Re: "Unable to open stack" from Finder

2009-08-29 Thread Russell Martin
gust 29, 2009, 5:51 PM > > On Aug 29, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Russell Martin wrote: > > > Hey, in Rev Studio 3.5, if I try and double click on a > stack when Rev is already open I get a dialog that states, > "Unable to open stack: stack is corrupted, check for ~ > backup file

Re: "Unable to open stack" from Finder

2009-08-29 Thread Russell Martin
elt wrote: > From: Sarah Reichelt > Subject: Re: "Unable to open stack" from Finder > To: "How to use Revolution" > Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 5:34 PM > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM, > Russell Martin > wrote: > > Hey, in Rev Studio 3.5, if I try

"Unable to open stack" from Finder

2009-08-29 Thread Russell Martin
Hey, in Rev Studio 3.5, if I try and double click on a stack when Rev is already open I get a dialog that states, "Unable to open stack: stack is corrupted, check for ~ backup file." The funny thing is, these stacks are not corrupted. If I open them by using File, Open they open just fine. Also

openSockets strangeness

2008-10-12 Thread Russell Martin
Hi. I've been playing around with sockets. I'm attempting to create a stack than can run shell commands on OS X so that I can get a multi-threaded effect. I've never used sockets before, so after, digging through the chat example stack, I dug right in. I'm finding some odd behavior that I'm hop

Re: Rev not Cocoa-enough??

2008-09-15 Thread Russell Martin
Would you post a URL for this discussion? Thanks. --- On Mon, 9/15/08, Judy Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Judy Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Rev not Cocoa-enough?? > To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 7:11 PM > Hi, > > I was just reviewing c

runrev.com website

2008-06-02 Thread Russell Martin
Anyone else notice that the runrev.com website is down today? ___ 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/mailm

revDocWiki

2008-03-17 Thread Russell Martin
Please accept my apologies in advance if you're tired of hearing about the desire for a documentation wiki. Also, I would like to offer my apologies to the other person who recently posted a link to his Revolution wiki here. At any rate, I recently released the 2nd freeware app that I've created w

Many Cards vs. Lists vs. XML

2008-02-16 Thread Russell Martin
So, I've been reading up on Rev's XML features and I'm wondering if that isn't a better route to go than using lists? Any thoughts? Also, for those that use lists to store data, how do you handle placing multiline data into your list structure? And, what do you do to deal with data that might con

Re: AW: Flash or Quicktime?

2008-02-15 Thread Russell Martin
What about sound? Aren't animated gifs silent? --- Klaus Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tiemo, > > > Hmm, didn't thought about that yet. I have never compared quality > > and size > > against a video, but giving each frame a unique filename sounds to > > > quite > > some work > > No

(Rev 2.8.1) resume and defaultstack

2008-02-14 Thread Russell Martin
When using an answer dialog from within a resume handler, the defaultstack becomes "answer dialog", yet, when using an answer dialog in other handlers, the defaultstack does NOT become "answer dialog". I've tested this in both OS X and Windows XP and it does it in both. Is this a bug? I've attem

Re: Temporary custom properties

2008-02-14 Thread Russell Martin
You're right. I just got too focused in on custom properties. Wasn't thinking. I now realize that I can use a global array in almost exactly the same way I was using custom properties. Thanks. --- Stephen Barncard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why would you not use a global variable? A big feature

Temporary custom properties

2008-02-14 Thread Russell Martin
Hey, does anyone have a suggestion about what is the best kind of (non-visible) object to create on the fly for temporarily storing custom properties? In other words, I want to use custom properties like global variables, but I want to put them in something that only exists during program executio

Re: put into named field weirdness

2008-02-11 Thread Russell Martin
t belongs too? One that remains constant? Maybe something like 'target owner'? --- "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Martin wrote: > > > ...now, within my openStack handler, just before I spit out the > answer > > dialog and t

Re: put into named field weirdness

2008-02-11 Thread Russell Martin
hen call my readPrefsFile handler, I do, inside of my openPrefsFile handler, open a separate stack stored on disk, but once that handler completes and execution returns to the line below it, how does the recently opened preferences stack then become the stack that is calling readPrefsFile?!? Tha

Re: put into named field weirdness

2008-02-11 Thread Russell Martin
x27;t yet opened. You could try moving the handler > > to check. > > -Scott Morrow > > Elementary Software > (Now with 20% less chalk dust !) > web http://elementarysoftware.com/ > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --

put into named field weirdness

2008-02-10 Thread Russell Martin
Any idea why the following line of code errors out when run from openStack, but works just fine later when called from a handler responding to a button press: put lNewFilesField into field "FilesField" Is there some kind of field name initialization that hasn't finished by the time openStack is c

"Set as Menu Bar on Mac OS" oddities

2008-02-10 Thread Russell Martin
I'm crossing my fingers that I can explain this concisely, coherently and without being too boring. I've been having some menu bar weirdness and I'm wondering if there's a better way of doing things that what I've arrived at. Here's what's happening... When I check the box "Set as Menu Bar on Ma

Re: [OT] Does Sheepshaver work in Leopard?

2008-02-01 Thread Russell Martin
I haven't really put it through any paces, but it seems to work just fine in Leopard for me. --- Jim Carwardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks... I haven't upgraded to Leopard for fear of Sheepshaver not > > working. Anybody try it?... Jim > > Jim Carwardine, > President & CEO > OYF Co

encrypt, decrypt & cipherNames

2008-01-23 Thread Russell Martin
As cool as I think Revolution is, at times, there's stuff like this that just makes my head hurt. Please see my bug report at: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5129 In short, encrypt, decrypt, and cipherNames do not work in the IDE. They do however work in stand alones- which is

Why not a Wiki? (was Re: docs)

2008-01-19 Thread Russell Martin
I understand exactly what you are talking about. A couple of years ago, before I bought Revolution, when I was a DreamCard user, I was experiencing exactly what you described in your full post- namely just not knowing where to look. Thankfully, I discovered this list. I usually try and search the

Re: Many Cards Versus One Card and a List Field

2008-01-15 Thread Russell Martin
I don't currently have a project where I'm trying to store thousands of records. To some, maybe that will invalidate my views on the subject. I just read what Sarah had written below and I was frankly a bit peeved. I've spent a considerable amount of time learning how to use stacks as documents an

Re: Many Cards Versus One Card and a List Field

2008-01-14 Thread Russell Martin
I realize I'm kinda late to the party on this topic, but I just want to express my dismay at finding out that using stacks as databases is prohibitively slow. That just seems bassackwards. A big part of why I started looking into HyperCard, SuperCard, and then Revolution was because I finally got

Re: HyperNext ? Worth a look ?

2008-01-14 Thread Russell Martin
I just downloaded it. I didn't have any problems downloading it, and it wasn't terribly slow either. I think my download speed averaged about 39k per second. It was the Mac version. Now, once I downloaded it and played around with it, I'm both impressed and amused. He's obviously built this with

Detect run from drive type

2007-12-29 Thread Russell Martin
Does anyone know of a way to detect whether an app is being run from a removable drive? The goal being, if the app was run from a removable/writable drive (i.e. a usb keychain drive, but not necessarily a U3 volume), the app would then read & write its prefs in the folder it was run from, but if ru

Drag to resize list fields

2007-11-20 Thread Russell Martin
Hi. I'm attempting to create an interface where I have two list fields side by side. I would like the user to be able to click in the space between the two lists and then drag left or right to and have the lists widths to be resized. What I've attempted to do, is to put a tall narrow rectangle i

Re: revDocWiki

2005-10-02 Thread Russell Martin
I'm fairly new to Revolution. I recently purchased Dreamcard and while there are things that I really like about it, there have been several issues with it that took way too much time for me to either figure out work arounds on my own or search through the archives of this list for solution

Visual Effects Question

2005-07-21 Thread Russell Martin
Is it possible to have conrols on a card/window that aren't affected by visual effects? For instance, is it possible to have forward/back buttons that don't move when using visual effects like slide or push? If so, how is this done? Thanks. === Russ Martin [EMAIL PRO

Tables: Number of Columns?

2005-07-17 Thread Russell Martin
How do you specify the number of columns that you want in a table object? I've been playing around with this and reading the documentation and I can't seem to change the default of 3 columns that I got just by dragging the control onto the window. Also, does anyone know of a good resource f

Re: OT: Mentoring Mac NewBies

2005-02-05 Thread JOHN RUSSELL
I think David Pogue's Mac OS X: Panther Edition, the Missing Manual (O'Reilly) might be a help to you. It's over 700 pages in length, but quoting from the back cover, here's how it starts: "Getting started: The early chapters demystify the Dock, windows, and the unfamilar Mac OS X folder struct

Adventure Games with Revolution?

2005-01-30 Thread James Russell
Sorry about the rather late reply to this but was caught up over the x-mas period. Anyway I thought I would help answer the question about point-n-click games like Dott and MI. I created an adventure game engine around a year ago in Revolution. The game never took off, the artists goals were a litt

Re: New Revolution Game

2004-12-15 Thread James Russell
> Yep, I'm seeing this too. > > On Dec 15, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Thomas McGrath III > wrote: > > > When I lost in the arena while my guys were > working out they did not > > die. They were still working out but could not do > anything else. They > > were like ghosts. Almost ghosts, they are just l

New Revolution Game

2004-12-15 Thread James Russell
Hello all, I've been busy in the trenches these past few months tinkering away at a dream of mine. I'm heading off to university next year for a Biomolecular degree, during the middle of this year I suddenly realized that I wouldn't have much free time once I began. So I thought to myself, what wo

RE: How to add a field to a stack of 50 cards

2003-11-16 Thread Russell
act as background. Then after 50 or a 1000 cards, if you decide you need another field, goto card 1 edit the group and create yout field inside the group. Would that work? Thanks Russell ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-05 Thread Russell
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Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-05 Thread Russell
Oh Im sorry Ken I didn't realize youi ment this in reference to: : > How can an application be constrained to one 5x8 or whatever size window. ? But the above is only one line of a larger paragraph and in that context it was saying "How can a developer work an application with numerous different

Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-04 Thread Russell
application be constrained to one 5x8 or whatever size window. ? Thanks Russell ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-03 Thread Russell
If im writing an application different procedures will have different size windows for instance under the "File" menu select the print a window will appear contsining the design for the print command. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-02 Thread Russell
Thanks guys For taking to the time to ponder my questions, Then it is agreed that the apparent mixed card sizes is a programming slight of hand rather than a Revolution feature. If that be the case, How does the developer design on different size cards then assemble them into a stack of one

Can cards in a stack be of different sizes

2003-11-02 Thread Russell
Hello people Can cards in a stack be of different sizes What is a substack and how do you use it Thanks Russ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Open "Tips" stack in edit mode

2003-10-31 Thread Russell
Hello people How can I open the revolution stacks in edit mode so I can peruse how the stack was out together. Like maybe the Tips stack. as an example Thanks Russ 12345 ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailm

Revolution crashes on startup

2003-10-28 Thread Russell
Hi people The past several days whenever I open revolution it opens the tips window and seems to crash! The error window opens and flickers like the code is going in a loop. Takes awhile to stop (clicking and bouncing around the window) and there is no guarentee it won't happen and does again

Revoluionn hangs on the splash screen

2002-02-21 Thread Russell Campbell
I am using a new instalation of Red Hat 7.2 and have followed the instructions, have downloaded both files (revolutionenvironment.tgz & Linux.gz) Twice just to make sure that they were not corrupted. Any sugestions? Thanx in advance Russell ___