Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: I have 4 Macintosh computer keyboards (USB) and not a single one has an 'Option' key; where Apple used to have an 'Option' key there are 'Alt' keys - presumably to be more in sync with the PC world: I suppose their documentation (like

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
2009, at 09:14, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Just to throw a spanner in the works; I have 4 Macintosh computer keyboards (USB) and not a single one has an 'Option' key; where Apple used to have an 'Option' key there are 'Alt' keys - presumably to be more in sync with the PC world: I suppose

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
keys are labelled with the sign UNICODE 2325. Ian Wood wrote: On 25 Jun 2009, at 09:14, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Just to throw a spanner in the works; I have 4 Macintosh computer keyboards (USB) and not a single one has an 'Option' key; where Apple used to have an 'Option' key there are 'Alt

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I wonder what is the provenance of this keyboard (from a MacBook Pro)? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Apple_Modifier_Keys.jpg certainly 'gifted' with 'ALT' keys, and, a mucky COMMAND key! Ian Wood wrote: On 25 Jun 2009, at 09:14, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Just to throw

Re: Staying in Edinburgh

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
You wouldn't happen to have a URL or an e-mail address for that would you? Peter Alcibiades wrote: We used to find Festival BBs through the Festival Office, which ran a sort of clearing house. Scottish landladies in immaculate houses serving enormous breakfasts with bacon and eggs and

Re: Staying in Edinburgh

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
This seems to be the successor of the old Festival Office accomodation service. I notice they offer university hall of residence accomodation as well as private houses. Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: You wouldn't happen to have a URL or an e-mail address for that would you

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have just come across this Apple keyboard mapping in Windows XP and Vista: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1167 although some of the keyboard images make me think it is time I got myself some glasses! Interestingly enough the ALT / OPTION keys are marked with both those words.

Re: Helper apps (was Re: EduTainment Titles)

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Not much joy with Safari, I'm afraid: http://8help.osu.edu/1600.html paraphrasing this: the assignment of helper apps is done within the Finder, (i.e. the ones for when you double-click on a doc in the Finder) and Safari

Re: Helper apps (was Re: EduTainment Titles)

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I suppose expecting a revlet to act like a sniffer dog and detect an end-user's web-browser (OS, version number, . . . . ), an end-user's preferences for that browser, and attempt to modify them is too much to hope for for quite a while. What would happen, then, if the end-user did not have

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I dunno, seems a bit complicated. I just dug out a stack I made a while back that I popped together to try and understand customProps (which, oddly enough, turned out to be extremely simple to understand). Now on that stack, on its single card there is a button called CusProp which contains

Re: Deleting Custom Properties

2009-06-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I knew I was barking up the wrong tree: this: on mouseUp set the customKeys of btn CusProp to empty end mouseUp scrubbed out EVERYTHING all at once! Hey, guess what; it's there in the Documentation (although, admittedly, not expressed perticularly clearly).

Re: Salivating . . .

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The tragedy of the 'exiled' Scot is that he has been away so long he cannot tell if the birds have Scots accents or not. :) Bill Marriott wrote: The birds were outside *my* window :) And, for an 'exiled' Scot, the best bit of the Webinar was the sound of birds tweeting outside RunRev's

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yes, Thanks a lot, Bill; now able to catch up on the part of the Webinar I missed; and run it through several times so I can extract the juice from it - and there is a lot of juice there. I was also happy to have my vocabulary enlarged, learning the word 'Olve' (as in 'revOlve'); although, for

Wonky revTools on Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
A bit odd, see: http://mathewson.110mb.com/rrprobs.html and, err, yes, my website has mived again: http://mathewson.110mb.com/default.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: EduTainment Titles

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
udy Perry wrote: Richmond, Your rant is somewhat unfair and ignores the bulk of instructional design research that has taken place over the years. Um, Yes; probably slanted too much in one direction; but mainly as a reaction to too much in the other. To be fair; I gave warning, and

Re: Wonky revTools on Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
/ Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote in message news:4a420975.8000...@gmail.com... A bit odd, see: http://mathewson.110mb.com/rrprobs.html and, err, yes, my website has mived again: http://mathewson.110mb.com/default.html

Re: option click, control click, etc

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
And, Jim, just to fill you with the full nausea: http://rixstep.com/2/20040510,00.shtml here is a fairly exhaustive (and exhausting) list of Mac OS keyboard shortcuts. Devin Asay wrote: On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:29 AM, jim sims wrote: Anyone know the OS X proper name for control-click,

Re: Rev 4 Preview Webinar - Video Link

2009-06-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
One could, of course, go for something Open Source which everybody could watch, trouble-free (and 'tooth-sucking-free' whether about Microsoft or Apple) with VLC: http://www.videolan.org/ Colin Holgate wrote: On Jun 24, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Michael wrote: Really? I think you should forego

[OT] Karaoke for those desperate moments

2009-06-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
EFL can get pretty deadly at times. :) I often find, that after 30 minutes of the Present Perfect a spot of Karaoke helps everybody relax a bit (Ha, Ha, for the second 30 minutes of grammar - of course). This Open Source Karaoke player runs through Java and seems capable of coping with almost

Re: Hide Screen Furniture

2009-06-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Ken- Monday, June 22, 2009, 3:08:07 PM, you wrote: Be careful here... when the docs say Mac OS, they mean OS 9 and earlier (Classic). SystemWindow works perfectly fine in OS X... A 'Classic' in its own right, that one! Perhaps where the documentation says

Re: 4.0 Webinar Invite - Its Today!

2009-06-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, I'm doing fine from Bulgaria on my G4 Mac; although the sound drops for about 2 seconds every 5 minutes or so. Jim Sims wrote: is it still going on Bernard? On Jun 23, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: That's a pity, works fine for me. They say it will be available shortly

Salivating . . .

2009-06-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Gosh, suddenly Runtime Revolution goes from fancified Hypercard to something far, far better. I don't quite know what I expected when I logged in (late) to the Webinar; but was earliy enough to realise that with version 4 RunRev is taking a quantum leap; and with revMedia going to be FREE they

Re: More Crossplatform Text Agony

2009-06-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yuck, an old chestnut. My experience, unfortunately, is that text sizes and styles just don't move properly cross-platform as they are in some way tied to the font that was chosen on the original platform. Therefore when I do stuff for a platform I either develop on that platform, or if that

Re: More Crossplatform Text Agony

2009-06-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:29:15 PM, you wrote: To reset it on Windows, set the textfont of the control to a Windows-native font. Since setting the font will wipe the size and style info, you'll need to reset both of those too. See if that helps. Yep - I

Re: Salivating . . .

2009-06-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
stephen barncard wrote: This is indeed a momentous occasion, as I have never seen such unrestrained exuberance from Richmond before! - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/6/23 Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com . . . Hurrah, Hurrah

[OT] PPC Macs, Developer Tools and NAP

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I use the 'Hardware' preference pane in CHUD 3.1 to turn on NAP each time I boot up so my G4 doesn't stew in its own juice. Should you choose to install the latest Developer tools from Apple: https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=20414 it will

Hide Screen Furniture

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
We have hide menuBar andhide taskBar but we don't seem to be able to hide the Mac Dock the GNU Panel(s), Cairo-Dock, Avant Window Manager, or any other item of screen furniture that might be better tucked away whilst our stack/apps are running. RR stacks running under GNOME will cover

Re: Hide Screen Furniture

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Richmond, We have hide menuBar andhide taskBar but we don't seem to be able to hide the Mac Dock hide menubar will also hide the dock on OS X! Åt least it did a minute ago here... the GNU Panel(s), Cairo-Dock, Avant Window Manager, or any other item

Re: Hide Screen Furniture

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Heaven forfend the thought of over-riding your UI selections PERMANENTLY, but as it seems perfectly reasonable, under certain circumstances, to make the Windows Taskbar or the Mac Menubar take a holiday, it might be equally reasonable to clear away an end-user's screen clutter so that s/he can

Re: Hide Screen Furniture

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Richmond, We have hide menuBar andhide taskBar but we don't seem to be able to hide the Mac Dock hide menubar will also hide the dock on OS X! Åt least it did a minute ago here... see what I wrote about

Re: Hide Screen Furniture

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter W A Wood wrote: Dear Richmond Heaven forfend the thought of over-riding your UI selections PERMANENTLY, but as it seems perfectly reasonable, under certain circumstances, to make the Windows Taskbar or the Mac Menubar take a holiday, it might be equally reasonable to clear away an

Re: Hide Screen Furniture

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
on a pile of old newspapers in front of a computer) - deprivation of the worst sort. :) Thank you very much for your tip. Will this work on Win, Mac Linux ? Viktoras Richmond Mathewson wrote: Some 'screen furniture' will float over everything else in the GUI regardless

Embedded Movies Linux

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sorry chaps; a hoary old chestnut I know: Wondering about trying to present the odd movie clip in a RunRev stack/standalone on my Ubuntu boxes in the school . . . Shall I embed AVI files and then . . . what? Or shall I forgo RunRev and just convert everything to Real Player (a format I

Re: Hide Screen Furniture

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Monday, June 22, 2009, 10:06:00 AM, you wrote: Will this work on Win, Mac Linux ? Handy thing, that documentation stack... You sarcastic . . . ! :)Mind you, I did deserve that. I have been doing 'stomach surgery' on my G3 iMac; whipped out

Re: Embedded Movies Linux

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry chaps; a hoary old chestnut I know: Wondering about trying to present the odd movie clip in a RunRev stack/standalone on my Ubuntu boxes in the school . . . Shall I embed AVI files and then . . . what

Re: Embedded Movies Linux

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thanks, Klaus . . . will give it a try. Somebody ought to have a look at the documentation (apart from Mark Weider and myself). Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, Grunt, grunt, grunt . . . Just downloaded a trial of 3.5 to my Ubuntu test machine and came up against xanim again which . . .

Re: EduTainment Titles

2009-06-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
To be honest the word 'EduTainment' makes me feel extremely queasy. Conservative rant follows. There has arisen, in the English-speaking world at least, a theory that children always have

Re: EduTainment Titles

2009-06-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dear Sivakatirswami, In all the institututions I have worked in where I have prepared education content delivery and reinforcement programs over the last 15 years the following have held true: Most programs have been held on a local server (SIUC, UAE University) or on individual computers (St

Re: OS X Dock menu

2009-06-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dear Sarah, Hope you are up and fighting fit! Love, Richmond. Colin Holgate wrote: On Jun 20, 2009, at 1:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I've spent the last 2 weeks in hospital with a broken leg Really sorry to hear that, it must have been awful. I'm so glad you are back with us again. The

Re: internal audioclips - file on hd?

2009-06-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Hello Klaus, a few years back I remember suggesting Runtime Revolution build sound file export into its IDE . . . . old chestnut. I believe that sound file export from RR would be a huge advantage. kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi all, can someone give me a hint if and how one can export

Re: internal audioclips - file on hd?

2009-06-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Surely something needs to be done about this: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=349sid=d105e2a578f712080eb780364a7c6e73 http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-December/027985.html maybe a Mass Shout at the Edinburgh conference! :) kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote:

Chinese Typewriter

2009-06-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
[Just a feeble attempt to get people to notice an earlier posting] Those of you who have the 'benefit' of access to the old version of revOnline can now download my Chinese Typewriter (find it, oddly enough, under 'Richmond'); a proof of concept stack that shows how Chinese characters can be

Re: bignum unicode entities in htmlText?

2009-06-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mathewson wrote: People who have no access to the old version of revOnline and don't want to write to me can download CKBD.rev.zip (Chinese Typewriter) after joining the RRText Tricks Yahoo Group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrtexttricks/?yguid=254544547 Devin Asay wrote: On Jun 12, 2009

Re: bignum unicode entities in htmlText?

2009-06-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thanks to Devin's advice, a cup of Arabic coffee with Cardamon, Bach played by Hans Wurman on the Moog, a knock on the head when I was 3 months old, a . . . . Those of you who have the 'benefit' of access to the old version of revOnline can now download my Chinese Typewriter (find it, oddly

Re: bignum unicode entities in htmlText?

2009-06-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
People who have no access to the old version of revOnline and don't want to write to me can download CKBD.rev.zip (Chinese Typewriter) after joining the RRText Tricks Yahoo Group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rrtexttricks/?yguid=254544547 Devin Asay wrote: On Jun 12, 2009, at 2:31 PM,

Re: How to put a minus in menu

2009-06-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
If one could be bothered one could probably draw up a table of unicode references to characters such as -, + and so on that caused cross-platofrm problems. Beat Cornaz wrote: Thanks Devin Richmond, Devin wrote : You could try using an en-dash instead of a hyphen. I have no idea what an

Unicode Fiesta

2009-06-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Have just done a quick-n-dirty re unicode symbols: http://richmond.b0x.com/ just hit the button that says UNICODE REFERENCE and the full panoply of non-alphabetic symbols that lie beyond the ASCII tables in Unicode which you can employ in your Runtime Revolution stacks will be revealed.

Re: bignum unicode entities in htmlText?

2009-06-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I stripped the leading ampersand, the hash (#) and the trailing semicolon from #40669; like this: set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld euro to (NumToChar(40669)) and got a Chinese character (mind you, as I know no Chinese, it might be the wrong one). I suppose you will have

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
a Revolution stack to convert between Hex and Decimal. Andre Garzia wrote: Yay for Richmond! reported working here too... ubuntu jaunty On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Going about things the wrong way! Try this one: set the useUnicode

Re: How to put a minus in menu

2009-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Try Hex 2013 / Decimal 8211 set the useUnicode to true (alt MINUS on a Mac) Devin Asay wrote: On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Beat Cornaz wrote: Thanks Joe and Klaus, but with the minus sign the back slash does not work. I still get the separation line if minus is preceded by back slash.

Unicode Numbers

2009-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Cheap-Jacks like me, who want to find out unicode values for obscure characters and explore the wierd and wonderful array of characters in unicode fonts can do worse than using this: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ Fontforge is FREE and cross-platform and makes me wonder why I bought

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
too... ubuntu jaunty On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Going about things the wrong way! Try this one: set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld euro to (NumToChar(8364)) 8364 is the Decimal of Hex 20AC works on the G4 Mac

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
end mouseUp where fld fHEX contains 20Ac (or any other Hexadecimal number) it screws up and I get 133824 POO! Andre Garzia wrote: Yay for Richmond! reported working here too... ubuntu jaunty On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Going about

Re: Problem with linktext and html characters

2009-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
if I do: put (numToChar(363)) I get a 'k' however this: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld f2 to (numToChar(363)) end mouseUp gives the 'u' with the diacritic. if you put this in your first field: a href=gojūongojūon/a everything works as long as your

Re: Help on export snapshot

2009-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
2 problems as far as I can see: 1. You need to fiddle around with set default folder e.g: set the defaultFolder to /HD/Users 2. export snapshot to file experiment.png as PNG (i.e. not as scrambled eggs) Paul Gabel wrote: Hello list: Can anyone help me on exporting a snapshot by

Re: Drag images into text field

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The problem is that if you want to put an image into a textField you cannot;you can reference an image to replace a char: e.g.set the imageSource of char 15 of line 5 of fld xx to 1003 but this is a bit hopeless re drag-and-drop. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Josep jmye...@mac.com wrote:

What a Drag?

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I'm a bit slow on the uptake, and will continue to be so until the good folk at Edinburgh press a copy of RR 4 into my sweaty paws at the conference. So I was a bit disturbed when I read a message from a chap who was proposing to drag image files from outwith RunRev and drop them into a field.

Re: What a Drag?

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Björnke von Gierke wrote: as far as I know, it's not used in the ide, but it is possible to use the drag/drop stuff to implement it yourself. Pray tell ? On 10 Jun 2009, at 14:18, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I'm a bit slow on the uptake, and will continue to be so until the good

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just tried that by running up a stack on Mac: worked on Mac, didn't on Ubuntu 8.04 sorry! Devin Asay wrote: On Jun 10, 2009, at 7:15 AM, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi all, any hint on how to handle crossplatform EURO signs? I mean the euro sign is unfortunately NOT translated

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
According to the documentation Bitstream Vera is a unicode font, but your added code didn't bite. Devin Asay wrote: On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Just tried that by running up a stack on Mac: worked on Mac, didn't on Ubuntu 8.04 sorry! Sometimes you first

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The only problem I can see with that is if the end-user has the ability to resize fonts in the text-field; if the fonts are too big the Euro will look small and silly, if the fonts are too small the Euro png will overlap adjacent chars. Andre Garzia wrote: Klaus, want to do a cheap trick?

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
a good hack! it is not the good hacks that I am worried about! :) it is the hackers who have to remember every fiddly little bit they have to build into a good hack. Andre On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: The only problem I can see

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
and resize it, use its ID on the htmltext and you're good to go! no one can stop a good hack! Andre On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: The only problem I can see with that is if the end-user has the ability to resize fonts in the text-field

Re: Crossplatform EURO sign?

2009-06-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Hi Klaus, http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/20ac/browsertest.htm Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Devin, On Jun 10, 2009, at 7:15 AM, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi all, any hint on how to handle crossplatform EURO signs? I mean the euro sign is unfortunately NOT translated

Re: is putting a stack too far offscreen dangerous?

2009-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I just ran up a silly little stack with a silly little substack and a couple of buttons to move the substack off and on screen to 1,1. Set the moveSpeed to 6 so didn't go bonkers waiting. substack 200 x 200, mainstack 300,300 No Crashes, Completely Boring. G4 Mirror Door,

Re: is putting a stack too far offscreen dangerous?

2009-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
However, after my experiment, having quit Revolution (DreamCard 2.6.1 - dinosaur stuff) it refuses to restart; something tells me something is going on with a cache somewhere. Josh Mellicker wrote: I have read of some developers putting stacks offscreen, or sizing stacks so they extend

Re: is putting a stack too far offscreen dangerous?

2009-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Had to reboot the computer to get Runtime Revolution to behave itself again. Josh Mellicker wrote: I have read of some developers putting stacks offscreen, or sizing stacks so they extend offscreen substantially. Are there dangers? I know if some OpenGL calls exceed the resolution of the

Re: Export an Image from Revolution?

2009-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Why not just export your png and then open it manually in your program of choice? Ted wrote: Hello, Is there a way to export a png image out of Revolution into a graphics editing program, such as Photoshop Elements? Thanks, Ted ___ use-revolution

Re: Export an Image from Revolution?

2009-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Read open process in the Documentation; pay attention to write to process. :) Ted wrote: Hello, Is there a way to export a png image out of Revolution into a graphics editing program, such as Photoshop Elements? Thanks, Ted ___ use-revolution

Re: What do Rev programmers charge per hour for programming?

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I never charge for anything (except EFL teaching) per hour; to my mind that stinks; lazy types like myself, safe in the knowledge they were being paid by the hour would take things in a leisurely fashion and the end result would be continually delayed. Of course teaching kiddos English is

Re: What do Rev programmers charge per hour for programming?

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
That remark about Cup Noodles was not very nice: The first thing I will do when I arrive in Edinburgh is stock up on Pot/Cup Noodles to last me through the conference: Pot Noodles occupy an important position in my personal development, having got me through my Bachelor's degree and all those

Re: [OT] Customs

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
If you'll drive a car from San Francisco to Edinburgh, I'll swim there from Bulgaria! Let's meet on the beach by the bridge: http://www.edinburgh-scotland.net/galleryEHQueensferry.htm stephen barncard wrote: I'm SO NOT looking forward to traveling internationally, something I haven't done

Re: [OT] Customs

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Exactly the reverse! Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, June 7, 2009, 10:22:44 AM, you wrote: If you'll drive a car from San Francisco to Edinburgh, I'll swim there from Bulgaria! Is this more like what you were thinking of?

Re: replaceText

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Funnily enough I've nev r used this before . . . Tried your recipe and duplicated your error more importantly: I know why . . . If you look in the Documentation under replaceText it shows this: replaceText(field Stats,return,comma) while your replacetext(fld id 1004, findWords,

Re: What do Rev programmers charge per hour for programming?

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I will not stoop to haggis flavoured pot noodles; however, I am more than happy to tell any interested parties about deep-fried haggis and black-pudding: far less MSG, far more healthy, healthy, healthy super-saturated fat. Haggis flavoured pot noodles would be like having to depend on

Re: replaceText

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dunno what all the fuss is about; this works: on mouseUp put id=d2b516 into oldWord put id=anything into newWord if fld id 1004 contains id=d2b516 then replace oldWord with newWord in fld fSTUFF end if end mouseUp -= JB =- wrote: Below is a piece of text from the field,

Re: replaceText - correction

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sorry, should have written: on mouseUp put id=d2b516 into oldWord put id=anything into newWord if fld id 1004 contains id=d2b516 then replace oldWord with newWord in fld id 1004 end if end mouseUp rather than on mouseUp put id=d2b516 into oldWord put id=anything into newWord if fld id

Re: replaceText

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
If you really insist on using replaceText you can do this: on mouseUp put id=d2b516 into oldWord put id=anything into newWord if fld id 1004 contains id=d2b516 then put replaceText(fld id 1004, oldWord, newWord) into fld id 1004 end if end mouseUp in my opinion it seems rather less

Re: replaceText

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
then replace oldWord with newWord in fld id 1004 end if end mouseUp -= JB =- wrote: Will this work if it needs to be characters and not words? I will give it a try and get back with you. -=JB=- On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Dunno what all the fuss is about; this works

Re: replaceText

2009-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
the pot a bit. :) -= JB =- wrote: Got it working, thanks I was concerned if it would find the text if it had other characters on each side instead of spaces and like you say it works. -=JB=- On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I don't think Runtime Revolution as such parses

[OT] Customs

2009-06-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Before I hop on the plane to the conference I am trying to find out some information about British Customs and laptops. There has been persistent rumours that customs officers can seize laptops at random from entrants to Britain and hold them for examination as long as they want. Unfortunately

Re: On-Rev / Off-Rev

2009-05-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
My initial question may have been misread. I am well aware that programming languages can exist independently of IDEs (what was Fortran 4 ). What interested me was the Runtime Revolution language (or any other xTalk dialect) existing independently of an IDE. I am aware that for a while

Stykz

2009-05-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
A FREE animation program just came onto my radar: http://www.stykz.net/Home.html and the most interesting thing about it is that it comes from Sons of Thunder !!! although it is not overtly stated one look at the interface is a dead give-away that it has been made with Runtime Revolution.

Re: Stykz

2009-05-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
. :) Colin Holgate wrote: On May 31, 2009, at 6:38 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: http://www.stykz.net/Home.html and the most interesting thing about it is that it comes from Sons of Thunder !!! You must have been busy last Christmas Day, when Ken posted a message here about

Re: Stykz

2009-05-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: although it is not overtly stated one look at the interface is a dead give-away that it has been made with Runtime Revolution. The scope and functionality of Ken's program is very impressive, but if just looking at it makes it clear what

On-Rev / Off-Rev

2009-05-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I am beginning to wonder if there should not be a second Use-List for those people who use the On-Rev service, so that those off us who don't, don't have our in-boxes flooded by messages that are not all that relevant to what we are doing. ___

Re: On-Rev / Off-Rev

2009-05-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
and became completely independent of the desktop IDE . . . . Thanks again, Richmond. Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I am beginning to wonder if there should not be a second Use-List for those people who use the On-Rev

Re: On-Rev / Off-Rev

2009-05-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The reason I asked the question that I did was because of what you wrote re the language and the IDE: we consider our product to be the language, not merely the desktop IDE as if the language and the IDE were, in some way, capable of independent existences. I am well aware that the language

Re: On-Rev / Off-Rev

2009-05-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thank you very much, Bill, for taking the time to write such a clear explanation that really does answer all my concerns. Mind you, somebody is bound to come along, sooner or later, and take issue with RunRev is the unchallenged steward of that legacy today! :) Let's hope that when (and it

Re: on-Rev and use-Rev

2009-05-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Oh Dear, Oh Dear: Mark! When will you realise that time is relative. :) While I'm here I was wondering whether I should 'bung' all the original stacks from which I have built standalones for my EFL school on a CD to throw around at the Edinburgh conference. In the great scheme of things they

Re: RunRevLive.09

2009-05-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Um. I'll certainly think about things. :) I think it would be rather good if as many people could bring as many 'give-aways' to the table as possible (whether on physical media - CDs, DVDs and so on - or aetherial media, as per your suggestion) for the conference. After all, as well as all the

Re: Best Practices Question

2009-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
It doesn't sound as if you are a 'Dummy' at all; surely a 'Dummy' wouldn't know what Globals and Custom Properties are. Or, putting it another way, I know at least one person [err, myself] who has done many things without ever having used either of the above. I don't think either you, or many

Polly Ticks and Programming.

2009-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just to issue a necessary corrective, those of you who are still 'privileged' to have access to the OLD revOnline are cordially invited to download the stack 'POLITICS.rev' (find it under 'Richmond') to prove, finally and forever that there is Politics in Programming. :) I would hope that Jim

Re: Best Practices Question

2009-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thanks for http://revolution.byu.edu/design/bestpractices.html and all the other connected pages there; really good, sensible stuff, set out in a way that is much more comprehensible than most programming manuals I have encountered. Devin Asay wrote: Hi Bill, On May 27, 2009, at 8:05 AM,

Re: Best Practices Question

2009-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I suppose this is a bit 'OT', but just have been 'mooching' at Devin Asay's stuff and found this: http://revolution.byu.edu/helps/shortcuts.php which made me have another hard look at my Nostromo n52 Speedpad: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=164714 and realise

Re: Best Practices Question

2009-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Like the concept of best practice, defining what constitutes innovation is probably a relative term and a moving target at best. found at : http://strengthofweakties.org/?cat=11 and this is probably the truth. What constitutes 'canonical' programming is surely a matter of taste, and I would

Re: Open stacks

2009-05-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
put revLoadedStacks(application) David Bovill wrote: Any one remember the rev commands for getting lists of open and visible stacks... there are some built ins - something like revOpenStacks() but they are not in the docs as far as I can see. I'm not talking about the openstacks or mainstacks,

Page Turn

2009-05-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Maybe I'm a bit naive: http://www.zappas-magazine.co.uk/ or, maybe I'm just lucky to have held onto some of my sense of wonder. Dreaming . . . ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

[OT] Yahoo Groups

2009-05-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Have contacted Yahoo Groups, but they say there is no way for them to set groups so that files can be downloaded by non-members. Those of you who are interested in my Cognitive Linguistics Thesis would be better to contact me directly, off-list; and then I can let you have it as an attachment.

Re: [OT] EFL video resources

2009-05-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
is: Hey mate, ya know where tha nearest dunny is? all the best chris On 13/05/2009, at 2:50 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I have been using these video resources for over 3 years now: http://australianetwork.com/nexus/ http://australianetwork.com/learningenglish/vodcast.htm http

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