This is listed as SPLASH SCREEN DESIGNER; look under
'Richmond'
The name of the stack is SSD.rev, and that is how it
shows up when it is put into the Plug-ins folder.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a
"supercard docs leave the user reverse enginering for dollars"
Yes. Yes, so true.
The problem is not with the existing docs, which are just fine for what they
do. The problem, for people learning it, is that they are like a cookbook
all about ingredients but with no recipes for dishes. Its li
Someone mentioned one of the great hypercard books... Made me wish as much of
the inner workings of modern xtalk environments were as transparently explained
by the developers themselves. I cant spealpk for runrev but supercard docs
leave the user reverse enginering for dollars.
randall
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On Jan 17, 2008 1:27 AM, Chris Sheffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way to cancel a wait command?
>
> So I'm wondering, if a user moves to that second card before the audio
> of the first card finishes, is there some way to cancel that
> wait...with messages? Does that make sense? L
Is that the name it is listed as and what category is it in?
I could not find it.
-=>JB<=-
On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Just uploaded to revOnline:
Shamelessly copied from HyperNext; but, I belive,
rather better.
Download it into your plug-ins folder and use it wi
Dave, this may be an endian issue. The string below is a big endian
unicode string, if you're on an intel machine you'll need to either
reverse each pair before calling unidecode, or simpler (if you're
sure there'll be no non-ascii characters) just 'replace null with
empty in myStringData'
> I'm reading a string from a file that is stored in Unicode (2-byte)
> format. I need to convert it to one byte characters in order to write
> the string to a database which is later sent to the server.
>
> When I execute the following it gives unexpected results
>
> put uniDecode(myStringData,"AN
Hi,
I'm reading a string from a file that is stored in Unicode (2-byte)
format. I need to convert it to one byte characters in order to write
the string to a database which is later sent to the server.
When I execute the following it gives unexpected results
put uniDecode(myStringData,"ANS
Tim-
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My welcome also! I also recommend Hypercard 2.2: The Book as its a
great library resource to a lot of the functions. Go to amazon and see
whats available there.
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On Jan 16, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Hello Jim,
be ver
Hello Jim,
be very welcome!!! :D
This is the best community ever, feel free to ask any question! I
recommend buying "Software at the speed of though" by Dan Shafer, it's
available as an eBook and it is a wonderful resource!
Cheers
andre
On 1/10/08, Jim Schaubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm
On 16 Jan 2008, at 21:36, Mikey wrote:
Regardless, there is nothing that stops anyone from circumventing a
patent by reverse-engineering it, which is generally the favored
technique.
This is just false. patents are documented, because that is the only
way to enforce them in court. Therefore
Hi,
Can I post a youtube link here? Well, here goes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wreP8FMupyM
If you don't feel like clicking on the link, it demonstrates a cool
drumbeat machine with a GUI, sort of.
I lusted after it for a moment, then realized it's limited, probably
not commercially a
Mikey wrote:
Richard,
Obviously others have commented on the patent. If the patent hasn't
expired, it is about to, and the technique will be described in the
patent application.
Regardless, there is nothing that stops anyone from circumventing a
patent by reverse-engineering it, which is genera
Randall,
The first line was shell command got list names of files in working
directory. You got UTF8 filenames. Then it's converted to UTF16 and
set the test field 1.
OSX 10.5.1 ENGLISH and Rev 2.8.1.
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Randall Lee Reetz wrote:
In your script, it appears that a custom prop is dynamically declared
just by setting it's value? Is this all you have to do? In
SuperCard, one has to specifically declare a "user" property with a
"define" statement before ever setting it's value.
Yeah, and that
Kenji, thank you for that. Unfortunately, having got the name, there
doesn't seem to be any way in Revolution to actually do anything with
it - at least on this english system...
Best,
Mark
On 16 Jan 2008, at 20:51, Kenji Kojima wrote:
Hi Mark,
This is the way you can get Japanese filena
Hi Randall,
Le 16 janv. 08 à 19:41, Randall Lee Reetz a écrit :
This 256 char path limit... who's is it... File system? Rev?
Obviously a Rev choice about used variables.
See 'Documentation/rev/Memory and Limits Reference.rev'
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
-
Kenji,
Will you please explain your solution. I don't understand what is
happening and how "it works.
Thanks,
Randall
On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Kenji Kojima wrote:
Hi Mark,
This is the way you can get Japanese filenames.
put "cd ~/Desktop" &cr& "ls" into tScript
set the unicodeText
Hi Mark,
This is the way you can get Japanese filenames.
put "cd ~/Desktop" &cr& "ls" into tScript
set the unicodeText of fld 1 to uniencode(shell(tScript),utf8)
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On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Mark Smith wr
Richard,
Obviously others have commented on the patent. If the patent hasn't
expired, it is about to, and the technique will be described in the
patent application.
Regardless, there is nothing that stops anyone from circumventing a
patent by reverse-engineering it, which is generally the favored
At 10:18 AM -0800 1/16/2008, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Thierry wrote:
Of course you have to replace spaces and slashes with some string
that will not break the name of the custom prop into several parts
:-)
I just ran this test:
on mouseUp
put "some/thing" into v1
put "some thing" into v2
Ya, this "hint bits" just sounds like a clever indexing/pointing
system... hard to defend any specific case of this as categorically
owned. This is at base in any fast database incarnation... or it
wouldn't be fast. You have to play access tricks (stack the deck) or
search algorithms will
Just uploaded to revOnline:
Shamelessly copied from HyperNext; but, I belive,
rather better.
Download it into your plug-ins folder and use it with
a copy of your stack;
it builds a substack which will then preload for a 15
second period.
Its fairly crappy - but only spent about 6 hours on
it.
I
Richard,
In your script, it appears that a custom prop is dynamically declared
just by setting it's value? Is this all you have to do? In
SuperCard, one has to specifically declare a "user" property with a
"define" statement before ever setting it's value. Otherwise it
doesn't know if
At 6:06 PM -0800 1/15/2008, Richard Gaskin wrote:
J. Downs wrote:
What made it possible to use HC that way was its "hint bits", a
system for indexing field contents which is not only proprietary
but patented as well. Hint bits made it ultra-fast for obtaining
data across the otherwise-complex
I work mainly in SuperCard... same issues here... can display chars
in UTF but not UTF aware at the function level. Makes text parsing
almost impossible. The chars are counted but you can't find out what
they are. For instance:
CharToNum(char 3 of myTxt)
... yields "0" if char 3 is unic
You're probably right, but my English system is having to deal with a
non-english file, and Rev is failing miserably, though the finder and
other apps seem to be ok with it
Sadly, it seems lke I can't even get round it using shell commands,
since Rev also fails to cope with the type of
I am waiting for heavier geeks to weigh in here... but isn't it that
the localization of the OS (which language you signed in as) what
makes the File System char set aware?
Randall
On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
Andre, I think that's my only hope...much as I really hate
A
If I have a file that has a Japanese name: "音楽ファイル
を.mp3" (I wonder if that'll come out ok in everyone's mail!), it
seems to be the case that this file effectively does not exist in
any useful way for Revolution. It is not listed in 'the files',
it's name is omitted from 'the detailed files
Chris Sheffield wrote:
So I'm wondering, if a user moves to that second card before the audio
of the first card finishes, is there some way to cancel that wait...with
messages?
Would it work to check whether the player is running before starting
another wait sequence? That might avoid the pr
Andre, I think that's my only hope...much as I really hate Applescript!
It does seem incredible that Revolution just can't do it.
How do people in Japan and Russia deal with it? Maybe they just don't
use Revoluton. :(
Thanks,
Mark
On 16 Jan 2008, at 17:52, Andre Garzia wrote:
Is this an ap
This 256 char path limit... who's is it... File system? Rev?
-Original Message-
From: "Thierry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "How to use Revolution"
Sent: 1/16/2008 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: importing a bunch of files
Le 16 janv. 08 à 17:39, Eric Chatonet a écrit :
> Bonjour Thierry,
>
> Why do
If you follow shuch a scheme, you will have to keep your internal data in
lockstep with your stored data structure. Choose one as master and let the
other slave to it (always sticking to this heirarchy). Either way, you will
have to navigate some form of object tree... And translate that out t
I posted the mail below but it did not appear in the list: so I
apologize if it should appear twice.
Well :-)
You can also set a specific custom property set with custom
properties the name of which does not matter and parse it:
In each custom property, line 1 will be the path and line 2 to -
I'm seeing Japanese text in the email with Eudora MacLeopard 10.5.1
If I have a file that has a Japanese name: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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Thierry wrote:
Of course you have to replace spaces and slashes with some string
that will not break the name of the custom prop into several parts :-)
Yes, I'm aware of that.
I think such failure depends on how it's done.
I just ran this test:
on mouseUp
put "some/thing" into v1
put
Hi Randall,
Not only that but using your disc files as dat fields or even
record will seriously overburden your file system's day to day
efficiency. You could easily add orders of magnitude to the number
of files and directories on disc.. Seriously slowing down a lot of
OS (and finder)
Hi,
HELP
I have found both in 2.8.1/2.9b10 that after calling OsX's standard
file dialogue to open a file the first 4 menuitems under my Edit menu
(stand editing stuff) becomes disabled until I force a redraw of the
window by either iconizing it in the dock and uniconizing it or by
openin
I'm a novice at RunRev but I do enjoy creating applications. I wish I was
experienced enough to do it for a living (I'm getting there)
Some people like to read a good book.I like to use RunRev.for hours
Looking forward to the bundle
Jim Schaubeck.
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Hi there,
We have tested Rev on XO in the office, and I can report that
standalone applications work without any (known) problems - as long as
you keep in mind the limitations of the XO Sugar Windowing system.
XO uses the Matchbox window manager. This window manager ALWAYS has
all windows fullscr
Hi Peter,
What are the results when you do the following :
In Rev, enter the command :
put the availablePrinters
in the message box.
Also, from an XTerm, what happens when you enter the following :
lpstat -a
Thanks,
Tim.
On 7 Jan, 08:10, Peter Alcibiades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Rev
Thanks for the suggestion Eric. That probably would work.
Unfortunately, it would probably require a fairly big code rewrite in
order to accomplish it, which I was hoping to avoid. But maybe that's
my only option.
On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
Hi Chris,
Instead of u
Well :-)
You can also set a specific custom property set with custom
properties the name of which does not matter and parse it:
In each custom property, line 1 will be the path and line 2 to -1
contents :-)
Le 16 janv. 08 à 18:51, Thierry a écrit :
Le 16 janv. 08 à 17:39, Eric Chatonet a
Hi Chris,
Instead of using a 'wait until the sound is "done" with messages",
could you just set a flag to true on playstarted and set it to false
on playstopped?
And use this flag (a local script var, a custom prop, etc.) to act as
you want it to work?
Le 16 janv. 08 à 18:27, Chris Sheffi
Is this an application just for you, or you plan to distribute it ?
If it's just for you, then, you can try to hack your file access using
AppleScript, maybe it has a better unicode support.
Andre
On 1/16/08, Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, I'm once again trying to deal with unic
Le 16 janv. 08 à 17:39, Eric Chatonet a écrit :
Bonjour Thierry,
Why don't you store directly your text files into custom
properties, the name of which would be the path?
Why not
Ok, it's a mix solution from the 2 I exposed :-)
Of course you have to replace spaces and slashes with so
Not only that but using your disc files as dat fields or even record will
seriously overburden your file system's day to day efficiency. You could
easily add orders of magnitude to the number of files and directories on disc..
Seriously slowing down a lot of OS (and finder) functionality. Be g
Wholy moly... The file system was definately NOT made to be a live data store.
For one, disc IO is several orders of magnitude slower than memory IO. Maybe
soon a memory/file system meld will revolutionize computing, be we are about 30
years behind this. Retrieve your data from disc and unpac
Hi all, I'm once again trying to deal with unicode and filenames
again...
This is on OS X.
If I have a file that has a Japanese name: "音楽ファイル
を.mp3" (I wonder if that'll come out ok in everyone's mail!), it
seems to be the case that this file effectively does not exist in any
useful way
Is there any way to cancel a wait command?
I've got a strange thing happening, and I'm just not sure how to get
around it. In the app, the user has the ability to move back and forth
between two certain cards. When the first card opens, some audio
instructions start playing. After starting
Bonjour Thierry,
Why don't you store directly your text files into custom properties,
the name of which would be the path?
Of course you have to replace spaces and slashes with some string
that will not break the name of the custom prop into several parts :-)
BTW note that custom props names
Thanks so much guys for this. One sees how easy it can be when you know how.
I will hack away and try these. And actually, they are a lot more terse than
what I'm getting in awk.
Its sort of academic about 2.6.1 and linux printing now, since we are moving
to 2.9, but it is really weird. On
So here's the exact RunRev error message:
Type - Handler: error in statement
Object - Results
Line - go card "EditRecord" of stack "names"
Hint - mouseDoubleUp
When I click the "Script" button from the RunRev Errors dialog box, it
hilights the following part of the script...
go card "EditRec
Hi,
Another thread about kind of Database :-)
For a specific project, I need to implement this:
I have an arbitrary set of text files stored on the disk in an
arbitrary numbers of directories, within a root one, ie:
dirRoot/
dirRoot/f1
dirRoor/f2
dirRoot/dir2/f3
dirRoot/dir2/dir3/f4
dirRoot/d
Hi Mark,
As said Mark Schonewille, getting the complete error message would be
better :-)
But here are some clues:
I assume that gRecord is declared :-)
I assume also that 'there is a card "EditRecord" of stack "names".
If it is the case, I suspect that you run some code at openCard or
preO
Hi Mark
Hi all,
This error (see subject) happens when I double-click on a table
field of
data that has an "on mouseDoubleUp" in it.
The idea of the script is to get the ID value (item 1) and place it
into a
global variable.
Then go to a card to edit the record.
Here's the RunRevScript:
Hi Mark,
Could you please post the exact and complete error message?
Best regards,
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At 4:35 AM -0500 1/16/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's one for your Scripter's Scrapbook:
How to blank the label of an option btn without resorting to SPACE...
set the label of btn "MyOptionBtn" to null
So far as I am aware, this is an undocumented feature.
No, it's documented. "nul
--- Peter Alcibiades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Then I will do printing by going to full screen and
> doing Print Desktop from
> the shell. What a horrible kluge! Awk and a text
> editor for printing has to
> be better than this. It would be embarassing if the
> people who wil
Sorry, I forgot that Rev won't allow an item of a word, so we have to
factor the month out to another function:
This is tested on some made up data, 20,000 records
function getReport pData
repeat for each line L in pData
put word 4 of L & getMonth(word 5 of L) into tKey
add word
Peter, this is untested, but might work reasonably quickly:
on getReport
put file dataFile into tData
set the itemdelimiter to "/"
repeat for each line L in tData
put word 4 of L & line (item 2 of word 5 of L) of the
monthnames into tKey
add word 3 of L to tTotals[tKey]
Maybe i can offer an explanation. I use xtalk n situations that are sometimes
much easier to accomplish in other more highly specialized tools because i can
then extend my use of that solution in almost unlimited ways. I can connect the
data to other tools i have built, extend it in knew ways,
On 1/15/08 10:47 PM, "Peter Alcibiades" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Its a childishly simple problem. There is a file with 15k records. Tab
> delimited. Each record has five fields and is of the form:
>
> number eg 123
> description eg Pen, Pencil
> price eg 2.00
> category eg AA, AB...
> da
I seem to have cracked this one now, by brute force. But the solution really
shows how much this must be the wrong tool for the job - unless there is a
much better way, which there probably is, and I'd love to hear about. And
also would be interested to hear how one was supposed to find it!
F
Here's one for your Scripter's Scrapbook:
How to blank the label of an option btn without resorting to SPACE...
set the label of btn "MyOptionBtn" to null
So far as I am aware, this is an undocumented feature. Doing a Quick Search
for 'null' in Rev throws it into a bit of a spin!
/H
F
The other caution i must issue here is that the internal scripting of the
editor for instance might be written in odd ways so that it is distinguishable
from user code and objects... So if your new wacko code practices happen to
mimick these more official wacko styles, then you could walk your s
On Jan 16, 2008 11:30 AM, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kay C Lan wrote:
> > ...midWord capitalization for me dates back to the origin of
> HyperCard...
>
> Oh, it's much, much older than that, older than the Pascal that helped
> inspire it
>
Inspire, I like that word. I'm often
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