Documentation . . . again

2009-07-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Schonewille wrote: When documentation changes with a new release of Revolution, I'd consider the old documentation to have become obsolete. and this is, generally true, especially where features have changed or new ones introduced that displace old ones. So: 1. Why is the

Re: Revlet behaving badly in Safari

2009-07-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Kevin Stallibrass wrote: I have a small (test) revlet that gets a folder path using the standard answer folder statement. The app works fine as a standalone on both Win XP/Vista and OSX 10.5.7 However, building the app as a revlet gives me a problem with OSX 10.5.7 and Safari in that when the

Re: RevMedia 4.0 alpha released

2009-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Wow, Kabooey, Shazaam and other infantile comic-style silly noises! Came back from the village and was thrilled about the revMedia alpha release. HOWEVER; the link mucked up Firefox, Safari and SeaMonkey on the G4 Mac, this appeared to be caused by the program (err, plugin??) that launched when I

Re: RevMedia 4.0 alpha released

2009-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Of course the follow-on from my posting is how I should go about installing the revWeb plugin ifevery time I go to the page the browser stops functioning??? On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, Kabooey, Shazaam and other infantile comic

RevM4 : resource center

2009-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thought I would try out some of the tutorials before the kids got there first :) so tried the Internet Images one: on mouseUp set the filename of image 1 to http://www.runrev.com/images/logo.jpg end mouseUp a no-brainer (???) and got this: button Button: compilation error at line 2

Re: RevM4 : resource center

2009-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Richmond Mathewsonrichmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Thought I would try out some of the tutorials before the kids got there first :) so tried the Internet Images one: on mouseUp set the filename of image 1 to

Re: RevMedia 4.0 alpha released

2009-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Colin Holgate wrote: On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Dom wrote: The subsequent tries lead me to Safari is not responding ;- Good point. Load this: http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/rev/testtrack.html and while watching the cars do a page reload. You'll be left having to Force

Re: RevMedia 4.0 alpha released

2009-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Kevin Miller wrote: On 23/07/2009 16:13, Dom mcd...@free.fr wrote: Work great for me. Safari 4, MacOS X I tried it ONCE -- with http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/rev/testtrack.html As it was the first time it asked for downloading the plugin - I did it - and gazed at

Old/New revOnline

2009-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Does anyone know of a way to 'port' the Browser stack for accessing OLD revOnline to revMedia 4A so we can have the best of both worlds? And, does RR in some way object to this being done? [err . . . come to think of it, it might not be a bad idea to find out the answer to the second question

enSharpen codec

2009-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
1. I installed the enSharpen video codec on my G4 PPC and the videos that are downloaded through the Resource Center are still GREEN. 2. Is there any way to save the videos to disk? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sivakatirswami wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Sorry, the modified Mac keyboard layouts at: At: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/DevKeys.zip Congrats! and Thank you! ONLY allow access to the Udatta and Anudatta symbols used in the Rg and Atharva Vedas. You can mark Svarita by combining

Monitor Resolution ???

2009-07-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
. . . Lynn Fredricks, Lynn Fredricks, lend me your grey mare' All along down along out along lee For I wants for to go to the RunRev Conf. With Klaus Major, Sarah Reichelt, Heather Nagey, Andre Garzia, Sivakatirswami, Richmond Mathewson, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all

Embedding Fonts . . . again . . .

2009-07-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sarah Reichelt suggested that I: Have a look at the revFontLoad revFontUnload commands. They used to be part of the altFont external, but are now part of Revolution itself. [ http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-April/109670.html ] and, a year and a half later, here I am.

Re: Embedding Fonts . . . again . . .

2009-07-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
, at 22:23, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Sarah Reichelt suggested that I: Have a look at the revFontLoad revFontUnload commands. They used to be part of the altFont external, but are now part of Revolution itself. [ http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-April/109670.html

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sivakatirswami wrote: I was forced to order a plug in for Indesign to find a way to enter the udatta and anudatta stress marks, which are, strangely, not available on the current standard Devangari keyboards I suppose it would be sensible to be able to get at svarita as well :) Can you

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Hey-Ho! At: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/DevKeys.zip there are now the 2 standard Macintosh Devanagari keyboard layouts that I have hacked to allow udatta and anudatta input. 'Devanagari' Udatta: Shift - B Anudatta: Shift - N 'Devanagari-QWERTY' Udatta: Alt - Z Anudatta: Alt - X You

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sorry, the modified Mac keyboard layouts at: At: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/DevKeys.zip ONLY allow access to the Udatta and Anudatta symbols used in the Rg and Atharva Vedas. You can mark Svarita by combining Udatta and Anudatta. This is because the unicode standard does not seem

Another (slightly silly) way to show animations on Linux

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Horribly wasteful in terms of file size, but guarantees no dependency on external components. This will allow you to show a SILENT film sequence: 1. Export your movie file to images (say 25 per second). 2. Import them into a hidden card in your stack [think BLOATWARE]. 3. On the card where

Re: rawkeydown and numtochar don't work as expected

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, I am trying to capture a field input with rawkeydown and after doing some other processings to regenerate the input with numtochar. For all a-zA-Z1-0 it works fine and also for some special char, like !,.-, But for other input, like ?;:_ the numtochar function

Re: Another (slightly silly) way to show animations on Linux

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ian Wood wrote: On 17 Jul 2009, at 11:32, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I am not uploading my example stack anywhere, because with 356 frames of 256 Grayscale PNGs it weighs in at 11.5 MB. JPEG would probably drop that quite a bit further, even with the extra channels. Ian Quite possibly

Re: AW: rawkeydown and numtochar don't work as expected

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi Richmond, thats exactly, what I've done (exept it were two fields), but testing your approach gives me my same (wrong) result. I am working with Rev 3.5 on Win XP, german keyboard ? returns: { ; returns: : returns: ( returns: * ß returns: [ any idea, what is going

Re: Another (slightly silly) way to show animations on Linux

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Pierre Sahores wrote: Hello Richmond, Does the playback work as fluently as in using as a QT or WMV videoplayer ? i will test your proposal as soon as possible... Kind Regards, -- Pierre Sahores As far as I can see. Also, on Linux you would not get very far with either QT or WMV player.

Unicode capability expansion

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Having fiddled around with unicode rcecently it has become clear (unless I have missed something) that Revolution can only cope with characters from the Basic Multilingual Plane - i.e. chars up to 65535 (hex ). This is a real limitation that stands in the way of a lot of programming

Re: What is the current phrase for Rev in about windows?

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
jim sims wrote: I'm finishing up a shareware app - can someone tell me: What is the current phrase for Rev in about windows? Would Made with RunRev do the job? sims That is all part of what we are waiting for. :) Many years ago, in Bulgaria, under communism, my wife worked as an

Re: AW: AW: rawkeydown and numtochar don't work as expected

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richmond Mathewson Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Juli 2009 15:36 An: How to use Revolution Betreff: Re: AW: rawkeydown and numtochar don't work as expected Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi Richmond, thats exactly, what I've done (exept it were two fields), but testing

Re: Another (slightly silly) way to show animations on Linux

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Gosh, I must have a session with my therapist (he's a tortoise called Harold who lives in our garden) . . . Here's another way: Horribly wasteful in terms of file size, but guarantees no dependency on external components. This will allow you to show a SILENT film sequence: 1. Export your

Re: I'm going to Mars...

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Cool Link of the Day- Ever wanted to go to Mars but lack the time/money/proper training? Well, you can send your name instead. NASA offers you the opportunity to include your name on a microchip on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011 for free. Just

Re: Another (slightly silly) way to show animations on Linux

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Gosh, I must have a session with my therapist (he's a tortoise called Harold who lives in our garden) . . . Here's another way: Horribly wasteful in terms of file size, but guarantees no dependency on external components. This will allow you to show a SILENT film

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Did you think I had forgotten? Several nights in 40 degrees C, tossing and turning, later . . . Bloody silly really (but then, in my case it usually is; either trying to be too clever for my own good, or not seeing something right under my nose): Take a look at this:

Re: [OT] A tale from my childhood.

2009-07-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
have been suitably mollified. Colin Holgate wrote: On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Well, even though I never got the presents, I learnt a valuable lesson; which, recently I forgot. I feel sure that if you already owned the Enterprise pencils, you would have gotten

Re: [OT] A tale from my childhood.

2009-07-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
My [OT] message was meant to be 'OT', and as such not taken quite as seriously as some people seem to have taken it. Bernard Devlin wrote: Richmond, I'm sure you remember that often when the idea of a browser plugin for Revolution was proposed on this list, one of the issues that arose was the

Re: [OT] Waiting for Beta and Visiting Edinburgh

2009-07-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
(a fine 'Scots' name) is Mathewson, and, Bulgarians tend to have '-ov' or '-ev' at the end of their names. Or, put it another way (if you understand the reference), the Mac thing is, largely, a load of old 'Kroc'. :) I suggest you head south a little. And if you want to feel at home

Re: Hexagonal Image Frame?

2009-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dead easy: set the backgroundPattern of GRC HEX1 to the ID of image one.png sending you an example stack off-list. Love, Richmond. Rick Harrison wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a game, and I wanted to use hexagonal image frames put tightly together to make a kind of game board where the

Re: Hexagonal Image Frame?

2009-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
OK, Hop-Pickers :) Hexxer is available here: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/HEXXER.rev.zip it is also available at OLD revOnline, under 'Richmond' also at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RRgraphix/ go get it! Rick Harrison wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a game, and I wanted to use

Re: Hexagonal Image Frame?

2009-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
set the width of image one.png to the width of GRC HEX1 set the height of image one.png to the height of GRC HEX1 set the backgroundPattern of GRC HEX1 to the ID of image one.png Rick Harrison wrote: Hi again, That solution works great, except the images are not resized to fit the graphic

Re: Hexagonal Image Frame?

2009-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
just wanted the image resized in the target graphic without having to modify the original. Thanks, it is a step in the right direction. Rick On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: set the width of image one.png to the width of GRC HEX1 set the height of image one.png

[OT] A tale from my childhood.

2009-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
When I was a child somebody promised me a set of colouring pencils, they were not forthcoming; later he promised me a special pen and pencil set, they were not forthcoming; I am waiting for the notepad he eventually told me I would get as he couldn't manage the other things. That was about 40

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Colin Holgate wrote: snip It's completely authentic, Henry VIII had a strong resemblance to Elvis Presley. Dear, dear, dearie me . . . that's because they were related, both composers and both had a tendency to overindulge in narcotic substances. And if the good folks in Edinburgh don't

Re: Referring to chars by decimal or hex numbers ????

2009-07-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thank you very much; just got back from a weekend in the country cottage (pruning the vines and so on) - so will look at these web refs immediately. Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond Supplementary Private Use Area-A [not that funny place in the USA where aliens have been landing] starts at

Re: Referring to chars by decimal or hex numbers ????

2009-07-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter W A Wood wrote: snip Your blast may be premature. Devan Asay's Unicode tutorial (http://www.runrev.com/developers/tutorials/unicode-in-revolution/) says that all Unicode characters are UTF-16. In UTF-16 numbers greater than 65535 can be represented by a two character combination. It's

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: Here in Brazil our image of scotland is that of cheesy actors wearing kilts choping the heads out of their foes with swords while the queen is playing and Sir Sean Connery is smiling pretending to be spanish... snip We have no queen of Scots; there is a Hanoverian usurper

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yes, I see your point; although I prefer BASIC in this respect. Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: Here in Plovdiv they teach High School kids PASCAL, which is, unless you are some sort of retro-geek, a major turn-off. I shall, very shortly, become a pusher for RR, and be trotting round the school

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available than getting told one would be available and then not seeing it.

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available than getting told one would be

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Bob Sneidar wrote: Well one overlooked advantage to teaching a hard language out of the gate is to weed out the wannabe's. Not any longer; in our politically correct, all-inclusive times we have to say thet 'Epsilon semi-morons' code differently (err, or like Steve Jobs, we might say code

Referring to chars by decimal or hex numbers ????

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
with a specialist keyboard layout) how one can perform the equivalent of numToChar with these chars? Please take a look at this: http://mathewson.110mb.com/skt.html it may help clarify what I have written above. ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: snip It enforces excellent habits what are those habits? such as strong typing Ha, Ha, I learnt that bashing away on Mum's Olivetti portable (actually its a smashing typewriter) when I did my B.A. which then carry over into other languages. I honestly cannot

Re: Referring to chars by decimal or hex numbers ????

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, I hacked open a Devanagari font and shifted all the non-Unicode chars to Supplementary Private Use Area-A (Plane 15): http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/private_use_f.html and felt extremely pleased with myself for being so clever . . . but pride always comes before a fall . . .

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Hmm, I had a similar problem about 4 years ago when I had to dish out a lot of Cyrillic text. HOWEVER, as the text was STATIC (i.e. none of the end users were expected to interact with it) after an awful lot of headache-causing experiments I just typed out the texts and then embedded them into

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Err, Um, Gosh . . . Sankrit fonts seem to be extremely complex: this seems about the best place to find a COMPLETE Sanskrit Devanagari font: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/ttf-indic-fonts/ (By COMPLETE I don't mean just a font that has the simple syllabics, but allows all the

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I was wrong about the ubuntu Devanagari fonts I mentioned earlier: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/ttf-indic-fonts/ they do have unicode numbers above hex 1; however, that in and of itself should not be a problem. I intend to gutter around with them in RR and see how they 'do'

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

2009-07-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I think that any unicode font is going to throw up more problems than it is going to solve, here's why: http://mathewson.110mb.com/skt.html (page not accessible from my homepage) Now, unless somebody can come up with a way of using numToChar with Hexadecimal encoding refs rather than unicode

Re: Moving objects with arrow keys

2009-07-08 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Go and get it! . . . http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/KEYPADMOVER.rev.zip it is ALSO available at the OLD revOnline under 'Richmond' check the code; I've got things moving at 5 pixels per pop as, frankly, I find it difficult to see if things are miving at a single pixel. Be warned

Re: Rev 4 beta status [OT-humor]

2009-07-08 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, soon it will be mud pies! Although there are a few people who have problems counting beyond 7 I don't just suppose many subscribe to the RR Use-List. And promises are always difficult to keep; especially where deliverables that depend upon other variables are involved; so probably better

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
7 July Kevin Miller wrote: Hi all, Well folks, we got really very close to having a build this evening. Unfortunately we had some last minute issues on one of the platforms that has eaten up a few days and so we're behind where we had aimed to be. We have a handle on the problem now but

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
that couldn't get addressed prior to release. My 2 cents. Marian On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: On Jul 7, 2009, at 6:23 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: 7 July Up to the end of today would still be early next week. After that it becomes middle of next week. But I suppose

Free RevMedia 4

2009-07-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Will the Free RevMedia 4 have a locked in set of GUI component stacks as RevMedia 2.9 does? This would make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to graft on modified revTools stacks for teaching purposes. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Convert RGB to HSV

2009-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The magic numbers (i.e. the conversion algorithms) are laid out very clearly here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSB_color_space which seems to predate Monte Goulding. James Hurley wrote: What I have been using are the following two functions. I believe they originated with Monte Goulding.

Re: Convert RGB to HSV

2009-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
New version: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/COLORNAMER.rev.zip now showing RGB, HSV and HSL actually the code is dead easy once you can cope with all the brackets: used this in a listField full of colorNames: on mouseDown get the clickText put the clickText into fld SELECT set

Re: Convert RGB to HSV

2009-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
New version posted: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/COLORNAMER.rev.zip as the RGB values in the last version were nonsense because I had not deselected autohilite for the listField. HSL and Co. are still screwing up . . . back to the Maths

Re: Convert RGB to HSV

2009-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, well, well . . . digging around in the Documentation I discovered statRound (having fallen foul of 'round'); http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/COLORNAMER.rev.zip still feeling a bit 'funny' about those negative S values . . . ___ use

Re: Convert RGB to HSV

2009-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thank you Colin for your advice, I have followed it: modified version at : http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/COLORNAMER.rev.zip as well as at OLD revOnline. Colin Holgate wrote: Your current version has a slight problem in that if you are over some of the text at the time you click

Re: Convert RGB to HSV

2009-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
. Is all of this min and max just some sort of maths shortcut? Maybe this is a way of figuring the range between R,G, and B? Seems unintuitive as it obfuscates the real relationships involved. What am i missing? -Original Message- From: Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com

Re: Convert RGB to HSV

2009-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
for and adjust for that. RGB vals don't in them selves carry the data my object parser needs to determine where an arm ends and where it doesnt. Actually, i dont need seporate S and V values... just Hue as differenciated from Brightness. -Original Message- From: Richmond Mathewson

Re: Convert RGB to HSV

2009-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
is confusing. Are two and three color combinations representable in HSV color space? I dont see how. H seems to be a single point along a pure wave length spectrum. No? I had better read up. -Original Message- From: Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com To: How to use

Re: RGB valuesfor a color name

2009-07-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Wonderful what a night's sleep can do! Uploaded new version of my stack to: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/COLORNAMER.rev.zip that gets round the silly thing of having to click on a list field to set the colour and then on a coloured graphic to get the RGB values . . . mind you my solution

Re: RGB valuesfor a color name

2009-07-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
that looks half decent and involves the end-user clicking in ONE place only ONCE . . . which has got to be better than the cock-eyed crap I was playing around with last night. It's here: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/COLORNAMER.rev.zip and it is also available at the OLD revOnline; COLOR NAMER

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 70, Issue 8

2009-07-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Ik ben droevig, is mijn Nederlands werkelijk slecht; kon zo vriendelijk u in verband met repost uw bericht in het Engels zijn. oprecht, Richmond Mathewson

Re: R - Day

2009-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
In the middle of tarting up my website: http://mathewson.110mb.com/default.html and wondered when (if ?) I can remove the 'blue R' and replace it with the jazzy new runrev logo. Kay C Lan wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Sarah Reichelt sarah.reich...@gmail.comwrote: The Road to El

Re: AW: OT: looking for a good Zip Tool on Mac

2009-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
GUI Tar 1.2.2 looks jolly good: http://www.edenwaith.com/products/guitar/ Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I knew, you were jumping in, thats why I added my last words for you :) Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-

Re: It's a week

2009-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The Aztecs used a 20-day week. Anybody seen an obsidian knives or would-be pyramid builders hanging round Edinburgh? :) kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Does that include the work week also? :-) Mr. Miller did not mention end of next WORK week just end of next week ;-) But hey, in

Re: That's the spirit

2009-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just to demonstrate exactly what constitutes The Spirit, when I upgrade to RR 4.0 I will continue to upload files to the old revOnline as well as the new one. George C Brackett wrote: SparkOut just sent me a big improvement to my AllowedChars Behavior (see new revOnline) so that it screens

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thank you very much for letting us know what is going on. Obviously no crazy corporate culture of secrecy like they have at Apple. :) Kevin Miller wrote: Hi all, Well folks, we got really very close to having a build this evening. Unfortunately we had some last minute issues on one of the

Re: RGB values for a color name

2009-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
! And if that's too much bother, I've just uploaded all that here: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/COLORNAMER.rev.zip at a 4 KB download it shouldn't hurt too much! Love, Richmond. James Hurley wrote: How do I translate a color name (Blue1 for example) into its RGB values? Programatically. Jim

Re: RGB values for a color name

2009-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Phil Davis wrote: Depending on your use, maybe this will help: set the backgroundColor of control yourColorObject to gray40 set the screenMouseLoc to globalLoc(the loc of yourColorObject) put the mouseColor -- puts 102,102,102 Judging from this and Richmond's reply, it appears you have to

Re: RGB values for a color name

2009-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Aha, gottit (Thanks for the hint Phil); new version now available at: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/COLORNAMER.rev.zip Code in list field KNAMES changed to: on mouseDown get the clickText put the clickText into fld SELECT set the backgroundColor of grc KOLOR to the clickText end

Re: Creepy 2020

2009-07-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
This is a problem that revolves around 2 highly abstract concepts: 'Rights' and 'Property'; both of which have no reality in the physical sense at all. 'Rights' are even more nebulous than 'Property' so I'll TRY to show what is 'odd' about the concept of property first. For the sake of

R - Day

2009-07-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ouch, my internet was down for about 27 hours, and apart from making the poor, long-suffering technicians (HUMPH) at the ISP cope with my execrable Bulgarian ; I have been all-of-a-tremble in case I missed R - Day; i.e. the day when the RR 4.0 betas are released. Luckily I didn't miss R - Day.

Re: right-click on Mac?

2009-07-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
but it is a simple preference change. Also, virtually any USB mouse works with Macs including left and right buttons and scroll wheel. Bill Vlahos On Jun 28, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I just had a glisk at the Apple website and there was stated: The Apple Mighty Mouse comes

Playing Chess Variants???

2009-06-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Looking around the Web it is possible to find 'Zillions of Games': http://www.zillions-of-games.com/ for Windows, and ChessV Universal Chess Program: http://www.chessv.com/ which is supposedly Open Source (for which platforms is not clear), but the URL is dead. 'Zillions of Games' (while

Re: [OT] Something for the kids this summer.

2009-06-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richmond Mathewson wrote: That doesn't involve sex, drugs or computer games: http://mathewson.110mb.com/res.html At least one of my kids already got high: http://mathewson.110mb.com/fourch.html needless to say, as it was in an EFL class, he will be punished by having the rules (in English

Re: It's monday, I smell betas coming this week...

2009-06-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Personally I con't decide whether to spend 3 days in the local mental hospital, run nude up and down the main street screaming I'm a little teapot. or shave my eyebrows, paint my kneecaps bright green and utter Gnahahaha every 15 seconds. This waiting is quite interesting . . . . . Please

Re: It's monday, I smell betas coming this week...

2009-06-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Colin Holgate wrote: On Jun 29, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Personally I con't decide whether to spend 3 days in the local mental hospital, run nude up and down the main street screaming I'm a little teapot. or shave my eyebrows, paint my kneecaps bright green and utter

Re: runrev 4.0 - kudos and a gripe

2009-06-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Why on earth would you want to spend time duplicating programs like WordPad or TextEdit? The place is swimming with Text Editors! And they get rather repetitive and boring after the first 258. :) This is similar to complaining that you cannot makes bricks with sand: get over it, the

Re: runrev 4.0 - kudos and a gripe

2009-06-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
=2194 http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=4944 Best, ÉrIC Miclo Le 28 juin 09 à 10:32, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Why on earth would you want to spend time duplicating programs like WordPad or TextEdit? The place is swimming with Text Editors! And they get rather

Re: right-click on Mac?

2009-06-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I just had a glisk at the Apple website and there was stated: The Apple Mighty Mouse comes standard with your Mac. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mighty_Mouse personally I'm rather happy with a bottom of the range Logitech - but then all my Macs came with single-button mice. The only

Re: [OT] Something for the kids this summer.

2009-06-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, you could put up a Do it yourself kit on a website . . . I use various Chess variants for teaching EFL and Critical Thinking; writing rules is an extremely salutary exercise in getting your ideas in order in a new language. I use either my own Hexagonal Chess variant: http://mathewson

Re: Salivating . . .

2009-06-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
How long a week seems when one is waiting for the Beta of a life time. . . ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Inefficient code

2009-06-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have uploaded my 'take' on this problem: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/IMAGE COMPARE.rev.zip On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Bert Shuler bertshu...@yahoo.com wrote: I have written this code a few different ways. Each seems to be equally inefficient. I am attempting to compare to images

Re: Inefficient code

2009-06-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richmond Mathewson wrote: I have uploaded my 'take' on this problem: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/IMAGE COMPARE.rev.zip Ho, Hum . . . clicking on the above takes you to some daft templates page. If, however, you copy-paste http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/IMAGE COMPARE.rev.zip

Re: [OT] Shift-Lock

2009-06-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.comwrote: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=ukelele If you reassign shift to the caps key, then maybe in the locked state it will be as if you had shift lock. Worth a try I

[OT] Something for the kids this summer.

2009-06-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
That doesn't involve sex, drugs or computer games: http://mathewson.110mb.com/res.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

[OT] Shift-Lock

2009-06-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I really miss the old SHIFT-LOCK key: http://mathewson.110mb.com/kp.html does anybody know how to convert the Caps-Lock key to a Shift-Lock key? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: Inefficient code

2009-06-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I just popped together a stack using your code and 2 versions of an image. I made 2 buttons: 'COMPARE' contained your code 'COMPARE 2' contained your code with all references to your progress bar removed I also introduced 2 extra flds; 'Stime' and 'Etime' In both COMPARE and COMPARE 2 I

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I think one can get a bit too hoity-toity about commercial software; and I am not fan number 1 of Microsoft either; BUT, as VLC (which is Open Source, Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah) plays WMV files just like that we should not complain. I know, Andre, that if somebody suggested I ran out and bought 2

Re: EduTainment Titles

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sivakatirswami wrote: Judy: I second your motion that it is possible to make something fascinating enough to encourage young people to go swimming in the knowledge pool, and then want dive in again tomorrow. Richmond: It is perfectly possible to present educational materials in an

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jim Sims wrote: snip In the case of Control-Click this use to be used to bring up a 'Contextual Menu', but in my latest copy of OS X The Missing Manual, I see in the Index 'Contextual Menus' says - see Shortcut Menus. So anything to do with Control-Click should be referenced to a Shortcut

Re: Where to Send On-Rev Questions

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
J. Landman Gay wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: I always like to know that whenever I finally need to use any feature of Rev, if I search the mailing list archives, I will find some help. I hope non-On-Rev users fell the same way about On-Rev discussions here. I'm with you. I hardly ever get

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