Re: Gradient GUI tool?

2008-10-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Richard, FWIW, I'd rather the team focus on getting a decent table object put together. If I need gradients for buttons, I'll use ButtonGadget, Photoshop or other tool of choice. I've never even seen a gradient used in a field, and can't envision a case where I'd want such a thing. I

Re: persistent objects in runrev (howto)

2008-10-15 Thread Chipp Walters
H. Seems like a simple enough function/command to write? And it should execute very fast as well. I imagine a library with a set of functions to do this may be helpful for some. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Re-2: persistent objects in runrev (howto) + Q: unprotected stacks in standalones

2008-10-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Franz, The format has changed, and to my knowlege there is not decompile stack or script available for it. Sorry. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: OT: new macbooks, no firewire

2008-10-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Hey Andre, Yep, checked out the various blogsone of the most amazing design flaws I saw was the continuation of the very crisp edge on the front of the laptop. Just Google Mac wrist and you'll see it's been a very consistent theme regarding poor design. Back a hundred years ago when I

Re: Rev 3.0 crashing on OS X too (as well as Vista and Linux)

2008-10-14 Thread Chipp Walters
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:31 PM, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I'm really starting to think it's hardware. He's crashing at random times, nothing really reproducible, while performing common tasks others do all the time without issues. And if he can't create a reliable recipe

Re: persistent objects in runrev (howto)

2008-10-13 Thread Chipp Walters
Ken, The way I read it-- it's the old suckUp spitOut trick but encrypting the stack beforehand. The idea being it's not necessary to password protect the stack as anyone trying to read the file format won't be able to make sense of it. Therefore, after 'spitting out' you can use it just like any

Re: Problem running Revolution Player.exe and Rev Stack on Vista/Dell

2008-10-13 Thread Chipp Walters
Sounds like a botched file association. I assume your stack has a .rev extension? If not, make it so. If it still doesn't work, then consider re-installing the player. Hopefully it will automatically set up the file association. If not, then perhaps there's a bug in the player, or an already

Re: Sticking an image to the cursor

2008-10-12 Thread Chipp Walters
And if you want to do it outside a mouseDown, then replace mouseDown with mouseEnter... local lCurrentPieceDragged on mouseEnter if the short name of the target containspuzzlePiece then put the target into lCurrentPieceDragged end if if lCurrentPieceDragged is not empty and the

Re: Sticking an image to the cursor

2008-10-12 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Bernd, Your stack looks great and works with the exception if you start moving the pink square over the yellow square, it drops the pink square and picks up the yellow square. So, just change in the mouseEnter, the first line to now read: if the short name of the target containspuzzlePiece

Re: Sticking an image to the cursor

2008-10-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Colin, It's generally not a good idea to use the on idle message. Like mouseStillDown, it doesn't do a decent job of sharing processor time with other running applications-- and tends to max processor usage. It's there mostly for backwards compatibility with HC. I sort of wish they would just

Re: Table inspector from 4W

2008-10-11 Thread Chipp Walters
altFldHeader is still with the other altPlugins at: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altPluginCover/About.htm I really need to update that website so it's easier to navigate and find stuff. I also released a new version of altXray-- beta. This one adds the ability to show 'separator' comments

Re: iPhone again

2008-10-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Here's a good example of what I mean. http://almerica.blogspot.com/2008/09/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html This guy wrote a podcaster app, which can grab podcasts over the internet directly to the iPhone. This is something many users would like to be able to do. It's not as bandwidth

Re: Sticking an image to the cursor

2008-10-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Bernd, It generally the accepted convention to do the following: local lMouseIsDown on mouseDown put true into lMouseIsDown end mouseDown on mouseMove x,y if lMouseIsDown is true then -- DO YOUR STUFF HERE set the loc of img myCursore to x,y end if end mouseMove on

Re: iPhone again

2008-10-10 Thread Chipp Walters
Sorry to disagree with you Sarah, but that just is not the case. There are a number of apps which have been rejected for various reasons with extremely lame excuses. John Gruber, a very PRO-APPLE guy, has an interesting write-up on the situation.

Re: Totally OT - I need some heads up (and a hug or two)

2008-10-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Malte, Perhaps a good cry helps-- and as Scott recommends-- a couple days off. You're such a super guy and have helped many here in the past. I'm glad to help in anyway possible. My thoughts are with you. best, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Scrolling stack windows?

2008-10-08 Thread Chipp Walters
copy button 1 to group 1 It works. On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:08 AM, John Tregea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or is there a way of cloning into a group the way I can copy into a card? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: [ANN] Site Update - Tactile Media

2008-10-08 Thread Chipp Walters
Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... I have to agree with Shao Sean, obviously. Also, I must say that in my personal opinion making an incidental slightly off-topic announcement isn't as bad as posting an entire newsletter on a regular basis to this list. Years ago, before you

Re: List of all possible messages?

2008-10-08 Thread Chipp Walters
I think he was looking for messages, not the entire dictionary. As such, I'd recommend Chris Sheffield's approach, just open the Dictionary and you can find them there. On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put the commandNames cr the functionNames cr the

Re: Sending an e-mail without a dedicated e-mail client

2008-10-08 Thread Chipp Walters
Charles, I have a test SMTP stack based on Shao Sean's SMTP library which simplifies things quite a bit. It only allows the sending of text emails, it's called altEmailHarness and you can check it out at: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Downloads.htm best, Chipp

Re: Sending an e-mail without a dedicated e-mail client

2008-10-08 Thread Chipp Walters
sounds like just what I need. Thanks again! Chipp Walters wrote: Charles, I have a test SMTP stack based on Shao Sean's SMTP library which simplifies things quite a bit. It only allows the sending of text emails, it's called altEmailHarness and you can check it out at: http

Re: [ANN] Site Update - Tactile Media

2008-10-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Shao Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree with the posting that Mark made a few weeks back about not spamming the list with non-Rev related postings, So much for friendly correspondence on this list. ;-) BTW, If you take another look, you'll find some excellent FREE Rev demo stacks and

Re: more rev 3.0 woes - losing the will to live

2008-10-06 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks Joe, A most welcome point. I'm using Rev 3.0 on Vista and XP for some mission critical applications, and have not found any significant problems. I agree a title like this one can put others off. Bernard, I suspect your save issue has to do with some plugin doing an auto-save. I've

Re: 3.0 for Linux is 8% slower than 2.6.1 ?

2008-10-06 Thread Chipp Walters
Bernard, Regarding your test stack. (Bottom of message is your test script) I'm not sure what the 'send in time' helps test? I think it better to just repeat your test as many times as you wish and not use 'send in time'. It adds another variable to the process. I can see where this test can be

Re: Mac vs. Windows

2008-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Ben, Dave, Thanks for the help. Clear now :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Mac vs. Windows

2008-10-04 Thread Chipp Walters
I use the @ sign all the time when accessing ftp on Windows XP and Vista. I'm not sure what your problem is. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Standalone Saving Woes

2008-10-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Not that this is an answer to your question, but why are you creating so many standalones? I typically create a single standalone for all of my in-development projects, which acts as a splash stack and auto-updater for my main stacks which are essentially the bulk of the programming (plus any

Re: Re-2: I cannot paste in any field in an app (consisting of up to 7 stacks)

2008-10-01 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm on WinXP and I have no problem cutting and pasting text on your demo stack using Rev 3.0. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Re-4: I cannot paste in any field in an app (consisting of up to 7 stacks)

2008-10-01 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm using the IDE. I cannot debug the standalone. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: 2.6.1 build Help needed

2008-09-30 Thread Chipp Walters
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Mac Classic is pretty much for macho collectors, but one can still run 7.6.1 and use a SE 30 as an SMTP serverha ha Hey Stephen, I still have an old Powerbook 140, which was w/out a doubt my favorite computer of

Re: get the icon found in address bar in browser

2008-09-29 Thread Chipp Walters
Tom, Don't know if this will help... but you could capture the icon using import (or export) snapshot, then, if you needed it to have a transparency channel, you could knock out the background using the scripts in altMakeTransparent stack at: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Downloads.htm

Re: Visible and extra monitors.

2008-09-29 Thread Chipp Walters
Dude, Just use my function posted last week: function isStackCurrentlyVisibleOnAnyMonitor pStack -- pStack IS THE SHORT NAME OF STACK if pStack is among the lines of windows() then if not the vis of stack pStack then return false if the blendlevel of stack pStack = 100 then return false

Re: revBrowser snapshot not working in 3.0

2008-09-29 Thread Chipp Walters
I can't remember, but I think you need to make sure and match the image size with the imagedata. I'm not in front of Rev at this moment. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Reloading a changed stack file

2008-09-28 Thread Chipp Walters
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Len Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is how to I get rid of this in-memory copy and replace it with the new version (assuming that I had to download a new version)? Is it as simple as: if tVersionUpdated then stop using tCurrentStack end if

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Dick, I assume you benchmarked your function to see if it's faster. I'm not a big fan of huge nested if then loops, as I find them more difficult to debug-- and I generally think they are slower. I suppose yours is offset by the single exit point. But, my gut would tell me my function would run

Re: Object Reference in Variable?

2008-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Eric, This reminds me of another interesting shortcut for use with send to.. send findCenterPoint quote 20,40,100,200 quote to the current card calls from the current card the findCenterPoint handler. But I'm not a big fan of the quotes and sytax. I typically use: put 20,40,100,200 into

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Certainly! On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Chipp, mind if we add it? With credit, of course. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
I agree. If it's not useful, then let's not include it. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bonsoir à tous, I would not like to be considered as the ugly duckling but ;-) Chipp, Richard and all: Would you use (e.g. have a need for) such a function in your

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Dick, Nice find. For some reason I didn't get your email, but I do see it in Andre's response... HMMM. function isStackCurrentlyVisibleOnAnyMonitor pStack -- pStack IS THE SHORT NAME OF STACK set wholematches to true if pStack is among the lines of windows() then if the blendlevel of stack

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Devin, Yes, you are correct. Here's the latest: function isStackCurrentlyVisibleOnAnyMonitor pStack -- pStack IS THE SHORT NAME OF STACK if pStack is among the lines of windows() then if not the vis of stack pStack then return false if the blendlevel of stack pStack = 100 then return

Re: Req: spinning progress indicator a la OS X

2008-09-25 Thread Chipp Walters
http://ajaxload.info/ ___ 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: Stopping A Stack From Starting Up in the IDE

2008-09-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Just a follow-up note on this problem with Larry's crashing stack. It turns out locking messages still didn't prevent a crash on any version of Rev I have. So I had to get a bit more sneaky and access the stack's contents BEFORE opening it. Turns out there were a number of issues with the stack:

Re: Stopping A Stack From Starting Up in the IDE

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Larry Forsgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be very pleased if this was added fast since I have a stack which crashes the engine immediately when opened and this could be a way to open and correct that stack. Just create a blank stack and insert the

Re: Stopping A Stack From Starting Up in the IDE

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Here's the script for the button: on mouseUp answer file if the result is cancel or it is empty then exit to top lock messages go URL it unlock messages end mouseUp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Stopping A Stack From Starting Up in the IDE

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Larry, You can send me the stack and I'll take a peek at it for you. -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if MyStack is among the lines of windows() then Huh? I get nothing with that function. Is it one of your custom functions? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
OOPS, I do get something, but it's not documented in HELP. Thanks for this little jewel :-) On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if MyStack is among the lines of windows() then Huh

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Mikey, Here's a function which might do what you want..course then it might not either ;-) function isStackCurrentlyVisibleOnMainMonitor pStack -- pStack IS THE SHORT NAME OF STACK set wholematches to true if pStack is among the lines of windows() then if the topLeft of stack

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
This one's better as it checks all the monitor screens (and has the blendlevel fix) function isStackCurrentlyVisibleOnAnyMonitor pStack -- pStack IS THE SHORT NAME OF STACK set wholematches to true if pStack is among the lines of windows() then if the blendlever of stack pStack =

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Typo.. blendlevel is spelled with an 'L' at the end. function isStackCurrentlyVisibleOnAnyMonitor pStack -- pStack IS THE SHORT NAME OF STACK set wholematches to true if pStack is among the lines of windows() then if the blendlevel of stack pStack = 100 then return false repeat

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Hmmm. You wrote: All stacks are included regardless of their visibility. Is that true? If so, then my function needs to include the line: if not the vis of stack pStack then return false I've included it below. function isStackCurrentlyVisibleOnAnyMonitor pStack -- pStack IS THE SHORT NAME OF

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Dangit, didn't get the L again..Sorry for the multiple posts . function isStackCurrentlyVisibleOnAnyMonitor pStack -- pStack IS THE SHORT NAME OF STACK set wholematches to true if pStack is among the lines of windows() then if not the vis of stack pStack then return false if the

Re: the visible of a stack

2008-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Andre, Intersect only works with objects, and AFAIK there's no 'screen' object. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Stopping A Stack From Starting Up in the IDE

2008-09-23 Thread Chipp Walters
create a button: on mouseUp lock messages go stack C:/test.rev unlock messages end mouseUp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Stopping A Stack From Starting Up in the IDE

2008-09-23 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Eric, I've had mixed results with pushing that button in past Rev versions, as sometimes parts of the IDE quit working even after messages are turned back on. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Control X in Windows XP

2008-09-23 Thread Chipp Walters
The platform for WinXP is Win32 ___ 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: OK, Really strange Mystery

2008-09-23 Thread Chipp Walters
Joe, Try to find out the filepath of the original stack. For instance, put it at C:/test.rev, then open it in the Windows player and ask the message box: put the filename of the topstack See if they are the same. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Stopping A Stack From Starting Up in the IDE

2008-09-23 Thread Chipp Walters
The same thing can be accomplished in a simple plugin. No need to add more obscurity to the interface. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Mark Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore, it would be nice to be able to do the same in RunRev, to not execute the preOpenStack and/or the openStack

Re: [ANN] Layer Tools plugin (beta)

2008-09-23 Thread Chipp Walters
What does the error say when it stops?Perhaps you can try putting before that line: put tStackName so we can see what stack name is being used... On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:40 PM, william humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: When I choose pallete toggle it stops at *set* the

Re: User Guide definitions combine to produce a splitting headache

2008-09-22 Thread Chipp Walters
I sure wish they would allow network aware annotations on those help files. There are many times a quick note or example would make something much clearer. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Placing and removing Groups with 3.0

2008-09-22 Thread Chipp Walters
Joe, check out my recent announcment about altGroupManager. It should do what you want. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

[ANN] Group Manager plugin (beta)

2008-09-22 Thread Chipp Walters
This is a rework of an older plugin with new interface and removal of frontscripts. Some other GUI features have been added such as auto-hiliting and scrolling of the Groups List. It only does one thing, but it does it well. It allows you to see all the groups which exist in a stack, and whether

Re: [ANN] Group Manager plugin (beta)

2008-09-22 Thread Chipp Walters
OOPS. Try: go to URL(http://www.gadgetplugins.com/altplugins/altGroupMgr.rev;) On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Says no such card when pasted into msg box. Joe Wilkins ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: [ANN] Layer Tools plugin (beta)

2008-09-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Updated to fix a field scrolling problem and minor other tweaks. Never found the problem on the Mac william described. If anyone else gets a chance, please test on Mac and let me know. to access: Just type into your msg box (or cut and paste) then run: go URL

Re: [ANN] Layer Tools plugin (beta)

2008-09-19 Thread Chipp Walters
One other thing...LayerTools also allows you to edit the properties of any selected control, or select any control and edit it's properties by just alt-clicking (option-clicking for Macs) on the control in the list. This is very handy when trying to edit properties of a group inside a group.

Re: [ANN] Layer Tools plugin (beta)

2008-09-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks Stephen, glad you like it. Hit the update button for new (and currently often) updates. You can now also shift-click to edit the script of a selected object...plus you can select a highly nested group or control, and copy/paste as well! I always had a problem trying to access the script of

Re: Group Conundrum Take 2 (Ignore first post)

2008-09-18 Thread Chipp Walters
Well, I figured it out..and boy is it simple.. When relayering a control, you first should find out if it is contained within a group. If so then start editing the group. Identify the control you wanted to move then simply: get the layer of tControlID set the layer of tControlID to it + 1 (moves

[ANN] Layer Tools plugin (beta)

2008-09-18 Thread Chipp Walters
Just finished a nifty little plugin which some of you may like. It allows you to quickly and easily relayer groups and individual controls on the current card of the topStack. One of the things I like most about it, is it respects group hierarchy, so you can't inadvertently move a control from one

Re: [ANN] Layer Tools plugin (beta)

2008-09-18 Thread Chipp Walters
Oh, one other thing I really like about this plugin. It uses ZERO front or back scripts. You do need to click on the stack to 'refresh' it but you don't need to worry about any scripts getting in the way anywhere. -C On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just

Re: [ANN] Layer Tools plugin (beta)

2008-09-18 Thread Chipp Walters
I'll check it out on my Mac. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:16 AM, william humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Then RunRev crashes. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM, william humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mac OS I get *set* the priv_ResizeControlList of stack tStackName totControlList a

Re: [ANN] Layer Tools plugin (beta)

2008-09-18 Thread Chipp Walters
William, It runs fine on my Rev 3.0 Mac Leopard installation. Can you tell me what version of Rev you're using? -C ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Group conundrum?

2008-09-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Here's my control outlilne: Layer | Control -- 1 group food 2 group meat 3 button chicken 4 button beef 5 button fred 6 group fruit 7 button apple 8

Re: Group conundrum?

2008-09-17 Thread Chipp Walters
OOPS, acidently hit the Send button. Please ignore previous post... Here's my control outlilne: Layer | Control -- 1 group food 2 group meat 3 button chicken 4 button beef 5 button fred 6

Re: Group conundrum?

2008-09-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Is there anyway to get it to look like: Layer | Control -- 1 group food 2 group meat 3 button chicken 4 button beef 5 group fruit 6 button apple 7 button

Group Conundrum Take 2 (Ignore first post)

2008-09-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Here's my control outlilne: Layer | Control -- 1 group food 2 group meat 3 button chicken 4 button beef 5 button fred 6 group fruit 7 button apple 8

Re: Group Conundrum Take 2 (Ignore first post)

2008-09-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks Terry and Jim, Turns out there's not an easy fix. I'm building a Layer management tool and I want to be able to manipulate layers inside groups and groups inside groups while maintaining the group boundaries. Currently, Rev's IDE can't do this. In fact, in Rev's IDE you can't relayer

Anyone know how to read Palm pdb dbs?

2008-09-16 Thread Chipp Walters
My Dad's Treo died and there's no way to get sync it with his computer. I was able to get his contacts off of it onto a SD card, but I don't have anyway of moving it out of the native pdb format spec. Turns out there's binary data mixed in with the rest (pictures for contacts)-- which I don't

Re: Anyone know how to read Palm pdb dbs?

2008-09-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks Jim. That's the thread I found, but I couldn't find any link to a stack file. Much appreciated. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Anyone know how to read Palm pdb dbs?

2008-09-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Stephen, Thanks, but that doesn't look like it will read from a contacts database-- unless you know something I don't? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Anyone know how to read Palm pdb dbs?

2008-09-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks all for your help! I ended up stripping the binary data and just working with the text format. best, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Getting filename of launcher app?

2008-09-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Devin, Check 'the address' property. ___ 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: Rev 3.0 problems

2008-09-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Peter, You might want to try a nifty tool I've worked on to help make 3.0's script editor work better for me. altXray is a plugin for Rev 3.0. It works best with altPlugin Toolbar. http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altPluginCover/About.htm It helps Rev in a number of ways: Outside Script

Re: Invisible volume slider on audio player

2008-09-12 Thread Chipp Walters
I tried with a .wav and it works fine for me. I don't know how it will work on Linux without QT.If QT is available on WinXP, RR will use it. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Zipping an application package by script

2008-09-12 Thread Chipp Walters
Looks good Ken. Thanks! On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: function altGoodMacSystemForUnzip ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Mirye Monthly Release: Mirye RevCamp Issue 809

2008-09-11 Thread Chipp Walters
We Rev'ers should be so lucky to have to have this discussion. Sheesh. Really-- how many commercial 3rd party add-ons are really available for Rev? As one who actually did the math, I can tell you building 3rd party products for Rev provides little in the way of a 'real' revenue return--and

Re: Printing dilemma

2008-09-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Joe, Check out the print into pagerect command. It can print images at higher than screen resolution to your printer. HTH, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Invisible volume slider on audio player

2008-09-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Do you have QuickTime installed? I am on XP and Rev 3.0 and don't see the problem--but then again I'm using QT. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Zipping an application package by script

2008-09-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Coming late to this party..but thought I'd throw this in and see if anyone needs them...Thanks probably go to Sarah and perhaps Ken, too. Sorry I sometimes forget who helps :-( I don't have an altZip routine for Mac but I imagine one could be created using ditto as well? on altUnZip

Re: Zipping an application package by script

2008-09-11 Thread Chipp Walters
OOPS, the previous routines depended on Altuit's revZipper.dll for windows. This one works with Rev's versions. I still use the altUnzip one above for Mac. This is a more dedicated one, but I'm sure the necessary bits can be used. Sorry if this has already been handled. on UnzipWxPythonZip put

Re: is there a shell command on windows to unzip a file?

2008-09-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Not that I'm aware of. See my reply on Steve's thread for unzipping using Rev's own zip.dll. On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Josh Mellicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a shell command built into windows (without installing anything extra) to unzip a file?

Re: Stack opens behind Windows desktop

2008-09-08 Thread Chipp Walters
Jacque, Are you minimizing it with it's decorations set to empty? I think I remember the same issue and I always set the decorations to default, then minimized, then trapped the message when maximizing and reset them to empty. You might try it. ___

[ANN] beta release of altXray plugin for Rev 3.0

2008-09-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Just want to share a tool I've worked on to help make 3.0's script editor work better for me. altXray is a plugin for Rev 3.0. It works best with altPlugin Toolbar. http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altPluginCover/About.htm It helps Rev in a number of ways: Outside Script Editor - Shows the

Re: put visible watermark onto a jpg with rev ?

2008-09-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Sure, Just overlay your PNG (w/Alpha) watermark, then export snapshot as a JPEG. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Detecting a grabEnter?

2008-09-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Yeah, like Scott, I use mouseMove a bunch in many of my programs and have not seen any appreciable delay. It's important not to use on mouseStillDown. Just check a thread here just a week or so ago went into great detail about it and the problems it can create.

Re: Custom colored scrollbars for fields BETA

2008-08-27 Thread Chipp Walters
The latest beta version of the custom scroller (vertical and horizontal) now supports realtime resizing of fields. You can still option to turn off the realtime resizing until after the stack is resized. You can try it out by: Type into msg box: go URL

Re: EeePC follow-up: working with Rev

2008-08-26 Thread Chipp Walters
I've got the 701 which is the first version with the very small screen. I don't do any Rev stuff on it, but I still use it a lot. Generally, I like to read my email, talk on Skype, check my RSS feeds and do Google Docs stuff on it. It works well with GoogleGears and is perfect for working on

Re: [WAAAY OT] Help - name needed

2008-08-26 Thread Chipp Walters
http://www.blamepro.com/bang_about.htm ___ 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: AW: bad print quality of a resized image

2008-08-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Great, You're PDF and Reports libraries are a welcome and solid addition to the community. best, Chipp On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chipp, For Quartam Reports 1.2 I'm looking at various enhancements to images, and the script I shared earlier

Re: AW: bad print quality of a resized image

2008-08-21 Thread Chipp Walters
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevertheless I hope that this will not be necessary anymore with Rev 3.x. I'm sure this will still be necessary with Rev 3. I often end up printing a very large hi-rez image into a small rect on a printer page. It works very

Re: [ANN] [EN] [FR] Tutorial #27 by So Smart Software: How to select objects using a selection rectangle built on-the-fly

2008-08-13 Thread Chipp Walters
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, mouseMove could certainly be used to achieve the same goal. Certainly. Please understand this in no way meant as any attack on your fine tutorial! There is much to glean from how you have constructed

Re: Slightly OT - finding time

2008-08-13 Thread Chipp Walters
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Bob Earp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS, what's happened to Dan these days? Hi Bob, Thanks for the thanks ;-) Dan is really busy working on a huge web project on the west coast. He and Tuviah's kid brother have been building a new object-oriented paradigm(?) for

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