Re: External newbie question

2010-10-21 Thread François Chaplais
Le 22 oct. 2010 à 00:09, Andre Garzia a écrit : > Bonjour François, > > Je ne parle pas français so I will answer in english :-) > > You can't use Externals with LiveCode for iOS (AKA RevMobile). If you're not > trying to do stuff with iPhone but are actually just trying to use the XCode > that

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread François Chaplais
A very interesting blog post about the Oracle v.s. Google lawsuit (hint: it revolves around Java ownership and its impact on android) http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/08/14/how-oracle-might-kill-googles-android-and-software-patents-all-at-once/ A word of warning: the author is an Apple fanboy an

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread François Chaplais
For your interest, the TUAW blog post some early reactions from developers to the coming of the Mac App store: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/21/developer-reactions-to-the-mac-app-store/ Much shorter, and authored by a pioneer of iPhone jailbreaking (that is, before there was an SDK and an App store

External newbie question

2010-10-21 Thread François Chaplais
I have download the latest (v3?) externals lesson from runrev, and after having installed the iPhone dev toolkit (which included XCode), I have compiled the *solution* provided by runrev (op. sys. was Leopard). Everything worked fine, the stack was launched, but the external could not be called

Re: (no subject)

2010-10-21 Thread François Chaplais
garbage in, garbage out. This mail has gone directly to the Trash. However, I am sure the list mom will be interested by this post. Best François Le 21 oct. 2010 à 22:18, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > What in the world is this? I am afraid to click on a link when there is > absolutely no expla

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread François Chaplais
Not really; there was an update to Java for mac OS 10.6 that was released today or yesterday the link to the french page is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL972?viewlocale=fr_FR Not that I am a java expert, I have never used it to my knowledge. But, well, I do the updating... Best, Fr

Re: Revlets make Safari to crash on Mac OS X 10.6.4!? NO: it's an extensions problem

2010-10-05 Thread François Chaplais
How is adblock supposed to know a revlet is not an ad? The ice is thin between advertisement and information Le 5 oct. 2010 à 21:30, Klaus on-rev a écrit : > Hi Medard, > >> Klaus on-rev wrote: >> >>> you mean you DEactivated AdBlock, right? >> >> first, I deactivated all the extensions >

Re: [OT] The lessons of Ion

2010-09-18 Thread François Chaplais
by curiosity, are you old enough to have lived the times where the controversy in the unix world that was: what is the best editor: vi or ed (hint: at that time, emacs did not exist)? I have, and, as far as I am concerned, I avoid by any means available OSs that make you feel like you are playin

Re: how to totally make Kevin's day

2010-09-09 Thread François Chaplais
Le 9 sept. 2010 à 15:33, Colin Holgate a écrit : > http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html > great! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscr

Mobile rev update

2010-08-30 Thread François Chaplais
Some time ago I complained about not receiving any update to the pre alpha release of rev mobile. Well, I got an update this month (hope there is no NDA on this). Best regards, François ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev

Re: [OT] Dead Video and no keyboard

2010-08-26 Thread François Chaplais
I do not know if this will help you, but last year I had the following problem: my 2007 macBook pro refused to boot, no chime, nothing. I had had read in some mac blogs that my mac was in a series having a defective NVIDIA graphic card. I brought the MBP to my local Apple dealer for repair; the m

Re: The power of despeckle-median filters: Image examples

2010-08-26 Thread François Chaplais
Did you use integer or floating points for this? And I how did you implement convolution (FFT?)? I would like to implement a simple wavelet processing demo on the web using iRev. Very best François Le 26 août 2010 à 12:48, Wilhelm Sanke a écrit : > For those few on the list that are interested i

Re: [OT] Dead video card

2010-08-17 Thread François Chaplais
isn't there a difference between PPC and Intel video cards? Something related to the ordering of bits in the bytes (big Endian v.s. small Endian, or something like that?) Best, François Le 16 août 2010 à 22:08, Jeff Massung a écrit : > No such thing as a "Mac Compatible" video card... or

Re: Regarding Rodeo discussions

2010-07-26 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 juil. 2010 à 22:28, Andre Garzia a écrit : > François, > > I think roadmap messages are sent just to improve list as only enterprise > users gets those notices. > I was talking about links to an a downloadable update. I used to receive those. Best, françois ___

Re: ON TOPIC : A REV QUESTION! :-)

2010-07-26 Thread François Chaplais
great. Never understood the stuff before. This message is now flagged in my mailbox. Le 26 juil. 2010 à 22:22, Andre Garzia a écrit : > :-O > > never used profiles before... cool... > > Thanks for the tip > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > >> >> On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:

Re: Regarding Rodeo discussions

2010-07-26 Thread François Chaplais
are you talking of the *pre-alpha* mobile rev release? Who is fool enough to expect anything more than a promise for this? Well, that's what I took it for. And I paid for it. And, to be very precise, that was a promise by K. Miller himself for future development on mobile platforms (plural). I hav

Re: AW: OT: How to restore a complete HD on Mac?

2010-07-21 Thread François Chaplais
Le 21 juil. 2010 à 11:30, Tiemo Hollmann TB a écrit : > Oh thanks Phil, I could have thought about that, > but coming from windows, sometimes I still think Macs can do "magic things" > without caring about the basic techniques :) > Tiemo > Incidentally, I was playing Diablo II with two deaths in

Re: [OT] Computer History: Apple released Macpaint and Quickdraw sources

2010-07-20 Thread François Chaplais
Birth of the mac as collected by the author of the finder: http://www.folklore.org/index.py lots of fascinating stories about what was in the minds of these people in the process of creating the mac. Best François Le 20 juil. 2010 à 12:35, Malte Pfaff-Brill a écrit : > FYI, > > http://ww

Re: Personal suggestion for fixing the Linux situation

2010-07-18 Thread François Chaplais
Perhaps you you could try my docu stacks, which are atop BVG docu. they are currently on RevOnline: search for "chaplais" in the category "Development". The "initialization" stack fills the target stack with dictionary entries. Then you can save the new "myDict" stack. You can, for instance, look

Re: What about the new language from Apple?

2010-07-06 Thread François Chaplais
a good start is http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/9 If I understand well, its about finer granularity and management of concurrent process. To allow, this, objective-c has be extended with new entities called blocks. Blocks have a very small footprint by comparison to

Re: WWDC Keynote: HTML5 wide open for On-Rev & revServer

2010-06-09 Thread François Chaplais
Jerry et al, you may be interested in this: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/09/exclusive-mdialog-ad-developers-toolkit-for-ios4-and-ipad/ its a toolkit for streaming video to the iPhone/iPad, all in HTML5 Best, François Le 9 juin 2010 à 22:05, Jerry Daniels a écrit : > Robert, > > It's tricky for ME

RevSudio on sale for $50

2010-06-01 Thread François Chaplais
see http://www.themacsale.com/ spread the word! Best, François ___ 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/ma

[OT] revMobile and SDK

2010-05-30 Thread François Chaplais
I have reread my last post and, while I do think what I have said in it, I regret having posted it. there has been enough trolling on this. Very best François ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this ur

Re: revMobile and SDK

2010-05-30 Thread François Chaplais
In France, the Competition council stated that it was illegal for Orange to be the sole distributor of the iPhone. If I recall correctly, the complaint was issued by Bouygues Telecom, whose CEO, incidentally, is a close friend of Nicolas Sarkozy. The consequence was a sharp increase in the overa

Re: HyperCard for the iPad

2010-05-20 Thread François Chaplais
Be fair, these are not *general purpose* interpreters. There are many calculator apps, if you want to go this way. > > On iPhone OS, apparently you're allowed to use runtime-interpreted > instructions only if you name your app "Bento", "Numbers", or "GameSalad". > __

Re: HyperCard for the iPad

2010-05-20 Thread François Chaplais
totally agree. plus: totally fit for the iPhone/iPad. But we may see this someday. See this (sorta funny) blogpost http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/18/when-jobs-says-no-we-hear-maybe-heres-why/ Le 20 mai 2010 à 16:36, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > David Bovill wrote: > >> So perhaps it is worth asking al

Re: Apple: 100 good reasons for revMobile

2010-05-11 Thread François Chaplais
Le 11 mai 2010 à 21:03, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > I will only say as I have before, if someone doesn't like a particular > thread, they don't have to read it. I understand your frustration, but > telling someone to not to post so you don't have to see it is, well... silly. > > Bob > Of course.

Re: Apple: 100 good reasons for revMobile

2010-05-11 Thread François Chaplais
Le 11 mai 2010 à 19:11, Kevin Miller a écrit : > On 11/05/2010 17:57, "Bob Sneidar" wrote: > >> I submitted my 2 cents. Just a note here, it will not serve us well to use >> this as an opportunity to flame Apple or Steve Jobs. Please keep your posts >> civilized and hopeful. > > I certainly wo

Re: How exactly does runrev for ipad/iphone work?

2010-05-06 Thread François Chaplais
Le 6 mai 2010 à 21:20, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > > If you want to publish your source code as prose or poetry in an ebook > there's nothing stopping you. Some reasonably good poems have been written > in xTalk. > good thinking. Raymond Queneau did this before in his cent mille milliards de

Re: How exactly does runrev for ipad/iphone work?

2010-05-06 Thread François Chaplais
Le 6 mai 2010 à 21:06, Randall Reetz a écrit : > This is an interesting Supreme Court subject. I could write a tight case > that shows that code is content. An executable program is first amendment > protected expressive content exactly the same as is expected and enjoyed by a > poet or a pa

Re: RevStore

2010-05-01 Thread François Chaplais
Le 1 mai 2010 à 23:24, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > François Chaplais wrote: > > > What does RunRev do to promote, distribute and sell software that > > has been developed with revolution? I mean the traditional stuff: > > desktop applications. > > The ans

RevStore

2010-05-01 Thread François Chaplais
There has been a number of threads about Apple and revMobile that really tempted be to go trolling and flaming... I have let some time pass, and I think it is time to reverse the question and forget about Steve Jobs. The topic is: one of the reasons of the success of the iPhone is the AppStore.

Re: Bad jokes [was: Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs]

2010-04-23 Thread François Chaplais
This one was from communist Eastern Germany. Do you know why toilet paper is called "Stalin's Revenge" there? because if can't make you heart red, it certainly makes your ass the right color. Le 23 avr. 2010 à 22:20, J. Landman Gay a écrit : > :) Reminds me of an old soviet joke from some year

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-23 Thread François Chaplais
Reminds me of an old IT joke: Today I have manage to emulate a 4 digit calculator on my DEC-Alpha. Tomorrow I will do the reverse. chers, François Le 23 avr. 2010 à 19:12, bar...@libero.it a écrit : > > Nothing is sacred! > You can now run Android and all its programmes on your iPhone!

Re: RunRev and Alcoholics Anonymous.

2010-04-16 Thread François Chaplais
I have CrossOver for Mac, which lies atop of WINE. They have "bottles" which are specially crafted implemented versions of WINE in order to make the software run as well as possible... It took me some time to get the pun, as I have stopped drinking alcohol for quite a few years now. Le 16 avr.

Re: Clang: the thought behind Apple's insistence upon Xcode

2010-04-16 Thread François Chaplais
Le 16 avr. 2010 à 00:02, Douglas a écrit : > Hello François, > The iPad uses an ARM processor, not a G4. typo. I meant A4. Cheers, François ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: Clang: the thought behind Apple's insistence upon Xcode

2010-04-15 Thread François Chaplais
Le 15 avr. 2010 à 21:49, Jerry Daniels a écrit : > Check this one out: > > http://www.brockerhoff.net/bb/viewtopic.php?p=2796#2796 > > I found this to be a nice meta view of Xcode future and why Apple is drawing > the line now. Esoterica is in the post's links. I don't really think this is

Re: What does the 4.0 iPhone SDK mean for revMobile?

2010-04-11 Thread François Chaplais
That's the same SJ who said that the future of the iPhone was in internet "rich" app. He later changed his mind (probably under popular pressure and witnessing what was done on jailbroken iPhones. He may change his mind again. Le 11 avr. 2010 à 10:30, David Bovill a écrit : > Not good - http://b

Re: What does the 4.0 iPhone SDK mean for revMobile?

2010-04-10 Thread François Chaplais
could not this boil down to an small extra number of API that have to be "enforced" in revmobile in order to have proper multitasking? In another post about the new SDK conditions, there was mention of the new compiler structures (blocks) that have been added to implement Grand Central Dispatch

Re: revMobile

2010-04-09 Thread François Chaplais
I have read Gruber's post and (sadly?) it makes sense. Lowest common denominators are things that have almost killed Apple in the past. Just think of the three letter extension for files; the mess that has resulted in the file/creator binding. I have also received a post from Kevin Miller, as I

shell in RevMedia

2010-03-22 Thread François Chaplais
Can someone tell me if the "shell" function is disabled in the revMedia 4? TIA François ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://li

Re: Update to 4.5.0-dp-2

2010-03-11 Thread François Chaplais
are you doing this under a non admin account? Le 11 mars 2010 à 18:10, Michael Robinson a écrit : > Gregory, > I tried to update, but after downloading installing ect. I get the "Failed to > Update" Try again? > > Mike > ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Language comparisons: "Lua" - simpler and faster than RevTalk?

2010-03-10 Thread François Chaplais
Le 10 mars 2010 à 11:04, viktoras d. a écrit : > the sad fact is that many languages out there have a simpler mechanism > (implemented via libraries) to access and manipulate image pixels. RevTalk > does not have such a library and manipulation of image pixels is therefore > unfortunately very

Re: reading and converting web page HTML text

2010-03-06 Thread François Chaplais
Le 6 mars 2010 à 23:01, Mark Stuart a écrit : > Hi all, > I'm reading the HTML text of a web page and parsing it. Some of the text > that I'm parsing contains (") - braces not included. > > What runrev function do I use to convert that HTML text to the double quote > (") character? > There will

Re: RevMobile first impressions?

2010-03-05 Thread François Chaplais
Does it support externals? For instance, did someone succeed in compiling a stack that uses one of runrev's own externals (faceless ones, to begin with)? Bonne soirée de Paris François ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Pl

Re: RevMobile first impressions?

2010-03-05 Thread François Chaplais
Thanks to all (especially Sarah) for sharing your experience. Now I have to convince my wife Cheers, François ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your su

RevMobile first impressions?

2010-03-04 Thread François Chaplais
I received by mail the availability on the pre alpha revmobile release. I still have a week to use a coupon that entitles me 5 years for the price of one (reason is I have done the same for studio). Still, this is 700€, which is a lot considering I probably will never make any money of it. So,

Re: AW: AW: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

2010-03-04 Thread François Chaplais
Le 4 mars 2010 à 18:37, Tiemo Hollmann TB a écrit : > I did not mentioned that we had also some steps in between. > > But many of the per-user licenses can be passed on. > I don't know how Adobe or Microsoft prevent people of passing their user > license to other people. > > Tiemo > Adobe requ

Re: OT: locking software to one specific machine?

2010-03-04 Thread François Chaplais
Le 4 mars 2010 à 15:25, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Hi Peter, > > I use a MAC address for this, sometimes a drive serial number or computer > serial number. This can only work if the configuration of the computer isn't > going to change. In one project, I take the MAC address and check the li

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-02 Thread François Chaplais
Le 2 mars 2010 à 17:56, Andre.Bisseret a écrit : >> I have read this thread on Apple mail, and at some point (pun intended) I >> realized I could zoom and de-zoom the messages by pinching or spreading my >> fingers on the touchpad, from the hardly visible to waaay too enlarged. >> Now, if rev c

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

2010-03-02 Thread François Chaplais
Le 2 mars 2010 à 08:45, G.Wolfgang Gaich a écrit : > Hello all, > > I didn't read all the mails of this thread. > > My suggestion: > > In Ubuntu go to System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts. > Activate Subpixel smoothing and click on details. > There you can adjust the resolution (dpi) to the nee

Re: What are they called?

2010-03-01 Thread François Chaplais
Le 1 mars 2010 à 18:30, Joe Lewis Wilkins a écrit : > Feeling kind of stupid this morning, but I'm trying to tell someone that the > "hints" we get when holding the cursor over a tool should be enlarged - if at > all possible - so that the visually impaired (like me) can read them more > easil

Scientific computation [was Conference-DVDs arrived]

2010-02-27 Thread François Chaplais
lab in favor of revmedia. Unfortunately, I am not geeky enough to do this by myself... cheers François François Chaplais MINES ParisTech Centre Automatique et systèmes Ecole des Mines de Paris http://cas.ensmp.fr/~chaplais/en/ ___ use-revolution

Re: A kind of cooking utensil

2010-02-16 Thread François Chaplais
I have attended a few "académies" in my twenties. These where places where, for a small price, you could make more or less elaborate drawings of a live (and naked, and, mostly, female) model. There was a small heating engine close to the model to help her staying still long enough for the public

Re: survey

2010-02-16 Thread François Chaplais
Le 16 févr. 2010 à 16:36, Mike Kerner a écrit : > Just a note - because I can google it if i really care, but what the hell - > oh sorry - what the bloody hell is a fortnight? > 2 weeks. When I learned this in my native France, it was assumed that "English" meant "UK English". I was introduced

Re: MS Word document export

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
Le 28 janv. 2010 à 22:52, François Chaplais a écrit : > rev online is back. The stack is "Textutil" in the "Text" category. Works > really cool I tested Doc (basic text) and webarchive import. The text is > there. The links in the webarchive are lost, but h**

Re: MS Word document export

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
rev online is back. The stack is "Textutil" in the "Text" category. Works really cool I tested Doc (basic text) and webarchive import. The text is there. The links in the webarchive are lost, but h**l, it's a freebie! Le 28 janv. 2010 à 19:11, stephen barncard a écrit : > The shell is your

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
should require at least a decision of justice with contradictory debate. > Le 28 janv. 2010 à 16:31, François Chaplais a écrit : > >> There have been some attempts at that in France. Until now, they have been >> thwarted by the Constitutional Council who has asserted that

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
There have been some attempts at that in France. Until now, they have been thwarted by the Constitutional Council who has asserted that the right to access the internet is part of the fundamental right to access information and (implicitly) is guaranteed by the constitution. Of course the govern

Re: Geometry manager

2010-01-20 Thread François Chaplais
It's nice to have it for simple stacks. And when it works, don't ever fix it. cheers François Le 20 janv. 2010 à 20:27, J. Landman Gay a écrit : > Is anyone using the geometry manager in commercial stacks? Do you find it > reliable? I confess that I haven't experimented with it much, I've

Re: Uploading data with a revlet (Was: Re: Is it possible to change the revlet embed html?)

2009-12-08 Thread François Chaplais
Le 8 déc. 2009 à 19:51, J. Landman Gay a écrit : > Dom wrote: >> Andre Garzia wrote: >>> if you're storing passwords anywhere in your stack you should password >>> protect them, checkout the password in the dictionary. >> in a stack, OKay... >> but in a revlet? >> I took a glance at a revlet in

[ANN] Dictionary stack 1.8

2009-12-08 Thread François Chaplais
The new version of the two companion Dictionary stacks are now available in Rev Online (search for Francois Chaplais as author, or dictionary as keyword) The "Initialize" stack uses Björnke von Gierke's DocsLib 1.6 to populate the other "MyDict" stack with dictionary entries. Once this is done, y

Re: revlet interferes with Command T, Command N in Safari

2009-12-03 Thread François Chaplais
Le 3 déc. 2009 à 15:51, Thomas McGrath III a écrit : > In Safari I use mostly tabs to navigate thru eight to ten sites throughout > the day. when I am on a tab that has the revlet plugin running (like the > revMedia page at RunRev) I can not use Command T or Command N. I have to > select anoth

Re: QT on Win: possible deal-breaker, need alternative

2009-12-01 Thread François Chaplais
Also, mediarage is in the macbundles http://www.themacbundles.com/ excerpt from the readme file: What's New in 3.0? Release Date 2007-02-12 **This version requires purchase of an upgrade license ($9.95) for previous users of Media Rage or MP3 Rage. New Tools & Apps: - [Feature]

Re: QT on Win: possible deal-breaker, need alternative

2009-12-01 Thread François Chaplais
wouldn't a batch converter do the trick? Is someone familiar with audacity on the list? Will it do it? BTW, people that will not install QT will not, I suspect, install runrev's browser plugin :-( François Le 30 nov. 2009 à 22:03, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > I have a project out to bid which is cu

Re: Interesting blog post - comments anyone?

2009-11-29 Thread François Chaplais
Le 29 nov. 2009 à 21:20, Lynn Fredricks a écrit : >> The idea that the customer services manager of a company >> would enlist that company's own customers in a public debate >> over the merits of that company's product and the rather easy >> to debase claims it made of its product... Well it j

Re: Sarah's cal stack

2009-11-27 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 nov. 2009 à 23:39, Sarah Reichelt a écrit : > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:00 AM, jim sims wrote: >> Can anyone give me the url to DL Sarah's calendar stack? >> >> Seems that troz.net is not working here. > > > I changed the structure when I converted my site to On-Rev, but it all > seems

bad xml files for rev 4.0

2009-11-24 Thread François Chaplais
I have been using BvG's stacks to incorporate into my own dictionary stacks. There are more than a dozen dict xml files with a bad syntax. I have tracked the bug rather deep into BvG docsLib, and it seems that the errors come from the documentation files supplied by runrev. I suspect they invol

Re: Buttons on revlets need "priming" before they work?

2009-11-13 Thread François Chaplais
Le 13 nov. 2009 à 23:17, Dom a écrit : > Bruce Pokras wrote: > >> I am on an iMac running 10.4.11. Has anyone else experienced this >> kind of weirdness? > > Yes. I have a simple demo revlet, which gives the current date upon > clicking a button. Actually it worked as you describe after a li

Re: Pasting formatted text into Rev fields not possible on OS X

2009-11-13 Thread François Chaplais
do you work on Windows? In http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8428, comment 6 says that RTF is not used for pasting in Mac OS X. best François Le 13 nov. 2009 à 08:21, gmccarthy a écrit : > > >> has anyone observed the difference between optical size of of fonts >> bet

Re: Pasting formatted text into Rev fields not possible on OS X

2009-11-12 Thread François Chaplais
Le 12 nov. 2009 à 09:13, gmccarthy a écrit : > > There are now 4 bug reports for more problems associated with rtfText > problems > http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7331 > http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7334 > http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?

Re: Pasting formatted text into Rev fields not possible on OS X

2009-11-11 Thread François Chaplais
>> interesting test here. Did the same copy paste from appleworks (which is >> carbon) into rev studio 3.5 (I will upgrade in a few days ;-)) and it kept >> color, font, style but lost size (which was 48, while the pasted text >> appeared to between 10 or 12 pt)). When setting the size to 48 in

Re: Pasting formatted text into Rev fields not possible on OS X

2009-11-11 Thread François Chaplais
Le 11 nov. 2009 à 17:17, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : > > NOW: I just ran up a styled text document in Ye Olde Appleworks > on my trusty G4 (colours, italics, funny fonts, different sizes) and > copy-pasted it > across to a scrollable text-field in Studio dp-4 and: > > 1. Colours were preserve

Re: Non-Latin Web Addresses Coming Soon

2009-10-30 Thread François Chaplais
Le 30 oct. 2009 à 18:45, stephen barncard a écrit : This could divide the web more than help it IMHO. Also the 'World Wide Web' hasn't been around for 4 decades! wasn't there an issue a few years ago with cyrillic dots used to fake ascii dot for phishing purposes? François __

Re: Revolution Studio 4.0.0-dp-5

2009-10-28 Thread François Chaplais
Le 28 oct. 2009 à 22:59, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : This IS available through 'Check for Updates' even thought Kevin only referred to Enterprise; although whether there is a Linux build of B4 yet I don't know. did you manage to actually do the update? I get the "no such file " error Bes

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-21 Thread François Chaplais
is embedded into some hardware, the hardware may be patended. Is this right? Best regards, François Le 21 oct. 2009 à 21:00, David Bovill a écrit : 2009/10/21 François Chaplais just a remark about all the legal stuff in this thread: assume you have a non totally permissive license

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-21 Thread François Chaplais
just a remark about all the legal stuff in this thread: assume you have a non totally permissive license on your code, and that somebody breaks the license, by, let us say, making a copy of the code and commercially distributing it Now who will flex the muscle to prevent this? Who will pay

Re: Smoothing a curve: bezier curves, b-splines and Alejandro's PenTool Script

2009-10-02 Thread François Chaplais
Le 2 oct. 09 à 19:15, Hugh Senior a écrit : I am also trying to plot a curved line through coordinate points, so a Bezier curve is not an appropriate route as it intentionally misses the coordinate point. Similarly, with potentially big distances between points, how 'smooth' is 'smooth'? A

Re: Smoothing a curve: bezier curves, b-splines and Alejandro's PenTool Script

2009-10-01 Thread François Chaplais
Le 1 oct. 09 à 11:56, David Bovill a écrit : I'm looking for a handler to smooth out rev graphic curves - you fetch the points and you interpolate a vaiable number of in between values. I've lost the script I had to do that, and worse I've forgotten how :) The aim is to create a general h

Re: {OT] I went for awalk this morning.

2009-09-30 Thread François Chaplais
Le 30 sept. 09 à 13:18, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : I was recently in Scotland (attending the RunRev conference) and popped into a house my wife and I own up there: in the attic I was very glad to find my English sliderule (having had to 'do' with a Russian one for the last 4 years) lurkin

Re: {OT] I went for awalk this morning.

2009-09-30 Thread François Chaplais
Le 30 sept. 09 à 10:24, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Before anybody mentions speed; that really doesn't fuss me. ___ most things a computer does can be done with paper and (maybe colored) pencils. In my early years of college, numerical computa

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet.

2009-09-25 Thread François Chaplais
Le 24 sept. 09 à 19:36, Colin Holgate a écrit : On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:19 PM, François Chaplais wrote: My second son (age 18) is a student in graphic communication. He is NOT a programmer. He is naturally aware of Flash and I have bought some books about Flash and ActionScript. The result

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet.

2009-09-24 Thread François Chaplais
Le 24 sept. 09 à 19:00, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Colin Holgate wrote: Ian, Flash text fields can be set to allow selecting and copying, swfs can be published in a search engine friendly way, and it's possible to "deep link" into any part of a Flash application, if that's important to d

Re: Escaping from QT

2009-09-16 Thread François Chaplais
Le 16 sept. 09 à 21:18, stephen barncard a écrit : Animated gifs are terrible for anything with much resolution. 256 colors, indexed. Animated gifs are good for logos and block images but not gradients. And they still stall in Rev if anything else is going on. Compuserve invented and owned

Re: OT: Mac OS X Software Package?

2009-09-11 Thread François Chaplais
Le 11 sept. 09 à 15:08, runrev260...@m-r-d.de a écrit : Hi, i remember a posting here from someone in the past, who informed about a special time limited promotion for several mac os x software packages. Although i had no Mac i visited the vendor site and was impressed about the software t

Re: Quicktime and the Snow Leopard

2009-09-09 Thread François Chaplais
Le 8 sept. 09, à 22:56, Björnke von Gierke a écrit : On 8 Sep 2009, at 17:05, Trevor DeVore wrote: I hope there is more logic in the OS X installer then just "luck" ;-) It would be nice to find out what the determining factor is. I don't have snow leper installed, but I've read the ars tec

Re: Quicktime and the Snow Leopard

2009-09-09 Thread François Chaplais
Le 9 sept. 09, à 11:28, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Inevitably I am going to say what I have been banging on about for quite some time: I believe it is in Runtime Revolution's interests to free themselves from a dependence on Quicktime; preferably "rolling their own" stuff to handle multim

Re: words matter

2009-09-04 Thread François Chaplais
Le 4 sept. 09 à 22:30, Jim Bufalini a écrit : François Chaplais wrote: Is this perfectly rational (revolution-wise of course)? If I do put empty into myText put "aa" into item 1 of myText put "bb" into item 2 of myText answer myText I get (as expected) "aa,bb&qu

words matter

2009-09-04 Thread François Chaplais
Is this perfectly rational (revolution-wise of course)? If I do put empty into myText put "aa" into item 1 of myText put "bb" into item 2 of myText answer myText I get (as expected) "aa,bb" while, if I do put empty into myText put "aa" into word 1 of myText put "bb" into word 2 of myText answ

Re: Snow Leopard

2009-08-29 Thread François Chaplais
Le 29 août 09 à 22:52, Colin Holgate a écrit : On Aug 29, 2009, at 4:26 PM, François Chaplais wrote: Photoshop 7 is a bundle, with "MacOSClassic" and "MacOS" folders in the "Contents" folder of the bundle. so IMHO, the existence of a bundle does not imply co

Re: Snow Leopard

2009-08-29 Thread François Chaplais
Le 29 août 09 à 13:47, Sarah Reichelt a écrit : 2009/8/29 François Chaplais : Correct me if I am wrong, but rev is carbon, and carbon did not make the jump to 64 bits. Moving to 64 bits requires cocoa and hence objective-c. I could be wrong too, but as I understood it, the apps that

Re: Snow Leopard

2009-08-28 Thread François Chaplais
Correct me if I am wrong, but rev is carbon, and carbon did not make the jump to 64 bits. Moving to 64 bits requires cocoa and hence objective-c. There are other vendors in the same situation: Microsoft said they would move Office to cocoa; Adobe did not say anything, although their produ

Re: uploading a test revlet on safari to a web site

2009-08-28 Thread François Chaplais
Le 28 août 09 à 21:53, François Chaplais a écrit : Le 28 août 09 à 19:38, George C Brackett a écrit : Actually, you can embed a revlet in any RapidWeaver page, with other material (text, graphics, etc.) appearing above and below it. All you have to do is enter the embed code, select the

Re: uploading a test revlet on safari to a web site

2009-08-28 Thread François Chaplais
Le 28 août 09 à 19:38, George C Brackett a écrit : Actually, you can embed a revlet in any RapidWeaver page, with other material (text, graphics, etc.) appearing above and below it. All you have to do is enter the embed code, select the code, and choose 'Ignore Formatting'. I may have a

Re: uploading a test revlet on safari to a web site

2009-08-27 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 juil. 09 à 04:13, Sarah Reichelt a écrit : On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:22 PM, wrote: I've successfully created a web application with webmedia. it runs good although I'll have to clean up a few things. The question is, how do I upload the web application from the test mode in safari

Re: Vote to disable password protection for revMedia 4 stacks

2009-08-23 Thread François Chaplais
Le 23 août 09 à 06:34, Sivakatirswami a écrit : capellan wrote: Hi all, This is an enhancement request for revMedia 4. filled in Report # 8234. Given that revMedia 4 will be free, the option to password protect your scripts should be allowed only in Studio and Enterprise versions of Rev, jus

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread François Chaplais
Le 7 août 09 à 22:37, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : François Chaplais wrote: wouldn't it turn cr & cr & cr & cr into cr & cr ? Le 7 août 09 à 20:54, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: put the number of lines of theText int

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread François Chaplais
Le 7 août 09 à 22:45, Mark Schonewille a écrit : What about repeat until cr & cr is not in theText replace (cr & cr) with cr in theText end repeat -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille yes, this does it. cheers François ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread François Chaplais
wouldn't it turn cr & cr & cr & cr into cr & cr ? Le 7 août 09 à 20:54, Peter Brigham MD a écrit : On Aug 7, 2009, at 8:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: put the number of lines of theText into n repeat with i = n down to 2 get line i of theText if it is em

Re: Print to PDF?

2009-08-07 Thread François Chaplais
Le 7 août 09 à 00:40, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, don't you want cups-pdf if its Ubuntu? Its real simple. Just gives you a virtual printer which is a file. Or is there something else? Peter Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: Print to PDF? I think I am re

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