would have helped 25 years ago. Too bad I wasn't smart enough to think of it then. On Apr 9, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Francis- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:15:03 PM, you wrote: For anybody out there still using punched cards

Re: End all Negative Threads Now

2006-04-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Sunday, April 9, 2006, 9:54:15 AM, you wrote: I share your frustration, but there are better ways to handle this, IMHO. Amen to that. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: bugs

2006-04-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Apr 9, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Rob Cozens wrote: Is it a bug that Parameter Setup didn't check for the existence of a COA when it opened? By my definition, yes, even if the specs didn't call for it. The thing is, this calls for common sense, but what is common sense if it isn't specified?

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