On 2006, May 16, , at 20:36, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Thierry Arbellot wrote:
I've developed a workaround for this problem, and made a sample
stack. You can use it freely.
http://www.digital-salade.com/toki/download/player.rev
Tested with "ƒ" and it works.
Indeed it does -- thank you!
It's fri
Sarah (et al):
I especially like Agnes High Quality...
Or, is it Victoria High Quality?
Bruce is decent, as well.
BUT I really LOVE Trinoids, Zarvox... even Bad News.
Bubbles is fun...
and so on...
;-) Judy
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
> Apple added a few higher quality ones
In my recent researches into wav and aiff formats I learnt that these
formats allow for pretty much any word length - but as you say, they
get stored as the next multiple of eight, padded with zeros. Maybe
there's some issue of A to D and D to A conversion or latency that
makes it worthwhi
Oh my... now wonder it is so confusing... "recordSampleSize" is NOT
the sample rate...
On May 16, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
I don't know how rev would store an 11 bit wide word without waste.
Computers store info in their nice 8-wide world. It comes down to
parts and sanit
Tereza Snyder wrote:
On May 16, 2006, at 10:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Rev doesn't alter the display of JPEGs or GIFs -- why single out
PNGs in this way, and why try to adjust for screen gamma when the
screen is already doing anything that needs to be done there?
and Mark Talluto wrote:
On May 16, 2006, at 10:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Rev doesn't alter the display of JPEGs or GIFs -- why single out
PNGs in this way, and why try to adjust for screen gamma when the
screen is already doing anything that needs to be done there?
and Mark Talluto wrote:
This is a question t
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Rev doesn't alter the display of JPEGs or GIFs -- why single out PNGs in
> this way, and why try to adjust for screen gamma when the screen is
> already doing anything that needs to be done there?
I don't have the document links I used to, but suffice it to say,
On May 16, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Phil Davis wrote:
What happened was the screenGamma, since my image is a PNG file.
Rev's screenGamma is a color? or brightness? or ??? adjustment
factor applied only to PNG files. The screenGamma defaults are
1.7 for Mac and 2.2 for Wi
Phil Davis wrote:
What happened was the screenGamma, since my image is a PNG file.
Rev's screenGamma is a color? or brightness? or ??? adjustment
factor applied only to PNG files. The screenGamma defaults are 1.7
for Mac and 2.2 for Windows. (I don't know what they are for Linux.)
I then u
Ken,
Very cool. I will give it a try and let you know.
Bill
On May 16, 2006, at 6:06 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
On 5/15/06 10:27 PM, "Bill Vlahos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How can I determine the permissions on a server share/volume? I would
like to document the server permissions on our file ser
Hi Mark,
Yes - there are certainly some great reasons to use PNGs. My comments
really only apply in a particular context, even though I state them as
absolute. :o) I'm really good at that.
Phil
Mark Talluto wrote:
On May 16, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
I just re-discovered some
On May 16, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
I just re-discovered something that might be helpful to others, so
here goes.
Bottom line:
To simplify your code and your life, use JPG images, not PNGs, in
stacks intended for cross-platform use. That way you don't have to
mess with the sc
I just checked out the docs. I'd never looked at this before.
recordRate = 5 gives a sample rate of 5k -- THIS is the SAMPLE RATE
According to Nyquest, the highest frequency that can be passed at a
sample rate of 5k/second is 2.5khz.
recordSampleSize = number of bits used to record = 11 --
I just re-discovered something that might be helpful to others, so here
goes.
Bottom line:
To simplify your code and your life, use JPG images, not PNGs, in stacks
intended for cross-platform use. That way you don't have to mess with
the screenGamma property to make everything look the same e
Amazing... Stephen... I really don't know much about this... I mean I
don't know theactually "audio physics" between bits and sampling
rates. Of course sample rates seems obvious... how often the recorder
is "trapping" for sound, but how that relates to 'bits" is
mysterious... anyway... jus
Apple added a few higher quality ones a couple of years ago. While
most of the voices are just meant to be funny (& yes, my kids love
them too), there are a few that sound reasonably good. I use them a
lot and people get used to the sound very quickly.
Sarah
On 5/17/06, Judy Perry <[EMAIL PROTE
Well, I've forgotten the original request of this thread, but the
reactions of my students to the Mac OS voices is that they are wayy cool
(remember, however, that they are developing apps for kiddies and also
working on game dev, so maybe goofy, time-warped voices are what is called
for in our par
Alvaro.
If you're a HyperCard/SuperCard expert, I'd suggest you stop working on Rev
right now and go to the RunRev Web site and read the two excellent documents
there that help you transition from those environments to Revolution. It
will save you a LOT of time!
Welcome to the Revolution!
h
Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> What audio and video playback options are available on that
>>> platform for us Rev folk, and are there any gotchas I should know
>>> about?
>>
>> You are stuck with xAnim as your video middleman. See > support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2290> for
Hola, Alvaro,
You group the items and set the group's background Behavior to true (i.e.,
check it in the property editor). This will cause them to be placed on new
cards and be in the back of the message path.
You can then use the Place Group... menu item in the Object menu to add
that grou
On May 16, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Wally Rodriguez wrote:
Maybe VLC? or Mplayer?
Forgive my ignorance, but are these controllable with Rev's player
object?
Nope. :(
Mark Talluto
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Dear Sirs.. I need to create background buttons and fields.. I remember in
Macintosh.. but in Revolution, i dont know how to create background objects.
All my objects are in the cards
Thank you, Alvaro Abril, www.fantasticguatemala.com , www.alvaroabril.com
-Mensaje original-
De: [E
Wally Rodriguez wrote:
Maybe VLC? or Mplayer?
Forgive my ignorance, but are these controllable with Rev's player object?
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Maybe VLC? or Mplayer?
On May 16, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Thanks Mark.
Bit of a drag, though: no MPEG or MP3 support? Those are the top
two formats we need to support.
H..
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On 5/17/06, Alvaro Abril - Tecnologia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Sirs.. It´s Revolution a good software for serious development? Some
years ago I was a Developer with Supercard and Hypercard in Macintosh.. do
you think, Revolution is a good program ?
Best wishes, Alvaro Abril, www.alvaroabr
I am using the "splash screen" Architecture for deploying an app. The
splash screen stack checks for updates and then launches the "Main"
stack. This part is all based on Chip's "altSplash" engine.
I want the "Main" stack to manage installing additional stacks and or
files. My current strategy
Hi Alavaro,
Sure, Revolution is a great programme, but when do *you* consider a
programme "good"? :-) Tell us what you expect from a good programme
and we'll gladly tell you if Revolution has it.
Mark
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Mark Talluto wrote:
On May 16, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
What audio and video playback options are available on that
platform for us Rev folk, and are there any gotchas I should know
about?
You are stuck with xAnim as your video middleman. See support.runrev.com/bugdatabase
On May 16, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I need to port a QT-intensive app to Linux.
What audio and video playback options are available on that
platform for us Rev folk, and are there any gotchas I should know
about?
Hi Richard,
You are stuck with xAnim as your video middl
Dear Sirs.. It´s Revolution a good software for serious development? Some
years ago I was a Developer with Supercard and Hypercard in Macintosh.. do
you think, Revolution is a good program ?
Best wishes, Alvaro Abril, www.alvaroabril.com , Columbian man living in
Guatemala, Tech Manager, www.fant
Well, I think I will have to stay with just moving from point to
point (panning) and zooming as two separate operations for now...
Since no one is offering any functions I guess this hasn't been done
before... so... I'll give it a go on my own.
Sivakatirswami
On May 15, 2006, at 1:19 PM,
I need to port a QT-intensive app to Linux.
What audio and video playback options are available on that platform for
us Rev folk, and are there any gotchas I should know about?
TIA -
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I'm trying to play some mp3 audio files from Revolution on Windows.
I've finally got a stack which works OK on my Virtual PC Windows 2000, and on
a Windows XP machine, in both cases under StackRunner (the old 2.6 variant).
In both cases these are machines without Quicktime, so it's definitely (
Thierry Arbellot wrote:
I've developed a workaround for this problem, and made a sample stack.
You can use it freely.
http://www.digital-salade.com/toki/download/player.rev
Tested with "ƒ" and it works.
Indeed it does -- thank you!
It's frightening that it takes a 7k script to work around t
Chris Sheffield wrote:
On May 15, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I have a path to a move file which plays well, until I insert a "ƒ"
character (Option-F on Mac) into one of the folder names -- then I
get a "can't create movie reference" error.
I'm already using the "file:" trick to
> Can we get ahold of the engine they're using?
>
> Sure would be nice to deploy to Mactel.
Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor is, indeed, made with Revolution. We cannot add
anything further than what's already been posted to the website. However it
might also be worth checking out TT 4.2 to see how we
I've developed a workaround for this problem, and made a sample stack.
You can use it freely.
http://www.digital-salade.com/toki/download/player.rev
Tested with "ƒ" and it works.
Thierry
On 2006, May 15, , at 22:36, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I have a path to a move file which plays well, until I
Would a urlEncode on the path make any difference? I see you're
specifically replacing spaces with "%20", but maybe running it
through urlEncode would fix this other character. Just a guess.
Chris
On May 15, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I have a path to a move file which plays w
This is also old... the bug has been confirmed as new in 2.7.1
On May 10, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Todd Geist wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to create window that floats above all other
applications. I put the following script in a button, to toggle
"Float" on and off.
ON mouseUp
IF the syste
this is old and somehow got "burped" back into the list. Feel free
to ignore :>)
On May 10, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Todd Geist wrote:
Todd
Any one know of a way to send keystrokes from Rev. I know I can
use GUI scripting on OSX but that has some problems in the instance
I need it in, plus I
Put your file paths in a SMIL file and play the SMIL file?
Phil Davis
Richard Gaskin wrote:
I have a path to a move file which plays well, until I insert a "ƒ"
character (Option-F on Mac) into one of the folder names -- then I get a
"can't create movie reference" error.
I'm already using th
I have a path to a move file which plays well, until I insert a "ƒ"
character (Option-F on Mac) into one of the folder names -- then I get a
"can't create movie reference" error.
I'm already using the "file:" trick to set the file path -- here's the code:
put "file://"&pMovieFile into tPath
Todd
Any one know of a way to send keystrokes from Rev. I know I can use
GUI scripting on OSX but that has some problems in the instance I
need it in, plus I need Xplat.
TIA
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Hello,
I am trying to create window that floats above all other
applications. I put the following script in a button, to toggle
"Float" on and off.
ON mouseUp
IF the systemWindow of this stack is False THEN
set the systemWindow of this stack to true
ELSE
set the syste
Hello,
I am using the "splash screen" Architecture for deploying an app. The
splash screen stack checks for updates and then launches the "Main"
stack. This part is all based on Chip's "altSplash" engine.
I want the "Main" stack to manage installing additional stacks and or
files. My cu
On 5/15/06 10:27 PM, "Bill Vlahos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I determine the permissions on a server share/volume? I would
> like to document the server permissions on our file servers (both Mac
> OS X Server and Windows 2000 and 2003 servers).
OK, forget my last email... Rev can do th
On 5/15/06 10:27 PM, "Bill Vlahos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I determine the permissions on a server share/volume? I would
> like to document the server permissions on our file servers (both Mac
> OS X Server and Windows 2000 and 2003 servers).
Well, for OS X, you can get the permissio
I was doing a web search today, and discovered this little tidbit... point
your browser to:
http://thesource.ofallevil.com
and you end up at...
Microsoft!
Just confirming what I already knew... ;-)
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: [EMAIL PROTEC
As far as I understand revSpeak leverages an operating system's built-in
text-to-speech capabilities. Now my experience in this respect is limited to
Mac & Win: both of which feature really bad voices - the Mac ones have been
trotted out with each version of the operating system for at least 10
On 15 May 2006, at 18:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I wanted to write a Revolution script that goes through a list
of URLs and
checks each URL's status, can anyone give me pointers on the best
approach?
I was originally attempting to do a "load URL" approach, and then
check the
error t
I'm pretty sure it's not possible. I tried to do it a few times, and always
encountered errors.
On 5/15/06, Garrett Hylltun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings,
Has anyone ever compressed rev compiled apps with UPX or any other
executable compressor?
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