Need Script Debugger Tutorial

2003-01-16 Thread Graham Samuel
I have tried to search the usual sources, but I have not found a detailed description of the way the Script Debugger works in 1.1.1. For example, what do the 'run', 'trace', 'step into' and 'step over' buttons do - the last two seem to do the same thing, which is to execute the highlighted

Re: Sharing field text

2003-01-16 Thread DVGlasgow
In a message dated 15/1/03 8:18:37 PM, Graham Samuel writes: Of course if I had wanted just the one field, I could still have grouped it with a harmless grc behind the field or something like that, so the need for the shared object to be a group is by no means a show-stopper. In fact

global menubar

2003-01-16 Thread Ivers, Doug E
What's the best way to have a menubar that remains the same for all the stacks in a standalone that contains several substacks? Also, same issue for when the user opens a cloned substack that is in a separate file (a data file)? Seems like this could get hairy in a hurry. I wish I could

RE: htmltext and Rev1.1.1

2003-01-16 Thread Ivers, Doug E
That is totally awesome and just what I need! Thanks, Monte! -- D -Original Message- From: Monte Goulding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: htmltext and Rev1.1.1 Hi Also if you make a customProperty called

path of a 'closeStackRequest'

2003-01-16 Thread Graham Samuel
I must be doing something really dumb, but I don't understand what. In the app I'm developing (Revo 1.1.1 on MacOS 9.2.2), I have a mainstack and a number of substacks. I appear to be getting more than one 'preOpenStack' message to my main stack, which since my intention is only to open it

Re: path of a 'closeStackRequest'

2003-01-16 Thread Klaus Major
Hi graham, I must be doing something really dumb, but I don't understand what. In the app I'm developing (Revo 1.1.1 on MacOS 9.2.2), I have a mainstack and a number of substacks. I appear to be getting more than one 'preOpenStack' message to my main stack, which since my intention is only

Re: Need Script Debugger Tutorial

2003-01-16 Thread Rob Cozens
I'd be glad to find I'd missed a tutorial on debugging - if anyone knows of one, please say. I wouldn't spend a lot of time on this, Graham: The Sript Debugger has received a major rewrite for V2.0. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm And I, which

Re: Passing Lists

2003-01-16 Thread Rob Cozens
Try condensed. Thanks, Jeanne, it does the job. I don't think I'd noticed before that HyperCard's style menu displays condense but the text style properties list condensed. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm And I, which was two fooles, do so grow

Re: global menubar

2003-01-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ivers, Doug E wrote: What's the best way to have a menubar that remains the same for all the stacks in a standalone that contains several substacks? Also, same issue for when the user opens a cloned substack that is in a separate file (a data file)? Seems like this could get hairy in a

Re: path of a 'closeStackRequest'

2003-01-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: I found that when I closed a substack by clicking on its close box, the handler in the mainstack got called, with the target being the first card of the substack. There is no stack script in the substack. What's going on? The mainstack in Rev acts as the project script

Re: Need Script Debugger Tutorial

2003-01-16 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 04:11 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: I'd be glad to find I'd missed a tutorial on debugging - if anyone knows of one, please say. I have put off using debugging, because I wrote perfect code first time. No, that's not it. Because I never took the time to figure

Re: Need Script Debugger Tutorial

2003-01-16 Thread Troy Rollins
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:30 AM, Dar Scott wrote: I'd be glad to find I'd missed a tutorial on debugging - if anyone knows of one, please say. I have put off using debugging, because I wrote perfect code first time. No, that's not it. Because I never took the time to figure it

Argh! where have all my stacks gone?

2003-01-16 Thread DVGlasgow
As I type, TechTool 3.0 is trying to find a whole bunch of stacks apparently deleted by Rev. I was doing a build, and was advised a folder with the name I was trying to build already existed. That was true, I was repeating a build having tweaked the stack. I was invited to replace it (I

1.1.1 Demo

2003-01-16 Thread Steven W. Riggins
Title: 1.1.1 Demo Hi folks! I downloaded 1.1.1 from the site, made a new Main Stack, and chose Standard Button from the Objects menu. Revolution crashed. Any ideas? :) Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x91a634ac in GetPatternIdentifier #1 0x91a577fc in SetPortPat #2 0x96a13210 in SetColorAndPenState #3

SMB server

2003-01-16 Thread Jacques Hausser
Dear all, I need to read and write to text files on a smb server, and to prevent the users to access those files otherwise than through the standalone. I was given a special username and a password for that. The problem is, when the connection is established, the users can access the files

RE: 1.1.1 Demo

2003-01-16 Thread Gary Rathbone
I guess your using a Mac in which case Appearance Manager is usually the problem. Just for your info the list has a searchable archive at http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:lists.runrev.com Which is *very* useful but not widely advertised. Regards Gary Rathbone BSc MBCS Chartered

Re: Argh! where have all my stacks gone?

2003-01-16 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I type, TechTool 3.0 is trying to find a whole bunch of stacks apparently deleted by Rev. Any advice? Assuming the worst, what is the best way of extracting scripts from a standalone? I am trying to stay calm, but it was a whole days work. If you

Re: 1.1.1 Demo

2003-01-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Steven W. Riggins wrote: Great! Thanks, I figure it will take me a week to get a list of bookmarks, etc hehe A good number of them are here: http://www.fourthworld.com/rev/index.html ...which includes a search box for Googling the list archive. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media

Re: 1.1.1 Demo

2003-01-16 Thread Ken Ray
My site also has a lot of tips and links, many of which already culled from past lists, but organized by category: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Completeness of Revo Docs (was Re: path of a 'closeStackRequest')

2003-01-16 Thread Graham Samuel
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:26:39 -0800 Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It matters enough to be documented. Thinking as someone who would be coming from a strong SuperCard background such as yourself, I found the answer following this path: 1. Select Revolution Documentation from the Help

Re: Argh! where have all my stacks gone?

2003-01-16 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 10:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to stay calm, but it was a whole days work. It's no help after the fact, but I highly recommend Altuit's stack archiver. It creates an archive/ folder and numbers your backup stacks.

Re: Completeness of Revo Docs (was Re: path of a'closeStackRequest')

2003-01-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: On another list I recently pointed out for example that the usages of 'in' and 'seconds' in the Transcript statement send someMessage to somewhere in 5 seconds weren't covered in the Dictionary; I wonder if the problem may be a version mismatch. In v1.1.1, the

Re: Argh! where have all my stacks gone?

2003-01-16 Thread Arthur Evans Jr
As I type, TechTool 3.0 is trying to find a whole bunch of stacks apparently deleted by Rev. It may be too late for you, I don't know. But my advice for others and for you in the future is to use a REGULAR BACKUP STRATEGY! If you ask yourself, What will I do if my hard disk ever crashes?

On backup (was: Argh! where have all my stacks gone?)

2003-01-16 Thread David Vaughan
On Friday, Jan 17, 2003, at 09:02 Australia/Sydney, Arthur Evans Jr wrote: It may be too late for you, I don't know. But my advice for others and for you in the future is to use a REGULAR BACKUP STRATEGY! snip If you don't like DAT, use some other strategy. But, pick some strategy that with

RE: 1.1.1 Demo

2003-01-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Hey all you Mac users out there! Please correct me if I am wrong...I seem to remember something about the 1.1.1 Demo on Jaquar being much less stable than the registered 1.1.1 version (appearance manager notwithstanding). If so, we may wish to recommend to Steven which version to use. Just

RE: Argh! where have all my stacks gone?

2003-01-16 Thread Chipp Walters
David, Sorry to hear about your data loss. Here's the best I can make of it. On Windows, RR will sometimes delete files on a build. Here are the circumstances around such an event. 1) You have already done a build before for THAT application 2) The folder still exists 3) The .exe file which used

plugin help

2003-01-16 Thread james lewes
this may be a stupid question, but how do i load the plugins into revolution. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Find something in Help

2003-01-16 Thread erik hansen
in the Help section you can search the Glossary and Tranwscript areas. is there a way to search all of the Help areas. TIA = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up

does library script length affect speed?

2003-01-16 Thread erik hansen
does library script length affect speed? other than keeping track of things, is there any reason not to put all of your multi-use handlers in one stack script? TIA = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail

Re: Find something in Help

2003-01-16 Thread Mark Swindell
on 1/16/03 4:57 PM, erik hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in the Help section you can search the Glossary and Tranwscript areas. is there a way to search all of the Help areas. TIA I _think_ global searching is going to be supported in 2.0. Right now it's limited. It'll be great when

Re: On backup (was: Argh! where have all my stacks gone?)

2003-01-16 Thread Steven W. Riggins
We had this problem with projects in HyperCard, because the media was kept in the same file as your code. Usually, code is what changed the most, and that is the smallest of the assets. I am not sure what 2.0 has, but because product stability is *paramount* as is protecting your assets, I

Re: plugin help

2003-01-16 Thread Sarah
Put them into the plugins folder in your Revolution application folder. Then start Revolution (re-start if it was already running) and go to the Development menu. You will see an item called Plugins From there you can start any plugins directly, or you can go to the Plugins editor and

Stack/card height

2003-01-16 Thread Mark Swindell
I'm having a heck of a time getting my stack to remain at the correct height (Mac only... haven't tried other platforms). The first card height is correct at 470, but when I move to another card, the height is reset to 448. This doesn't appear obviously connected to the menubar issue, as it is

RE: plugin help

2003-01-16 Thread Chipp Walters
James, Just drop the plugin file into the plugins folder (in the RunRev directory). It can then be accessed from withing RR under the development menu -- unless it's set to launch automatically, then it's just 'there' on startup. -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Script Debugger Tutorial

2003-01-16 Thread Sarah
As others have said, Rev 2 will have an entirely different debugger, however I expect some functionality while remain the same and you probably want information now, so here is a brief explanation: The 3 popups just allow you to select which handler to debug. The first selects the stack, the

Re: 1.1.1 Demo

2003-01-16 Thread Alan Gayne
Hey Chipp, Since I made the switch to Jaguar, more than a month now, I haven't had ANY crashes - BUT I did notice that standard buttons with the default property set to true were no longer that nice aqua blue whilst awaiting an enter key. However the DO flash blue when you hit the enter key.

Re: SMB server

2003-01-16 Thread Bill Vlahos
Jacques, I don't think what you want is possible. If you have a volume SMB mounted it will show up on the desktop as the OS mounts the volume for app to use. Applications can't write to an unmounted volume. Perhaps FTP or HTTP (get and put) might be better solutions. Bill Vlahos On Thursday,

Re: using plugins

2003-01-16 Thread Steve Messimer
on 1/16/03 8:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this may be a stupid question, but how do i load the plugins into revolution. Hi james, All you need to do is drop them in the rev plugins folder. To access them Launch Rev choose the Developer menu select the Plugins

Re: Argh! where have all my stacks gone?

2003-01-16 Thread DVGlasgow
In a message dated 17/1/03 1:25:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you logged in as the right user? Are you sitting down in front of the right computer? Did you plug in the right firewire drive? Dar Scott I swear to God, the stacks disappeared in front of my eyes. I was sick in bed,

Re: 1.1.1 Demo

2003-01-16 Thread erik hansen
--- Steven W. Riggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x91a634ac in GetPatternIdentifier that's geek. = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.

Re: Stack/Card height

2003-01-16 Thread Mark Swindell
Sarah, Thanks, yes you were right, of course, but it wasn't acting predictably for what I expected. It was the bottom of the stack was being truncated, not the top, and it wouldn't retain its stack height no matter what I set it to. I had plenty of real estate up top to play with. I still don't