Re: Help. How do you insert a custom icon into your standalone?

2006-12-14 Thread Chipp Walters
On 12/14/06, Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, You might be interested in two links: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/dply002.htm http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Tutorials.htm Ken and Chipp provide there amazing tutorials about how to create and

Re: USB

2006-12-01 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Richard, Scott's right. Chris tells me it is too difficult to create an easy to use USB driver. The reason is the data you receive is binary and there is huge amounts of it. So, for each device, you would need to write your own bit parser and figure out the data stream, effectively doing a

Re: Morfik

2006-12-01 Thread Chipp Walters
Or... putting it another way... You'd think in this day and age, Apple would make Safari a compliant browser, especially since Mozilla Firefox is open source, works on Macs and complies to the latest standards (perhaps it may even be considered the standard at this point). Guess it depends upon

Re: Morfik

2006-12-01 Thread Chipp Walters
Brian, Not necessary to get all worked up. I was just responding to Stephen's comment about not working with Safari. And yes, here at Altuit we do have LOTS OF EXPERIENCE WITH SAFARI and Macs. In fact, too much. Turns out every darn dot release, Apple changes WebKit another bit and throws poor

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
On 11/30/06, Mikey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP As far as Morfik being a startup, and you aren't comfortable with that, and you don't like the license, fine. I understand where you're at. I just don't think your position is typical. Maybe I'm wrong. It wouldn't be the first time. /SNIP

[ANN] Last call for altBrowser, altSQLite and altFont

2006-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
If you haven't updated your externals lately, you might want to quickly grab the latest versions of altSQLite and altBrowser from the Demos as they will cease working after Dec 1.http://www.gadgetplugins.com/altbrowser/MacBrowser2UB.zip Today is the very last day you can purchase altBrowser,

Re: [ANN] Last call for altBrowser, altSQLite and altFont

2006-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
OOPS, our site is locked. Give it 30 minutes and it will be ready. On 11/30/06, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you haven't updated your externals lately, you might want to quickly grab the latest versions of altSQLite and altBrowser from the Demos as they will cease working after

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-11-30 Thread Chipp Walters
BTW, Talking with Chris today, he mentioned he checked a Morfik a bit, and wants to look at it further. He compared it to a web-based version of FileMaker or Access. He said it creates standalone .exe's and ALSO uploads files to existing web servers as well. He thought it was pretty interesting

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3

2006-11-29 Thread Chipp Walters
I think it depends on the industry. The lest tech-savvy a customer is, the less likely a client will want to deploy a solution to that customer that requires downloading anything. Perhaps. I've had pretty good experience showing clients a competitor's web app, then something like i-Tunes.

Re: altFont: Load a font

2006-11-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Adrian, Here's a handler to load a font named fred.ttf located in the default folder. on loadFont pFont if / is not in pFont then -- pFont IS NOT FULL PATHNAME SO MUST CREATE FULLPATH put the defaultFolder into tPath put tPath / pFont into pFont end if -- NOW LOAD THE FONT XLOAD_FONT

Re: Stupid Programming Challenge

2006-11-28 Thread Chipp Walters
My guess is Scott is creating his own custom scroller for groups. On 11/28/06, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think I missed something early on: Since what's being scrolled is a group, what's wrong with just using the group's scrollbars?

Re: ANN: ArchiveSearch 2.20

2006-11-28 Thread Chipp Walters
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Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 2 of 3

2006-11-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Wow! too cool! On 11/28/06, Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at the following URL: http://www.creysoft.com/jscard/stack.php?stack=1 Definitely a Work In Progress, but it fits with Andre's model of translating Rev stacks to web pages.

Re: Revolution and the Web, feedback wanted, Part 1 of 3So

2006-11-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Isn't that what altBrowser does? On 11/28/06, Jerry Muelver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about building an interface to make web things run in Revolution? In other words, don't map group to DIV to make Rev scripts run on the web, but map DIV to group to make web scripts run in Rev. I think if

Re: just a comment

2006-11-27 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi John, Actually the behavior is correct. If you declare a local variable OUTSIDE the other handlers of an object, it will stay persistent and is accessible to all handlers/functions for that object. This has some nifty benefits. It allows you to create persistent variables, which aren't

Re: stack vs. exe behavior in altSplash deployment

2006-11-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Bill, altSplash is an unsupported splash screen architecture I provide for free. It works with the supported (and commercial) MagicCarpet, which is version control for files and works as a plugin within Rev. You can learn about altSplash at:

Re: stack vs. exe behavior in altSplash deployment

2006-11-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Mark, see below for answers: On 11/26/06, Mark Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, a couple of questions -1- Cursor idiosynracies: Rev's built-in cursors aren't available (e.g. instead of hand and busy, I get the hourglass). How do I ensure that cursors port over correctly when a

Re: Rev Help authoring

2006-11-26 Thread Chipp Walters
On 11/25/06, Lynn Fredricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A third party Helper Builder system would be very welcome in RevSelect if someone is interested in developing it. We've got a Rev stack based Help System built within Hemingway, our Content Management System which build websites. Hemingway

Re: [OT?] HTML email is evil - or, why we get so much spam

2006-11-24 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm with Mikey. I finally broke down and forwarded all my email addresses to my Gmail account. Most of you don't know I do this because gmail can be configured for any reply-to address. My [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address has been around for hundreds of years, and is probably on every SPAM list

Re: Where Rev could be going...3D?

2006-11-23 Thread Chipp Walters
JBV, No one ever said being on the improve-list was a function of being qualified. It's a forum where Enterprise users can discuss issues amongst themselves and at times also with Kevin and the programmers. To join it, the prerequisite is an Enterprise user license. Frankly, IMHO, this list is

Re: backupcopying in substackmodifyable standalone

2006-11-18 Thread Chipp Walters
On 11/18/06, Kresten Bjerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The notion that you cant save changes to a standalone, without complicated operations, is wrong. You cant save changes to the mainstack of a standalone, but all the changes you want in its substacks Sorry Kresten, You are mistaken. You

Re: Parser

2006-11-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Mikey, Try Googling: Jeanne Devoto HyperCard You may see she has more to say on the subject than even Danny. At 5:21 PM -0500 11/15/2006, Mikey wrote: Since HT was the original root of this tree, I think it's a little unreasonable to say that it's incorrect or a mistake, unless Bill

Re: OT: www.visualthesaurus.com/ If only we could do this

2006-11-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Dang! You are correct. I've seen something extremely similar done in Flash and just expected it was the same. On 11/15/06, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure about that? The sys reqs say it requires Java and the browser status reports it's loading an applet when starting up.

Re: U3 poll

2006-11-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Richard, In fact, I have built a number of U3 apps and tried posting them to U3's Software Central. Lynn was kind enough to point me to 'the guy' there, but after an initial unsuccessful exchange, repeated attempts to contact him have gone unanswered. That, and a dearth of information on how

Re: Rev_rant part 4

2006-11-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, I respectfully disagree with some of the points made. Dave specifically stated: The problem is that when they read the sales small print (in this case) and see support is not included. I believe he was referring to his company's Enterprise developers and management when he said

Re: Rev_rant part 4

2006-11-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep, Dave seems to confuse the concept of upgrades vs support. He tends to use them interchangeably, when arguably, they are not. On 11/15/06, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose so, but I didn't write about Rev's support. I replied to the comments about upgrade fees:

Re: OT: www.visualthesaurus.com/ If only we could do this

2006-11-15 Thread Chipp Walters
On 11/15/06, Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ Now, that's pretty potent stuff. Is the window that opens up technically a new application or a plug in I suppose you know, it's a Flash swf file. You can create standalone Flash apps as well as embedded

Re: Revolution in Programming for Dummies (was RE: Rev_rant part 4)

2006-11-15 Thread Chipp Walters
On 11/15/06, Kay C Lan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I On 11/15/06, Lynn Fredricks reponded: Aha, that would be telling! ;-) Lynn responded to Sarah with: Its not telling the whole story there :-) Give it a day or two, I'm sure Lynn will point us to the answer over at the rev forums ;-)

Re: External Writing for the Unitiated - Part I

2006-11-15 Thread Chipp Walters
On 11/15/06, Cal Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The minor problem you will have is figuring out the glue code required to stick the two together I'm not so sure how 'minor' that problem is...Have you done it with Rev? ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Dumb File Question

2006-11-13 Thread Chipp Walters
Nice to see you back! :-) On 11/12/06, Scott Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice to be back BTW ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Hacking RR

2006-11-12 Thread Chipp Walters
Mikey, IMO, it's never a good thing to modify any of the IDE code. I have many free (and for sale) plugins for Rev, and none of them ever modify the IDE. You can always use frontscripts and/or backscripts to get just about anything done you wish. best, Chipp On 11/11/06, Mikey [EMAIL

Re: how to place a dialog window

2006-11-10 Thread Chipp Walters
Quick and dirty way: on mouseUp go inv stack answer Dialog set the loc of stack answer Dialog to the screenloc show stack Answer Dialog answer hello end mouseUp On 11/7/06, Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the correct syntax to tell Rev where to place a dialog window?

Altuit sale of altBrowser, altSQLite and altFont to RunRev

2006-11-10 Thread Chipp Walters
Well, most of you probably have already read the latest news, but I thought I could add our take on things. Today we announced the imminent sale of three of our best selling add-ons to Runtime Revolution. The three products are altBrowser, altSQLite, and altFont. All are externals which enhance

Re: how to place a dialog window

2006-11-10 Thread Chipp Walters
OK Wilhelm. How about this then, on mouseUp put the short name of the topStack into tStack go inv stack answer Dialog set the loc of stack answer Dialog to 200,200 show stack Answer Dialog answer Choose a color with red or green or blue set the defaultStack to tStack set the backcolor of fld 1

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Kay, Isn't there a simpler recipe...like open up BBEdit, select text, copy, then paste into fld text? Frankly, I'm not sure I even understand where the bug lies, the failure to copy the text by Rev, or the failure of Automator to put the text on the clipboard in a timely matter? If I were you,

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Kay, Can you paste via the menu? If so, then I imagine there is a problem with the key shortcut, which would be an IDE bug and you could create a frontscript plugin to override (if you really had to have this functionality now). If you cannot paste via the menu, then perhaps you can put in the

Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

2006-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
On 11/9/06, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of clipboards, I'm having some trouble in Windows. I found that if I have something on the clipboard and then I do some other action in the OS -- like launching an application -- the clipboard gets emptied. For example, I had some

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-11-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Luis, Yes, it is obvious you are new here, otherwise you would already know who Jacque is and exactly how MUCH she has given to this community. Besides the best tech support responses, she has also given freely of her time helping on numerous occasions, including organizing, preparing and

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-11-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Wow, so it appears Luis is taking time to admonish Rev Support based on another person's experience, even though his own experience has been documented as more than reasonable (by Rev's standards). I certainly do not intone Luis to be the most decadent newbie, only perhaps an ill-informed one.

Re: Great things about Rev

2006-11-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Nicely worded post Bernard. Sometimes it's easier to criticize than recognize. Good job. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Rev_rant

2006-11-07 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm really not sure what the purpose of your publicized issue is, unless you're just trolling for negative responses. I'd have assumed you have received enough of them by now. AFAIK, and I've been active with RR for many, many years, there are no fewer or greater 'delayed bug fixes' than there

Re: Go Next Card Sluggish in2.7.4?

2006-11-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Sivakatirswami, You might try pre-caching the go next. I typically go to each card on startup (screen locked) to make sure they are all cached. Of course with a very big stack it's not possible, but might be wise to try and think of some sort of intelligent pre-cache. -Chipp

Re: Position of tabs in tabbed button

2006-11-07 Thread Chipp Walters
You can always roll your own as well. ___ 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: cRevTable properties

2006-11-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Yes, there are also other rev props which can be 'cleaned' from a stack with no side-effects. In fact, my altClean plugin regularly saves 50% or more of stacks when I save them. If you haven't yet tried it, put this in the message box: go URL

Re: cRevTable properties

2006-11-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Paul, If you use the Geometry Manager to manage resizing of stacks, then you don't want to delete the cREVGeometry prop set. It is only set if/when you are using Geometry Manager. Sometimes, you may have tried GM and decided not to use it, but the GM prop sets are still there. In those cases

Re: Application suspending after a window closes in 2.7.x

2006-10-31 Thread Chipp Walters
BTW, this one is super easy to replicate: Launch Rev 2.7.x Create a new stack add a button close the stack by clicking the X button upper right in the titlebar Rev asks you if you want to save, say Don't Save Revolution is now suspended and another app comes to the forefront. If anyone has a

Re: Application suspending after a window closes in 2.7.x

2006-10-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Jacque, Hmmm. I'm not sure exactly what 'move as one as if there were a backdrop set' means. Does it mean when you drag one window, all of them move? Or, does it mean they all stay on the same layer? Trevor, offlist, recently filed this bug showing this exact behavior:

Re: Fonts in a Stack

2006-10-31 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Bridger, No, it does NOT install the font permanently, only while the app is open. -Chipp On 11/1/06, Bridger Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, that looks like the exact thing I was looking for. Just a question, does it actually install the font? I don't mind it if does I guess, but

Re: Rules governing stack purging

2006-10-31 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm going to have to agree with Dave and Trevor. I've always thought destroyStack comes into play only when closing stacks. If set to true, the stack is purged from memory (usually). I pretty much always use an explicit 'delete stack xyz' when I want to make sure a mainstack is closed. And like

Re: Rules governing stack purging

2006-10-30 Thread Chipp Walters
Just to second what Dave says. For many of my apps where I 'load a document', I 'go' the stack, copy the necessary data from it, then 'delete stack xyz' in order to permanently remove it from memory. I don't like leaving inv data stacks in memory for a number of reasons: 1) larger memory

2.7+ and backdrops?

2006-10-30 Thread Chipp Walters
Anyone know why backdrops no longer hide the taskbar in 2.7+ on Win XP? Is there a particular reason for the change? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Application suspending after a window closes in 2.7.x

2006-10-30 Thread Chipp Walters
I seem to remember a thread somewhere regarding this subject, but can't find it. Was it Trevor who was noticing that frequently in XP when a window closes, the application is suspended and another window is brought to the front? This happens religiously on a couple of my apps and is disconcerting

Re: [ANN] F-ab 2.0 released and available for download

2006-10-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Jiro, You application looks very nice! I'll be sure and check it out. -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Resizable stack with a custom shape (was: Re: Transparent stacks...)

2006-10-23 Thread Chipp Walters
Another way to consider doing this is to turn OFF the windowShape property while resizing, then after resizing is finished, calculate a new windowshape and apply it at that time. A lot of pain to go through. Or perhaps tunring OFF liveResizing and then 'snapping to' a size to a predetermined

Re: Resizable stack with a custom shape (was: Re: Transparent stacks...)

2006-10-23 Thread Chipp Walters
Bill, In the past, I have turned off decorations and created my own window moving and resizing handlers-- of course optimizing for speed. This approach still forces square corners, but with some creative interface design, it can look pretty nice. For instance:

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-20 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm not ready to jump on Bill, for IMO, there is some value to what he has to say. Here are some simple facts. To my knowledge, many of the professional developers making a living scripting, are not doing it in Rev 2.7.x-- yet. I know I'm not. The script editor, for the way I program, is just

Re: Open Letter to Rev: Quality Is Job #1

2006-10-20 Thread Chipp Walters
As a fellow Windows user, I thought I might lend some insight into some of the issues. On 10/20/06, Bill Marriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - The installer introduced in 2.7 is horrible. It installs desktop shortcuts that point nowhere. The file associations are busted. It doesn't perform

Re: slightly OT - differencing and version control

2006-10-13 Thread Chipp Walters
Chris, We have a version of altSubversion (the altuit external for the opensource subversion document/code management software) lying around somewhere. It's super easy to script and takes a lot of the work out of having to manage files (like MGC has to do). Try contacting chris at Altuit and I

Re: Resizestack: sending and passing problem

2006-10-12 Thread Chipp Walters
David, Try this: set the width of this stack to 300 send resizeStack to this stack You need to 'send' the message for it to work. that will do the necessary resizing for you. Another VERY helpful tip on WinXP is to right-click the desktop choose properties to show the Display Properties panel,

Re: HTML detection

2006-10-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Bill, That wouldn't work as there are more than one p in a field with multiple cr's. JBV, I think I would need more information about what you're trying to do. If you're talking about strict HTML, then of course as previously mentioned, checking for html in the string should work. If you're

Re: Text Drop Shadows

2006-10-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi David, I've found the best way is to create an image from your text-- black on white, then gaussian blur it using a Sanke library call (I actually use my own but Wilhelm figured out how to do convolution matrix math even faster), then set it as an alpha channel for a solid colored image

Re: [OT] - REALBasic Claims 100K Users

2006-10-04 Thread Chipp Walters
On 10/4/06, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heck, if we're just counting total downloads since the product was launched then WebMerge has about half a million users. :) And if we're counting hits to our website (www.buttongadget.com), then ButtonGadget has over 1 million users. Damn,

Re: Major apps developed with Revolution? (on Mac OS X)

2006-10-03 Thread Chipp Walters
We're putting the final touches on ThoughtOffice which is the 3rd generation of IdeaFisher. It will run on both Mac and PC. It's in beta testing now...http://www.thoughtoffice.com/ The 2nd generation toolkit was called eXpertSystem and can be found at www.richcontent.com. In both cases, the

Re: Major apps developed with Revolution? (on Mac OS X)

2006-10-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Oh, and we did recently finish a project for an unamed client who shipped over 45,000 pieces on first release. As soon as we can mention it, we will create a case study. Chris did most of the programming-- I just contributed a bit on the printing end of things. It turned out really nice as a RAD

Re: A couple of Windows questions

2006-10-01 Thread Chipp Walters
On 10/1/06, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. How can I make sure that the i-beam cursor is visible in a text field? I am tweaking a windows version of a Mac app, and sometimes the i-beam is there and sometimes it isn't. I compared the fields in question and they seem identical -

Re: GIF format is going to be free

2006-09-29 Thread Chipp Walters
I think GIF export has been in Rev for sometime now. GIF import has always worked (to my knowledge). best, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: [OT] Re: Filthy Apples

2006-09-28 Thread Chipp Walters
How ironic. Greenpeace targets Apple because it knows Apple's consumers are most influenced by these sort of issues. Frankly, I'd be VERY surprised if Dell, HP and the rest aren't as bad or worse than Apple. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

2006-09-27 Thread Chipp Walters
And besides, isn't SQLite already embedded into OS X in CoreData? Might be an idea to latch onto that. Yes, SQLite is embedded into OSX, but there's not a ready connector for Rev to access it. We (Altuit) makes such a connector, complete with embedded database, and Ruslan is correct, it sells

Re: Cold Panic

2006-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Why not just: put URL (file: mfile) into fld code ?? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: about Galaxy

2006-09-25 Thread Chipp Walters
On 9/25/06, Jerry Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see no reason to discriminate against Altuit Software just because it's developed it on Windows and I use a Mac and Windows! Maybe I should. Chipp brings up an excellent point. I think we should consider it. GRIN Ouch. What a hurtful thing

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Congratulations RR on the latest release! I also say a hearty Thanks for your responsiveness to the needs of the user community. I know folks like Richard and I have pressed for the hoverIcon feature, and others for proportional resizing. Great stuff! Keep up the good work! (Now if we can just

Re: Package for Windows -- Best Practice

2006-09-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Both Install Creator and InstallGadget ship with uninstallers. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: about Galaxy

2006-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
I respectfully disagree with your respectful disagreement. Here's my 2 cents, for whatever it's worth. In order for Rev to succeed, it needs to have a decent out of the box user experience. Look what happened to MetaCard which never had one. Besides, asking that a script editor be at least as

Re: Package for Windows -- Best Practice

2006-09-24 Thread Chipp Walters
Sivakatirswami, Yes, create a new folder, put the DLL and EXE there and then launch the EXE to make sure it runs. Then zip it. Once you have the folder you may want to try Monte Goulding's InstallGadget (built in Rev) to build an installer for it.

Re: RFID

2006-09-21 Thread Chipp Walters
Check with Dar. I think he has done extensive work there with Revolution. On 9/22/06, Sarah Reichelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Has anyone done any work with RFID tags: programming them, reading them etc. We want to set up inventory control for a product we make and it sounds like RFID

Re: Kill a Standalone

2006-09-21 Thread Chipp Walters
in the card script of your main stack: on closeStackRequest quitMe end closeStackRequest on quitMe if the environment is development then close this stack else quit end if end quitMe ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: zero-width column boundaries?

2006-09-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Welcome to the 'roll you own table object' class. Please be seated. Today we will be talking about multiple fields inside a group which is made to look like a single field. Your homework assignment is... ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Loading a Standalone before Windows

2006-09-20 Thread Chipp Walters
On 9/20/06, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe Chipp's engineer can chime in for guidance. His name is Chris Bohnert, and it appears his chime is working! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Show Group fails in standalone

2006-09-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Perhaps your script is throwing an error BEFORE it gets to the show group command. Try commenting everything out but the show group and see if that works. If so, then backtrack from there. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-18 Thread Chipp Walters
We recently did a V2 for both ButtonGadget and eXpertSystem. While in both cases, the interfaces changed drastically, the underlying code didn't change that much. I remember something Mark Weider pointed us to a year or so ago. It said something about resisting the impulse to wipe it clean and

Re: Re: Is it possible to limit text input in a field based upon its height?

2006-09-18 Thread Chipp Walters
I hate using monospace fonts...they're so...ugly...and non-standard. I would suggest looking at Sean's approach on paste. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep. LogMeIn is free. :-) On 9/17/06, Richard Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chipp, Is there a reason you don't use GoToMyPC.com. I've found it to work perfectly on numerous PC's I control remotely. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: OT: (semi) Solving Issues On Windows

2006-09-17 Thread Chipp Walters
Dan, You might want to reread your previous post. Saying Windows remains an iffy platform for the relianble deployment of rich media apps is a fairly ridiculous statement. There are plenty of 'Rich Media Apps' built and running for Windows including those built by Apple Computer. I know you

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-16 Thread Chipp Walters
On 9/15/06, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but... they're *not* rdp replacements, for the reasons I've already mentioned. They're great at what they do, and the vnc protocol is completely cross-platform, but they don't allow for remote logins without running into the mousewar

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded -- vs. XP Media

2006-09-15 Thread Chipp Walters
AFAIK, nothing is special regarding robustness. On 9/14/06, Erik Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything special about XP Media? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: [ANN][EN][FR] New tutorial from So Smart Software

2006-09-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Eric, Thanks for the tutorial, and glad to hear you're still among the living Missed ya. -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: OT: (semi) Solving Issues On Windows

2006-09-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Sivikatirswami, You know, the problem may not be Windows, but Apple's implementation of Quicktime on PC's. Chris has mentioned to me there is a very large memory leak in Safari that Apple has known about for a long time, but is reticent to fix (something about how Objective-C multi-threads yada

Re: Folder permissions question

2006-09-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Shari, do you only have this problem on Macs? Or is it on PC's too? I have a nifty file unlock routine for Windows if you need it. -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

2006-09-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Josh, I'm with you on the overdoing the handler thing. I've tried writing code where no handlers/functions are more than a dozen lines long, and while it is an interesting excercise...it's a real pain to debug, not to mention to go back and try and figure out what the heck you meant to do 6

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-13 Thread Chipp Walters
There should not be any robustness issues whatsover between XP home and Pro. Regarding your question, the answer is 'NO', unless you need to access multiple networked workgroups from your kiosk (I suggest not), you are fine with Win XP home. In fact, I use WinXP home both at home and at work--

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-13 Thread Chipp Walters
On 9/13/06, Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the thing about Windows that I never could understand. Can you imagine how users would revolt if Apple came out with 'Mac OS Tiger Lite? I can't imagine Mac users ever revolting. Especially seeing where they have to pay for a new

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-13 Thread Chipp Walters
This is one feature where Mac has it all over PC's--all the crap that gets installed with each new PC is mostly just garbage. Some people reformat and reinstall from the included recovery disks sans garbage-ware. I don't. I typically get rid of Norton or McAffee anti-virus, scanning,

Re: XP Home vs. Pro vs. Embedded

2006-09-13 Thread Chipp Walters
Well, if the program is Sound Jukebox or AOL, and I know it's not part of what I would typically use, then I delete it. If it's NVidia Drivers or Sony Video Shared Libary (and I'm on a Sony machine), then I'll keep it. If I don't know, I'll either keep it or Google it to find out if it's really

Re: translating a color name to RGB triplet

2006-09-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Ken, I took care to notice that gem of scripting the first time you mentioned it. It also has the benefit of being able to reconcile new colornames (if Rev ever adds them). -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: closeField

2006-09-09 Thread Chipp Walters
On 9/9/06, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're still using the + symbol? What's this + symbol thing and how does it relate to Revolution? I don't think I'm using it properly. Am I missing something? Thank God for this list, without I'd surely be lost!

Re: Animated GIF Problem

2006-09-08 Thread Chipp Walters
On 9/8/06, John Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott, I am using Photoshop to create a web animation. Does ImageReady have features beyond Photoshop? I believe what Scott means is that Photoshop by itself cannot save a file in the animated GIF format. That is what ImageReady does. You can

Re: eye-candy GUI design

2006-09-05 Thread Chipp Walters
On 9/5/06, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ slap forehead ] It just dawned on me where your UI color scheme came from. :-) And you always thought I was ONLY ripping YOU off. See, I'm an equal opportunity interface ripper-offer!! ___

Re: Get Poser 5 Free During Labor Day Weekend

2006-09-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Though the downloads limits have been reached, they've told me the download would be available (if you purchased it..for $0) forever. So, then, no problem. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: eye-candy GUI design

2006-09-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Also, Check out MODO's interface. It's really IMO the best of breed interface for 3D apps out there at this moment. Many of the 3D applications create a single interface to work across multiple platforms. Some of them do a better job than others, but none the less, they are all interesting...to

Re: Call for Media Viewer Test: Windows Users Especially

2006-09-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Crashed on my WinXP machine. Started loading, then started playing a bit, then Rev crashed. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

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