It seems I need to address the Windows Registry to install a font. And again to
uninstall it.
To do this I would like to understand what components are required. I've
narrowed it down to:
Root Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: \Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\
Name (arbitrary
of another handler.
len
Adrian Williams wrote:
Phil,
Thanks for spotting that a FUNCTION needs to be stated before
mouseUp.
I knew that of course but overlooked it. Something that happens
with irregular use of Rev.
Thanks too to everyone who responded to resolve my problems. In the
process I
, at 07:42, Adrian Williams wrote:
Phil,
Mouse up calls stack script to remove installed font and return
result. That already works.
When adding the FUNCTION code, the FUNCTION line keeps throwing up
the
error.
I've followed all the advice everyone has given - I'm stumped.
- - -
on mouseUp
start
occurred is apparently named OK. What does the code of
that object look like?
Phil Davis
Adrian Williams wrote:
Phil,
Already tried just 'end' - it gets the same error!
Adrian
On 2 Sep 2009, at 17:13, Phil Jimmieson wrote:
Hi Adrian,
at the end of the function definition, you only put end
... maybe we should start at the beginning. The object in which
the error occurred is apparently named OK. What does the code of
that object look like?
Phil Davis
Adrian Williams wrote:
Phil,
Already tried just 'end' - it gets the same error!
Adrian
On 2 Sep 2009, at 17:13, Phil Jimmieson
start at the beginning. The object in which
the error occurred is apparently named OK. What does the code of
that object look like?
Phil Davis
Adrian Williams wrote:
Phil,
Already tried just 'end' - it gets the same error!
Adrian
On 2 Sep 2009, at 17:13, Phil Jimmieson wrote:
Hi Adrian
you call getPathToFile(). Then you will be able to see
more clearly the state of the various data items. That may tell you
what's wrong.
HTH -
Phil Davis
Adrian Williams wrote:
Phil,
Now have slightly different error:
TypeCommands: missing ','
ObjectOK
LineFUNCION
Hi Klaus,
Yes, it was just a typo.
Thanks,
Adrian
On 3 Sep 2009, at 08:52, Klaus Major wrote:
Hi Adrian,
...
Adrian Williams wrote:
Phil,
Now have slightly different error:
TypeCommands: missing ','
ObjectOK
LineFUNCION getPathToFile pFile
There is a T missing
:
Hi Adrian,
...
Adrian Williams wrote:
Phil,
Now have slightly different error:
TypeCommands: missing ','
ObjectOK
LineFUNCION getPathToFile pFile
There is a T missing in funcTion!
But maybe this is just a typo in your post?
Best
Klaus
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Len,
Trying this FUNCTION and the' to use' right afterwards gives an error:
On 30 Aug 2009, at 17:24, Len Morgan wrote:
Im hoping Trevor won't mind me sharing this little snippet of code:
FUNCTION getPathToFile pFile
put the filename of this stack into the theFile
set the itemdelimiter to
Len or anyone else have an answer to this,
'end FUNCTION' gives the error:
Handler: error in command
Object OK
LineFUNCTION getPathToFile pFile
HintFUNCTION
On 30 Aug 2009, at 17:24, Len Morgan wrote:
Im hoping Trevor won't mind me sharing this little snippet of code:
Phil,
Already tried just 'end' - it gets the same error!
Adrian
On 2 Sep 2009, at 17:13, Phil Jimmieson wrote:
Hi Adrian,
at the end of the function definition, you only put end and the
name of the function - you don't include the parameter list.
On 2 Sep 2009, at 17:10, Adrian Williams
Len, Scot,
Your amendments/solutions work and what's more I can follow and
understand how they work because of the excellent commenting.
Rev is a fantastic environment and useful beyond description. The
online docs show syntax of statements and lots of other vital info.
But, to the novice
. As it's Bank Holiday, I'm
off to fire up the BBQ.
All the best,
Adrian
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On 31 Aug 2009, at 13:05, Len Morgan wrote:
Adrian Williams wrote:
IMHO in the doc for 'launch', right underneath 'Examples
Still having the error 'NilObjectException the application must shut
down' when using the 'launch' command.
Looks like the target app to launch is producing the error on Windows
Vista.
Here is the relevant code that tries to launch...
set the defaultFolder to it
launch MyProgram.exe
launch
Jim,
The docs give the it example - so I used it verbatim.
There are not two launch statements.
The 'get shell' is a script in another button I was trying too. But I
got the same error.
Guess this is all to do with the defaultFolder.
The reason I wanted to use it was that I have no way to know
Jim,
Double spacing works for me.
I don't want to give an explicit full pathname because someone else
(user) will be saving the Folder
(containing all the exe's for use) and I cannot guarantee it will be
in the path I might specify.
Thought I could save requiring full pathname by the use of
Jim,
When defaultFolder is set to a valid path C:\Program Files\MyApp.exe
my code works.
Is there a way to retrieve the location of the Folder in which the
current application is running.
Then set deafultFolder to that?
Thanks for your perseverance with me on this topic.
Adrian
On 30 Aug
put the filename of this stack into the theFile
set the itemdelimiter to slash
put pFile into the last item of theFile
return theFile
END getPathToFile
To use:
put getPathFile(filename you want to launch) into tFile
launch tFile
That should do it.
len morgan
Adrian Williams wrote:
Jim
Adrian Williams wrote:
Len,
Thanks for this. Looks like just what I need!
I guess the FUNCTION can go in on openStack and the 'put' part in a
card or button script?
Adrian
On 30 Aug 2009, at 17:24, Len Morgan wrote:
Im hoping Trevor won't mind me sharing this little snippet of code
Gay wrote:
Adrian Williams wrote:
Thanks Ray, but I don't want a navigation dialog to select it, I
want the app to launch automatically.
Adrian
The problem is probably a path issue. If you are only referring to
the application by its short file name, then make sure the
defaultFolder
A Mac standalone that needs to Launch another .app
A Win standalone that needs to Launch another .exe
Everything is in the same Folder.
The docs just say launch myApp but that does nothing.
How can I do this?
Thanks,
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28, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Adrian Williams wrote:
A Mac standalone that needs to Launch another .app
A Win standalone that needs to Launch another .exe
Everything is in the same Folder.
The docs just say launch myApp but that does nothing.
How can I do this?
Thanks,
Adrian
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Hi Colin,
Nop. I'm not launching myApp by mistake.
I have a stack with one button script and building into a standalone.
Its just trying to launch another app in the same Folder.
Adrian
On 28 Aug 2009, at 15:41, Colin Holgate wrote:
On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Ray Horsley wrote:
The docs
wouldn't work.
Also, sorry to state the obvious, but just in case, be aware that it
is
necessary to include the .exe or .app as part of the app's name.
Good luck.
Chris Sheffield
On 8/28/09 8:50 AM, Adrian Williams adr...@clubtype.co.uk wrote:
Thanks Ray, but I don't want a navigation
issue.
It's also worth doing a test standalone that answers the
defaultfolder, as the initial defaultfolder can't get a bit tricky
on OS X with the bundle.
Ian
On 28 Aug 2009, at 15:50, Adrian Williams wrote:
Thanks Ray, but I don't want a navigation dialog to select it, I
want the app
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On 25 Apr 2009, at 02:56, Andre Garzia wrote:
also shell(whoami) gives you the name of the logged user.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Sarah Reichelt sarah.reich...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Adrian Williams adr...@clubtype.co.uk
wrote:
Hello all
Hello all,
Installing fonts into the Public domain is a breeze:
MacHD/Library/Fonts/MyNewFont.ttf
But I need to install and uninstall fonts in the Users domain. For
example:
MacHD/Users/someunknownname/Library/Fonts/MyNewFont.ttf
How can I retrieve 'someunknownname' from any computer and
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On Apr 24, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Adrian Williams wrote:
Hello all,
Installing fonts into the Public domain is a breeze:
MacHD/Library/Fonts/MyNewFont.ttf
But I need
Hi All,
I am trying the Launch another application with launch
SomeOtherApplication as described in the docs.
No luck.
AppleScript can do it, but must have the full path. The User may
store the main app folder anywhere, so that's no good.
The app I want to launch will be inside my
In trying to create a clickable map (using a graphic of a blob of ink),
I encounter problems with overlapping areas when using the HTML method.
It is to be viewed online, but an application may do just as well.
The red areas that get highlighted at MouseOver represent letters of
the alphabet.
1, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Adrian Williams wrote:
We offer a digraphs font exactly as you describe.
The original typefaces were researched and developed
for use in education to teach children and adults (this version)...
http://www.clubtype.co.uk/fonts/sas/s460sample.html
Sassoon® Jolly Phonics
We offer a digraphs font exactly as you describe.
The original typefaces were researched and developed
for use in education to teach children and adults (this version)...
http://www.clubtype.co.uk/fonts/sas/s460sample.html
Sassoon® Jolly Phonics Digraph fonts will enable you to write easy-to-
Hello List,
Working on a script to 'check for updates' of a rev stand alone (not
the Rev program itself or its engine).
Short explanation:
Read plain text from a file automatically from the default Folder (NOT
using the answer file: routine).
Then perform if/then tasks on the retrieved
Thanks Ian -- works a treat!
Adrian
On 22 Apr 2008, at 17:06, Ian Wood wrote:
put URL http://www.example.com/exampleupdatefile.text; into tData
Then test against what's in tData? There's no need to download the
text file to disk and then open it in Rev.
Ian
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Shari,
TrueType files on Mac OSX don't have the ttf extension - just the
font name.
Mac OS9 can have .ttf.
Adrian
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On 18 Nov 2007, at 02:38, Shari wrote:
True Type Fonts (TTFs) should work on both Mac and Windows.
Joe/Ian,
I am involved in designing typefaces for better legibility in special
needs and
a spin-off of this is that they happen also to be useful for the
partially sighted.
Dr. Rosemary Sassoon - a handwriting expert, has a book that is
recommended
reading for anyone wanting to get the
/shadowofged/Public/Software/NTFS-3G/NTFS
-3G%2020070207.dmg
Hope this is useful to others with the same trouble.
Adrian
On 22 Feb 2007, at 18:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Feb 2007, at 6:35 AM, Adrian Williams wrote:
Roger,
I'm having problems downloading from the link you supplied
Roger,
I'm having problems downloading from the link you supplied...
On 21 Feb 2007, at 19:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chip Walters wrote:
With the new
Coherence option, you can actually use both Mac and PC simultaneously,
as their application windows can share the same desktop.
Actually,
Am about to take delivery of Mac Pro Quad 1Gb RAM, 250Gb HD.
The idea being to have the best of both worlds (Win+Mac).
I'll be running WinXP with Parallels to do the quick switching stuff
Mac to Win and visa-versa during development.
I deduce from posts that 1Gb will get me there, but 2Gb would
Thanks Sarah,
Adrian
On 10 Dec 2006, at 23:25, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
After getting a file name from the user, you might then want to check
to make sure they didn't delete the .txt file extension if that is
important.
Cheers,
Sarah
On 12/11/06, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Peter,
As a new user of Revolution I agree with your analysis of Dummies.
Small things can make a huge difference to beginners!
For me 'Software At The Speed Of Thought' lacks an Index at the back
which would make zeroing in on snippets *much* easier to locate.
To counter this lack, I found
On the subject of Saving... can anyone give me some pointers about
how to Save text from a field into a file with the extension .txt for
example?
The docs don't explicitly have anything about 'Save'.
Thanks,
Adrian
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and the criticisms.
On 12/9/06, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter,
As a new user of Revolution I agree with your analysis of Dummies.
Small things can make a huge difference to beginners!
For me 'Software At The Speed Of Thought' lacks an Index at the back
which would make zeroing
/06, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did get a solution from the altFont author Chris Bohnert, but it
lacked
enough comment for this newbie to understand how to use uFileName and
uEmbeddedFile and where to put the script.
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Thanks Chip for your advice. I'm a little stacked at the moment but
will try your solution sometime next week.
On 29 Nov 2006, at 18:16, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I'm hoping that Rev will make altFont a relatively transparent
feature when it gets incorporated into the next version of Rev.
Such
Hello,
I recently purchased altFont and using the
buttons that came with the DEMO stack all works fine,
using altFont to embed a font in my app.
I have been able to SuckUp the font in the IDE.
SpitOut the font from the button's custom prop. into the default
Folder.
Now all I want to do is
,
Adrian
On 16 Nov 2006, at 21:24, Hershel Fisch wrote:
On 11/16/06 12:22 PM, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SCRIPT: FIND BUTTON
on mouseUp
--set text of field edtReplace to
Put into fld edtReplace
--put text of field edtFind into tFindText
-- find string tFindText in field edtText
then return Replace string is empty.
if tText = empty then return Text is empty.
if tFindStr is not in tText then return Could not find find string.
return true
end CanReplace
Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet
Le 18 nov. 06 à 09:46, Adrian Williams a écrit :
Herschel,
This works fine
.
Just insert these dead handlers in the scripts of your fields:
on returnInField
end returnInField
OK. I'll add those, but the absence of these would not be affecting
Could not find find string would it?
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Adrian
Le 18 nov. 06 à 15:51, Adrian Williams a écrit :
Hi
hello list,
I have one field edtText that contains text to be found/replaced.
One field for User to enter text to be found along with a button.
One field for User to enter text the replace text along with a button.
All are on the same card.
The logic and syntax look correct to me, but nothing
Another sale made to this newbie!
Adrian
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The custom font may have up to 14000 characters.
255 Standard chars.
The remainder are Latin characters with attached joining strokes,
stored in the Japanese or the some Other Language part of the font.
Font/scripts will be used to
of Rev?
I need to plant your script(s) into a Rev. stack.
Thanks again,
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Hi Jacqueline,
I realise now the selectedChunk is certainly the wrong way to go!
But from your jpg example, I'm not sure you even need all of this. Is
this a simple text substitution? If so, I think I'd just use a
keydown handler to see what the user has typed, and replace the
character with
to label the characters of pChar that require
joining?
Also labeled that way in the Input and Output lists for replacement?
Thanks,
Adrian
On 10 Oct 2006, at 01:20, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Adrian Williams wrote:
Hi Jacqueline,
I realise now the selectedChunk is certainly the wrong way to go
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Jacqueline,
Sorry to be a bore. Found that...
set the caseSensitive to true
deals with CAPS/lower case
call aFunction of card The Other Card
deals with calling the function.
Thanks,
Adrian
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OK. Sorry to be such a pain.
This is obviously FAR more complex than I first thought.
I have a custom font with letters that join together.
I need Rev to detect what the User types and replace accordingly.
http://www.clubtype.co.uk/revDev-abc/abc-rev.jpg
So I started to make a list of what
This code works fine on both platforms.
Great if you get the User to do all the navigating.
I need to modify it to open the Folder (automatically)
C:\WINNT\Fonts
then close it again, all in the background while my
Installer is doing its thing installing other components.
the reason is that
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Adrian Williams wrote:
Martin,
Thanks for your suggestion. It did not work for me - reporting:
TypeFunction: error in function handler
ObjectedtText
Lineput Lookupchar(char beforecharpos of me) into newbeforechar
, Adrian Williams wrote:
I decided to start with a simple function,
before getting involved with what to do with the return value
On 2 Oct 2006, at 10:47, Martin Blackman wrote:
Jacqueline covered it much better than me there. The lookupchar
function was indeed intended as a separate function
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on, since all of my apps
are
for me, or quite simplistic.
Many thanks again.
Adrian
Hope you find all that you are looking for.
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Las Vegas
On 10/5/06 3:38 AM, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to clarify to everyone what I'm trying to do.
Please look at a graphic
.
Result: Error in handler
Hint: function.
This function should work in its own right - yes?
Adrian
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pass keydown
end keydown
regards
Martin
On 01/10/06, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm new to Revolution (using 2.7.3 trial on Mac OS X)
and want to create both Mac+Win programs of the solution.
In a text field I want the User to enter text.
The useUnicode will be set to true
and begins
entering more text, which again, must refer to the table for
replacement.
I've looked at the relevant ways I think it should be done but as I'm
completely new to Rev, this is just beyond my scope at the moment.
A starting point would be very helpful if anyone can assist?
Thanks,
Adrian
Doh!
Thanks Dan
Adrian
On 25 Sep 2006, at 01:00, Dan Shafer wrote:
You need just to scroll down on that page farther. The eBook price did
change. But the three SmartEBooks on specific topics are $5 each and
are
clearly listed on that page.
On 9/24/06, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED
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I'll have to go look at the pages again, but I could swear there were
links
there to the store.
Anyway, you can get to all of the downloadable Rev SmartEBooks here:
http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html
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to the Printer?
Is it done by Printing a long text field?
Neither of these ideas seems to be covered by the documentation or
online.
Appreciate any help to lift the gloom.
Thanks,
Adrian
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for $5. You can get it here:
http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html
I haven't had a look through it yet as I'm still getting to grips with
Rev (still working through Volume 1...).
Cheers,
Luis.
Adrian Williams wrote:
Have looked everywhere for a method to print more than ONE page
Now multiple pages are Printing out, how do I get rid of
the text border and scroll bar hilites of the text field from the
printed page?
BTW: I've ordered Dan's book online - 3 to 4 week delivery in UK!
Thanks,
Adrian
On 22 Sep 2006, at 16:59, Adrian Williams wrote:
Thanks to Stephen
MacUser (UK) has a Masterclass on 'Creating symbolic links'
which displays a background image.
Issue: 21 July 2006. Vol 22. No 15.
Adrian Williams
Surrey, UK
On 10 Sep 2006, at 11:07, Trevor Hopkins wrote:
After creating a standalone on the Mac, and in the process of bundling
this app up
for a
Hexadecimal value or something else?
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