Re: Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

2003-02-04 Thread Curry
One more thing about the new property palette--maybe there should still be a menu item in the option menu, or a button, to go to the object's script. Although the script won't open in the palette, it will still make a lot of sense to go from one to the other. Best wishes, Curry

Re: Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more thing about the new property palette--maybe there should still be a menu item in the option menu, or a button, to go to the object's script. Although the script won't open in the palette, it will still make a lot of sense to go from one to the

Why is my app slow?

2003-02-04 Thread Graham Samuel
I've just started using the Distribution Builder in 1.1.1. I've got a fairly simple app with no particular speed problems on my G3/400 Mac, but when I make it into a separate app, I find that although the MacOS 9 and MacOS X (Jaguar) versions work well, the PC version appears incredibly slow

Re: VS: newbie:visuall effect

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Esa_Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Jan Schenkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty: 4. helmikuuta 2003 13:02 Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aihe: Re: newbie:visuall effect --- Esa_Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greetinsg

QT Movies playing roughly

2003-02-04 Thread Graham Samuel
I've got an app with a couple of really trivial QT movies, each consisting of about 30 frames plus a soundtrack, set to loop until stopped. One of them shows a motor with a little propeller going round. The thing is scripted so that the propeller can go at different speeds and either forward

VS: VS: newbie:visuall effect

2003-02-04 Thread Esa Kivelä
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Jan Schenkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty: 4. helmikuuta 2003 13:27 Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aihe: Re: VS: newbie:visuall effect --- Esa_Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Jan

Grid/Table control

2003-02-04 Thread Jez
I dont wish to join the debate about WHEN the final version 2.0 will ship, but just wish to ask : will it include a grid / table control ? This is the most useful control in data-intensive GUI applications I think. Tabbed list controls just wont suffice. NB. It's interesting to note that

VS: newbie:visuall effect

2003-02-04 Thread Esa Kivelä
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Jan Schenkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty: 4. helmikuuta 2003 13:02 Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aihe: Re: newbie:visuall effect --- Esa_Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greetinsg again: Hmmm i try to do some visual effect as

Re: VS: VS: newbie:visuall effect

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Esa_Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] What's the content of the 'effectRate' global property and the 'alwaysBuffer' stack property ? and I can check those..where? I juse Windows 2000 and RR 1.1 EsaK Use the message box: answer the effectRate answer the alwaysBuffer of

Re: QT Movies playing roughly

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Graham Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an app with a couple of really trivial QT movies, each consisting of about 30 frames plus a soundtrack, set to loop until stopped. One of them shows a motor with a little propeller going round. The thing is scripted so that the

RE: Why is my app slow?

2003-02-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Graham, I believe you may have answered your own question... a P133 running Windows 95 - or on Virtual PC on my Mac G3/400. Why don't you test on a more powerful PC and see? -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

VS: VS: VS: newbie:visuall effect

2003-02-04 Thread Esa Kivelä
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Jan Schenkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty: 4. helmikuuta 2003 14:36 Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aihe: Re: VS: VS: newbie:visuall effect Use the message box: answer the effectRate 3000 just set that to the ne button answer the

Re: VS: newbie:visuall effect

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Esa_Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Hmmm all works but that dissolve won't... werid.. EsaK Weird that it's just that one effect. Does it help if you set the dontUseQTEffects to true Jan Schenkel. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail

RE: QT Movies playing roughly

2003-02-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Graham, Are you using any on idle handlers to control the animation? You might also want to look at an animaged gif for this type of thing. Also, look at the 'send' command instead of 'on idle' (if you're using it). -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Jim Hurley
Isn't there another issue regarding where images are stored? My knowledge here is admittedly weak but I have had problems in the past in referencing images stored on disk. To find the image a path, either absolute of relative (relative to the current default folder) needs to be given. If, in

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Jim Hurley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there another issue regarding where images are stored? My knowledge here is admittedly weak but I have had problems in the past in referencing images stored on disk. To find the image a path, either absolute of relative (relative to the

Re: Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

2003-02-04 Thread Kevin Miller
On 4/2/03 11:19 am, Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or as an icon in the button-row at the top which you suggested in an earlier post. That would save us quite a few trips without making things difficult again. Its in the tool bar, there is a keyboard shortcut, its in the menu bar, and

Re: Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

2003-02-04 Thread Kevin Miller
On 3/2/03 11:24 pm, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could there be an advantage to developing an app in RR then running it in MC? Two that I can think of - one is that you may be able to develop faster in Rev because of all the help that the IDE gives you (vs. MC where a bunch of stuff

[ANN] Furby.rev (a virtual Furby toy)

2003-02-04 Thread Roger . E . Eller
As a proud father, I just have to announce my son's first Revolution program. He is 11 years old, and is absolutely *thrilled* that Transcript is simple enough for a kid to follow. Please check out his first app on the user contributions page.

Re: VS: pre-beta

2003-02-04 Thread Kevin Miller
On 4/2/03 6:19 am, Esa Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, did You guys fix in RR 2.0 that printing problem wich prints many pages ie. from text field and in the pages are only few lines of text per page? Please test it and let us know if it is still happening for you. Thanks, Kevin Kevin

Rev 2.0 printing

2003-02-04 Thread Dave LeYanna
It is still happening to me. The double,triple line stuff from Win 2000 to HPIIIsi and micro print 1/32 point type from Win98 to same printer. The same, doesn't matter which version of Rev. I use. The print drivers are the newest ones. BTW FYI, printing from Inspired Logic's Navigator seems to

Re: unicode in pre-beta

2003-02-04 Thread mark mitchell
Tuviah wrote: I'm personally look forward to feedback on Unicode, I was anxiously awaiting Unicode, but after playing with it for just a few minutes, it doesn't seem to be working very well yet (Mac OS 10.1.5, Jpnese kotoeri input). You can now type and edit Japanese OK in a single

Re: [ANN] Furby.rev (a virtual Furby toy)

2003-02-04 Thread Rick Harrison
on 2/4/2003 10:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure William would love to hear some words of encouragement from you guys (off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Kind Regards, Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roger, It's cute, but there is no way to quit the

Re: Random generator exercise

2003-02-04 Thread miscdas
Here is yet another approach to the exercise. A SINGLE random number is generated, from which a numeric or an alpha character is generated. There is a .5 probability of generating a numeric, and .5 probablity of generating an alpha. Within the alpha, there is a .5 probablity of being lower

Re: Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/2/03 11:19 am, Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or as an icon in the button-row at the top which you suggested in an earlier post. That would save us quite a few trips without making things difficult again. Its in the tool bar,

Re: storing images

2003-02-04 Thread mark mitchell
Judy wrote: Yes, there are many different ways of doing one thing; problem is, it doesn't matter if they're all equally inelegant/non-intuitive. Maybe it's the non-assembly code programmer in me, but it's just not clear why, once you've embedded something, you have to re-embed it with each

Re: Furby.rev (a virtual Furby toy)

2003-02-04 Thread miscdas
Rick Harrison writes: on 2/4/2003 10:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure William would love to hear some words of encouragement from you guys (off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roger, It's cute, but there is no way to quit the application under

Where to download Pre-Beta?

2003-02-04 Thread Roger Guay
I'm sorry, I've lost the instructions for downlaoding the Pre-Beta and I can't find it at RunRev.com. Help? Thanks, Roger ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jim Hurley wrote: Isn't there another issue regarding where images are stored? My knowledge here is admittedly weak but I have had problems in the past in referencing images stored on disk. To find the image a path, either absolute of relative (relative to the current default

Re: QT Movies playing roughly

2003-02-04 Thread Graham Samuel
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:44:32 -0800 (PST) Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graham, A few things spring to mind: - Is it possible that another object overlaps the player ? - What's the setting of the 'alwaysBuffer' property of the player and the stack ? Jan Schenkel. Hi Jan Thanks for

RE: Where to download Pre-Beta?

2003-02-04 Thread Gary Rathbone
I'm sorry, I've lost the instructions for downlaoding the Pre-Beta and I can't find it at RunRev.com. Help? http://www.runrev.com/revolution/previews/downloads.html Regards Gary Rathbone ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Judy Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's the non-assembly code programmer in me, but it's just not clear why, once you've embedded something, you have to re-embed it with each usage. This is just nuts. This results in bloatware. I think there's some confusion -- you don't have to embed

Re: Image still cut off

2003-02-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I want is for the full 800x600 image to show in its entirety. I don't mind if some dev windows cover it, like the tool palettes, as long as I can remove them and _know_ the image is actually all there. I'm going crazy here. I'm sorry, a number of

Re: storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
** Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:51:49 +0900 Subject: Re: storing images From: mark mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I finally understand this thread. I couldn't figure out how set the icon of button 1 to myImage could possibly be described as inelegant (especially relative to HC's resource

Re: Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

2003-02-04 Thread Judy Perry
Yes, this was a big area of confusion/awkwardness for me as well but since I didn't hear anyone else really question it, I kept unusually quiet. Judy On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Curry wrote: One more thing about the new property palette--maybe there should still be a menu item in the option menu, or

Re: newbie:visuall effect

2003-02-04 Thread Judy Perry
Hi Esa, I believe visual effects could perhaps be better thought of as 'transition effects' -- as in when one moves from one card to another. AFAIK, it has only worked this way even in the other x-programs. Judy On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Esa Kivelä wrote: greetinsg again: Hmmm i try

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Judy Perry
Perhaps my gripe stems (as usual) from a lack of understanding. I've tried something like this -- importing as a control some image. But I didn't want it on the card where I imported it (not thinking about where I was; okay, it wasn't really me it was a student) and so I clicked on it and hit

Re: unicode in pre-beta

2003-02-04 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hi all, Tuviah wrote: I'm personally look forward to feedback on Unicode, I was anxiously awaiting Unicode, but after playing with it for just a few minutes, it doesn't seem to be working very well yet (Mac OS 10.1.5, Jpnese kotoeri input). You can now type and edit Japanese OK in a

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread miscdas
J. Landman Gay writes: There is no duplication of the image graphic when you do this; Rev just inserts a temporary copy of the image into RAM just as addcolor does when it draws the image to screen. === Is a copy of the image placed into RAM, or is there just a pointer created that

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Scott Rossi
I finally understand this thread. I couldn't figure out how set the icon of button 1 to myImage could possibly be described as inelegant (especially relative to HC's resource fork and pict external). Perhaps inelegant isn't the word, but it can be cumbersome to set the button icon to the

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no duplication of the image graphic when you do this; Rev just inserts a temporary copy of the image into RAM just as addcolor does when it draws the image to screen. Is a copy of the image placed into RAM, or is there just a pointer created that

RevPrintField

2003-02-04 Thread Dan Friedman
Fellow Revolutionaries... Anyone experienced any problems with revPrintField on windows? When I run this in a RR standalone on my Mac, it works fine: On mouseUp revShowPrintDialog true,true revPrintField the name of field aField End mouseUp However, on Windows, it does nothing. And, the

Re: Furby.rev (a virtual Furby toy)

2003-02-04 Thread Rick Harrison
on 2/4/2003 12:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Harrison, Perhaps you missed this address from above? [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure young William would appreciate your direct response, rather than passing it through his father. Likewise, why make dad the middleman?

RE: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Judy, Don't know about HC, but in RR when you delete the imageit's gone. -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Judy Perry Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Storing images Perhaps my

Re: Furby.rev (a virtual Furby toy)

2003-02-04 Thread miscdas
Rick Harrison writes: [snip] I hope I've answered all of your questions to your satisfaction! Mr. Harrison Yes, you answered to my satisfaction the single question that I posed. Your additional commentary was useful as well. miscdas ___

Re: Furby.rev (a virtual Furby toy)

2003-02-04 Thread miscdas
Rick Harrison writes: [snip] It's cute, but there is no way to quit the application under OS 9.2.2 You could have accomplished your goal of informing the list with the above line. Then you could have also sent a private message to William with your suggestion below, even leaving out any

Re: unicode in pre-beta

2003-02-04 Thread Toma Tasovac
I agree, there are serious Unicode problems in pre-beta -- I have already written to Tuviah about it, and will share the info with the list if he gets back to me. Also, I've discovered that pre-beta wouldn't open a stack in OS X if it's contained within a folder that has Cyrillic characters

Re: QT Movies playing roughly

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Graham Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:44:32 -0800 (PST) Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graham, A few things spring to mind: - Is it possible that another object overlaps the player ? - What's the setting of the 'alwaysBuffer' property of the

Re: Furby.rev (a virtual Furby toy)

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Wagenseller
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 11:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any kind of recognition from the adult world for an accomplishment does wonders for a child's psyche. Thanks for sharing! S. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QT Movies playing roughly

2003-02-04 Thread Graham Samuel
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:08:11 -0500 Howard Bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be a bit odd but maybe, if the cause is that your computer is underpowered, you can ease its burden by setting the playrate of the player to a value lower than 1. This will cause the movie to play slower, which

RE: QT Movies playing roughly

2003-02-04 Thread Chipp Walters
Graham, If you care to post it to a website, I'd be glad to DL it and take a look at it for you. I'm on a WinXP system though... -Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: unicode in pre-beta

2003-02-04 Thread Tuviah M Snyder
You can now type and edit Japanese OK in a single field, which is nice, but you cannot seem to move anything from one field to another via script without it messing up (although copy/paste works OK). Try set the unicodetext of fld 2 to the unicodetext of fld 1 or to preserve styles set the

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Jim Witte
*embedded* into the stacks; if you don't, you can leave them on disk and reference them as many times I understand that the resource fork thing was very MacClassic oriented. Still, one wonders why there isn't a ca 1987 elegant, modern solution in 2003. [..] why, once you've embedded something,

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1102 - 14 msgs

2003-02-04 Thread Tuviah M Snyder
I must also admit I've found the international character handling still quite unacceptable at this pre-beta stage. I have been working on an Esperanto stack, a language which uses characters such as c+circumflex (ĉ), g+circumflex (ĝ), and u+breve (ŭ) among others. All these have to be typed

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
What is the difference between storing it in a resource fork and storing it in a substack, or as an image in a group that can be placed on any card. Both the latter do not add any more data to the stack...there is only one copy of the imagedata in the stack even though it appears in multiple

RE: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Monte Goulding
Would it be possible to embed the image on one card (like a PICT resource or whatnot), and then reference that image other places in the stack (to avoid re-embedding bloat)? Hi Jim Using a PICT resource is how you do it HyperCard. In Rev there is an image control. The image data that the

Re: Storing images

2003-02-04 Thread Judy Perry
I think that what I really need is a 12-step program for recovering resource fork-aholics... ;-) Judy On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: What is the difference between storing it in a resource fork and storing it in a substack, or as an image in a group that can be placed

Re: Furby.rev (a virtual Furby toy)

2003-02-04 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 12:19 PM -0800 2/4/03, Rick Harrison wrote: I deliberately sent this to the list to inform others who might decide to try the program that it doesn't quit properly under Mac OS 9.2.2. This brings up a tip that some might not know about: Since Revolution quits when its last window closes (and

Playing Mp3s and keeping them going

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hart
Hello all, Hope 2.0 comes out soon. Just wondering if anyone can tell me how to keep a sound file playing when I go from card to card. I have set a player and set it to play on preopencard. I want it to keep playing when I go to the next card. Any help? Thanks. tim

Playing Mp3s and keeping them going

2003-02-04 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Tim, What happens if the player is part of a group which appears on all cards? Or how about playing the sound file as an imported audioClip? (I'm phrasing this as a question because I don't know the answer, but you might try these possibilities if no one else steps in with a definitive

Re: QT Movies playing roughly

2003-02-04 Thread Terry Judd
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 04:20 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:44:32 -0800 (PST) Jan Schenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Graham, A few things spring to mind: - Is it possible that another object overlaps the player ? - What's the setting of the 'alwaysBuffer'

VS: VS: pre-beta

2003-02-04 Thread Esa Kivelä
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty: 4. helmikuuta 2003 17:35 Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aihe: Re: VS: pre-beta On 4/2/03 6:19 am, Esa Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, did You guys fix in RR 2.0 that printing problem

VS: newbie:visuall effect

2003-02-04 Thread Esa Kivelä
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Judy Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty: 4. helmikuuta 2003 21:13 Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aihe: Re: newbie:visuall effect Hi Esa, Greetings from Finland :-) I believe visual effects could perhaps be better thought of as

pre-beta - print bug?

2003-02-04 Thread Esa Kivelä
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty: 4. helmikuuta 2003 17:35 Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aihe: Re: VS: pre-beta On 4/2/03 6:19 am, Esa Kivelä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, did You guys fix in RR 2.0 that printing problem

pre-beta print bug?

2003-02-04 Thread Esa Kivelä
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Esa Kivelä Lähetetty: 5. helmikuuta 2003 8:38 Vastaanottaja: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Kopio: 'mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Aihe: pre-beta - print bug? -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty:

VS: RevPrintField

2003-02-04 Thread Esa Kivelä
-Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Dan Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lähetetty: 4. helmikuuta 2003 22:05 Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aihe: RevPrintField Fellow Revolutionaries... Anyone experienced any problems with revPrintField on windows? *EsaK rase his hand up*

Re: Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

2003-02-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
Rev Navigator does this in Revolution -- and a lot more: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/navigator On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:29 PM, erik hansen wrote: except that i miss the MC tool that showed all of the controls grouped by groups. regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: pre-beta - print bug?

2003-02-04 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Esa It's quite likely that this is a printer driver bug. I think that the reason that Rev users see it and other software doesn't have a problem is because the revPrinField command sets the fixedLineHeight to false. If you test on your system the with following code: set the fixedLineHeight

Re: Pre-Beta for 2.0 for Mac OS

2003-02-04 Thread erik hansen
--- Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rev Navigator does this in Revolution -- and a lot more: http://www.inspiredlogic.com/navigator On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 03:29 PM, erik hansen wrote: except that i miss the MC tool that showed all of the controls grouped by groups.