I agree. And this wiki-revdocs would realy add value to the product, but what
i was really talking to was the guts, the latin, of the interprter, how and why
and when the great Oz pulls his levers. Reading the great books on hypercard
and you began to undeestand the mind of god. maybe this
set the uTest[some\thing] of this stack to test
cautioning against naming custom properties anything that
wouldn't be legal for variables, on the grounds that it may work
now but might not work forever.
Where can we see more about: be legal for variables ?
Regards,
Thierry
Hi Randall,
If you follow shuch a scheme, ...
All of this points to why it makes sense at times to interface your
stack to a professional data base and let it do all of this
structural efficiency heavylifting (that is what it is there for).
I like to build my own cause i like to
Hi All,
I am reading a file that contains date and time data. The Date/Time
is represented as a 4 byte integer and is defined as the number of
seconds since 1/1/1904 (Apple Date/Time format). Does anyone know if
there is a way to convert this to a displayable format, e.g.
Thursday, January
Hello Tim
As far as I know RR cannot play two simultaneous sounds.
This is the most important limitation about RR for us as game
developers.
Regards,
Andres Martinez
www.baKno.com
On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
Hi,
Can I post a youtube link here? Well, here goes.
On 17 Jan 2008, at 14:44, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Dave wrote:
I always set the Variable checking by default preference on so
that Local's have to be defined. This has been working fine for
at least 6 months (when I installed this version on RunRev). Now
today, I get an error on the
Dave wrote:
I always set the Variable checking by default preference on so that
Local's have to be defined. This has been working fine for at least 6
months (when I installed this version on RunRev). Now today, I get an
error on the following code:
function TestFunc
local myValue
put it
Hi Dave,
All this sounds normal to me :-)
'it' is not defined here.
To define 'it', you must put a value into or request a command, like
get, read from file, convert, ask or answer that feed 'it'
automatically.
Le 17 janv. 08 à 15:39, Dave a écrit :
Hi All,
I always set the Variable
Hi All,
I always set the Variable checking by default preference on so that
Local's have to be defined. This has been working fine for at least 6
months (when I installed this version on RunRev). Now today, I get an
error on the following code:
function TestFunc
local myValue
put it
From the docs:
'The seconds function returns the total number of seconds since
midnight, January 1, 1970 GMT.'
In theory, you can work out the number of seconds from 1904 to 1970.
Then take this away from the Apple seconds to to get 'Rev seconds'.
Once it's in that format you can use the
On 17 Jan 2008, at 15:04, Eric Chatonet wrote:
From Convert docs:
If the dateAndTime is a container, the converted date and time is
placed in the container, replacing the previous contents. If the
dateAndTime is a string, the converted date and time is placed in
the it variable.
So in
From Convert docs:
If the dateAndTime is a container, the converted date and time is
placed in the container, replacing the previous contents. If the
dateAndTime is a string, the converted date and time is placed in the
it variable.
So in your case, returned value is not in 'it' but in
Hi,
I've changed it now. I agree it is awful, but overwriting input
parameters is almost as bad. The problem here is that convert is a
command rather than a function, it would be *much* better to make it
a function and return the result.
All the Best
Dave
On 17 Jan 2008, at 15:41, Eric
Chris,
The waitDepth property might also help you. It will return the number
of currently running handlers paused at a 'wait with messages'
statement.
On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 1:27 AM, Chris Sheffield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is there any way to
It works but why would you prefer the most complicated when the
simpler is available?
BTW I avoid to use 'it' every time it appears possible and prefer to
declare a variable of my own: 'it' can be changed by some commands
along a handler and this is able to put a mess :-)
Le 17 janv. 08 à
On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
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
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Thierry wrote:
set the uTest[some\thing] of this stack to test
cautioning against naming custom properties anything that
wouldn't be legal for variables, on the grounds that it may work
now but might not work forever.
Where can we see more about:
Hi,
Revolution is an XTalk:
Probably 'convert value to short date and long time' is more
English like than 'put convert(value,short date,long time) into
something' :-)
I assume this has been carefully thought out since decades...
Le 17 janv. 08 à 16:50, Dave a écrit :
The problem here is
On Jan 17, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Devin Asay wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Thierry wrote:
Where can we see more about: be legal for variables ?
From our tutorials at http://revolution.byu.edu/transcript/
Transcript1.php
A Revolution variable name:
May be any single string (no
Hi Devin,
Le 17 janv. 08 à 17:17, Devin Asay a écrit :
These recipes are also searchable using the Search feature of the
Documentation (Thanks, Eric!) Search also lets you search the mail
list archives and several key web sites maintained by Rev
developers. The Search feature is
Recently, Andres Martinez wrote:
As far as I know RR cannot play two simultaneous sounds.
Using player objects, you can play several sounds simultaneously (one sound
assigned to each player).
You can also play an imported sound and a player simultaneously.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative
Thank you Scott
It will help our developments tremendously!
I am going to start playing with it right now.
Regards,
Andres Martinez
www.baKno.com
On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, Andres Martinez wrote:
As far as I know RR cannot play two simultaneous sounds.
Hi Franz,
It looks like OS X has some Perl libraries, but not
PerlTK. I get this in the lower field when I hit the
button:
Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6
/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
Missed the MacWorld keynote? Here it is condensed down to sixty seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz1-cPx0cIk
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Have you written a file tree spider?
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From: Thierry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 1/17/2008 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: importing a bunch of files
Hi Randall,
If you follow shuch a scheme, ...
All of this points to
Dave-
I've changed it now. I agree it is awful, but overwriting input
parameters is almost as bad. The problem here is that convert is a
command rather than a function, it would be *much* better to make it
a function and return the result.
Agreed, but you'd have to change the syntax. You've used
I've got a scrolling group (named OverlayAndImageGroup ) that is
composed of an image of a map, and numerous text fields and other
smaller groups. I have been trying to add the capability to use the
mouse's scrolling wheel to scroll the group OverlayAndImageGroup up
and down.
When I add to
On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Till Bandi wrote:
Hi all
is there a way to delete lines in a text file from Revoution? - i
did not see how this can be done but probably it is very simple.
Till,
You have to read it in then write it back out. You can do it in one
line like this (assume you
Hello,
I have done a little stack which runs a perl script embedded as a custom
property. This works for me on my win pcs and servers with perl installed and
on the linux. Does this work on a modern mac (= do you have PerlTk normally on
your macs?).
If it would work on mac too it would allow
On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Andres Martinez wrote:
Hello Tim
As far as I know RR cannot play two simultaneous sounds.
This is the most important limitation about RR for us as game
developers.
While it is true that you can only play one audio clip at a time
using the play command, you
Hi all
is there a way to delete lines in a text file from Revoution? - i did
not see how this can be done but probably it is very simple.
Thanks
Till
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On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Randall Lee Reetz wrote:
Wow, i gave the supercard syntax, lots more verbose, (better
question: how do you delete a line of script?).
How about (not tested):
get the script of btn myBtn
delete line 4 of it
set the script of btn myBtn to it
I think you might
Where can we see more about: be legal for variables ?
Regards,
Thierry
The 'rules' for this might not be documented.
I've had problems with custom properties that are named like this:
1 a number or begin with a number can be a problem
2 spaces in the name doesn't always work
3 use
Have you written a file tree spider?
-Original Message-
I think around these parts we call them 'Directory Walkers' and
several here have contributed versions, some elaborate examples
complete with scrolling fields and icons. I'm sure someone will chime
in here once we get the
You open the file
You read the contents odd the file
You put it into a var or field or customprop
You close the file
You delete the lines in your container
You open the file again
You write that container to the file
You close the file
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From: Till Bandi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Devin Asay wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Randall Lee Reetz wrote:
Wow, i gave the supercard syntax, lots more verbose, (better
question: how do you delete a line of script?).
How about (not tested):
get the script of btn myBtn
delete line 4 of it
set the script of btn myBtn to it
I
Wow, i gave the supercard syntax, lots more verbose, (better question: how do
you delete a line of script?).
randall
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From: Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 1/17/2008 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Delete lines in
Randall-
The ten-line limit is only for standalone apps. If you're running in the IDE
there's no limit. Does that help?
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Actually richard, this thread ran away on me... But i didn't know about this
ten line limit? That seems strange. Why is that limit there? And, yes i want
to know how to fake it.
randall
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From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: How to use Revolution
You know what i hate, i will be proud that i made a walker in ten lines of
script and someone will upload a one that is only a single char! I met a guy
at apple once the called n-1 (though he did die of a brain tumor). My code
is more in line with a more geriactric meaning of walker.
r
Was joking.
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From: Devin Asay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 1/17/2008 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Delete lines in files (text files)
On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Randall Lee Reetz wrote:
Wow, i gave the supercard syntax,
Hi Randall,
Le 17 janv. 08 à 21:00, Randall Lee Reetz a écrit :
But i didn't know about this ten line limit? That seems strange.
Why is that limit there? And, yes i want to know how to fake it.
This limit is just to prevent malicious guys to fake Rev itself :-)
Best regards from Paris,
Hello all,
I am hoping someone can help me with this... I have a library stack
that I call using the start using stack command. The script was
originally contained in stack1's stack script. Now I have several
other stacks that need to do the same basic things, so I created
stack2 as a
Hi Randall,
If you were allowed to set any script to any value (i.e. thousands of
lines of code), you could build a standalone, the stacks of which
would be able to clone all Rev features.
This limitation has been introduced to prevent this.
Just a security measure :-)
Le 17 janv. 08 à
So, while visiting Macworld San Francisco this week, I chanced upon a small
booth that had the word HyperCard in the description. I was prepared to
dismiss whatever goofball developments the guys there were showing, but
after talking to them for a while, I think they have an interesting take on
But isnt 10 a bit draconian?
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From: Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 1/17/2008 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Delete lines in files (text files)
Hi Randall,
If you were allowed to set any script to any value (i.e.
Hi Sharon,
When a library acts on objects/controls in another stack, it's usual
to refer to these objects using their long name/ID to be sure to
address the right object: just try it :-)
This means that a param passes the long name of an object and your
lib acts as follows: 'set the width
Randall-
But isnt 10 a bit draconian?
Yep - it's draconian and it's arbitrary. And every time I get riled up about
it I calm down and figure out a way to do what I want without having to
break the limits. Sometimes by realizing that my app really can be better
placed as a plugin stack, in
Well...
All limits are arbitrary and this does not apply to Rev only :-)
See scriptLimits function in the dictionary:
* the number of statements permitted when changing a script (normally
10 in a standalone application)
* the number of statements permitted in a do command (normally 10 in
a
I dont get it... Please explain.
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From: Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 1/17/2008 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Delete lines in files (text files)
Hi Randall,
Le 17 janv. 08 à 21:00, Randall Lee Reetz a écrit :
I am reading a file that contains date and time data. The Date/Time
is represented as a 4 byte integer and is defined as the number of
seconds since 1/1/1904 (Apple Date/Time format). Does anyone know if
there is a way to convert this to a displayable format, e.g.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
I saw their small ad in MacWorld and was very interested. Will be
great to see how they fare in the marketplace!
Neal Campbell
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
AIM:nealk3nc
On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
So, while visiting Macworld San Francisco this week, I chanced upon
ho ho ho there's a trend forming...
I can see a nice future... with or without tilestack... :-D
Cheers
andre
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I get the same as Josh using OS X 10.5.1 (except that it is using Perl 5.8.8).
Sarah
On Jan 18, 2008 3:22 AM, Joshua Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Franz,
It looks like OS X has some Perl libraries, but not
PerlTK. I get this in the lower field when I hit the
button:
Can't locate
Their site generates only errors for me. Too bad. Latest Firefox if it
makes a difference.
len morgan
Scott Rossi wrote:
... but they have a simple puzzle demo on their site and they are
collecting email addresses of interested parties for early access.
http://tilestack.com/
FWIW.
I have an image that resides below a group and is not part of the
group. The group consists of a collection of fields which have no
scripts and are not focusable. In the group script I placed the
handler:
on mouseDown
grab image artwork
end mouseDown
This works if don't select directly
I was able to play the tile game on Safari. Slow, but it worked.
Mark
On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Len Morgan wrote:
Their site generates only errors for me. Too bad. Latest Firefox
if it makes a difference.
len morgan
Scott Rossi wrote:
... but they have a simple puzzle demo on their
Just out of curiosity, I pulled IE out of the closet and the site
worked fine with it so I guess it's a problem with tilestack and Firefox.
len
Mark Swindell wrote:
I was able to play the tile game on Safari. Slow, but it worked.
Mark
On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Len Morgan wrote:
Their
Cleverly concealed on the bottom right side of the screen below a
signup invitation:
Looking for the Tile Out stack?
On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
I didn't even see a Tile Game! Just a place to sign up and another
if I had been invited.
Joe Wilkins
On Jan 17,
I didn't even see a Tile Game! Just a place to sign up and another if
I had been invited.
Joe Wilkins
On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:
I was able to play the tile game on Safari. Slow, but it worked.
Mark
On Jan 17, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Len Morgan wrote:
Their site
Neal,
Out of curiosity, why do you use Firefox instead of Safari? I know a
lot of people do, but Safari has always worked great for me. TIA,
Joe Wilkins
On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:42 PM, Neal Campbell wrote:
It worked fine with Firefox on my leopard system.
Neal
On Jan 17, 2008 10:10 PM,
It worked fine with Firefox on my leopard system.
Neal
On Jan 17, 2008 10:10 PM, Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cleverly concealed on the bottom right side of the screen below a
signup invitation:
Looking for the Tile Out stack?
On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins
I guess that would be a good solution - my only problem is that the
file has 5.6 Gigabytes. So I can't put it all in memory.
My real problem is here:
put 1 into vStartwert
set the cursor to watch
open file tFileIn
open file tFileOut
repeat forever
read from file
Till,
Sounds to me as if you need to make some better arrangements; file-
size-wise that is. You are in control of the situation; are you not?
Joe Wilkins
On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:22 PM, Till Bandi wrote:
I guess that would be a good solution - my only problem is that the
file has 5.6
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