RE: Lurkers of the List Unite and Take Over

2006-05-20 Thread William Griffin
On 05.20.06, at 1100AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Will all list-lurkers kindly raise their hands ? Lurking And While I'm peaking out of the shadows, is there anyone in Denver, CO? I'd like to see someone use iGame3D hands on, someone besides myself and my five year old that is. My

Re: Change Screen Resolution

2006-04-22 Thread William Griffin
On 04.22.06, at 924AM, Sarah wrote: FOr OS X, you can use the shell command cscreen to change resolution. cscreen does not seem to be a default shell command, there is no man page, and Terminal returns command not found. The utility to make it work can be found here

Re: Those Yahoo Groups? Just Say No.

2006-01-22 Thread William Griffin
Yahoo turned over their search data base to the Bush Administration. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1913415,00.asp If you value privacy, then I suggest you dump anything having to do with Yahoo, and let them know why. You may not have anything to hide in Rev discussions, but its

RE: iGame3D 3D Games in Rev, etc

2005-07-28 Thread William Griffin
of the cannon walls. William Griffin Team iGame3D ___ 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

preANN: ArcadeEngine

2005-07-14 Thread William Griffin
I don't see any posts (at least not with the find function in mail) so this is the pre-ANNouncement, ooh ahh wow cool response to the coolest thing in Rev since I've started using the product. Well besides my own work, but hey this looks finished, ready to use, and I didn't have to sweat or

Re: SPAM (FYI)

2005-06-30 Thread William Griffin
Can someone tell me how my 'special' email address I created for especially for this list and only this list got to a spammer? The simplest way is for anyone who sends and receives mail to/from this list to have a microsoft product, with a virus, and said virus then sends all addresses it

The Layer command

2005-01-15 Thread william griffin
Whats the story with this layer command? I have tabs in a group that look like this __ ____ |__\ |__\ |__\ With a slight bit overlap and I want the selected tab to appear topmost. But the command is not working. on mouseUp put

RE Trouble with graphics display in OS X

2005-01-12 Thread william griffin
You can not set the loc of an object or the rect of an object or, anything that uses integers (ie pixels) with floats, Its just bad news. put .1 into dx ---you have floating point numbers in HERE put .1 into dy ---you have floating point numbers in HERE Works well

Re: Tiny und Toni Game

2004-12-19 Thread william griffin
Very nice work there, you should have shot for uDevGames, even unfinished that would have been a winner. I posted links to your game and library at iDevGames forums so that potential game makers might actually get interested in Revolution, and those that license Revolution and loathe the list

Re: rev chat discussions

2004-12-17 Thread william griffin
On Dec 17, 2004, at 10:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 16 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:35:55 +0100 From: Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: rev chat disconnected I'm replying to the list because you wrote to the list. Rev Needs Forums, its as simple as that. The client and

Re: Runtime Revolution Reprezent

2004-11-22 Thread william griffin
iDevGames the Mac independent game development website has finally carved a little niche for what they are calling Alternative IDE's in their forums. Finally RunRev game devs have a small island in the Mac world. I've started a thread there to just to kick things off. And I invite fellow RunRev

Apple scriptable standalones

2004-11-20 Thread william griffin
Out of curiosity I decided to build a standalone and see what effects Applescript could have on it. Script edit gave me an error as soon as I compiled this: tell application iGame3d do script quit end tell So I went looking for the dictionary and there was none. How does one provide a dictionary

Re: ANN iGame3D's Dead Game on MacOSX

2004-11-18 Thread william griffin
Message: 15 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:50:32 +0100 From: Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ANN: iGame3D's Dead Days To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Bill and all, i cannot get this game started??? Anyone else experienced this? I doubleclick and see the short zoom effect, but

Re: ANN iGame3D's Dead Days

2004-11-18 Thread william griffin
11 18 04 Klaus Major wrote : Thank you very much, will do that, of course... Thanks to DSL, i downloaded the debug version immedaitely while writing this mail and THAT one starts up and plays OK with my setup and (high) resolution ...? Mac G4, 1 GHZ (Sonnet upgrade card) 1 GB RAM !@%*# ATI RADEON

Re: Ann: what's up?(Xcontrolsbrowser)

2004-11-11 Thread william griffin
Download link from safari gives rev code in Browser. A simple zip compression should solve this problem for 99.9% of all browsers. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Video Out / DV Out External

2004-10-27 Thread william griffin
Apples developer site has the code http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/SimpleVideoOut/SimpleVideoOut.html Whats lacking is an External Tutorial. If such a thing existed video out would be the project I would learn to make externals with. We wanted to add this a year ago, but Tobi has no DV

Re: problems with popup menus under OS 9?

2004-10-23 Thread william griffin
Has anyone else had problems with popup menus under OS 9? Im having weird and sporadic results. Im thinking theyre memory related, but Im not totally sure. Sometimes my app will crash with error type 2, sometimes just the app will freeze up, and sometimes the whole computer will lock up. Im

Re: problems with popup menus under OS 9?

2004-10-23 Thread william griffin
Message: 14 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:55:04 -0700 From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problems with popup menus under OS 9? william griffin wrote: Popup menus in revolution have problems. I've gone through hell and back with them. First thing to check is the menuMouseButton

LUA SHELL others through shell

2004-09-21 Thread william griffin
I was just answering someones post over here http://www.createmacgames.org/forum/posting.php? sid=31528cc8cb2dbbbfff31e013c22bd4c8 and cobbled together this LUA Shell stack as a distraction http://www.igame3d.com/rev/LUASHELL.zip There's a Mac OS X application and instructions for installing LUA

Re: mp3/wma in Rev?

2004-09-20 Thread william griffin
I was wondering if there is any way to play mp3 or wma files from within Rev (ideally without instantiating an external player.) Try http://www.igame3d.com/rev/FMODforRev112.zip Contains a playlist example and Mp3 definately works. COPY the .dll (on windows) or external package (on mac) to your

Re: Drawers ( * fixed stack url * )

2004-09-16 Thread william griffin
On Sep 16, 2004, at 4:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 16 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:25:53 -0500 From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: drawers I was almost happy...almost... The drawers exhibit some weird behavior like not obeying the side of the stack they are supposed to be

unix man pages (+ Drag Drop Revisited)

2004-09-15 Thread william griffin
, and tried Klaus' plug in for a quick check oh how it works. Looking forward to digging in deeper Reposted below for anyone who slept through class. :-) Message: 24 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:00:45 -0500 From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Drag Drop On 9/11/04 12:59 PM, william griffin [EMAIL

Mac OS X splittable window?

2004-09-15 Thread william griffin
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:59:20 +0100 From: Frank Leahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mac OS X splittable window? Hi, I'm looking at putting a simpler interface on my product for the next rev, and wanted to make it a little more Mac-like. Has anyone been able to make a splittable window in RunRev?

Re: drawers

2004-09-15 Thread william griffin
Message: 17 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:37:54 -0600 From: Arthur Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mac OS X splittable window? To: 'How to use Revolution' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now how does one pull off those side drawers that are all the rage in OS X apps? I believe all you have to do is:

RE: Drag Drop

2004-09-11 Thread william griffin
8. Drag Drop (Jim Carwardine) Message: 8 Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:16:31 -0300 From: Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Drag Drop To: Revolution Listserve [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recall a discussion a few months ago about dragging and dropping but I don't remember the details. I'd like

Re: Drag Drop

2004-09-11 Thread william griffin
Message: 24 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:00:45 -0500 From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Drag Drop On 9/11/04 12:59 PM, william griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we are on the subject, how does one manage to add drag to from desktop application functionality to rev based application

Re: Drag and Drop

2004-09-10 Thread william griffin
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:16:31 -0300 From: Jim Carwardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Drag Drop I recall a discussion a few months ago about dragging and dropping but I don't remember the details. I'd like to drag drop text from one field in a sub stack to another field in another sub stack.

Re: use-revolution Digest, Vol 12, Issue 5

2004-09-02 Thread william griffin
Message: 21 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:23:40 -0500 From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mac Menu Madness To: Use Revolution List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On 8/31/04 11:12 PM, william griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Mac Menu Madness

2004-08-31 Thread william griffin
I decided to explore the world of popup stacks. I created a menuBar item I gave it a button: on menuPick popup stack IDLETHROTTLE end menuPick I tested, the IDE locked up. Finally I escaped from that, then I noticed my stack which is a toolbar type of stack, like the rev toolbar stack, had

RE: anyone here would use simple httpd or ftpd code?

2004-08-26 Thread william griffin
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:07:13 -0300 From: Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: anyone here would use simple httpd or ftpd code? hi folks, I am building this huge lib for handling netservices like http and ftp. Although I am not near my milestone 1, it's pretty usable so I was wondering if

RE: Critter (Meme PacAttack!!!)

2004-08-21 Thread william griffin
Fancy! Last couple of days I've been thinking of how to pull of games in in Björnke's RevChat, two the problem of direction vectors in rev and a multiplayer player vs player Pac-Man crossed my mind not even twelve hours ago. Funny Björnke's chat pretty much started as a part of his mission for

Re: Stack is momentarily solid white (flicker) - OSX

2004-08-19 Thread william griffin
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:53:28 -0500 From: Jerry Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Stack is momentarily solid white (flicker) - OSX To: Use Revolution List use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

Game Design Doc

2004-08-04 Thread william griffin
Hello Folks, Months ago I had the idea that a design document based interface would simplify and organize the iGame3D production flow. Much has happened since then and I can't seem to recall the inspirational genius behind what I was trying to accomplish, resulting in the work I started

Re: Any Chatters? Revisited

2004-08-03 Thread william griffin
Catching up on all the list I missed for a month. As long as one person is in the chat room runrev the room will exist to join. If no one is in the room and attempts to join, the room will be created. Once you see people in the ichat room, you can drag them to your buddy list and iChat provides

Re: menubar demo/tutorial

2004-08-02 Thread william griffin
1. Re: menubar demo/tutorial anyone? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:16:33 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: menubar demo/tutorial anyone? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iGame3D Status 062204 (Long detailed reply)

2004-06-23 Thread william griffin
this computer others since January 2000 That includes over 1470 run-rev list digests. ___ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WIlliam Griffin Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 2:41 PM

Re: iGame3D status 062204

2004-06-21 Thread william griffin
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:09:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Alejandro Tejada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What happens with igame3d? Does anyone knows happens to http://www.igame3d.com The OpenGL programming system that they implemented shows a lot of possibilities, but it has vanished from their site. I was

Menus Locked Menus Missing Menu Hell

2004-03-21 Thread WIlliam Griffin
Spent hours googling searches for similiar bug, found nothing. Can't touch bugzilla with safari at all. So its up to you guys. My menus are locked or vanish. The file Menu only shows New Mainstack about 80% of the time my Development menu only shows objects and image library. Any pop-up or option

GameDev in Rev. Seuck explained + suggestion

2004-01-13 Thread WIlliam Griffin
First up i'm trying to properly focus the next Inkubator project at www.idevgames.com so i deconstructed an ancient commercial game making tool called the Shoot 'Em up Construction KIt Here's the stack that goes with that. http://www.igame3d.com/seuck/SEUCKexplainedRev.zip The Inkubator project

Several Questions

2004-01-10 Thread WIlliam Griffin
Many questions: 1. Is there anywhere i can get information, esp. tutorial, on working source code into an external. I have access to endless amounts of source code, but its all useless to me until I know this external magic. 2. Is it possible to distort images, say into a perspective, I need

Re: About object alignment in transcript...

2003-12-02 Thread WIlliam Griffin
This should not be hard at all. You either have a list of items you want aligned, or a group, or other methods (like within some frame ..rect, selected objects, etc ) For a quick example lets say I have 400 graphics on a page and I want to align all the green ones case center put the loc of

Re: 3d Revolution/MetaCard

2003-11-07 Thread WIlliam Griffin
be sampled here. http://www.igame3d.com//beta/iGame3D_b110403.sit We haven't had a chance to build a new PC version. We'll be happy to answer any of your questions. William Griffin Tobias Opfermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

FMODforRev Internet Streaming

2003-11-02 Thread WIlliam Griffin
are available here: Mac Version: http://www.igame3d.com/FMODforRev.sit PC Version: http://www.igame3d.com/FMODforRev.zip Just remember to COPY the FMODforRev external to the Revolution application path, before opening your stack. William Griffin Tobias Opfermann. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: iGame3D FMOD Revolution

2003-10-31 Thread WIlliam Griffin
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:31:40 -0800 From: Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: iGame3D FMOD Revolution Howdy Bill, -- I got this error when the stack opens: executing at 7:28:03 PM TypeHandler: can't find handler ObjectFMOD Example LineFfRInit HintFfRInit

Find length of file

2003-10-25 Thread WIlliam Griffin
How do I find out the number of lines of a file without having to read the entire thing first? Just want to peek into a file, and start reading it from the second third of it, or from a specific word how can I do that? Thanks. Bill Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:Open Sourced Externals

2003-08-14 Thread WIlliam Griffin
In reference to open sourcing the externals. if this is going to happen, I would be happy to host them. I could probably cover about 100 megs of these. Maybe 200 megs tops. How many are there? I don't actually know how to make an externa myself but seeing on the games that will be followed by

The Message Box no-action bug solved

2003-07-24 Thread WIlliam Griffin
From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] I should amend my comment. The unavailability of all the engines in the distribution builder may be a legitimate bug, but for the others, try testing first on a newly-created stack. Some of the things that aren't working in your original stack may work in a

Re: Revolution 2.02 is a $200 beta?

2003-07-23 Thread WIlliam Griffin
This application is seriously flawed. Revolution 2.0.2 First the problem from before. From: WIlliam Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Typing a command and hitting return in Message box results in no action. Whats the deal? Response on list> Hi Bill, There are two types of message boxes : a

Re: Revolution 2.0.2 the $200 beta

2003-07-23 Thread WIlliam Griffin
From: Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill, do you know your message has a hostile tone to it? That comes across loud and clear, huh? Can you imagine the impression the thousands of people at Macworld NY would have had last week, if I'd bought Rev. instead of using trial Metacard for the past 30