--- On Sat, 06 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Jan, > > I sent the following 2 questions to the Runrev > mailing list but I have not > received any response so far. > > You seem like an RR expert :) based on your answers > in the mailing list, as > well as very helpful, so I was hoping you can shed > some light on these > problems: > > 1. I'm currently using the fontNames() to show a > list of fonts in the > system. How do I display the font face previews > within the option menu? i.e. > In Microsoft Word, when you click on the Font > pulldown, you will see the > word "Arial" in Arial font face, "Verdana" in > Verdana font face, etc. > > 2. I would like to show a list of files in a > directory and display the > correct icon next to each file (in both Windows and > Mac). > > So, how do I do this? I know how to show the file > listing, but I don't know > how to obtain the appropriate icon for each file. > > Thanks in advance for your help and looking forward > to hearing from you. > > Shishi >
Hi Sishi, Thanks for the compliments regarding my technical knowledge ; however, the fact that I happen to know a few things about a particular domain (databases/report builder) doesn't make me an overall expert, I'm afraid (for example, I know little to nothing about the animation manager). While it is true that it may take the list some time to pick up on certain questions (especially non-trivial ones), someone will step up to offer some sort of assistance in the next two or three days. If you want individual assistance, I'm sure one of the consultants on the Revolution webpage will be more than happy to collaborate with you on your project as contract work for a reasonable price. Direct link : <http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/links/consultants.html> Now, to get back to your questions : 1) An option menu can only have one font. As Ken suggested, you could use a menu-stack, but this particular case is very complicated. It might be better to provide a Font settings dialog. Here's a little script that fills up a field named "FontNames" with the names of all the installed fonts, and allows a limited preview : -- put the fontNames into tFontNames put tFontNames into fld "FontNames" put the number of lines of tFontNames into tTotal repeat with i = 1 to tTotal set the textFont of line i of fld "FontNames" \ to line i of tFontNames end repeat -- 2) Retrieving the correct icons for files on Windows as well as MacOS pre-X, and MacOS X is a different task for each platform, and a quick search through the archives shows no one that has accomplished it so far. Direct link for searching the archives : <http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi> Would it suffice to just use the standard 'Open file' dialog box ? That can be achieved by using the 'answer file' command. Here's an example : -- answer file "Please select a file to open" # first check if the user canceled if it is empty then exit to top # otherwise copy the file path into a variable put it into tFilePath -- Best regards, Jan Schenkel. ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
