Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Chipp Walters
MisterX wrote: Just my 2 cents after lots of aggravation trying to get this far with skins and porting graphical applications from W2K to XP to OSX... It's definitely not as simple or smooth as Chipp says IMOHO - no offence Chipp... X, No offense taken. For those who are HIG sticklers, you

Re: Rev performance: help! (solved)-NOT 4 me...

2005-12-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Judy, Well, no, because nobody else using ChatRev seems to have the problem. As far as I know most of them have cooked up their own client. I´m using Marks. http://www.economy-x-talk.com/chatrev.html Maybe using another client would help. :-) All the best, Malte

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread xavier . bury
Chipp, It's not the differences in GUIs and HIGs that the problem. It's the problem of having two different sets of skins on XP (w2k and xp buttons) or in the case of skinned buttons, where on OSX these just do not port... After that, the next big problem facing rev developpers is HTML

Overriding modal default behaviour (was: Re: Changing Label Text on Substacks)

2005-12-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Trevor, Clever trick that overrides modal default behaviour. Can be very useful. Think that Dan should add it to his best-of list :-) Thanks. Best Regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet Le 9 déc. 05 à 00:12, Trevor DeVore a écrit : The secret to having a modal dialog that you can update is

Window Positioning

2005-12-09 Thread Mathewson
Pop the following into your stack script: On openStack put item 3 of the screenRect into WID put item 4 of the screenRect into HITE move stack BLAHBLAH to (WID / 2),(HITE / 2) end openStack where BLAHBLAH is the name of your stack Love, Richmond

Window Positioning

2005-12-09 Thread Mathewson
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I tend to use 'lockScreen' while I am moving stacks round people's monitors as it can look a bit odd that when they start something up the first thing it does is slide from somewhere into the middle! on openStack set the lockScreen to true put item 3 of

Revolution Encyclopedia

2005-12-09 Thread Mathewson
Thank you very much Ms DeVoto; however, in light of the fact that all the info contained in your stack has been 'redistributed' in newer recensions of RR I will not port my stand-alone version. I have, as you can see, posted a method for all who can be bothered to dig it out - after all, that

Re: Windowshape image as mask for second image

2005-12-09 Thread Sivakatirswami
Scott: I made a bit of progress... I wanted to play with the window shape to see if a feathered outer edge to the window shape was good (I'm not so sure now that I see it.. I mean it's cool and all, but a clean edge to probably a more solid design) Any way I set that image as the window

Re: Windowshape image as mask for second image

2005-12-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Swami, Scott: I made a bit of progress... I wanted to play with the window shape to see if a feathered outer edge to the window shape was good (I'm not so sure now that I see it.. I mean it's cool and all, but a clean edge to probably a more solid design) Any way I set that image as

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Heather Nagey
Dear Judy, Marielle, Xavier and others, Mountains move slowly. Especially when we only have a limited number of people available to lift them. I wish we had more Kevin's, but we only have the one, which we use as efficiently as we possibly can. I frequently read on this list and others he

Re: Rev and open source (was What Rev Needs)

2005-12-09 Thread Marielle Lange
If RunRev maintained a comprehensive index, with screenshots, of all the cool stuff people made with it, there would be no question that it can be used for making integrated open source solutions, or widget-like goodies, or business apps, or any of the rest. Note that's exactly what I have

Re: Rev and open source (was What Rev Needs)

2005-12-09 Thread Marielle Lange
If RunRev maintained a comprehensive index, with screenshots, of all the cool stuff people made with it, there would be no question that it can be used for making integrated open source solutions, or widget-like goodies, or business apps, or any of the rest. Ah yes, I have been away for

Heads Tails

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Greenberg
Here's another solution for the problem of finding the runs of heads in a series of coin flips: Function TheRuns Data --in the form of tthttthhth... Local P1, P2=1 Repeat with i = 1 to 12 Put True into M;Put Data into D;Put 0 into Ct Repeat until M is False Put MatchChunk

Play Command iTunes Directory Structure

2005-12-09 Thread John Miller
Good Morning, I have created a stack that creates a playlist of songs. I am working on a button that takes the name of the selected song, determines the filepath of that song in my iTunes library and then plays the file. On regularly named files, it works great. However, if the filename

Re: Play Command iTunes Directory Structure

2005-12-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi John, Good Morning, I have created a stack that creates a playlist of songs. I am working on a button that takes the name of the selected song, determines the filepath of that song in my iTunes library and then plays the file. On regularly named files, it works great. However, if

How revolution can be used to make pretty widgets (was Why is Konfabulator Pretty?)

2005-12-09 Thread Marielle Lange
Hi Tom, Tom wrote: Bill spurred me on with his wish that REV had a more hip UI. I thought that a template with some buttonGadget style simplicity and some guidelines for coding in Rev would pave the way for a series of simple apps (widgets, dashboards, etc.) I have two projects in the

Printing GIF's

2005-12-09 Thread arie van der Ent
Hi, I have made a stack with 10 little GIF89a-images on a card. The background of the image is transparant. Printing a part of the card in Mac OSX works perfect. In Windows the screen looks okay, but in print the images are invisible. What 's wrong? Arietext

Missing Quick References Guide on regular expressions

2005-12-09 Thread Marielle Lange
Hi Steve, I believe you go no reply to this yet. There is a page to explain the basics of regular expression syntax at: http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php? page=RegularExpressions. You may find this page: http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?

user interrupt for script

2005-12-09 Thread Preston Shea
I have an audio slide show made by on openCard play audioClip blabla wait until the sound is done go next card How do I allow the user to interrupt the sequence and restart it? Is there a better way to script the whole design? Thanks for your help

re: changing input keyboard

2005-12-09 Thread Lars Brehmer
I also have a small problem with this in Windows, but my problem is slightly different. I have a project dealing with Estonian vocabulary and I just prepared a Windows version for testing purposes and the keyboard input is buggy in Windows. Wehn I switch the keyboard to Estonian it tends

Re: Windowshape image as mask for second image

2005-12-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Sivakatirswami, Don't know if I understand correctly your problem but I would try to solve it in this way: A plain windowshape window with your feathered outer edge, your world image grouped and a scroll by script of the image inside its group. Sorry if I misunderstood :-) Best Regards

Re: Overriding modal default behaviour (was: Re: Changing Label Text on Substacks)

2005-12-09 Thread Ken Ray
The secret to having a modal dialog that you can update is this: go invisible stack MyModal as modal set visible of me to true By opening the stack as invisible your scripts won't halt but you will display a modal dialog. Holy crow! I've been using MC/Rev for almost 10 years and I didn't

Re: changing input keyboard

2005-12-09 Thread Bill Marriott
Lars, I don't know the keyboard input system well :) However, it occurred to me that you might trap a keyboard sequence or text run in your application to automatically insert the correct characters. This could be done using an on keyup handler for example. Just an idea... Bill Lars Brehmer

[ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Heather Nagey
PROGRAMMATIC CONTROL OVER TRADESHOW, CONCERT ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES December 9, 2005. Dortmund, Germany. Boenig Kallenbach, the leader in real time interfaces for Apple Macintosh computers, announces its new USB interface “SERVICE USB plus” control device, enabling measurement and control of

Re: user interrupt for script

2005-12-09 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Dec 9, 2005, at 5:58 AM, Preston Shea wrote: I have an audio slide show made by on openCard play audioClip blabla wait until the sound is done go next card How do I allow the user to interrupt the sequence and restart it? Is there a better way to script the whole design? Rather

Re: Heads Tails

2005-12-09 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 5 Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 04:35:10 -0700 From: Mark Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Heads Tails To: Runtime Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Here's another solution for

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Cool, now we can build a robot steered by rev... Only time will tell how well they will do in robobattle :) On Dec 09 2005, at 16:36, Heather Nagey wrote: ... SERVICE USB products start at under $300, while fischertechnik model sets begin at approximately $100, based on exchange rates. For

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Eric, This way of doing eliminates all kind of error and makes completely safe your menus handling. My disableMenuItems enableMenuItems handlers will be included in the next release of Serendipity Library: on disableMenuItems menuButtonId, itemNumberList get the text of button id

Re: Windowshape image as mask for second image

2005-12-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Aloha Sannyasin, I have this concept and I'm not really sure it can be implemented in Rev... at least I haven't found a way: 1) Establish a border that is like a picture frame, that is feathered on the outer edges... and the inside is transparent 2) use this as a windowshape 3) next we

Full Screen

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Kane
Hi folks, I'm trying to get a stack to fill the entire screen. I set the size properties to 1064 x 768 but it does not take up the full screen. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated... Cheers Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list

Button Linker from Monterey

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
In an informal breakout session in Monterey, I made a Button Linker tool palette a la HyperCard's at the request of one of the attendees. It was a fun exercise, as it only took about an hour to do (would have taken far less if not for my typos in the script), and we managed to have a useful

Re: Overriding modal default behaviour

2005-12-09 Thread FlexibleLearning
Trevor wrote: The secret to having a modal dialog that you can update is this: go invisible stack MyModal as modal set visible of me to true By opening the stack as invisible your scripts won't halt but you will display a modal dialog. Ken said: Holy crow! I've been using MC/Rev for

Re: Full Screen

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Kane wrote: I'm trying to get a stack to fill the entire screen. I set the size properties to 1064 x 768 but it does not take up the full screen. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated... The maximum size of a stack is governed by the windowBoundingRect global property. By

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Rob, As included in a library, your scripts look very good. The solution I was talking about (that combines coding and custom property) would not be suitable within a library: A library assumes nothing but usual handling and then has directly an effect on the menu button contents. But as

Re: Full Screen

2005-12-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Scott, I'm trying to get a stack to fill the entire screen. I set the size properties to 1064 x 768 but it does not take up the full screen. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated... Have you tried set the rect of this stack to the screenRect? Rob Cozens, CCW Serendipity

Selecting text across multiple fields

2005-12-09 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I am trying to figure out how to select text with the mouse across multiple fields. The problem is that with the mousebutton down, messages only get sent to the starting field, not other fields that you move the mouse over. Does anyone have suggestions on how to overcome that?

RE: Full Screen

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Kane
Thanks Richard! :-) Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 3:40 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Full Screen Scott Kane wrote: I'm trying to get a stack to fill the

RE: Full Screen

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Kane
Have you tried set the rect of this stack to the screenRect? Thanks, Rob. :-) BTW - What happened to the Serendipity website? Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-09 Thread David Burgun
Hi Eric, How would you handle other languages (french, english, spanish etc) ? The problem I have with menu's is how to handle them if the text of the menu changes due to a language change. What I do at present is to: 1. The menu item is passed to the menuPick handler in the current language.

Can I do show through graphic regions... Let me explain...

2005-12-09 Thread yoy
I want to design a Chinese abacus. I'd like the background not covered by the beads, rods, reckoning bar and frame to show though. Maybe this isn't accepted GUI design so I may change it around but I'd like to see if it works anyhow. Any hints?? Thanks for any breadcrumbs, Andy

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, I create a custom property set for each language. Each menu is a custom property in the corresponding language custom property set. Of course, the same menus are stored into custom properties that have the same name. Then for instance: If I want to disable the Paste item in its own

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-09 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, I did not realised that you were interested by menuPick. But the way to handle this is the same: on menuPick pItem put u the short name of the target into tMenuName do put the the uLanguage of this stack [ quote tMenuName quote ] of this stack into tMenu do put the

Re: Disabling MenuItems

2005-12-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Eric, But as for me, I'll go on with the architecture I told you about :-) If it works for you and you're happy with it, go for it. Salut! Rob ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/9/05 9:36 AM, Heather Nagey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PROGRAMMATIC CONTROL OVER TRADESHOW, CONCERT ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES December 9, 2005. Dortmund, Germany. Boenig Kallenbach, the leader in real time interfaces for Apple Macintosh computers, announces its new USB interface ³SERVICE

Re: Selecting text across multiple fields

2005-12-09 Thread Ken Ray
On 12/9/05 10:22 AM, Lynch, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to figure out how to select text with the mouse across multiple fields. The problem is that with the mousebutton down, messages only get sent to the starting field, not other fields that you move the mouse over.

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Marielle Lange
Hi Heather, I always enjoy reading you on this list. Over Time. We cannot, much though we would like to, do everything for everybody, all at once. As you are probably aware, we all try on this list to minimize the amount of criticisms and to channel them when they occur. In reaction

RE: Full Screen

2005-12-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Scott, What happened to the Serendipity website? It's a long story... In the meantime, I'm squatting on Andre Garzia's website: http://wecode.org/serendipity/. Rob Cozens CCW Serendipity Software Company And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little wise, the best

Re: Can I do show through graphic regions... Let me explain...

2005-12-09 Thread Rob Cozens
Hi Andy, I want to design a Chinese abacus. I'd like the background not covered by the beads, rods, reckoning bar and frame to show though. [snip] Any hints?? Create an image of the frame, rods, reckoning bar with the rest of the image transparent. Group that image with buttons or

Re: Call and Send?

2005-12-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jim Ault wrote: A call statement was used mostly in the concept of multiple stacks that were not 'in use', therefore not in the message path. The idea was to be able to jump to a variety of stacks, then use 'pop card' 'go back' so the user would not know or care where he was in the labyrinth.

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
IS IT POSSIBLE that activity on this list made this happen??? At least two of us here (myself included) made a request for Rev compatibility for this directly to BK. and control of real-world devices directly from Runtime Revolution under MacOS X. We've been aware of this product for a

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
X, don't patterns have to have boundaries to repeat? And generally they should relate to binary boundaries, 64x64, 128x128, 16x16, etc. Why would the Mac platform be the problem? I've never seen any 'standard' 20x20 pattern. sqb later and when i realized my mistake it was too late - damage

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
Are you sure about this? I thought Quartz ruled now...the 'old toolbox' is long dead. With all due respect, X, your mac knowledge seems to end around 1995. sqb CThis is the big show stopper in my point of view towards smooth transitions across platforms. The reason? Dependencies on the old

RE: Selecting text across multiple fields

2005-12-09 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I see also that I have to use mouse(3) to start the selection. An open field just will not receive a mousedown message from mouse(1) - even selectionchanged does not work for this, because it is sent when the mouse is released, not when the mouse is pressed. Torment. Thanks Ken. -Original

Re: Call and Send?

2005-12-09 Thread Jim Ault
You are welcome! Yes, it was exciting to hear Bill Atkinson talk about the far reach of Hypertalk and building hundreds of stacks that could be visited.. of course now we have web sites and browsers, links and redirects (and POP UPS !! :-) Jim Ault Las Vegas On 12/9/05 10:17 AM, J. Landman Gay

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Barncard wrote: This is the big show stopper in my point of view towards smooth transitions across platforms. The reason? Dependencies on the old Mac OS toolbox display! Are you sure about this? I thought Quartz ruled now...the 'old toolbox' is long dead. With all due respect, X,

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Malte Brill
Congrats Rev! I think things like this are really important as it leads to new opportunities. @Stephen: I just downloaded the Software. It looks like an external. Now I know what I want for Christmas. All the best, Malte ___ use-revolution

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I for one have requested this as well. I would like to know also about the Applescript versus straight to driver approach. Cross platform compatibility would be nice. Tom On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: IS IT POSSIBLE that activity on this list made this happen??? At

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Heather Nagey wrote: PROGRAMMATIC CONTROL OVER TRADESHOW, CONCERT ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES December 9, 2005. Dortmund, Germany. Boenig Kallenbach, the leader in real time interfaces for Apple Macintosh computers, announces its new USB interface “SERVICE USB plus” control device, enabling

[ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread liamlambert
Software You can use SERVICE USB plus with the following programs: Runtime Revolution (via external) RealBasic (via plug in) AppleScript (via OSAX) FileMaker (via AppleScript) Ragtime (via AppleScript) Xcode C/C++,Cocoa,Java (via Framework) Hypercard (only OS9 via AppleScript) CodeWarrior

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Actually, The newest version of OSX 10.4 has done away with the dependency on that API. Classic was changed in that release. Tom On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But in the meantime, it's my limited understanding that there are a few remnant dependencies on the old APIs.

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
What secret Damn, I knew I was out of the loop.. Tom On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: With all that I've put out into the public, it's difficult to understand how it could be mistaken for trying to keep Rev a secret. :) -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Ken Ray
You have two products for two different markets. We educators/hobbyists would like dreamcard to be distributed for free across the world. Professionals like Richard, Chipp and Ken and others are worried about keeping their competitive advantage and have the tool remain expensive and

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
FANTASTIC It has been years in the waiting for me. Now where did I put that $ ??? I got to get the boss onboard for this one. I want the high end Plus model, barcode scanner, Pneumatic Robot kit, Industry Robot kit, power plug and Computing Starter kit. Tom On Dec 9, 2005, at

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
right, but there are several components to the software, extensions at the system level. What I'm interested in is the 'last mile' -- direct integration to Rev (in real-time control apps, latency is a drag - and I would fear that with the use of Applescript) sqb Congrats Rev! I think

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Ken, I too paid $999.00 and now pay $499 to upgrade each year and consider it a bargain. I not only doubled my salary but also started my own business (no profits yet ;-) ) and get to pursue this as a hobby as well. What a deal. AND now I get to play with Robots too. Tom On Dec 9, 2005,

RE: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control withRuntime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread MisterX
What a surprise... For those who don't know Fisher Teknik toys, it's the baby engineer's dream come true. Fisher is the WW company that makes those grey plastic screw inserts for wall screw holders. Drill, add fisher plug, screw in and it's perfectly fit in the wall for holding anything... I

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
It would seem that if it were officially offered by rev, that it would cross-platform. B-K's previous position was that they were Mac- only. I for one have requested this as well. I would like to know also about the Applescript versus straight to driver approach. Cross platform

RE: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread MisterX
Ken, lovely answer (quoted below)... I think that if rev re-implemented userlevels they not only would make rev more hypercard like (and prevent customers from modifying our guis as Bill said), but they would deliver a better economic pricing in a more satisfying way to their marketing avoiding

Embedding images and movies in a standalone

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Malloy
I have created a large project to teach brain imaging, with hundreds of images and a few Quicktime movies. When I build a standalone, all the images appear when I run the Mac version, but there are only gray placeholders on Windows. I used the Image tool on the Tools palette and indicated a path

RE: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread MisterX
Stephen my mac knowledge started in December 1983 and finished in 1999 as Raphsody betas on my Mac 8500 required so much daemon killing to make it work - 30 minutes to boot, etc... I understood quickly that Apple's new technology based on Unix was being overloaded with lots of MacOS oriented

Moving images with other visual effects on top

2005-12-09 Thread Sivakatirswami
OK I changed the subject of this thread as we are moving from windowshape issues to visual effect-animation issues. Before I completely bail on this (I see so many beautiful things that Scott does) I'm hoping you can all take a look at it yourselves... I uploaded to user space

more logs on the FireWire pyre

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Looks like FireWire's on the way out... there's been talk for some time now about USB 2.0 replacing even FireWire 800 as the emerging standard. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=57 -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
MisterX wrote: I think that if rev re-implemented userlevels they not only would make rev more hypercard like I've long wished for enough time to make DeadCard: a pixel-for-pixel copy of HC's IDE for the Rev engine, with all the limitations: monchrome, force people to select only one object

Windows printing - yet again...

2005-12-09 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
What is the basic underlying reason why a true-type font, when printed from Rev, might not be sized correctly - and yet it will be sized correctly when printed from most Windows applications? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Heads Tails

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Greenberg
Yes, but the original post (quite a while ago) was looking for a way to determine how many times h occurred in singles, doubles, triples, etc. Your script counts how many heads and tails there are total. There were some non-RegEx solutions offered, but they were long. RegEx shortens the

Re: more logs on the FireWire pyre

2005-12-09 Thread Andre Garzia
All DV cameras come with FireWire, they won't drop it... cheers andre On Dec 9, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- Looks like FireWire's on the way out... there's been talk for some time now about USB 2.0 replacing even FireWire 800 as the emerging standard.

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Marielle Lange wrote: Professionals like Richard, Chipp and Ken and others are worried about keeping their competitive advantage and have the tool remain expensive and relatively unknown (at the very least maintain the existence of a cost of switching via the license fee and time to

Re: Windows printing - yet again...

2005-12-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Jonathan, I don't know the answer, but if you're having the problem of your text being 'trimmed' at the end of a line, you could try setting your field margins to something much higher...like 10. best, Chipp Lynch, Jonathan wrote: What is the basic underlying reason why a true-type font,

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Swindell
No verification, but I've always felt your comment below re:Director is why Apple let Hypercard languish in the first place, never gave it even decent color, etc. HC's rep was so tarnished by all the unsightly crap put out there by the rest of us that they didn't want it associated in any

RE: Windows printing - yet again...

2005-12-09 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Well, I do that. However, if I want it to have a really precise layout, then that won't quite work. I created this printing script (described as a total hack by a friend at work) that replaces every single letter in a field with a field containing that letter (and a couple blank spaces after it,

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread John Vokey
From the web-site: ``Revolution... This contains a project exclusively for the SERVICE USB interface and Runtime Revolution's Revolution. All input and output functions and a stepping motor control example are implemented.'' And you can download the software from the same page. On

Re: Changing Label Text on Substacks

2005-12-09 Thread Sarah Reichelt
The secret to having a modal dialog that you can update is this: go invisible stack MyModal as modal set visible of me to true By opening the stack as invisible your scripts won't halt but you will display a modal dialog. Yes, I found this out the hard way when I couldn't work out why my

clickLine and field #

2005-12-09 Thread Steven Fernandez
I notice that the function clickLine return the line clicked on along with the field number. What is the fieldNumber? I just spent a long time debugging a script because I could not understand what field 3 was when I have no field called by that name. If I look at the stack inspector is there some

Filtering Columnar Data

2005-12-09 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, I use the filter command on tab-delimited text files when I want to pick off a string in a particular column. For example, if the string is located in the second column of a five column file, I use filter theData with * tab searchString tab * tab * tab * .

RE: Windows printing - yet again...

2005-12-09 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Ok, this is a totally psycho idea, but that has never stopped me in the past... I could create a table that charts the proportional adjustment needed for characters of various fonts. For example, an 11-point arial, as it appears on screen, might need to be adjusted to 10 point for printing.

Re: Windows printing - yet again...

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Smith
Is it related to a difference between screen dot size/resolution and printer dot size/resolution? I had a similar problem, and simply reducing the font size by 1 point for printing did the trick...but this was on Mac OS X. Mark On 9 Dec 2005, at 21:28, Lynch, Jonathan wrote: Well, I do

Re: Filtering Columnar Data

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello everyone, I use the filter command on tab-delimited text files when I want to pick off a string in a particular column. For example, if the string is located in the second column of a five column file, I use filter theData with * tab searchString tab

Re: clickLine and field #

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Swindell
Fields are defined by both their name and their vertical position on the card. If you make 3 fields and name them, in the order of creation, Bill, Joe and Sally, Bill will be field 1, Joe field 2, and Sally field 3. If you drag one on top of the other, Bill will be on the bottom, Joe in the

Re: clickLine and field #

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Swindell
Select your field (double click it to open its property inspector). Go to size and position in its property inspector (this is the object inspector, not the stack inspector). Mark On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Mark Swindell wrote: If I look at the stack inspector is there some way of

Re: more logs on the FireWire pyre

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
That really really, sucks. USB was designed for keyboards and mice, not peripherals. http://www.zdnet.com/5208-11408-0.html?forumID=1threadID=15820messageID=314274start=3 I've got a major investment in Firewire. What the hell are they thinking??? I mean they invented it!! I do major Pro

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
who's site? URL, please! From the web-site: ``Revolution... This contains a project exclusively for the SERVICE USB interface and Runtime Revolution's Revolution. All input and output functions and a stepping motor control example are implemented.'' -- stephen barncard s a n f r a

Re: Why is Konfabulator 'Pretty?'

2005-12-09 Thread Bill Marriott
You mean, like how they abandoned desktop publishing because of all the horrid newsletters that sprung into existence? And how the web never took off because of all the ugly sites? :) Bill Mark Swindell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HC's rep was so tarnished by

[ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread liamlambert
http://www.bkohg.com/ liamlambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
I've seen the site. I can't seem to find the the page that mentions 'external' for Rev. sqb http://www.bkohg.com/ liamlambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- stephen barncard s a n f r a n c i s c o - - - - - - - - - - - - ___ use-revolution mailing list

[ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread liamlambert
http://www.bkohg.com/serviceusbplus_e.html half way down under software Software You can use SERVICE USB plus with the following programs: Runtime Revolution (via external) RealBasic (via plug in) AppleScript (via OSAX) FileMaker (via AppleScript) Ragtime (via AppleScript) Xcode

Re: more logs on the FireWire pyre

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Smith
Me, too. But I can't help feeling that just because Apple might stop putting firewire into iBooks, it doesn't mean it'll disappear from the 'pro' machines. You're not running PT off an iBook, after all... :) Mark p.s. Are you the same Stephen Barncard who engineered on Tupelo Honey? On 9

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Stephen- Friday, December 9, 2005, 10:17:28 AM, you wrote: What is not explained is -- does one have to still use Applescript to make it work with rev, or did they actually make some XCMDs so Rev can work directly? The word direcly above line would suggest that... It's an external library.

Re: more logs on the FireWire pyre

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
No, right now I'm a 'conservative' PT HD user with a 1.22 ghz dual G4 (so I can dual boot into OS9 and use some legacy audio apps.) This model does not have FW 800 ports though... I'm kinda boxed in... I'd really like an extra slot.. RE: Van Morrison, yep- and a couple more

Re: [ANN] SERVICE USB Plus Drives Real World Device Control with Runtime Revolution

2005-12-09 Thread Stephen Barncard
It's beautiful. And I applaud their use of an IEC connector and internal power supply as opposed to a wall wart. I wish something like this had been around when I built AM studios tape copy room in 1989. I had to make my own hardware, fueled by the CY-500 serial chips. It was a 'money is no

Text database using custom properties

2005-12-09 Thread Brian Alleyne
Hi all I am building a note and outline manager in rev. I've worked out my user interface, but before going further I wanted to seek some advice on text handling before working on the data engine. I will store memo fields of various lengths, these would have styled text, and would be typed

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