[OT] Eve Teasing

2010-04-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sometimes things on the Use-list can get bit heavy. So, to put things in perspective I should like to draw your attention to a serious social evil: http://www.banwasi.com/html/ete1.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: where is RevWeb for linux?

2010-04-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 24/04/2010 11:14, Kay C Lan wrote: I believe Richmond is putting forward a conspiracy theory that unscrupulous individuals at RunRev are carrying out backyard appendectomies on little used Rev components. I assume he believes they are then sold on the black market. and if I understand

Re: where is RevWeb for linux?

2010-04-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 24/04/2010 14:11, Bernard Devlin wrote: In December I asked Heather if there was any idea when the plug-in for Linux would be released. She told me that there was no schedule for its release. I guess at least I can say they are true to their word. Bernard Ok; but can't we have the Alpha

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 24/04/2010 19:31, Jeffrey Massung wrote: On Apr 24, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: They call it duel-boot. Is that a Freudian slip, or just an ordinary one? An ordinary one. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother. Interestingly enough, when I was a boy,

Re: Bad jokes [was: Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs]

2010-04-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 24/04/2010 00:00, François Chaplais wrote: This one was from communist Eastern Germany. Do you know why toilet paper is called Stalin's Revenge there? because if can't make you heart red, it certainly makes your ass the right color. I have never tried cleaning a donkey with toilet

Re: where is RevWeb (or a bunch of other stuff for that matter) for linux?

2010-04-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 24/04/2010 21:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote: We really need a statement from Rev on what exactly the business strategy for Rev for Linux is. It should address at least the following:- -- Rev Browser -- Rev Web -- Record sound -- Font management -- Printing issues -- Crashing and slowdowns in

Re: Mac Scrolling

2010-04-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 23/04/2010 11:28, Graham Heather Harrison wrote: On the other hand the Wicked Wenzles of the West may be targeting me again.I thought I had driven them off forever with the garlic poultice on my hard drive, and come to think of my foil hat is missing... I tried that for a while but the

Re: OT: Microsoft is really annoying

2010-04-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
- There have been no automatic updates of WindowsXP since I have deactivated the Internet Explorer, which could mean that IE plays a role in the update process. My limited experience with XP is that Internet Explorer is, somehow, part of the operating system and IS the vehicle for Windows

Re: [OT] GameOver Mr. Jobs

2010-04-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 23/04/2010 21:49, Paul D. DeRocco wrote: From: bar...@libero.it Nothing is sacred! You can now run Android and all its programmes on your iPhone! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/android_iphone/ I probably will not be the first with this notice but I can try. They call it

Re: Why do human have appendices?

2010-04-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 22/04/2010 09:30, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: However, RunRev seems not to have an appendix to repopulate what has been removed. An approach that has never seemed to hurt Apple, though many predictions

Re: [OT] Flash - Open Source

2010-04-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 21/04/2010 10:45, David Bovill wrote: This is an example of one of the open source projects that sprung up after Adobe launched it's open source strategy, there are other great ones like Flixl. It's an example of the sort of benefits we'd get if RunRev adopted a proactive open source

[OT] Bing; a Microsoft Ramp?

2010-04-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Should I have been surprised? Probably not. I have just searched for some Linux software, followed by a search for some Macintosh software, and all the results consist of Windows software. Of course 'Bing' (perhaps better to call it either 'Bling' or 'Blag') is owned by Microsoft; so it

Re: Icon builder

2010-04-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 21/04/2010 09:22, Kay C Lan wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:01 AM, J. Landman Gayjac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: No, just the senile part. :) You may be thinking of the Altuit utility. I can't remember if I'm going senile or not but I can remember Icon Composer which comes with the free

Why do human have appendices?

2010-04-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
to a cow and wait for it to sick up its cud so that it is slightly more digestable for humans? sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. Mr Mathewson holds a BA in Philosophy and this sometimes gets the better of him

Re: Why do human have appendices?

2010-04-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 21/04/2010 13:25, Luis wrote: 'Cos it sounds flashier than Indexes. Cheers, Luis. Bravo! The perfect riposte! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Why do human have appendices?

2010-04-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 21/04/2010 13:25, Luis wrote: 'Cos it sounds flashier than Indexes. Cheers, Luis. However, last time I bothered to look the plural of 'index' was 'indices'; but, then, of course, some people who are supposedly native English speakers have problems with the plural of 'formula' (i.e.

Re: Why do human have appendices?

2010-04-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 21/04/2010 19:26, Mark Swindell wrote: I recently read that there may be a value to the appendix... it may be a breeding place for helpful bacteria to repopulate the gut after it's been decimated of its normal stock. Here's a link.

Re: Why do human have appendices?

2010-04-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
has appendices? :) Mark However, RunRev seems not to have an appendix to repopulate what has been removed. On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 21/04/2010 19:26, Mark Swindell wrote: I recently read that there may be a value to the appendix... it may be a breeding

Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window AGAIN

2010-04-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
. . . . :) Original Message Subject:Re: Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:55:10 +0300 From: Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Righto; happy Runrevvers . . . I

[OT] Flash - Open Source

2010-04-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well worth a look: http://flowplayer.org/index.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Classic Mac stack and Unicode?

2010-04-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Can anybody tell me: 1. When RR became as fully unicode compliant as it it now? 2. Whether Classic builds ever functioned fully with Unicode? I tried this with RunRev 2.0.1: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld fTEXT to numToChar(2325) end mouseUp and it

Re: Classic Mac stack and Unicode?

2010-04-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer We have updated TwistAWord. Download TwistAWord 1.1 at http://www.twistaword.net Op 19 apr 2010, om 13:53 heeft Richmond Mathewson het

Re: Scrolling in image

2010-04-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 19/04/2010 16:45, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:35 PM, edward cawley wrote: I have a large map image on a card, bigger than the cd window. I would like to scroll around the map by moving the image within the window using the mouse. There is a lesson on this at

Icon builder

2010-04-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Am I going senile or do I recall that at some time there was some sort of iconbuilder included with RunRev? Probably the answer is 'both' . . . :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Heather Are You All OK with the Ash!

2010-04-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 20/04/2010 02:19, Dave Cragg wrote: On 19 Apr 2010, at 22:11, Alex Tweedly wrote: Sivakatirswami wrote: Just checking... last time the ash was a disaster for Scotland... is our RunRev Team OK? It's not causing any problems here other than the shutting down of air space (and hence just

Re: (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/04/2010 14:29, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: Hi everybody, I just joined this list. I used Hypercard for many years, since I got my first Mac in 1991. Then, some years ago swiched to Supercard, which I've been using a lot. I've had Revolution Studio for over a year but only now am trying

Re: (no subject)

2010-04-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/04/2010 14:40, Klaus on-rev wrote: Bom dias Haroldo, ... Instead of going to card 1 it kept going to the next card each time I pressed the up arrow key, and after the last card the stack just closed. you have a little error in your logic, that's why! Here's my original handler,

Re: ArrowKey Handler problem

2010-04-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/04/2010 16:11, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: At 14:44 +0300 18/04/10, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 18/04/2010 14:29, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: Hi everybody, I just joined this list. I used Hypercard for many years, since I got my first Mac in 1991. Then, some years ago swiched to Supercard

RunRev and Alcoholics Anonymous.

2010-04-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Le vin de vie et à nous! Mais je pense RunRev et trop sec; Il n'aime pas le WINE. Bon Ben! Je vais buvoir le bon vin Bulgarian pour assister le programmation . . . :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: iPhone thought police...

2010-04-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/04/2010 10:10, David Glasgow wrote: Here is El Reg's take on the new Jobsian iPhone developer rules: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/16/does_apple_code_translation_ban_everthing/ Made me smile, anyway. David Glasgow Frankly, I think Steve Jobs is being very silly; as far as I

Re: RunRev and Alcoholics Anonymous.

2010-04-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
avr. 10 à 10:33, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Le vin de vie et à nous! Mais je pense RunRev et trop sec; Il n'aime pas le WINE. Bon Ben! Je vais buvoir le bon vin Bulgarian pour assister le programmation . . . :) I wish my RunRev programming was AS GOOD AS my French

Re: Is there a maximum data size for groups?

2010-04-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/04/2010 18:17, Andre Garzia wrote: Jonathan, I have no clue there but I think if you host 400mb worth of images in a stack, then you will take a chunk equal to that of RAM for your app to run even with virtual memory this is a big requirement and if you want to copy this group around,

Re: Is there a maximum data size for groups?

2010-04-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/04/2010 18:47, Jonathan Lynch wrote: Hi guys, I think you must be right that I am using up my RAM. Drat, this is gonna be a pain in the bahonkus. One pain in the bahonkus now is probably better than a whole slew of pains in the bahonkus later on . . . :)

Re: Is there a maximum data size for groups?

2010-04-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/04/2010 19:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 17/04/2010 18:47, Jonathan Lynch wrote: Hi guys, I think you must be right that I am using up my RAM. Drat, this is gonna be a pain in the bahonkus. One pain in the bahonkus now is probably better than a whole slew

Re: Running multiple gif animation slow down Rev

2010-04-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/04/2010 22:11, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi all, Could you verify on your configuration if running 64 gif animations on the same card slow down user interaction in Rev? To test this, import an animated gif and using the menu Replicate create 63 copies. I am building a game interface and

Re: OT: Microsoft is really annoying

2010-04-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 16/04/2010 21:05, J. Landman Gay wrote: Bernard Devlin wrote: I think all Windows installations must be assumed to be toxic. Yes, that's the assumption I use too. It's also the reason I'm so much in favor of running Windows in a virtual machine. In Parallels (and maybe other emulators

RunRev and Alcoholics Anonymous.

2010-04-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thought I would try to be clever and install the Windows version of RevStudio 4.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 under WINE . . . :) No Joy! Black screen and that was that. Anybody else tried? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: OT: Microsoft is really annoying

2010-04-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 16/04/2010 23:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: Paul D. DeRocco wrote: Despite all this, I've _never_ had a virus or any kind of malware. My only system failures have been the occasional result of a RAM or hard disk failure. So either I'm doing something terribly right, or you all are doing

Re: [OT] iPads delayed internationally

2010-04-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/04/2010 08:35, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 15/04/2010 02:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/14advisory_ipad.html If all you Americans who bought iPads could please return them ASAP, then maybe Steve would

Re: How to make print card work in Linux: solved

2010-04-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/04/2010 11:05, Peter Alcibiades wrote: This is what you do and do not do. First, you do not test this from the IDE in run mode. Because if you do, you'll discover that changes to the script have different effects when the app is launched from a startup stack or, probably, when compiled,

Re: OT: Microsoft is really annoying!

2010-04-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/04/2010 11:09, Bernard Devlin wrote: snip If it wasn't for Rev and it's failings on Linux, I wouldn't be running Windows at all. Wow! I wonder how many other RunRev developers that is true for? Hello! Hello! Hello! It is time the RunRev folk in Edinburgh sat up and took notice! I

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 79, Issue 28

2010-04-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/04/2010 11:31, Vokey, John wrote: snip But create standalones and one spends way to much time compensating for silly differences over OSs that should not matter.snip Err . . . might not be a bad idea for the developers of RunRev to cease the endless, headlong rush for ever fancier

Re: [OT] iPads delayed internationally

2010-04-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/04/2010 17:37, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 10:35:32 PM, you wrote: You haven't yet? Last I asked, which was quite a while ago, RR said they'd all been sent, all the orders were completed. Better check with support, I guess. You should have received them a long

Re: How to make print card work in Linux: solved

2010-04-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/04/2010 19:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: Instead what you do is start from whatever startup stack you are using to launch, or start up the compiled app. Then do the print. Make a note of the settings. Then close the stack, open it in the IDE, modify the settings,

Re: Wish List for RevMobile

2010-04-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 14/04/2010 09:24, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi all, After reading an article written by Charles Moir, software Architect at Xara LTD where he wrote: http://charlesmoir.com/page2.htm (click at: For the techies, more details here) The ARM processor is fast. Having spent nearly 10 years writing

Re: [slightly OT] Off for a couple of days

2010-04-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 14/04/2010 18:38, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: And just after I wrote the mail, my wife went into labour.g I must have felt it in the office. Anyhow... Thanks for the kind words everyone! And please welcome the next revolutionary, Hannes Leander Pfaff. :-) All the best, Bravo; a Leander

Re: [OT] iPads delayed internationally

2010-04-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/04/2010 02:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/14advisory_ipad.html If all you Americans who bought iPads could please return them ASAP, then maybe Steve would change his mind and I could get mine sooner. And then will you send me

Re: Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window

2010-04-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 12/04/2010 23:17, Andre Garzia wrote: Fill an enhancement request on the QA Site and I will vote for it! :D I'm missing something: I know the QC (= Quality Control) centre, but I don't know the QA centre . . . On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew

Re: [slightly OT] Off for a couple of days

2010-04-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 13/04/2010 13:46, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: Hi all, for reasons beyond my control, I am forced to take a couple of days off (kid #3 is due any day now). If you have any questions regarding our products and services, please allow for a little longer delay before I can respond. If you have

Re: Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window

2010-04-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
for it. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Debian, Sidux, Ubuntu, reference distributions for Rev

2010-04-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 13/04/2010 17:59, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear. If the best and the brightest here don't understand this stuff about Linux, what hope is there for Rev on Linux? Yes; Well; we are just a bunch of 'thickies'. Betamax and VHS were different products. It was one or the

Re: Debian, Sidux, Ubuntu, reference distributions for Rev

2010-04-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 13/04/2010 19:01, Andre Garzia wrote: snip Linux is hard... Yes, it is; well said, Andre. Why do I have a funny feeling that the folks in Edinburgh HQ know more about Linux than either myself or Peter; at least as far as it affects RunRev. I also find it very odd indeed that, as far as

Re: Debian, Sidux, Ubuntu, reference distributions for Rev

2010-04-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 13/04/2010 20:06, Larry Snider wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Andre Garziaan...@andregarzia.com wrote: snip Linux is hard... Nah. It's just another operating system. Well, if it is just another operating system show me another OS which has about 500 variants; and those

[OT] VLC for Haiku

2010-04-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/testing/haiku/ The fact that applications are beginning to be developed for Haiku OS shouldn't bother us; we should just go on sticking our heads in the sand: Hey, Haiku OS is probably like that Linux thingy, just a fad which people will lose interest

Re: RunRev and Linux, Peter Alcibiades palc

2010-04-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 12/04/2010 10:29, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I shall wait for 4.5 and hope Quite . . . it would be rather nice if: 1. We could have some sort of idea when 4.5 is due. 2. What specifically Linux things will be changed and/or improved in 4.5. I must say, I wonder why the RunRev folk are

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 12/04/2010 14:39, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I guess I should have said portable. That would be funny watching my friend in her wheelchair dragging around an old Mac trying to talk to people at the local cafe shop. ;-) PowerBook_5300 Clamshell iBook wouldn't go too badly with the

Re: Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window

2010-04-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 12/04/2010 20:30, stephen barncard wrote: snip Anyway, a facsimile of the Quick Look window shouldn't be that hard to do with 4.0's graphic effects. Wow; Cowabunga! http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/STUFF/FREAKY.rev.zip well, it took this genius about 3 minutes (and that is because

Re: Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window

2010-04-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 12/04/2010 20:30, stephen barncard wrote: snip Anyway, a facsimile of the Quick Look window shouldn't be that hard to do with 4.0's graphic effects. Wow; Cowabunga! http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/STUFF/FREAKY.rev.zip well, it took this genius about 3 minutes (and that is

Re: Implementing the Mac Quick Look type of window

2010-04-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
with a blend, then it will look like the effect you're trying to achieve but if the window moves, the background will not move with it... On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/04/2010 20:30, stephen barncard wrote: snip Anyway, a facsimile

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 05:39, Peter Alcibiades wrote: On the basis that maybe it could be something about all three of the systems it occurred on today, which admittedly are all running Debian, though with very different installation and use histories, I moved Rev to Slitaz running in Sun's non-free

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/04/2010 23:52, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Here is the recipe. Open a stack with plenty of buttons and scripts. Now open any script in the editor. Use the property inspector to get the properties of a given field Select and copy the name of the field Paste it into the script. I think I

Re: [ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 01:52, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: Here is the recipe. Open a stack with plenty of buttons and scripts. Now open any script in the editor. Use the property inspector to get the properties of a given field Select and copy the name of the field Paste it into

Re: RunRev and Linux

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 12:59, David Bovill wrote: Good post Peter - I used to be a Linux only user of Rev and its potential on that platform is fabulous, both in terms of the users and for RunRev in terms of attracting hard core developers. Hang in there - remember November is Rev everywhere :) And how

Re: RunRev and Linux

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 11:34, Peter Alcibiades wrote: There are two questions, whether Ubuntu is the distribution of choice for a production environment, and whether Linux is the right platform to run Revolution on. Yes, there are 2 questions; one (the one about RunRev) that should be tackled here;

Re: RunRev and Linux

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 18:21, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: snip I don't think it's any sort of grand conspiracy, but rather that the cause-and-effect may be exactly backwards from what you suggest: Hmm; I don't think there is a grand conspiracy - what there may

Re: What does the 4.0 iPhone SDK mean for revMobile?

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 18:28, Colin Holgate wrote: On Apr 11, 2010, at 4:30 AM, David Bovill wrote: Not good - http://bit.ly/bnTy0D What is comical is that although Steve is all out to prevent compatibility layers, in his quest for perfect apps, he's ok with using Javascript and HTML5, which I

[OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
My top 3 ideas are: 1. Swank toy. 2. Castrated computer for people who don't need laptops or PCs. 3. Tree-Free book. What are yours? Come on you-all . . . :0 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 19:58, Jerry Daniels wrote: That's y'all, not you-all! Not in that Scottish province called Bulgaria it ain't . . . :) Best, Jerry Daniels Use tRev's buy link during your free trial to get 20% off: http://reveditor.com/tag/shouldiswitch On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:49 AM,

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 20:05, Michael Kann wrote: Richmond was using the plural form of y'all, which everyone knows is you y'all. I am sorry if I can't keep youse all happy: where I come from we don't really feel an urge for a repluralised plural - Thee and You do just fine for the singular and

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 20:29, Thomas McGrath III wrote: The iPad is a chance for people who can not speak to be able to Afford and Use an inexpensive and sexy device to speak for them as in my iPad application I Can Speak. For the first time in history someone can buy a speech device for less than

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 21:03, wayne durden wrote: In my part of the country all y'all is not strictly imperative. It works equally well in the interrogative, i.e. Are all y'all comin' to the pig pullin' on Sa'urday? Scuse I, what be a pig pullin' ? I bain't be from Thikky parts o thik world. If

Re: RunRev and Linux

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 21:50, Peter Alcibiades wrote: snip I know about the history - its how I got here. I too used to be a Hypercard user years and years ago. Ah, if only Aye, well, if only. . . We might, at best, have a souped-up Hypercard rolled up inside some sort of Quicktime! And

Re: RunRev and Linux

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 21:03, J. Landman Gay wrote: snip That said, I agree that if a Linux version is available, it should run without problems on at least some distros. If you can isolate those problems on a distro that is stated to be supported (Ubuntu at least) then those certainly deserve some

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 22:32, Judy Perry wrote: On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Richmond Mathewson wrote: If so bring some tea? [Where tea is a beverage made by filling an empty gallon milk jug 3/4 of the way full of sugar and infusing it with a bit of tannins in water so that it doesn't appear to be clear

Re: [OT] What's an iPad?

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/04/2010 23:08, Judy Perry wrote: --Well, it, and its companion adjective denk/dank, both have roots in the drug culture, as does one of the teens in question, and hence they were shocked to hear my 9 year olds repeating these words in public. They seem not to have grasped that you

Re: RunRev and Linux

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 12/04/2010 00:47, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: Here are a couple links, the first being the redoubtable Caitlyn Martin, the second Warren Woodford. These guys are serious people and should be listened to:

Re: [OT] WePad

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 12/04/2010 02:20, John Craig wrote: I'm looking forward to the iPad being available in the UK. I'm also looking forward to the WePad launch; http://wepad.mobi/en/index It sounds interesting. ___ Well, I suppose it was inevitable; the rise of the

[OT] reading the wePad brochure

2010-04-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
This lot cannot quite make up their mind what their target demographic is: http://www.neofonie.de/pdf/neofonie_product_sheet_WePad_v1.2.pdf Title: WePad The tablet PC for publishing houses A bit further down: The WePad provides elderly users in the core target group of newspaper and

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
of a Wildcard method for Unicode I would be a considerably happier person! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/04/2010 12:50, René Micout wrote: I love the Richmond's moods (or rant) ! ;-) But for a no-english person (like me) it is very difficult to understand (ans really appreciate !) ;-) + ;-) René You probably don't understand everything I have written exactly because I am NOT completely

Re: Modifiable IDE [Was: Question about RevMobile]

2010-04-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10 Apr 2010, at 18:29, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: How would we all like it if RunRev allowed any third party developer to just upload stuff that was automatically incorporated into the IDE, which then broke the IDE? Well . . . I could point out that this happens all the time

Re: revMobile

2010-04-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/04/2010 10:23, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Gruber's piece is excellent. But even if this one gets resolved, you have to consider that if the company supplying the platform is in a position to set any conditions at all that it feels like setting on both applications that can run on it, and

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/04/2010 10:47, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications

Re: [OT] Mac Batch Converter

2010-04-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/04/2010 18:03, Bob Sneidar wrote: It may. I will give that a try. But I don't think anything but iTunes can even play M4P encoded songs. Bob Have a look at this: http://www.noteburner.com/itunes-music-mp3-player.html ___ use-revolution

Becoming the man who CAN?

2010-04-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, we try, we really do . . . :) Although some of us, who are not men, may be a bit miffed by being offered the chance. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Becoming the man who CAN?

2010-04-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Supercharge your learning with a free Conference in a Box . . . Dear me; must be the Bulgarian Postal Services to blame this time. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: This is what it actually says

2010-04-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/04/2010 10:47, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications

[OT] Mac Batch Converter

2010-04-08 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jolly good: http://creativebe.com/dragoman/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Need someone with knowlege of sound files

2010-04-08 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Worth a look: http://www.ronimusic.com/amsldox.htm ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Desktop innovation? Future of the desktop?

2010-04-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/04/2010 09:40, Peter Alcibiades wrote: There's real innovation, for better or worse, going on in Linux desktops in the last year or two. KDE4 made an effort to redefine the desktop metaphor, its probably just about usable now, and now Gnome from a different starting point. Its a bit

Merging 2 stacks ?

2010-04-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Is it possible to merge 2 main stacks; So, for the sake of argument; cards 1, 2, 3 4 of one stack can become cards 1, 2, 3 4 of another stack, and cards 1, 2, 3 4 of that one become cards 5, 6 ,7 8? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Merging 2 stacks ?

2010-04-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/04/2010 12:09, Mark Schonewille wrote: Richmond, Does this work for you? repeat with x = 5 to 8 copy cd x of stack Stack 1 to Stack 2 end repeat Certainly looks very straightforward - will give it a go after lunch. ___ use-revolution

Re: Saving audioclips to a file as ...

2010-04-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2010 14:17, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi, Audioclips can't be exported, but videoclips can: put the text of vc sleighbells.mpg into url binfile:path-to-video.mpg Old chestnut indeed. I'd expect that fixing this bug is 5 minutes work. I wonder why this has to take more than 6 years.

Re: Desktop innovation? Future of the desktop?

2010-04-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/04/2010 17:06, Richard Gaskin wrote: snip Within 10 years I see a world whose market share eliminates any single OS vendor holding a majority, instead becoming a plurality in which Apple, Microsoft, and Linux each enjoy about a third of the market. This would put Apple tripling its

Re: Saving audioclips to a file as ...

2010-04-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Those of you who feel that the capability to export sound files from RunRev would be a good thing are urged to pop across to RevForums and put their good word in on my Feature Request. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Virgin's embarrassing weekend - website auditing software and trojans?

2010-04-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/04/2010 03:07, Douglas wrote: snip Last Friday (2nd April) I discovered their website (virginmedia.com) was littered in scripts that would start a malware trojan download on to users computers. In 1985 I bought a 'Klaus Nomi' record from the Virgin Record Shop in Durham; on getting

Wildcard expressions and unicode ???

2010-04-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I suppose it was inevitable . . . :) As I wrote yesterday, I found out how to search for and replace unicode characters in a field: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true if the unicodeText of fld FIRST contains (numToChar(57888) numToChar(57999)) then get the unicodeText of

Re: Wildcard expressions and unicode ???

2010-04-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2010 14:57, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Try this? Untested but should work. (The untested part is the first handler -- the offsets() function I have been using for years.) on mouseup set the useUnicode to true put numtochar(57888) into targetChar put the unicodetext of fld FIRST

Re: Wildcard expressions and unicode ???

2010-04-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2010 14:57, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Try this? Untested but should work. (The untested part is the first handler -- the offsets() function I have been using for years.) on mouseup set the useUnicode to true put numtochar(57888) into targetChar put the unicodetext of fld FIRST

Re: Saving audioclips to a file as ...

2010-04-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/04/2010 03:54, stephen barncard wrote: Good Afternoon, Is it possible to export an audioclip to a standard .wav or .aif file in Rev? put audioClip 3 into URL(binfile: sFilePath) ... creates a file, but it won't play -- just makes a text file with the contents of sFIlepath.. can't

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