Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

On 28 Jan 2008, at 10:31, Ian Wood wrote: function ijwAPLIB_MakeOSXShellPath tPath put "set tOut to quoted form of POSIX path of tPath" into tScript replace "tPath" with quote & revMacFromUnixPath(tPath) & quote in tScript do tScript as applescript put the result into tNewPath delete char 1 o

Re: Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

Thanks for this Ian. I've a couple of questions if not anything to add... - The applescript you start with I guess this deals with file names on Mac that contain the "/" character for instance? What exaclty does "set tOut to POSIX path of tPath" do? - I use this command to escape a

Re: Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

On 1 Feb 2008, at 18:52, Ian Wood wrote: replace "(" with "\" & ")" in tNewPath Should of course be: replace ")" with "\" & ")" in tNewPath Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: Infinite loops !

Sarah, Thank you for your reply. I think you are right. I will take your advice and change my code accordingly. In reality it is a bit complicated because there are many loops included in each other (just as some drawings of MC Escher), I am not a professional programmer, I am rather a cre

Re: about Voyager Expanded Books

Have you seen Sophie http://www.fourthworld.com/products/sophie/ index.html which was written in Revolution? I don't know exactly how it compares to VEBs, but the facility to create plugins seems to offer a wide range of capabilities. On 30 Jan 08, at 8:30p.m., Colin Holgate wrote: I chanc

Re: Infinite loops !

> I had a 2nd point in my question: is it possible to change the > controls of my loop while it runs? > Rene from Paris Certainly. Consider something like this: on doLoop put fld "HowHigh" into tSetting -- now do something with tSetting send "doLoop" to me in 1 second end doLoop If you

Re-2: PDF within a stack?

Sarah, Scott, thanks for the help. I really did not know, that i could store binary data in custom properties. And thanks for the sample code. Regards, Matthias Rebbe Original Message Subject: Re: PDF within a stack? (01-Feb-2008 6:44) From:Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Infinite loops !

I have not had time to test your advice, but I do not have the possibility to modify the controls during the execution of the loop. I did not "the hand" (in french : je n'ai pas la main). But perhaps should I try before answering. Thank you very much René PS : it is a musical application, a

Re: about Voyager Expanded Books

On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:31 AM, James Richards wrote: Have you seen Sophie http://www.fourthworld.com/products/sophie/index.html which was written in Revolution? I don't know exactly how it compares to VEBs, but the facility to create plugins seems to offer a wide range of capabilities. I h

Re: Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

On 1 Feb 2008, at 19:30, David Bovill wrote: Thanks for this Ian. I've a couple of questions if not anything to add... - The applescript you start with I guess this deals with file names on Mac that contain the "/" character for instance? What exaclty does "set tOut to POSIX path of t

OT: RE: Rev cgi vs. php

Was it really called Pierian Spring? If so, their hubris was met by the appropriate nemesis: A little learning is a dang'rous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism Graham On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:36:38 -0800, "Lynn Fredricks" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Macintosh Modifier symbols in menuitem

In a message dated 1/31/08 6:05:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I spent some time experimenting and it appears there is no way to  > show for example "option + return" symbols in a pulldown menu in a  > menubar. Oh, I can get the symbols to show after dancing with various  > settings for the

RE: some news on MySQL...

> ...MySQL AB being acquired by Sun Microsystems Inc for 1000 > 000 000 USD . Hmmm, interesting... > http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml Yes, this is very big news. I was asked about this by some Valentina customers about what our reaction was, since we've been trying t

Re: ScriptLimits (was Re: Rev cgi vs. php)

Terry- > I certainly wouldn't like to try to recreate the Director IDE using > Director > but I imagine you could use it to create a simple HyperCard like tool. ...Sprout is now in beta... http://sproutbuilder.com/ -- Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Way OT by now: Pierian spring

Graham- > Was it really called Pierian Spring? If so, their hubris was met by the > appropriate nemesis: > > A little learning is a dang'rous thing > Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring." > > Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism Yes and no. The accent is on "little": the next two lines

OT: some news on MySQL...

...MySQL AB being acquired by Sun Microsystems Inc for 1000 000 000 USD . Hmmm, interesting... http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080116.1.xml Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

revBrowser

Having some problems with revBrowser - I get a repeated crash using the "Browser Sampler.rev" stack - or the stacks I am coding. I get it when viewing my Google Home page - that's not the search engine but the personalised home page with the widgets in I am not sure which url to give as it sues

Re: revBrowser

On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:16 AM, David Bovill wrote: Having some problems with revBrowser - I get a repeated crash using the "Browser Sampler.rev" stack - or the stacks I am coding. I get it when viewing my Google Home page - that's not the search engine but the personalised home page with the wi

[OT] Does Sheepshaver work in Leopard?

Hi Folks... I haven't upgraded to Leopard for fear of Sheepshaver not working. Anybody try it?... Jim Jim Carwardine, President & CEO OYF Consulting Ph. 902.823.2339 / 866.601.2339 Fx. 902.823-2139 StrategicDoing™: Execution depends on employees. Strategic Partner with HiringSmart Canada Ltd.

Re: about Voyager Expanded Books

The last time I had anything to do with Voyager was at MacWorld in San Fransico about 1991 or 92 when I was showing my new electronic book app called BookBuilder, built in Hypercard, to anyone who would look ( and buy it). I showed it to Bob Stein at his booth and he said, "I can't look at

Re: revBrowser

Thanks Devin, can you view your Google Home page in revBrowser - try using the "Browser Sample" stack in the Rev apps / resoures/sample projects/ folder? On 01/02/2008, Devin Asay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:16 AM, David Bovill wrote: > > > Having some problems with revB

Re: about Voyager Expanded Books

At 2:46 PM -0400 2/1/08, Jim Carwardine wrote: I showed it to Bob Stein at his booth and he said, "I can't look at this. This looks just like what we are doing." If that's what he said then it would have been 1992. I programmed the Expanded Books during October and November 1991, and another

RevBrowser Two windows

Does anyone know how to tell what browser window the user selected/ focused on when using two revbrowser windows on the same card? browserBeforeNavigate and browsernavigateComplete only work if a web object with an ID has been clicked on in the browser and not all objects have ids. browser

Re: revBrowser

David, That page loads fine in my revBrowser app.I also tried my own iGoogle page. But i have noticed a few buggy crashes during development. The thing for me was that I MAY not have taken care of all closeRevBRowser calls during the development process. I believe if the Safari or EI bro

RE: about Voyager Expanded Books

At 1:02 PM -0800 2/1/08, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Anybody remember the "illuminated" text series by robert able for IBM? The first time I met Bob Abel was around 1990, and as it was at an Apple sponsored event (I was the Apple support technician for the event) I'm pretty sure the work he di

RE: about Voyager Expanded Books

Anybody remember the "illuminated" text series by robert able for IBM? I was the lead interface designer for the first prototype built around the poem "ulysses" (tennyson). I think i remember the programming done in toolbook though afterwords i purchaced supercard and reverse enginered it in l

Re: revBrowser

On Feb 1, 2008, at 12:11 PM, David Bovill wrote: Thanks Devin, can you view your Google Home page in revBrowser - try using the "Browser Sample" stack in the Rev apps / resoures/sample projects/ folder? It seemed to work fine for me here on Mac OS X 10.4.11, Rev 2.8.1. Devin Devin Asay Hu

rotating and scaling images in Win32 (was ITPC, Exif *.*)

Aloha Friends, I am creating a little photo selection application that allow contributors to quickly select photos and do some basic editing (rotation, scaling). Revolution is great for working with images but when doing batch processing it simply takes too long. Creating thumbnails for 80 images/

Re: [OT] Does Sheepshaver work in Leopard?

I haven't really put it through any paces, but it seems to work just fine in Leopard for me. --- Jim Carwardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks... I haven't upgraded to Leopard for fear of Sheepshaver not > > working. Anybody try it?... Jim > > Jim Carwardine, > President & CEO > OYF Co

Re: RevBrowser Two windows

Also, it seems once an object is used for a revBrowser window it won't respond to many messages. if the mouseloc is within the rect of image "BrowserOne" This will not work either. Any ideas or Help Tom On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Does anyone know how to tell w

Filtering array vs plain list

I'm trying to determine the best way to store a humungous block of data for both speed and accessibility. My original plan was to do an array something like this: Item #2 is an identifier unique to each individual. It will not be a number, but text + a number. census[Atlanta,5489,name] = Jo

Re: revBrowser

Thanks - maybe it is one of the widgets I use on the Google page - I have YouTube videos and others I'll do some testing turning the widgets on and off one at a time and report back ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Re: Filtering array vs plain list

On 2/1/08 2:36 PM, "Shari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to determine the best way to store a humungous block of > data for both speed and accessibility. > > My original plan was to do an array something like this: > > Item #2 is an identifier unique to each individual. It will not be

Re: RevBrowser Two windows

Nothing neat. I guess you could use an object slightly bigger than the browser and then use the mouse enter and leave messages? Probably the best - I don't think it would work out but maybe another option is to fetch the html and wrap it in a dummy div before displaying? ___

Re: revBrowser

Too keen - it was one of the widgets but I removed them too aggressively and I can't find the one that caused the crash - I guess it is some AJAX / Javascript widget. I'll keep an eye out for it :) On 01/02/2008, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks - maybe it is one of the widgets I

Re: rotating and scaling images in Win32 (was ITPC, Exif *.*)

I thought you could use imagemagick on windows: ImageMagick (full)This > includes the ImageMagick binaries, including the command-line tools ( > animate.exe, composite.exe, etc.) Get this package if you want to use > ImageMagick

RE: about Voyager Expanded Books

What did happen to toolbook? Another question i always forget to ask is what happened to that very promicing authoring app out of utah or denver that was hyped as a real object based drag and drop hypermedia builder? Anyone remember this? Seems like it was out for less than a year (windows on

RE: about Voyager Expanded Books

Yes, guernica preceded his work with IBM. I dont know who ended up backing the illuminated series but IBM was the money for the prototype. Some vp at IBM needed to sell their boxes as interactive media machines. randall -Original Message- From: "Colin Holgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: RevBrowser Two windows

David, thanks, I'll try the oversized grc and see. catching the html before display might prove too difficult and might break some pages, i think. Tom On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:06 PM, David Bovill wrote: Nothing neat. I guess you could use an object slightly bigger than the browser and then us

Re: about Voyager Expanded Books

On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: What did happen to toolbook? Another question i always forget to ask is what happened to that very promicing authoring app out of utah or denver that was hyped as a real object based drag and drop hypermedia builder? Anyone remember th

RE: about Voyager Expanded Books

mTropolis, that was it... I think. Did you own it? Do you own it? Would you do a screen movie of constructing a simple project in it and post to youtube? Why would quark want to kill it? randall -Original Message- From: "Colin Holgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution"

Re: RevBrowser Two windows

I tried the oversized grc but it seems the mouseEnter only happens in the small region between the edge of the grc and the browser object which is only about 10 pixels. Anyway, if you move the mouse too quickly it does not get the message. Is anyone familiar with revBrowser enough to know t

Re: Filtering array vs plain list

I've never worked with intersecting arrays, so please pardon the questions. If I understand your example, I'd have something like this: birthYear[1976] = John Jones,Billy Bob,Mary Lou,Manny Mack,Barbie Doll birthYear[1977] = Ellie May,Carrie Ann,Andy Ant,Donna Mills,Jackie O baseballTeam[Red Sox

Re: about Voyager Expanded Books

On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: mTropolis, that was it... I think. Did you own it? Do you own it? Voyager had it, and did one CD-ROM using it (not done by me). That was Fun With Architecture, and mTropolis was chosen because the program needed to have a lot of build

RE: about Voyager Expanded Books

I know officially hate quark. It is amaizing to me that big time businesses engage in behaviors that would result in a trip to the principal's office if a kid did same. Sad. randall -Original Message- From: "Colin Holgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" Sent: 2/1/

Re: about Voyager Expanded Books

Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: > I'm not sure what Quark had at the time that was competitive, but > there was something, hence buying and killing the competition. Quark Immedia Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design _