Possible Bug

Hi Everyone, They say when you make something idiot proof all you get are smarter idiots. Here's the idiotic thing I did. I was trying to add a Control-V shortcut to a menuItem in the menu manager. Instead of using Shift-V to insert the V I used Command-V it added the code that was on my

Another DataGrid Question

Hi Everyone First of all thanks to Zryip for the answer to my last grid question. Now that problem is solved, but I have another. I have a dataGrid with 8 columns and 1000 rows. Knowing the data of a line of column 2, I need to retrieve the data of column 1 of that line. I don't want to

DataGrid - move Scrollbar by script

Hi everyone, There are a lot of uses for datagrids. I'm having a little trouble fully getting into the operation of them though. How can I move the vertical scrollbar from within a script? What I have is an alphabetical list as one of the datagrid columns. I want to type a character and have

Re: I Can't change field layers

On Apr 27, 2010, at 4:22:04 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Presumably by resumeSteck you mean resumeSteak; as Steve Jobs is a vegan I know that that one won't run on Mac . . . :) Unless of course you are trying to 'fork' the code. Yes I made a typo by saying

Re: I Can't change field layers

On Apr 27, 2010, at 4:57:16 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: There's a glitch in groups which I've bug-reported, where the app  browser does not show the group controls while you are in group-edit  mode. You can work around it. Make sure that the Select Grouped icon is  bolded

Re: I Can't change field layers

On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:26:07 AM, Paul Looney simpl...@aol.com wrote: Rev actually ships with a wonderful tool for relayering (especially  within groups) that nobody seems to know about. Check out Rev  Navigator in the Plugins menu in the Development menu. You can try it for free but, if you use

I Can't change field layers

Hi everyone, I have three problems: 1) The button and field level numbers are locked within a group. So I can't rearrange them. 2) When I click on a group it moves with my cursor until I click again. That's obviously not what I wanted. 3) When I click on Select Group it doesn't allow me to

Re: I Can't change field layers

In a message dated 4/27/10 3:32:22 PM, richmondmathew...@gmail.com writes: That sounds like something to do with your operating system rather than RunRev. Personally (I know this will involve a lot of time) I would back everything up and reinstall my OS. Thanks for trying. I'm hoping

Rev Studio 4.0

Hi Everyone, Where can I find a list of the new features in 4.0 and the directions on how to incorporate them into my stacks? The new dynamic graphics sounds interesting. Joe in Orlando ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Metal Texture in Snow Leopard

Hi Rev Addicts, I just upgraded my system software from Tiger to Snow Leopard. The first thing I noticed of course is the different way it renders Metal Texture. It's much to dark now. Is there a way to lighten it somewhat? Alternatively, how do I set the background color of my stacks? Thanks

Snow Leopard

Hi Revolution Lovers, I know it's early to ask this question. Does anyone know if there are problems between the Apple Snow Leopard operating system and Revolution, or is it safe to upgrade to it? Thanks in advance, Joe in Orlando ___ use-revolution

Tooltips with datagrids?

Hi everyone, There is a lot of things to get familiar with concerning datagrids, that's for sure. My latest question is can a tooltip be set by a script for a datagrid? I'd like it even better if there were a way to set a tooltip to a single column of a datagrid. Thanks in advance. Joe in

Datagrid Question

Hi Everyone, I'm enjoying getting into this datagrid thing. So far working with it is far better than the way I used to do some things. Now my question is this. When I click on a datagrid the line is hilited, that's good. But, how do I unhilite that line? Keep up the good work with adding new

Re: Datagrid Question

In a message dated 4/27/09 3:47:30 PM, li...@mangomultimedia.com writes: set the dgHilitedLines of group DataGrid to empty Thanks Trevor, that worked like a charm. ** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!

Datagrids with sharedtext = False?

Hi Everyone, So I now know how to load my datagrid. The problem is that I want to have different data in that grid on different cards of the same stack. Apparently I can't set the sharedText of a datagrid to false. Am I missing something here? Here's a second question were there any other new

Re: Datagrid question

In a message dated 4/14/09 4:28:50 PM, li...@mangomultimedia.com writes: OK I downloaded the newest Mac version of Studio and I'm excited  about the new datagrid feature. I can see many places to use them, but I can't  figure out how to address the contents or load a grid. Up

Datagrid question

Hi everyone, OK I downloaded the newest Mac version of Studio and I'm excited about the new datagrid feature. I can see many places to use them, but I can't figure out how to address the contents or load a grid. Up until now I've used several scrolling fields to hold data. For simplicity sake

Menu Item Check

Hi Everyone, How do I insert and delete a √ in front of a menuitem in a script? Does toggling the check change the name of that menuitem? Thanks in advance for your continuing support. Joe in Orlando ** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch Cooking with Tyler Florence on

2.9 Question

Hi everyone, I use Revolution Media on Mac OX on an Intel Mac. I read recently here that there are two problems with version 2.9 that are stopping me from downloading it. Apparently saving after coding causes a lockup crash and there is a problem with Metal appearance. Have those issues been

Stupid Newbie Question

Hi Everyone, Considering I've been using Rev for about two years now, it's almost embarrassing to ask this question. I have a field with three lines in it. I want to be able to edit any of those lines individually without changing the others. I can't seem to figure out what the field settings

and or?

Hi Everyone Is there a way to do an and/or in an if/then statement? In other words can I get something like this statement to work if len(fld 2) 5 and or len(fld 4) 5 then do something end if Thanks for your continuing support. I don't know how I'd manage without this group

Re: and or? OOPS

In a message dated 2/14/08 3:06:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Everyone Is there a way to do an and/or in an if/then statement? In other words can I get something like this statement to work if len(fld 2) 5 and or len(fld 4) 5 then    do something end if     Thanks for your

Re: Macintosh Modifier symbols in menuitem

In a message dated 1/31/08 6:05:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I spent some time experimenting and it appears there is no way to  show for example option + return symbols in a pulldown menu in a  menubar. Oh, I can get the symbols to show after dancing with various  settings for the

Re: A script question

In a message dated 7/12/07 7:58:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried to use the following script to clear fields but I am getting a weird error message in the script editor: chunk: no such object file put empty into field tName This is weird because field tName is a variable.

Studio or Media

Hi everyone, I currently use Dreamcard for Mac OSX. Apparently that’s been discontinued. I think should upgrade to Media as I have already converted all my HC stacks and never intend to use a stand alone. Am I right or am I missing anything? Thanks in advance for your continuing support. Joe

Re: 3 Wild Characters 2  in search

Thanks Jim, I never knew what the Reg. Expression in that dialog box was used for. Joe ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

“Wild Characters” in search

Hi Everyone, Is there a way to do a search for a year in a date in the find and replace dialog box? I was thinking along the lines of using “??/06” figuring the question mark was any character. Obviously that doesn’t work. Thanks as always for your continuing help. Joe in Orlando

Toolbar Question

Hi Everyone, Is there a way to hide or relocate the toolbar in the IDE? Since I never leave the IDE the toolbar sometimes gets in the way. Joe ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ use-revolution mailing

In Appreciation

Hi Everyone, I sincerely apologize for taking advantage of Eric, Klaus, Jacque, Ian and the other people that have enriched my runrev experience. Without your generous and unselfish assistance I could have easily given up in this wonderful program. As is usual, with any group such as this one,

Still having trouble

Hi everyone, I was hoping the following script would wait for a button to be selected in the “Test” stack before beeping. I was unsuccessful. What am I missing? on mouseUp modal stack Test topLevel stack Test go stack Test show stack Test beep end mouseUp In the script of the pushed

Problem FINALLY solved

Hi again everyone, I truly appreciate all your patience in putting up with my recent batch of emails. My problem was solved by removing the conflict of toplevel and modal. I also discovered modal has to be the last command. My new script: on mouseUp   go stack Test   show stack Test   modal

Ask Answer

Hi everyone, I put the following script in the button of another stack. on mouseUp show stack Test modeless stack Test toplevel stack Test beep end mouseUp I thought the beep shouldn’t sound in this case, but it does. I’m trying to make my own custom ask and answer dialog boxes in a

Re: How to dismiss a modal dialog (was: Re: Ask Answer)

Hi again everyone, OK, so I’ve created a modal stack that ignores everything else. That’s good. Now how do I transfer data from that modal stack to the continuing script that opened the modal stack? Maybe dialogData has something to do with that but I don’t understand that command. Joe

Suspend script execution.

Hi Everyone, I’m trying to create my own ask and answer dialog boxes. In order to do that I must be able to suspend a script awaiting my custom dialog box input. Then I want to continue the same script. I tried using the wait command, but that won ’t allow any input while waiting. All

How do I make the top stack ignore the others?

Hi Everyone, I want to open a smaller sized stack on top of a larger one. This stack needs to be dominant so that clicks to the stacks showing underneath are ignored. Is there a way to accomplish this? What I’m trying to accomplish is making a dialog box instead of using the built in ask and

How do I mimic dialog boxes?

Hi Everyone, Since “Ask” and “Answer” dialog boxes come up too slow how can I mimic those boxes without using those commands? I’m using Mac OSX if it matters. Joe in Orlando Florida ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Ask Answer dialogs

Hi Everyone, I’m always in the IDE of Revolution and I use Mac OSX. It seems to me that the ask and answer dialog boxes come up VERY slowly. Also, I can’t seem to get a beep to sound simultaneously with those dialogs. Is there a way to address this simply? Joe in Orlando Florida

Printing Problem

Hi Everyone, I guess I don’t understand something about setting the colors in stacks. I know there are fields on one of my stacks but I can’t see to edit them. Only the borders of the fields print, not the contents. What did I set wrong? Joe in Orlando, Florida

menuItem

Hi Everyone, Apparently I can’t enable a menuItem by name such as: enable menuItem “Do Something” Do I HAVE to indicate the menu name and position? Further, since I can’t do something like: enable menuItem 19 to 23 of btn Tasks is there something similar I CAN do other than listing the lines

submenu ?

Hi Everyone, I’m on Mac OSX. How do I specify a subMenu in the Menu Builder. Or is it done another way. What I’m trying to achieve is something like this menuItem: menuItem Change - Thing 1 Thing 2 Thing 3 Joe **

Re: Printing Problem

In a message dated 2/27/07 1:26:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Yves, I have a print routine that worked fine under 2.6.1 but now prints  mostly (but not completely) blank space.   I am busy poking about to  determine where the issue may lie.  If you learn anything in the  meanwhile

Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 5

In a message dated 2/22/07 11:50:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is all pretty interesting. Could everyone who is having the problem post any plugins they are using? Not the ones that ship with Rev, but any others you've added to your plugins folder? That might give us a clue. If

Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 6

In a message dated 2/22/07 1:50:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand. Do you have a My Revolution folder in your Documents folder? If you do, quit Rev and rename that folder temporarily. After that, does the test still fail? If you don't have a My Revolution folder in Documents,

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 OSX Chapter 4

Hi again everyone, Thanks for your input, but my problem is still there. If I double click a stack in the finder to open it with Revolution not open already, the stack will not see any of the following handlers: on openStack, on openCard, on startup, on preOpenStack or on preOpenCard. I guess

Advantages to using .rev on Mac OSX?

Hi Everyone, Since I’m on Mac OSX the use of the .rev stack name suffix is optional. If I never plan to create a standalone and I never plan to use another platform, is there any advantage to using the suffix. I haven’t used it up to now and I haven’t had any problems. Joe

Old bug still in Rev 2.8 :(

Hi everyone, I downloaded v 2.8 for the Mac OS. So far the most glaring problem I had with the previous version still wasn’t addressed. That is, I have to open a stack after opening Revolution rather than opening Revolution by opening a stack. The reason is if I don’t, Revolution doesn’t see

Re: Old bug?

Hi Walton, when I opened your “Hello World” stack first the screen showed “Label:” when I opened Revolution first and then your stack the screen showed “Hello World” . I guess that proves my problem. :( Joe ** Check out free AOL at

Re: Old bug still in Rev 2.8 :( Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Well, guess what I checked get info on the stack I’d like to open Revolution with and it’s set correctly at Rev 2.8 and it’s still not seeing the startup handler unless I open that stack from within Revolution. Anyone else want to hazard a guess at how to start from a stack and have

Endless Looping

Hi Everyone Is there a way for me to stop a running script that’s caught in an endless loop so I can fix my scripting error? Joe Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Endless Looping Chapter 2

In a message dated 2/3/07 3:57:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Everyone Is there a way for me to stop a running script that’s caught in an endless loop so I can fix my scripting error? Joe Orlando, Florida I tried “AllowInterrupts” it didn’t allow me to break in, even when I put

Shift-Click

Hi Everyone I’m on Mac OSX. In a script I’m trying to simulate a shift-Click. What’s wrong with this code? get loc of fld fldName put top of fld another fld +10 into item 2 of it click at it with shiftKey() down Thanks in advance Joe, Orlando, Florida

Format

Hi Everyone, Is it possible to use the format command to change: 2125551212 into (212) 555-1212 Thanks in advance for your continuing help. Joe Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Scroll multiple fields together

Hi Everyone, Is there an easy way to keep multiple scrolling fields in alignment when they are scrolled? Joe Orlando ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Gray Background on Printing

Hi Everyone, It seems the default background of a printed sheet is gray. How do I change it so it doesn’t have a colored background? Thanks in advance. Joe Orlando ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Conversion?

Hi Everyone, Is there a way to determine if a stack was originally a HyperCard stack and converted to Revolution versus originally created within Revolution? Joe Orlando ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Window Placement

Hi Everyone, When several stacks are open is there a way to put a stack behind the currently open one without making it active? This way I could hide the top stack to go to the second stack. Joe, Orlando ___ use-revolution mailing list

hide with effect

Hi, I’m trying to hide the present stack so I can show the one beneath it and use a dissolve transition. I thought the code below would work, but it doesn’t. How do I do it? hide this stack with visual effect dissolve Joe Orlando ___ use-revolution

Group buttons?

Hi, How do I group some square style buttons so that only one can be hilited at a time? Thanks, Joe Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Declaring Variables

Hi, I've seen references to declaring or initializing variables. How and why would I do that? Joe Orlando Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: doMenu

In a message dated 11/21/06 1:52:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the create won't work when I'm trying to delete a card, but the point is taken. That's when you use: Delete this card ___ use-revolution mailing list

Group Problem

Hi Everyone, I'm using Mac OSX. I cut a group of fields and buttons from one stack and pasted it into another. However, I want that group in the new stack to appear on all existing and new cards. That's not happening. What did I do wrong? I checked off Act like background but that didn't do

Double beeps

Hi everyone, I've been using: send beep to target in 0 sec;beep when I want two beeps. Unfortunately there's still too much of a delay between beeps. Can anything be done to adjust this interval? I'm using Mac OSX Joe ___ use-revolution mailing list

OpenStack Workaround?

Hi again everyone, OK since OpenStack, OpenCard, and preOpenStack all don't work on v2.7.4 on Mac OSX how do I work around it? If it matters I'm not using a standalone. Joe Orlando ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: OpenStack

Hi Everyone, I have the original problem of OpenStack, preOpenStack OpenCard not working on a fresh version of 2.7.4 for Mac OSX. I didn't install any additional plugins. I only use dreamcard and no standalones. Joe Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution

OpenStack

Hi Everyone, I just upgraded to v2.7.4 on my Mac OSX computer. I know the definition of a new version is Out with the old bugs and in with the new ones but this is ridiculous. When I open my stack it doesn't see the OpenStack or the openCard handler now. It did that with no problem in v2.7.1.

Substacks

Hi Everyone, I suppose I'm going to open up a can of worms with this question. What is an advantage of using a substack rather than just starting a separate stack? I would think separate stacks have an advantage because they can be backed up separately. Joe

Multiple beeps

Hi Everyone I'm using Mac OSX. How do I vary the interval between beeps? I tried... send beep to me in 0 sec;beep;answer but the beeps are too far apart and there's too much of a delay before the first beep. Thanks in advance, Joe from Orlando, FL

Re: Beep question

In a message dated 8/16/06 10:23:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please tell me why when I put a beep before an ask or  answer there's a delay between the beep and the opening of the dialog box? Long ago on some OS I timed beeps and noticed that a single beep  returned

Beep question

Hi everyone, Can someone please tell me why when I put a beep before an ask or answer there's a delay between the beep and the opening of the dialog box? Joe, Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: S-L-O-W text entry -- Solved

Hi Everyone, Thanks for the many people that made helpful suggestions. Sorry, I didn't record the name of the person that gave me the apparent answer so I could give them an attaboy here. That person suggested I might have a pendingMessages() problem. When I came upon the s-l-o-w text entry

S-L-O-W text entry

Hi group, Almost every day at one point or another while editing a script or even filling in an answer or ask dialog box the text entry slows to a crawl. I remedy this by saving and restarting Revolution. What causes this and how do I avoid it? I'm on Mac osx. Joe Orlando

Tools Palette

Hi Everyone, Is there a way to change the default position of the tools palette in a script? It gets buried under the development tool bar in 2.7.1. I'm using Mac OSX. Thanks in advance for your helpful advice. Joe Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution

Re: text selection

In a message dated 4/2/06 6:35:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just moved to RR 2.7 from 2.0 and have discovered a problem with text selection. Apologies if this has been covered before but I can't find a discussion of it in the archives. A stack that worked fine before now has a

Search Script

Hi Everyone, Has anyone made the RR version of handler that was SearchScript in HyperCard? I tried to convert it, but my script opened up all the script windows at the same time. That was a royal pain. Maybe you could just tell me how to open a script, edit it and then go on to the next

Printing Problem

Hi Everyone, When I print a card then show and/or hide some field or group and then print again it doesn't completely flush the old image. The problem seems to be that the borders of the fields don't show as they should. Thanks in advance for your continuing help for this newbie. Joe Orlando,

Re: lockScreen Property Question

Hi Ruben, I share your pain. This is one of the few instances where HyperCard has it all over revolution. You can get around this somewhat in two ways. 1) You can hide any stack you don't want to see before you go to them for an intermediate process. The problem with that is you have to

Globals and...

Hi Everyone, OK so you can initiate globals for an object outside of a handler. That's cool if you have more than one handler for an object. Is there anything else I can do outside of a handler that will apply to all handlers for an object? Joe Orlando, Florida

I Can't download 2.7 for OS X

Hi Everyone, I've tried several times, but I've been unsuccessful in downloading 2.7 for the Mac OS X. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Joe Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: ClickLine Solved

Hi Everyone, Thanks for your suggestions. I solved the problem by putting a space character in the last possible line of the field. This way all the lines would return the expected clickLine. Joe Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution mailing list

ClickLine

Hi Everyone, Apparently the clickLine returns empty if a line below the last line of a field is clicked. Is there a way to determine which line was clicked on in this case? Joe Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution mailing list

Ask Answer

Hi Everyone, I'm using v2.6.1 on Mac OSX. 1) How do I delete the rev logo from ask and answer dialog boxes? 2) On ask dialog boxes how do I insert the cursor at the end of my default answer rather than have the default answer selected? Joe, Orlando, FL

Ask Dialog

Hi Everyone, When I use: ask What's your name? with Joe Joe is selected. Is there a way to have the cursor flash after Joe and not have Joe selected? Also how do I change the rev icon to a warning icon or no icon? Joe, Orlando ___ use-revolution

Tint the background of a field.

Hi Everyone, This is probably a simple question. But, this newbie can't figure out how to print a field with a 5 or 10% gray tint behind the type of a field. Thanks in advance for your help. Joe, Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Tint the background of a field.

In a message dated 12/21/05 4:32:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: set the backColor of fld xxx to 220,220,220 I tried that but it didn't work! I must have another setting wrong that overrides this. Joe, Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution mailing

ClickText problem

Hi everyone, When I use clickText in HyperCard I get the word I clicked on. When I use it in Revolution I'm getting the full line. How do I get only the word I click on? Joe, Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

ClickText problem clarified

Hi everyone, I'll be a little more specific. One of the lines of a field is First / Second / Third depending on which word is clicked on I want different things to happen. I could specify each word in HyperCard with clickText, but apparently not in Revolution. I have the field set to

Newbie Question

Hi Everyone, Please tell me how to create a field with the lines showing. Joe, Orlando, FL ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Disabling MenuItems

This is an interesting thread. As long as we're talking about this... Can menuitems be addressed by name rather than number? I don't always have the items in the same position. Joe, Orlando, Florida ___ use-revolution mailing list