Multiple undo and redo

Will Revolution ever support multiple undo/redo? This seems like a pretty basic thing to have for a mature product. I cannot imagine why it is missing, even in the script editor. I think this has gone beyond the point where it is that would be something nice to have. Lacking multiple undo/redo

Multiple undo and redo

if this button had all the scripts for your application. This is a problem. -Ben Fisher wrote: Will Revolution ever support multiple undo/redo? Are you wanting this just for the Script Editor, or are you looking for an API to implement multiple-Undo in your own apps? -- Richard Gaskin Managing

Looping over all controls

Is there a convenient way to loop over all controls in a card or group? I could keep a list of IDs, adding and deleting as necessary, but this isn't so simple. In the past I have used: repeat with x = 1 to the number of btns in this cd if there is a btn x then --Do something with this btn end

Multiple undo and redo

As far as the form designer goes: I understand that this is not trivial. I assume that your point is that anything done from, say the message box, would be hard to keep track of and undo. True. It would be reasonable if basic IDE actions could be undone. Other form designers can accomplish this.

Looping over all controls

Thanks. This works, repeat with x=1 to the number of controls in this cd put word 1 of the name of control x into controltype if controltype is button then ... else if controltype is field then ... end if end repeat look in the dictionary for controls Jim Ault Las Vegas

AW: Revolution back to HyperCard

it run faster. Externals are typically written in C or C++, and these languages have none of the user-friendliness of Transcript. The syntax is nearly 100% different than Transcript and the code must be compiled. -Ben Fisher ___ use-revolution mailing list

Constellation

source. I know websites like this already exist, but it would be so much cooler if there were one authoritative Rev Source. -Ben Fisher ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Players and menus don't mix

I've started using players, a type of control I don't use normally. However, there's one problem that is driving me nuts. It is easily reproduced. 1) Create a new stack. 2) Create a player object in the middle of the screen. 3) Create a button just a little above the player. 4) Choose the select

Arrays in Revolution

I just wrote a cool library for working with arrays and matrices. Even if you don't use arrays too often, I encourage you to check it out. It has useful functions like Push, and its split and join functions don't mess with your strings the way the built-in functions do. I also wrote functions for

New project

Hi Revolution community, I was wondering if there would be any interest for a new utility I'm writing in Revolution. It would include a variable watcher (that can view arrays), property watcher, much-improved message box, perform operations on files/folders, script editor, command-line prompt,

System beep

Here's something funny and not too important: The rev docs say that the beepDuration, beepLoudness, and beepPitch properties only work on Linux. However, they work perfectly on my WinXP laptop. And you can even put in little songs, remeniscent of the Hypercard play command days.

Pointer tool in a standalone

be possible.) -Ben Fisher ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Zooming in on an image

I'm wondering what is the most efficient way to resize a large image. I'm trying to create a zoom-in effect by displaying a 600x800 image and then slowly increasing the dimensions of the image (while still keeping the image centered on the screen). Ideally this would be smooth and non-cpu

Weird number behavior

Subtracting 0 from a number makes it bigger? I guess so in Revolution. set the numberformat to 0.### answer 0.91 answer 0.91 - 0 This is documented in the docs under numberFormat, but is causing me problems with some sensitive calculations. I guess you'd run against the same

Table behavior

I have just started playing around with fields that have table behavior. I was planning on writing a little spreadsheet program. However, it appears that the closeField message is not sent to the field when its behavior is like a Table. This can be demonstrated: create a new Table from the

RE: Can Revolution create a large, colored cursor?

If one is interested in cursor effects, check out my Cursor Effects stack on RevOnline. User Name:BenJam Stack: Cursor Effects It works by setting the loc of an image to the mouseloc every time the mouse moves. There is no flicker because the real cursor is set to none. It would be easy to

Re: Who do I have to pay?

My Image Processor Stack features Brightness and Contrast. It's on RevOnline User Name: BenJam Stack: Basic Image Processor. If you aren't impressed, a newer version of this stack will be online later this week with convolution and other goodies. I'm almost done with an external for doing this

cursor effects

I posted a couple of cursor effects to my RevOnline user space. If you want to know how to make your cursor rotate, check it out! User Name: BenJam Stack: Cursor Effects On my Windows machine, my fake cursor blends right in with the Windows cursor. Hopefully this will still look ok on other

System sleep

As far as Windows goes, there do exist shutdown programs that can be shelled to put the computer in Standby, which is like sleep. However, different versions of Windows have different ways of shutting down. Unfortunately, this is most difficult in Windows XP. Check out

cursed

I have recently been plagued by a number of disturbing problems in Revolution. Suddenly, I have been getting all sorts of weird errors. I have been cursed. This started spontaneously this morning, and isn't stopping. These are some of the problems: The Error box pops up at random times, but it

Midi Comunications

Hi Mark, I too am interested in MIDI, as I have an old Casio Midi keyboard that I use occasionally. It would be really cool to see how MIDIs work and write an editor. For the past couple of years I've been playing around with the idea but never found the time. In older versions of Rev, there

Re: Record sound problem on Windows

Here's how to change the page file size on WinXP: Open up Control Panel, open System Click the Advanced tab. (I always mess with these settings :) Click on Settings under Performance Click the Advanced tab (Wow, advanced settings of the advanced settings...) Click Change under Virtual Memory

Re: Split command key order

I know that the combine command will yield a list that is not in any particular order. However, I always thought the split command would split out the keys in the order of the original list. I too was disappointed by the split and commands. One project involves turning arrays into lists back

Re: custom property searching speed question

What algorithm is RR using for searching? I find that I have to keep writing Boyer-Moore-Sunday search algorithms for most of the devlopment tools I use. Whatever algorithm RR uses to search the docs, it doesn't work. When I try to Search for: something, I get a spinning beach ball for a while,

Comment on editing front scripts

Debugging front scripts that contain events like (mouseMove, mouseUp, mouseDown...), is impossible in Rev. Rev's script editor changes size erratically and buttons on the editor move to unknown places. So I switched to my trusty copy of MC to work on them. Dawg gone of MC did not give it

Re: rev and zip files

There is a way to zip files or even folders without an external. I did this by shelling another zipping utility. To be even more sly about it, the zipping executable is embedded in the stack in a custom property. It's on RevOnline. User Name: Benjam Program: Windows ZipFolder This program

image contrast and brightness

I think someone was wondering how to do Contrast and Brightness effects on images... Anyways I made a little stack to do this and other effects. It's actually pretty fast without using any externals. Please check it out and give me some feedback. User Name: Benjam Program: Basic Image

Re: Arrays

Thanks Phil and Mark. It seems like Rev is really lacking documentation about its array and matrix capabilities. I like the idea of having flexible arrays, I.e. myArray[key]. Is there a page in the docs that specifically outlines what array features there are? (Whenever I try to search for

Arrays

I'm using fairly large arrays. These need to be stored as a file on the hard drive or in some other manner. The trick is that they have to be quickly retrieved. The way I'm handling this now is to write all the elements of the array into return-delimited data, compressing this data, and then

shell start

You'll need to separate that into two different lines. Try putting a return after myLocation. If you're still having problems, I've found that sometimes if you write all the shell data to a temporary .bat file it will work better. That way also you can debug by examining the .bat to make sure

Selecting or deleting in an image by color or color range?

Here's something I would use: (put in the script of the image) on mouseUp put the mousecolor into mcolor put numtochar(0) numtochar(item 1 of mcolor) into hexcolor put numtochar(item 2 of mcolor) numtochar(item 3 of mcolor) after hexcolor put numtochar(255)numtochar(255)

Open Control Panel via Shell in Rev

Hi Derek, This page http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_adv/conpanel.asphttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_adv/conpanel.asp should answer your

Selecting or deleting in an image by color or color range?

Oops, The script worked for everything I tried. I guess in theory it might possibly erase unintended colors, although the odds of this are slim. In imagedata the colors are handled as a set of four, with the first entry always being zero. My solution might, trying to delete the color 0,12,12,

Re: Standalones

That's too bad that you can't build for classic on Windows. I use a PC and all the computers at my school are mac classics. Using Dreamcard player won't work for me. Martin, that's a good idea. Could someone please look into this? Or maybe an enhancement in Bugzilla? -Ben I wonder if it

copy image from application browser

Hi Bob, There's a quick way to do this. Using the select tool, right-click on the image and choose Launch Editor. Now you can find the Photoshop application and click ok. From then on, you can use Photoshop to edit all of your images. When you're done editing, just save and close and

How to paint a background and place graphics on top of if?

Hi Thomas, If I understand you correctly, you're trying to make a background with a pattern that can scroll. I'm not really sure exactly what you're trying to do but here's a simple way to add a pattern to an object. 1) Use the rect tool to draw a rectangle graphic. 2) Open up the properties

Standalones

I'm using Rev 2.5 on Windows XP. When I open up the Standalone Application Settings, the Mac OS icon is grayed out. I'd like to be able to save as a Mac classic standalone. Is this still possible? I'd rather not have to use Dreamcard Player. I am a Studio user. Doesn't this mean I can save

Re: What do most Rev developers do?

Are most of you using it for educational software, or to help with projects at a large company, or for independent programming for small businesses? Just curious, Jonathan I learned Hypercard when I was in 3rd grade. I made all sorts of animations, I.e. Copy Card, Paste Card, move the

externals kit

Thanks for the response, everyone. I'll get started with the externals kit as soon as possible. Unfortunately, as far as porting existing dlls into rev use is a little beyond me at the moment. I learned C++ on a mac system don't really know how to reference a dll. I'm not actually as

externals kit

Hi Revolutionaries, I'm planning on making a kit/instructions on how to create externals for rev (in c++). I would include a detailed pdf on C++ and have examples of common tasks for externals. This would all use a free compiler such as Dev-C++. Would anyone be interested in paying a modest

Re: OT-distribution to MAC OS 9.1 users

Any clue on how to proceed from here? Meanwhile back to search for some location on the internet where and old copy of StuffItExpander is still available. Hi Sannyasin, I know exactly what you mean. It's hard to find classic software these days. Also I suspect that e-mailing will not work

Disappearing Image?

I just submitted the bug to Bugzilla (first time I've used Bugzilla) If this is as annoying to you as it is to me, please help by voting on this bug (#2560) I've found a couple workarounds. It seems like if you change other things in the properties box (blend, etc.) and then change the name,

Disappearing image?

Recently I have come across a disturbing error while creating a game in Rev. I have imported a few graphics as controls (not referenced). The weird part is that when I change the name of the graphic and close the properties box, the image *disappears*. The control still exists, but all of its

Icon help

I need Icon help! I have a program IconCool Editor 4.0 but the icons are not compatible with Rev programs. What icon Editor do I need? This is my last step of making my first Rev program. Paul, I've come across this problem in making windows icons too. In earlier versions of Rev, only

icon help

Finally have found a good icon editor for win xp. Frontbase Image to Icon. http://www.make-icon.com/http://www.make-icon.com/ It will support and automatically create these formats. 16 Color 16x16 16 color 32x32 16 color 48x48 256 color 16x16 256 color 32x32 256 color 48x48 Windows XP (32-bit

jpg graphics

I need to insert text information in a jpg graphics then when the computer loads the pics, I want the information extracted and used in the program. Any one know anything about this? Paul, You know how ID3 tags can reside in an mp3 file and store info about title and artist? There are

rev burning cds

Matt, You could try shelling a DOS program for burning cds. http://www.goldenhawk.com/freeware.htmhttp://www.goldenhawk.com/freewarehtm looks interesting, should have a finalize and other features. There's a huge list of dos tools at

iTunes-like software

Hi Richard, Check and see if you can get a version of MusicMatch. Even though it appears they are abandoning their mac versions, it still would be worth it to get a copy, and they should have something for classic. From what I hear it is the only free ripping program for classic. I have

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Jim, have you tried rounding the number? I know it shouldn't make a difference but maybe it's a problem with using floating points. Jim on mouseUP    set the loc of grc ball to 100, 100    put .1 into dx    put .1 into dy    put the loc of grc ball into tBallLoc    repeat 5000 add dx to

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hi i want a premade website for free Cory, here's a site with webpage templates for free. http://freesitetemplates.com/templates/browse/frames/ http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-website-templates.php Then you could upload that onto a free web hosting service, which will put your site online

Circular Object

Hi Folks... I'm looking for an object that is circular and has the 24 hours of the day divided up into quarter hour segments where each segment is an object that can be clicked. Has anyone created one of these? Jim Jim, It wouldn't be that hard to do using some trigonometry :) But there's an

Re: Set icon of button to a graphic

How can I convert a graphic to an image? Bill, You can just take a snapshot of the screen. When you have the graphic looking the way you want it, it cmd-shift-F3 (mac) or alt-printscreen (pc) to take a screen snapshot. Then use a graphics program to save this as a png, adding transparency if

Compressing folders in WinXP

http://www.angeltowns4.com/members/ben/RevCompressXP.zip Here's my program to zip/ unzip folders in Windows XP, and probably other versions of windows. All of the files in the package are necessary. Of course, this is a really messy way to do it, but it works. Because the command-line

Writing externals

I'm a pretty experienced Revolution user, but I'm new to externals in the form of dlls. I'd like to create these, but I only have the Borland C++ compiler which I hear doesn't work for externals. Could someone please come up with a list of the languages or compilers that are compatible?

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What is the perpendicular distance between a point and a line? Application for which there is no redeeming social value: Thanks for sharing that code, James. I'm taking calculus right now and that type of thing might come in handy. Also thanks for not using repeat until the mouse is up. I

RE: Webserver

Hi Ton, I've actually just started a program that would do just that. It uses a DOS command-line utility(http://www.7-zip.org/http://www.7-zip.org/) to zip the files, (I guess this won't work on PC, unless you can find a OSX shell program?). When I'm done - like next week - I'll let you know

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Thanks, -Ben Yup. See the files function in the dictionary, particularly the detailed files option. That gives this info. and the convert function that is able to show the seconds of the creation and modification time in a specific date: ___

Pixels

Hi, I was wondering if there is some way to draw pixels directly onto the screen without having to create an object. My program (it's for a math class) creates a list of pixels to be drawn on the screen. Right now it clicks using the pencil tool and is *very* sluggish. Probably creating

File info

Hello Revolution Wizards, I was wondering if there's some way to retrieve the Created or Modified dates from a file. I'm using Windows XP. I have a feeling this data isn't stored in the file itself, but then where could it be? -Ben ___ use-revolution

Re: Using QT Transitions

Okay, but wouldn't that bring up a dialog box for the user of my stack? I would like Card A to gradient wipe to Card B without asking the user. I'm still not getting it. Mark G. You don't have to put the answer effect in your script that runs every time. Just put it in the message box,