RE: Windows sound and music--help!

2003-10-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Judy, Early versions of XP shipped with SAPI 4, which works with RR. Perhaps he was using such an early version? Did it upgrade it using SP1? If not, it may be a memory problem. Try booting RR and just entering: revSpeak hello If that doesn't work, you might check the SAPI control panel and see

RE: Windows TTS- what about Narrator?

2003-10-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Paul, There are a number of issues concerning what you want to do. 1) Current XP uses SAPI 5 which is not *currently* supported in RR. 2) ATT Natural Voices are in most people's opinion the very best...and ATT knows this. They have been *very* hesitant to license them to developers --unless you

RE: OT: Convert AIF to MP3

2003-10-28 Thread Gardner, Joseph A
Just a suggestion as I have no way of testing it out right now, but have you tried driving Audion www.panic.com/audion with Applescript? There's an X version of Audion that should work under Panther and I'd imagine the scripts would be similar between iTunes and Audion. HTH... joe. From:

RE: Set the visible of

2003-10-28 Thread Chipp Walters
Thomas, Try: repeat with v = 1 to 8 hide fld (myLabel v) end repeat (It's all in the parens :-) -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas J McGrath III Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: newsgroup vs. mailing list

2003-10-28 Thread Dom
Alex Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now in Mac OS 10.3 (Cheetah), Mail.app 1.3 has message threading view! Woohoo! View menu / Organize By Thread. As for now, I am reading your prose with MacSOUP! Yes, with MacSOUP you are able to SEE a graphical representation of the whole thread, the TREE

Re: newsgroup vs. mailing list

2003-10-28 Thread James Richards
on 27/10/03 12:01:31 -0700, Alex Rice wrote: Now it also appears that some people (eric hansen?) are hitting reply to a list message, then changing the topic *entirely*, as a shortcut for composing a new topic message to the list. This looks bad in a threaded view because based on the

Re: newsgroup vs. mailing list

2003-10-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Oct 27, 2003, at 11:48 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: This is my third PowerBook and I have have been using Mail since it came out. I never knew that. I just hit the space bar and it scrolled to the bottom and then hit it again to advance to the next email and then hit again to scroll to

Re: First Edited Threads Posted - Reactions?

2003-10-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Oct 25, 2003, at 6:39 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: There appears to be something bizarre with URL translation going on with my server. Try omitting the period and it works fine: http://www.revolutionpros.com I'm investigating the other weirdness. Sorry for the confusion. Dan - congrats on your

re: How to use Rev with Media Player - anyone got a guide?

2003-10-28 Thread Tuviah Snyder
I thought I saw Tuviah say you could record sound in Rev and play it back in WMP, but nothing I've tried works. Check out the recordformat property and make sure it is set to something like wave. Also check the recordcompression and make sure that it is set to a format readable by Windows (like

Re: Windows TTS- what about Narrator?

2003-10-28 Thread Tuviah Snyder
Does this mean revSpeak now DOES support XP? Works fine for me. I have SAPI 4 speech engines installed, and MS said that both can coexist peacefully. Tuviah Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Software at the Speed of Thought

Re: Set the visible of

2003-10-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Thomas, --- Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to hide a set of text fields before the card is opened and then show them with a dissolve. The fields are named myLabel1, myLabel2 etc to myLabel8 It don't work. on preOpenCard repeat with v = 1 to 8 put quote

Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery

2003-10-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Dan, I've read a bunch of the posts that have appeared on this list over the past year or so regarding inclusion of movie files in Rev applications intended for cross-platform use. My conclusion from all of them is that it is better to use players linked to external files than to embed the

Re: newsgroup vs. mailing list

2003-10-28 Thread Dave Cragg
At 12:51 am -0700 28/10/03, Alex Rice wrote: On Oct 28, 2003, at 12:27 AM, James Richards wrote: What is the effect of those of us who receive the digest and hit 'Reply to' and then edit subject line? If we don't edit the subject line it gets the useless unedited heading, and anyway the Reply

DB Write

2003-10-28 Thread Ed McCabe
Message: 7 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:40:37 -0500 From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DB Write To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On 10/23/03 4:10 PM, Ed McCabe wrote: Has anyone had

Re: Set the visible of

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Chipp Thanks, I had not read about that. I am putting them in now. I did finally end up with the hide (myLabel v). So thanks again. I was getting pretty tired last night. I tried the dontuseQT's and it seems to work ok. More tests now. Tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 02:10 AM, Chipp

Re: Set the visible of

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Klaus, I think it was the fact that I had visual effects in QT going and most of my problems were random. after I put the dontuseQT and dontuseQTeffects in the random problems seem to have calmed down. When I was switching cards back and forth really fast then I really had problems and I was

time stamp on return

2003-10-28 Thread John Tenny
How do I add a time stamp in a field with each press of the return key, i.e. return 3:34 pm The cat woke up return 3:48 pm The cat stretched return 4:01 pm The cat went back to sleep return 4: 47 pm John ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Re: DB Write

2003-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/27/03 11:29 AM, Ed McCabe wrote: I cant tell you which type XFCN it is - but when activated it does produce its own word processor-like window. In that case, Rev can't use it. It is a type-2 external. I think you are stuck writing your own mail merge in Transcript. I've done this quite a

Outsourcing / Writing dll's for Revolution...

2003-10-28 Thread Gary Rathbone
Due to time constraints on a number of projects we are now outsourcing 'core functionality' to other agencies. We've had great success with RentACoder.com ; the 'ebay' of the coding world. We've commissioned projects which have been delivered within time, to specification (and often added

RE: Windows sound and music--help!

2003-10-28 Thread Judy Perry
Thanks, Chipp. AFAIK, he hasn't upgraded anything (with that low amount of RAM, I know I sure wouldn't!). I'll pass your suggestions along to him. Thanks! Judy On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Chipp Walters wrote: Judy, Early versions of XP shipped with SAPI 4, which works with RR. Perhaps he was

Re: time stamp on return

2003-10-28 Thread Rob Cozens
How do I add a time stamp in a field with each press of the return key, i.e. return 3:34 pm The cat woke up return 3:48 pm The cat stretched return 4:01 pm The cat went back to sleep return 4: 47 pm Hi John, on returnInField put return(the short time) after me end returnInField -- Rob

Re: How to use Rev with Media Player - anyone got a guide?

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Tuviah, Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:29:04 -0500 From: Tuviah Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re: How to use Rev with Media Player - anyone got a guide? I thought I saw Tuviah say you could record sound in Rev and play it back in WMP, but nothing I've tried works. Check out the

Re: OSX Distribution issues

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
The service call I recommended was to Revolution not Apple. As an Enterprise customer I have service call requests with my purchase for a year. I thought your problem would be a good one to use yours on if you have them. That's all Tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 05:29 AM, Graham Samuel

Re: Revolution crashes on startup

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
I had something similar happen to me. It was after I put a new plugin in the plugins folder. I went back and took it out and was fine. Tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 09:41 AM, Russell wrote: Hi people The past several days whenever I open revolution it opens the tips window and

Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Norris
Hello Sannyasin, Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:34:08 -1000 From: Sannyasin Sivakatirswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Convert AIF to MP3 Now, under Panther, the appleScript and the latest version of iTunes is also broken...it used to be simple: pass a file path to a variable and tell iTunes

Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3

2003-10-28 Thread Scott Rossi
On 10/28/03 10:00 AM, Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, under Panther, the appleScript and the latest version of iTunes is also broken...it used to be simple: pass a file path to a variable and tell iTunes to convert that file. Now, nothing happens. Have you tried using QT? I'm

Re: Text field formatting

2003-10-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Oct 28, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Hello all, I am doing a rush CD project and need to do a lot of conversions from existing Powerpoint presentations. I need to import text and graphics from Powerpoint into a card in rev. Then I need to replicate the special effects

Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3

2003-10-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, On 10/28/03 10:00 AM, Ken Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, under Panther, the appleScript and the latest version of iTunes is also broken...it used to be simple: pass a file path to a variable and tell iTunes to convert that file. Now, nothing happens. Have you tried using QT? I'm

re: Outsourcing / Writing dll's for Revolution...

2003-10-28 Thread Tuviah Snyder
We've had great success with RentACoder.com ; the 'ebay' of the coding world. Yes I too have had success with them. I find it important to work on the design first, and do the necessary research (for example I may research any related technical issues, design a class, and ask them to implement the

RE: Text field formatting

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Powell
My advice is to completely divorce yourself from anything native to PowerPoint. Depending on what kind of effects you need to replicate and your display quality needs, I would suggest grabbing the slides as screen shots, or doing Save as within PowerPoint and saving the presentation to HTML, RTF,

Glossary and hyperlink

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Hello all, Same project, I need to make each line in the text field a link to either an external file or another substack window to open over top of the main stack. BUT I also want a glossary effect that when the mouse is over words in the text to display a glossary in a separate field. The

Re: Revolution crashes on startup

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Also, I had a little luck hitting command period a bunch of times and then holding command option of card to open script editor. Well it did work a couple of times. tom On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 09:41 AM, Russell wrote: Hi people The past several days whenever I open revolution it

Re: Text field formatting

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Alex and Mark, I forgot about the html. I will spend today exporting to html and then play with that and see if it will speed things up or not. Also, I already figured the special effects would be rebuilt in REV from scratch. But, I was wondering if any one built some functions to handle the

Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have the following handler in the Stack Script: on openStack resetOpen -- prep the stack handler send mouseUp to button Server Data end openStack It works correctly on Mac OS X builds but doesn't do anything on Windows standalones. Clicking on the Server Data button works correctly on

Re: Text field formatting

2003-10-28 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:02 PM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Also, I already figured the special effects would be rebuilt in REV from scratch. But, I was wondering if any one built some functions to handle the built in abilities in REV for animation type effects If I do this I

Re: Text field formatting

2003-10-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Oct 28, 2003, at 1:29 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: libAnim_Ease short id of field MyField, long owner of field MyField, 0, 200, 0, 200, true, 10, 20 This would move your field from 0,0 to 50,200 and send the message libAnim_Finished to the object you were animating when the animation was done.

Re: Text field formatting

2003-10-28 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Alex Rice wrote: On Oct 28, 2003, at 1:29 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: libAnim_Ease short id of field MyField, long owner of field MyField, 0, 200, 0, 200, true, 10, 20 This would move your field from 0,0 to 50,200 and send the message libAnim_Finished

POP-UP Calender/Time routine

2003-10-28 Thread Bojsza
I was wondering if anyone has done a pop-up Calender and time selector in Revolution similar to what some of the online travel systems have. I want to have a user to be able to select the year, month, day and time from a pop-up...this will ensure that the format that I am expecting will always

Re: Text field formatting

2003-10-28 Thread Scott Rossi
On 10/28/03 12:02 PM, Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be nice to have a few affects to animate a text field with that are straight forward and simple. You can see the ease-in/out example stack we put together. In your message box, type the following: go stack url

Re: POP-UP Calender/Time routine

2003-10-28 Thread Yves COPPE
Le mardi, 28 oct 2003, à 22:06 Europe/Brussels, Bojsza a écrit : I was wondering if anyone has done a pop-up Calender and time selector in Revolution similar to what some of the online travel systems have. I want to have a user to be able to select the year, month, day and time from a

RE: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone

2003-10-28 Thread Chipp Walters
try: send mouseUp to button Server Data in 200 milliseconds (give the app some time to breathe) -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Vlahos Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Send mouseUp

Re: POP-UP Calender/Time routine

2003-10-28 Thread Yves COPPE
Le mardi, 28 oct 2003, à 22:06 Europe/Brussels, Bojsza a écrit : I was wondering if anyone has done a pop-up Calender and time selector in Revolution similar to what some of the online travel systems have. I want to have a user to be able to select the year, month, day and time from a

Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
Nope. This doesn't work either. Bill On Oct 27, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: try: send mouseUp to button Server Data in 200 milliseconds (give the app some time to breathe) -Chipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Vlahos

Re: Text field formatting

2003-10-28 Thread Michael J. Lew
I am now regularly making PowerPoint presentations from within Revolution with all of the bells-and-whistles :-) It is very straightforward, but you will need Keynote. Simply 1. Open your PowerPoint presentation in Keynote (the current version opens my lectures without any errors at all!). 2.

Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone

2003-10-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Oct 28, 2003, at 3:18 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: This doesn't work. click at the loc of btn Server Data Works for me. --Create a new mainstack stack --Add a button --Edit button script: on mouseup put hi end mouseup --Type in the message box click at the loc of btn 1 --or click at the loc of

Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone

2003-10-28 Thread Dave Cragg
At 12:16 pm -0800 28/10/03, Bill Vlahos wrote: I have the following handler in the Stack Script: on openStack resetOpen -- prep the stack handler send mouseUp to button Server Data end openStack It works correctly on Mac OS X builds but doesn't do anything on Windows standalones. Clicking on

Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
It looks like I am encountering an error which stops the execution of the Windows standalone when I ask: if there is a file thefile.txt then enable menuItem 2 of menu File else disable menuItem 2 of menu File It works on OS X standalones but not on Windows 2000 standalones where it

Re: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone

2003-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/03 7:02 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: It looks like I am encountering an error which stops the execution of the Windows standalone when I ask: if there is a file thefile.txt then enable menuItem 2 of menu File else disable menuItem 2 of menu File It works on OS X standalones but not

Get shell broken on Panther?

2003-10-28 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
This was working on 10.2.8 from within a Rev script, but not now on Panther: put (ditto -rsrcFork quote (gLocalPath/ gLocalFile)quotequote fld remoteFolderquote) into tCommand get shell (tCommand) but ditto -rsrcFork someFile/path/file.txt somefolder/OnTheServer/ *Does* work in the

Re: Get shell broken on Panther?

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: This was working on 10.2.8 from within a Rev script, but not now on Panther: put (ditto -rsrcFork quote (gLocalPath/ gLocalFile)quotequote fld remoteFolderquote) into tCommand get shell (tCommand) but ditto -rsrcFork someFile/path/file.txt

Command Option

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Hello All, I did something?!?!?!? Now when I hold down the command and option key over controls I do not get the script window. Don't know what I did, but was hoping you guys might straighten me out on it. Thanks Tom Thomas J McGrath III Advanced Media Group 220 Drake Rd. Bethel Park, PA

Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Scott, Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:22:56 -0800 From: Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3 The latest version of QT apparently doesn't do MP3, only MP4. -- YeahI noticed that. Iddenthat wierd? 10 million things out there in MP3 and they pitch it away

How to set the cursor??

2003-10-28 Thread Judy Perry
Hi, I know I am displaying what a complete imbecile I am, but I simply cannot set the cursor property to save my life. What I want to do is change the default cursor to arrow (yep, tried that in the openStack handler) and then have it change to browse/pointing finger when over an area of

Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Klaus, Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:28:16 +0100 From: Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Convert AIF to MP3 No version of QT ever supported exporting to MP3, not even QT Pro. Unfortunately... --- Hmmm. Are you sure? It wouldn't have had a MP3 designator, but MPEG3. QT,

RE: Send mouseUp doesn't work in Windows standalone

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Ray
enable line 3 of btn file I didn't even know you could do this! This is awesome... although it only serves to remove or add (with disable) the ( from the beginning of the line and not if it is not the first character, but it is a lot less typing than: if char 1 of line 3 of btn file is (

RE: Command Option

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Ray
Tom, Check your Preference in the General area and see if you have it turned on... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas J McGrath

Re: Command Option

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: It would be cool to be able to have hot keys, like in all Adobe apps where if you are not in the text tool then any key on the key board becomes a hot tool key. Not hard to do with a frontScript. In fact, you could put a functionkey handler in there to act as

Still no good PNG

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Norris
Howdy, I'm stumped. Nothing I do makes the image show up properly. I want a blended translucent image for all platforms mode. In SC I could do it by setting inks, but in Rev's All Platforms mode, the middle of the image where the blend occurs is blown out. I tried all kinds of tricks in

Re: Get shell broken on Panther?

2003-10-28 Thread Brian Yennie
Do other shell commands work? If not, you may need to set the shellCommand property? Just a shot... Brian On Oct 28, 2003, at 4:32 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Would using resfile serve as a workaround? put url resfile:someFile/path/file.txt into \ url resfile:somefolder/OnTheServer/

Scripting PDF files

2003-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
OS X has a Save as PDF option in the print dialog. Does anyone know of a way to automate this, so a script could save a printout as a PDF? Or is there any other way to create a PDF? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software |

Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Norris
Hello Tom, Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:39:22 -0500 From: Thomas J McGrath III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery I've always thought it was best to keep large files as externals for memory issues and performance issues. It seems REV is the same.

Re: Right Player Approach for Cross-Platform Delivery

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Ken, Thanks for your input. I agree. I have an MPEG movie with a quicktime icon on it. It is 160MB and I just made the mistake of New Controller Video and pretty much froze REV. I had to force quit. Then I did new reference Quicktime for it. put in a controller and was OK. I want to make sure