Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-27 Thread Wone Barnwell
Hello, Now if they can make a new version for Linux, here is one improvement that I can think of. Make RevSpeak work for Linux, Linux is past due for a text to speech engine. Chipp Walters wrote: Congratulations RR on the latest release! I also say a hearty Thanks for your responsiveness

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-26 Thread Samuel M. Smith
2.7.4 brings the number of Revolution new releases since January to four, averaging around one every two months. This means that we are perhaps the most responsive development environment on the market, bringing you cutting edge technology as it happens - we were first with Mac Intel

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-25 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 24, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote: When did 'one year of free updates/maintenance releases/etc.' get dropped?? According to the Internet Wayback machine, this happened sometime early in 2004. I know what you mean, though... I was involved with MetaCard/Revolution before that and

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-25 Thread Martin Baxter
Dar Scott wrote: On Sep 24, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote: When did 'one year of free updates/maintenance releases/etc.' get dropped?? According to the Internet Wayback machine, this happened sometime early in 2004. I know what you mean, though... I was involved with MetaCard/Revolution

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-25 Thread Chipp Walters
Congratulations RR on the latest release! I also say a hearty Thanks for your responsiveness to the needs of the user community. I know folks like Richard and I have pressed for the hoverIcon feature, and others for proportional resizing. Great stuff! Keep up the good work! (Now if we can just

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Dar Scott
On Sep 23, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Luis wrote: It's like the printers you buy nowadays: They don't include the cable!!! When Stromberg-Carlson tried to get into the computer biz in the 50s, they so shorted customers that eventually many customers decided to just buy just the display or more

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Judy Perry
Huh??? When did 'one year of free updates/maintenance releases/etc.' get dropped?? Thanking the stars my economic livelihood doesn't rely upon them... Judy On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Bill Marriott wrote: Alright. Am I correct that the price of update packs has increased now? Early update $188/yr

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Judy Perry
I'm coming in on this late, so perhaps this has already been answered, and if so, apologies, but... is there a difference between upgrades (which I would understand as being from Studio - Enterprise or whatever's next on the developmental food chain) and new releases (e.g., from 2.7.1 - 2.7.2)??

Thank You, Scott and Kevin (was Revolution 2.7.4 Released)

2006-09-24 Thread Shari
So maybe we should gather up our thoughts and state what we'd expect from a tool such as Revolution (I wonder how they're getting on at the improve Revolution mailing list...). Apologies if my thought seem a little disjointed, been up all night messing about with audio (ouch!). Cheers,

Re: Thank You, Scott and Kevin (was Revolution 2.7.4 Released)

2006-09-24 Thread jbv
Shari, (SNIP) So Hypercard was dead, and Metacard hadn't quite popped into the realm visibly yet. (SNIP) you probably missed it, but in the second half of the 90's, Oracle Media Object helped bridge the gap between the death of HC and the maturity of MC. OMO was a very good product too,

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Ken Ray
On 9/24/06 3:59 AM, Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh??? When did 'one year of free updates/maintenance releases/etc.' get dropped?? According to the Internet Wayback machine, this happened sometime early in 2004. I know what you mean, though... I was involved with MetaCard/Revolution

Re: Thank You, Scott and Kevin (was Revolution 2.7.4 Released)

2006-09-24 Thread Tereza Snyder
On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:51 AM, jbv wrote: Shari, (SNIP) So Hypercard was dead, and Metacard hadn't quite popped into the realm visibly yet. (SNIP) you probably missed it, but in the second half of the 90's, Oracle Media Object helped bridge the gap between the death of HC and the

Re: Thank You, Scott and Kevin (was Revolution 2.7.4 Released)

2006-09-24 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On Sep 24, 2006, at 9:51 AM, jbv wrote: Shari, (SNIP) So Hypercard was dead, and Metacard hadn't quite popped into the realm visibly yet. (SNIP) you probably missed it, but in the second half of the 90's, Oracle Media Object helped bridge the gap between the death of HC and the

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Jerry Muelver
Heather Nagey wrote: months at the bundle price. To introduce this new trial period, we are having an amnesty for purchasers of Revolution in the last 3 months, who didn't get the update pack at time of purchase. If you bought a new license after 22nd July 2006, you will be able to unlock

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-24 Thread Judy Perry
Carp! ..., er, CRAP!!! And I just demonstrated the use of the Wayback machine to resurrect a neat little Mayan culture site (formerly at www.halfmoon.org) for my 'Computer Impact on Society' course... never thought I'd need to actually have to USE it myself... grrr Feeling old... Judy On

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-23 Thread Shao Sean
I have already emailed support about this, but hopefully someone from RR Ltd will see this during the weekend and fire their webmaster and hire someone who has a clue.. The announcement on the homepage links to the whats_new.php page, yet you are required to login to view the aforementioned

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-23 Thread Dan Shafer
Every software company on the planet faces the same issue as RR here. What one person considers essential to the product is someone else's bloated feature-itis. I don't use footnotes and end notes much, so if Word left those out, I wouldn't care. But a friend of mine who writes research papers

Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-22 Thread Heather Nagey
Dear List Members, Version 2.7.4 of Revolution is now available for download here: http://downloads.runrev.com Or go to check for updates inside Revolution. Improvements include *Hover Icon - objects can now be highlighted when you move your mouse over them, improving the responsiveness of

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-22 Thread Bill Marriott
Heather Nagey wrote: [...] To introduce this new trial period, we are having an amnesty for purchasers of Revolution in the last 3 months, who didn't get the update pack at time of purchase. If you bought a new license after 22nd July 2006, you will be able to unlock version 2.7.4 even

RE: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-22 Thread Lynn Fredricks
To introduce this new trial period, we are having an amnesty for purchasers of Revolution in the last 3 months, who didn't get the update pack at time of purchase. If you bought a new license after 22nd July 2006, you will be able to unlock version 2.7.4 even if you didn't buy

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-22 Thread Bill Marriott
Alright. Am I correct that the price of update packs has increased now? Early update $188/yr (was $150) Standard update $253/yr (was $199) Lynn Fredricks wrote Rev without an update pack previously came with 30 days of updates. ___ use-revolution

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-22 Thread Kevin Miller
On 22/9/06 23:52, Bill Marriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright. Am I correct that the price of update packs has increased now? No, we have not changed any pricing at all (beyond giving away 3 months of free upgrades with a new license purchase instead of 1 month). Kind regards, Kevin Kevin

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-22 Thread Bill Marriott
Aha. My impression the prices went up are based on the conversion between pounds and dollars, then. Maybe they got it reversed in the web page localization code? (I'm in the US and I'm seeing pounds only) Mark Smith wrote: Funny, they're listed only in dollars for me (in the UK), as they

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill Marriott wrote: Aha. My impression the prices went up are based on the conversion between pounds and dollars, then. Maybe they got it reversed in the web page localization code? (I'm in the US and I'm seeing pounds only) Sounds like RR needs to update the web site's database IP

Re: Revolution 2.7.4 Released

2006-09-22 Thread Sivakatirswami
Kevin: I really appreciate your continuing aggressive approach to improvement. It bodes well for Revolution's future. Off the record, between you and me... I was not super happy that the plug ins model that has been evolving these past two years which has put what should be core IDE