Re: searching all scripts in an application

2005-08-24 Thread Charles Hartman
evolution slid into my workflow, if I have a workflow, which I often doubt. Charles On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: (off-list) Richard, This is terrific -- I just downloaded it & used it for ten minutes and I'm already hooked. Fra

Re: searching all scripts in an application

2005-08-24 Thread Charles Hartman
On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: That's the downside of being so busy: bugs in my tools don't get fixed as quickly as I'd like. I'm up against a hairy deadline right now, but I'll look into that at first opportunity and post an update. You can use the updater in the

Re: searching all scripts in an application

2005-08-24 Thread Charles Hartman
ected." Then Properties *does* seem (by its title) to switch to showing the card. Charles Hartman On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jon wrote: Is there any easy way to find all occurrences of the word "Send" in all scripts in a stack? My devolution tool

back/forward confined to one stack

2005-08-19 Thread Charles Hartman
I'm positively childishly pleased to report that my simple implementation of a history-list for a single stack or substack works. It confines itself to that stack alone (unlike the Rev- internal commands relevant to "recent" -- but thanks to Jacque for her suggestions that made me learn more

Re: help on design

2005-08-18 Thread Charles Hartman
no handlers are executing. That looks like it might be the problem . . . Charles On Aug 18, 2005, at 2:42 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: > I'll try this. But it looks like (am I wrong? always a good > possibility!), as long as the substack is open, cards from othe

Re: help on design

2005-08-18 Thread Charles Hartman
open while the user navigates through the main stack, occasionally opening new cards in the substack.) Charles On Aug 18, 2005, at 12:20 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: > Thanks. Unfortunately that doesn't behave quite the way I need --

Re: help on design

2005-08-18 Thread Charles Hartman
k mySubStack") is accepted by the message box, but the stack restriction in the command doesn't seem to have any effect -- I just go back through the recentCards history list in all stacks, including IDE stacks. What am I missing this time?? Charles On Aug 18, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Cha

Re: help on design

2005-08-18 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks. Unfortunately that doesn't behave quite the way I need -- it goes back through cards no matter what stack they're in. I need the buttons to navigate just within the substack. So I'm looking at ways to parse the recentCards property. (Messy, but easier than building my own specialize

help on design

2005-08-17 Thread Charles Hartman
path Forwards. Somewhere, I have to delete lines from gHistoryList that are "below" the gHistoryPointer . . . Confused & glad to get any advice, Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Charles Hartman
Or you (the developer) can simply open Get Info on the stack file and change the Open With there, before distributing the stack. Either way, you produce a stack which can be double-clicked to run under the Player. The problem comes when you -- or rather your not-in-the-know user -- double

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Charles Hartman
That is not what happens when I click the DC Player on my PowerBook running Tiger. Maybe something is strange about my system, but I don't think so, and the Player app obviously works (is not corrupted.) So we seem to have *both* bad behavior (on my PB) and inconsistent behavior. As for c

Re: running the Player

2005-08-14 Thread Charles Hartman
Well, it's me too. Is there a bug report on this? If so I'll be glad to spend votes on it. As things are, I'm going to have to wrap my app (=stack) in warning stickers. Charles On Aug 13, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Yeah, as I've said here before, the Player just isn't well docum

Re: running the Player

2005-08-13 Thread Charles Hartman
On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: When I launch the (OSX) Dreamcard Player by double-clicking the app (not a stack), I'm getting *nothing* -- just a splash / starup screen with "Preparing..." and "Checking license..."

running the Player

2005-08-13 Thread Charles Hartman
arrow. The arrow isn't clickable; nothing is; and the menu offers nothing useful except Quit. Clearly *not* what I want to instruct my Dreamcard-stack users to do. But if the app is there (if they've downloaded both my stack and the Player

Re: char-in-menu question

2005-08-13 Thread Charles Hartman
Dennis On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: I need to include an ampersand -- numToChar(38) -- in the text of one menuItem associated with a button. I've put it there, and I can check it in the message box (put char 10 of the last line of text of btn "MyButton")

char-in-menu question

2005-08-13 Thread Charles Hartman
need a double-quote mark, an ampersand, and another double-quote. I just get two double-quotes with nothing in between. How do I persuade the ampersand to show up? It doesn't seem to have a constant, like "quote". Do I need to insert an escape character in the text of the

Re: [Semi-OT] Interesting article

2005-08-09 Thread Charles Hartman
On Aug 9, 2005, at 7:18 PM, Marielle Lange wrote: I wonder, what has been the "oohhh, this is interesting" moment for the new users on this list. My 2 more cents: I think elsewhere in your post you put your finger on part of the problem. Many people on the list came to Rev from Hypercard.

Re: computerized speech

2005-08-09 Thread Charles Hartman
And is there any way to convince the TTS system -- on Mac or Windows -- to stress a word differently (or more strongly) than the internal dictionary tells it? (Recent example from the news: do we say "SUBmariner" or "subMAriner".) Is this something that can be controlled through Rev's inter

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

2005-08-09 Thread Charles Hartman
e other way (start the player, open the stack) without elaborate instructions. Charles Hartman On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: It was my understanding that the online viewer launches in the Player every time, because there is NO OTHER WAY to open a stack! Again

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

2005-08-09 Thread Charles Hartman
Hear, hear! If you want to BZ this, I'll certainly vote for it. Charles Hartman On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Peter T. Evensen wrote: It was my understanding that the online viewer launches in the Player every time, because there is NO OTHER WAY to open a stack! Again I say this i

Re: Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

2005-08-08 Thread Charles Hartman
. The capabilities are otherwise the same, as far as I can tell, except for some fairly advanced stuff (commercial database queries for example) that -- so far -- I don't think I'll need. There's the amateur view. Those Who Know will tell you more. Charles Hartman On Au

Re: me vs. this?

2005-08-07 Thread Charles Hartman
namic" is good, but. Charles On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 11:20 AM -0400 8/5/2005, Charles Hartman wrote: Well, I don't know. Now that it's pointed out to me, I see in the Doc under 'this' only mentions of 'this card' and &#

Re: SCRIPTS IN GROUPS

2005-08-06 Thread Charles Hartman
In my very patchy experience, what's surprising and confusing -- whether you used HyperCard or not, though in different ways -- is the overlap / non-overlap between "groups" and "backgrounds". Obviously they have a lot in common (since a Rev background _is_ a group, though one with a distin

Re: me vs. this?

2005-08-05 Thread Charles Hartman
ard... Dont forget this group and this background... X -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeanne A. E. DeVoto Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 16:48 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: me vs. this? At 10:09 AM -0400 8/5/2005, Charles Hartman w

me vs. this?

2005-08-05 Thread Charles Hartman
In a mouseUp handler for a radio-button group called "my group", I would have thought I could refer to the hilitedButtonName of the group without specifying it any further. But answer the hilitedButtonName doesn't give the right response. Neither does answer the hilitedButtonName of

Re: design of radio-button choice

2005-08-04 Thread Charles Hartman
Ah! Never mind -- I just found the target() function. Charles On Aug 4, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: Thanks -- and to Alex, too -- I hadn't thought of grouping the check-boxes. I'm first going to try a simpler & more permissive approach and see how the user-ex

Re: design of radio-button choice

2005-08-04 Thread Charles Hartman
a delay of some sort? Assuming the former, one easy way to do this would be to put the checkboxes in a group and the radio buttons in a group and then when the user checks a checkbox, disable the checkbox group until he clicks a radio button. Then in the radio button group, re-enable the chec

design of radio-button choice

2005-08-04 Thread Charles Hartman
I assume I'd put it in the handler for each check-box, and I guess I'd have to make the radio-button group emit a custom message when a button (or the right button) is pressed. Is that right, or even close to right? Thanks as always for any help. Charles Hartman

Re: copy group to substack?

2005-08-04 Thread Charles Hartman
and) onto the other cards where you need it. Hope this can help... Le 4 août 05 à 15:53, Charles Hartman a écrit : I'm really baffled. Following suggestions on list, I'm handling the transfer of data to a "dialog" substack by copying a group. The group contains an im

copy group to substack?

2005-08-04 Thread Charles Hartman
;ve been over the docs several (many) times, and can't find out where the gap in my conception is. I hope this makes enough sense to be answerable -- it doesn't make much sense to me any more. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: when can I set a substack's properties?

2005-08-02 Thread Charles Hartman
t;go to" them, the navigation doesn't take as long. This can be helpful if you're going to a large stack. HTH. Phil Davis Charles Hartman wrote: I'm not clear about when a substack "exists." I want to set some custom properties in a substack from a script in

Re: when can I set a substack's properties?

2005-08-02 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks. Two details just to check -- On Aug 2, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I suspect it'll be just fine in the standlone. I've done this a few times as I recall and haven't seen any negative consequences. And the same with a stack to be run under the Player? (I have Dreamcard; no st

Rev quits on stack removed from memory?

2005-08-02 Thread Charles Hartman
Apple). Would it make more sense for a stack being removed that way to take any of its stacks with it into oblivion? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

when can I set a substack's properties?

2005-08-02 Thread Charles Hartman
true that Rev knows all about it, and properties (custom or built-in) can be set before it's opened? The IDE's own evidence is kind of mixed: the Application Browser knows the substack while it's closed, but the Inspector doesn't. Charles Hartman

Re: global problems

2005-08-02 Thread Charles Hartman
I agree (with everybody), of course. But it is true that until this thread came up I didn't think to look in the Variable Watcher for signs of this. There were a couple of globals that I had declared at an earlier experimental stage of development of this project, still hanging around witho

Re: simple custom property question

2005-08-01 Thread Charles Hartman
One more question (for now!) about this operation: how do I get rid of it? In testing, I've opened the substack half a dozen times -- and there are half a dozen copies of the group in the substack. Obviously I've got to dump 'em somehow (in a script when the stack closes?), but how? They're

Re: simple custom property question

2005-08-01 Thread Charles Hartman
Woops. Now _that's_ embarrassing. Thanks, Brian. Charles On Aug 1, 2005, at 9:08 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: I believe the problem you are having is that you are going to the substack and then using a short reference to the group, which of course does not exist yet in the substack. ___

Re: simple custom property question

2005-08-01 Thread Charles Hartman
OK, I believe you. But I'm missing something really simple about how to do it. (I haven't used this syntax before.) If the group is on one card in my main stack (with its Visible set false), and in the script of a button on the same card I open a substack and try to copy the group to it, I

Re: simple custom property question

2005-08-01 Thread Charles Hartman
On Aug 1, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Ken Ray wrote: I'm curious... why won't "copy group" solve your problem? That's currently the Rev-native way to do this kind of stuff (unless I'm not understanding correctly what you're trying to do). It probably will. It just doesn't feel as tidy as if I cou

Re: simple custom property question

2005-08-01 Thread Charles Hartman
onder if this limitation (if I understand it correctly) gets in anyone else's way? Charles On Aug 1, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 8/1/05 7:44 AM, "Charles Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This has got to be simple, but I'm stuck: how do I get a

simple custom property question

2005-08-01 Thread Charles Hartman
them and I want to automate sending them to a dialog box. Hope the question is coherent. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pr

Re: Help, what am I doing wrong???

2005-07-31 Thread Charles Hartman
In Python, too, you can change the loop variable; but every time execution goes back to the top of the loop, the variable takes on the next value it _would have_ taken, no matter what you've done to it in the meantime. (If I remember right.) Kind of a handy combination -- as long as you rem

Re: Font question, which Courier?

2005-07-31 Thread Charles Hartman
1:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, Thank you. That was very helpful, especially the script. Paul Looney Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/coh

Re: Font question, which Courier?

2005-07-31 Thread Charles Hartman
ed up using an if-block to choose: if "Courier" is among the lines of the fontNames then put "Courier" into tNewMonoFont else put "Courier New" into tNewMonoFont end if . . . set the textFont of someStack to tNewMonoFont . . . Charles Hartman O

Re: Mac->Win revisited

2005-07-28 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jul 28, 2005, at 4:53 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Thomas McGrath III wrote: Pardon me chiming in here. When using things like players and speech etc. it is our responsibility to close them ourselves in our code when and if for any reason our program is to quit. So I would put a piece of

Re: Mac->Win revisited

2005-07-27 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jul 27, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Yes it does work, exactly as I and other Windows users would expect it to work. It closes the app (or window) in whose title bar you are at the time (or which has focus when you do Alt-F4). That's what Windows *always* does. Yes, I unders

Re: Mac->Win revisited

2005-07-27 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jul 27, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: 2. Is there some way to quit the Dreamcard Player in Windows without Ctrl-Alt-Delete? Do I have to build an entire menu system just for that, which I have no use for in the Mac version? Quit the Player itself, or the stack you are curren

Re: bugzilla bug?

2005-07-27 Thread Charles Hartman
Wow, yes, RevZilla is very cool indeed. Thanks! Charles On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:45 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 7/26/05 7:09 PM, "Charles Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anybody else have a problem searching the bugzilla using Safari? Whenever I try I get an error mes

Mac->Win revisited

2005-07-27 Thread Charles Hartman
1. The problem I reported about the disappearing cursor does have a temporary solution, which I got from one of the comments in the Bugzilla report: include in some stack script the lines delete stack "revCursors" reset cursors Presto. And that should suggest a fix for the bug, sho

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-27 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks very much. That isn't what I'm trying to do -- not any more. Originally I did want to do that, so as to line up metrical scansion marks -- rather like diacritics, you're right -- over text. But I didn't know about the formattedWidth property (which turns out to be nifty now that I kn

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-27 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jul 27, 2005, at 1:50 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If you do a search on the mailing list for "cross platform fonts" you'll get tons of hits. Here's Dar's info: http://www.mail-archive.com/use-revolution@lists.runrev.com/ msg26708.html Thanks very much. Since Dar's table shows that even C

bugzilla bug?

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
Does anybody else have a problem searching the bugzilla using Safari? Whenever I try I get an error message saying that "The page you opened redirected you to a page that isn't supported by Safari." It adds, "Safari can't open the page because it cannot redirect to locations starting with

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
No no, you're right, I wasn't thinking clearly. (How novel!) _One_ version of the text-and-marks field, screen-shot and therefore reliable in size, with covering fields tailored to that immutable size. Yes, that ought to work. I'll try it, especially if I can't get the text-size-changing ap

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jul 26, 2005, at 6:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: PROBLEM 1: On WinXP, the cursor disappears whenever I mouse onto a stack. If you could add your comments to the bug report, the team might be able to track it down. I don't think it depends on the stack itself, since those people

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
There's another bug or two (BZ 2138 and another one I can't see right now) that might be what you're seeing. These happen when you run a stack on WinXP by double-clicking on the stack icon. I created BZ 2138 for this problem with the Dreamcard Player - and since I wasn't sure if it was in

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Even if you use Courier New and you find the Win and Mac equivalent textSizes, you'll still encounter the issue of different text origin points in the field on the respective platforms. (By 'origin point' I mean the x:y coordinate within the fi

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
l 26, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Yes. I believe so. It is due to a difference in HIG for the two platforms. Judy On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Charles Hartman wrote: Thanks. Let me just make sure I understand this part. Do you mean that I need to have platform-dependency code in my stack

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
? I'm not using (specifying) anything in the way of icons at all. I do set the background (fill) color of the card differently in different parts of the main stack to keep the user oriented, but that doesn't look like the problem -- the cursor disappears over the _whole_ face of the stack,

Re: Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks. Let me just make sure I understand this part. Do you mean that I need to have platform-dependency code in my stacks, so every time I use "answer" I'd need something like this? if tPlatform is "OSX" then answer "Here's a sample" with "one" or "two" or "three" else answer "Here'

Mac -> Win problems

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
opaque, borderless fields, which are hidden (revealing the mark below) in response to mouse-clicks. But on WinXP, though the font is the same (Courier New), the size is different! So the mark-hiding fields don't cover their marks. Charles Hartman

Re: Another Doc Thought

2005-07-26 Thread Charles Hartman
eal -- it only _looks_ like a big deal and translates into an impression of a confusing interface, even though it's a detail and not a genuine conceptual mystery. Charles Hartman On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But the question here is: Is Rev's UI real

Re: Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

2005-07-25 Thread Charles Hartman
I'm wrong about that. I think it's the IDE that could use more thorough documentation. But then, I'm scraping by without getting Dan Schafer's book, so maybe it's just a complaint for the penurious & the stingy . . . Charles Hartman On Jul 25, 2005, at 7:30 PM

Re: Rant Re Rev Documentation

2005-07-25 Thread Charles Hartman
It's not going to make me any more popular, but I have to say that this seems like an example of the basic problem. It's a pretty glaring bug -- as someone else pointed out, if you make the print dialog available, you probably need to pay attention to what it says. Some of the unicode and o

Re: declaring arrays?

2005-07-23 Thread Charles Hartman
keep staring at it. No spelling erorr, as far as I can see. Thanks. Charles Hartman On Jul 23, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Dennis Brown wrote: Charles, What version of Rev are you running? The ability to see array contents was added in 2.6, but you have to click on it to see the contents in

declaring arrays?

2005-07-23 Thread Charles Hartman
x27;s declared global in those scripts.) Do I need to declare the variable as an array somehow? Is there a way, that I've just plain missed, of initializing a variable at the same time as declaring its scope? Sorry, I'm just getting st

Re: blocking button hilite

2005-07-23 Thread Charles Hartman
Magnifique. Thanks! coh On Jul 23, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Charles, All questions always make sense. Some answers no :-) Le 23 juil. 05 à 15:19, Charles Hartman a écrit : Is there a way to prevent a button from being hilited when clicked? I want to put hilite under

Re: Simulated Mouse Action

2005-07-23 Thread Charles Hartman
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blocking button hilite

2005-07-23 Thread Charles Hartman
ent the hilite from toggling back and forth, and also prevent a "tasks to do" counter from being decremented.) Hope the question makes sense. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Simulated Mouse Action

2005-07-22 Thread Charles Hartman
Cool -- thanks -- but don't you want to call it The Invisible Hand ? Charles Hartman On Jul 22, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Roger Guay wrote: I just uploaded a stack to User Spaces that illustrates how mouse movement and action can be simulated. This may be useful for ex

Re: NPR puzzle

2005-07-20 Thread Charles Hartman
- if I'm *also* getting the arithmetic right -- would mean 64,446,024 ten- letter words to check. Looks like everyone's instinct to go the other way was sound. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conn

Re: Invisible insertion point in field

2005-07-20 Thread Charles Hartman
est: is this in a substack? If yes to both, that's the bug I posted. (Solution found later: pre-hard-wire the default font in the substack.) Charles Hartman On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:05 PM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: After it inserts that link, which is a wing-dings character, it then resets th

Re: Window Positioning Bug? [WORKAROUND]

2005-07-13 Thread Charles Hartman
problem with second displays on Mac. I should mention, my two screens have different resolutions, which is not uncommon. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs.htm

Re: false anti-alarm

2005-07-11 Thread Charles Hartman
ack. The solution is to put into a preOpenStack handler in the MAIN stack a line like this: set the textfont of stack "My Substack" to the effective textfont of stack "My Substack" (It's possible to do this for multiple substacks by building a list of them.) What

Re: false anti-alarm

2005-07-11 Thread Charles Hartman
hout the foolish rigidity) and "specify everything exactly" (which is the Assembler approach-- without libraries!). Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs.htm __

Re: Searchable Database from all mail messages

2005-07-10 Thread Charles Hartman
feature - some other index scheme ... Spotlight. Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman

Re: different UI approach

2005-07-10 Thread Charles Hartman
nciple for Microsoft Word? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: false anti-alarm

2005-07-10 Thread Charles Hartman
wants to poke into a problem that I, for one, am about to give up on -- it's too far inside Rev's guts for me to have any ideas left about fixing or even working around it. coh On Jul 10, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: The idea is to call this handler from an openStack

Re: RR Documentation, mini-bugs, and so on . . .

2005-07-10 Thread Charles Hartman
t I do find the "Topics" section ridiculously slow. I try not to use it unless I'm really stuck. -- especially the "Containers, variables . . ." area, which takes 17 to 25 seconds to load on a 1.5GHz PowerBook -- & everything else stops dead!. (I've filed

false anti-alarm

2005-07-10 Thread Charles Hartman
n the field fails to switch to the new default font. Why would this happen in the substack and not the main stack? Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

Re: fonts one last time

2005-07-09 Thread Charles Hartman
ith it to bloat it so much? Can't be just Unicode, I think -- HTML?) coh On Jul 9, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: [etc] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubsc

Re: Remotes - the new, exciting alternative to Externals.

2005-07-09 Thread Charles Hartman
I for one would _love_ to be able to write externals for Rev in Python (especially Python 2.4), a language I know reasonably well and like very, very much. Charles Hartman On Jul 9, 2005, at 6:51 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Glen Bojsza wrote: This is what I think would make a great Rev

fonts one last time

2005-07-09 Thread Charles Hartman
se has the same combination of problems I've had. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs.htm = on preOpenStack -- could c

Re: fonts & styles

2005-07-08 Thread Charles Hartman
arles Hartman On Jul 8, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Charles Hartman wrote: Let me put it another way. If I want all text in a field that doesn't have a specified font to be in the owner's font -- isn't that the whole idea of inheritance? -- then why should th

Re: fonts & styles

2005-07-08 Thread Charles Hartman
stack that's meant to run on more than one platform, for example? Or to put it yet another way: don't mean to be obstreperous, but how to I work around this "feature"? Charles Hartman On Jul 8, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Charles, Rev has a weird beha

fonts & styles

2005-07-08 Thread Charles Hartman
. I'm not able to think of a way not to call this a serious bug. Is there a workaround?? Am I missing something basic? Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs __

font solution

2005-07-07 Thread Charles Hartman
= 1 to the number of cards set the htmlText of fld f of card c to hold[c] end repeat end changeFieldTextProps ========== Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* i

Re: embedding objects in scrolling fields & adolescents

2005-07-07 Thread Charles Hartman
ng list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College

Re: Setting fonts

2005-07-07 Thread Charles Hartman
o many lines of code. Cool. But (1) what about "special handling" that affects not a whole field but some chunks within the field? And (2) doesn't this approach take an awful lot of (that is, potentially a noticeable amount of) time? Charles Hartman

Setting fonts

2005-07-07 Thread Charles Hartman
etting the style of everything to Plain, changing the font, then reformatting . . . a nightmare. At the moment, nothing better is occurring to me. Charles Hartman On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: Let me clarifiy: a field contains a dozen lines, let's say; the first si

Question on Geometry

2005-07-07 Thread Charles Hartman
bigger, but making the button bigger just looks silly. What am I missing? Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs ___ use-revolution mai

Re: Setting fonts

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Hartman
tting . . . a nightmare. At the moment, nothing better is occurring to me. Charles Hartman On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: Let me clarifiy: a field contains a dozen lines, let's say; the first six and last four have been created using Palatino, with Palatino as the stac

Re: Setting fonts

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Hartman
meanwhile? That don't involve iterating over all lines in all fields on all cards?? Charles Hartman On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:07 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote: 1. Combining a specified font and a "not specified" font: If you have a field with no font specified (use owner's font) and

Setting fonts

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
monospaced lines into separate objects would be quite a mess, especially since they're embedded in scrolling fields, all of which I would then have to turn into scrolling groups instead, on dozens and dozens of cards.) Any guidance welcome. Charles Hartman Professor of English

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
o see another Rev user from Connecticut! Dan Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revol

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
ears of research done on this. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Char

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
I'll love to see it finished too . . . It may be a while; it's got *lots* of finicky little pieces. On Jul 5, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I would love to see your stack when finished. GL Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut Coll

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-05 Thread Charles Hartman
Block that skimming! OK, I know it isn't as simple (or as complicated?) as that . . . I just keep remembering Einstein, Things should be as simple as possible, and no simpler. But I didn't mean to start a UI or HIG thread. Charles Hartman On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:31 AM, Thomas McG

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Charles Hartman
com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/coha

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Charles Hartman
r pieces of the text. Within that framework, I don't see how to do otherwise than the bit whose ugliness you're quite right to point out. Of course the whole framework may be screwy -- but that's a very large question about the design & efficacy of on-screen tutorials. Ch

Re: Embedded objects in fields

2005-07-04 Thread Charles Hartman
moment I'm doing this is a non-scrolling field inside a scrolling group, but aside from being tedious that has other disadvantages, such as the scroll-wheel not working right.) Charles Hartman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revol

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