[OT] Open Source Replacements

I have just deleted a set of antiquated versions of Commercial programs for 3 reasons: 1. No money to stump up for the newer versions. 2. A bit tired of having to rely on platform dependent programs as I now seem to use Mac, Win and Lin. 3. I have found FREE replacements: GIMP replaces Photos

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Thank you! It's like trying to read something that's a mixture of multiple languages in a single paragraph or sentence. Ugly and unreadable. Sigh. It's not just being stodgy. Or stupid. Judy On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Ian Wood wrote: > As a Rev user who has been learning Director recently, I have

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

But it's dead now, right? Yes, like Hypercard, but, And, yes, widely adopted (but as an xtalk? not hardly as it ended up)... but, and from my example (undoctored by me) only 1 or 2 persons out of 22 chose it/found it embraceable? Not great odds. Do you dispute that its verbose heritage had b

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Scott, Respectfully ('cuz I did buy your guage thingy, which I love, btw, and would have bought the audio library thingy too if I hadn't been blindsided by my financial 'bookings in Monterey-Mexico' problem): Did you read the rest of my post? (1) Multiple ways of doing things confuse newcomers.

Exporting sound from RR? - storing inside Custom Properties

jeanne a. e. devoto wrote: "For a file, like this: answer file "Which file do you want to store?" set the myCustomProp of this stack to URL ("file:" & it) To get it back out: ask file "Where do you want to put the file?" put the myCustomProp of this stack into URL ("file:" & it)" Th

Transcript Cookbook?

HI, When I was learning PHP and Perl I bought two books which helped me immensely. PHP Developer's Cookbook - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672323257/ and Perl Cookbook http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596003137/s They were handy because I could look for the problem I had, and see if t

Re: Colour of a pixel?

Thanks Scott! ---Original Message--- From: Scott Rossi Date: 07/15/06 00:44:51 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Colour of a pixel? Recently, Viktoras Didziulis wrote: > Is it possible to change pixel > color using imageData ? Or is it only for reading ? To further t

Re: Setting directory on preOpenStack, not seeing images with relative file paths

This mainly happens in standalones, not the IDE. Thankfully, the way I developed it allows me to do what Ken suggested - load one stack, set the directory, then load the next stack. It seems to be working... my logic seems sound for carrying it out otherwise, though. I am using Mac OS X,

Re: Game Developers -- Call

oops! I mistakenly sent to the whole list. dang! [red-faced] Tereza -- Tereza Snyder Califex Software, Inc. www.califexsoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscr

Re: Game Developers -- Call

On Jul 14, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: 1) have been making cross platform games for at least five years as a regular activity. 2) has created at least 20 or more games, some percentage of which have actually attained a bit of market share. i.e. you have some track record of

[ANN] 2 new plugins available at my web site

Hi All, I have just uploaded 2 new plugins for anyone who is interested: Starter.rev This plugin is designed to run whenever you start up Revolution, setting global properties or running script snippets to set up Revolution as you like it. It was inspired by the fact that in Rev 2.7.x, allowInte

Re: AppleScript Question

Ummm. Ok, don't laugh at me, but I don't use Dashboard and have it disabled. So I don't know much about that. Where would I find the widgets for dashboard? :-( In your main Library folder (the one in your hard disk's root directory, not the one in your user folder), you'll find a folder c

Re: Game Developers -- Call

On Jul 15 2006, at 00:47, Rick Harrison wrote: ... Sorry, I couldn't sound nicer about this. I'm sure I'll get flamed for just trying to be honest. ... well you _could_ have been nicer :P You seem to think of AAA games, but there are many lower priced games, that a small team of one prog

Re: AppleScript Question

On Jul 14, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I'm trying to get the Dictionary.app to cooperate with my project, [snip] Safari hidden, send the data to it without it getting http:// stuffed in front of it? There is an AppleScript scripting addition called XSpell that provides AppleScr

Re: Words becoming bunched up over each other?

I think Sarah has it pegged. There are hundreds words being sent to the field in a variable, and no returns. But on a side note, I tried using other fonts, and some fonts did not encounter this problem though. So I'm using Monaco and it bunches up, then I change to Chicago and it all show

Re: Game Developers -- Call

On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Any experienced game developers please contact me off list. Criteria for "Game Developer" would be: 1) have been making cross platform games for at least five years as a regular activity. Sounds like someone who does this all the time fo

Re: Words becoming bunched up over each other?

Another time I've seen this is when you have the fixedLineHeight of the field set. I routinely unset that property now and am much happier with field displays in general. On 7/14/06, Sarah Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone ever encountered words being bunched up on top of each >

Re: irregular expression

On Jul 14, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Jul 14, 2006, at 6:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with regular expressions. I want to use put replacetext(myVar,"]*>","") into myVar to delete all hyperlinks form a HTML file. case? To elaborate: Try putting "(?i)" at t

Re: Internal security of Rev?

On Jul 12, 2006, at 8:57 PM Jul 12, 2006, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Talluto wrote: If you market your products through a distributor, copy protection is invaluable if they have rights to duplicate/install the software. Aside from hardware dongles, what devices/methods can prevent copyi

Re: Words becoming bunched up over each other?

Has anyone ever encountered words being bunched up on top of each other in a field when using htmltext? I'm displaying a list of words padded with an amount spaces so that each word is equal in length, and then adding a tab after each word, and using a mono spaced font. This does not happen all

Re: AppleScript Question

I'm trying to get the Dictionary.app to cooperate with my project, but can't figure out how to do what I need. What I want to do is when you highlight a word in a a field, right click and select a menu entry, to send that word to the Dictionary.app so that it will look up the word. No problem on

Re: Colour of a pixel?

Recently, Viktoras Didziulis wrote: > Is it possible to change pixel > color using imageData ? Or is it only for reading ? To further this thread just a bit, I posted a demo stack that shows several techniques for colorizing pixels in images (the routines are all based on the same underlying prin

Words becoming bunched up over each other?

Rev 2.6.1 on OS X Has anyone ever encountered words being bunched up on top of each other in a field when using htmltext? I'm displaying a list of words padded with an amount spaces so that each word is equal in length, and then adding a tab after each word, and using a mono spaced font.

AppleScript Question

Rev 2.6.1 on OS X Greetings, I'm trying to get the Dictionary.app to cooperate with my project, but can't figure out how to do what I need. What I want to do is when you highlight a word in a a field, right click and select a menu entry, to send that word to the Dictionary.app so that it

Re: Alternate Random Sort?

By my tests this is at least as fast as the array kludge I came up with. Egads, is that a bug or a feature? I know for repeat loops Rev is "smarter" than that and will only evaluate the expression once, but it does in fact appear that it recalculates the value over and over again with the sort

Re: Alternate Random Sort?

I have a list of 14,000 numbers that consists of only 1's and 2's: 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 I want to randomize the list. When I use: sort lines of mySet by random(the number of lines of mySet) ...the time needed is too slow (takes about 7 seconds to execute here). Is there a faster way to randomize t

Game Developers -- Call

Any experienced game developers please contact me off list. Criteria for "Game Developer" would be: 1) have been making cross platform games for at least five years as a regular activity. 2) has created at least 20 or more games, some percentage of which have actually attained a bit of marke

Re: Alternate Random Sort?

Recently, Brian Yennie wrote: > How about something like this. The idea being to loop through the lines > and insert them into random keys of an array, then combine the array at > the end. > This avoids any comparisons involved in sorting - it just sort of > scatters them in the array and then pul

Re: Alternate Random Sort?

Scott, How about something like this. The idea being to loop through the lines and insert them into random keys of an array, then combine the array at the end. This avoids any comparisons involved in sorting - it just sort of scatters them in the array and then pulls them back out. Also the r

Re: longest word in a text

At 8:46 PM +0200 7/14/2006, jbv wrote: Does anyone have some very fast code to find the longest word (number of chars) in a text ? This one was the fastest of those I tested: function longestWord myText repeat for each word thisWord in myText put thisWord into myArray[the length of thisW

Re: Exporting sound from RR? - storing inside Custom Properties

At 10:22 AM -0700 7/14/2006, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Um? OK: How does one store something inside a custom property? For a file, like this: answer file "Which file do you want to store?" set the myCustomProp of this stack to URL ("file:" & it) To get it back out: ask file "Where do y

Alternate Random Sort?

Greetings List: I have a list of 14,000 numbers that consists of only 1's and 2's: 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 I want to randomize the list. When I use: sort lines of mySet by random(the number of lines of mySet) ...the time needed is too slow (takes about 7 seconds to execute here). Is there a faster wa

Re: longest word in a text

JB, I don't know how the speed compares, but you don't necessarily need to go to the trouble of sorting if you only care about the longest word: put 0 into maxLength repeat for each word w in tText get length(w) if (it > maxLength) then put it into maxLength end repeat I would think that

Re: longest word in a text

Hi JB, function longestWord theData replace space with return in theData sort lines of theData numeric by length(each) return last line of theData end longestWord Best, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Download

Re: longest word in a text

How about: replace " " with return in myText sort lines of myText descending numeric by the number of chars of each put line 1 of myText I think this might be faster and is definitely shorter, and stays more binary (ask Chipp). At 01:46 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote: Hi list, Does anyone have so

Voip via Revolution

Hello. I'm looking into experimenting with Voip using Revolution and am curious how others would implement it. I've been doing some research on the mailing lists, forums, and documentation, and have concluded that the only way this would be possible is through the use of an external. Is there any

longest word in a text

Hi list, Does anyone have some very fast code to find the longest word (number of chars) in a text ? Here's what I have : replace " " with cr in myText put "" into temp set itemdelimiter to tab repeat for each line j in myText put j & tab & number of chars of j & cr after

Re: irregular expression

On Jul 14, 2006, at 6:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with regular expressions. I want to use put replacetext(myVar,"]*>","") into myVar to delete all hyperlinks form a HTML file. I am totally convinced the regular expression is correct since it works correctly in another GR

Re: Internal security of Rev?

On Jul 14, 2006, at 6:08 AM, Wouter wrote: As for giving a reason to someone to crack your software, this is an excellent one. Right, and with moral indignation one might not have the extra (emotional) moral cost of violating an agreement or stealing or sinning or dishonoring the state o

RE: Dependence on Programming Experts

> * Because the syntax is used in other popular programming languages? > > News flash to Lynn Fredricks: the way for Runtime Revolution > to differentiate itself from competitors and attract > developers from other platforms is to adopt the syntax of its > most successful > competitors. NOT

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

On 14 Jul 2006, at 17:00, Troy Rollins wrote: On Jul 14, 2006, at 1:23 AM, Judy Perry wrote: And, again, it's not that I don't get x = 5 (or whatever). But pretty soon we'll be looking at the most "modern" version of Lingo and it's not pretty. Or learnable by normal humans. The fact th

Exporting sound from RR? - storing inside Custom Properties

Um? OK: How does one store something inside a custom property? sincerely, Richmond Mathewson "Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users attach to words and phrases."

Re: fstab

Following what I have just said, I am snookered anyway! The fstab is supposed to tell us whether or not a floppy drive exists in the hardware. It no longer does that reliably. So there is no point in trying to mount a drive which might not exist! If you DO try to mount a drive which does not e

how avoiding (put image 1 into URL "binfile:c:/test.jpg") in password protected stacks

Hi colleagues, I use a slide show stack with images and audioclips in it. Now by the way I made the experience that I can extract any included image from a protected stack using: put image 1 of first card of this stack into URL "binfile:c:/test.jpg" put field 1 put field 2 both work put field

Re: fstab

Bob Warren wrote: >> >> What you said turns out to be absolutely true, but you won't find this in your fstab on Ubuntu Dapper: >> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Mark Wieder wrote: > It's in my Dapper Drake distro - try changing the noauto to auto... Chris Kassopulo wrote:

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

On Jul 14, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: Has anyone supporting this on the basis of brevity stopped to consider the irony that one can script the same functionality in "verbose" Revolution in significantly fewer lines than it takes using "succinct" C? So you want the productivity

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

On Jul 14, 2006, at 1:23 AM, Judy Perry wrote: And, again, it's not that I don't get x = 5 (or whatever). But pretty soon we'll be looking at the most "modern" version of Lingo and it's not pretty. Or learnable by normal humans. The fact that Lingo is probably the most successful xtalk in h

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Hi All, As Judy noted, we all understand what is being proposed. What is less obvious is why it is being proposed. * Because it takes less keystrokes to type "x=5" compared to "put 5 into x"? If so, I'm sure I can find many other examples of syntax from other languages that is less verbose

Re: Time warp and mystack.r#0 ??

Bonjour Jean-Pierre, ... who can help me? old script come back ... my old stack script back in time ... Revolution does'nt save my change some time, and he save my stack and another stack : mystack.r#0 I have reinstall Revolution , no change. this may be an old problem! Rev does not suppor

Disregard this post: Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Disregard my previous post please. For some reason it took several hours to deliver it to the list. I thought it was lost and resent newer one... And now the lost one appeared... Disregard it... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runr

Time warp and mystack.r#0 ??

... who can help me? old script come back ... my old stack script back in time ... Revolution does'nt save my change some time, and he save my stack and another stack : mystack.r#0 I have reinstall Revolution , no change. What can I do? ___ use-

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Brian, this is definitely something usable! Many other programming languages support alternative syntaxes through inlining the code without tackling with the engine in any way. Such inline capabilities are ensured solely by external modules. E.g. one can inline C or ASM into a Perl program so tha

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Good for you Brian, For fun, try inserting this as a front script: I played a little yesterday with a "put put" stack with a button that would get the script of a selected object, change each occurrence of "x = something" to "put something into x". The handler worked fine; but the Script

Re: Setting directory on preOpenStack, not seeing images with relative file paths

This is strange. I do this all the time and the graphics appear. What version of Revolution are you using? What platform?Is this only happening in the IDE or does it also happen in standalones? At 10:17 PM 7/13/2006, you wrote: I am setting the directory (the defaultFolder) to a differe

Re: Internal security of Rev?

That's BS. When a company can simply look up a registration for a lost dongle, replacement should be a feature (with suitable hassle), not punishment. iLok does this for Pro-Tools plugins; for $30/year most plugs can be insured and loaded onto a spare dongle. As my brother would say to so

Re: Standalone problems

On 7/14/06 6:51 AM, "Bob Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I make that work for wherever the user has it in their HardDrive > (windows only I'm afraid so should be easier) I remember that I has short > filepath problems when I tried this before. Bob, what's worked for me is a trick

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

On 7/13/06 11:11 PM, "Brian Yennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now edit any script and enter "x=5" or some other simple assignment on > a line by itself. Hit return. Voila, translation to "verbose" =)! That's neat, Brian! Cool stuff! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonso

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

on July 14, 2006 Alex Tweedly wrote: On the other hand, there are a variety of languages (Babbage !?, many variants of Basic) which don't have those issues, so simply allow a single "=" for assignment or for equality comparison. Alex, I know you probably already know this, but the original Bas

Re: Python with Rev and postGreSQL?

On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:40 PM, John Tregea wrote: Hi Kee, I am aware of Rev having XML capabilities, but because of a whole bunch of SQL requirements I have kept it in the back of my mind for future investigation. Actually, When I say use XML what I really mean is pass the data using th

Re: irregular expression

Terry, I use the following and it works : put "<[^><]*>" into tRex put replacetext(myVar, tRex, "") into myVar Best, JB > Hi, > > I have a problem with regular expressions. I want to use > put replacetext(myVar,"]*>","") into myVar > to delete all hyperlinks form a HTML file. I am t

Re: Internal security of Rev?

On 14 Jul 2006, at 09:25, Kay C Lan wrote: - snip - In the last financial year it was noted that the revenue figures were up, better than expected. After a little analysis of the number the reason revealed itself. Although 'users' had occasionally lost their parallel dongles, the USB dongles

irregular expression

Hi, I have a problem with regular expressions. I want to use put replacetext(myVar,"]*>","") into myVar to delete all hyperlinks form a HTML file. I am totally convinced the regular expression is correct since it works correctly in another GREP-enabled application (BBEdit). Yet the line of code do

Re: Standalone problems

"Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However the plugin problem remains, but I can workaround that. > > > > I cant compill any app that needs dll's etc. Well I will comile but none > > of the dll's are copied over. My app works perfectly in the IDE but not > > compilled (even when I c

Re: Standalone problems

> However the plugin problem remains, but I can workaround that. I cant compill any app that needs dll's etc. Well I will comile but none of the dll's are copied over. My app works perfectly in the IDE but not compilled (even when I copy the dll's) After copying over the DLLs try setting the ex

Re: Dependence on Programming Exps

Brian, this is definitely something to start with! Many other programming languages support alternative syntaxes through inlining the code without tackling with the engine in any way. Such inline capabilities are ensured solely by external modules. E.g. one can inline C or ASM into a Perl progra

Re: Internal security of Rev?

On 7/14/06, Kay C Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As my brother would say to some poor sap who would be trying to get a new dongle without paying for a whole new license fee would say: "Go into Harry Winston's and tell them your wife lost her $80,000 diamond ring and that you'd like a free replac

Re: using dlls [was Colour of a pixel?]

Thanks Franz! I downloaded it. Seems like transcript is a bit too slow (as one could expect) in manipulating individual pixels of an entire image. And dll handler in this stack does not work (can't find handler). So this is another question I would like to ask - are there any references (I tried

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Kay C Lan wrote: On 7/14/06, Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If there was any context where either could appear, there would be an ambiguity - but there isn't. So assuming the new syntax was adopted: x = 4 -- I assume x is 4 Yes, x has the value 4 when the statement is complete.

Re: Internal security of Rev?

I thought of combining the U3 drive with a thumb print reader (also USB) to make for three factor authentication. 1. password 2. thumb print 3. presence of U3 drive (serialised) I am hoping to find a USB thumb drive manufacturer that makes metal encased drives and supports U3. (Dreamer) Chee

Re: Standalone problems

Bob, I think you can send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and get some help, it's only if you ant a 'silver support incident' that you have to stump up. Mind you, I've usually been replied to by Jaque Gay, who is just as knowledgable and helpful on the list as she is in when doing RunRev

Re: Standalone problems

You wrote: > Hi Bob, Hi Mark > > Before you report to Bugzilla, you need to find the cause of the problem, > if you can. Could you tell us what exactly is going on? Do you tell the > Standalone Builder to search for inclusions or do you do this manually? Do > you have any passwords set? Which dl

Re: Standalone problems

Hi Bob, Before you report to Bugzilla, you need to find the cause of the problem, if you can. Could you tell us what exactly is going on? Do you tell the Standalone Builder to search for inclusions or do you do this manually? Do you have any passwords set? Which dll do you need? Do you ge

Re: Standalone problems

You wrote: > > However the plugin problem remains, but I can workaround that. I cant compill any app that needs dll's etc. Well I will comile but none of the dll's are copied over. My app works perfectly in the IDE but not compilled (even when I copy the dll's) Basically I cant use my new stud

Re: Quicktime VR, 3D, and Revolution

On 13 Jul 2006, at 17:27, Lynn Fredricks wrote: A lot of 3D apps can export QTVRs, but unfortunately not many support cubic ones (which way, way outshine the cylinder ones in overall coolness). [snip] Windows - use Thomas Rauscher's Pano2QTVR , free or 'pro' v

Re: Internal security of Rev?

On Jul 13, 2006, at 6:50 PM, John Tregea wrote: > The users will have one U3 enabled USB thumb drive per licensed > client and the user application will be programmed to only run on > the serial numbered, unique thumb drive. On 7/14/06, Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: Cool! I suppose