Some time ago, I wanted to achieve the same effect. I ended up having
to create a graphic that was colored only on top of the areas I wanted
colored, and transparent everywhere else. It's not the best solution,
but it was the only way I could come up with to get about the same
effect.
s the correct name for the user type, but when they
log in, all they have on the dock are a few folders. Bringing up the
applications folder only allows them to run the programs allowed by
the administrator.
Thanks for any help!
Scott Slaugh
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t in the mood to try and argue that with the IT guy at the
time. We didn't try setting the folder to be read-write. I'll see if
we can try that next week.
Scott Slaugh
> Can you tell me how the "simple user" is set up? We use 10.3 in
> the labs at our school, and each
5. Does anyone know of
anything else that could be causing this? I seem to recall having
been able to build this stack under 2.5 successfully before. However,
I did just run the check for updates from the help menu. Perhaps an
updated stack is causing the pr
I would like to make a program that would run in
the background somehow. I want to be able to have the program running and
be able to do things over my network with it. However, I don't want it to
be visible on the other computer. Anyone have any ideas on how to do
this?
Scott Slaugh
Why hasn't there been a new tip of the week for the
past few weeks? If you can't think of a topic, I'm sure that you could ask
the people on this list and get quite a few.
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d:
>
> put URL "binfile:C:/test.jpg" into fld "test"
>
> how can I figure out the length in characters for that file? I need to
know
> before uploading to a server.
Try this:
put the number of
The only way, at least currently, to use speech on Windows is to use an
external. You can get it at http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I would like to make a message watcher, like HyperCard had. Does anyone
have any ideas of how I could do this?
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I have been having problems getting Revolution to run under Basilisk II, and have been wondering if anyone out there can help me. I downloaded the MacOS version and unstuffed. I am giving it 80 megs of ram, but when I start it up, it shows the bottom left hand corner of the splash screen and fre
68k engine? What I am trying to do here is port some HyperCard stacks to Windows.
Scott Slaugh
>From: "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Subject: Re: revolution on basilisk II >Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 21:25:53 -0500 >
Well, I would like to be able to open it on a Mac so that it doesn't strip of the resource fork and moves all of that stuff to the data fork. Then I would move it over to Windows to finish converting it.
Scott Slaugh>From: "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Reply-To: [EM
Someone just pointed out to me that I have been posting in html. Sorry
about that. I had my email set up to remind to convert to plain text, but
lost that setting. I'll try to remember to post in plain text from now on.
Scott S
I would like to change the default cursor in a Revolution stack. I know I
can do it by going and editing the Rev cursors stack, but I want to be able
to store the cursor in the stack, so that it changes the cursor on whatever
computer it is opened on. Any ideas on how to do this?
Scott Slaugh
I have a bunch of buttons with color icons. I want to be able to cover them
all up, so that they are all one color. In HyperCard I could do this by
drawing a rectangle over it in the color tools, but I don't know how I would
do it in Revolution.
Scott S
hen I
edited the icon, as did HyperCard's? I have thought about this a bit and
cannot think about how to do it. Any ideas?
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>Is the magnify window adequate for this? (Set the image's magnify to true.)
Well, I am on vacation right now, so I can't try it at the moment. However,
when I get home, I will try. Thanks!
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When I have tried to use the revcopyfile funtction lately, I have not been
able to get it to work. I am using this script.
answer file "what"
put it into whatfile
answer folder "where"
put it into whatfolder
revcopyfile whatfile,whatfolder
No matter what file I pick, or folder, it copies the f
older, it copies the file to the c: drive.
This is on a Windows system.
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Hmmm...Maybe I can use that to leverage my parents into buying me a Mac :-)
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d not get it to work unless I replaced all of the /'s with \'s.
Apparently Windows won't do anything unless you use the correct type of
slash. Could this be the problem?
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> I am a recent hypercard refugee. Is there a message watcher window in
> runrev? I cant find it.
I was noticing that on the Revolution website it was saying that a new
feature of version 2.0 would be an "All-new integrated debugger, message and
variable watcher.&quo
one put
in, or at least some sort of icon editor.
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ee an editor
put into Revolution at some point that could do the things my image editor
can.
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editor, much like HyperCard had.
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in the second button script specifies how long the
computer waits between each flash. It is measured in ticks.
If you want me to combine this into one script for you, email me. Also
email me if you have any problems. Enjoy!
Scott Slaugh
--Button 1 script
on mouseUp
global flashnumber
ask
I just noticed that the part where I set the showname property to false is
spelled wrong. So to fix it, go to line 7 of the script of button 1 and
change the spelling of shownamme to showname. That makes the script for
button 1 look like the script below.
Scott Slaugh
--Button 1 script
on
I am trying to build a Windows distribution. In order for it to correctly
add my icon, I need to have an icon file containing icons in 9 different
formats. Does anyone out there know how I would go about making that icon
file?
Scott Slaugh
t want the engine, look at the FTP site at
<ftp://ftp.runrev.com/pub/revolution/downloads/engines/>.
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download the complete distribution from there, and then pull out just the
engine from the archive.
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I have a stack that I have made that provides a library for working
with sockets in Revolution, as well as a front end for the library.
I'll upload it to revOnline tonight, and you can see if it does what
you need.
Scott Slaugh
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:27:29 +1000, Keith Hutchison
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s actually clicked. It would be wonderful if the button had
a hilited state so that I could see when I hold the mouse down on it.
The other feature I would like to see added is support for Firefox in Windows.
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ckets to communicate, since
they worked better for the job I originally designed this stack for.
Beware that data sent is not verified. I do plan to add a version
that does not use datagrams to communicate at some point in the
future.
Any comments on this are welcome!
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On Fri, 2
nd the video should play.
Scott Slaugh
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:43:58 -0400, Dave LeYanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I only receive audio from the 2.5 videos. I'm using WinXP (This one may push
> me over the edge however!)
>
> I installed Quicktime, Removed all the file a
l get the correct codec in there.
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> WOW!
>
> Thanks Scott. That worked!
>
> Dave
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I have tested this program on Windows only, but there is no reason
it should not work on any platform. The text may look weird, but it
should still work fine. If you run into any bugs or have any
suggestions, please email me.
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the line
going straight, as I can in other drawing apps. Does anyone know of a way to
quickly add this functionality to Revolution?
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I can't use the line tool (or rectangle tool for that matter) because they
both seem to almost skip pixels. I'll try to drag a rectangle or draw a line
over an area, and I can end the drawing either one pixel from the edge or
one pixel over the edge.
Scott Slaugh
On 5/4/05, Frank D.
g to blank
answer boxes on both machines after the sockets time out. I would really
like to be able to have my request and response go out over the same socket.
Additionally, I would like the client handler to pause until the response is
received, since it is acting as a request command. Has an
On 5/9/05, Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> On May 9, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Scott Slaugh wrote:
>
> > write "message received" to socket theSocket
> ...
> > read from socket "1.1.1.1:8080 <http://1.1.1.1:8080> <
> http://1.1.
I tried catching the socketError and socketTimeout messages, and I'm not
seeing anything. I did, however, discoer that if I comment out the read line
in my client script the server script works fine.
Scott Slaugh
On 5/9/05, Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> On M
I think I figured out my problem. After looking at some scripts in the list
archives, I tried sending a cr after my transmission. I had been using a LF.
With the cr, it worked fine.
Scott Slaugh
On 5/9/05, Scott Slaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I tried catching the soc
cursor. It remains a watch, leaving people thinking the program has frozen.
Any ideas out there for this one?
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y, I use " [EOT]" as an end
of transmission string since I sometimes transmit binary data, and seemed to
run into problems if I used just a single ASCII character. Have any of you
been able to reliably use Revolution as a networked app? Any ideas what
might cause these sporadic outages? Is
I didn't see any bug reports related to the defaultCursor property when I
searched BugZilla. Do you have a bug number I could look at, or should I
just post one myself?
Scott Slaugh
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> On 5/11/05 1:26 PM, Scott Slaugh wr
Is there a way to figure out if the firewall on Mac OS X is running when a
program starts up? I want to be able to check that out, and warn the user if
it is running, since it causes problems in my program if it is.
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just missing the font used? If so, what is the font used? Thanks!
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I was able to figure out my problem. It seems that we had installed a
conflicting font somehow. As soon as I removed an hold OS 9 font we
had been using and replaced it with a newer version, the text in the
property inspectors returned to normal.
Scott Slaugh
On 5/20/05, Scott Slaugh <[EM
felt a need to defend my generation). Yet, I do
have a problem with getting things for free which were not intended to
be free, however much it might seem like they should be free.
Although, I must admit, I do often find myself in the minority in my
views.
Scott Slaugh
> Ben reminds me a lot
images, I
want to be able to set the filename to "images/image1.gif," rather than
something like "c:\program\images\image1.gif." Is there any way to do this?
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I would use that, except that by the time that I am clicking the second
time, there is a new button in that position. I have the template button,
and I then have the new moveable button right on top of the template button.
Scott Slaugh
Use a mouseDoubleDown handler. If the interval between
t the space bar.
However, if I change the 32 to 62593, which is the return key, the script
works fine. Why doesn't space bar work?
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le playing, doesn't show itself
playing-it just goes to the end, and then shows the very last frame. The
thing that confuses me is why the start player command will start the player
if I put it in a button, but not in the script to catch space bar.
Scott Slaugh
Cheers,
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Hi Scott,
It appears that it is a feature. I took out my script, and it worked fine.
Thanks for your help!
Scott Slaugh
i think this is a "feature" of QT.
You can start/stop a movie in QT-Player with the spacebar...
Just omit that handler and see what happens when you hit the
That is not the answer I'm thinking of.
Any more attempts, folks?
How about revAutoRefresh?
Scott Slaugh
Should I send out the answer?
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network adaptors
in it, it returns two network addresses. It does seem to be detecting the
fact that there are multiple IP addresses.
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etting the text up to the colon is not needed; it works with
all of the address.
I noticed that once when I was on a Mac. However, I usually still have it
get the text before the colon to make it cross-platform.
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from the CD. However, after the OS boots, I get taken to a text prompt that
asks me for my login. What login and password am I supposed to use to get
the CD working?
Scott Slaugh
ost helpful.
I'll look at that. I was trying to run the CD in VMWare, rather than on a
real machine. I'll have to go home and try the CD on my actual PC.
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experience is *exactly* yours. :-|
I just tried this and was able to get the icon to work. I opened my stack
in Resource Hacker and went and changed the first icon to the one I wanted.
I then deleted the second icon and saved the file. The icon showed up, and
my stack ran.
For those interested, a review of Revolution 2.1 from the November issue is
available online. The URL is
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0311/rev.runtime.html>.
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It seems to work fine for me. If you want, email me and I can send you a
copy of one of my splash screen stacks.
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I also discovered that I got a huge speed increase if I used datagram
sockets instead of normal sockets.
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do be careful
with datagrams. Delivery is not guaranteed. In the particular application
I was working on, speed was more important that was completely reliable
delivery.
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t forwarding on the router, where
you tell the router to send requests for a specific port to a certain
computer on the network. But, once again, I'm not entirely sure how
firewalls/routers work.
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