rev";
Not much effort at all."
I stand corrected.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems De
stack I authored about 5 years ago
with Marielle Lange (then based in Edinburgh, and then, not being
either anti-Runtime Revolution or anti-Richmond): a stack that would
convert HTML into RR.
This is probably a naive question: Has anybody done this successfully?
sinc
Well worth the extra effort!
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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ve a Happy Christmas!
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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us
e that the
rest of my time on earth is rather comfortable.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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rels.
Of course, my silly "Grabbed Objects" stack is a nothing when compared
to the capabilities of Runtime Revolution; but HC cannot even do that.
Mr Reetz ought to take a cold shower and reconsider both his position and
his attitude.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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, Richmond Mathewson.
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use-revolution mailing list
use-
t;
else
set the backColor of me to empty
end if
end if
end mouseMove
with the double mouseMove at the start nothing would 'work a charm';
merely throw a wobbly!
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the fles
lse
set the backColor of me to empty
end if
end if
end mouseMove
worked a charm!
Have a look at "Grabbed Object.rev" at revOnline under 'Richmond'.
AND, as it works, what exactly is your objection to 'loc&
in a Nutshell" (which is an endlessly tedious
book):
page 430:
"A paragraph object is a chunk of text that is terminated by a new line or
paragraph character."
Can anybody tell me what a 'paragraph character" would be?
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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or that one.
Ouch!
Also comparing a religion with a building is an invalid comparison:
you cannot compare two kinds!
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Syste
"bad" departments that
milk individuals and grant-aiding bodies for socially approved courses
as a way of financing a few high-profile courses that will attract
kudos to the institution.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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tion as a sort of Christianity would not.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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regardless of their religious
affiliation or lack thereof.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed
hell", O'Reilly, 2001:
page 426;
"paragraph
an attribute run or chunk of text could contain one or more
paragraphs, as is (count paragraphs of attribute run 1 of text
of document 1). see the paragraph class."
now in
, inevitably perhaps, the most sacred word (the bija mantra)
of Runtime Revolution has to be 'ROM'.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
PS. And if you think that is bad ask for my metaphor
using Christianity!
A Thorn in the flesh is bet
really just a small something for
knocking out TextEdit clones; however, it can be used for
building quite decent text analysis programs. The addition
of the capability to recognise paragraphs would change that
'decent' to 'good'.
sincerely
up on the Use-List.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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ois (poor Belgians,
deprived of 'Quatres-Vingt').
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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na
anglijskata imena?
An Ah dinnae thole til quhat an owersetter wid die wi yon white hound
in war douce lied! Ah jalouse it widnae be ae that mensefu.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed
you want your cursor back!
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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Scott Rossi wrote:
"lock cursor
set cursor to none"
Thank you very much.
I'm going to blame it on the documentation again.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Develop
I wonder why
set the cursor to none
doesn't work.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life
#x27;.
This is similar to the verb 'to xerox', meaning to photocopy.
Presumably 'to xerox' means, in America, to photocopy intimate
pieces of one's anatomy :)
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Tho
itain (amongst other places points-west) was abandoned for
the effortless pap that now passes for education.
Sorry about the rant; but I do feel extremely strongly about the
above points.
sincerely, Ric
for
the effortless pap that now passes for education.
Sorry about the rant; but I do feel extremely strongly about the
above points.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
When a field contains this in its script:
set the textColor of the mouseLine to "red"
it throws an error message, and doesn't work.
I wonder why . . .
clickLine works perfectly.
so, I suppose my question is: What is 'mouseLine' for?
sinc
http://editra.org/
really quite good; but the developer needs 'jabbing' about
Runtime Revolution.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development
my programming
has been particularly blessed by a fairy [ Ooo, Craig, another opportunity :) ]
that hovers near my computer.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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[TT] - Totally Tangential.
Ha, Ha, Ha . . .
When I was studying at SIU Carbondale I rushed into a teaching assistants'
meeting fresh from vacuuming the carpet at home and said:
"Sorry I'm late, I have just been hoovering . . ."
There was a deathly silence in the room!
My understanding supervis
ollowed a fancy cursor (e.g. a flower) around; obviously
this would necessitate each member of the flock moving independently.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed
uot; to the mouseLoc
end mouseMove
There is more than one way to skin a cat!
Have a lovely weekend, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems De
of the card.
Colin Holgate's notes will be extremely useful tomorrow, when I have time
to try them out: Thank you very much, Colin.
And, now to "Mr DunbarX", my name is 'Richmond Mathewson' and
not 'the guy' - some of us don't feel it particularly necessar
(MISHKA2 - 40)
end mouseMove
[ find "MISHKA.rev" at revOnline, under 'Richmond' ]
but the buttons behave a bit oddly (cannot describe it, has to
be seen to be understood).
Would be grateful for help.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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eted by "that company in Scotland"; it is the
interaction between that and its programmers and end-users - rather in
the same way as reading a book the first time can be awful, and the second time
great; because of the frame of mind the reader is in
ioned Slashdot web-site.
Garn!
Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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u
After a time I have collected a series of button images that serve
almost all my purposes.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems De
Dunnit!
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/10/2257223
Come on Youall!
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle
t Rev..."
To which the inevitable reply is; "Why don't you?"
The more people who vote for RR the better.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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Mikey wrote:
"Sorry, Richard . . ."
Who is 'Richard' ? Sure hope he appreciated your apologies.
Love, Richmond :)
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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, and so are you: we are
human, and operating systems are made by human beings. [The reason I like
FreeDOS with GEM is that it is so obviously a rickety old system with a
cack-handed attempt at a GUI I have no illusions about what it can do - so we
get along fine!]
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
this fact.
Now installing 8.04
But it looks as if Ubuntu has had its day; or, maybe this is a sneaky
signal that it is about to go commercial?
A similar thing has happened with many people who have upgraded from
8.40 to 8.10 over the internet.
sincerely, Richmond
Layer-Fix version of "LOCATION.rev" uploaded to revOnline.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development
ically healthier for us to
retrace parts of inventing the wheel (hence the collection of slide-rules down
in my school, which I force on my pupils for 1 day a year).
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better t
o revOnline I made the junction
and corner gifs as single gifs: and, in my enthusiasm to get
the thing finished overlooked the later order.
Again, thanks for the feedback.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is b
7; and,
assuming that computer has internet access, you will be
magically taken to Runtime Revolution's repository of
user-authored stacks.
revOnline is a bit like the Use-List; good in parts; however
a bit of 'digging' can be rewarding in terms of finding solutions to
common pro
ightscribe DVDs. These are a
little bit more expensive than other optical materials, but they seem to be
readable everywhere (Windows, Debian, Mac, RISC) and I can efficiently label
the other sides of the discs.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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o use them. Sitting near them while they work at
the computers one can even hear them sub-vocalising the vocabulary!
Anybody who wants to use and/or adapt what I have uploaded is more than welcome.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
A Th
so to a little coding" . . . to misquote that unsung hero of
software development, Mr Samuel Pepys.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
nstitutions with academic
transcript with stamps, seals, apostils and much, much more.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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n extremely nebulous idea!
Now 'Runtime Revolution' is an extremely punchy name,
so the programming language need something similarly punchy
as a name:
Revolt ?
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better tha
atively empty semantics behind
'Code' and 'Talk' - come to think of it, I noticed that some of my chest
hairs have turned white just the other day :)
'RevTalk' or 'RexTalk' would suit me fine; but I feel that 'endless
fruitless discussion' might not
Just uploaded "Text Bash" to revOnline
( find it under 'Richmond' - surprise, surprise )
simplistic nonsense with text fields,
might be useful, you never know.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the fl
all it a 'f***ing shovel'.
I still think there is a lot to be said for 'RexTalk'.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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x27;t really care;
what they do care about is that they end up with a fully-functional application
that does what they want it to in the shortest possible time: AND, SURELY, that
is the point, rather than worrying overmuch about how to explain how one works
one's "Magic Spells"!
It's what HyperCard could have been if Apple had more crunch!
Personally I like "xTalk", so why not call the Runtime Revolution dialect
RexTalk ?
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
"Nice to see someone reads their own posts."
Well, I can't go to bed and sleep soundly unless I know at least one
person has read my posts :)
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the
2"
end if
end repeat
where field "f1" contained a large text of which about 50% was italicised.
It worked.
Mind you, still didn't tell me how many paragraphs field "f1" contained.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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ly bound to one operating system.'
sorry.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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sed to determine how many paragraphs a text
field contained, as it could be used for indenting paragraphs.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
A Thorn in the flesh is b
GUIs - and, "just for fun" I took the
advanced kids through the Nielsen stuff:
http://www.useit.com/
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Tho
quot;nuts and bolts" as I go, than foist on some unsuspecting end-user a
"quick-and-Xy" conversion; and then have the sort of back-and-forth
arguments, misunderstandings and so on that accompany bad work.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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nifty, new
little program called Hypercard. It is really wonderful and works
extremely well with the new Macintosh LCIII, running Mac OS 7.5.5
I have just sunk six month's earnings into.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the
Just found 2 pictures;
1. some people sitting on the porch of a tin-roofed house.
2. a hand showing off a leguminous crop.
there is no text accompanying the images.
HERE:
http://www.runrev.com/downloads/free-trial/
don't see the connexion ???
sincerely, Richmond Math
key-commands
HELP NEEDED! :)
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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Can anybody tell me what "packaged xml" is?
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development
f stack "revDocs" into fld "f1" of stack "Doc dump"
not rocket science, but you get yer dictionary page; admittedly all the
fancy-font-sizing and the slinky OS icons go down the loo --- but!
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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Welcome, welcome!
Maybe, in its own funny way, the Runtime Revolution Use-List will
do its bit for cross-cultural understanding: and that can only
be good.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson (Bulgaria)
A Thorn in the flesh is better than
the screenRect into WID
put item 4 of the screenRect into HITE
put (WID / 2) into WID2
put (HITE / 2) into HITE2
move stack "BLAH BLAH" to WID2, HITE2
end preOpenCard
where "BLAH BLAH" is the name of your stack
this will position the stack in the centre of the end-user&
This is very odd indeed as have just looked at the Documentation for 2.6.1
(DreamCard), 2.0.1 (RR) and 1.1.1 (RR) and revShowPrintDialog came up
everytime: although NOT for Linux.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh
x
select the field "doc"
9. Select TEXT FORMATTING from the drop-down menu
10. Select the FONT SIZE you require
11. Save the stack
12. Boom-Buddy-Boom-Buddy-Boom-Boom-Boom !
Love, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in
" Important! The revShowPrintDialog command is part of the Printing library.
To ensure that the command works in a standalone application, you must include
this custom library when you create your standalone. In the Inclusions section
on the General screen of the Standalone Application Settings
n
--whistle "Kathy call the cattle home" through your nose
end if
print card "Horror"
end mouseUp
this seems to illustrate how one can "do things" without too much fuss.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thor
f,
only if, I had that Super RR, if, if , if . . ." And many nights to come, as I
am transformed from that benign middle-aged slob that I am into some horrible
monstrosity literally green and slimy with envy . . .
Err, wife just smacked me one with a frying pan :)
But, seriously ?
t, just in case . . .
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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ome fairly revolting
foul-ups) is never to build a standalone for one platform on another platform.
Having said that, on the few occasions I have built something for a client who
uses Microsoft Windows I have resorted to using Connectix Virtual PC
notSrcXor
notSrcOr
notSrcCopy
notSrcAndReverse
all seem to have the same effect
[i.e. reverse colours]
on a Macintosh
Go to your properties palette (double-click on the Combo Box)
and look under Blending.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
Dear Tiemo Hollmann,
My brain works a bit slowly; took me some time. However if you wish to
exchange Black with White in a Combo Box just do the following:
set the ink of btn "CB" to NotSrcXor
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
PS. my name is RICHMOND, n
RR Central realised that as it ran counter to almost all useability
considerations it was hardly worth bothering about. Mind you, I don't
know,so why don't you ask them directly.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the fl
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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Down
messages
and
shiftKey
altKey
functions
[why no 'altKeyDown' and 'shiftKeyDown' ???]
so, I suppose, one would have to trap both command/controlKey and rawKeyDown
simultaneously to fake command/control-A . . .
Err, I think I have just answered my own quest
Really very cheesed-off to see on Versiontracker somebody offering a
one-trick pony that takes snapshots of movie frames for MONEY.
Uploaded my (primitive) take on this to revOnline:
"Movie Imager" a.k.a MIMGER.rev under Richmond
it certainly works on my Macintosh; give it a shot on Windows and
is of paramount importance as that is what pays for
my bread and cheese.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh
ous advantage.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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use-rev
x27;Microsoft', no 'Windows' and no 'Pentium'.
And, on my last visit to England I see that lots of software is
labelled "PC", which, while being highly inaccurate, seems to mean
that the software will run only on a Microsoft Windows OS.
sincerely, Richmond Mathe
it of commonsense, rather than fiddle-faddling.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed
"Out of the mouths of babes . . ."
Thank you very much for sound advice; and the sort that really suits lazy types
like me.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development
will
stop the sound files from working with RR.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development
The following came up on my radar today:
http://gyakutenwiki.net/w/MetaCard
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle
develop software for any of the hardware devices
designed for blind people to use computers ???
and . . . Haptic Virtual Environments:
http://www.grab-eu.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in
Sorry, just the idea intoxicated me so much I forgot to include the URL:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2008-10-21/#9049
Hic, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle
, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
, however, do rather more movie editing with Avidemux than with QT Pro.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems De
, however, do rather more movie editing with Avidemux than with QT Pro.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems De
es, me at least, more bang for your buck than a new computer.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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ng pennies (quite literally) in a jam jar with "3.x" written on
it.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems De
I come from the North-East of Scotland.
Frankly 'Dude' sounds like 'Dud'.
However, the point about SCREENRECTS was more important.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Syst
tion should be drawn up to spare people with early versions a
lot of time, and make them stump up the money for newer versions.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems
nd'.
The stack only has proviso for practising lower-case letters; however it can be
easily adapted for whatever (punctuation, numbers, etc.) is required.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed
when I can see a stack on the the second monitor my program
tells me it is not visible.
Bright ideas welcomed.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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