Sequence of images to Quicktime Movie ?

2007-02-23 Thread Christian Langers
Hello, I'm working on an educative project where children will be shown a random sequence of images to which they will add some audio (their spoken story)... The question I have is if there is some way (within Rev) to "assemble" the images and the audio to a Quicktime movie ? What do yo

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Smith
Developers don't generally make computers, just as brake-pad manufacturers don't generally build cars. Best, Mark On 23 Feb 2007, at 06:12, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: After all, Cadillac was profitable and viable for years and years by just providing the best available car at a premium price

Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Dave
Hi, I've been suffering in silence about this for ages! Has anyone else been driven crazy by the way in which the IDE selects and then moves objects? What I mean is that it's way too easy to move an object just by selecting it. e.g. you select it with a mouse down and accidently move the m

Re: Click Table

2007-02-23 Thread Martin Blackman
Jim's suggestion is excellent but you might also check the Runrev forum under feature requests. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: htt

Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Powell
I know there is debate among HIF designers that such a thing should exist in the first place, but let's assume that one has a good reason for it: My question is, is there any Rev-native way of doing tri-state checkboxes? Where a checkbox can have an ON, OFF, or "equivocal" setting that signifie

QUARTAM Report

2007-02-23 Thread Horst
Hi there, Does anybody knows, when Version 1.1 will be out and, if the printout will be much better as now with all the printed pixels? A printout now looks like the needel-printer 20 years ago and this layout is out of discussion f.e. a professional invoice or other professional printouts. Doe

Re: Using Apple Help

2007-02-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor Hopkins wrote: What are people's opinions on using Apple's Help Viewer? Apple's history of Help systems gives one the impression that if it runs efficiently they fire the programmer and replace him with one who can make it slower. :) FWIW, my apps don't use either Apple Help or Micr

Re: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, use an image, every mouseUp you cycle thru the three stages and change the image. I think it is the easiest way. Andre On Feb 23, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Mark Powell wrote: I know there is debate among HIF designers that such a thing should exist in the first place, but let's assume that

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Swindell
Yes, this is a minor annoyance for me too. I think what happens is that I select an object when the mouse is still in motion over it, and so I drag it a few pixels. I'm not sure what the solution is from the IDE end, but it does seem to happen more frequently in Rev than with other apps I

Re: Click Table (Jim Ault)

2007-02-23 Thread John Runde
Thanks for your reply, Jim. I also may not have explained what I need very well. All i want to do is have a table where i can click on an item and identify the line & item# that was clicked on, and can drill down for the user for the details on that item. For example, a monthly financial rep

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Sometimes I wonder if catering to this Window's mess is really worth all the effort. Heck, after all the expense we developers have been through with Apple (68k->PPC, Classic->OS X, PPC->Intel) I wouldn't mind a little platform stability on both sides. -- Richard

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Dave
Hi, Yes, that's it. It doesn't happen in other Application because they "de-bounce" the mouse in one (or more) of the ways I describe below. All the Best Dave On 23 Feb 2007, at 15:36, Mark Swindell wrote: Yes, this is a minor annoyance for me too. I think what happens is that I select

Re: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Dave
Hi, Just create a small image and set the contents depending on the state which you keep in a Custom Property. Something like this would do it: on mouseUp local myCurrentState put the cpCurrentState of me into myCurrentState if myCurrentState = empty then put 0 into myCurrentState end if

RE: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Sometimes I wonder if catering to this Window's mess is > really worth all the effort. After all, Cadillac was > profitable and viable for years and years by just providing > the best available car at a premium price to less than 5% of > the market. Why should we worry about the other 95%? T

Re: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Stephen Barncard
Check out my Tri State Checkbox I just whipped up. It uses disabled as a third state. (I know, I know, the HIG...) but it's pretty intuitive. revonline: barncard category: programming nameTri State Checkbox -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - __

Re: [ANN] Son 2.0

2007-02-23 Thread Alejandro Tejada
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RE: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Powell
Thanks to all for your suggestions, but they do not precisely fit what I need. The image solutions assume one look-and-feel...if the standalone were to be run on Vista, for example, the image would have the wrong motif when compared to the neighboring conventional checkboxes. And Stephen's soluti

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Devin Asay
Dave, Have you submitted this as a bug/enhancement to Rev QC/Bugzilla? I would add some votes to it if it were there. Devin On Feb 23, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Dave wrote: Hi, Yes, that's it. It doesn't happen in other Application because they "de-bounce" the mouse in one (or more) of the ways

Re: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Dave
Hi, Just change the "look and feel" depending on the platform, e.g. use one set of images for Mac and another for Windows etc. All the Best Dave On 23 Feb 2007, at 17:22, Mark Powell wrote: Thanks to all for your suggestions, but they do not precisely fit what I need. The image solution

RE: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:22:33 -0800, Mark Powell wrote: > Thanks to all for your suggestions, but they do not precisely fit what I > need. > > The image solutions assume one look-and-feel...if the standalone were to > be run on Vista, for example, the image would have the wrong motif when > compar

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Bob Warren
Jim Ault wrote: >Developers who realize that Rev can still go forward as a cross-plat dev tool with a small learning curve. Developers who realize that this is YAFITR (yet another fork in the road) and that this is probably a Linux conspiracy to gain market share :-) Besides, how many thir

Re: Click Table (Jim Ault)

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Ault
The key here is > But a table field would (if it worked) be much better. It is a question of field management, or cells within a table. The Rev table object is very difficult to manipulate and get a decent user experience. You mentioned column resizing, which would mean tab stop management in a

RE: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Powell
Ken: Sounds promising. Is the size/location of the underlying checkbox predictable enough for this? i.e. it doesn't pixel-creep from platform to platform? Mark Well, the closest you can get is to have a single image that shows the equivocal state that is put on top of a real checkbox, and i

Re: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Brent Anderson
Another option would be to use a Custom Property set to keep track of which image to display. On openstack, determine the system type and set the custom prop set appropriately. Thanks, Brent Anderson Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center On Feb 23, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Ken Ray wrote: On

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Bob Warren
Dave wrote: I've been suffering in silence about this for ages! Has anyone else been driven crazy by the way in which the IDE selects and then moves objects? What I mean is that it's way too easy to move an object just by selecting it. e.g. you select it with a mouse down and accidently

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Bob Warren
I said: >I began making progress once I realized that weaning myself from Windows didn't necessarily need to be done "cold chicken". -- Sorry, my turkey changed into a "chicken"!!! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-r

RE: Tri-state checkboxes

2007-02-23 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:30:04 -0800, Mark Powell wrote: > Ken: > > Sounds promising. Is the size/location of the underlying checkbox > predictable enough for this? i.e. it doesn't pixel-creep from platform > to platform? Good question - I'm not sure, but I know it is at least consisitent wit

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Bob Warren wrote: Dave wrote: I've been suffering in silence about this for ages! Has anyone else been driven crazy by the way in which the IDE selects and then moves objects? What I mean is that it's way too easy to move an object just by selecting it. e.

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm still thinking the portable application architecture is the way to go...only that a custom installer needs to be written. Fact is, Apple created the concept of 'portable apps' long ago when all you had to have was a double-clickable program. Remember when moving apps between computers was as

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: And another good reason to stick with a portable application architecture. All my apps have been portable in the sense that that everything they need is in one folder -- it can be run from anywhere in any hard drive, USB, etc. But auto-updates, there's the stickler. Wh

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Chipp Walters
On 2/23/07, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But auto-updates, there's the stickler. Where does one store downloaded app parts on both Mac and Win so it can be as available to all users as the executable in the Applications/Program Files directory is? On WinXP: "C:\Documents and Sett

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
I sent the following to the Improve list but forgot to copy it to this one, so am resending. Some cursory searches on the web showed me that we aren't the only ones wondering where to store writable files in Vista. There aren't a lot of answers yet. Here are some excerpts I pasted into a text do

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Bob Warren wrote: Jim Ault wrote: >Developers who realize that Rev can still go forward as a cross-plat dev tool with a small learning curve. Developers who realize that this is YAFITR (yet another fork in the road) and that this is probably a Linux conspiracy to gain market share :-) Besid

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Devin Asay wrote: On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Bob Warren wrote: Dave wrote: I've been suffering in silence about this for ages! Has anyone else been driven crazy by the way in which the IDE selects and then moves objects? What I mean is that it's way too easy to move an object just by

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Brad Sampson
On 2/23/07, Devin Asay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Bob Warren wrote: > Dave wrote: > >> I've been suffering in silence about this for ages! > > Has anyone else been driven crazy by the way in which the IDE > selects and then moves objects? What I mean is that it's w

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Brad Sampson
Sorry about the extra one... Curse Windows 98. In any program I do that involves objects having to look nice, which means anything I design for someone else... so basically everything... I lock the position of just about everything to prevent this. You can still move the objects with the arrow k

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Martin Baxter wrote: I don't know about the chances of this actually succeeding but Microsoft is clearly attempting to do something about that. See: LOL - that site says it all. Not in content, but in form

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dave, I know exactly what you mean and completely agree with you. There is one problem though. I often use the mouse to move an object only one pixel. Mouse "de-boucing" would force me to move objects 2 or 3 pixels into one direction and then 1 or 2 pixels into the opposite direction.

Re: Re-5: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Matthias and Jacque, I removed revpreferences.rev and did a test with messagetester.rev. This time, all messages appeared in the text field and I was able to hear the four beeps. Problem solved. Many thanks, Matthias. Best regards, Mark -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engin

Re: 2.8 gm-3

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 6:17:23 PM, I wrote: > I notice there's no 2.8 u3 build. Has that fallen by the wayside? (answers self and says) ...well yes, apparently it has... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/23/07 6:11 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Baxter wrote: >> I don't know about the chances of this actually succeeding but Microsoft >> is clearly attempting to do something about that. See: >> >>

Re: Something that Drives me *CRAZY*

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Ault
On 2/23/07 5:09 PM, "Brad Sampson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry about the extra one... Curse Windows 98. In any program I do > that involves objects having to look nice, which means anything I > design for someone else... so basically everything... I lock the > position of just about everyt