Re: general undo methods?
On Feb 18, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Any of you have pointers to general methods for implemening undo across an app? The general method is to atomize your code so that every action the user can do generates undo code stored in a queue, which is then invoked when Undo is selected. -- The only time I did this seriously was a while back and in Hypercard. I had a specialised multimedia authoring environment for teaching purposes that (among other things) implemented a custom interface to addColor. I used the approach you describe above, but instead of storing state information, I stored a statement that could be executed, using Do, which would reverse the action in question. So for example if the user created a rectangle, the undo list would contain something to the effect of: delete graphic grcname # (I forget the actual syntax now that it no longer matters) It worked well, and allowed the actual undo handler to be very short and very dumb. As has been noted however, different types of undo action may require a range of strategies. A snack for thought, Martin Baxter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: general undo methods?
Martin Baxter wrote: The only time I did this seriously was a while back and in Hypercard. I had a specialised multimedia authoring environment for teaching purposes that (among other things) implemented a custom interface to addColor. I used the approach you describe above, but instead of storing state information, I stored a statement that could be executed, using Do, which would reverse the action in question. So for example if the user created a rectangle, the undo list would contain something to the effect of: delete graphic grcname # (I forget the actual syntax now that it no longer matters) It worked well, and allowed the actual undo handler to be very short and very dumb. As has been noted however, different types of undo action may require a range of strategies. That seems to be the simplist approach. Tedious to setup on an existing app, but it does seem to represent the most useful dividing lines between centralizing code and handling a wide range of circumstances. Off to go write libUndo -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: change label name
At 23:37 17/02/2005, you wrote: Bob Hartley wrote: Hi Alex and Dan I got it eventually I used the keyword text. For future reference the final script is on mouseUp global tFileName copy field LabelName of stack Armbase to card 1 of stack tFileName set the text of field LabelName of stack tFileName to field LabelNewName of stack Armbase set the name of field LabelName of stack tFileName to field LabelNewName of stack Armbase end mouseUp cheers bob -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - Release Date: 14/02/2005 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: general undo methods?
I think I'll have an undo method working for HotkeysN2O in a couple hours ;) If you want to test it, let me know... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 21:54 To: How to use Revolution Subject: general undo methods? I need to add more extensive undo to an app I'm working on. Seems like a lot of work once you step outside of the subset of things the engine takes care of for you. Any of you have pointers to general methods for implemening undo across an app? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Rev in CGI
Op 19-feb-05 om 6:25 heeft Paul Salyers het volgende geschreven: What is needed to tun a Rev program in a CGI folder so anyone can access from the web with a web browser? You should read Jacque's great tutorial on http://www.hyperactivesw.com/cgitutorial/index.html Don't expect that web users will see exactly what the program users will see. It requires a totally different approach because CGI is 'faceless' and you have to give it a new 'face' in HTML. But you may be able to reuse parts of the functionality. Terry ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Simple word-scramble stack
While visiting a family with a third-grader I noticed a (written) foreign-language exercise that used scrambled words. As the father of the third-grader had an older Metacard version on his computer, I sat down and produced a computer version of the exercise, which the young child seemed to like very much. I added a standalone splash screen to enable the young user to make changes to the lexicon and add words of her own choice. I think such a stack belongs in the category for revolution novices like Klaus Major's memory stack or my stack seminar01, which (the latter) - among other examples - contains directions to build a basic vocabulary trainer with gradually increasing complexity. I have added the scramble-word stack to my website www.sanke.org/MetaMedia on page Sample Stacks and Tools for Development. A screenshot can be seen here http://www.sanke.org/Metamedia/Screenshots.htm. Direct download from http://www.sanke.org/Software/simplewordscramble.zip (11 KB). The stack is an example of a guided exercise, where the focus is on learning and not on testing, two pairs of shoes which are very often mixed up. Support - the guidance - for the learner is offered in various ways: 1. When the learner types into the input field, the typed letters disappear from the scramble field. Only letters contained in the scramble field can be typed into the input field, otherwise a warning will appear. 2. If the user deletes letters from the input field, they reappear in the scramble field; the learner can move the cursor inside the input field using the arrow keys, then press the backspace key to remove the letter on the left of the cursor. 3. You can re-scramble the word to possibly get a better idea what the word could be. 4. Pressing Help shows the first and last letter of the sought word and displays dashes as placeholders for the remaining letters in between. 5. Button more letters, which appears after first pressing button Help, adds more - randomly selected - letters to the help field. The last two dashes in a word however remain, the user has to find out them on his/her own. Simple as it is, the exercise card of the stack needs 25 controls to achieve the described basic functionality and 8 of them contain scripts. The longest script is that of the input field, which controls the features 1. and 2. explained above. This script makes use of the offset function, returninfield and rawkey handlers, and the selectedchunk function, the last one to determine the place of the insertion point in the input field. A special problem comes up when you have to deal with special national characters, because the rawkey values in this case are different from the numtochar values; therefore I included some script lines to take care of the German Umlaute (ä, ö, ü). Enhancements to the stack could added in many directions; in a workshop for Revolution newbies I would - as an example - assign the tasks a) to display a translation along with the scrambled word, and b) to add the possibility to export the lexicon to an external text file and to import from a choice of external files. --Wilhelm Sanke ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simple word-scramble stack
Wilhelm - That's a very cool stack! Just by coincidence the first word that came up for me was garden. However, when I saw the scrambled letters, I saw a true, one-word anagram for garden, danger. Let's not get into the psychological reasons for that ;-PSo, it now seems another enhancement would be to check for one word anagrams of the same set of scrambled letters. :-) -James On Feb 19, 2005, at 7:46 AM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote: While visiting a family with a third-grader I noticed a (written) foreign-language exercise that used scrambled words. As the father of the third-grader had an older Metacard version on his computer, I sat down and produced a computer version of the exercise, which the young child seemed to like very much. I added a standalone splash screen to enable the young user to make changes to the lexicon and add words of her own choice. I think such a stack belongs in the category for revolution novices like Klaus Major's memory stack or my stack seminar01, which (the latter) - among other examples - contains directions to build a basic vocabulary trainer with gradually increasing complexity. I have added the scramble-word stack to my website www.sanke.org/MetaMedia on page Sample Stacks and Tools for Development. A screenshot can be seen here http://www.sanke.org/Metamedia/Screenshots.htm. Direct download from http://www.sanke.org/Software/simplewordscramble.zip (11 KB). The stack is an example of a guided exercise, where the focus is on learning and not on testing, two pairs of shoes which are very often mixed up. Support - the guidance - for the learner is offered in various ways: 1. When the learner types into the input field, the typed letters disappear from the scramble field. Only letters contained in the scramble field can be typed into the input field, otherwise a warning will appear. 2. If the user deletes letters from the input field, they reappear in the scramble field; the learner can move the cursor inside the input field using the arrow keys, then press the backspace key to remove the letter on the left of the cursor. 3. You can re-scramble the word to possibly get a better idea what the word could be. 4. Pressing Help shows the first and last letter of the sought word and displays dashes as placeholders for the remaining letters in between. 5. Button more letters, which appears after first pressing button Help, adds more - randomly selected - letters to the help field. The last two dashes in a word however remain, the user has to find out them on his/her own. Simple as it is, the exercise card of the stack needs 25 controls to achieve the described basic functionality and 8 of them contain scripts. The longest script is that of the input field, which controls the features 1. and 2. explained above. This script makes use of the offset function, returninfield and rawkey handlers, and the selectedchunk function, the last one to determine the place of the insertion point in the input field. A special problem comes up when you have to deal with special national characters, because the rawkey values in this case are different from the numtochar values; therefore I included some script lines to take care of the German Umlaute (ä, ö, ü). Enhancements to the stack could added in many directions; in a workshop for Revolution newbies I would - as an example - assign the tasks a) to display a translation along with the scrambled word, and b) to add the possibility to export the lexicon to an external text file and to import from a choice of external files. --Wilhelm Sanke ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Recording user actions
Not sure of the best way to do this. Here's the scenario: Essentially, I'm looking for a way to mark up a Quicktime video so that one user can do the marking up and then another can see what has been done after receiving this marked up video through the Internet. In other words... I've got a user on one computer watching a video from inside of a Rev application I've provided. They can draw objects (mostly circles and lines) on top of that video while it is playing back in slow motion. I need to record all of this drawing so it can be recreated / replayed at a later time on a different computer. Not only does the motion / drawing need to be recorded, but also the specific times at which the drawing of the different objects occurred. I suppose, in some sense, this is an animation. The entire marking up session will not exceed 3-5 minutes. How do I record this activity AND keep the file size down as small as possible (as it needs to be quickly transmitted from the user who did the marking up to the user that needs to view it)? Thanks for your suggestions. Richard Miller Imprinter Technologies ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: general undo methods?
OK, it's starting to take shape... selections are recorded, compared with the last one, i got a control footprint with incremental temporal versioning near ready, deselections are recorded too, choice of content/control editing changes, saving of changes is there too. I got to add in the checks for field style: html, rtf or text or both three, the redo for other controls... and the hotkeys management and we're rolling for testing! Recording a macro is possible too I guess! Just another flag maybe. I already handle multiple objects... ;) Left to do Record all the props! Purge duplicate actions? Undo text/time frames if viable Then we got also coming - undo action filters (stick to the essentials) - redo last actions from a list, recreate a clone of the object as it was. - Reports, save or print out the changes done to stacks anyone? Hey, for project time-logging purposes... why not! Most events and controls keys are logged including copy, paste, delete or backspace, new and delete controls or cards are also in... Since we got a GUI, im going to also add menus for pasting previous clipboard texts or images. Controls is a different container I haven't mastered yet which will take extra code... Watching for dangerous redos and allowing for undo and redo exceptions or automatic repeats is now the next task... This is also where some Mac scripters could help out for mac-specific hotkeys or cutting down the scripting time. Amazing how a little stack can grow! http://www.monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=170 I'll post the update soon... For the Curious and Testers only... cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MisterX Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:01 To: 'How to use Revolution' Subject: RE: general undo methods? I think I'll have an undo method working for HotkeysN2O in a couple hours ;) If you want to test it, let me know... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 21:54 To: How to use Revolution Subject: general undo methods? I need to add more extensive undo to an app I'm working on. Seems like a lot of work once you step outside of the subset of things the engine takes care of for you. Any of you have pointers to general methods for implemening undo across an app? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Transcript expert wanted - found
Folks: The response to this post was quick and amazing. I've found someone who's eager to get started. Thanks to all those who responded. Steve --- Stephen Van Esch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks: I've come to realize that getting up to speed with Revolution will take more time than I have right now. The Revolution project is on top of my current Flash, Director and web development work and is taking more time than it should. Because of this, I'd like to pass on some simple work to someone with a good, solid knowledge of Transcript (for a reasonable fee, of course). Please note, this job will be relatively simple. I need 2 or 3 rock-solid scripts. No other design work or development is required. I figure that an experienced transcript developer can get all the work done inside of an hour. At least I'm hoping so considering funds are limited. Please respond off-list if you are interested. Regards, Steve __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Recording user actions
Following this undo madness... You can use a card script that records mousedown events, put them in an array using the seconds as array key and save that. The target, or shape type, it's position is also easy to save. To transfer the information you can either create a blank stack with the array as a custom property or create an xml or readeable output to read for the replay. Filter the mouse keywords in the revdocs to see the possibilities. Drag is also possible... As to the best method for event polling... i'll leave that to others - i usually rely on mousedown, repeat while mouse is down, mouseleave... and the target in a card script. cheers Xavier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Miller Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 14:13 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Recording user actions Not sure of the best way to do this. Here's the scenario: Essentially, I'm looking for a way to mark up a Quicktime video so that one user can do the marking up and then another can see what has been done after receiving this marked up video through the Internet. In other words... I've got a user on one computer watching a video from inside of a Rev application I've provided. They can draw objects (mostly circles and lines) on top of that video while it is playing back in slow motion. I need to record all of this drawing so it can be recreated / replayed at a later time on a different computer. Not only does the motion / drawing need to be recorded, but also the specific times at which the drawing of the different objects occurred. I suppose, in some sense, this is an animation. The entire marking up session will not exceed 3-5 minutes. How do I record this activity AND keep the file size down as small as possible (as it needs to be quickly transmitted from the user who did the marking up to the user that needs to view it)? Thanks for your suggestions. Richard Miller Imprinter Technologies ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
MouseLeave and linked text question: 2nd try
I posted this yesterday but it may have got lost in the shuffle. I'm really hoping someone might explain the following scenario to me... what message (besides mouseMove) is sent to Revolution when the hovering mouse moves off a chunk of linked text? Thanks, Mark Begin forwarded message: From: Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 18, 2005 12:48:26 PM PST To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: mouseLeave and linked text question Reply-To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Can someone explain the following? In the script below, in the first if/then structure, the mouse moving away from a piece of linked text causes the backgroundColor of that linked text to reset to empty. But the mouse is only moving off the linked text, not out of the field. This makes me think a piece of linked text is a control which receives a mouseLeave message. Is this correct? But then with the repeat structure below that, only by the mouse actually leaving the field does the backgroundColor of all lines reset to empty. Which leads me to think that the linked text it was hovering over was not a control. How does this work? Thanks Mark on mouseLeave -- unhighlight any currently highlighted text: if storedHilitedChunk is not empty then do set the backgroundColor of \ storedHilitedChunk to empty put empty into storedHilitedChunk end if repeat with y = 1 to 3 repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of field y set the backgroundColor of line x of field y to empty end repeat end repeat pass mouseLeave end mouseLeave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Printing in landscape
I Found out that I can manually set the page set-up to landscape and then
on mouseup
set the printmargins to 0,0,0,0
open printing with dialog
-- reverse width with height
print card from 0,0 to 692,612
close printing
end mouseup
This works but setting the mode manually to landscape and the back to
portait manually is time consuming. Is there some way to automate this in
the scrpipt?
On 2/18/05 7:08 PM, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a stack that is smaller than an 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper
(it is 728 pixels by 636). I presently put png images which are several
thousand pixels wide by height (to get the resolution) and told to be 612 by
792 and locked in with the size and position panel.
I then print them with the following button:
on mouseup
-- printMargins left,top,right,bottom
set the printmargins to 0,0,0,0
open printing with dialog
print card from 0,0 to 612,792
close printing
end mouseup
This works fine except now I want to print some forms that are landscape and
putting them on with width 792 and height 612 (so they will be right side up
and not sidewise) prints only as much wide as will fit on the paper.
How in mac os x do I get the printing to come out in landscape and thus get
the whole form?
By the way this method gives me very clear 300 dot per inch printing on my
laser printer but is a little slower than ideal (takes several seconds).
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Re: MouseLeave and linked text question: 2nd try
Hi Mark, what message (besides mouseMove) is sent to Revolution when the hovering mouse moves off a chunk of linked text? I don't know the answer; but if you open the Message Watcher window from the Development menu and perform the mouse action, you can see all resulting messages. Rob Cozens CCW Serendipity Software Company And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee. from The Triple Foole by John Donne (1572-1631) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: change label name
On 2/19/05 3:38 AM, Bob Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, Glad you got it to work... but I'd suggest a couple of minor changes/optimizations to your final code. on mouseUp global tFileName copy field LabelName of stack Armbase to card 1 of stack tFileName set the text of field LabelName of stack tFileName to field LabelNewName of stack Armbase set the name of field LabelName of stack tFileName to field LabelNewName of stack Armbase end mouseUp When you copy an object (or create a new one using create), the long id of the new object is put into it so you don't need to refer to the name with long identifiers. So the code could also be: on mouseUp global tFileName -- BTW, why do you need to global this? put field LabelNewName of stack Armbase into tText copy field LabelName of stack Armbase to card 1 of stack tFileName set the text of it to tText set the name of it to tText end mouseUp Also, you should always (IMHO) put quotes around the names of objects. Rev is very forgiving, but it makes it easier to read and reduces potential problems if object names are quoted. Just FYI, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simple word-scramble stack
On 2/19/05 6:46 AM, Wilhelm Sanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While visiting a family with a third-grader I noticed a (written) foreign-language exercise that used scrambled words. As the father of the third-grader had an older Metacard version on his computer, I sat down and produced a computer version of the exercise, which the young child seemed to like very much. I added a standalone splash screen to enable the young user to make changes to the lexicon and add words of her own choice. Very cool, Klaus! Just curious... how long did it take you to write this? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Printing in landscape -- can't be done on mac OS X
I see why no one answered my question. It is already answered in the help
file:
To print in landscape mode, set the printRotated to true before printing:
set the printRotated to true
print card My Card
Note: The printRotated property has no effect on Mac OS and OS X systems.
To print in landscape mode on Mac OS or OS X, use the answer printer or
revShowPrintDialog command to display the Page Setup dialog box before
printing, then choose the Landscape option in the dialog box.
In other words if you are using Mac OS X you cannot automatically switch
between landscape and portrait mode although this makes me wonder...how do
programs that automatically do this like acrobat pro manage to do it?
On 2/19/05 11:46 AM, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I Found out that I can manually set the page set-up to landscape and then
on mouseup
set the printmargins to 0,0,0,0
open printing with dialog
-- reverse width with height
print card from 0,0 to 692,612
close printing
end mouseup
This works but setting the mode manually to landscape and the back to
portait manually is time consuming. Is there some way to automate this in
the scrpipt?
On 2/18/05 7:08 PM, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a stack that is smaller than an 8.5 by 11 sheet of paper
(it is 728 pixels by 636). I presently put png images which are several
thousand pixels wide by height (to get the resolution) and told to be 612 by
792 and locked in with the size and position panel.
I then print them with the following button:
on mouseup
-- printMargins left,top,right,bottom
set the printmargins to 0,0,0,0
open printing with dialog
print card from 0,0 to 612,792
close printing
end mouseup
This works fine except now I want to print some forms that are landscape and
putting them on with width 792 and height 612 (so they will be right side up
and not sidewise) prints only as much wide as will fit on the paper.
How in mac os x do I get the printing to come out in landscape and thus get
the whole form?
By the way this method gives me very clear 300 dot per inch printing on my
laser printer but is a little slower than ideal (takes several seconds).
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Re: MouseLeave and linked text question: 2nd try
Thanks, Rob. The message watcher shows only a mouseMove being generated either upon gliding over linked text, or upon moving off it. However, the following mouseLeave handler changes the background color of the linked text upon moving off of it. Which makes me confused, since I don't see the message generated, and because the second part of this same script (the repeat section) only triggers when the mouse actually leaves the field rectangle. (BTW, I got this hilite/unhilite script from the Cookbook... the repeat I made up because I need it to act on other related hilited text in two other corresponding fields.) Mark on mouseLeave -- unhighlight any currently highlighted text: if storedHilitedChunk is not empty then do set the backgroundColor of \ storedHilitedChunk to empty put empty into storedHilitedChunk end if repeat with y = 1 to 3 repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of field y set the backgroundColor of line x of field y to empty end repeat end repeat pass mouseLeave end mouseLeave On Feb 19, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: Hi Mark, what message (besides mouseMove) is sent to Revolution when the hovering mouse moves off a chunk of linked text? I don't know the answer; but if you open the Message Watcher window from the Development menu and perform the mouse action, you can see all resulting messages. Rob Cozens CCW Serendipity Software Company ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simple word-scramble stack
Wilhelm Sanke wrote: A screenshot can be seen here http://www.sanke.org/Metamedia/Screenshots.htm. Direct download from http://www.sanke.org/Software/simplewordscramble.zip (11 KB). This presents a new OS X challenge for me. In OS 9 I used Fast Find , and later Richard Gaskin's wonderful little AppleScript app., Change creator to convert MC settings to RunRev settings. I tried the Open with..Other routine in OS X but RunRev was not allowed (deselected) as an option. How is this conversion performed in OS X? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simple word-scramble stack
Hi Ken, On 2/19/05 6:46 AM, Wilhelm Sanke SIC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While visiting a family with a third-grader I noticed a (written) foreign-language exercise that used scrambled words. As the father of the third-grader had an older Metacard version on his computer, I sat down and produced a computer version of the exercise, which the young child seemed to like very much. I added a standalone splash screen to enable the young user to make changes to the lexicon and add words of her own choice. Very cool, Klaus! Ehm..., lots of work? Actually it was Wilhelm who posted this, see above ;-) Just curious... how long did it take you to write this? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Typing foreign characters in RunRev
here everything works as expected (with the swiss german and th US-keyboard). You just have to figure out the right keys. Till Am 14.02.2005 um 15:52 schrieb Frank Leahy: Xavier, Thanks, but I was looking for something that would emulate the way that it's done in every piece of software except Rev -- hold down option key and type u, see floating dots, type u and get ümlaut. I'm curious what our German, French and Portuguese Revers do.. Can you type accents and umlauts into Rev fields? What happens if you use a US keyboard instead of a German/French/Portuguese keyboard, can you still type them? And a final question, does anyone know where the floating dots (or floating accent or floating tilda) characters are stored, and how to show them in a Rev field? Thanks, -- Frank Web Photos Pro: Software for Photo Bloggers and Other Photo Power Users See us on the web at http://www.webphotospro.com/ On Feb 14, 2005, at 2:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Typing foreign characters in RunRev To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boerse.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Na Frank, That should be a nice and simple keydown card message ... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simple word-scramble stack
Jim - Not sure I completely understand your dilemma, but it sounds like you may want to look at your User's com.apple.LaunchServices.plist file, located in /Users/username/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist (or wherever the user's home folder is). :-) This file holds file/app associations. HTH.James On Feb 19, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: Wilhelm Sanke wrote: A screenshot can be seen here http://www.sanke.org/Metamedia/Screenshots.htm. Direct download from http://www.sanke.org/Software/simplewordscramble.zip (11 KB). This presents a new OS X challenge for me. In OS 9 I used Fast Find , and later Richard Gaskin's wonderful little AppleScript app., Change creator to convert MC settings to RunRev settings. I tried the Open with..Other routine in OS X but RunRev was not allowed (deselected) as an option. How is this conversion performed in OS X? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Rev in CGI
Jackie - this is incredible. Thanks for the great tutorial. I get it now. Very useful stuff! I bounce between web and app design all the time and this brings it all together. sqb Op 19-feb-05 om 6:25 heeft Paul Salyers het volgende geschreven: What is needed to tun a Rev program in a CGI folder so anyone can access from the web with a web browser? You should read Jacque's great tutorial on http://www.hyperactivesw.com/cgitutorial/index.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Printing in landscape -- can't be done on mac OS X
back in the Roaring 80's I used to use John A. Nairn's Printreport that was a wonderful tool to get access to all the printer stuff. There was no way to get or set just one parameter such as orientation directly but he did provide a way to save all printing parameters by using the data record returned by his Page Setup command. You would do a page setup and put the returned value in memory somewhere (hidden field, etc) so you could just do a no-dialog PRINT using the stored array parameters. Perhaps there is still a way. Apple has always been a bit mysterious about printing. sqb To print in landscape mode, set the printRotated to true before printing: set the printRotated to true print card My Card Note: The printRotated property has no effect on Mac OS and OS X systems. To print in landscape mode on Mac OS or OS X, use the answer printer or revShowPrintDialog command to display the Page Setup dialog box before printing, then choose the Landscape option in the dialog box. In other words if you are using Mac OS X you cannot automatically switch between landscape and portrait mode although this makes me wonder...how do programs that automatically do this like acrobat pro manage to do it? Blue Water Maritime ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: general undo methods?
I would store a list of transcript statements designed to undo/redo the things you are doing. So if you move a rectangle to 100,300 I would get the long id of the rectangle and do something like this: put set the loc of it to tNewLoc cr after gRedoString put set the loc of it to the loc of it cr before gUndoString set the loc of it to tNewLoc I did something like this for fields and found it to be remarkably fast and efficient. The really great aspect is that you can undo/redo an arbitrary number of steps with one command: do line 1 to 100 of gUndoString undoes 100 steps, etc. On Feb 18, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I can see how that approach would be useful for some apps, but this one has a large stack and the changes made a very small (moving objects, deleting objects, etc.). regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simple word-scramble stack
On 2/19/05 11:24 AM, Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ken, On 2/19/05 6:46 AM, Wilhelm Sanke SIC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While visiting a family with a third-grader I noticed a (written) foreign-language exercise that used scrambled words. As the father of the third-grader had an older Metacard version on his computer, I sat down and produced a computer version of the exercise, which the young child seemed to like very much. I added a standalone splash screen to enable the young user to make changes to the lexicon and add words of her own choice. Very cool, Klaus! Ehm..., lots of work? Actually it was Wilhelm who posted this, see above ;-) Whoops! Sorry, Klaus! (Man, I've been working too much...) ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Useful Windows tools for working with Unicode
Hi Developers, I've been looking auxiliar tools for working with Unicode in this development environment and found this useful webpage by Alan Wood: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_fonts.html I liked specially this tool: http://members.rogers.com/truetypeexplorer/ If you had more links that could help while working with Unicode, please post to this mail list. Thanks in advance = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: general undo methods?
Geoff Canyon wrote: I would store a list of transcript statements designed to undo/redo the things you are doing. So if you move a rectangle to 100,300 I would get the long id of the rectangle and do something like this: put set the loc of it to tNewLoc cr after gRedoString put set the loc of it to the loc of it cr before gUndoString set the loc of it to tNewLoc I did something like this for fields and found it to be remarkably fast and efficient. The really great aspect is that you can undo/redo an arbitrary number of steps with one command: do line 1 to 100 of gUndoString undoes 100 steps, etc. That's prettyt much where I'm headed now, but there's one aspect that's still problematic: Rev's built-in undo for text editing operations is something I don't want to replicate. For a single-level Undo it's easy enough to put a flag in the undo string to tell it to use the built-in undo command rather than any custom routine. But how would one handle this for multi-level undo? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Subscribe gmane to this list?
With Kevin and Heather's approval, I've gone ahead and done this. So this list can be viewed, and searched (archives back to November 2001) at: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user I hope others find this useful too. Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com| Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
New user just introducing myself...
Hi Everyone, I purchased Dreamcard last fall and I upgraded to Revolution last month just in time to take advantage of the AltBrowser/MagicCarpet Xmas combo (Thanks Kevin and Chipp for the generous offer!) I have learned quite a lot about Revolution by reading the list (though I don't know how anyone can keep up with all of the traffic) and I want the makers of Revolution to know that part of the reason I decided to go with Revolution was because of the high quality (and personable) nature of the list. Like Len Morgan (another Revolution beginner on the list - Hi Len) I am having a hard time grokking Revolution. It seems like most people who come to Revolution have had previous experience with Hypercard (alas I was not so lucky, the first Mac I bought was a IIsi and it only came with the Hypercard player and I could not find the full version.) I am an experienced computer user, who has dabbled with Applescript and some shell scripting for my customers, but I have never worked in an IDE and have never developed a GUI tool. (My daytime job is System Engineer where I work on OS X Servers and W2K Servers) When I was evaluating Revolution previously, I remember seeing a tutorial section under help. I couldn't seem to find it in the 2.5 version, so I just ordered Dan's book : ) What other good habits would I do well to develop? Also, what plugins or externals do people consider essential to the Revolution development experience? I have read about a few on the list, but I'm not sure if the apply to me (or if I would just be unnecessarily complicating my learning curve) Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted! Thanks Todd -- Todd Higgins ASG Systems Engineer MICRO Technology Groupe, Inc voice: 215-788-6811 fax: 215-788-1766 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.mtgroupe.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simple word-scramble stack
Hi Ken, ... Very cool, Klaus! Ehm..., lots of work? Actually it was Wilhelm who posted this, see above ;-) Whoops! Sorry, Klaus! No problem, could have been worse ;-) (Man, I've been working too much...) I guessed... ;-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: New user just introducing myself...
Hey, Todd. Welcome to the Revolution!! -James On Feb 19, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Todd Higgins wrote: Hi Everyone, I purchased Dreamcard last fall and I upgraded to Revolution last month just in time to take advantage of the AltBrowser/MagicCarpet Xmas combo (Thanks Kevin and Chipp for the generous offer!) I have learned quite a lot about Revolution by reading the list (though I don't know how anyone can keep up with all of the traffic) and I want the makers of Revolution to know that part of the reason I decided to go with Revolution was because of the high quality (and personable) nature of the list. Like Len Morgan (another Revolution beginner on the list - Hi Len) I am having a hard time grokking Revolution. It seems like most people who come to Revolution have had previous experience with Hypercard (alas I was not so lucky, the first Mac I bought was a IIsi and it only came with the Hypercard player and I could not find the full version.) I am an experienced computer user, who has dabbled with Applescript and some shell scripting for my customers, but I have never worked in an IDE and have never developed a GUI tool. (My daytime job is System Engineer where I work on OS X Servers and W2K Servers) When I was evaluating Revolution previously, I remember seeing a tutorial section under help. I couldn't seem to find it in the 2.5 version, so I just ordered Dan's book : ) What other good habits would I do well to develop? Also, what plugins or externals do people consider essential to the Revolution development experience? I have read about a few on the list, but I'm not sure if the apply to me (or if I would just be unnecessarily complicating my learning curve) Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted! Thanks Todd -- Todd Higgins ASG Systems Engineer MICRO Technology Groupe, Inc voice: 215-788-6811 fax: 215-788-1766 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.mtgroupe.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Subscribe gmane to this list?
On 2/17/05 5:43 AM, Ben Rubinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With Kevin and Heather's approval, I've gone ahead and done this. So this list can be viewed, and searched (archives back to November 2001) at: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user I hope others find this useful too. This looks great, Ben... how would you propose using it best - through a browser? Or can you do searches through the other forms it proposes (NNTP, RSS, etc.)? If so, how do *you* use it? :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: User Application Support folder on OS X?
On 18 Feb 2005, at 21:43, Trevor DeVore wrote: In my program I have some current user specific stack files that get updated while using the app. On Windows I stored these in the users application data folder. On Mac I want to store them in the users Application Support folder (~/Library/Application Support). The problem is that I can't get specialFolderPath to return this folder. If you use specialFolderPath(asup) then you get the system Application Support folder (/Library/Application Support). It seems that Revolution passes the system domain to FSFindFolder by default. For the time being I've resorted to storing the stacks in the user pref folder but it pains me to do so. So does anybody know if it is possible to get system folders using shell? If not then I will have to write a little external to do this. Could you first get the user's home folder, and then append what is returned from specialFolderPath(asup)? Cheers Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Typing foreign characters in RunRev
On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 01:52 AM, Frank Leahy wrote: I was looking for something that would emulate the way that it's done in every piece of software except Rev -- hold down option key and type u, see floating dots, type u and get ümlaut. I'm curious what our German, French and Portuguese Revers do.. Can you type accents and umlauts into Rev fields? What happens if you use a US keyboard instead of a German/French/Portuguese keyboard, can you still type them? Hi Frank, I just discovered something interesting while preparing to answer your questions: If you set your keyboard to U.S. Extended (unicode), you get very similar results to Apple Mail, except that, instead of the umlaut being highlighted, it has a heavy underline. Otherwise, using the U.S., British or Australian keyboards (via the Input tab of International System Preferences), you can still type ü in a Rev field (option-u, u); you just don't get any feedback until you type the (second) u. And a final question, does anyone know where the floating dots (or floating accent or floating tilda) characters are stored, and how to show them in a Rev field? Rev doesn't store them, AFAIK; it's a system-wide thing. But in any app, you can show a naked umlaut by typing option-u, then space, a naked acute by typing option-e, then space, etc. Also, BTW, Jeanne de Voto wrote: you can get an accent character by itself by pressing the relevant key twice. (For example, to get an umlaut, press option-u option-u.) This doesn't work for me. Only option-u, [space] . HTH, -- Jonathan Cooper Manager of Information / WWW Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/staff/jcooper -- Jonathan Cooper Manager of Information / WWW Art Gallery of New South Wales http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/staff/jcooper ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Email attachments
I use revmail to semi-automate confirmation emails to my customers (I'm using Rev 2.2.1). I take the saved email I get from my Miva store, drag and drop onto my Rev app where the info is parsed and placed into appropriate fields. I have a button that preconfigures an email, opens Entourage and I just click SEND and away it goes. Is there a way to preconfigure this to include an attachment? Maybe there's a way to make this more automated? Is there anything in the latest version of Rev that would benefit me in this regard? Thanks. Marty Knapp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simple word-scramble stack
I really liked this stack, Thanks a lot for sharing, Wilhem! Notice that with short words, the button scramble once more could give the correct answer. :-)) James Cass wrote: That's a very cool stack! Just by coincidence the first word that came up for me was garden. However, when I saw the scrambled letters, I saw a true, one-word anagram for garden, danger. Let's not get into the psychological reasons for that ;-P Garden could be a real Danger for people with pollen alergy. Just wait for Spring (or summer) ;-) i discover that Monday has the same letters than Dynamo, so every monday is a scrambled dynamo. These scrambled messages remember me a recent series of comedy i was watching on dvd: Wonderfalls In this comedy, the funniest situation arise from malinterpreting some supernatural messages. :-)) (Now, that the place where i live don't have TV cable, DVD rents and buys are my best choices while watching TV.) So, it now seems another enhancement would be to check for one word anagrams of the same set of scrambled letters. :-) or check with a Dictionary with anagrams! ;-) al = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: New user just introducing myself...
On Feb 19, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Todd Higgins wrote: Like Len Morgan (another Revolution beginner on the list - Hi Len) I am having a hard time grokking Revolution. It seems like most people who come to Revolution have had previous experience with Hypercard (alas I was not so lucky, the first Mac I bought was a IIsi and it only came with the Hypercard player and I could not find the full version.) I am an experienced computer user, who has dabbled with Applescript and some shell scripting for my customers, but I have never worked in an IDE and have never developed a GUI tool. (My daytime job is System Engineer where I work on OS X Servers and W2K Servers) The syntax for Revolution is very similar to AppleScript. It is difficult to write an application in AppleScript. I've done it but that isn't what it is really for (or shell scripting either). Revolution, like AppleScript, makes it fairly easy to read programs that someone else wrote. An AppleScript tells some other program what to do. You might change the metaphor for Revolution to be that an object (button, URL, external event, field, whatever) tells something within your program what to do, display something, get information or put information from somewhere external to your application. When I was evaluating Revolution previously, I remember seeing a tutorial section under help. I couldn't seem to find it in the 2.5 version, so I just ordered Dan's book : ) I think you will like his book and it will give you a pretty good idea of what you are asking here. What other good habits would I do well to develop? Also, what plugins or externals do people consider essential to the Revolution development experience? I have read about a few on the list, but I'm not sure if the apply to me (or if I would just be unnecessarily complicating my learning curve) Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted! I haven't needed any externals yet and while I do find some of the plugins useful at times I actually use them fairly sparingly. Navigator is pretty useful once you get going but I wouldn't consider it a newbie tool. Unlike traditional programming environments that don't have an IDE (or AppleScript that doesn't really have an interface at all), Revolution turns the paradyme around. Draw your screen, place buttons, fields, graphics, menus, etc. first then assign actions to those objects. Pretend like you know what you want your application to do, draw it the way you want to see it, and then program the objects (buttons, menu actions, external triggers, whatever...). Welcome to the Revolution. Bill Vlahos ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Cool Script animation
on Fri, 18 Feb 2005 Xavier Bury wrote: I made this cool conversion of the script Bit-101.com proposes for tutorials. check it out... Great job, xavier!!! :-)) It's not so obvious converting flash scripts and their convoluted animation frames but I got it down to something simple and easy now. And there's more to come! These are really good news, indeed! I was expecting for some gifted mind able to explain all these actionscripts twist and turns in native transcript terms. My wait is over! :-)) Notice Xavier, when i enter the mouse pointer in a vector graphic with the script you posted, it moves quickly to the top of the stack... Could you make it move smoothly to this new position? When i let the vector grc drop it bounces from the middle of the graphic not from the base... Could you make it bounce from the graphic's base? Thanks for sharing! Keep up(loaded) your good work! al = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Email attachments
revMail does not support attachments, but Shao Sean's libEmail and libSMTP stuff works great and supports attachments as well as lots of other great stuff. Go to http://www.shaosean.tk. Dan On Feb 19, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: I use revmail to semi-automate confirmation emails to my customers (I'm using Rev 2.2.1). I take the saved email I get from my Miva store, drag and drop onto my Rev app where the info is parsed and placed into appropriate fields. I have a button that preconfigures an email, opens Entourage and I just click SEND and away it goes. Is there a way to preconfigure this to include an attachment? Maybe there's a way to make this more automated? Is there anything in the latest version of Rev that would benefit me in this regard? Thanks. Marty Knapp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Email attachments
On 2/19/05 7:49 PM, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: revMail does not support attachments, but Shao Sean's libEmail and libSMTP stuff works great and supports attachments as well as lots of other great stuff. Go to http://www.shaosean.tk. Thanks Dan-- this looks like just what I need. Marty Knapp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Rev in CGI
On 2/19/05 11:42 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: Jackie - this is incredible. Thanks for the great tutorial. I get it now. Very useful stuff! I bounce between web and app design all the time and this brings it all together. Thanks, I'm glad it helped. It is good to know that writing it wasn't a complete waste of time. ;) I have a number of CGIs on my site, mostly to deal with junk mail and check on mailboxes that I don't regularly read. Rev CGIs seem to be able to do just about anything and they are pretty fast. sqb Op 19-feb-05 om 6:25 heeft Paul Salyers het volgende geschreven: What is needed to tun a Rev program in a CGI folder so anyone can access from the web with a web browser? You should read Jacque's great tutorial on http://www.hyperactivesw.com/cgitutorial/index.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Cool Script animation
Ola compadre! I made this cool conversion of the script Bit-101.com proposes for tutorials. check it out... Great job, xavier!!! :-)) It's not so obvious converting flash scripts and their convoluted animation frames but I got it down to something simple and easy now. And there's more to come! I got 3 of them now, one being really really cool graphics! I'll post it shortly... These are really good news, indeed! I was expecting for some gifted mind able to explain all these actionscripts twist and turns in native transcript terms. My wait is over! :-)) Anything you want. But im new to flash so some things still escape me... Instead of cards, they use frame animations, they jump from one to the other. So playframes(2) is the same as go to card 2! But cards dont share the same graphics, so some backgrounds or groups transliteration might be necessary. I rather put it all into one card. Where Flash has object._x, or this._x you just apply the left of me or the left of thisobject (where this object contains the long name of the control) it's really simple come to think of it! Notice Xavier, when i enter the mouse pointer in a vector graphic with the script you posted, it moves quickly to the top of the stack... Yes, it moves to the mouse's position or the default x,y... Could you make it move smoothly to this new position? That's coming next week, the smooth move animation vector class! When i let the vector grc drop it bounces from the middle of the graphic not from the base... Could you make it bounce from the graphic's base? Of course but I'd rather have the ball squish instead, no? ;)) That's in 1 to 3 weeks from now! :) Thanks for sharing! Keep up(loaded) your good work! al = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Recording user actions
On 2/19/05 7:12 AM, Richard Miller wrote: I've got a user on one computer watching a video from inside of a Rev application I've provided. They can draw objects (mostly circles and lines) on top of that video while it is playing back in slow motion. I need to record all of this drawing so it can be recreated / replayed at a later time on a different computer. Not only does the motion / drawing need to be recorded, but also the specific times at which the drawing of the different objects occurred. I suppose, in some sense, this is an animation. The entire marking up session will not exceed 3-5 minutes. How do I record this activity AND keep the file size down as small as possible (as it needs to be quickly transmitted from the user who did the marking up to the user that needs to view it)? You could try writing a mousemove handler (or a send in time handler) that repeatedly checks the current tool, and if it is a drawing tool then have it store the mouse location every so many milliseconds, along with the currentTime of the QT movie, the current tool, and whatever else you need (pen color, linewidth, etc.) If the user changes drawing tools or creates a new object, add a blank line to the list you are creating. The list could be stored in a custom property. Then for playback, you'd create a single polygon object. Read the list one line at a time and compare the movie time stored there to the currentTime of the movie that is playing. If the times match, set the points of the polygon to the set of recorded points that have been accumulated up to then. You can use a single polygon object to simulate any number of drawn objects on screen. An empty line in the object's points list will cause the pen to lift and then set down again, effectively creating a new visual object. That's why your recorded list of points should include a blank line each time the original user changes tools or creates a new object. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: User Application Support folder on OS X?
On Feb 19, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: Could you first get the user's home folder, and then append what is returned from specialFolderPath(asup)? It seems that this would work given the current location of the user application support folder but I still haven't come across any docs (I haven't looked that hard yet) that discuss whether this folder can be moved in network environments, if it changes based on the language, etc. I did find the following though in the Apple docs: Your code should never assume the path to a resource within a file-system domain, as those paths could change in the future. Apple provides public interfaces for accessing standard file-system paths. You should always use these interfaces to locate system resources. See Searching Within the File-System Domains for more on searching for items within the domains. I just went ahead and wrapped up FSFindFolder (I'm pretty sure this is what specialFolderPath uses on Mac) in an external for the time being and filed a feature request for an optional additional parameter to specialFolderPath that would allow you to specify the domain to search under (user,network,local,system). -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Multimedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: User Application Support folder on OS X?
On 20 Feb 2005, at 05:34, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 19, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: Could you first get the user's home folder, and then append what is returned from specialFolderPath(asup)? It seems that this would work given the current location of the user application support folder but I still haven't come across any docs (I haven't looked that hard yet) that discuss whether this folder can be moved in network environments, if it changes based on the language, etc. I did find the following though in the Apple docs: Your code should never assume the path to a resource within a file-system domain, as those paths could change in the future. Apple provides public interfaces for accessing standard file-system paths. You should always use these interfaces to locate system resources. See Searching Within the File-System Domains for more on searching for items within the domains. I just went ahead and wrapped up FSFindFolder (I'm pretty sure this is what specialFolderPath uses on Mac) in an external for the time being and filed a feature request for an optional additional parameter to specialFolderPath that would allow you to specify the domain to search under (user,network,local,system). Just as well. I checked on my wife's account which uses Japanese. Oddly, the Library folder at the System level is in Japanese, but at the user level it is in English. Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
