Re: Placing objects manually

2009-10-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Klaus Major wrote: Hi Richmond, I have recently noticed that one cannot place objects manually where their positions involve odd numbers. Too bad! 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.

Re: Icon images, hilites and inks

2009-10-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
will not be able to pop my experimental stack there just yet. 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: Newbie question - Using multi-line message box

2009-10-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
william humphrey wrote: When you're using a mac-laptop the enter key is a combination enter key and returnkey. So if you want to run a multi-line script you have to hold the function key down on the mac laptop keyboard and hit the return key for it to be an enter key. I spent ten minutes or so

Re: How to determine audio input options?

2009-10-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: The recordInput global property can be set to any of these values: imic - records from the internal microphone emic - ecords from the external sound input jack cd - records from an internal CD player irca - records from an RCA input jack tvfm - records from an FM radio

Re: Printing text wider than A4

2009-10-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Beat Cornaz wrote: Hi you all, I'm in search for a solution to print text that runs wider than a landscape A4. The normal printing commands work for printing text where the number of lines is more than an A4 can carry. The rest is printed on a second etc. page. But with text that extends the

[OT] Richmond's Website

2009-10-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
For anybody who has nothing better to do with themselves on a Sunday afternoon I have just updated my website: http://mathewson.110mb.com/default.html and for those of you who wonder what my wife does with herself when she is not trying to handle living with me: http://mathewson.110mb.com

[OT] Headless COMPAQ P3

2009-10-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I am posting this to the RunRev use-list to show that even those of us at the bottom-end of the geeko-scale can achieve somethings that are normally only achieved by major geekoids if we trust ourselves a little bit more. Courage mes freres et soeurs!

Re: [OT] Headless COMPAQ P3

2009-10-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ian Wood wrote: On 11 Oct 2009, at 21:42, Richmond Mathewson wrote: 4. Because it is difficult and a challenge. The amount of extra work I've done over the years thanks to reason 4 is downright scary... ;-) Ian ___ Life gets pretty dull round

Re: [OT] Headless COMPAQ P3

2009-10-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
capellan wrote: Richmond, Did you notice, like me, that stubborn entities like sheeps and personal computers when they go against you, attack directly to your feets??? Congratulations for completing your Runrev developer setup: Mac, Linux and PC Have a nice weekend! al Did you notice,

Something queer going on.

2009-10-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
account. 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: Something queer going on.

2009-10-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Very queer indeed: 1. I have just recieved 3 postings to the Metacard use-list, and posted a reply to the last one myself; but nothing for October shows up here: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/ 2. Postings to the RunRev use-list are not being

Test

2009-10-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
ignore ___ 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: Parsing images out of .ico files

2009-10-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I hope you can understand this better than I can: http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/tklib/ico/ico.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Richmond's Sanskrit Typewriter

2009-10-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I am well into my Beta 2 cycle, and, for those who are interested, there are a couple of screenshots here: http://mathewson.110mb.com/midmad.html Having got over the hurdles associated with unicode I am just churning my way through boring, repetive code. Just as soon as we see a fully

No RETURNs in your text file

2009-10-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Look up CR and CRLF in the Built-in documentation. You will find that your problem basically revolves around a conflict between whichever Operating system the document was authored on and which Operating system RunRev is working on when the document is read into your stack.

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: http://www.ovomaltineforever.com.br/ Cripes, I am getting cheesed-off with the ubiquitous Flash. I don't mind Flash, but splash pages went out with 2002 and that one runs wy too long even by 20th century standards. Jared Spool of UIE offers a

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-10-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, can you show us a shot of your welcome screen? I like screen shots... I don't know about Richard's welcome screens: here's one of mine: http://mathewson.110mb.com/welcome.html cheers andre On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa

[OT] Memory with VPC on a G4

2009-10-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
As a defiantly retro sort of chap I run Windows XP in Virtual PC 7 for PPC Mac; using it as little as I can possibly manage to test and build for Widows clients. I am currently spinning-of several standalones for a new pupil of mine to take home and pop on her Mum and Dad's box running Windows

Different objects have different properties

2009-10-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yeah, I know; stating the crashingly obvious. BUT; I don't see why this should be necessary, if Graphic Objects can have a Label (even though, by default, this possibility is hidden from us) why can they not have icons? Presumably the answer, like so many answers, is that somebody made a

Re: Graphic text and border colour

2009-10-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Here's a baby way to get a graphic object with a coloured text and a different coloured 'border' (note the single quotes): 1. Make a new Graphic Object. 2. Set its border width to 0 (yes, really), 3. Crack open my plug-in: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/XPROPS.rev.zip and set up a Label

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, Just to announce that Rio won de bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. The first ever Olympic Games to be held on south america will be help on my state. So I think I will launch the bid for RioRevLive 2016, you can learn to code and join the Olympic festivities :-P

Re: Revolution on 65 Bit Windows

2009-10-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I'm sorry, but this is just impossible to resist: '65 Bit Windows'; as we used to say in Britain; 'Bent as a nine-bob note' :) Cultural Contextualisation: before they ruined our currency by decimalisation a pound consisted of 20 shillings (or BOB) and there was a 10 shilling note (brown as

Re: Graphic text and border colour

2009-10-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
David Bovill wrote: Is there a workaround to give the border of a graphic shape a colour which is different to the colour of it's text label? Or is the only way to position a text field over the graphic? ___ That's bl**dy silly really! Obviously

Re: {OT] I went for awalk this morning.

2009-10-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: ants tried to nest on my iBook... a gang of 4 monkeys tried to steal my guitar amp... I rest my case. Silly tropical country... In the UAE I had termites that had lined the inside of a G3 (one of the beige lateral boxes) that had had a G4 processor bunged into it; while

Re: Graphic text and border colour

2009-10-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
David Bovill wrote: Is there a workaround to give the border of a graphic shape a colour which is different to the colour of it's text label? Or is the only way to position a text field over the graphic? ___ I wrote: That's bl**dy silly really!

[OT] Rubber Chicken

2009-10-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Came across this by accident: http://newserver.runrev.com/home/error ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: BEVEL created solely in RunRev 4

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
BNig wrote: Richmond, how about: set the label of graphic 1 to SomeText set the textsize of graphic 1 to 18 set the showName of graphic 1 to true set the textfont of graphic 1 to Helvetica ? Regards Bernd Download this: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/XPROPS.rev.zip

{OT] I went for awalk this morning.

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
And what did I see? In Bulgaria, surprise, surprise, an Intel iMac for the princely sum of £1100. What benefits will accrue from my buying it that I don't enjoy with my G4 Dual processor monster? I could, at a pinch, manage it; although the 'pinch' may come from my wife rather than my wallet .

Re: {OT] I went for awalk this morning.

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dave Cragg wrote: On 30 Sep 2009, at 09:24, Richmond Mathewson wrote: What benefits will accrue from my buying it that I don't enjoy with my G4 Dual processor monster? Fewer cables. Well one fewer at least. I managed that problem about 9 years ago when I bought an iMac G3 (it still does

Re: {OT] I went for awalk this morning.

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
François Chaplais wrote: Le 30 sept. 09 à 10:24, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : snip Before anybody mentions speed; that really doesn't fuss me. ___ most things a computer does can be done with paper and (maybe colored) pencils. In my early years

Faking Buttons with Graphics

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
but not to Buttons. Download this: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/XPROPS.rev.zip and pop it in your Plug-Ins folder. It is a one-trick-pony that allows you to set the Label and the ShowName of a selected Graphic Object (if you click APPLY with nothing selected it will throw a wobbly): i.e allow you to make

Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://www.ovomaltineforever.com.br/ Cripes, I am getting cheesed-off with the ubiquitous Flash. We can all practise our Portugese as we go along (well, Andre may not need to) . . . :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: {OT] I went for awalk this morning.

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
have to get on though, as will not allow myself an 'elastic-sided' GANTT chart. Cheers andre On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: And what did I see? In Bulgaria, surprise, surprise, an Intel iMac for the princely sum of Ł1100. What benefits

Re: Q: Can I use only a part of an Image File and do stuff with it ?

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Rolf Kocherhans wrote: For instance I have an imported Image file (png) 10 pixels high and 100 pixels long. From pixel 1 to 10 ist Picture_one, from pixel 11 to 20 is Picture _two etc. Can I the display those 2 respectively 10 pictures individually ? Cheers Rolf

Re: Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ray Horsley wrote: I'm moving from Metacard's IDE to Rev's and wanting to customize keyboard shortcuts. For example, how would I setup the Rev IDE so command-option-S opens the current stack's script, or command-D opens steps through a script in the debugger stack? I've also noticed that

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet #2

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: http://www.ovomaltineforever.com.br/ Cripes, I am getting cheesed-off with the ubiquitous Flash. I don't mind Flash, but splash pages went out with 2002 and that one runs wy too long even by 20th century standards. Jared Spool of UIE offers a

Waiting for RR 4 and the next version of the web-plug-in

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I wonder if anybody has a crystal ball that is less cloudy than mine in these respects? Actually, from a fairly selfish and smug point of view, having been to the conference and left bearing treasure (i.e. Studio Beta 4 dp-4) I am more concerned about the next version of the web plug-in as I

Rotating Polygons

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I just have been reading Robert Cailliau's page: http://www.robertcailliau.eu/Programming/Revolution/Tutorials/zTutorials.html I popped together a stack containing a Heptagonal regular polygon and popped this in a button: on mouseUp set the Angle of grc HEPT to 45 end mouseUp in RunRev 4

Re: Rotating Polygons

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Well, yes, but note that fill patterns and gradients don't rotate with the graphic, so I would question the definition of perfectly. Hey-Ho; I found that one out at the conference and it is a right thorn in the flesh. Re: perfectly; this is another word that is fairly

Re: Rotating Polygons

2009-09-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
is really horrible insofar as the polygon gets badly transformed. Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: I just have been reading Robert Cailliau's page: Cailliau claims: Unlike images, polygons cannot be directly rotated in Revolution. They have no angle property. http://www.robertcailliau.eu

BEVEL created solely in RunRev 4

2009-09-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Why do I always have this urge to antagonise Richard Gaskin? Go, get it:- http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/BEVEL.rev.zip OK, OK, I cheated; it consists of 3 graphic objects, and I ripped the idea off from here: http://www.web-den.org.uk/webbist/bevel.php Mind you, it looks jolly good

Re: BEVEL created solely in RunRev 4

2009-09-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
than just graphics, and few other things like Malte's blur suggestion). See my posting about my feeling that the current visual/graphic stuff is a sign of even better things to come. Go, get it:- http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/BEVEL.rev.zip OK, OK, I cheated; it consists of 3 graphic objects

Re: BEVEL created solely in RunRev 4

2009-09-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
David Bovill wrote: 2009/9/29 Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com Still, it would be nice to have a bevel effect in the engine (along with gradients for objects other than just graphics, and few other things like Malte's blur suggestion). I have thought of using graphic

Re: BEVEL created solely in RunRev 4

2009-09-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
BNig wrote: Richmond, how about: set the label of graphic 1 to SomeText set the textsize of graphic 1 to 18 set the showName of graphic 1 to true set the textfont of graphic 1 to Helvetica ? Regards Bernd Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: I'm not sure how you bung text

Re: BEVEL created solely in RunRev 4

2009-09-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
BNig wrote: Richmond, how about: set the label of graphic 1 to SomeText set the textsize of graphic 1 to 18 set the showName of graphic 1 to true set the textfont of graphic 1 to Helvetica ? Regards Bernd Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: I'm not sure how you bung text

Re: Whither Photoshop and GIMP?

2009-09-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: For those of you who haven't been to the conference or looked at Ben Beaumont's stack (with RevMedia dp-4), the: Dropshadow Inner Shadow Outer Glow Inner Glow and Color Overlay are at least as good as Photoshop's and considerably better

A note about fillGradient and Co.

2009-09-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
If you have started playing about with RevMedia 4 dp-4 and/or the Studio preview with Ben Beaumont's demo stacks you should have come up against fillGradient opacity blend mode color filter spread size distance angle source Now, what it took slow thinkers like me a while to work out is that as

Re: Emailing a Rev file

2009-09-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Gabel Paul wrote: Hello everybody: I made a .zip file from a standalone built for Mac OS X and emailed it to someone. It went through just fine. Then I did the same thing for a Windows build, but when I tried to email the file (7.9 MB) it bounced back with the following message: snip

Re: A note about fillGradient and Co.

2009-09-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, September 27, 2009, 11:34:17 AM, you wrote: and one finds out all sorts of surprising, and as yet, undocumented components to those graphic settings. For instance, with fillGradient one finds these: from mirror quality ramp

Re: Emailing a Rev file

2009-09-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Jim, You're right, but one shouldn't have to do that. I'd rather encourage people to leave Gmail. snip Of course, Gmail know what they are doing. Why not LEAVE Windows? Migrate to another OS. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: A note about fillGradient and Co.

2009-09-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, September 27, 2009, 12:41:06 PM, you wrote: All those, with the exception of ramp where you specified the value rather than the name, are very well documented. In the docs. Any bright ideas what ramp could be ? Not in the built-in

[OT] Book on The Art of Community

2009-09-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Get it while its hot: http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/09/18/the-art-of-community-available-for-free-download/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Whither Photoshop and GIMP?

2009-09-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
For those of you who haven't been to the conference or looked at Ben Beaumont's stack (with RevMedia dp-4), the: Dropshadow Inner Shadow Outer Glow Inner Glow and Color Overlay are at least as good as Photoshop's and considerably better than GIMP's. [Parenthetically, Todor Georgiev, one of

Crashing my G3

2009-09-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I played some games with RevMedia 4 on my G3 iMac [400 MHz, 384 MB RAM] and really froze just about everything with this: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/POLYWARP.rev.zip a fairly silly stack that leverages the new optical effects. As my history teacher said years ago: What does this tell us

ad...@oaklands-jun.wokingham.sch.uk

2009-09-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I was at Oaklands from 1967 - 1973, under Mr Beeston; at that time the school was highly experimental and ahead of its time. I now use many of the methods and ideas in my own language school in Bulgaria. If you would like to either link to, or look at my website the address is: http://mathewson

A quick note about RR Alpha 4 and older forms of Linux

2009-09-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Just to say that RevMedia alpha release for Linux (dp3) does not work on Ubuntu 5.10, but it does on 8.04. Where the cut-off is between 5.10 and 8.04 I don't know. This is really only relevant to people who wish to deploy RevMedia for teaching purposes on fairly old, low-spec PCs. I have yet

Oaklands Junior School

2009-09-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Err . . . sorry about the earlier posting: stupidly mixed up the 'To' place with the 'Subject' place in Thunderbird. Richmond. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet.

2009-09-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://www.hybridworks.jp/ ___ 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: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet.

2009-09-24 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: Colin Holgate wrote: Ian, Flash text fields can be set to allow selecting and copying, swfs can be published in a search engine friendly way, and it's possible to deep link into any part of a Flash application, if that's important to do. The lack of those things in

Re: RevMedia - status?

2009-09-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jerry Balzano wrote: Actually I just re-downloaded Rev Media today and the version is dp4. Jerry The difference, and is a huge difference, between dp3 and dp4 is that dp4 has the Graphic Effects I mentioned in my posting about flashes: dp3 cannot do these things.

Re: OS9 Standalone

2009-09-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Swindell wrote: Isn't v. 2.6 the last version that could create a standalone for OS9? My conference copy of Studio (dp-4) standalone setting has a place to set up a Mac Classic standalone, but seems unselectable. This could mean either of 2 things: 1. There will be tha capability to save

Re: F keys cross-platform?

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
AM, Jim Bufalini wrote: Richmond Mathewson: As rawKeyDown doesn't pick up keydowns such as SHIFT on Macintosh I am thinking of using F keys (specifically F1 and F2) to state-change in the Beta 2 version of my Sanskrit typewriter and wonder if using these 2 keys will make things go

RevMedia - status?

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I just noticed that the copy of RevMedia 4 lurking on my Mac is called dp3 while my preview copy of Studio is dp4; am I up to date, or, as usual, am I missing something? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

A Quick Flash

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Everybody likes a flasher. I wanted a flash effect to signal to end-users that something was happening that was quite subtle, so I popped this into the script of the button that made the subtle changes: on mouseUp lock screen set the coloroverlay[color] of img BACK.png to white set the

Re: F keys cross-platform?

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Scott Rossi wrote: You can't use the built-in messages/functions? optionKeyDown controlKeyDown shiftKey() Not sure what you need exactly, but you also might want to look into the keysDown() function snip on mouseDown set hilite of me to not the hilite of me if runKeyTrap is not in

Re: A Quick Flash

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ian Wood wrote: On 22 Sep 2009, at 15:52, Mark Stuart wrote: There's not only a video from Ben on this As far as I can remember, Richmond was in the audience. ;-) Ian ___ You bet; I paid a fair bit of money to be there in Edinburgh, so you can

Re: A Quick Flash

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Stuart wrote: Written by Richmond Mathewson on Tue Sep 22, 2009 - 05:09 AM CDT Everybody likes a flasher. [only works in RunRev 4 and upwards] a pain in the bum is that, so far, the COLOROVERLAY stuff is not properly documented: so pop my script into a button and muck about

Script Editor - slight snag

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
When I was working with DreamCard 2.6.1 (i.e. until sometime in August) I could open the script of 2 objects side by side for comparison purposes or otherwise. This doesn't seem possible in RR 4. It seems that there is only one script-editor window. Am I missing something?

Re: F keys cross-platform?

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Thank you, but I am by nature a lazy slob and that looks like just too much hard work; trapping F keys with rawKeyDown is dead easy. Even easier is trapping the functionKey message. ;) BUT; as well as being a lazy slob, I am also bloody

Re: RevMedia - status?

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jerry Balzano wrote: Actually I just re-downloaded Rev Media today and the version is dp4. Jerry On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: I just noticed that the copy of RevMedia 4 lurking on my Mac is called dp3 while my preview copy of Studio is dp4; am I

Re: Script Editor - slight snag

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: When I was working with DreamCard 2.6.1 (i.e. until sometime in August) I could open the script of 2 objects side by side for comparison purposes or otherwise. This doesn't seem possible in RR 4. It seems that there is only one script-editor

Re: RevMedia - status?

2009-09-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jerry Balzano wrote: Actually I just re-downloaded Rev Media today and the version is dp4. Jerry On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: I just noticed that the copy of RevMedia 4 lurking on my Mac is called dp3 while my preview copy of Studio is dp4; am I

Re: [teaser] Mac OS X external

2009-09-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Oh, By, Am I naive or what? For us naive types could somebody, Please, in a relatively simple way, explain what a dirty button/flag is? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: [teaser] Mac OS X external

2009-09-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sarah Reichelt wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, By, Am I naive or what? For us naive types could somebody, Please, in a relatively simple way, explain what a dirty button/flag is? When a document needs to be saved

[OT] Thinks: GameSalad

2009-09-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/gamesalad.html that's an interesting way to program! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

rawKeyDown and Unicode

2009-09-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
'Tis michty queer: This works: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld BLURB to the unicodeText of fld BLURB numToChar(2000) select after fld BLURB end mouseUp this appends the unicode char 2000 to my textField BUT this doesn't: on rawKeyDown RAWK set the

rawKeyDown and Unicode

2009-09-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Err . . . here I am replying to my own posting again: but, any other person out there who is loony enough to be mucking around with unicode might find the effects of my 7th cup of coffee useful . . . :) I wrote: - This works: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true

Re: Vote to disable image copying from password protected stacks

2009-09-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
capellan wrote: Visit report 8251 to vote for disable image copy from password protected stacks. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8251 To copy an image from a password protected stack, users just had to select the image and write in the message box: set the clipboarddata to

Re: Full screen?

2009-09-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Jerry J wrote: On Sep 20, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Arthur Rann wrote: Hi, So let me get this straight because I need to take this back with me to the dev team. You're saying that there's no built in way to actually go full screen, like most games do? I have in the back of my alleged mind that

Embedded switches?

2009-09-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have to use either: 1. A multi-case switch statement with many sub-switch statements inside it, or 2. A multi-case switch statement with many IF . . . THEN statements inside it, or 3. Many IF . . . THEN statements with many IF . . . THEN statements inside them. Number 3. is obviously

Re: [teaser] Mac OS X external

2009-09-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Shao Sean wrote: Working on an external for helping Mac applications in Rev look and feel more like Mac OS X applications. Current features include: setWindowModified - toggles the dirty document flag on and off isWindowModified() - returns the state of the dirty document flag (boolean)

Re: Full screen?

2009-09-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Arthur Rann wrote: Hi, How do I make my RR stack run full screen? I don't want to stretch things to meet the screen, I want to enter a 'full screen mode' like most video games do, where it temporarily sets the user's monitor resolution to 1024x768 or something like that. Thank you ! -Art

Re: Full screen?

2009-09-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
to behind the backdrop. If you wish to use a backdrop that behaves the way it should download this: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/Backdrop-O-Matic.rev.zip and adapt it to your needs. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: [SOT] Haiku ???

2009-09-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thierry wrote: Le 18 sept. 09 à 21:25, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : From a personal point of view I can see that Haiku looks quite sexy in GUI terms and probably boots and runs faster than a lot of Ubuntu distros [and to support this I should point out that I have just put my P3s in my

F keys cross-platform?

2009-09-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
As rawKeyDown doesn't pick up keydowns such as SHIFT on Macintosh I am thinking of using F keys (specifically F1 and F2) to state-change in the Beta 2 version of my Sanskrit typewriter and wonder if using these 2 keys will make things go all wobbly on Windows?

Re: [SOT] Haiku ???

2009-09-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: Keep an eye on Haiku, it will make lots of noise. Have just burnt a CD and bunged it in the P4 . . . Live only, as don't want to lose my Happy Ubuntu Box: Hey, the boot is pretty fast. Nice, clean GUI; err . . . makes me think of Damn Small with its modified Fluxbox.

Re: How I check if words from two fields match?

2009-09-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
William de Smet wrote: Hi there all, I have a field number 1 with a word in it (put in by user) Next I am putting a lot of words from a remote .txt file into another field number 2. How do I check if the word from fld number1 is within the words of fld number2? For now I use: find string the

[SOT] Haiku ???

2009-09-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
SOT - Slightly Off Topic http://www.haiku-os.org/ Will RunRev be able, in the future, to produce standalones for this Be OS clone? Will there be a revWeb plug-in for Haiku so that revlets can be accessed in Haiku-based web-browsers? I wonder what the uptake on this OS will be: I'm just going

Re: Deploy to Linux

2009-09-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Monte Goulding wrote: Howdy I need to build and deploy an application on Linux as my client is looking at the low end netbooks. I haven't looked at Linux for a long time and thought I'd get some advice before I jump in. From memory, application installation/packaging was specific to the

Re: [SOT] Haiku ???

2009-09-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
can only take place on a certain limited number of OSes deployment should be universal. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: SOT - Slightly Off Topic http://www.haiku-os.org/ Will RunRev be able, in the future, to produce standalones

Re: [SOT] Haiku ???

2009-09-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: Lynn, the BeOS IP passed from hand to hand and now is owned by Access (who brought it from palm) (whoever they are). BeOS was Great! I used it a lot, now, as soon as Haiku becomes a little more stable, it will become my own desktop os here for most of my computers, except my

Escaping from QT

2009-09-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have just discovered a quick way to run up an animated GIF from an image sequence (rather than plonking every frame in place and getting w*'s (err . . . wrist) cramp doing it: Get a copy of GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ [Mac,Win,Lin ] and: use Quicktime () to export a series of

Re: Escaping from QT

2009-09-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
. perhaps we can coerce the mother ship to include it someday... - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2009/9/16 Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com I have just discovered a quick way to run up an animated GIF from an image sequence

Re: Escaping from QT

2009-09-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
MNG is an animated image file format, however it appears to have even less support than APNG and files are significantly bigger: http://www.libmng.com/download.html?cat=3 in theory it sound lovely (transparent jpegs and so on): http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/ MNGZILLA; 'an open source project

Re: RevMedia - ready now?

2009-09-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Considering RevMedia is FREE and that t is posible to develop full-blown revlets with it I don't feel one can start making demands. Richard Miller wrote: Thanks for the advice. I agree with you. I'll wait... hoping it's just a week or so, and not a month or two. Richard Andre Garzia wrote:

Reducing dependency on QT

2009-09-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I wonder if this Open Source stuff cannot be turned into some sort of plug-in for RunRev: http://freepv.sourceforge.net/ while not directly relevant, this is also interesting: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/11/how_to_create_quicktime_v.html

Re: Quicktime and the Snow Leopard

2009-09-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Inevitably I am going to say what I have been banging on about for quite some time: I believe it is in Runtime Revolution's interests to free themselves from a dependence on Quicktime; preferably rolling their own stuff to handle multimedia: maybe so that all the multimedia capabilities offered by

Re: Quicktime and the Snow Leopard

2009-09-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
François Chaplais francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr Le 9 sept. 09, à 11:28, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : Inevitably I am going to say what I have been banging on about for quite some time: I believe it is in Runtime Revolution's interests to free themselves from a dependence on Quicktime

Re: Quicktime and the Snow Leopard

2009-09-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
, there are open source actionscript compilers, and quite a few open source development tools for Flash. At least that would reduce the dependency on Quicktime alone. Bernard 2009/9/9 François Chaplais francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr: Le 9 sept. 09, à 11:28, Richmond Mathewson a écrit

Re: Quicktime and the Snow Leopard

2009-09-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Le 8 sept. 09, à 22:56, Björnke von Gierke a écrit : I don't have snow leper installed, but I've read the ars technica review. Oh, Gosh, I'm sorry, but this is just TOO GOOD not to pick up on. presumably that is why several people at the conference were looking rather pale: some bad cases

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