Re: "Virtual Tour" Functionality Question

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Marriott
Ronell, > I'd like use Revolution to do a "virtual tour" [...] Sounds like you might want to give Rev Media a spin. It has an adventure game builder which does something what you're asking to do. There is also a downloadable sample stack that illustrates how to do it. __

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Marriott
Andre, > I told him that a platform is as strong as its developers base, that is > true for the Newton that has such strong developers that without Newton > OS source or help from apple, they were able to add FAT support, Web > Servers, Wifi, even an emulator... and they are now planning fo

Re: "Virtual Tour" Functionality Question

2007-04-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ronell E. Toledo wrote: > I'd like use Revolution to do a "virtual tour", displaying a location photo in > a small window > within a card, and > using either left/right buttons or moving the mouse to the far left or far > right edge of the > window to make the > location photo pan left

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Thursday, April 12, 2007, 2:15:49 PM, you wrote: > I am pleased to say that I was accepted as a student in the google > summer of code program. Congratulations. I must say Google is showing amazingly good taste in their selection process... -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On 4/13/07, Björnke von Gierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: strange... I get 10, and I greatly prefer that... maybe rev has some mind reading external lately? Goodie, maybe then I'll be able to do: 2 + 2 = IV and get true ;-) ___ use-revolution

"Virtual Tour" Functionality Question

2007-04-12 Thread Ronell E. Toledo
Hello there, I'd like use Revolution to do a "virtual tour", displaying a location photo in a small window within a card, and using either left/right buttons or moving the mouse to the far left or far right edge of the window to make the location photo pan left or right (and possibly up/down

Rolling Animation

2007-04-12 Thread Sivakatirswami
I wonder if someone has already scripted this... I did not find it in Malte Brill's tutorials: Rolling wheel or ball: round object that has distintive colors and shapes appears to be rolling forward or backward. One would have to grok the math for having the rotation match the movement. i.e.

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Chipp Walters wrote: Andre, Congratulations. I sure hope you can get over your shyness for your new job. Now there's an image...Andre the Blushing Rose. :) Congratulations, Andre. Don't forget about us little people here when you get famous. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL P

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Wieder wrote: Bill- Thursday, April 12, 2007, 6:02:27 AM, you wrote: put "5" + "5" gives you 10 Would you rather that give you "Syntax Error?" Hmmm. I get "Operators +: error in left operand" Interesting. On OS X I get 10. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTE

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 13 Apr 2007, at 04:53, Mark Wieder wrote: Bill- Thursday, April 12, 2007, 6:02:27 AM, you wrote: put "5" + "5" gives you 10 Would you rather that give you "Syntax Error?" Hmmm. I get "Operators +: error in left operand" And that's what I'd expect. And yes, I *do* prefer that.

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Bill- Thursday, April 12, 2007, 6:02:27 AM, you wrote: > put "5" + "5" > gives you > 10 > Would you rather that give you "Syntax Error?" Hmmm. I get "Operators +: error in left operand" And that's what I'd expect. And yes, I *do* prefer that. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Thursday, April 12, 2007, 9:45:00 AM, you wrote: > The fix involves doing a string comparison rather then a numeric > comparison if either operand overflows. The bug number is 4651 if anyone > is curious. Thanks. My comments added. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread Chipp Walters
Andre, Congratulations. I sure hope you can get over your shyness for your new job. -c ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Tereza and Richard, and I was thinking about applying to work for 4W and Califex you know, you guys are the inspiration, all I did was coding and filling the form. It helps that I choose to help a niche operating system, less competition... :D Andre On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Ter

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Wayne, You know, I've meet personally with Bernd Korz, even had dinner with the guy. He was very decent and many friends worked for yT. Its sad to see what happened to them, I don't think I'll ever see Bernd again. Anyway, Haiku is growing fast, even firefox is running now... maybe this

Re: AltBrowser newbie question...

2007-04-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jim Carwardine wrote: > I've just installed AltBrowser and am starting to play with it. I can't > seem to get the AltBrowser window to display a url. I have installed the > plug-in and also the stack in my application. > ... > When I look at the docs through the demo, it launches the

AltBrowser newbie question...

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Carwardine
I've just installed AltBrowser and am starting to play with it. I can't seem to get the AltBrowser window to display a url. I have installed the plug-in and also the stack in my application. I used the Launch Browser button in the demo stack to create the launch button in my stack but when I cli

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks for the patient explanation. Sometimes I feel kind of dumb on this list, but then programming is not my main field of expertise and probably never will be. (smile) On the M$ front, don't worry. I've given that up "here"! Joe Wilkins On Apr 12, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread wayne durden
Congrats Andre: Beos was great, Have watched Yellow Tab flame out and am hopeful Haiku makes it to release! Of course then you are going to have to get an xtalk implemented for it Wayne On 4/12/07, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Folks, I am pleased to say that I was acce

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread Tereza Snyder
On Apr 12, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I am pleased to say that I was accepted as a student in the google summer of code program. Congratulations, Andre! When you take over the industry I'll be happy to apply for a job with Soapdog Inc. :) I'm applying now too! Hi Boss!

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Marriott
Joe, > But Bill, did you notice THEY AREN'T THE SAME. ONE ENDS IN 1; THE OTHER > ENDS IN 2! > >> put "3.141592653589793238461" is "3.141592653589793238462" Um, yes, that was the point :) I think Rev handles up to 20 digits of precision after the decimal point. So as the 1 and 2 are beyond its

Re: OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: I am pleased to say that I was accepted as a student in the google summer of code program. Congratulations, Andre! When you take over the industry I'll be happy to apply for a job with Soapdog Inc. :) -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___

OT: I was accepted in Google Summer Of Code.

2007-04-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello Folks, I am pleased to say that I was accepted as a student in the google summer of code program. For those that don't know, the summer of code is an initiative from google that works like this: Google approve a number of mentoring organizations, students submit projects to this org

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Bill Marriott wrote: What about put "3.141592653589793238461" is "3.141592653589793238462" Guess what Rev says? (True.) Longstanding behavior in xTalk, going back to HyperCard days. You won't find much HyperCard worship here. Sure, I liked it and used it, but I've f

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: I can understand attempting to coerce to numbers if two string literals have an arithmetic operator between them, e.g.: "5" + "5" ...but if quoted and merely checking for equivalence, offhand I can think of no case where these wouldn't be true: "5" is "5" "55e5

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
But Bill, did you notice THEY AREN'T THE SAME. ONE ENDS IN 1; THE OTHER ENDS IN 2! Joe Wilkins On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Bill Marriott wrote: Richard, What about put "3.141592653589793238461" is "3.141592653589793238462" Guess what Rev says? (True.) Longstanding behavior in xTalk, goi

Re: Counting lines in a list field?

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Ault
On 4/12/07 12:03 PM, "Richmond Mathewson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, this is probably fairly basic! > > How does one count the number of lines in a list > field? > > Feel a terrible fool that I don't know . . . > Try, put the number of lines in fld listOfFlowers into msg --and more

Re: AW: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Outstanding, even works with my emails. Thank you many times over. BTW, when is this RevCon in LV going to be held? If you know. Sure like to buy you some lunch sometime soon! Interesting thing about that, instead of holding down each of these keys you can just lay your finger across all of

Re: Counting lines in a list field?

2007-04-12 Thread Stephen Barncard
put the number of lines in fld "listField" Sorry, this is probably fairly basic! How does one count the number of lines in a list field? Feel a terrible fool that I don't know . . . sincerely, Richmond Mathewson -- stephen bar

Re: Counting lines in a list field?

2007-04-12 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Richmond, Sorry, this is probably fairly basic! How does one count the number of lines in a list field? Mon dieu! :-D ... the number of lines of fld "xyz" ... Feel a terrible fool that I don't know . . . sincerely, Richmond Mathewson Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maj

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill Marriott wrote: What about put "3.141592653589793238461" is "3.141592653589793238462" Guess what Rev says? (True.) Longstanding behavior in xTalk, going back to HyperCard days. You won't find much HyperCard worship here. Sure, I liked it and used it, but I've found many things in tha

Re: AW: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Ault
On 4/12/07 6:44 AM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to add my two bits worth: As someone who is visually challenged, > when I receive ANYTHING with white text and a colored background, I > trash it. It is entirely too difficult for me to read. I certainly > would not work in

Counting lines in a list field?

2007-04-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sorry, this is probably fairly basic! How does one count the number of lines in a list field? Feel a terrible fool that I don't know . . . sincerely, Richmond Mathewson A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Marriott
Richard, What about put "3.141592653589793238461" is "3.141592653589793238462" Guess what Rev says? (True.) Longstanding behavior in xTalk, going back to HyperCard days. but put "3.141592653589793238461" & null is "3.141592653589793238462" & null returns false. Seems like the "best practice

Re: Print question

2007-04-12 Thread Martin Baxter
Devin Asay wrote: Folks, Charles sent me a screenshot of what he's seeing off list. See it at http://asay.byu.edu/fld.png. It appears to be highlighted text, or possibly a field background color that happens to be set the the exact color of the OS X default highlight color. I'm surprised 's

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but Mark Waddingham has just commented on the bug I submitted for this. He verifies what we've been discussing -- it's an overflow problem due to interpreting the string as a number -- and says he thinks its a bug. It is targeted to b

Print question

2007-04-12 Thread Charles Szasz
I appreciate everyone's suggestions. Despite the confusion in my postings, I did have showFocusBorder and setBorder properties set to false prior to printing while trying to use select empty. I got so desperate I tried select empty in many places before printing with no success. I found a

Re: Print question

2007-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Devin Asay wrote: Folks, Charles sent me a screenshot of what he's seeing off list. See it at http://asay.byu.edu/fld.png. It appears to be highlighted text, or possibly a field background color that happens to be set the the exact color of the OS X default highlight color. I'm surprised 's

Re: Print question

2007-04-12 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I tried a bit, and got all kind of wonky results when printing while the lockScreen was true. Maybe you should just move the stack offscreen ( set the loc of stack z to -x,-y) and try to print like that instead of using lock screen. I know this is just a workaround, but at least it'll work. Also

Re: www.runrev.com down?

2007-04-12 Thread Ken Ray
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:07:10 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > i cannot connect to http://www.runrev.com . Is the site temporarilly down? > Could someone confirm? Works for me... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _

Re: www.runrev.com down?

2007-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i cannot connect to http://www.runrev.com . Is the site temporarilly down? Could someone confirm? Yes, it was/is out temporarily. There was a DNS problem apparently. It seems to be back online for me now, but that may vary for others depending on whether or not y

Re: More non-European text printing problems

2007-04-12 Thread Peter T. Evensen
Devin, Yes, it looks fine on screen. It just prints out wonky (there's a word I wish we had in American English). Thanks for verifying the bug. Glad it isn't just me. I did enter them in the quality center. #4669 and #4670. At 12:07 PM 4/12/2007, you wrote: On Apr 12, 2007, at 8:33 AM

Re: www.runrev.com down?

2007-04-12 Thread Devin Asay
On Apr 12, 2007, at 9:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i cannot connect to http://www.runrev.com . Is the site temporarilly down? Could someone confirm? I can get to it. DNA Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University ___

Re: More non-European text printing problems

2007-04-12 Thread Devin Asay
On Apr 12, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: This happens on Windows XP. I have a field that contains the following (for the htmlText): lang="ru">англичан 82;а This field prints out fine. However, if I bold (or underline) any character, I get a large space before the bolded cha

RE: Runrev & Microsoft sql server

2007-04-12 Thread Len Morgan
While I haven't used SQLExpress, I HAVE used SQL Server. If your problem with mySQL (which I am NOT recommending), is the difficulty of setting up the server, I don't think you're going to do any better with SQLExpress. Some things you didn't mention: 1) Will this be a multiuser database? 2)

www.runrev.com down?

2007-04-12 Thread runrev260805
Hi, i cannot connect to http://www.runrev.com . Is the site temporarilly down? Could someone confirm? All the best. Matthias Rebbe ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subsc

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but Mark Waddingham has just commented on the bug I submitted for this. He verifies what we've been discussing -- it's an overflow problem due to interpreting the string as a number -- and says he thinks its a bug. It is targeted to be fixed for the next dp

Re: Print question

2007-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Szasz wrote: The only thing I have tried that removes the blue background is to set traversalOn to false but this moves the blue background from the first text field to the next entry text field. This tells me that you mean the focus border, not the background (these are different th

Re: AW: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Ian Wood
Joe, I have a design/interface question for you. As a photographer, I often like web and app interfaces which have white or very light grey text on a dark grey (sometimes *very* dark grey) background - is this as bad as a coloured background for you? I'm specifically thinking of apps like

Re: Print question

2007-04-12 Thread Devin Asay
Folks, Charles sent me a screenshot of what he's seeing off list. See it at http://asay.byu.edu/fld.png. It appears to be highlighted text, or possibly a field background color that happens to be set the the exact color of the OS X default highlight color. I'm surprised 'select empty' doe

Print question

2007-04-12 Thread Charles Szasz
I want to thank everyone for their suggestions. So far, I still have a text field with a blue background. I have tried the following: set the showFocusBorder to false set showBorder to false set the background color of the field to none; also set the background color of the field to white se

More non-European text printing problems

2007-04-12 Thread Peter T. Evensen
This happens on Windows XP. I have a field that contains the following (for the htmlText): lang="ru">англичанка This field prints out fine. However, if I bold (or underline) any character, I get a large space before the bolded character and a space after and the line spacing gets completely

Print problem

2007-04-12 Thread Charles Szasz
I want to thank everyone for their suggestions. So far, I still have a text field with a blue background. I have tried the following: set the showFocusBorder to false set showBorder to false set the background color of the field to none; also set the background color of the field to white se

Re: AW: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Just to add my two bits worth: As someone who is visually challenged, when I receive ANYTHING with white text and a colored background, I trash it. It is entirely too difficult for me to read. I certainly would not work in that type of environment under any circumstances. Black on white wor

Re: AW: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Thanks to you and to Bill for your useful information. Here's what I have found out after testing (I use Verdana all over): Resolutions 1024x768 and 1152x864: With textsize 18 and 24, plain style (white text on coloured background) I would recommend my users to turn on Clear type Textcolor 1

AW: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
As a Windows user I didn't even know about the cleartype option. I just gave it a try and must say, I switched it off immediately, though I have a flat panel. I don't know if it is because I am used over the years to "standard" display option, but with clear type the fonts look soo smooth and shad

Re: A string doesn't equal itself

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Marriott
Mark, > Since that's the only one you put quotes around, I'd argue that yes, > you can complain about it. My usage of quotes in that context was for English syntax compliance, not xTalk :) > I would think the quotes would say "don't > evaluate anything within". You might think that, but then

Re: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Marriott
Signe Marie Sanne, > Now I wonder: When a new computer is delivered to a private user, will > the box with Clear type be default setting, or is it just Standard that > is the default? Is the resolution 1280x1024 now used as default? It all depends on the particular OEM. ClearType was specif

Runrev & Microsoft sql server

2007-04-12 Thread Nic Prioleau
I am about to embark on a project where we wanted to use a "licence free" database that we could embed in the application or at time of deployment, did not require too much "tweeking". I looked at mySQL but have found this to be quite difficult at deployment. We literally want the cutomer to ins

Re: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Scott Kane
Standard that is the default? Is the resolution 1280x1024 now used as default? Most Windows boxes still ship (OEM at any rate) at 1024 x 768. Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Using Shell to copy files

2007-04-12 Thread xavier . bury
Hi If you are not a domain or authentified user, you can always map to the ipc$ of the server you dont have access too. net use \\myserver\ipc$ /user:myserver\userid mypassword Then the UNC paths shouldn't pose any more problems for any copy program. I would rather use a shell copy than a vbs

OT: Ugly fonts

2007-04-12 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Hello BIll, thanks for your information about Appearance --> Effects --> Clear type. I have complained about ugly fonts on Windows XP (with a screen resolution of 1152x864) for several years now, and no one knew about this (or cared to suggest this for me). Now I wonder: When a new computer

Re: Using Shell to copy files

2007-04-12 Thread Nic Prioleau
Thanks roger ... The vbScripts are the way forward! Cheers Nic - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:25 PM Subject: Re: Using Shell to copy files On 04/04/2007 at 09:04 AM, "Nic Prioleau" <[EMAI