Re: OT fine musical instruments. WAS progress bars

2005-06-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, I well remember, in the early/mid-eighties, attending a demonstration of the 'indestructible' Status Bass (also carbon graphite/fibre, whatever) at the Bass Centre in London. To demonstrate the strength of the instrument, the guy from Status laid the bass across two chairs and th

Re: OT fine musical instruments. WAS progress bars

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Smith
I well remember, in the early/mid-eighties, attending a demonstration of the 'indestructible' Status Bass (also carbon graphite/fibre, whatever) at the Bass Centre in London. To demonstrate the strength of the instrument, the guy from Status laid the bass across two chairs and then jumped on th

Re: OT fine musical instruments. WAS progress bars

2005-06-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Klaus- Friday, June 3, 2005, 5:32:37 AM, you wrote: KM> this is a 6-string frettless bass-guitar made by a german company KM> called "Clover". I have a very hard time getting used to even *5*-string basses. The additional freedom afforded by the extra string starts imprinting new possibilities f

Re: OT fine musical instruments. WAS progress bars

2005-06-03 Thread Jon
Klaus: Check out these URLs. I also have a GL www.jonbondy.com/lacewood1.jpg - custom home-made lacewood guitar with graphite (Moses) neck, TransTrem, and Roland GK-2A pickup www.jonbondy.com/lacewood2.jpg - custom home-made lacewood guitar with Moses neck, custom home-made hard tail bridge

Re: OT fine musical instruments. WAS progress bars

2005-06-03 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jon, So, Klaus: do you play a Steinberger guitar? Mon dieux, un connaisseur :-) Although this "headless" design may have been invented by Mr. Ned Steinberger, this is a 6-string frettless bass-guitar made by a german company called "Clover". Like the "original" it is made of carbon g

Re: progress bars

2005-06-03 Thread Jon
So, Klaus: do you play a Steinberger guitar? :) Jon ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: progress bars

2005-06-02 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jon, I can't find any documentation on Progress Bars. I figure they are some kind of Scroll Bar, but the specific properties of a Progress Bar do not seem to be documented. When I use terms like StartValue and EndValue, they become red, so they must be OK, but when I use the

Re: progress bars

2005-06-02 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 3:19 PM -0400 6/2/2005, Jon wrote: I can't find any documentation on Progress Bars. I figure they are some kind of Scroll Bar, but the specific properties of a Progress Bar do not seem to be documented. When I use terms like StartValue and EndValue, they become red, so they must

Re: progress bars

2005-06-02 Thread Dennis Brown
Jon, Yes it is a scrollbar. You are looking for the thumbPosition. Download the Properties of Objects stack from my user area in revOnline (see3d) for an easy index into the dictionary. Dennis On Jun 2, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Jon wrote: I can't find any documentation on Progress Bar

progress bars

2005-06-02 Thread Jon
I can't find any documentation on Progress Bars. I figure they are some kind of Scroll Bar, but the specific properties of a Progress Bar do not seem to be documented. When I use terms like StartValue and EndValue, they become red, so they must be OK, but when I use the term CurrentValu

Re: Progress bars

2005-03-13 Thread Bill
So I can try to find some result that is sent after the stack loads and the database query is finished and do something like: 1. On open database stack show animated barber pole icon 2. When database query finished hide barber pole icon It really would be better if there was a progress bar but at

Re: Progress bars - length of time loading query builder stacks

2005-03-13 Thread Bill
I can't post the code causing the delay because it is built into RunRev. It is the database query builder loading that takes so long (12 seconds if you include opening the file and 4 seconds for a refresh -- so I guess the loading of a new stack that has the query builder functions in it is the pro

Resoonse times (was Re: Progress bars)

2005-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richard Gaskin wrote: In your case it may be possible to shorten the connection time so that simply displaying something like "Connecting to database..." with a watch cursor will buy you the patience needed from your user to complete the connection without frustration. Some studies suggest that

Re: Progress bars

2005-03-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/12/05 11:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In general, when a progress bar is displayed for an activity comprised of an unknown number of steps, the OS uses a different appearance for the scrollbar to indicate that. On Mac OS, for example, it uses what they call a "barber poll" effect. Rev does

Re: Progress bars

2005-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill wrote: That is such a nice explanation and example for a progress bar. I wish the text files I imported were big enough so I could use it. The only thing that takes a long time in my stacks is opening them when the MySql is first accessing and whenever you refresh the MySql connection. Do you

Re: Progress bars

2005-03-12 Thread Bill
r wrote: >> I can't seem to find a tutorial or any layman's explanations on putting >> a simple progress bar into my stacks. I have a stack that imports text >> data and creates the cards to store it on. If the file is large, it >> takes a while, so I'd like t

Re: Progress bars

2005-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lars Brehmer wrote: I can't seem to find a tutorial or any layman's explanations on putting a simple progress bar into my stacks. I have a stack that imports text data and creates the cards to store it on. If the file is large, it takes a while, so I'd like to build in a prog

Progress bars

2005-03-12 Thread Lars Brehmer
Hi listers! I can't seem to find a tutorial or any layman's explanations on putting a simple progress bar into my stacks. I have a stack that imports text data and creates the cards to store it on. If the file is large, it takes a while, so I'd like to build in a progress bars

Re: Appearance of progress bars/sliders

2002-12-01 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 2:18 PM -0800 11/29/02, Mark Swindell wrote: >Is it possible to override the default appearance of progress bars? It depends on exactly what you want to do. If you're using a lookAndFeel other than "Appearance Manager", you can change the colors. To change other aspects of t

Klaus's banana (was Progress bars/Sliders...)

2002-11-30 Thread Mark Swindell
on 11/30/02 3:10 AM, Malte Brill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Mark, > > perhaps you might want to take a look at the user contribution "fun with > fields" by Klaus Major. He did a custom scrollbar there on card 4. (with a > little banana as a thumb.) > > My excuses to the list for the nearl

Re: Appearance of progress bars/sliders

2002-11-30 Thread Rob Cozens
Thanks for the suggestion, but I see no such option, and the colors palette has no effect on the graphic used. Sorry Mark, You must be running v1.1.1. The Object Appearance menuItem was introduced in v1.5.A7. Anyway, I tried changing every option in the color palette, with no success. The o

Appearance of progress bars/sliders

2002-11-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Mark, perhaps you might want to take a look at the user contribution "fun with fields" by Klaus Major. He did a custom scrollbar there on card 4. (with a little banana as a thumb.) My excuses to the list for the nearly unreadable script in my previous post to this topic. ___

Appearance of progress bars/sliders

2002-11-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Mark, perhaps I can give you a leg up. I tried the following: Created a stack, one card 1 button, a proress bar called "scale", a graphic called "box". in the cardscript: global flag on opencard put 1 into flag end opencard In the buttonscript: global flag,ratio on mouseUp put the wi

Re: Appearance of progress bars/sliders

2002-11-29 Thread Mark Swindell
on 11/29/02 4:29 PM, Rob Cozens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is it possible to override the default appearance of progress bars? > > Hi Mark, > > I have not tried it yet; but if I were to do so, I would start by > clicking on a progress bar in the development mo

Re: Sliders/progress bars templates?

2002-11-06 Thread Rob Cozens
Is there a Revolution (or SC?) library anywhere which contains a collection nice-looking pre-fabbed sliders and progress bars? Hello Mark, I doubt SC progress bars would work with RunRev; but I have not tried it. In RunRev a progress bar is a special instance of the horizontal scrollbar. To

Sliders/progress bars templates?

2002-11-06 Thread Mark Swindell
Is there a Revolution (or SC?) library anywhere which contains a collection nice-looking pre-fabbed sliders and progress bars? I saw a couple that did interesting things on thee user projects section of the web site, but I'm wondering if there might be a set of templates out there? Thanks,

Re: Vertical or horizontal progress bars

2002-07-09 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
g it -- does the toolbox support > vertical progress bars? -- or if it's just that no one asks for it. ------ Howcum we need vertical progress bars anywho? I've actually never seen a vertical progress bar, but I bet you could make some really cute ones. For a barometer or a thermometer

RE: Vertical or horizontal progress bars

2002-07-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
a technical issue underlying it -- does the toolbox support vertical progress bars? -- or if it's just that no one asks for it. -- regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.c

RE: Vertical or horizontal progress bars

2002-07-08 Thread Ro Nagey
ite: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > > - Original Message - > From: "Ro Nagey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 3:43 AM > Subject: Vertical or horizontal progress bars > > > > Weird behavior...I have a

Re: Vertical or horizontal progress bars

2002-07-08 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 7/8/02 10:51 AM, Ken Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, let me be more clear. You CAN have what appears to be a vertical > progress bar, but it is useless. What you actually get is a horizontal > progress bar that is tall and skinny. Due to this, it can be drawn in two > states: no pr

Re: Vertical or horizontal progress bars

2002-07-08 Thread Ken Ray
y, July 08, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: Re: Vertical or horizontal progress bars > Ro, > > You can't have a vertical progress bar. The only thing you can have is a > vertical scroll bar or scale (neither of which "fill up"). > > Hope this helps, > > Ken Ray >

Re: Vertical or horizontal progress bars

2002-07-08 Thread Ken Ray
- From: "Ro Nagey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 3:43 AM Subject: Vertical or horizontal progress bars > Weird behavior...I have a horizontal progress bar. It works fine. > > I copy it, rename it, set it to being a vertical s

Vertical or horizontal progress bars

2002-07-08 Thread Ro Nagey
Weird behavior...I have a horizontal progress bar. It works fine. I copy it, rename it, set it to being a vertical scrollbar. Amazingly enough, no matter what I set the thumbpos to, it doesn't fill up the progress bar. What incredibly stupid thing am I doing? Ro Nagey Royal Software, Inc.