Re: [OT} is WebP going anywhere, and if it is how will LiveCode cope with it?

WepP doesn't really offer anything over JPEG, I honestly can't see any reason for it to take off. File sizes can be slightly smaller, but it has the same bit depth, *smaller* pixel dimension limits, doesn't appear to include a progressive download spec like JPEG, doesn't include an alpha layer

Re: iPad's competitor from RIM

On 28 Sep 2010, at 23:21, viktoras d. wrote: > IPad soon will have a serious competitor - PlayBook from producers of > Blackbery: > http://na.blackberry.com/ 'Soon' being March next year, and nobody appears to have seen an actual physical device yet, outside Blackberry - the video of the inter

Re: The currently playing track & revMobile

Neat idea. After a quick bit of searching, this was added to the SDK with OS3 - so it's possible, but I've no idea if it's possible with Rev. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/741847/iphone-sdk-accessing-current-song-information-through-an-app Ian On 23 Sep 2010, at 19:30, Terry Vogelaar wrot

Re: Colors in LiveCode

On 21 Sep 2010, at 10:33, René Micout wrote: > All this is still annoying, almost every new version of Revolution (Pardon > LiveCode) is the same thing ... On the other hand, some of us have been waiting *five years* for ICC profile support in Rev/LiveCode, because it's not possible to do prop

Re: [OT] Dead video card

On 17 Aug 2010, at 18:42, Bob Sneidar wrote: > In fact, this was the reason that emulators like Virtual PC could never > attain the performance on graphics intensive tasks that people needed. > EVERYTHING graphics had to go through a translator. Nowadays, a lot of > emulated tasks can access t

Re: [OT] Dead video card

On 16 Aug 2010, at 21:08, Jeff Massung wrote: > No such thing as a "Mac Compatible" video card... or a "PC Compatible" one > for that matter. That's just a matter of branding. Like Bob says, this is not true. Mac and Windows versions of the same graphics card models have different firmware. Appa

Re: Rodeo: 1st naive question.

On 26 Jul 2010, at 10:22, Richmond wrote: > Ahah; what I don't understand is why RunRev don't seem to have a problem > about something that could be seen as a direct competitor advertising on > their use-list: Probably because it's powered by On-Rev/revServer under the hood... ;-) Ian_

Re: OT: Rodeo and media

The red rings look like Mouseposé which is mostly designed for screencasts, tutorials and presentations. It's separate from whatever software was used to capture the screen video. You can also set up Mouseposé to show keystrokes on screen. http://www.boinx.com/mousepose Ian On 25 Jul 2010, a

Re: New Window App allows programming for iPhone!

It's been around since November at least, but information about it is *very* sparse. I'd be wary, myself. Ian On 7 Jul 2010, at 15:38, charles61 wrote: > > I just came across a link to a new Windows program, DragonFireSDK, that > allows Windows users to program for the iPhone without using Ap

Re: File browser extension

I thought Rev used the UNIX-style '/' delimiter for all internal paths, regardless of platform? Ian On 22 Jun 2010, at 01:24, Bob Sneidar wrote: set the itemdelimiter to "/" -- for macs. use \ for windows paths ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Checkbox script

at 15:06, charles61 wrote: Ian, Thanks for your suggestion! How do I set up a script to add to a string when the script resides in each checkbox? Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Ian Wood-3 [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: You're only putting one term i

Re: Checkbox script

You're only putting one term into the field. Try getting the text of the field and adding it to your string before setting the text of the field. Ian On 19 Jun 2010, at 14:18, charles61 wrote: Unfortunately, this script does not put "Egg Allergy" followed by "Fish Allergy" into field "di

Re: Is there hope for RevMobile on iPad after all???

I just spotted it myself, but given the need for written acceptance from Apple and their previous response to Runrev I'd be doubtful. Looks like it's more for scripting engines in games. Ian On 11 Jun 2010, at 19:47, Jim Lyons wrote: John Gruber just linked to this: http://www.appleoutside

Re: Scale9

That's certainly something I'd consider purchasing if it was available. Ian On 10 Jun 2010, at 14:13, Richard Gaskin wrote: > If Chipp's tool doesn't do everything you need you may find it worth the time > to roll your own. And you could sell it through RevSelect to recoup some of > the cost

Re: RevSudio on sale for $50

On 2 Jun 2010, at 15:22, Mark Swindell wrote: Is this Rev 4? What is the difference between the free RevMedia version and this one if one is just developing private stacks for a classroom? Apart from the ability to build standalones, revMedia doesn't include database access, externals o

Re: revServer ?

As far as I remember, revServer is the name for the planned version of On-Rev that can be installed on your own server. In other words, not a shipping product at this time. Ian On 2 Jun 2010, at 10:47, Kee Nethery wrote: > Took the survey and saw mention of revServer. Not something I am fam

Re: revMobile and SDK

On 30 May 2010, at 07:37, Mark Smith wrote: I have a question for the group. I've been reading about the recent changes to the Apple SDK for the last couple of hours (here and on Appleinsider) and one thing I don't understand is how Apple can actually do this? Is it only for products that

Re: OT: Panorama of my local iPad queue

On 28 May 2010, at 22:21, J. Landman Gay wrote: Ian Wood wrote: I've had similar thoughts but simply haven't had time to see if externals can be used with Revlets. I can save you some time. They can't. Ta. I still have a few uses for Franklin 3D & panoramas up my sle

Re: OT: Panorama of my local iPad queue

On 28 May 2010, at 19:03, Colin Holgate wrote: The shockwave version doesn't use QuickTime, but then it does have hardware 3D as a feature. Which is a *big* thing when it comes to panorama players. I suppose you could do the same thing in Rev using the Franklin 3D add-on. I've had simil

Re: OT: Panorama of my local iPad queue

On 28 May 2010, at 17:16, Colin Holgate wrote: On May 28, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Ian Wood wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianjameswood/4647100478/ Is that Zaphod Beeblelbrox in the gray hoodie? No, just a stitching error. ;-) Like I said, it's the 'rough' version. On

OT: Panorama of my local iPad queue

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianjameswood/4647100478/ It's a bit rough around the edges as it was stitched while I waited in the queue. Now on with some On-Rev iPad webapp stuff... Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

On 27 May 2010, at 13:57, Richard Gaskin wrote: But I don't know of a way to even emulate closures in RevTalk (though it might be handy at times if we could). The Engine Change Log included with the install covers changes back to v3.0, and I don't see anything there like this. Can you re

Re: Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

n 27 May 2010, at 13:34, Ian Wood wrote: I remember that one of the recent(ish) versions of Runrev introduced handlers that sit inside handlers and can only be called from within that handler, but what's the proper name so that I can look up how to use them?

Brainfade time - what's the proper name for a 'local' handler?

I remember that one of the recent(ish) versions of Runrev introduced handlers that sit inside handlers and can only be called from within that handler, but what's the proper name so that I can look up how to use them? Thanks in advance, Ian ___ u

Re: Apad - The Andriod iPad

Note that the battery capacity is only 1600mAh so battery life won't be too amazing with the 7" screen. At least it has non-iPad app icons over the familiar background, unlike the 8" model which just has the standard iPad home screen comped in on the rendered images. ;-) http://www.euogo.

OT: article about a mobile app success story

http://blog.iteleportmobile.com/quality-over-quantity-how-we-built-iteleport Even though it's in iPhone/iPad-specific app, I thought this made interesting reading - they bucked the trend for really cheap mobile apps by charging $25 and it seems to be paying off for them. Ian ___

Re: HyperCard for the iPad

On 20 May 2010, at 22:02, Richard Gaskin wrote: The night is young. :) Definitely. Interesting times ahead. :-) Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subs

Re: HyperCard for the iPad

On 20 May 2010, at 18:08, Richard Gaskin wrote: Blowing off the other 83.9% of the mobile market (Apple says they have only 16.1%) just to appease His Steveness would have been suicidal, so if that was the intent we can all be glad the proposal was rejected. 16% of the market that make u

Re: HyperCard for the iPad

On 20 May 2010, at 16:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: I believe Apple would allow a HyperCard-like app for the iPhone/ iPad only if they could have complete assurances it would be available EXCLUSIVELY for iPhone OS. Kevin offered to do exactly that, and was still refused.

revMobile on Slashdot

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/05/17/1849215/iPhone-SDK-Agreement-Shuts-Out-HyperCard-Clone The usual signal-to-noise ratio for /. though... Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

revIgniter chat tutorial

I've just worked my way through the chat tutorial, very handy as one of my main uses is going to be pulling and pushing info to a DB! Notes for anyone on the list following the tutorial: - Make sure to replace all the EOT characters with spaces when copying text from the web page (as others h

Re: revigniter - Model-View-Controller in Rev terms?

Thanks Sarah, Ralf & Jeff, I've read through the MVC pages in the revIgniter docs again and it's making more sense. I can see that it'll be enormously powerful when understood. Watch this space. ;-) Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revoluti

revigniter - Model-View-Controller in Rev terms?

I'm investigating Ralf's revIgniter framework (fantastic work, by the way), and start running into my 'narrow' experience of programming... Model-View-Controller is a programming approach that is new to me. Separating presentation & data (as in most CMS-driven websites) is another matter.

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement

Presumably Jerry is asleep at the moment but from what I've read and watched... Rodeo is written in Rev and creates *online* HTML webapps, hosted on On-Rev. Xcode is not involved in the end-user's workflow at all*. The 'originally written in' clause is irrelevant because all that ends up

Re: Android Culture

On 13 May 2010, at 08:29, jim sims wrote: Being ignorant of Android behavior and where they can be found, would someone please tell me where I might find great places to see apps for them? Is the an Android-like iTunes store? Are there famous Android download sites? http://www.android.co

Re: On-Rev question - can you 'upload' to other web services?

Andre & Michael, Thanks a lot, those two pointers should get me far enough to do a few tests. Ta, Ian On 12 May 2010, at 16:01, Michael Kann wrote: Ian, a guy has written a framework to do it in PHP. Scroll down about 7/10 of the way to see where he writes about "uploading images." You

On-Rev question - can you 'upload' to other web services?

I'm researching some web gallery stuff powered by On-Rev, but would like the ability to add images hosted on On-Rev to Flickr via their API. Is it possible to do things like FTP *from* the On-Rev server? Thanks, Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list u

Re: [OT] Licensing question

Did he buy an upgrade or a full install? If he just has an upgrade then it's s definite no-no. Ian On 12 May 2010, at 12:47, Richmond Mathewson wrote: A friend of mine has just gone and bought a Windows 7 install disk and is busy installing it on his expensive, bells-n-whistles PC. He wants

Re: [OT] InfoWorld's Peace Plan for Apple vs Adobe

Unfortunately step 1 in their peace plan shows a frightening lack of technical knowledge, and the other points aren't much better. :-( VP6 and Spark would both have to be decoded on the CPU, leading to *exactly* the kind of battery draining performance that Jobs complained about. h264 plays

Re: Check out Jerry's new videos -- REV to ObjC -> iPhone

On 9 May 2010, at 14:05, René Micout wrote: 3.3.1 ... Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited. Again - that is the OLD version of 3.3.1. The new one is much more restrictive. Ian P.S. http://daringfir

Re: Check out Jerry's new videos

On 8 May 2010, at 21:28, Michael Kann wrote: Randall Reetz: What I have always wanted is a browser that goes way beyond "view source", allowing instead an "edit mode" that allows direct manipulation of page elements in vitro. Your wish is my command: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Re: Check out Jerry's new videos

It's pure coincidence, I'd been thinking earlier this week that Rev would be perfect for generating HTML5 stuff online/on-the-fly, but without having the required amount of web knowledge. I'll be watching with interest, and it's sparked off a few ideas for 'intelligent' photo galleries...

On-Rev v. revBrowser v. revWeb etc. (was: Check out Jerry's new videos)

On 8 May 2010, at 10:30, Peter Alcibiades wrote: OK, just to be clear, is this how it is? -- If you have subscribed to the on-rev hosting service, you can then write and host pages on it, using any text editor, which will allow any web browser to run your web apps, but only (at least at t

Re: Check out Jerry's new videos

On 8 May 2010, at 02:21, Colin Holgate wrote: people like me who want to do iPad apps will realize that your tool won't work offline, and so won't be interested. That depends on how Rodeoapps sets up the pages - the HTML5 spec allows for data to be stored locally on the browsing device via

Re: Check out Jerry's new videos

On 8 May 2010, at 00:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Of course they thought of this. Yes, we *know* that Apple thought of it - it's one of the recommended methods for creating iPhone/iPad content, with tons of documentation on Apple's developer site and with specific tools in Xcode. Plus Ph

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

On 8 May 2010, at 00:12, Bob Sneidar wrote: The vast majority of ANY kind of video these days is flash or windows media. quicktime is small potatoes. Please don't make the standard mistake of thinking in terms of Flash v. h264. The vast majority of video is h264-encoded, whether that file

Re: Programming on iPad

On 5 May 2010, at 23:57, René Micout wrote: Not if it is develop with Objective C (or C++)... If it actually *runs* anything in the dev environment then it falls foul of the 'no interpreted code' clause no matter what is was written in, but then so do most of the games on the store. Ian

Re: OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition

On 3 May 2010, at 06:47, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Why don't you ask the guys at adobe if their content is really aware. So your only response to someone taking the time to go through your email in a serious manner and discuss the topics included is to take a pot-shot and not respond to an

OT?: AI, learning networks and pattern recognition (was: Apples actual response to the Flash issue)

Now we're getting somewhere that actually has some vague relevance to the list. On 2 May 2010, at 22:39, Randall Reetz wrote: I had assumed your questions were rhetorical. If I ask the same questions multiple times you can be sure that they're not rhetorical. When I say that software h

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

On 2 May 2010, at 21:24, Randall Reetz wrote: Now at cafe and ready to respond to substantive questions and comments. So what's stopping you? Why not start with explaining why facial recognition is the only revolution in photo programs in two decades? Ian

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

On 2 May 2010, at 20:13, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: So, how about some content? A substantive rebuttal? Putting your ideas out there for all to see? How about replying to direct questions asked of you, for instance why facial recognition is revolutionary but content-aware fill isn't? Or

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

On 2 May 2010, at 12:16, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Are you kidding? No. These are revisionist applications exactly as I have noted. Again, I have no idea what you are talking about. The only revolution in photo programs in the last 20 years is face recognition. Why is facial recognit

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

On 2 May 2010, at 12:06, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: Revolutionary? A supercomputer that has been trained to know where to paste a postal code? Doing alan turing proud! Please explain your comment. It makes no sense. :-( Ian ___ use-revolution mail

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

On 2 May 2010, at 11:29, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: What I am frustrated with is the continual revisionist approach to software development... that photshop seemed great 20 years ago really doesn't mean we should still be subjected to it's awkwardness today. Which is why a lot of photograp

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

On 2 May 2010, at 11:07, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: I am talking revolutionary innovations, not feature creep. It's not clear who you're responding to here, but if it was my remark about content-aware fill then you have no idea how revolutionary some examples of feature creep can be in thei

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

On 1 May 2010, at 23:44, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: I have yet to hear an open source advocate talk to the evolution of technology. Depends on your definitions. One of the big new features for CS5 (content-aware fill) was already available as a plug=in for the GIMP. Ian __

Re: Apples actual response to the Flash issue

On 1 May 2010, at 08:55, Peter Alcibiades wrote: HTML5 is not open. Its a different flavor of proprietary, by the way. H264 is proprietary. H264 is proprietary, but h264 is NOT part of HTML5. HTML5 just specifies a video tag without specifying the type of video. HTML5 is no more propr

Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills

On 29 Apr 2010, at 23:41, Mark Swindell wrote: The down side is one can't set the parameters of how many frames per second to export Click the 'Options...' button in the save dialog, but for best results make sure you pick a frame rate that is a nice divider of the actual video framerate

Re: launch URL not working with a # character in the URL string

On 29 Apr 2010, at 21:10, Richard Gaskin wrote: I believe you'll need to specify a page with that, so this: launch url "http://www.example.com/index.html#foo"; ...should work. That's correct. "http://www.example.com#foo"; isn't a valid URL, as far as I'm aware. Ian

Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills

On 28 Apr 2010, at 17:52, Ian Wood wrote: 1. QuickTime Pro. Export..., Movie to Image Sequence will do roughly what you want. 2. Remember that a video file is a series of discrete frames. Making a selection and then exporting an image sequence with an arbitrary number of frames or arbi

Re: OT Exporting movie clip to stills

On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:45, Mark Swindell wrote: Select a dive (a five second section of .mov file) Select 10 frames Click export You get 10 evenly spaced stills of the dive (a stop action sequence) exported to the folder of your choice 1. QuickTime Pro. Export..., Movie to Image Sequence wi

Re: Heather Are You All OK with the Ash!

On 20 Apr 2010, at 00:41, J. Landman Gay wrote: :) I saw something on CNN that said Europe was having a veggie shortage because the produce in Africa couldn't be flown in. OT: the other side of this is that several of the African farmer's co- ops are big in trouble, putting thousands of peo

Re: Scrolling in image

Group the image, set the size of the group to the size of the card and lock it's position. You can then add scrollbars. If you want more 'direct' mouse interaction take a look at the Grab command in the dictionary, or wait for one of the other members to post some more sophisticated code f

Re: [slightly OT] Off for a couple of days

On 13 Apr 2010, at 11:46, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: Hi all, for reasons beyond my control, I am forced to take a couple of days off (kid #3 is due any day now). If you have any questions regarding our products and services, please allow for a little longer delay before I can respond. If you

Re: Question about RevMobile

On 13 Apr 2010, at 02:47, Andre Garzia wrote: Still the iPhone OS is quite good, specially version 4 that doesn't run on my iPhone 3G... It runs, it just doesn't multi-task with third-party apps. :-( Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolu

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

On 12 Apr 2010, at 15:41, Colin Holgate wrote: On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Ian Wood wrote: The iPad does *not* have a USB port. There's a camera adapter kit with a USB port, but nobody knows if this can be used for anything but connecting to a camera. The iPad connects to my Ma

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

On 12 Apr 2010, at 13:10, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I see that the iPad has a USB2 connexion - but whether the iPhone OS will recognise pointing devices (seems unlikely) . . . ? The iPad does *not* have a USB port. There's a camera adapter kit with a USB port, but nobody knows if this can

Showcase of Rev-built apps?

Against my own better judgement, I've got involved in one of the iPhone SDK threads over on Ars, and of course brought Rev up as something that can build native-looking apps (something that is apparently impossible!). Does anyone know of a showcase of Rev-built apps, or have links to some

Re: Do ... as Applescript, bugs??

On 11 Apr 2010, at 19:18, Andrew Meit wrote: Ahh I had an insight to rework it and now it works. However, am always wanting to work smart than hard... I am creating AS statements on the fly via Rev then sending them to Applescript editor to be compiled and saved via clipboard. Is there a way

Re: Do ... as Applescript, bugs??

On 11 Apr 2010, at 17:22, Andrew Meit wrote: I am struggling to figure out why do as Applescript works once correctly but second time its fired off, Rev hangs and returns "execution error". My As code works correctly within the As editor all the time. I am talking directly to the Applescri

Re: [OT] Mac Batch Converter

In theory anything that's calling QT directly (such as iTunes and QuickTime Player) can play a protected MP4 file. Out of curiosity, how old is the file? The iTunes Store dropped the DRM from music files some time ago, or so i seem to remember. Ian On 9 Apr 2010, at 16:03, Bob Sneidar wrot

OT?: fonts on the iPhone and iPad

Just came across a handy list of the fonts and styles installed on the iPhone and iPad. http://www.michaelcritz.com/2010/04/02/fonts-for-ipad-iphone/ Handy for the people exploring revMobile. Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.

Ewoks Ahoy!

In case you're not subscribed to the newsletter: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/april/issue90/newsletter2.php?id=NW0090S15466 Lovely! Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: OT?: heavy weather near the Runrev office

I resemble... err, *object* to that remark... ;-) Ian On 31 Mar 2010, at 22:54, J. Landman Gay wrote: Ergo, seedy programmers who write for the web are drupals. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: OT?: heavy weather near the Runrev office

Sounds about right, with the addition of 'if it's the size of a somethingapple and it's a colour you're not used to then it's an orange'. ;-) Ian On 31 Mar 2010, at 21:45, Andre Garzia wrote: if it is really small or has little seeds all over it, then, it is named somethingberry if it is

Re: OT?: heavy weather near the Runrev office

On 31 Mar 2010, at 13:27, Richmond Mathewson wrote: The offices of RunRev are situated in the New Town; a good 500 feet above sea level; so, while they may be able to pop along and tak a keek doun Leith Walk to the flooded Ocean Terminal, they themselves should be as dry as one can get in

OT?: heavy weather near the Runrev office

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8596344.stm Waves battering the Leith Docks, a few miles from head office! Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription p

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

On 30 Mar 2010, at 13:01, Richmond Mathewson wrote: The next, inevitable question is; when do your good folk either:- produces iPad-functional versions of RunRev? I suspect that this would be impossible given Apple's stance on no runtime-interpreted code in App Store apps. :-( or produ

Re: scripting applescript menu-clicking questions

On 25 Mar 2010, at 15:02, Bernard Devlin wrote: Thank you very much, Ian. Much appreciated. Amazing how much knowledge is available on this list. :) I mostly use Rev to create OS X 'bridges' between different apps, so GUI scripting comes in handy. I'll look into Prefab UIBrowser. Hope

Re: scripting applescript menu-clicking questions

Off the top of my head... On 25 Mar 2010, at 13:48, Bernard Devlin wrote: Hi all, I am having trouble with getting applescript to click on menu choices in Safari (there is nothing in the dictionary for what I'm trying to do). Does anyone have any suggestions for how to handle these things?

Re: Paris

On 15 Mar 2010, at 15:58, stephen barncard wrote: What allows this incredible zooming capacity? Huge numbers of photos, and then being displayed via an image pyramid - the image is rescaled several times and then each size is split into tiles - as you navigate around the image, only the r

Re: AW: ask file different behavior on Win7

On 15 Mar 2010, at 09:15, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: That’s strange, using on Windows the Unix-Slashes instead of the Windows backslashes. Rev always uses forward-slashes internally. I wasn't even aware that you could pass through a backslash-delimited path on Windows and have Rev underst

Re: RevMobile first impressions?

On 4 Mar 2010, at 22:42, Marian Petrides wrote: I'd love to hear your more detailed impressions, Sarah, and I bet others would too. Meanwhile, thanks for the early preview! Ditto! Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.co

Re: RevMobile first impressions?

On 4 Mar 2010, at 21:02, François Chaplais wrote: I went though the buying process and cancelled at the last moment when I saw the price... That's my problem as well. As much as I want to do stuff for the iPhone and iPad without learning Cocoa, $800 plus $400 per year *on top* of my exis

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

On 4 Mar 2010, at 12:42, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Is this one of those "why not just do it, looks simple" things that runs into the apparently huge complexity of the field object? Which I seem to recall Scott Raney describing as the "monster" it terms of complexity. That could well be. M

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

Votes added. Ian On 4 Mar 2010, at 00:37, Richard Gaskin wrote: This inconsistency seems worth addressing, since doing so has practical application as you've noted, so I logged it as a request: _

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

I just had a quick try but can't see how to apply a backgroundpattern to anything less than the whole field. Do you have some example syntax for setting it for part of a field? Ian On 3 Mar 2010, at 22:03, Richard Gaskin wrote: Have you tried a transparent GIF or PNG with the dash near the

Re: Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

On 3 Mar 2010, at 21:24, Scott McDonald wrote: I understand why the RRP SpellCheck doesn't meet your needs, and you have certainly made several comments that give me ideas to work on. Thanks for taking the in the way it was meant! That's partly why I changed the direction towards ways of i

Faking OS X text field behaviour (was: Good books on Cocoa dev?)

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. It would certainly save me a lot of time if this could be done in Rev, so maybe it's time to look from a different direction - how do we make a Rev field as OS X-like as possible. On 3 Mar 2010, at 04:00, Scott McDonald wrote: The look of the spell che

OT: Good books on Cocoa dev? (spellcheck woes)

I've got an app coming up which is Mac-only and will involve a lot of text entry where spell checking is critical (photographer's metadata entry) - no matter which way I look at it the various spellchecking workarounds/stacks for Rev just won't cut it as there's no way to make them look nat

Re: Here's a concrete example of the linux font problem

Well excuse me for trying to think of a possible reason. ;-) Ian On 22 Feb 2010, at 11:24, Richmond Mathewson wrote: So any explanation that tells me that OO sees one set of names for fonts and RunRev sees another doesn't wash. ___ use-revolution

Re: Here's a concrete example of the linux font problem

That makes it looks like Rev is getting the names of the font *files* while OO is getting the *display names* of the fonts, as ITC is the International Typeface Corporation, one of the bigger companies that make fonts. If you see a font like Garamond listed on a computer, it's *probably*

Re: 2009 conference DVD - audio/visual quality

On 8 Feb 2010, at 20:09, Michael Kann wrote: YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE YOUTUBE Time lim

Re: little OT: Did anyone from Germany receive the Conference DVDset, yet?

Here in the UK my set arrived sometime last week. Ian On 4 Feb 2010, at 17:35, runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Hi, is there anyone from germany here on the list, who has already received the Conference DVD set ? Regards, Matthias ___ use-revol

Re: [OT] .eml format

Pretty well any email client should open it, it's just an email saved as a text file. You get the same from Mail if you drag a message to the Finder - and Quick Look will actually display the formatted message. Ian On 1 Feb 2010, at 21:15, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Somebody sent my wife a

Re: Rev + PNG Display on OS X 10.6

On 14 Jan 2010, at 18:27, Scott Rossi wrote: This might be useful for folks delivering image-heavy apps on Mac OS X 10.6 and later... Apparently with Snow Leopard, Apple has changed the default gamma of the system to 2.2 (used to be 1.8). if "mac" is in platform() and systemVersion()

Re: OT: Panorama software

Panoramas being my specialist area... Cheap (free), powerful but a steeper learning curve than some apps would be Hugin. Hugin has a *very* active team of developers, so make sure you've downloaded a recent version. Autopano Pro (nowhere near $379, not sure where you got that) is the easi

Re: increasing dpi in export snapshot

On 21 Nov 2009, at 18:12, Durgesh Mishra wrote: I am using export snapshot on group of text boxes and saving it to a JPG file. Looking at the resulting JPEG file, it does not look very smooth. It is pixelized as if some low resolution image. What are you viewing the JPEG files in? Anythin

Re: Stack magnification?

It's the screen image being enlarged from actual pixels - of course it's blurry! Ian On 15 Nov 2009, at 21:11, Mark Swindell wrote: Also, thanks for the tip on control scrolling (first necessary to change Universal Access preferences). Unfortunately even with smoothing turned on the magn

Re: Does topleft property appears inverted?

On 2 Nov 2009, at 23:47, Alejandro Tejada wrote: That is, in the coordinate produced by this property, first appear left and second, top. That's how it is supposed to read, oddly enough! Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runr

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