HexEditor for OSX FYI

Something you advanced developers may find useful, though you probably know about it already. Joe Wilkins ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to su

Re: Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

Mark Wieder wrote: MetaCard Group, for those wanting to dabble in the old IDE: But I was disappointed to find that this group is read-only. That group is largely a file repository, since the discussion about the MC IDE takes planes on the MetaCar

Re: Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

Mark Wieder wrote: MetaCard Group, for those wanting to dabble in the old IDE: But I was disappointed to find that this group is read-only. Did you join? Members can post. That's pretty normal for Yahoo groups. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: blend level question

At 7:39 PM +0100 2/13/07, Klaus Major wrote: I have a stack with a blend level set to 40, I'd like to be able to place an image on top of that stack (or as a btn icon) and have the blend level of that image be set to zero so it will display well. Thank you to all who replied...I think I know ho

Re: Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

Richard- Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 9:32:07 AM, you wrote: > U4 Group: An open alternative for multi-platform flash-drive deployment: > ! This one I didn't know about ! > MetaCard Group, for those wanting to dabble in the old IDE: >

Re: identifying an object via a custom property

Hershel, Before doing anything more complex, have you tried simply looping through the objects? This should be pretty fast unless you have an enormous number of fields. For example (using your "groupOrder" custom property), you could provide a simple lookup function which returns the firs

Re: identifying an object via a custom property

On 2/13/07 6:40 PM, "Mark Schonewille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Hershel, > > Make a setprop handler that stores a flag in a custom property of > your stack or in a global variable. When you want to know which > objects have ther property set, just use the second custom property > or the gl

Re: identifying an object via a custom property

Hi Hershel, Make a setprop handler that stores a flag in a custom property of your stack or in a global variable. When you want to know which objects have ther property set, just use the second custom property or the global variable to read out the information. Best, Mark -- Economy-x-

identifying an object via a custom property

Hi is there a way to identify an object via a custom property? E.g. focus on fld the groupOrder = 3 Or focus on groupOrder "3" Thanks, Hershel ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: calendar function anyone ?

the weekdayNames ?? Good one, have to remember that :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: Disable Mouse

On 2/14/07, Jeff Honken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to disable a mouse completely from a form? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jeff If you mean to make a window or an area of a window so that no mouse clicks are responded to, then I find the easiest way is to cover the wh

Re: Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

due to a series of unfortunate incidents outwith my control I gave you a chance, three times. Two or three years ago, you were banned from the list. Everybody applauded. I was the one to intercede for you off list and get you back in. You were flooding the list with rants on the fact that

Re: Strange crashing

Hi Alister, No dual screen in use. Wish that was it! Thanks. Richard On Feb 13, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Alister Pillow wrote: Hi Richard, Does your video capture app run on a dual-screen system? I've built some interactives in Rev that use a dual screen - and had some very strange crashing. Th

Disable Mouse

Is there a way to disable a mouse completely from a form? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jeff ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferenc

Re: calendar function anyone ?

jbv wrote: Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? function GetWeekday pDate set the centurycutoff to (char -2 to -1 of pDate)-1 convert pDate to dateitems return line (last item of pD

Re: calendar function anyone ?

Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? If you convert a date to dateItems, it becomes a comma-delimited list of 7 items. The last one is a number indicating the day of the week. Then you ca

Re: calendar function anyone ?

JB you can try something like this... for example, in the message box: convert "1918,9,18,0,0,0,0" from dateItems to dateItems put it This returns: 1918,9,18,1,0,0,4 Note how it "fixes" the day of the week in the date items to 4 (Wednesday) Alternatively you can specify the output as somet

Re: Strange crashing

Hi Richard, Does your video capture app run on a dual-screen system? I've built some interactives in Rev that use a dual screen - and had some very strange crashing. They're expected to run 24/7. The problem was due to the video card being set to Dual Screen mode rather than Horizontal spa

RE: Special Valentine's Offer for Valentina - Beat the PriceIncrease!

> > SPECIAL: We are including a free deployment of Valentina Embedded > > Server Unlimited that you can keep for yourself, or ship to > a customer > > - a $400 value and a "sweet" for Valentine's Day! > > A Valentine's special. How touching. Let me guess, bundled with love? Marielle, At least

calendar function anyone ?

Hi all, Does anyone know of a function to find out, for instance, which day of the week was sept. 18th 1918 or which day of week will be dec. 5th 2025 ? Thanks, JB ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

Dear Marielle Lange, and other interested parties, Yes, thy website went "pear-shaped" on me - but this was due to a series of unfortunate incidents outwith either thy or my control. I do not have any particular squabbles with thee, Marielle; and I have not 'forgiven' thee for the website collaps

Re: blend level question

Just wondering... any chance this could be done programmatically by adding a gray rectangle behind the picture and playing with the ink values? If you put two rectangles in a group, a bright colored one, a gray shaded one. You set the blend level of the group to 50.Then you take one of two

Re: blend level question

Hi sims, I have a stack with a blend level set to 40, I'd like to be able to place an image on top of that stack (or as a btn icon) and have the blend level of that image be set to zero so it will display well. Is this possible to do? If so, how? You can prepare a PNG image in Photoshop and u

Re: Special Valentine's Offer for Valentina - Beat the Price Increase!

SPECIAL: We are including a free deployment of Valentina Embedded Server Unlimited that you can keep for yourself, or ship to a customer - a $400 value and a "sweet" for Valentine's Day! A Valentine's special. How touching. Let me guess, bundled with love? Marielle -

Re: Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

Richmond Mathewson wrote: At least one person has stated that they find it a "bit of a bother" to subscribe to Yahoo Groups to download my RR files. I, personally, found it dead easy to subscribe to other groups (such as the Hypercard one: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/ and

Strange crashing

Perhaps someone has some insight into this odd behavior. Our Rev (Windows) program uses two standalone applications. I'll call the first one the Startup app. This app is supposed to keep running continuously. The user can press on a button in that app that triggers the start of a second sta

Special Valentine's Offer for Valentina - Beat the Price Increase!

Dear all, Paradigma is currently redefining its development tools product line and I would like to share with you how to save up to $900 in taking advantage of the latest releases. In order to deliver a highly stable and usable database solution, all Valentina 2.X purchasers have received free ac

Re: Binary Data???

On 13 Feb 2007, at 17:03, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 13, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Dave wrote: Hi All, I would like to pass a large buffer of binary data to an External Function, but I'm not sure how to go about it in TranScript. Pass in the name of the variable to store the binary data in as a

Re: Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

why don't we all use RevOnline for this kind of stack storage? Andre On Feb 13, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: At least one person has stated that they find it a "bit of a bother" to subscribe to Yahoo Groups to download my RR files. Note that you could use services like. This let

Re: Binary Data???

Hi, Yes, if the data were 5 x 5 (instead of 512, 512) then all I want is a buffer that contains the data: 0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128, 5 lots of (0,128,0,128 in a line, and 5 lines, making 25 groups of 0,128,0,128) 0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128

Re: Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

At least one person has stated that they find it a "bit of a bother" to subscribe to Yahoo Groups to download my RR files. Note that you could use services like. This let you publish a link to a file. The file is held temporarily on a server and up to 100 users can go and download it.

Re: Binary Data???

On Feb 13, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Dave wrote: Hi All, I would like to pass a large buffer of binary data to an External Function, but I'm not sure how to go about it in TranScript. Pass in the name of the variable to store the binary data in as an argument to your function. Then use an Extern

Re: Binary Data???

Hi, Yes, if the data were 5 x 5 (instead of 512, 512) then all I want is a buffer that contains the data: 0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128, 5 lots of (0,128,0,128 in a line, and 5 lines, making 25 groups of 0,128,0,128) 0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128,0,128

Re: [OT] Decompiling SWF on a Mac

About a year ago, I posted a link to a freeware program that would batch convert movie files (and I think swf ones) it was called Q something. I'll check it at work tomorrow. In the meantime, this is another interesting bit of freeware: http://www.tucows.com/preview/319320

Re: Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

a server that would store them, and not suddenly change or vanish without warning. Similar warning as Mark Wieder gave, here. Well, I was the one hosting these files. Obviously, my different websites and presence on forums suggest that I am keen to help members of the community. To avoid

Re: Binary Data???

Dave, could you explain in what you're doing - to my non-C eyes it looks like your'e simply building a 512 * 512 list of bytes of alternating value 0 and 128. If it's any help, you can do this with (128) after tBuffer> the required number of times, but I'm guessing that that is not exactly

Re: Is libURL required for a "get url..." statement?

Derek Bump wrote: What I am wondering is if I can initialize the "libURL" hidden group on my own, to help ensure that the command is completed. Would the following work: Well that did it. Since I want the Standalone to quit immediately after doing it's Internet stuff, I added the following

Re: Error in external

Thanks for the replies, T & J. I'll be on a windows machine later today, so I'll check it out - I can also post the code. JC J. Landman Gay wrote: John Craig wrote: I wrote a small external a while back after Mark Waddington's newsletter article. The external seems to work fine most of the

Re: Big/Little Endian and Externals - Was how to Display/Print a Hex Number???

Dave, is this value a product of the binaryDecode function? If so, it's usually just a question of chosing the right parameter for the platform/processor. Rather than or somesuch, (might it me "AMD"...), I use this function to determine the endianness of the system an app is running on:

Binary Data???

Hi All, I would like to pass a large buffer of binary data to an External Function, but I'm not sure how to go about it in TranScript. The C code for it looks a bit like this: int myXCounter; int myYCounter; unsigned cha

Re: Is libURL required for a "get url..." statement?

Andre Garzia wrote: I do think URL is from libURL or dependant on it. If you're on MacOS X, then you can wrap this call in curl or wget, that's how I do for CGIs. Andre *Sigh*, I'm on Windows XP. Hopefully, someday soon, I'll be able to switch back to the platform I love. :) Derek Bump Dr

Re: Is libURL required for a "get url..." statement?

Richard Gaskin wrote: Derek, would you be able to make that call from a preOpenCard handler in the first card of your mainStack? Well, I thought of that as well, and it still wouldn't work. When in the development environment I am able to get the url, but in the standalone, nothing. What I

Richmond's Yahoo-Groups and related guff.

At least one person has stated that they find it a "bit of a bother" to subscribe to Yahoo Groups to download my RR files. I, personally, found it dead easy to subscribe to other groups (such as the Hypercard one: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/ and the Klaus Nomi one: http://l

Re: blend level question

Hi Sims, At first sight the answer is no :-( Actually all objects are concerned when you set the stack's blendlevel. Even the window itself (title bar included if there is one) is blended and I assume that is what you want :-) But I see two ways: 1. Work your image in PhotoShop to increase hu

blend level question

I have a stack with a blend level set to 40, I'd like to be able to place an image on top of that stack (or as a btn icon) and have the blend level of that image be set to zero so it will display well. Is this possible to do? If so, how? sims ___ use-r

Re:[OT] Decompiling SWF on a Mac (Richmond Mathewson)

Richmond, You might want to take a look my sound editor utility. It is not finished, but can do some sound conversions to aiff. It's in RevOnLine under id gefisher in the utilities catagory. On 2/12/07, Richmond Mathewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Somebody just dumped a load of shockwav

Re: Big/Little Endian and Externals - Was how to Display/Print a Hex Number???

Dave, here's a function I've used to convert big endien numbers. pData is a big endien value read directly from a binary file. If pSigned is empty then the data is assumed to be unsigned. Hopefully this will be of some help. function littleEndien pData, pSigned put length(pData) into tLen

Re: Mercury in retrograde

On 12 Feb 2007, at 16:26, Richard Gaskin wrote: This list has been pretty much controversy-free for months, and I'd hate to see a momentary lapse in otherwise excellent professional judgment break the good roll we're on. Yeah! It's about time we had a good old set to! Good for the soul! lol

Big/Little Endian and Externals - Was how to Display/Print a Hex Number???

Hi, That works great, thanks a lot. One other thing though: I have an external that will eventually have to work on Mac/Intel, Mac/PowerPC and Windows. The value that is being returned is 0x0001, however on an Intel Mac it's being displayed as 0x0100. e.g. it's a Big/Little Endian

Animated GIFS

As far as I can tell, if I import an animated GIF into Metacard/Revolution, the animation speed will be exactly as the GIF was created in whatever graphics program created it. And there is nothing I need to do to ensure that the animation plays at the desired speed. (And hopefully the speed i

Re: Is libURL required for a "get url..." statement?

Derek, I do think URL is from libURL or dependant on it. If you're on MacOS X, then you can wrap this call in curl or wget, that's how I do for CGIs. Andre On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Derek Bump wrote: I know that you cannot use commands associated with any Rev Library until after the

Re: anyone here for a Brazilian User Group?

me too, or I scared all the other users or right now I am a one man user group I am thinking about writing some articles to local mac magazines, maybe, I'll draw some interest, here people know only realbasic... andre On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Been away for a mo

Re: How to Display/Print a Hex Number???

If it's a revolution number, you can use 10,16)>, if it's a 4 byte binary value, you can put empty into tHexStatus get binaryDecode("H*", myStatus, tHexStatus) and tHexStatus should now contain the value as as hex chars. Hope this helps, Best, Mark On 13 Feb 2007, at 10:52, Dave wrote: Hi,

How to Display/Print a Hex Number???

Hi, I have a parameter that is passed back to RunRev in a Variable from an External Command, e.g. the TranScript line is: put myExternalFunction("myHandle") into myStatus and the C/C++ line in the External is: SetVariableEx(theArgumentArrayPtr[0],"",&myHandle,&myStatus); I would now like t

Re: [OT] Decompiling SWF on a Mac

If File Juicer doesn't work on a particular file, just send it to Henrik - he tends to regard it as a challenge and comes out with a new version a few days later! He's one of the most responsive developers I've ever come across. Ian ___ use-revolut

Re: Is libURL required for a "get url..." statement?

Dave Cragg wrote: On 13 Feb 2007, at 02:28, Derek Bump wrote: I know that you cannot use commands associated with any Rev Library until after the startup handler has finished, but is the following command part of the libURL library? get url "http://www.mysite.com/"; The reason I ask is