On 11 Dec 2005, at 00:50, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Jerry Daniels wrote:
Kurt,
I've been using this one since you posted it and i really like
it. VERY fast.
Thanks!
Just remember - it often gets the wrong answer on some systems
(e.g. mine).
It believes I am always connected, even though
Hi Chipp,
Thanks for the reply. Again, sorry if what I wrote was perceived as
an attack. Sorry folks, this was not meant to be about you. This was
meant to be about the other end of the spectrum BIG grin.
What you find on runrev ltd frontpage is:
Revolution Dreamcard is ideal for
The point of comparison between HC/SC/MC/RR and religions
is valid. If you read the Jewish Bible (whether you believe
it or not) it presents a history where every time the
Jewish religion, and its adherents get a bit frayed round
the edges a new prophet was sent to get everybody going
again -
Beautiful solution! The arrays are probably much faster than the
regular expressions too. And I learned a new command: Combine.
Thanks for teaching me. : )
On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:52 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
on mouseUP
put field 1 into tText
put char 1 of tText into tLastChar
On Dec 10, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Scott Kane wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I assumed they were binary, didn't
know they were text.
They aren't, but they're like text: getting music out of them is
analogous to getting speech out of a text file. (It's interesting to
think about the relative
Exactly. A midi file is effectively a description of the music (a
list of notes to be played, with some other information), like a
written score, as opposed to a recording.
Mark
On 11 Dec 2005, at 13:11, Charles Hartman wrote:
On Dec 10, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Scott Kane wrote:
Thanks for
I don't want to further this part of the thread too much. I don't
agree with these assumptions.
On Dec 11, 2005, at 7:38 AM, Mathewson wrote:
1. A question about who RR is meant for: does it have
pretensions to be a universal faith, or is it some little
gnostic sect for an elite?
It really
Hi All.
I think Heather was right on the ball the other day when she emphasised that
this list was for discussing code etc adn tip for USING rev.
Can we please drop all the discussions about Marketing, Personal smipes,
using the computing crystal ball and stick to posting codeing problems adn
Tom McGrath wrote My thoughts are mine so please don't
take offense.
I am not offended.
In fact I am extremely happy that Tom McGrath voiced his
opinion in opposition to what I wrote in my previous
posting under this heading. Healthy debate is a requirement
of all societies that don't want to
Hi Scott,
you could visit Hugh Senior's website:
and download the file:
UDI, an extraordinary japanese programmer,
published many stacks to play Midi files using
notation similar to HyperCard.
al
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There is a need for a forum for these sort of topics as
well as bits of code:
SO . . .
I for one would be grateful if RR could split this list:
that is to say - continue with this use-list for code and
how-tos - and provide a second use-list for discussions to
do with the subjects that
Hi Al,
Thank you. You wouldn't happen to have the ULL would
you?
Sott
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Hi all,
What do you think about the educational model
used by Alias (now an AutoDesk company)
From their webpage:
-
Maya Personal Learning Edition is a special version of Maya®
software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial
use. It
In fact, they have. Heather, of course, didn't put it like that, but
as Bob points out, she emphasized that this is a how-to-use list.
These discussions are quite interesting, but IMHO this is not the
place for them, since they do interfere with the actual utility of
the list.
Now I'll
R,
Thanks, I knew what I said was probably obvious to some but I felt I
should say it for the others that might not.
I have some very exciting projects in the works and am need to get
more focused on them. I did not want to increase the traffic any
further on this topic.
What are you
Hello to all of my wonderful friends here on the list.
I have a project that involves iTunes. I want to extract locally a
users playlists and song/podcast list from their computer and do some
things in Rev. I then want to put/import some content back into iTunes.
I figure I can use
Hi,
I use tabbed buttons in my user interface. They work easily enough,
but every reference to how this is done uses the on menuPick
pNew,pOld handler. And every reference seems to use a switch or
something to recognise the tab that was clicked based on the
*visible* text. Sometimes a
On 08.12.2005, at 18:18, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Okay, I'll bite: what exactly is an open source strategy for an
engine which is, and will likely remain, closed-source?
Richard,
I know you since many years as a very intelligent person. I cant
explain why its so difficut to understand why
On 09.12.2005, at 01:30, Marielle Lange wrote:
Not too loud that's an idea I am working on, using revolution
to both rapidly define (scripter side) and rapidly present (user
side) visual interfaces used to define parameters to Unix scripts.
A not so detailed overview at:
Yeah, But we can do tabbed buttons!!! That's so cool.
We could of course roll our own, and you are right there are some
problems, but at least they work across platforms.
Your solution seems to work well.
Tom
On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Bob Hutchison wrote:
I use tabbed buttons in my
I'm learning something about testing for an Internet connection from
the last couple of posts of the list digest.
I used to use the old method of testing for a connection to Google.
Now all I need to do is find out was a socket is. I know it must have
something to do with light bulbs.
At 10:38 AM -0500 12/11/05, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I figure I can use Applescript on the Mac but I don't know about
iTunes for Windows. Is anyone familiar with doing things like this
on Windows?
What are the options available? On the extraction side can I use an
output from iTunes? Is
Wolfgang, I've replied to your message on the rev-biz list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rev-biz/
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Thomas McGrath III wrote:
On Dec 11, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Mathewson wrote:
There is a need for a forum for these sort of topics as
well as bits of code:
I for one would be grateful if RR could split this list:
Is that not what the 'Improve-Revolution' list is for?
The improve-rev list is
Hi Charles,
Do I understand right, that this problem applies only to standalones?
My Dreamcard stacks are OK without this step?
No, I'm referring to stack files.
If I place a Jump Drive in a USB slot on my Mac, drag the files to
the Drive, transfer the Drive to my Tablet PC, and drag the
Jack, Bill, et al:
Can anybody pick it up when hypercard went back to apple and we were
supposed to have version 3.0?
[snip]
I guess I assumed the leadership at Apple controlled the
robustness and goals of the teams involved in product development,
even at Claris. The HyperCard team
Hi Richard,
Thanks for creating this list.
Le 11 déc. 05 à 17:40, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
I look forward to seeing business philosophy discussions move
there, and seeing the use-rev list return to being about using Rev.
I agree: back to work, please :-)
Best Regards from Paris,
Eric
On Dec 11 2005, at 17:32, Jim Hurley wrote:
...
Searched the dictionary for socket and came up with the single
Using URLs, uploading, and downloading, 18 pages (copied to Word)
which don't appear to contain the word socket.
Is there a secret RR society which is privy to this sort of
I've replied to this on the rev-biz list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rev-biz/
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Marielle Lange wrote:
Dreamcard is presented as something that persons
with lack of experience with other development environments
can come to grip with. Apparently, it doesn't work that well.
Beginners often complain on this list or elswhere
(see ,
a mailing list for dreamcard users
Thanks sims,
I will take a look and see what's in it.
Thanks
Tom
On Dec 11, 2005, at 11:33 AM, sims wrote:
At 10:38 AM -0500 12/11/05, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I figure I can use Applescript on the Mac but I don't know about
iTunes for Windows. Is anyone familiar with doing things like
Marielle Lange wrote:
Beginners often complain on this list or elswhere (see
http://www.scottserver.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=70,
a mailing list for dreamcard users or beginners in general)
In that forum I found a post titled What a turn off!:
I am so turned off by the mailing list for
On Dec 11, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I am so turned off by the mailing list for RunRev.
Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just getting too old,
but that list just seems so full of posturing,
politics and some serious personal podiums!
Damn! If I weren't a poet!
Richard,
as with the original HC, Apple management didn't get it...with one
exception: the person who preceeded Jobs' second coming. It's been
too long for me to remember his name
Gil Amillio (?; sp?)
Rob Cozens, CCW
Serendipity Software Company
Vive R Revolution!
capellan-
Sunday, December 11, 2005, 9:07:14 AM, you wrote:
i had buy this book written by Gary Bond about xcmd programming:
Just US$ 1.08 from Hippo Books.
i receive it next week. :-)
Gary's book was the bible for developing XCMDs, but it won't help much
for runrev external development
I have a library stack with some commonly used stuff in it.
I have, in it's script:
on trim @aString
put word 1 to -1 of aString into aString
end trim
AND:
function trim aString
return word 1 to -1 of aString
end trim
To my surprise, this works perfectly well, so I can do:
trim
Andre Garzia wrote:
On Dec 11, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I am so turned off by the mailing list for RunRev.
Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just getting too old,
but that list just seems so full of posturing,
politics and some serious personal podiums!
Damn! If I weren't
Björnke-
Sunday, December 11, 2005, 8:49:42 AM, you wrote:
Of course there is a secret Socket society! But it's easy to join:
Our required readings are:
Open Socket command
Close Socket command
Accept command
You got off easy. I had to stay after school and read
write to socket
read from
Bob-
Sunday, December 11, 2005, 7:56:14 AM, you wrote:
get the properties of me
put it[text] into labels
Yikes! I had no idea...
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Hi Scott,
Looks like the URL's posted were
hidden somehow. Let's try again:
you could visit Hugh Senior's website:
_http://www.flexiblelearning.com/xtalk.htm_
_http://www.flexiblelearning.com/xtalk/mci_in_3_steps/mcisendstring3steps.htm_
and download the file:
I gave a go to a very simple christmas ecard. It shows the usage of
the revspeak command (to speak out a text).
You can access it with any of these:
- go url http://revolution.lexicall.org/tutorials/ecards/
merrychristmas.rev
- right click at: http://revolution.lexicall.org/tutorials/ecards/
On 12/11/05 12:12 PM, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I wonder if anyone knows of a good reason why one shouldn't have
a function and a handler with the same name?
Confusion, perhaps? Suppose your 'trim' function did some things that your
'trim' handler didn't... and here it is 6
Dave Cragg wrote:
Just remember - it often gets the wrong answer on some systems (e.g.
mine).
It believes I am always connected, even though about 50% of the time
I'm not - because I have an in-house network (mix of Cat-5 and
wifi) with an Internet connection which is *not* always
Recently, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I have a project that involves iTunes. I want to extract locally a
users playlists and song/podcast list from their computer and do some
things in Rev. I then want to put/import some content back into iTunes.
I figure I can use Applescript on the Mac but
Does anyone have any input on this???
Tom
On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I have a project that involves iTunes. I want to extract locally a
users playlists and song/podcast list from their computer and do
some things in Rev. I then want to put/import some content
Here's a card done with Flash which my wife thought darling. Could
it be accomplished in Rev? How close could you get?
-Mark
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0212320003
On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Marielle Lange wrote:
I gave a go to a very simple christmas ecard. It shows
This coming Wednesday, Dec, 14, I'll be in Portland, Oregon, visiting a
client site with Paul Looney. That evening we're having dinner with Rev
notables Jeanne DeVoto, Phil Davis, and possibly Brian Thomas.
If any of you are in Portland and would like to share a meal and some
Rev chat this
That looks rather straightforward to me:
all the animations could consist of either animated GIFs,
or, preferably, embedded Quicktime Movies,
the movies could then be triggered by invisible buttons:
on mouseUp
play videoClip DogWagsTail.mov at 200,260
end mouseUp
those 2 numbers separated by
On 11 Dec 2005, at 19:16, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Sorry - was I sounding like a broken record ? And a negative one at
that :-(
Not at all. I really appreciate it. I think many of us are now having
to or wanting to deliver things that have to work in various
networked settings, and we can
On 11 Dec 2005, at 16:49, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
Of course there is a secret Socket society! But it's easy to join:
Our required readings are:
Open Socket command
Close Socket command
Accept command
If these don't help you, then you need to ask either on the use
list or in chatrev :)
My dear Scott,
Thanks, I just reposted for more info. I do need a windows solution
if at all possible.
I am going to look into the XML file and what I can do with it. Also
your stack looks interesting and I will play with it later. Looks
good though.
Right now I would very much like to
A konfabulator-like widget to count the days till christmas
Conception Time: Photoshop 30 minutes. Revolution 5 minutes.
Difficulty medium (change of format for dates, access to items).
Illustrates how to compute the number of days between two dates (same
month, same year). Check out the
Mark-
Sunday, December 11, 2005, 10:12:17 AM, you wrote:
But I wonder if anyone knows of a good reason why one shouldn't have
a function and a handler with the same name?
There are several builtin commands/functions that work the same way.
get openStacks()
get the openStacks
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On 12/11/05 3:02 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark-
Sunday, December 11, 2005, 10:12:17 AM, you wrote:
But I wonder if anyone knows of a good reason why one shouldn't have
a function and a handler with the same name?
There are several builtin commands/functions that work
Dave Cragg wrote:
On 11 Dec 2005, at 19:16, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Sorry - was I sounding like a broken record ? And a negative one at
that :-(
Not at all. I really appreciate it. I think many of us are now having
to or wanting to deliver things that have to work in various
networked
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:32:55 -0800, Jim Hurley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now all I need to do is find out was a socket is. I know it must have
something to do with light bulbs.
Searched the dictionary for socket and came up with the single
Using URLs, uploading, and downloading, 18 pages
Jean-Louis Gasse
as with the original HC, Apple management didn't get it...with one
exception: the person who preceeded Jobs' second coming. It's been
too long for me to remember his name
Gil Amillio (?; sp?)
Rob Cozens, CCW
Serendipity Software Company
Vive R Revolution!
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stephen
Thanks, Al!! :-)
Scott
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Subject: Re: RE: MIDI Files
Hi Scott,
Looks like the
Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
I have a project that involves iTunes. I want to extract locally a
users playlists and song/podcast list from their computer and do some
things in Rev. I then want to put/import some content back into iTunes.
I figure I can use
Al,
Any chance of reposting the links? Seems the
list frisked out the hyper links again...
Scott
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Graham Samuel wrote:
I can't answer the question but I would very much like to be around
when it is answered. When I was younger (**much** younger), I used to
kind of absorb technical stuff without consciously learning about it,
but nowadays stuff suddenly comes up and bites me in the
Ken-
Sunday, December 11, 2005, 1:05:34 PM, you wrote:
Those are both functions, though, not one function and one handler.
Word. And now that I reread Mark's original post, I see that his
function and command don't do the same thing at all. I *do* see that
as dangerous.
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No. That's limited to people with the high-priced licenses.
Judy
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
R,
Is that not what the 'Improve-Revolution' list is for?
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BvG,
Also, to become a member of the House Of The Sockets And Ports, one
should learn the
write to socket
read from socket
commands. I'll publish a little draft today on sockets. The Socket
Society meets on ChatRev... :-p
cheers
andre
On Dec 11, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Björnke von Gierke
Judy Perry wrote:
R,
Is that not what the 'Improve-Revolution' list is for?
No. That's limited to people with the high-priced licenses.
And that list is for discussing specific features.
But the new list dedicated to discussing business strategy is open to
everyone:
Do they not do the same thing?
I see that the handler modifies the string passed to it, while the
function
returns a similarly modified copy of the string passed to it, but
that was
the point of it.
Or am I missing something?
Cheers,
Mark
On 11 Dec 2005, at 23:49, Mark Wieder wrote:
This time I'll try to be more helpful.
On 11 Dec 2005, at 21:34, Graham Samuel wrote:
Sockets, do we need them
If you just need to connect to internet URLs, you can use the get
URL, load URL, etc, calls, and not have to know anything about
sockets. But if you want to do something more
Recently, Mark Swindell wrote:
Here's a card done with Flash which my wife thought darling. Could
it be accomplished in Rev? How close could you get?
-Mark
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0212320003
IMO, I think it's possible, but I think it's more labor to get it to work
At 10:56 AM -0500 12/11/2005, Bob Hutchison wrote:
on menuPick pNew,pOld
get the properties of me
put it[text] into labels
You can do it that way, but it's easier to just
put the text of me into labels
(In general, the text property of a menu - and tabs are menus -
contains the list
I would confirm this old windows bug... here's another way to state
this case:
if your installer puts your main app on top of the CD's
desktop (CD root) and a folder with media next to it and you burn
this to CD, then there's a very good chance that the primary
relative path script
Well, I think we all know the recipe for this
1) make a field.
2) Create a PNG image file of a big photo
3) put that image on a layer above the field
4) hide the image.
5) You cannot get the cursor to appear in the field... even if you
passMouseup thru the hidden image.
a) is there a
To be both snottily pedantic and a little cruel, it might have been a
bit more christmassy if it suggested clicking on the 'garland' rather
than the 'wreath'!
Though given my attitude towards christmas
:)
Mark
On 11 Dec 2005, at 19:25, Mark Swindell wrote:
Here's a card done with
A magic stocking with a gift for you.
Conception Time: Photoshop 12 minutes. Revolution 45 minutes.
Difficulty Advanced (Moveable window, WindowShape, visible, change of
format for dates- c/o Marielle Lange)
Access by:
revOnline, users, mcgrath3, Magic Stocking
revOnline, categories,
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Well, I think we all know the recipe for this
1) make a field.
2) Create a PNG image file of a big photo
3) put that image on a layer above the field
4) hide the image.
5) You cannot get the cursor to appear in the field... even if you
passMouseup thru the
Hi All:
Terribly frustrated at the moment. I'm stepping through the code of my
stack and I have a call to revDataFromQuery that uses the following SQL:
put revDataFromQuery(,,myDB,SELECT * FROM table LIMIT :1,1, myCount)
into myResult
What I want to be able to do is call up a specific
Now available on RevOnline
user: Mark Smith
category: General
stack:FuturesDownloader
Fairly widgety, but I have to get that reflective glass thing
happening...
Mark
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Adam,
I think the problem you are finding is that Rev is escaping your
variable's contents for use in the SQL statement as part of the WHERE
query. Instead of using the placeholder, you could just build the SQL
completely yourself:
put revDataFromQuery(,,myDB,SELECT * FROM table LIMIT :1,1,
But, Richard,
(and, this isn't personal, against you. or anyone else) but:
This, in turn, really does mean:
Piss off! We don't want to deal with you. Please go shout into the
canyons. We don't want to hear from you. We only want to hear how to
solve _our_ specific, geeky, programming-only
Thanks for the pointer, Richard...
Joining yet another list will likely have the desired effect of reducing
traffic, methinks... desired effect methinks?
Judy (who answered this at the same time, nearly, as reading the other
thread?)
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Judy Perry
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