Re: [OT-Rodeo] Last minute call to get onboard with pre-realase conditions!

All of this looks very interesting. But what I can't see anywhere is whether or not buying in now would keep my price at $89/year or whether I would suddenly have to pay over $400 more next year when I renewed. The current deal looks great, but I can't see spending $499/year for Rodeo. It might

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

My mistake in not clarifying. The offer was for educational discount on pre-purchase of Rev-Mobile, so only applies to educational users. That make sense, Marian. I forgot about the educational discounts. Many companies offer those on software. I just managed to pick an expensive hobby. I'

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

Marian Petrides wrote: FWIW, this amateur (OK, near amateur) finally bit the bullet on RevMobile when I got a special offer that dropped the price to something like $550 because I REALLY want to be able to develop for the iPad. OTOH, my subscription to Rev Enterprise is paid up until 2016 or

Re: Interesting discussion on iPad content

Heather Nagey wrote: Thought you folks might appreciate: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/the-ipad-needs-its-hypercard.html That is somewhat interesting and I noticed that several Runrev fans have started putting comments there. (Too much of that and people will start thinking it is a conc

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Thank you for your many replies to my questions. I'll try to take your word regarding your programming language recommendation, but I really don't yet understand why you or Rodney feel this way. Object orientation has always made complete sense to me - the encapsulation of very small functions

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Greg Smith wrote: You really haven't thoroughly read what I have written. I have stated that I am not opposed to learning to program, but, rather, opposed to having to learn the skills with inadequate foundational learning material. I did overlook this in your original posts. I agree that Revo

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Dan & Rodney: O.K., now, just as I was salivating over the potential usefulness and joy of using Squeak, Rodney comes along and throws water all over me. Which is it? Who is right? I haven't yet had time to look at the actual Squeak language, but I did see that incredibly direct and simple "kid

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

Greg Smith wrote: It is the required use of languages like these that force users like us to become "dumbed down". Need we submit to this kind of humiliation? Greg, It isn't the users that need to be "dumbed down". Rather, it is the environment that Jacqueline was referring to. You are essen

Re: Dependence on Programming Experts

My take is that Rev is not likely to be an easy, malleable environment in which to create the kinds of things your obviously fertile mind is already dreaming up, let alone the things that will spring forth from those already rich ideas. Just my opinion, of course, but I think you'd find more shou

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

Is he building double-clickable graphical aqua apps? I can use Python. The confusion is in figuring out how to set up wxWidgets (or tkAqua), which GUI builder to use, which IDE, etc., etc. In any case -- if he knows of a set of instructions to get from here to there, I'd love to know where the

Re: Those Yahoo Groups? Just Say No.

Judy writes: I agree, Bill. Do you have a good alternative? I am the moderator of a Yahoo group on Katherine Swynford, the sister-in-law of the English 14th century poet Geoffrey Chaucer. If I could make a good case for a switchover, I'd make it... You can start similar groups at Google, wh

Re: Help needed downloading a file to a folder

By default, the filetype is set to "ttxtTEXT" which causes Rev to make the Finder think that all files it saves are text files. The easiest solution is to use: set the fileType to empty before saving any files. This forces OS X to make up it's own mind about the file type, absed on the extensio

Re: Help needed downloading a file to a folder

Thanks again for the help Andre. I was spending time with the docs, but unfortunately they don't seem to tie things together very well. For instance, I found the load URL command and therefor realized that it cached the file to memory. Even the callback message part was clear. However, I couldn

Re: Help needed downloading a file to a folder

Hi Rodney, You might be interested in "How to download data from the internet", one of my tutorial stack you can access through Tutorials Picker. Tutorials Picker is a plugin available (as all other tutorials) on http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/?r=revolution_didacticiels&l=en Thanks a lot, E

Re: Help needed downloading a file to a folder

Andre, Thanks for the quick answer. Using the correct URL does seem to help. ;-) It seems to work OK now. Though as you state, I don't want that long pause while the file downloads. Of course, the next obvious question is how do I use the load URL command to the same thing? From what I can te

Help needed downloading a file to a folder

ing wrong. I've looked through the documentation quite a bit but haven't found anything that tells me exactly what to do to accomplish this. Thanks, -Rodney -- Rodney Somerstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revol

Re: [OT] Re: Why isn't Rev more popular? [Mailing List]

-Rodney -- ------- Rodney Somerstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefere

[OT] Re: Why isn't Rev more popular? [Mailing List]

at would be the best of both worlds for everyone. -Rodney -- --- Rodney Somerstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

RE: Looking for suggestions/advice

Thanks again for your help Xavier. The article on graphs looks very interesting and is definitely a useful idea to know about. I'll keep that and the devarticles site bookmarked for future use. Your TAOO technique looks to be an advanced extension of the kind of thing I'm thinking about doing

RE: Looking for suggestions/advice

Thanks for all of the ideas, Xavier. This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. As I mentioned previously, I don't have a formal computer science background. I have read enough so that I am at least vaguely familiar with lots of different things which is why I figured that there are p

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Geoff, The virtual card table that you propose would be relatively simple compared to what I am proposing. It is really just a first step along the lines of what I am hoping to create. Granted, it is more open than what I would provide, but the engines to do what you want and what I want have

Re: [OT] Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday

Dan, I have to say that in looking at Ruby today I came to a similar conclusion to yours. I think Ruby is probably best loved by people switching from Perl. It seems to have many of the same characteristics, such as many ways to do things and ways to abbreviate the code so as to make it harde

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Cubist writes, sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It seems to me that as the language grows it will get progressively slower if I'm just continually adding IF-THEN statements or adding to one large CASE statement. Exactly how many language-tokens are you going to *need* for this thing? Hmmm... in no pa

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Can you provide a built-in library of commands, functions, and properties for game scripters? With this, your users could do powerful things - say, change the color of all pieces, or set the permissible moves for a piece - without having to use lengthy scripts. Most of the scripting would alrea

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Thanks for the input, Dan. Can you tell me a little more about the table driven approach you were mentioning? Are doplay and playTheGame two different commands, both of which take the same arguments? Or is doplay the user command and playTheGame is the script that I would call after determini

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Yes, by all means write an interpreter! It's not that hard and fun too, with no script limits. I did this in Hypercard once. I needed to munge huge text files for translation between databases, so I created an 'action processor' with a simple language that could save its code as a resource in t

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far. Robert's suggestion about requiring anyone who wants to create game modules to purchase a Dreamcard license won't work. This is an open source/free project I'm embarking on. Using Revolution makes the open source aspects less so as fewer people wil

Re: Looking for suggestions/advice

By far the easiest way to handle this would be by exposing Transcript to your users. Send an email to the rev crew directly regarding your needs. The ten-line limit in executables is an artificial limit designed to prevent you from creating your own development environment in Rev and distributi

Looking for suggestions/advice

I have owned a copy of Rev for several years and am trying to decide if it is appropriate for a project that I want to do. I haven't done that much work with Rev, just played around with it. I have a pretty good background in HyperCard, so the basic concepts of Revolution make sense to me. I ha

Re: [Slightly OT] - Of Ajax, Ruby on Rails, and 37 Signals

But I keep wondering why this stuff isn't being driven by Rev instead of by Ruby, which is a text-only development tool. Easy. Ruby on Rails is free and open source. Much easier to get the developer nerds of the world excited about something that makes their life easier and is free than a com

Re: Kevin Miller's scripting conference chat log

During our last scripting conference, Kevin Miller gave a presentation on Revolution 2.6 and answered questions from the participants about Revolution and future plans. I have posted the transcript of that portion of the conference, and you can download it here:

Re: Rev. User Groups in the USA?

I live in the Philadelphia area and would become a member of a local user group if such existed. -Rodney -- Rodney Somerstein Meditation... it's not what you think. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Outside of a dog, a book is man

Re: the IDE

Richard Gaskin wrote: There's a lot of code in the IDE, so I wouldn't begin to know all of the things it does. But to get a feel for which messages are intercepted you can do two things: - Read the frontScripts and backScripts that are active when the IDE is running. - Use UmbrellaMan to log e

Re: Why wait for Inheritance in Revolution? Want 1000 more features now?

Xavier, XOS sounds interesting to me. If you release XOS, and it is all that you say it is, I would certainly donate to help keep it going. The non-object oriented nature of RunRev is one of the things about it that bothers me a bit, so anything that pushes it in that direction is a plus for me

How to set the layer of draggable objects?

I have 12 groups of objects (each consisting of a rectangle with a label) on a card and need to set the layer of each one that I click on to be higher than all of the others. These groups are set up to be able to drag them around the card using the script from the Tip of the Week section of ru