Re: OT: PathFinder

2007-04-21 Thread Chipp Walters
OOPS, forgot to mention Thanks to Jim Ault for his recommendation. Thanks Jim! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runre

OT: PathFinder

2007-04-21 Thread Chipp Walters
I ran across this Mac Finder replacement, called PathFinder, and I can finally manage files on my Mac! Turns out there are many Windows users who hate the limitations the Finder forces on users. I have to say, if you haven't tried it, I would suggest giving it a whirl. Wish Apple would buy it. -

Re: Automatically setting screen resolution

2007-04-21 Thread Ken Ray
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:59:34 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way within Revolution to automatically set the resolution > to 1024x768 (and then convert it back to the original > resolution when the standalone closes)? It's funny you mention this - I just posted an answer to this in

Re: Automatically setting screen resolution

2007-04-21 Thread Scott Kane
Is there a way within Revolution to automatically set the resolution to 1024x768 (and then convert it back to the original resolution when the standalone closes)? To give an precise example of where automatic resolution changing would be disastrous - if I have open one of my programming lan

Re: Automatically setting screen resolution

2007-04-21 Thread Brent Anderson
Hello. First of all, adjusting screen resolution can make your user annoyed and can cause unforeseeable issues on their computer. The ReadMe would be good, but a dialog asking them if they want the software to change their resolution or to adjust it themselves and then relaunch would be p

Re: Automatically setting screen resolution

2007-04-21 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Steve, In my opinion as a very long time user of a great many different programs, I believe handling it as you have with a ReadMe instruction, is probably the best method. I have encountered a few programs that automatically make the change "for me", and I've always hated it. I prefer to

Automatically setting screen resolution

2007-04-21 Thread Stgoldberg
Sorry if I may have missed this topic in a previous forum. I'd appreciate any help on the following question: The standalones that I am creating require a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher to properly fit on the screen. Since some people may have their monitors set to a lower resolut

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Maybe I exaggerated a bit; but even in 9.2 AppleWorks had that function and it continues with OSX and some other Apple apps. I don't know about 3rd party apps. I know that my favorite, MacDraft doesn't have that feature. Still, they all should IMO. Joe Wilkins On Apr 21, 2007, at 10:22 AM,

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Chipp Walters
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Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Sivakatirswami
Jim Ault wrote: I fire up Path Finder when that is important. About 18 months ago I investigated any way of 3rd party or other to show the path in all that space that is available, but could find nothing. I do lots of /web/ file paths and this is a real pain. I guess it is something about a fil

Re: connected to LAN

2007-04-21 Thread Sivakatirswami
Jim Sims wrote: I suppose I am asking if there might be a specific identifying item for a LAN that I can obtain in order to do the above. I don't want to simply check for connection to a LAN but connection to a specific LAN. I use ping files on the servers on the LANs. This assume of co

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Jim Ault
On 4/21/07 10:22 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: >> Though this works; even with most OSX compliant application >> documents, one of the first complaints I had with Rev was that it >> does not work when you have a Rev Stack open. This should not be a >> t

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Though this works; even with most OSX compliant application > documents, one of the first complaints I had with Rev was that it > does not work when you have a Rev Stack open. This should not be a > truly difficult fix I should think. Wow. I knew about Cmd-click in the

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Though this works; even with most OSX compliant application documents, one of the first complaints I had with Rev was that it does not work when you have a Rev Stack open. This should not be a truly difficult fix I should think. Joe Wilkins On Apr 21, 2007, at 12:08 AM, Stephen Barncard wr

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On Apr 21, 2007, at 6:44 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Is there anyway to show the path of the folder one is navigating to on the Mac. On the PC, I have an address bar which shows the location of where I'm at. I've a couple of windows open on the Mac and I've navigated to the same subfolder, but of d

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Ian Wood
On 21 Apr 2007, at 09:27, Jim Ault wrote: Another welcome feature of Path Finder is the right-click > copy path as UNIX, HFS, Terminal(spaces escaped), URL, Name On that subject, Path Snagger is a great donationware preference pane that adds a contextual menu item to the Finder, to copy U

AW: mysterious set the clipboardData

2007-04-21 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thank you Ken, Mark and Sarah, Text of... didn't worked for me Export... works And Sarahs trick did it too. Sarah was right, that the problem occurs only, when the image doesn't have the original size, so I choose Sarahs workaround. Did you report this bug Sarah, or shall I do it? Thank you all Ti

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 4/21/07, Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anyway to show the path of the folder one is navigating to on the Mac. On the PC, I have an address bar which shows the location of where I'm at. I've a couple of windows open on the Mac and I've navigated to the same subfolder, but of

Re: textHeight and textSize

2007-04-21 Thread Ferdinand
Thanks for your time and answer. Setting the font works fine here. I try to be more specific with my point: I need the exact line height needed for the font and font size. So the font fits exactly in the line. For example: For the font "Arial" with a size of 96 pts, the line height should

Re: Obtaining the size of a file

2007-04-21 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 4/21/07 1:03 AM, "Bill Marriott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another way to make quick work of the detailed files is to put them into an > array: > >put the detailed files into foobar >split foobar by return and comma > > then you can say, > >get item 1 of foobar[urlencode(myFil

Re: Obtaining the size of a file

2007-04-21 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
This is an example from documentation, assuming your file is MyFile.txt: get the detailed files filter it with "MyFile.txt,*" put item 2 of it + item 3 of it into myFileSize There is also size property which reports the amount of disk space taken by an object to judge how much memory an ob

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Jim Ault
I fire up Path Finder when that is important. About 18 months ago I investigated any way of 3rd party or other to show the path in all that space that is available, but could find nothing. I do lots of /web/ file paths and this is a real pain. I guess it is something about a file that we are easi

Re: Obtaining the size of a file

2007-04-21 Thread Jim Ault
perhaps an applescript that did the whole list and returned one list as a result... only one handoff. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 4/21/07 12:17 AM, "John Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the replies, everyone. I've written several handlers in the > past for things only to discover late

Re: Obtaining the size of a file

2007-04-21 Thread Bill Marriott
John, I'm recursing through a (sometimes large) list of files and folders which can take a while, so I was trying to avoid another function call per line. Josh's function is pretty speedy. And, if you know you are going to process all the files in a directory, then you can store a copy of the

Re: Obtaining the size of a file

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Craig wrote: I'm recursing through a (sometimes large) list of files and folders which can take a while, so I was trying to avoid another function call per line. A perfect case for using "the detailed files", so you can rapidly get all of the size info for an entire directory in one call

Re: Obtaining the size of a file

2007-04-21 Thread John Craig
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I've written several handlers in the past for things only to discover later that there is a command that does the task in a one liner - I just never found it in the docs - so I thought I'd ask. I'm recursing through a (sometimes large) list of files and folde

Re: OT: Mac question

2007-04-21 Thread Stephen Barncard
Cmd-click on a finder title bar (and some apps' title bars) Is there anyway to show the path of the folder one is navigating to on the Mac. On the PC, I have an address bar which shows the location of where I'm at. I've a couple of windows open on the Mac and I've navigated to the same subf