Thanks, Alex
I will look at your script and see how much it resembles the one I put together
this afternoon.
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I think that the following sounds like a good task for Rev; just want to make
sure:
OS: WinXP SP3
About 1300 folders at same level; each folder with 10-200 files of type
jpg,png,bmp,doc.
Would rename every file within folder to the name of that folder plus
incremented number, i.e.
name_of_fold
"The late Grant Schempel?"
That was him. Ivan and all.
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S.R.:
"One hundred rubles says an army of Russian virus writers is working in the
office next door to Kasparsky, and they all take cigarette breaks together
every morning. :-)"
LOL! Wasn't there someone who, years ago on the SC list, would
occasionally spin fanciful tales of KGB and Stasi
Thanks to Andre and Colin for their suggestions re/ Javascript. I will look
for both of your references.
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I may have mentioned this on the list before, but concussions as a result of
falls during epileptic seizures tend to make my memory somewhat porous at
times….
I have used a CDMA (Verizon) cell phone in the USA, but had to look for an
alternative while traveling in the UK and Belgium. I decided
I think the point is that probably to be very useful, a MIDI-based program
should have ready access to an external MIDI device (keyboard, sequencer,
etc.). It should be able to open up multiple channels so that one could record
a new MIDI track whilst hearing previously-recorded MIDI tracks. I
Another developer restriction; a very tight ship:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20005000-233.html
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Scott Rossi:
"...Perhaps Jacque G or Sarah R knows. They're knowledgeable
dudes"
That would be "dudettes". :-)
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Chipp Walters:
"...So, while Rev (and Flash and many other dev platforms for iPhone) compile
directly to a binary, they are still in violation of the NEW SDK 4.0
recently released license..."
Thanks for the summary, Chipp. I was unaware that Apple had changed the rules
**after essentially promis
Richard Gaskin:
> Randall Reetz wrote:
>
>> > What about HTML 5 and web content as a runRev stack publication
>> > option? What does HTML 5 say about mobile devise specific input
>> > like orientation, acceleration, position, multi-touch?
>
> Yes, HTML5/JavaScript/WebKit is pretty much what P
"...
What I'm attempting to do is to alter one copy of a sound file, then do a fade
in/out from an original to the altered version.
..."
I would agree with the person who suggested that you're perhaps best off doing
that by ear, if possible.
"If it sounds good, it IS good."
Kurt_
Identical, slightly out-of-sync signals used to be known as the "poor man's
'stereo' remix". It creates a very unconvincing false stereo "spread" that
really just succeeds in blurring the sound. I have some really old
originally-mono LPs that were so "enhanced". -Terrible!
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Clever! She might consider adding lemmings (for their supposed mass behaviors)
and rabbits (for their jumping motion as well as for their reproductive
proclivities).
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I think that the combination of portability/touchscreen opens up a few new
tricks; an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiEqf5wb3g&NR=1&feature=fvwp
It seems to me that Apple has its own versions of technologies that accept a
greater variety of user inputs, perhaps mitigating the need fo
Colin Holgate:
> "Aha! Hence the new Apple slogan: Sink Different."
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> ...It does seem increasingly likely that cross platform in this
> industry doesn't any more mean Linux Mac and Windows, it means mobile and
> desktop and network
Too bad we don't have a "crystal ball" we could use to predict the future.
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Perhaps of interest:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/the-iphone-tricorder-version-1.html
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When I encounter a splash screen on a web site, typically the first
thing that I do is search for the "Skip Intro" link, usually at the
bottom of the page.
However, I think that the original post referred to the feasibility of
designing an equivalent "presentation" using Rev.
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Just when we thought that using QT was complicated enough:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/6
Now I know why Quicktime Player X has such limited editing capabilities!
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Those are interesting demonstrations, George. I'll recommend them to
some teachers, if that's OK.
Kurt
http://gcb.luceatlux.com/teachablemoments/teachablemoments.irev
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sounds like a Revlet thang.
Really? I don't see an option to display within a web browser. Am I
missing something?
Kurt
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In Firefox, as I imagine to be the case with other browsers, a web
page can be saved with all of its supporting files: images, audio,
video, revlets, etc.
If a revlet is downloaded in such a manner, and it requires access to
data not included on the web page (but referenced by the revlet), th
Alejandro,
I do not see the black trails you mention on Rev 4, Mac OS 10.5.7
(although since I do not know Japanese characters it took a while to
"earn" an animation!).
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The newest version of Perian (1.1.4) seems to correct this conflict:
http://perian.org/
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RG wrote:
In the short term offline modes for applications will remain
important,[...]
Thanks for a very well-thought-out post, Richard.
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That's nothing; I have kids who make trips to all the planets on a
regular basis in my school. How is this done? I just use the "magic
phrase": 'Come on, let's do a spot of Grammar." and they are OFF. :)
LOL
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I think that the Ensharpen decoder does not play well with either
Perian or Flip-4-Mac; I've forgotten which.
KK
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Are any docs/tutorials going to be made available on the use of the
forthcoming preview of the Rev web plugin? If so, will preliminary
versions of the docs be released along with the preview?
Thank, KK
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He says he'll be away for the week from July 6th through 12th; if you
have pressing questions, you can during this time submit them to his
colleagues at ICADS.
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I look forward to information as to how data can be saved and
retrieved using "revlets". I'm assuming for the moment that, unless
the end-user agrees to security modifications in the web browser, one
has to save any data to the server of the domain from which the
revlets originate.
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Perian has been known to cause playback issues and DivX to a lesser
degree.
Thanks; I'll experiment with their removal and see what happens.
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> Run any of the tutorial videos available through the Rev Resource
Center,
> hear sound but video is blank (green).
> Mac OS X 10.5.6 on 2.4 gHz Intel iMac, QT 7.6, ensharpen codec
v1.1 supplied
> with Rev installation.
> What to do?
Did you restart the computer after installing the codec
Run any of the tutorial videos available through the Rev Resource
Center, hear sound but video is blank (green).
Mac OS X 10.5.6 on 2.4 gHz Intel iMac, QT 7.6, ensharpen codec v1.1
supplied with Rev installation.
What to do?
Thanks, Kurt
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I bought the bundle earlier today. If another thousand people buy the
bundle another package gets added to it, making the $40 bundle include
about $900 of software. Of course, you would want to be sure of using
at least $40 worth of value of the apps, but World of Goo alone is
nearly that worthw
Seems like a excellent deal and a good cause, and the offer ends soon:
http://www.macheist.com/
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than having purchased the current bundle.
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But i think that midi is a totally different sort of animal than
sounds. Midi are just instructions and the sounds you'll be hearing
are dependend on the soundmodule, syntheziser, midi instrument or
whatever thing that will receive your midi commands. As sounds, well
everybody knows what sounds ar
When I load a standard midi file into the player, the player does play
but gives no sound. The player does have a track and it is enabled
If you mean opening up a midi file in a Rev player object, then:
Reference the mid file as a video clip rather than as an audio clip
and see what happens.
...Custom
properties can store whole files or applications, images, arrays,
SSL-encoded data, fonts, entire databases, almost anything you can
think of
But we still need to create an actual file to be referenced by the QT
player, right?
We cannot, for instance:
set the filename of play
According
to the 3.0 User Guide, audio/video QT players must always reference a
discreet file.
Actually, even if it's not so discreet, it still has to be discrete!
:-)
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MIDI can contain any binary value, but the technique does work, the
saved out MIDI file plays fine. So presumably fields cope with null
values just like variables do.
Is there a chance that the field-stored data might run into trouble if
you, say, saved the data on a Mac and reopened it on a P
How about storing MIDI data as a custom property in a substack?
Even if this is done, you still need to copy the binary data contained
in the custom property to a temporary MIDI file (invisible if
desired), to which the the player's filename is assigned. According
to the 3.0 User Guide,
How about storing MIDI data as a custom property in a substack?
I don't know about storing custom properties, but whatever that is,
would it have any advantage over storing the data in a field?
From the Rev User Guide:
A custom property is a property that you define. You can create as
m
Re: MIDI as external file...
Just thinking...
How about storing MIDI data as a custom property in a substack?
Kurt
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What a neat device! It's fascinating to try and predict which
movement will produce a certain effect. Spirograph revisited.
Thanks!
Kurt
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I think it means that you would be charged the amount indicated for
your "early software assurance pack" on a yearly basis (for 5 years?),
although whether on the same terms as the current year- I'm not sure.
I personally did not choose that option, since I'm never sure these
days whether a
"...I do agree that the sound people have been neglected. I think if
Kurt could get his MIDI stack to interpret HC-sytle notation it would be
a big hit. The support queue periodically gets questions about MIDI
support, and I usually point them to Kurt's work, but having notation
options in th
"...My need is to send DIRECTLY Midi orders to QT synthesizer rather than
creating a Midi file and play with the QT player. Is this way possible ?..."
**I'm not sure**, but my guess is: not without an external (which would mean a
separate external for every platform on which you wish to ru
But first review "makeSMF", because maybe it does what you request:
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Two things I want to mention:
Scott Raney was EXTREMELY helpful to me while I was working with MIDI,
providing me with examples of basic MIDI routines in other languages, and
clarifying how I should use binary encoding methods from within Rev. He was an
excellent teacher in the sense that h
...It is Shakobox on Jacque's site developed by Rebecca Bettancourt
that
utilizes the QT library. If you've got a Mac, great. No sound
channels but
you kinda fake them. It requires an external player that has been
opensourced and so, if you know RB, you might be able to fiddle with
it
fur
Well, I have implemented onionskinning in Stykz, my stickfigure
animation
tool (http://www.stykz.net). The way I ended up doing it was to set
up a
separate group for holiding all the onionskins for each stick figure
on a
card, and in that group was a copy of the figures with the
blendLevel
Looks like the following will work pretty well:
newly imported images (as control):
set the ink of image "newImport" to transparent
to onionskin a previous image:
set the blendlevel of image "previousImport" to 80
(Place previous image behind new image)
for a new image frame for painting
A couple of years ago there was a discussion concerning methods for
producing an "onion-skin" image for creating animation.
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2007-November/104731.html
I'm wondering which of the proposed methods was best suited to the task?
I built an onion-skin
*This is the MIDI file format reference I used when first learning
about MIDI:
http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/links/music/midifile.htm
*This also seems useful, especially in describing the MIDI byte
structure:
http://music.nuim.ie/music/sites/cpaneltest.nuim.ie.music/files/images/documents/S
René,
You need first of all to understand what you are seeing in the Hex
Editor. All of the MIDI data (including the data that is not
printable in ascii text) is represented in Hexadecimal notation. It
would be a good idea to practice a some conversions from Decimal to
Hexadecimal (and t
René,
I'll reply to you either later today or tomorrow (I have a long music
rehearsal this evening). I can also cc to the list if anyone else expresses an
interest in the subject (anyone?).
-Kurt
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, René Micout <[]> wrote:
> From: René Micout []
> Bonjour Kurt,
> I hardly
Judy Perry wrote:
While looking for info on HC's old way of doing scripted musical
generation, I came across this page:
http://www.kenjikojima.com/pi/htmlFiles/program.html
Apparently, it's some sort of Rev port of an earlier HC work
If I remember correctly, didn't HC use a scriptable sy
"...I know your work and I appreciate it, but but...
It is a little bit complex for me :-(
I dont understand binaryEncode(etc...)
and also the bridge between Revolution (code) and Midi..."
René,
I know it looks complicated. I think it would take me a while to
figure it out again, even tho
Location of MIDI Builder stack:
www.shopperturnpike.com/usefulsoftware/MidiBuilderStack.zip
Note: If you see a problem with the re-drawing of QT player controls,
let me know and I'll send you a version that I wrote specifically to
address the problem. It's unlikely, though, since I think tha
"...As for the programming, that too is "simple". I can tell you there
is nothing
more fun than watching a circuit respond to your own software."
In this case, it would be my own neural circuit! :-)
Thanks for your quick reply. It is the time/event aware aspects of the
programming that conc
If I understand you correctly, you are trying to generate and then
play and/or mix various music sequences using the QT musical
synthesizers. The synthesizers can be instructed using MIDI. I have
worked with MIDI tracks, and what you are attempting can be done
wherever QT is available. MI
I'm interested in developing an application by which external events
(that is, external to the computer) of different types can be recorded
by the user.
The application does not have to keep track of intervals smaller than
one minute, and
would normally be running for sessions of about 6-1
"...on a 867 gHz G4, at the time.."
Uh, make that mHz. :-)
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"...the fastest animating method I found was opening up a separate empty
predefined "Player" stack window, and then rapidly copying the "Stage"
group
to the Player window, deleting it, copying the next one, etc"
A number of years ago I was working with MIDI files, trying to provide
cross
"...Have you checked out Eggplant?..."
Thanks, Eggplant does look interesting. I will look it over.
-Kurt
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"...I mentioned before that even a long lived and pretty well polished
app
like Quickeys has had over the years to develop some very "innovative"
ways to catch certain events. They have a recorder that records
everything you do and makes a macro out of it so intercepting
virtually EVERYTHING a u
"...An intermediate application that would launch at startup and
listen to the flile system event loop... Waiting for user defined
events and sending them out to my reactor app. (or any other stack or
app so inclined)..."
I take it the "Activity Monitor" is not specific enough and/or does
One other thing:
From an angle of 0 to 24 I see a second mirrored image. Is this
intentional?
(Mac OS 10.5.6 and Rev 3.0.0)
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Fun idea. I like the slider operation
Two suggestions as pseudo-script:
if exists "JAZZ.jpg" then save as JAZZ001.jpg"
-or-
have user select place to save new image and have the OS deal with
duplicate names.
Also, on OS X when I double-clicked on the saved image, TextEdit tried
to open it.
Mr. Email,
Nice, simple operation; no user setup involved. When you offer the
product publicly, I would suggest offering more information about
where the picture is posted (rather than simply "the internet"), as
some people might be a little uneasy about having screen-shots sent to
who-kn
I don't know if the following has any bearing on your situation, but I
find that I have to import/play certain sound files as videoclips
(without a video track, obviously) for the sound to be played
properly. I think doing so also gives you more control over playback
options.
Kurt
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The answer to my question:
In standalone, custom stack properties must be saved in substack which
is a (separate) individual stackfile within the OS X application
package (set in "stacks" pane of standalone application settings).
Kurt
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I suppose it would be easiest to store the data as
custom **stack** properties for simplicity in referring to them.
This will work so long as your stack remains a stack file: if saved
as a standalone, when the application starts up the properties will
always reflect the values in place when the
Thanks, Mark. I suppose it would be easiest to store the data as
custom **stack** properties for simplicity in referring to them. I
wouldn't have to be concerned about which card-object/card was current
(i.e. button x of card y, etc.).
Kurt
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I just realized that I can probably just access the data as (stack)
custom properties, rather than having to move it into globals at
runtime.
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We're using about 100 global (single word) variables that need to be
stored between sessions. Can I store them as custom properties of the
stack, and then re-populate the globals with the saved values at the
next startup?
Is this the best method?
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Scott and Mark,
Thanks for your replies. So as not to confuse my daughter (and
myself!), we will use script-based commands rather than the
application browser. There is also the added pedagogic benefit of
reinforcing use of the message box!
RunRev really should fix this when they get arou
I'm helping my 12-year-old daughter learn to program with RunRev, and
I couldn't really figure this one out:
Could someone point me to a reference on how to move cards reliably
between stacks in the Application Browser?
I find I can't predict exactly how it will work, between "selecting"
th
Thanks, Ken. It looks like lots of fun, and my daughter (12) will be
putting it through its paces!
Kurt
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"...Loud CDs use 'hypercompression' - not
data compression but audio compression in the digital realm, which is
at first interesting but eventually tedious to listen to"
I remember volunteering at an NPR-affiliate station in South Dakota
twenty years ago, and I convinced the powers-that-be
Here's some speculation:
If the appropriate port can be selected, then I would think that
Revolution is capable of streaming the data. The real challenge might
be the synchronization methods, such as MTC (MIDI Time Code) and SMPTE.
A more recent development:
How about RTP-MIDI? This looks p
www.shopperturnpike.com/usefulsoftware/birds/revolution.jpg
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I have worked with MIDI files from within Rev:
http://www.shopperturnpike.com/usefulsoftware/midibuilder.html
The MIDI Builder in stack form:
http://www.shopperturnpike.com/usefulsoftware/MIDI_builder.zip
As you can see, it is possible to create, edit and play MIDI **files**
using Rev and Qu
I'm looking for a standalone "painting" application made with
Revolution. Has anyone created such an application, and if so, is it
freely available?
Thanks, Kurt
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Bob Sneidar wrote:
...Sorry for the lengthy post.
Not at all! This is a fascinating discussion. I was under the false
impression that the automatic record-locking mechanisms would handle
everything for me. Thanks for setting me straight! Looks like I have
a lot more to learn before I
"...To start, I'll read the manual, do the tutorials, etc. before I ask
additional questions."
My printed user manual arrived, and the information I needed is right
there at sections 8.5.1 and 8.5.2. I don't know how I missed the
first sentence at 8.5.1!
Maybe there's something special abou
Thanks, Jan. I'm looking into the possibility of redesigning an
accounts-receivable program that currently is written entirely in
Revolution. I have it designed to allow a limited form of multi-user
access, but it's cumbersome, and a switch to a SQL database would
leverage that arrangemen
Is the Database Query Builder designed to be used only within the IDE,
or can its functionality be exported into a standalone application (as
a sort of "core" for a stack --> standalone)?
Sorry if this is a FAQ; I haven't fully explored this area of
Revolution yet.
-Kurt
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Thanks, Jacqueline. That did the trick!
Kurt
JLG wrote:
Yes, you need the Ensharpen codec. Rev offers to install it when you
install Rev. You can either re-install Rev and agree to have the codec
installed (it asks at the very end of the installation) or pick up an
independent copy here: <
I'm trying to view a tutorial video from within the Revolution 2.9
video viewer (the "Getting Started" Tab). The soundtrack plays but
there is no video. Is there a special codec that I have to
(re-)install? How would I do so? (Mac OS 10.5.4)
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Of interest to me, perhaps to others as well:
http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q5
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Thanks for the link, Mark. I've written to Recordare.
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Is there a way of detecting, within a Rev field object, an invalid
MusicXML character?
Maybe a loop with:
is in ([list of ascii chars])
I'm assuming that all valid MusicXML characters are ascii, anyone know
if this is true?
Thanks, Kurt
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...Back in ancient times, there were several engines that sat atop
HyperCard (can't remember their names, sorry) and provided simplified
functionality for this kind of thing. ...
Reminds me of a product called "Digital Chisel" which, if I remember
correctly, sat atop Supercard.
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Thanks, Derek. I'll investigate the links you provided.
Kurt
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Is it possible to access scanners, etc. via TWAIN from Revolution?
Thanks, Kurt
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>> I'm new to Revolution, although I'm a Hypercard addict from years
and
>> years ago. I'm writing an application for a company that needs the
>> application to be stored on their file server (standard Windows
>> TCP/IP networking environment, Windows NT 2000). The problem: the
>> application
Richmond,
Been away for a few days; came back and saw (all) your messages.
Thanks for your leg work!
-Kurt
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