Biting the Apple

2009-11-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I saw RevMedia here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/ today. Congratulations, RunRev! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Turning Blue

2009-11-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
It is very odd; but the icon for Studio 4 that sits in my Dock (on Mac) is red. On launch that icon changes blue! I intend to hack the app so the icon remains red as next to Safari, Google-Earth, Thunderbird, TextWrangler, Quicktime, Audacity and Open Office it blends in to the point of almost

Sanskrit Typos

2009-11-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/DEVAWRITER.zip 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

Re: Resizeable Fields

2009-11-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
René Micout wrote: Hello Richmond, I have modified a little your script, otherwise that don't work... local LEFTT,TOPP,autorisation on mouseDown put true into autorisation put the top of fld acre into TOPP put the left of fld acre into LEFTT grab me end mouseDown on mouseUp put

Other opinions in other places

2009-11-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I don't know who is reading the following: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/messages?o=1 apart from Mark Schonewille and Jacqueline Landman Gay, who has any clout in the RunRev department. There is a fairly pointed criticism levelled at the folks at RunRev compared with

Re: arabic script

2009-11-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Monte Goulding wrote: Hi I've had a request from a client to investigate doing an arabic version of his app. The rev docs say right to left scripts aren't supported. Has anyone worked around this? Cheers Well, how about starting with setting the fontLanguage to Arabic ?

Re: OT: Urgent, how to force eject a CD from MacBook

2009-11-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, need urgent help. I was burning a CD in my Mac Book but canceled the job while running. Now the CD can't be ejected anymore, it turns, but neither with the eject button, nore from within liquid app it can be ejected. I have booted twice, while booting, the

Learning about GLOBALS late in life . . .

2009-11-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
tried this: on mouseDown global LEFTT, TOPP put the top of fld acre into TOPP put the left of fld acre into LEFTT grab me end mouseDown on mouseUp put the bottom of fld acre into DOWP put the right of fld acre into RITE put RITE - LEFTT into WIDD put DOWP - TOPP into HITE end

Re: Learning about GLOBALS late in life . . .

2009-11-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Monday, November 16, 2009, 9:00:46 AM, Colin wrote: top. So this would work for example: global t ...but do you really want to do that? This would also work... local LEFTT, TOPP Thanks for that one; especially going local. What a great

Re: Learning about GLOBALS late in life . . .

2009-11-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Colin Holgate wrote: On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: global t ...but do you really want to do that? Yes, definitely, if it's part of an answer to a question about making globals work. Now, Richmond may well want to learn about locals too, but I was just

Re: Resizeable Fields

2009-11-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
, 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: Wake up Revolution

2009-11-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dear Inselfan, I cannot help noticing you are using Windows; Maybe the problem does not lie with RunRev 4, but maybe there is a background process (possibly some sort of virus) that is triggered when you launch RunRev, that is hogging the memory. I am running RunRev 4 on a Pentium III Compaq,

Re: Wake up Revolution

2009-11-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Inselfan wrote: Holá Richmond, Well, running same Stacks with RR-2.9 is OK so far. I don't think, that my PC's are infected. Not with a Virus or something else. It is only RR 4.0 which blocks. On all Computers, but thanks for trying to help. I would love to tell the World, that RunRev 4.0

[OT] EFL worksheet

2009-11-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just uploaded an EFL worksheet here: http://mathewson.110mb.com/default.html and here: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/default.html (with many thanks to Andre Garzia) click on the button STUFF FOR TEACHERS. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

Re: Wake up Revolution

2009-11-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Schonewille wrote: Who says that tousand people experience great performance?! I, for one, don't. I haven't seen your RQCC report on this. What's the #? After reading the messages here, in the forum, and other venues, yours and Inselfan's posts are the first

Re: Wake up Revolution

2009-11-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
is choosing the right battles. Overall, we must be doing something right. Thank you, Bill, for this extremely comprehensive and well thought-out reply! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: Snapshot problems

2009-11-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Howard Bornstein wrote: I am trying to do a similar thing. In my case I have some content in a group that is larger than the group rectangle, so it scrolls within the group. However, I'd like to be able to take a snapshot of the entire group contents, even the parts that extend beyond the

Re: revWeb - link to download the official image?

2009-11-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Heather Nagey wrote: Try here: http://www.runrev.com/company/press-room/media-resources/ Should be lots of shiny updated images for you all to use. Jolly nice; Thanks Heather. HOWEVER; it might be a good idea to bundle the icons and so forth with the distributions.

Re: revWeb - link to download the official image?

2009-11-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Devin Asay wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Robert Man wrote: Thanks, but! The revWeb logo is not included!! (all media-ressources images can be taken easiliy from webpages, however the revWeb logo is somehow included in the back image, less easy..) The revWeb logo is important since

RevBlack.png

2009-11-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On of the things I thought was really attractive was the black REV icon nesting inside a package-box in the installer DMGs for Mac. I have 'liberated the black image here: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/revBlack.png ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Revolution Media 4.x and Revolution Player 3.x

2009-11-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jan Schenkel wrote: With revMedia 4.0 being free, why would we still need a Player? The whole idea of giving revMedia away for free, is to let everyone share in the fun - running stacks, deploying them in webpages and letting others take them apart without the ability to password-protect your

Re: Slobber!

2009-11-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
://quality.runrev.com Jan Schenkel = Quartam Reports PDF Library for Revolution http://www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) --- On Wed, 11/11/09, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: From

Re: One day to go . . .

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond Ideally I would like, eventually, to have a successful, web-based client so that end-users can do their Sanskrit without having to clutter up their hard disks (or their employers) with a standalone. Is a stand-alone really that much more clutter than the

Re: Pasting formatted text into Rev fields not possible on OS X

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Klaus Major wrote: Hi all, FYI: I just reported this very nasty bug: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8428 Hope this gets fixed until this evening* :-D *Or whenever Rev 4 is officially released. Hey; you outdid me this time . . . :) I hope they are having fun in San

Sanskrit Typewriter . . .

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
that will direct you to the relevant place to download the Sanskrit font that is required for them to work; although it is quicker to do it here: http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/sanskrit2003.zip sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ___ use-revolution

Re: some HD fun

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Colin Holgate wrote: In answering a question on a Director list about whether Rev could handle HD video, I just made this test: http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/rev/hdplayer/ Here are a couple of alternate first lines for the field: set the filename of player 1 to

Re: some HD fun

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Colin Holgate wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: set the filename of player 1 to http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/terminatorsalvation/terminatorsalvation-4minclip_720p.mov; set the filename of player 1 to http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb

Re: Rev 4.0.0-gm-1 is now available through Rev Update Checker

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
charles61 wrote: I just checked for the new Rev 4.0 update. It is available through the Rev Update Checker. I downloaded and installed it. I am really excited about this updated version. The only question I have is can you make reliable standalones with this version or should we continue to Rev

Re: Rev 4.0.0-gm-1 is now available through Rev Update Checker

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
charles61 wrote: I just checked for the new Rev 4.0 update. It is available through the Rev Update Checker. I downloaded and installed it. I am really excited about this updated version. The only question I have is can you make reliable standalones with this version or should we continue to Rev

Upgrade Fun . . .

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Here I am on a G4 Mac with revMedia 4 dp-5 and revStudio 4 dp-4 trying to upgrade: 1. The inbuilt upgrade system for Studio asked for a relicence; on inputting the licence supplied by RunRev nothing happened. So, now downloading from:

Upgrade Fun

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The first time I posted this message almost all of it got lost somewhere: Here I am on a G4 Mac with revMedia 4 dp-5 and revStudio 4 dp-4 trying to upgrade: 1. The inbuilt upgrade system for Studio asked for a relicence; on inputting the licence supplied by RunRev nothing happened.

Re: Rev 4.0.0-gm-1 is now available through Rev Update Checker

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dom wrote: I will again ask about a 4.x Player? is there a Player for running the stacks created with the new RevMedia? and for the stacks created with Studio/Enterprise? Not that I can see: https://secure.runrev.com/downloads/all-downloads/revolution-player/ The 'bon mot' / phrase of

Re: Rev 4.0.0-gm-1 is now available through Rev Update Checker

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Miller wrote: I'm not having any success installing RevMedia 4.0 under XP and I've never had a problem installing any Rev program before. Tried numerous times. Tried restarting. I get part way through, then a Rev error code comes up (which I have sent to the Rev engineers). Anyone

Stack Runner

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have just built, an admittedly simplistic, stack with revMedia 4 and had it running with something I found lurking on one of my hard drives called: Revolution Player 2.7 - 1 (engine 3.0.0 build 750) not very helpful, I know; but I suspect this means: Revolution Player 3.0, which is available

Re: Rev 4.0.0-gm-1 is now available through Rev Update Checker

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Colin Holgate wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: SO: get version 4 from here: https://secure.runrev.com/downloads/all-downloads/full-list/ and do a full install. The revMedia for Mac there fails to install. That's odd; it worked perfectly OK

Re: Stack Runner

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dom wrote: Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Revolution Player 2.7 - 1 (engine 3.0.0 build 750) it is precisely the version I have on my disk... Well, presumably it will run any stacks built with revMedia 4 that don't leverage anything introduced

Linux Icons

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
to: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/RRpngs.zip this file contains a Yellow, Red and Blue 'modern' png image. for anybody who needs 'proper' icons for any of the Linux versions of RunRev. [If the good folks at RunRev don't like my doing this, I will be more than happy to remove them forthwith

Re: Linux Icons

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Thank you. You might add a note to bz #8278 about this. Please excuse my ignorance, but what is bz #8278 ? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Slobber!

2009-11-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Skewing Imported graphics can now be skewed for rotation and/or a 3D perspective, all under script control. Output direct to PDF Cards or portions of cards can now be output direct to pdf format files. Paragraph Level Formatting Attributes like alignment, indenting, line spacing, borders, and

One day to go . . .

2009-11-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well; speaking as somebody who is fairly cheesed-off from finding that the non-ability of Unicode fonts to work properly with revlets has effectively damaged his proposed web-release completely [ watch this space for a downloadable standalone shortly ] I wonder what will mysteriously have been

Re: One day to go . . .

2009-11-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Schonewille wrote: Richmond, Although, like you, I often have a hard time seeing bugs not being fixed or observing bugs being solved with more bugs as a result, I am a little surprised by your complaint about unicode fonts. I just did a test with an Arabic text file and I can tell you

Sanskrit Typewriter RC1

2009-11-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Be there or be square . . . :) http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/test.html Please try and break it and throw me any criticism and suggestions for improvement. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: size restricted for on-rev hosted revlets

2009-11-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dunno; just uploaded a 2.5 MB revlet to on-rev: seems OK. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Dialogue boxes in Green?

2009-11-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
William de Smet very kindly pointed out that the dialogue boxes of my Sanskrit Typewriter are green: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/test.html So I set the stackColor to empty and went through colorizing the individual cards (*X*!), and uploaded RC 1.001 to now avail. I also reran

Re: Sanskrit Typewriter RC1

2009-11-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
runrev260...@m-r-d.de wrote: Hi Richmond, tried it here under windows with Firefox and IE8. - Characters, which are shown directly after pressing the a key on the main page are displayed correctly. - But pressing a character , e.g. the first one of line 2 ( from above), opens a new

revFont: probably missing something.

2009-11-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Can anybody tell me how () I make sure the revFont.bundle and the revFont.dll are rolled into a revlet? whether that is possible? and how it will help me? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

8 days to go ?

2009-11-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Gosh I hope so,as ,presumably, the Enterprise dp-5 contained something on top of dp-4; as a Studio chap that passed me by. Ubuntu always have a jazzy countdown 'thingy' on their website; but, Hey, they don't have elastic-sided GANTT charts. I am positively slobbering (what a horrible image)

Re: 8 days to go ?

2009-11-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
stephen barncard wrote: 16 hours of video is a PIA Really, I didn't know Pakistani Airways were involved in the DVD production . . . :) [err, sorry, just couldn't resist that one.] to edit render, duplicate and ship, if you've never done that before. Yes, I have done that sort of thing;

Re: 8 days to go ?

2009-11-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
J. Landman Gay wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 11:13:21 AM, you wrote: Once you have seen 5 drunken yobboes in kilts you have seen them all Not true. Definitely not true. I saw more than that in the Halfway House a couple of months ago... It wasn't an

Off-Line revlets?

2009-11-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Maybe another of my goofy questions; not sure. Is it possible for an end-user to 'salvage' a revlet from a browser cache and thereby continue using it, effectively as a free-standing program, when not connected to the internet? AND; If this is, at least theoretically possible, is there a way

Re: AVG antivirus version 9 flags Revolution.exe as a Virus

2009-11-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi all, AVG antivirus version 9, flags the archive: Revolution.exe (version 2.8.1) as a Virus named: Downloader.Swizzor This is a false positive, but stil i have not found a page to report this to AVG. If you know where to report this anomaly, please, send them a

Re: Off-Line revlets?

2009-11-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Colin Holgate wrote: You can reasonably easily get the revlet file, and save the html, and run those locally. Renaming the revlet to be rev doesn't appear to give you a good stack, for what that's worth. I am aware that renaming the revlet doesn't result in a stack as the build process pays

Re: How do I check which field has the focus on / is active?

2009-11-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
William de Smet wrote: @ Jan, Klaus and Sarah: the dentist pulled my tooth (bummer) but your answer solved my little 'problem'. Must have been the tootache :-) Thanks! Greetings, William You lucky chap; some of us have almost no teeth left to pull out!

[OT] WOFF fonts

2009-10-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just downloaded a beta version of Firefox and came across this: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/woff/ Supposedly (?!?!) they are smaller (i.e. less lag time for download) and rather easier to track to their origins. I wonder about whether these will work with RunRev and revlets?

Goofy Tip #58

2009-10-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Somebody told me, off-list that the 'blob' produced by Option-8 on a Mac would show up as a Japanese Yen sign on a machine running Windows [this may be an abstruse joke with something to do with Bill Gates] So, I made a stack with a field containing the Option-8 blob on my Mac; then 'pumped' it

Goofy Tip #59

2009-10-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Put this in a card script: on openCard set the title of stack XYZ to the short name of this card end openCard where XYZ is the name of your stack, to have the name of the card appear in the title bar of the stack. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Goofy Tip #58

2009-10-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jim Ault wrote: This depends on the font selected. Not all Mac fonts have this bullet symbol, just as not all Windows fonts have the yen symbol. Look for the bullet symbols in other fonts (small, large, square, etc ) and then use numtochar() to produce the one that is closest to your goal.

Re: Goofy Tip #58

2009-10-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Shao Sean wrote: Use Unicode? http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2022/index.htm ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Revlet Woes - Substacks Don't Open

2009-10-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
capellan wrote: Richmond, visit this page (A simple paint stack) and explain us if you apply use the same method with your stacks: http://revmedia.runrev.com/revWeb-samples/sketch/ Alejandro Yum! The Tools palette and the drawing canvas are two stacks, each presented within its own layer

Re: revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

2009-10-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Miller wrote: Hi Jan, Yes, this was what I originally expected. But it's not working as of yet during runtime... only in the development environment. Will this be implemented shortly (prior to launch) so that it works the same during runtime? What if the two stacks are sized

backgroundBehavior ?

2009-10-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, one is never too old to learn new (old?) tricks . . . :) So, I created a main stack and made a group on the first card (called gBOX) consisting of a button and a field; then popped this into the Message Box: set the backgroundBehavior of group gBOX to true hoping that as I made new

Re: backgroundBehavior ?

2009-10-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Friday, October 30, 2009, 11:31:08 AM, you wrote: Please advise . . . :) It works here in 3.5 and 4.0dp5. Not much advice, I know. Very queer indeed. I have just reopened the stack and now it functions. I can only conclude it had to be saved,

[OT] anti-Yahoo ???

2009-10-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I signed up for the RevMedia dp-5 release last night via my Yahoo e-mail; by this morning I had no (presumably automated) reply. I signed up using my Gmail account and got a reply in about 15 minutes. As usual, I'm obviously missing something. ___

Re: Revlet Woes - Substacks Don't Open

2009-10-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I don't know about other people, but I have been working one h*ll of a lot on a highly complicated program that depended on palettes working in web-browsers: I suppose I shall just have to throw away about 500 hours of work that was based on the fact that I trusted RunRev when they said that

Re: revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

2009-10-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Kevin Miller wrote: Hi everyone, snip A new revWeb plugin for Windows and OS X (Linux coming soon) is now available from: http://revweb.runrev.com/ Major changes: Plugin has been re-engineered. This is the third and final (for 4.0) version of the architecture. This version resolves

Re: revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

2009-10-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
absolutely no javascript. Presumably by embed tag you are referring to HTML ??? On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Miller wrote: Hi everyone, snip A new revWeb plugin for Windows and OS X (Linux coming soon

Re: revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

2009-10-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Oct 29, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I cannot believe I am the only programmer who has got him/herself in a stew about this. [Well, I suppose, even if nothing else, many users

Re: Revolution Studio 4.0.0-dp-5

2009-10-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
François Chaplais wrote: Le 28 oct. 2009 à 22:59, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : This IS available through 'Check for Updates' even thought Kevin only referred to Enterprise; although whether there is a Linux build of B4 yet I don't know. did you manage to actually do the update? I get

Re: revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

2009-10-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Whacko! And a Linux version. Thanks a lot! Richmond. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

2009-10-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Will there be a revStudio dp-5 ? ___ 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

Revolution Studio 4.0.0-dp-5

2009-10-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
This IS available through 'Check for Updates' even thought Kevin only referred to Enterprise; although whether there is a Linux build of B4 yet I don't know. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

revlet woes

2009-10-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I got all excited about the new revWeb plugin, so I installed it on my PPC Mac and built myself a Q-and-D stack with one substack. NOW; the previous version of the revWeb plugin brought palettised substacks up behind the browser window. A bit of a problem. I see that the new revWeb has solved

Re: Revolution Studio 4.0.0-dp-5

2009-10-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richmond Mathewson wrote: This IS available through 'Check for Updates' even thought Kevin only referred to Enterprise; although whether there is a Linux build of B4 yet I don't know. Ugh: answering my own posting. SO: Studio 4 dp-4 downloaded an update interface for dp-5 and then said

Re: Revolution Studio 4.0.0-dp-5

2009-10-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
François Chaplais wrote: Le 28 oct. 2009 à 22:59, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : This IS available through 'Check for Updates' even thought Kevin only referred to Enterprise; although whether there is a Linux build of B4 yet I don't know. did you manage to actually do the update? I get

Re: New direction for Stacks and Code Samples

2009-10-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Cheapjacks might be interested in 110mb.com; the 'price' of this FREE web-hosting solution is that it won't tolerate revlets and will only tolerate stacks if they are zipped. Still, it is FREE. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Goofy Tip #57

2009-10-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Why '57'? Well here's a clue: http://www.geocities.com/stl_owen/heinz.html Anyway . . . Suppose you see somebody else's stack which features a really groovy backgroundColor but is not one with an obvious name such as blue. Then you can just do this: on mouseUp set the backgroundColor of

Re: Exact number of a radio button in a group

2009-10-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
tareq_tawaiha wrote: This might be a simple question. I have 4 buttons in a group. Each buttons name and label are similar for that button. If i edit the group then select a button and check its Size and position in the property inspector , at the end of the inspector there is a field called

Re: Exact number of a radio button in a group

2009-10-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
tareq_tawaiha wrote: That would be GREAT if i had 1 group , but i have over 80 groups, each group has 4 possible answers (radio buttons). That would mean i would have to go into every button's script and add that script. Which could be my last resort , but i would prefer to edit 80 groups ,

Re: replace group script on multiple cards

2009-10-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
tareq_tawaiha wrote: I have a stack with over 80 groups that contain 4 radio buttons ( i have attached a picture example below), they all have a similar scripts. I need to replace the script of all of the groups with a new script. Unfortunately by using the find option in the script editor i

Re: OT: HIG and Usability - KDE 4.3

2009-10-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Anyone with an interest in app usability and the desktop should take a look at the latest KDE release. The Kubuntu live version is a reasonable source. It is very different indeed. Easy to use once learned, not necessarily instantly inutuitive ways of working. But

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richard. I have a field with this in its script: on keydown var dispatch keydown to this stack with var end keydown If I type into the field, no text appears. Just like my issue with send, keyDown is not passed to the engine. How did you make yours work? Craig

Re: Dispatch-Sending keyDown

2009-10-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I thought I would be 'clever' having read what the Documentation says about DISPATCH and did this: on keyDown var dispatch keydown with var end keyDown and fell foul of a recursion problem. I quote from a user-note contributed by somebody called OLIVER (Hello, Oliver, are you reading this?

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
All getting a bit heavy round these parts. This should lighten the load: http://mehglobal.com/nix/index.html Absolutely lovely! Love, Richmond. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Open Source and Forking It

2009-10-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter Alcibiades wrote: bForking It/b Richard asks on another thread (not yet on Nabble, which quite often seems to run late) whether there is any way of being Open Source and not having forking. No, definitely not. As soon as you have any such restriction, you have left Open Source.

Retrieve the Layer Number of an Object?

2009-10-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Rick Harrison wrote: I want to programmatically get the layer number of a button, store the layer number for it, move the button to the front, modify the button, and then move it back to the layer where it was with the set the layer of button blah to the VarLayerNumber. on mouseUp put the

Re: Retrieve the Layer Number of an Object?

2009-10-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richard, Perhaps his buttons are, er, layered so they cannot be seen, lying under other objects. And his machinations are to be viewed. But, absent that, I agree with you; why bother? Craig Newman In a message dated 10/21/09 2:20:59 PM, richmondmathew...@gmail.com

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
David Bovill wrote: snipped out a large section I hope that is entertaining enough Richmond? ___ Humpf! I would have chosen another word, rather than 'entertaining'. As has been mentioned previously, it won't stop somebody pinching something

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
David Bovill wrote: It is perfectly acceptible to release RevTalk code under the terms of the GPL, MIT or other licenses. This has been done before, and debated extensively over the years in other related platforms - even where the engine itself is closed. Purists, like to argue over the issue,

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Fredrik Andersson wrote: Sorry, but, frankly, the only thing that excited me about your message was November launch; it is funny how information is leaked out to the proletariat . . . :) http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/october/issue80/ :) Humpf: living in Bulgaria affects one's

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thierry wrote: Le 19 oct. 09 à 01:57, Mick Collins a écrit : Computers are useless. They only give you answers. Pablo Picasso The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ian Wood wrote: On 19 Oct 2009, at 09:40, Richmond Mathewson wrote: To which I would add, lest we forget: A computer is only as good as the person in front of it! Going a bit further OT, one of my headmasters liked to say that computers were more intelligent than a brick, but less

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Thierry wrote: Le 19 oct. 09 à 01:57, Mick Collins a écrit : Computers are useless. They only give you answers. Pablo Picasso The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: I'm putting together some notes for an article at revJournal.com on open source projects done with Rev. If you're working on complete applications or even just components for the Rev community, let's use the pages at revJournal.com to help raise the visibility of your

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thierry wrote: Le 19 oct. 09 à 18:48, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Richard Gaskin wrote: I'm putting together some notes for an article at revJournal.com on open source projects done with Rev. If you're working on complete applications or even just components for the Rev community, let's

Re: Calling all open source developers

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, I am no expert, but isn't it a matter of the GPL? If its released under the GPL, and if source is supplied on demand, its open source. Now it may have been written in a proprietary language, but I think that is technically allowed. Though there will be those

Music ????

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yup, stirring the soup again: http://tilestack.com/stacks/Piano/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

[OT] Screen Recording for Cheap-Jacks

2009-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Hey-Ho, it's Richmond the beggar going his rounds again . . . :) I just came across this: http://www.jingproject.com/ For Mac and Windows (Humpf, no Linux). Can record up to 5 minutes of screen action! ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: [OT] Screen Recording for Cheap-Jacks

2009-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: (Humpf, no Linux). jshot recordMyDesktop ZScreen Wink Shutter xvidcap Greenshot Shutter (said to be the best) Peter That's an impressive list; will try them out at the weekend. Thanks

Re: [OT] Screen Recording for Cheap-Jacks

2009-10-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
René Micout wrote: There is also screenium : http://www.clubic.com/telecharger-fiche203330-screenium.html in french... Sorry... René Pas de problem pour moi avec mon Francais excrable; merci beaucoup! Le 15 oct. 09 à 16:01, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond

Placing objects manually

2009-10-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have recently noticed that one cannot place objects manually where their positions involve odd numbers. For example: 123,123 One can drag an object to 122,122 or 124,124 The rest has to be done by adjusting values via the Preferences palette. When one has to place some 2500 objects (as I

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