Why no ScreenUp Dates

2009-08-11 Thread Sivakatirswami
I have a little stack that digs some log files. it works well, but the UI is not updated until the repeat loops and handlers are all finished. It is as if I had a "lock screen" at the start (which I don't) but it acts like that. I have a message that is to be inserted into a field and a ti

Re: Releasing Memory and Virtual Memory

2009-08-11 Thread Derek Bump
My apologies to everyone for wasting your time... My script is setup so images that can be exported by Revolution (JPEG, GIF, PNG and Paint) are done so by Revolution, and all other image formats are exported using the EnhancedQT External. The variable holding the destination file type info was i

Re: wake from sleep

2009-08-11 Thread Thomas McGrath III
This one seems interesting. I will play around with it. It would be nice to have the awaking of the screensaver initiate the applescript/ rev app. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://

Re: Releasing Memory and Virtual Memory

2009-08-11 Thread Derek Bump
Well, I tried everyone's suggestions except 1, the use of "send in x seconds" method. All of the other suggestions resulted in no improvement in RAM usage... which sucks because they were all pretty easy to implement. So with a big thank you to all who chimed in, and my fingers crossed, I'm going

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

2009-08-11 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Another basic question:  What fonts are good for deploying stacks cross > platform?  That is, fonts which will mostly likely NOT start unexpected word > wraps on Windows when there was no word wrapping on Mac. Here are the cross-platform fonts

Re: wake from sleep

2009-08-11 Thread BNig
Tom, even shorter would be: - tell application "System Events" to return ("ScreenSaverEngine" is in (name of every process)) - returns true or false regards Bernd BNig wrote: > > Tom, > I dont know about shell but I found a way to query whether t

Re: Revlet goURL

2009-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote: The down side is that both methods open in a new tab. I'd rather it acted like a regular link. Come to think of it, it's a browser preference that determines how the browser will respond when getting a request from another application. The de

Re: Releasing Memory and Virtual Memory

2009-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
BNig wrote: Derek, do you import the 100 or so images in a repeat loop? If so try whether adding a wait 2 milliseconds in the repeat loop helps. Or alternatively try to do it in a "send" structure. In my experience Rev has problems releasing memory in a repeat loop. When I changed to a "send to

Re: Releasing Memory and Virtual Memory

2009-08-11 Thread Phil Davis
In ancient times I used the hasMemory() function to force garbage collection and free up memory. But maybe it only worked that way in SuperCard... can anyone comment on its effectiveness in Revolution? Phil Davis BNig wrote: Derek, do you import the 100 or so images in a repeat loop? If so

Re: Mac to Windows Standalone Question

2009-08-11 Thread DunbarX
This came up last year. The dictionary lists these caveats in the user section. Look up "<=" as an example. Craig Newman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your sub

Re: Releasing Memory and Virtual Memory

2009-08-11 Thread BNig
Derek, do you import the 100 or so images in a repeat loop? If so try whether adding a wait 2 milliseconds in the repeat loop helps. Or alternatively try to do it in a "send" structure. In my experience Rev has problems releasing memory in a repeat loop. When I changed to a "send to me in 2 milli

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

2009-08-11 Thread Brian Yennie
Apologies if this has been covered before. Would one option be using image labels created at a higher resolution than export snapshot (which will get you screen resolution -- 72 DPI)? For example, create your label in Photoshop (or any other tool of your choice) at 300 DPI. Then use that im

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

2009-08-11 Thread Phil Davis
That was Mark Schonewille who suggested Bit Stream Vera. Mark? Phil Ray Horsley wrote: Phil, Thanks for these ideas. I'm assuming by 'white space' you mean simply making fields larger (to one degree or another) than their formattedHeight and formattedWidth. Phil, if you're still following

Re: Releasing Memory and Virtual Memory

2009-08-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Derek Bump wrote: > Is there any way to force Revolution to "let go" or "release" excessive > amounts of memory? > > > I've got a project that scans through a folder of images, imports the > image into an image object (via put url "binfile:"), exports it as a > JPEG, then puts "empty"

Re: Script to a php file

2009-08-11 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 11-août-09 à 23:07, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi Yves, Have a look at the default html file for revlets, particularly the additional parameters inside the embed tag. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Hi Mark, yes, I will have a look and see already a solution ! Thanks. Greeti

Re: Script to a php file

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Yves, Have a look at the default html file for revlets, particularly the additional parameters inside the embed tag. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Download Snapper Screen Recorder at http://snapper.economy-

Releasing Memory and Virtual Memory

2009-08-11 Thread Derek Bump
Is there any way to force Revolution to "let go" or "release" excessive amounts of memory? I've got a project that scans through a folder of images, imports the image into an image object (via put url "binfile:"), exports it as a JPEG, then puts "empty" into the image object (to free it up). The

Script to a php file

2009-08-11 Thread Yves COPPE
Hi list I have a very easy php file http://www.monDomaine.com/file.txt"; echo $myTx; ?> i want to get the variable $myTx in a revlet How can i proceed ? thanks. Greetings. Yves COPPE yvesco...@skynet.be ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revol

Re: cookbook for putting Rev app on the web?

2009-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sadhu Nadesan wrote: Ah, well, perhaps I spoke slightly too soon, a tad more research to do. I should add, it worked flawlessly in test mode, when the html page and the revlet was on my PC. When I put this stuff on an actual web server, it hangs at "Loading revWeb Content". I put both files

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

2009-08-11 Thread Ray Horsley
Phil, Thanks for these ideas. I'm assuming by 'white space' you mean simply making fields larger (to one degree or another) than their formattedHeight and formattedWidth. Phil, if you're still following this, where do I locate additional fonts such as the Bit Stream Vera fonts you sugges

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

2009-08-11 Thread Ray Horsley
Mark, Many thanks! The snapshot is an excellent idea which I've used for various projects. Unfortunately, it's not an option here since the end result is printing (and pictures of text can get pretty gritty when printed). I'm checking out BitStream now. Thanks again, Ray Horsley LinkI

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

2009-08-11 Thread Phil Davis
Two words, Ray: White Space! Well-placed white space can improve the user's grasp of on-screen information while also letting your fields to be bigger than they might otherwise need to be, to allow for slight metric differences between similar fonts (or the same font on different platforms).

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Ray, You really should make your software such that it takes word wrapping into account. You want to use similar fonts for visual consistency across platforms, not to make sure that the last word of the second sentence is always on the third line of a field. If you need to be sure that th

ID number limit query

2009-08-11 Thread Hugh Senior
Does anyone know what the maximum ID number is, and more importantly whether the ID numbers cycle back to 1003 when the limit is reached? /H ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Cross Platform Fonts

2009-08-11 Thread Ray Horsley
Another basic question: What fonts are good for deploying stacks cross platform? That is, fonts which will mostly likely NOT start unexpected word wraps on Windows when there was no word wrapping on Mac. Thanks, Ray Horsley ___ use-revolution ma

Re: wake from sleep

2009-08-11 Thread BNig
Tom, I dont know about shell but I found a way to query whether the screensaver is on or not. You would have to query the screensaver repeatedly with a script though. I found the basics on macscripter.net to try it out: -- delay 4 -- to let the screensaver start tell application "Syste

Re: cookbook for putting Rev app on the web?

2009-08-11 Thread Sadhu Nadesan
Ah, well, perhaps I spoke slightly too soon, a tad more research to do. I should add, it worked flawlessly in test mode, when the html page and the revlet was on my PC. When I put this stuff on an actual web server, it hangs at "Loading revWeb Content". I put both files in the same directory

Re: cookbook for putting Rev app on the web?

2009-08-11 Thread Sadhu Nadesan
Whoo-hoo! 1) Sarah, you are the best. Sorry for the slow reply, I just got a chance to try it. So easy! Perfect instructions. Big smiles. 2) IT WORKED! Effortlessly. Just as expected. Wow, wow, wow. Rev has arrived. This is what many have been asking for years. Congratulations to t

Re: Mac to Windows Standalone Question

2009-08-11 Thread Ray Horsley
Regarding you last question, I posted a similar Windows no-no yesterday after making a discovery using option style buttons: The list of choices when clicking an Option style button on a Mac is automatically widened so none are cut off, width-wise. On Windows the choices get cut off if th

Mac to Windows Standalone Question

2009-08-11 Thread Joe F.
The other day I spent a considerable amount of time troubleshooting a popup menu that worked fine everywhere except for the Windows standalone version. Fortunately someone discovered the answer 7 years ago and posted to the list, otherwise I'd have never figured out that the "not-equal" cha

Re: Startup question

2009-08-11 Thread Joe F.
The easy way to do this in Leopard is just drag any item to the Dock, right click on it and choose "Open at Login..." from the popup. To make it open in a specific (non default) application: select the file in a window or on the desktop; press command-I or right-click>" Get Info". Set "Open

Re: wake from sleep

2009-08-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Thomas, I had to much coffee so the solution I thought is the most weird one you'll ever see. Create a simple image on your stack, then do something like: export snapshot from rect (the rect of img 1) to file "~/Desktop/teste.jpg" as JPEG wherever you want to check if the screensaver is runn

wake from sleep

2009-08-11 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Is there a simple way to tell via a script when the system wakes from sleep or when it wakes from screensaver? I have (on Mac) my screensaver set to require password on wake and would like my stack to do something when it wakes. I tried a small applescript in the loginItems in Preferences b

Re: Edu Ware Revlets

2009-08-11 Thread viktoras d.
Hi Sivakatirswami, thanks Malte! I told its half-baked :-). Here it loads on 3 out of 4 computers, so something is going wrong in certain cases. Maybe, as Malte pointed out, system setup or stray processes are to blame. Occasionally I notice some strange interaction with flash - complex flash

Re: Edu Ware Revlets

2009-08-11 Thread Malte Brill
Sivakatirswami wrote, When I clicked refresh. download was set back to zero and nothing happened at all (as if your server was none responsive) Did you happen to have had another revLet open in the same browser session? I do see revlets hang on load sometimes and I would be interested if