revInitializeVideoGrabber question

In the IDE, if I try the docs example: revInitializeVideoGrabber "QT","100,100,200,200" in the message window, the following error occurs: Message execution error: Error description: send: error in message expression Am I getting ahead of myself? doug _

web cam capture

Just some general questions to the group - I notice that Revolution has video camera capturing features. It seems that this would be hard to implement across platforms, different camera models and different interfaces (USB and Firewire - like iSight). How do people find the robustness and cross-pl

Re: Suppressing a message?

I notice that, but wonder about the timing of how that works. According to the docs, the deleteGraphic message (for example) is sent when a graphic removed from the stack. But when, message-timing-wise, is it removed from the stack? If I say lock messages delete graphic "a" unlock messages Have

Suppressing a message?

I found the messages that take place when images and graphics are deleted: deleteGraphic and deleteImage (of course). I wonder why they don't appear in the Message Watcher window though? Anyway, one question I have it - there are two ways of deleting a message - if I do it manually or if a handler

Re: ANN: Silly Client Demo. (was Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

On 1/30/04 1:32 PM, "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While we were exchanging this emails, I coded an example. It's called > silly client. > > It's available at http://public.soapdog.org/ it's a file called > sillyclient.zip > > it's a simple client. You can log into > http://home.so

Re: ANN: Silly Client Demo. (was Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

On 1/30/04 1:32 PM, "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:47 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> Interesting idea - but this won't help either, for several reasons: >> >> (1) The user can actually use this client to connect

Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

On 1/30/04 12:37 PM, "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:21 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >>> But if the scenario you want it to client click a link to an >>> executable >>> program, and that program to be downloade

Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

On 1/30/04 12:12 PM, "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2004, at 12:57 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> >> I see. Thanks for the explanation. I don't need to run any rev apps >> server >> side. In fact, I would prefer not t

How to detect a selected image or graphic

It's weird. While watching the Message Watcher and selecting a graphic the only message reported is mouseMove. Not mouseDown or mouseUp. Why would that be? doug ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/

How to detect an image or graphic deletion?

When I move an image or graphic, the moveControl message is sent. Similarly, when resizing, the resizeControl message is sent. But when I delete an image or graphic it looks like just rawKeyDown and backSpaceKey messages are sent. Isn't there something like a deleteControl message? Do I just nee

Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

On 1/30/04 11:35 AM, "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2004, at 12:25 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> I'm not sure. What is a revHTTPd server? I have my own server that I >> would >> like to do this via. >> >&g

Re: Opening a Rev app from a browser?

On 1/30/04 11:09 AM, "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2004, at 12:48 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> Any good hints out there about: >> >> 1. Opening a Rev app from a browser (including cross-platform >> issues)... >>

Re: Some strange Rev parsing problem?

On 1/30/04 4:55 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/29/04 6:47 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> I get "Chunk: can't find object" errors if I try: >> >> set the textStyle of word 1 of the last line of field "chatF

Re: Some strange Rev parsing problem?

I didn't try that variation, but good to keep in mind. Thanks, Jan. doug On 1/29/04 11:05 PM, "Jan Schenkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [snip] >> >> I guess the workaround is either to use htm

Re: Some strange Rev parsing problem?

It was definitely not empty. I could do: put word 1 of the last line of field "chatField" into the message box and see it. doug On 1/29/04 9:54 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure the last line is not empty (IOWs, the last char of the field is > a return charac

Re: Some strange Rev parsing problem?

I get "Chunk: can't find object" errors if I try: set the textStyle of word 1 of the last line of field "chatField" to bold But since you said yours worked I tried: set the textStyle of word 1 of line 4 of field "chatField" to bold and that did work. So it seems there is a Rev parsing bug invo

Some strange Rev parsing problem?

It seems you just can't set the textStyle of a single word of a line. But I was able to accomplish what I needed by using HTML and setting the htmlText of the whole line instead. doug ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev

Some strange Rev parsing problem?

Bracketing doesn't help. I've narrowed it down to an even simpler example: set the textStyle of word 1 of the last line of field "chatField" to bold does not work even though set the textStyle of the last line of field "chatField" to bold does work. I think setting a single word chunk's textSt

Some strange Rev parsing problem?

Rev can't seem to find the object referred to in this statement: set the textStyle of word 1 to 2 of the last line of field "chatField" of stack "chat550" to bold But just: word 1 to 2 of the last line of field "chatField" of stack "chat550" displays just fine. Did the complexity of the statem

Re: speeding up interaction during a big loop

On 1/27/04 7:58 AM, "Brian Yennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out "wait ... with messages" to give up processing time inside of > a loop. > Is my interpretation of the following two commands correct? 1. wait for messages Will pause the current handler and wait for messages until the

Re: OT the spirit of Spirit

On 1/27/04 10:27 AM, "Mark Wieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trevor- > > Monday, January 26, 2004, 1:57:40 PM, you wrote: > > TD> The program Maestro which allows you to > TD> see the data that the robots are sending back is written in Java. I > TD> don't know

Re: Sudden slowdown... - solved - but why?

On 1/27/04 10:26 AM, "Alex Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2004, at 6:13 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> I figured out the cause. I had been logging stuff into a field in a >> particular substack and had been saving that substack too. I clear

Re: Sudden slowdown... - solved - but why?

application? doug On 1/27/04 10:07 AM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something has bloated the stack way up. It was like 100K in size this > morning, and now the stack itself is 3.6MB! > > I have been doing experiments with importing large images. But I don&#x

Re: Sudden slowdown...

ved anyway, because the images were in separate stacks that were not main substacks. doug On 1/27/04 9:59 AM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of a sudden my Rev IDE (OS X) with this app I'm making has started > running slowly. Even something simple like typing in

Sudden slowdown...

All of a sudden my Rev IDE (OS X) with this app I'm making has started running slowly. Even something simple like typing in a field, hitting enter and sending the chars in that field to another field have gone from instant to a noticeable pause. I quit Rev and restarted it, and made sure there wer

Re: A cross-platform answer file?

EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Lerner wrote: > >> I wonder why Rev can't allow extension-like filters for OS X though... > > It seems my message from yesterday may not have gotten through: > > > > This is a deficiency in the design of OS X a

speeding up interaction during a big loop

If I am just waiting for a socket read, interaction is fine as long as I use the "with message" form of the read. When there is no socket data coming in all the other events like text input, etc., work just fine. But if I am doing something like a 1MB file transfer over a socket, even if I break u

Re: A cross-platform answer file?

On 1/26/04 7:39 PM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > ... How would one make a cross-platform version of this answer file prompt? >>> >>> on mouseup >>> if the platform = "MacOS" then >>> put "JPEGGIFfPNGf" into filterlist >>> else ##for windows, no i

socket write limits?

Are there limits on how many data can be sent in one write socket command? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: A cross-platform answer file?

On 1/25/04 12:07 AM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Doug > >> In the docs, the example of an answer file for web graphics is: >> >> answer file myPrompt with filter "Web Graphics,*.jpg;*.gif;*.png" > >> But... this doesn't work for OS X, which seems to require a >> concatenation

Question about icons

Is there an easy way to use the icons in the Rev standard toolbar in my stacks. Is that acceptable practice? I notice, for example, that the id of the "line" icon is 200020. But it doesn't show up in the icon library. Do I need to import it or something? Thanks, doug ___

technical question about Rev's base64decode

When base64encode is used, Rev wraps at 72 character lines. I notice if you remove these lines and base64decode you get back the same original results. In other words, the linefeeds are ignored. Looking at the RFC for base 64 encoding, they say that lines should not be more than 76 characters but

Re: image transfer not working again...

eating the image. 4. Finally using "put into" to change the raw contents. That seems to work. For now. Is that what everybody else does when they need to do something like this? doug On 1/26/04 12:58 PM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got it to work at leas

image transfer not working again...

I got it to work at least once last night, and now I am getting scrambled images again. A couple of questions, the answer to which might clear up my problem: 1. I think my problem is that I am sending "the imageData of image myImage", which is the 4-byte-per-pixel visible format of the raw data.

Re: A bit stuck on creating a new image

On 1/26/04 1:42 AM, "Frank Leahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might consider changing your server protocol to not use CRLF as the > delimiter (I'm assuming you wrote the server portion too?). In HTTP > for example, the web server either sends the image size in the http > header, or if that's

Re: A bit stuck on creating a new image

On 1/26/04 12:59 AM, "jbv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Doug, > >> Well, I basically want to avoid sending LF characters along the way, which >> would disrupt my communications system, which depends on LFs to terminate >> the sending of a batch of data. >> >> Except for the line wrap chara

Re: A bit stuck on creating a new image

On 1/26/04 12:16 AM, "Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > >> Whew! It took forever to figure out, but I finally stumbled across the >> right >> combination of image compression, base64 encoding and required >> properties >> that need to be communicated over the socket and it seem

Re: A bit stuck on creating a new image

Whew! It took forever to figure out, but I finally stumbled across the right combination of image compression, base64 encoding and required properties that need to be communicated over the socket and it seems to be working. I was surprised that I was able to get this to work, though, with just the

Re: A bit stuck on creating a new image

I think maybe the problem is that I ought to be sending the actual content of the image and it's paitCompression property instead. I'll try that. doug On 1/25/04 8:19 PM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sending the imageData, height, width and name

Re: A bit stuck on creating a new image

Well, I basically want to avoid sending LF characters along the way, which would disrupt my communications system, which depends on LFs to terminate the sending of a batch of data. Except for the line wrap characters that Rev adds every 72 chars, base64 data is guaranteed not to contain linefeed c

A bit stuck on creating a new image

I am sending the imageData, height, width and name of an imported paint image over a socket. Before sending the data I am using base64encode, and before recreating the image on the other side I am using the base64decode of the data to set the imageData property and also setting the height and widt

Question about imageData and base64encode/decode

If you take the imageData of an image and base64encode it, the data is broken up into 72 character lines. Does this mean that the decoded data must be broken into 72 character lines or it won't decode right? I am doing some sending experiments, but the image that arrives is all corrupted. (I wan

Re: A cross-platform answer file?

On 1/25/04 1:46 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug Lerner wrote: > >> In the docs, the example of an answer file for web graphics is: >> >> answer file myPrompt with filter "Web Graphics,*.jpg;*.gif;*.png" >> >&g

Re: shutDownRequest being called twice

gt; if processingShutDown = false then >answer "Are you sure you want to quit?" with "No" or "Yes" >if it is "Yes" then > put true into processingShutDown > pass shutDownRequest >end if > end if > end shutDownRequest >

Re: stack opening visual effects?

On 1/24/04 11:49 PM, "David Squance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1/24/04 2:49 PM, "David Squance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are there any nice stack opening/closing visual effects available, like zoom in and zoom out? doug >>> >>> Have you looked at "visual eff

shutDownRequest being called twice

I am seeing my "are you sure you want to shut down" twice (the shutDownRequest handler) prompt twice now. I think the reason for this is that I added an insert script for stack "mainstack" into back so I could make use of the mainstack handlers in all the stacks. But the shutDownRequest handler

A cross-platform answer file?

In the docs, the example of an answer file for web graphics is: answer file myPrompt with filter "Web Graphics,*.jpg;*.gif;*.png" But... this doesn't work for OS X, which seems to require a concatenation of 4-character Mac types. What are the types in this case? JPEGGIFFPING? How would one make

A message path question

I have a stack and a substack Stack A (contains a preOpenStack) Stack B (contains a preOpenStack) I have a "pass preOpenStack" as the last line of my preOpenStack handlers. It seems that when I open Stack B that *both* of the preOpenStack handlers run - the one for Stack B and then t

insert script vs start using stack questions

(1) What is the difference between insert script of stack "mainstack" and start using stack "mainstack" ? (2) I added insert script of stack "mainstack" to the preOpenStack handler for a stack. But a handler call in the stack caused an error saying it couldn't find the handler. Shou

insert script question

If I want to make a couple of utility handlers available to all targets everywhere, and if I want to use the "insert script" command to make these scripts available, is it common to stick those scripts in a hidden field somewhere on the mainstack and then invoke the "insert script" command in the o

Re: stack opening visual effects?

On 1/24/04 2:49 PM, "David Squance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are there any nice stack opening/closing visual effects available, like zoom >> in and zoom out? >> >> doug > > Have you looked at "visual effect" in the docs? I thought that was just for card in a stack. doug _

Re: Opening a stack *behind* another stack? (take 2)

On 1/24/04 12:37 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/23/04 7:38 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> That *almost* works. The only problem is that even though I do the lock >> screen before cloning the new stack, the new stack appears for a flicker o

Re: Opening a stack *behind* another stack? (take 2)

I thought the "pop" was doing the refocusing on the original stack. doug On 1/24/04 12:29 PM, "Dale Hartlieb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you do a lock screen, open the new stack, focus ( or select) on the > original stack, then an unlock screen? > > Dale Hartlieb > > __

stack opening visual effects?

Are there any nice stack opening/closing visual effects available, like zoom in and zoom out? doug ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Opening a stack *behind* another stack? (take 2)

That *almost* works. The only problem is that even though I do the lock screen before cloning the new stack, the new stack appears for a flicker of a moment on top anyway anyway. doug On 1/23/04 9:50 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I hit the SEND key prematurely the f

Re: Opening a stack *behind* another stack?

On 1/24/04 1:24 AM, "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I open a stack it always appears at the selected, topmost >> stack. But what if I want to open it up *behind* another >> stack. For example, after opening it up I might want it to >> slide out from behind another stack. > > Check out

Re: Opening a stack *behind* another stack? (take 2)

Thanks. I will take a look at push and pop. The reason I want to do it is for a visual effect. doug On 1/23/04 9:50 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I hit the SEND key prematurely the first time I was replying to > Doug's query... > > sez doug: >> How would I specify

Re: Flatter than I hoped for

On 1/23/04 2:47 PM, "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doug, > >> This is "ok", but I was hoping to be able to do this more >> modularly - keeping all of a particular stack's handlers >> within a substack. But as soon as I needed a depth of more >> than 2 (a substack of a substack) this becam

Question about deleting all the graphics on a card

The following loop: repeat with i = 1 to the number of graphics delete graphic (the short name of graphic i) end repeat doesn't work right because while the loop is running Rev seems to renumber the graphics (hah!) so at some point a "missing object" error will occur. I can run through t

Flatter than I hoped for

I was having so much trouble getting substacks of substacks to work, and the main reason I was doing this was to gain access to the handlers, that I ended up re-arranging all the handlers and putting almost all of them in the mainstack stack script, leaving only specific openStack (and things like

Re: rev unicode still crap?

On 1/23/04 8:05 AM, "Alejandro Tejada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How fast could someone type in > double byte languages? > > 25 or less words per minute? Once you get into it you can type very quickly. I don't have numbers, but when I get into long emails in Japanese I find myself zooming alo

Re: substack question

On 1/22/04 11:52 PM, "Thomas J McGrath III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, with all of these changes you are making to your stacks (ie. > clones, setting mainstack etc.) you should be saving and close and > remove from memory and THEN quit rev and relaunch rev and open your > stack. Doing this

Re: substack question

a palette > in your main stack. it does not have to be a sub of a sub of a sub. it > can just be separate completely from the beginning. > > FWIW > > Tom > > On Jan 22, 2004, at 7:48 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> On 1/22/04 9:26 PM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAI

Re: substack question

On 1/22/04 6:16 PM, "Brian Yennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not quite. You can have as many levels as you want, but the "mainStack" > property must always refer to a stack which is _not_ a substack at the > time, thus the building up instead of down I suggested. I think my > workaround may wor

Re: The clock cursor

> > Regards. > Thierry. > > On Thursday, Jan 22, 2004, at 10:05 Europe/Paris, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> In the OS X IDE the clock cursor suddenly won't go away. I can still >> select >> and browse as needed, so the tools are working, but the cursor is a >&g

Re: substack question

On 1/22/04 6:16 PM, "Brian Yennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not quite. You can have as many levels as you want, but the "mainStack" > property must always refer to a stack which is _not_ a substack at the > time, thus the building up instead of down I suggested. I think my > workaround may wor

Re: substack question

" them all together. It would be nice to have more hierarchical levels though. doug > > It will be simpler to work with - guaranteed and there should be better > performance. > -=- > Xavier Bury > Clearstream Services > TNS N

Re: substack question

On 1/22/04 5:57 PM, "Brian Yennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it _is_ order related, you could always unhitch the middle-level > stack first, and then reconnect all three in reverse order? > > i.e. > > set the mainStack of stack B to empty > set the mainStack of stack C to B > set the mainS

The clock cursor

In the OS X IDE the clock cursor suddenly won't go away. I can still select and browse as needed, so the tools are working, but the cursor is a clock. I realize that if I quit the IDE and restart it would probably reset, but has anybody seen this happen before? doug _

Re: substack question

Logically speaking, A exists when the app opens. B is sometimes created, sometimes not. If B is created, sometimes C is created, sometimes not. C must be a substack of B which is a substack of A. So the order is required. If it is possible. If not I'll need to find some work-around. doug On 1/

Re: substack question

t;>> But for simplicity's sake, make them all one level deep... >>> >>> Shouldn't be hard to test tough... >>> -=- >>> Xavier Bury >>> Clearstream Services >>> TNS NT LAN Server >>>

Re: substack question

ough... > -=- > Xavier Bury > Clearstream Services > TNS NT LAN Server > ext 36465 > Voice: +352 4656 43 6465 > Fax: +352 4656 493 6465 > > > > > Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 22/

substack question

Can a stack not be a substack of another substack? In other words, is the substack hierarchy only a maximum of two deep? doug ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Visible of stack is false - but still visible - why?

Never mind on this for now. The problem was due to a weird thing with duplicate stacks somehow having the same name. I avoided the conflict and the visibility problem went awa. doug On 1/22/04 2:21 PM, "Doug Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can check and uncheck the

Visible of stack is false - but still visible - why?

I can check and uncheck the Visible of a stack, but it remains visible. (Other stacks don't experience this problem.) In the message window I can also do set the visible of stack "thisStack" to true or set the visible of stack "thisStack" to false and when I look at the Visible value in the stac

Re: close stack question

e mainstack of "wc" to "wb" > > Simpler this way > > Tom > > On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:31 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> In the docs it says "The clone command places the name property of the >> newly >> created object in the it variab

close stack question

In the docs it says "The clone command places the name property of the newly created object in the it variable." But if I clone stack "wb" and then log the value of "it", it is stack "Copy of wb" Why isn't it just "Copy of wb" ? I am having trouble setting the name of the new

Linux standalones?

I can't get my Linux standalone to even open up (Redhat 9.0). The app I created works fine in OS X, OS 9 and Windows. Any special Linux issues I should know about? doug ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/l

Re: rev unicode still crap?

No wonder I have been having trouble with all my Japanese field editing attempts! doug On 1/21/04 10:05 PM, "ron barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark > > RR is still not there concerning unicode in general and Japanese in > particular. We are waiting in confidence that Tuviah and others

question about the templateGraphic

Does anybody know exactly what is cleared when the templateGraphic gets reset? In an app I am doing it seems that sometimes "the points" from a previous graphic end up hanging around in subsequent graphics I create. Thanks, doug ___ use-revolution mai

Re: Question about the name of the target for new graphics

On 1/20/04 3:05 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/19/04 11:17 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> So - when does the name set in >> >> new graphic newName >> >> get set so proper logging and verification can be done? Where

Re: Question about the name of the target for new graphics

On 1/20/04 2:09 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/19/04 11:06 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> >> I am creating a graphic with the >> >> new graphic newName >> >> command. >> >> in the newGraphic handler,

Question about the name of the target for new graphics

I am creating a graphic with the new graphic newName command. in the newGraphic handler, if I log "the name of the target" it is the usual "Graphic 1", etc, which I don't expect. However, in the stack inspector the created graphics name is correct. Why doesn't "the name of the target" report

Re: What does the default newGraphic handler do?

On 1/20/04 1:44 AM, "Jan Schenkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know that whether you "pass newGraphic" at the end >> of your own newGraphic >> handler makes a difference sometimes, but does &

Re: Password Field

This is what I am doing, based roughly on advice from other people here in the email list, so I am happy to pass it on! on keyDown theKey if the loginPasswordClear of this stack is not empty then put the loginPasswordClear of this stack into passwordTmp else put "" into passwordTmp e

What does the default newGraphic handler do?

I know that whether you "pass newGraphic" at the end of your own newGraphic handler makes a difference sometimes, but does anybody know exactly what the default newGraphic handler actually does? Thanks, doug ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

templateGraphic opaque property - value not the same in standalone and IDE

I think I have narrowed the problems (or most of them) that I have been having to what appears to be a very basic inconsistency between what happens in the OS X IDE and standalone app. In the IDE, when I draw graphics, the created object's opaque property is true and the fill color is visible. Bu

templateGraphic questions

I thought that the templateGraphic settings got reset after the new graphic was created, but it seems that it sometimes happens even before the new graphic gets created. The following doc section is probably relevant here: "The properties of the templateGraphic are reset to their defaults when al

Re: rectangle of 0,0,0,0 ok?

On 1/19/04 9:05 PM, "Ken Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:00:06 +0900 >> From: Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: rectangle of 0,0,0,0 ok? > >> Well, I am doing a check to see if the cursor is in the ran

Re: Weirdness with global variable declaration

On 1/19/04 7:15 PM, "Wouter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2004, at 05:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:05:58 +0900 >> From: Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Weird

Re: more on no openCard message issue

On 1/19/04 5:46 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1/19/04 1:19 PM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 09:14 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: Weirdness with global variable declaration

On 1/19/04 4:41 PM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 12:11 AM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> If those commands are *outside* of a handler, exactly when do they >> actually >> get executed? > > Those are cal

Re: Weirdness with global variable declaration

> ... > > Then you can access the globals from all the handlers (opencard/closecard) > etc... > > Cheers. > >> From: Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL

Re: Weirdness with global variable declaration

What do you mean by "off by themselves"? doug On 1/19/04 2:47 PM, "Thomas J McGrath III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just declare the globals off by themselves... > > then do your on opencard. > > > On Jan 18, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Doug Lerner wr

Re: more on no openCard message issue

On 1/19/04 2:43 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/18/04 10:14 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> I did a line by line examination of the message watcher as the cloned stack >> opens and is shown. >> >> The preOpenStack message is th

templateGraphic question

The docs say: "The properties of the templateGraphic are reset to their defaults when all running handlers finish executing." It seems, though, that *custom* templateGraphic properties are not deleted after the handlers are finished executing. Is that the experience of other people as well? dou

Re: Weirdness with global variable declaration

gt; wrote: > Have you tried creating the global outside of this handler? > put it by itself before the openCard . > > On Jan 18, 2004, at 9:37 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> In an openCard handler I have: >> >> on openCard >> global debugMode >>

Re: more on no openCard message issue

On 1/19/04 1:19 PM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 09:14 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> In my preOpenStack handler do I have to pass openStack to get the >> messages >> to continue or something like that? >

more on no openCard message issue

I did a line by line examination of the message watcher as the cloned stack opens and is shown. The preOpenStack message is the only message among preOpenStack/openStack/preOpenCard/openCard to get sent. Any idea why that might happen? In my preOpenStack handler do I have to pass openStack to ge

Re: The scope of a global variable

On 1/19/04 12:16 PM, "Scott Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that since globals are indeed global and hang around after use, Rev > provides a delete variable command that allows you to remove variables from > memory. If you are not finding this to be the case, you may not be > declaring y

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