Damn!!
You're too late!
;-)
Judy
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote:
A server failure shut down most communications with Runtime over the
weekend. This is a test to see if the list is working again. Those of
you who suffered withdrawal symptoms can now stop taking your medication.
OK. Sorry to be such a pain.
This is obviously FAR more complex than I first thought.
I have a custom font with letters that join together.
I need Rev to detect what the User types and replace accordingly.
http://www.clubtype.co.uk/revDev-abc/abc-rev.jpg
So I started to make a list of what
On 5 Oct 2006, at 6:00 pm, Shao Sean wrote:
Sorry for the confusion.. We're not looking at how to do it, we're
looking for people who are interested in how to do it in their own
application without having to script anything extra..
Couldn't you have finished this a couple of weeks sooner?
On 4 Oct 2006, at 3:46 pm, Ian Wood wrote:
Going OT a bit, I thought 'brief flash' priming had been debunked as
having any substantial effect?
Oh no no no. Very exciting and expanding area of the psychology of
person perception. Lots of research showing incredibly fast processing
and
Hiya,
What application do you have in mind? (Ooops... :) I was thinking of the
goggles you can get which have software controllable shutters
(polarisation). Would they be of any use?
Cheers,
Luis.
David Glasgow wrote:
On 4 Oct 2006, at 3:46 pm, Ian Wood wrote:
Going OT a bit, I
Uploaded a better version of stack to demonstrate
tricks with text selection:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondsrrr/
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of
Not being satisfied with selecting individual letters
inside text fields I have started playing around with
FOUNDCHUNK and ended up with something that is a bit
of a bother:
http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/Text
Focus.rev.zip
first click on my button Select String and it does
exactly what
Sean - I'd be happy to test for you on OSX intel
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Dave, feel free to sign up for testing if it's something that interests
you.. The development pace is fairly quick and we respond to user feedback
fairly quickly as it seems some of the testers are using it in their
development workflow so I don't want to hold them up..
Sorry where do i sign up?
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Been playig with trying to get images to have rounded corners - stuck.
AFAIK the only control that has this ability is the graphic control. The
question therefore is how to place an image inside the graphic?
I tried using groups and inks - but the background cannot be set to only
opaque the
Maybe using image masks? Have not played with these - but i guess you should
be able to make you group with the graphic and rounded edges - export the
greyscale snapshot of ti and set the photographs mask... would need to be a
png? Anyone done this - Chipp I know you have :)
On 10/9/06 7:35 AM, Richmond Mathewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not being satisfied with selecting individual letters
inside text fields I have started playing around with
FOUNDCHUNK and ended up with something that is a bit
of a bother:
http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/Text
chris-
Sunday, October 8, 2006, 9:56:16 AM, you wrote:
In particular is suggests using the cmd-option-P-R key combination while
booting 3 times. On the third time let the system boot through to the
desktop.
The triple-pram-zap has been a known fix to many mac problems since
long before OSX.
I am a bit stumped as to what to do to convert macro substitutions in
the fox code I am porting. Macro substitution is when I can refer to
a variable using a delimiter and the variable will be substituted for
the value it contains at runtime. So if bobtest contained blah then
I could get
Am I correct in stating that variables in a custom command are not
visible to other commands and functions that it calls? In other
words, if I put blah into bobtest in handler dosomething and then
dosomething calls handler somethingelse, is bobtest invisible to
handler somethingelse? Is
set the backgroundpattern of grc yourRoundedRect to yourImageID
David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Been playig with trying to get images to have rounded corners - stuck.
AFAIK the only control that has this ability is the graphic control. The
question
Robert,
If you need a variable to be available to all handlers in an object
(button, field, card, stack, group) you can do the following:
local lVar
on handler1
put x into lVar
handler2
and handler1
on handler2
put lVar
-- message box contains x
end handler 2
but if you need the
I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but you might want to look into
arrays.
Best,
Mark
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Thanx - never used background patterns before. Took them to be only for ugly
tiles - so they can be used for photographs as well? And it looks like there
is no size limit to the image? Cool.
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Hmmm... is there a way to control the tiling - ie turn the tiling off? I
guess not.
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Robert-
Friday, October 6, 2006, 9:18:40 PM, you wrote:
Am I correct in stating that variables in a custom command are not
visible to other commands and functions that it calls? In other
words, if I put blah into bobtest in handler dosomething and then
dosomething calls handler
Has anyone figured out how to make nice looking 3D text drop shadows? I know
there is a standard technique for creating a black version and pasting it
behind -- offset a little - but am shaky on the details.
Anyone got a stack? The idea is to make it easy for a user to overlay a
title on the
--- Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a bit stumped as to what to do to convert macro
substitutions in
the fox code I am porting. Macro substitution is
when I can refer to
a variable using a delimiter and the variable will
be substituted for
the value it contains at
To add to this, and maybe this is not relevant, you can also pass
parameters by reference, using '@'
on handler1
put someText into someVariable
handler2 someVariable
put someVariable
end handler1
on handler2 @someVariable
delete char 1 of someVariable
end handler2
if you run this,
I don't know but I suspect you're right. Rev Media's not made for
industrial-strength apps and excludes stuff that may be useful in such
situations. I'm not up to speed on the particulars, though.
On 10/8/06, GregSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan:
One thing I noticed: the Studio version
You can also use call-by-reference parameters.
Not sure if it is helpful - but if you want to think object-oriented in Rev
- dont think about it in terms of functions and commands (ie the code), but
think of it in terms of the Revolution controls themselves. These behave
much more like objects -
You can also use the merge() function.
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set the rect grc yourRoundedRect to the rect of img ID yourImageID
-- should eliminate the possibility of tiling
David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote in message
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Hmmm... is there a way to control the tiling - ie turn the tiling off? I
guess not.
--- David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone figured out how to make nice looking 3D
text drop shadows? I know
there is a standard technique for creating a black
version and pasting it
behind -- offset a little - but am shaky on the
details.
Anyone got a stack? The idea is to make
Anyone know if there a neat way to do this?
Do I have to set the httpheaders a manuallly?
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Here's one I prepared earlier...
In the message box:
go url http://www.azurevision.co.uk/rev/dropshadow_004.rev;
Ian
On 9 Oct 2006, at 18:35, David Bovill wrote:
Has anyone figured out how to make nice looking 3D text drop
shadows? I know
there is a standard technique for creating a black
On Oct 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote:
So we have various buttons and
controls, and everything else is black. I wanted to add hilites to
all the
black that is already there, without redoing all the images and
opening them
in Photoshop to make the black transparent. What I
A true shadow effect could have five copies of the original text, or more:
Original Text (in white, foreground)
Copy 1 offset up one pixel and to the left one pixel
Copy 2 offset up one pixel and to the right one pixel
Copy 3 offset down one pixel and to the left one pixel
Copy 4 offset down one
Hi Ian - no such link.
Great camera work though :)
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I was thinking that you would need to grade the greyness and / or maybe
opacity of the offset fields as well?
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Whoops! Just checked on the server and the whole folder got deleted
at some stage... try again and it should be there.
go url http://www.azurevision.co.uk/rev/dropshadow_004.rev;
Ian
P.S. Photography is the day job. :-)
On 9 Oct 2006, at 19:12, David Bovill wrote:
Hi Ian - no such link.
On Oct 9, 2006, at 7:55 AM, David Bovill wrote:
The question therefore is how to place an image inside the graphic?
With 2.7 are new inks and ink grouping.
Group the graphic and the image, with the graphic in back. Set the
ink of the graphic and group to blendSrcOver. Set the image to
David Glasgow
Sorry, but I missed seeing your original post and couldn't find it
searching, so this might be OT, but I'll offer it anyway.
I'd be surprised (amazed, even) if anyone could control brief display
times like you want in Revolution (without externals). This was
possible using a
Recently, David Bovill wrote:
Been playig with trying to get images to have rounded corners - stuck.
AFAIK the only control that has this ability is the graphic control. The
question therefore is how to place an image inside the graphic?
Why would you want to place the image inside the
Scott Rossi wrote
Why would you want to place the image inside the graphic?
Isn't setting the grc's backgroundpattern to the image by far the easiest
and most flexible way to handle it? It's one line of transcript and you can
do things like changing the roundness of the corners after the fact
On Oct 8, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Luis wrote:
Hiya,
Ping runs over ICMP, the ICMPD to be precise (Port 5813) and
insofar as I can see we can open
sockets in Revolution.
Only TCP and UDP protocols. There doesn't seem to be a way to
specify ICMP. I've been meaning to file a feature request
Hi Mark,
I thought the Open Firmware stuff went away on intel macs in favor of EFI.
Can I still use the open firmware interface?
--
cb
Andre - have you tried going into Open Firmware?:
Boot the computer while holding down command-option-o-f
At the prompt type
reset-nvram
reset-all
reboot
Something like this happened to me about 20 months ago, and I can't
remember for the life of me how I fixed it, I just remember it took
quite a while and was very strange. Now it is happening again.
I am importing images into a stack of images i use as icons for
buttons in other substacks
Sorry, I think I may have solved it - the stack ID for whatever
reason was ALSO not the same as the most recent object as it should
have been, so in the mesagebox i changed the stack ID. This is
something I didn't know could be done, but I guess I can, and the
last image I imported got a
I am quite familiar with variable scoping. I am just not used to
scoping that leaves variables in a calling procedure invisible to the
called procedure. But actually, I read the User Guide (imagine that)
and came up with this:
Environment variables
Most operating systems that Revolution
Hi Ken. With all due respect, your example would only work if I
declared the global inside a script (and therefore every script that
uses it). And then it would put null into the global regardless of
what was in it before. That would be disastrous. You might say I
could just check to see
Recently, Bill Marriott wrote:
Why would you want to place the image inside the graphic?
Isn't setting the grc's backgroundpattern to the image by far the easiest
and most flexible way to handle it? It's one line of transcript and you can
do things like changing the roundness of the corners
Is it just me, or does anyone else have an irresistible urge to send
David a lot of money and all my girlfriends numbers?
Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM
On Oct 9, 2006, at 3:32 AM, David Glasgow wrote:
On 4 Oct 2006, at 3:46 pm, Ian Wood wrote:
Going OT a bit, I
On 10/6/06 9:09 PM, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a bit stumped as to what to do to convert macro substitutions in
the fox code I am porting. Macro substitution is when I can refer to
a variable using a delimiter and the variable will be substituted for
the value it contains at
Lemme cite an example of Macro Substitution:
put /sbt/apdata1/apmast into m0apmast
put 02 into m0company
now referring to m0apmast.m0company. would yield /sbt/apdata1/
apmast02
The ampersand is the Macro Substitution operator in Foxpro.
I think I can code around this. It's just that I am
The aim is to be able to grab any image from anywhere, and give it the type
of border (ie frame) that you want - and additionally place drop-shadow
text on top ot it. The images vary, the text varies, and though I do not
have a need right now I would like to be able to change the size of the
Got it - thanks this is a nice version for images (not just text) - NB you
can download it with the browser but not from with Rev - returns:
400 Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Client sent malformed Host header
Which I think means that your server
On Sun Oct 8, Kevin Miller kevin at runrev.com in a mutilated response
to an unknown request with subject no subject wrote:
Pattern images can be color or black-and-white. To be used on Mac OS
systems, patterns must be 128x128 pixels or less, and both its height and
width must be a power of 2.
Bob - you've lost me here? I suspect there something really basic that one
of us doesn't get - a lost in translation thing.
Environment varaibles are used to pass information between applications ie
the Shell and Revolution or Apache and Revolution - I am pretty sure you
wot need them for what
David-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 10:43:04 AM, you wrote:
You can also use call-by-reference parameters.
Thanks. I knew I was missing an important one...
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Robert-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 1:09:33 PM, you wrote:
I am quite familiar with variable scoping. I am just not used to
scoping that leaves variables in a calling procedure invisible to the
called procedure. But actually, I read the User Guide (imagine that)
I sort of figured you were
Mark-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 10:12:48 AM, you wrote:
If you need a variable to be available to all handlers in an object
(button, field, card, stack, group) you can do the following:
Thanks. You put this better than I did.
However, now that I read Bob's latest message I think he's looking
On 10/9/06 3:21 PM, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ken. With all due respect, your example would only work if I
declared the global inside a script (and therefore every script that
uses it). And then it would put null into the global regardless of
what was in it before. That would
Can't remember exactly but this is just how it works AFAIK - not good but
there it is images are wierd. You have to script the import so that you set
the image ids - yes you can do that! There is even an event IDChanged
oldID,newID: Sent to an image when its ID property is changed.
On 10/9/06 4:09 PM, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This I can use to mimic a kind of global variable system without
having to scour the 450,000+ lines of code for variable names and
then declare all of them as global at the head of every script that
uses them.
You can put a global
chris-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 12:45:27 PM, you wrote:
I thought the Open Firmware stuff went away on intel macs in favor of EFI.
Can I still use the open firmware interface?
Dunno. I have to admit I haven't had the opportunity to try this on an
intel mac. Maybe I'll wander on down to the
Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
I experience no limitations so far on MacOS and on Windows concerning
the size of the images or constraints of divisibility. Backpattern
images can be of a size of 500X300 pixels - or *any* other size - on
MacOS and Windows and can have indivisible ratios for example of
We've sent him your girlfriends numbers already. Check your wallet... :)
Cheers,
Luis.
On 9 Oct 2006, at 21:28, Robert Sneidar wrote:
Is it just me, or does anyone else have an irresistible urge to
send David a lot of money and all my girlfriends numbers?
Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos
The now defunct program mTropolis had a simple method for creating
rounded corners on images. One simply placed the mTropolis graphic
icon on the image and checked off the round rectangle option; the image
instantly changed to one with rounded corners. I used this extensively
for images and
ICMPd is the daemon ('shell app') that runs the request over that
port. It would be a case of recreating the ICMPd functionality in
Rev, all it's doing is sending specifically formed packets over that
port that servers/routers/etc running their own ICMPd will respond to.
It's a small app.
What a are the performance hits with the different methodologies?
Cheers,
Luis.
On 9 Oct 2006, at 22:55, Mark Wieder wrote:
Robert-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 1:09:33 PM, you wrote:
I am quite familiar with variable scoping. I am just not used to
scoping that leaves variables in a calling
chris-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 12:45:27 PM, you wrote:
I thought the Open Firmware stuff went away on intel macs in favor of EFI.
Can I still use the open firmware interface?
Now things are getting interesting.
http://appleintelfaq.com/#17.0.1
(ignore step 7 - reminds me of the old DEC
All-
Very interesting article on usability issues:
http://hackthismac.com/2006/09/18/a-unique-view-on-usability-or-visibility/
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What about:
Getting the background colour of where the image is.
Plop a button of the same height and width of the image (rounded
corners... :)
Use the button as a mask (making sure it doesn't 'show').
Group them together.
Setting the 'button-mask' background to the image background colour.
On 09/10/2006, at 21:38, Robert Sneidar wrote:
The ampersand is the Macro Substitution operator in Foxpro.
I think I can code around this. It's just that I am finding I am going
to have to do a lot of recoding to make this port work.
Have you tried the do command? I haven't used it myself
On Oct 9, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Luis wrote:
ICMPd is the daemon ('shell app') that runs the request over that
port. It would be a case of recreating the ICMPd functionality in
Rev, all it's doing is sending specifically formed packets over
that port that servers/routers/etc running their own
All-
...and reminded of this by another HackThisMac editorial, I feel the
urge to say that I decided a while back not to renew my .mac account.
I signed up for mine when they first became available and have had it
ever since, although mostly it remains dormant. It's never been more
than an email
Dear Rev's fellows,
It seems the white and black MacBooks random shutdown has to do with
processor's height temperature bad handling. The good news is that,
in this case, Apple don't change the motherboard card anymore but
only the ventilator. 20% of those MacBooks seems to be affected by
Hiya,
ICMPd sends the data packets in either TCP or UDP over that port
number, check IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
Here is the packet structure: http://www.techbooksforfree.com/
intro_to_data_com/page253.html
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Luis.
On 10 Oct 2006, at 0:10,
I have tried to find an answer to this on the list but can't, so
apologies if it has been discussed before.
I am trying to get specified offsets in a media file repeated using looping.
I have the start and end times in two fields and the play button
calls the player using those times. This
I have a Podcast App dedicated to a single feed.
to avoid issues with the player playing streaming
remote URL's (which is not working on many windows
machines)I used a download, save and play model,
as we know that playing media from the local hard
drive is quite solid.
But, now a new problem
On Oct 9, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Luis wrote:
Hiya,
ICMPd sends the data packets in either TCP or UDP over that port
number, check IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
I wrote some code to assemble the data packet on Saturday so I will
give it a try over TCP. I'll let you know
Ditto
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Adrian Williams wrote:
Hi Jacqueline,
I realise now the selectedChunk is certainly the wrong way to go!
Well, now that you've explained more about it, I think you actually do
have to use this.
It looks like you want to add intermediate characters between the ones
the user types, except at
Hi Ken... I created the .dmg file and put it in my SS folder. I mounted it
in the SS GUI but when I start SS and bring up OS 9, the .dmg isn't there.
Is there something more I need to do? Jim
on 10/3/06 6:08 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
Well, it turns out that the instructions for making a shared
Parameter passing won't work because there can be a hundred or more
variables active that a sub-handler depends on referencing to work. I
cannot pass a hundred parameters, by reference or value.
Array's MIGHT do the trick, but to recode the change programatically
would be a huge challenge.
To reiterate, there are way too many variables to do this.
Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM
On Oct 9, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Mark-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 10:12:48 AM, you wrote:
If you need a variable to be available to all handlers in an object
Ken-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 3:12:04 PM, you wrote:
Are there any downsides to using custom environment variables?
I'm fairly sure there's a memory limit to the buffer size allocated
for environment variables, but it would be OS-specific and I wouldn't
have any idea what it would be. There -
Luis-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 3:41:10 PM, you wrote:
What a are the performance hits with the different methodologies?
Good question. I should really wait for Richard Gaskin to chime in
here, since he's usually the one with the benchmarks, but I'dd dive in
anyway. Off the top of my head I
Bob-
Monday, October 9, 2006, 1:38:48 PM, you wrote:
Lemme cite an example of Macro Substitution:
put /sbt/apdata1/apmast into m0apmast
put 02 into m0company
now referring to m0apmast.m0company. would yield /sbt/apdata1/
apmast02
The ampersand is the Macro Substitution operator in
On 10/9/06 1:38 PM, Robert Sneidar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lemme cite an example of Macro Substitution:
put /sbt/apdata1/apmast into m0apmast
put 02 into m0company
now referring to m0apmast.m0company. would yield /sbt/apdata1/
apmast02
The ampersand is the Macro Substitution operator
On 10/9/06 3:06 PM, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're right, of course - there's no way to just declare a global and then
later try and tell the difference between it being newly declared and it
having had empty put into it.
Ken,
I beg to differ, but perhaps I don't know enough about
On 10/9/06 8:46 PM, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/9/06 3:06 PM, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're right, of course - there's no way to just declare a global and then
later try and tell the difference between it being newly declared and it
having had empty put into it.
If I get the url http://www.mydomain.com/myfolder/; I get back a
listing of the files in the folder, which is what I want. But long file
names are truncated with an elipses, like this:
A very long file na...
Is there a way to get back a list of the entire file names?
--
Jacqueline Landman
Hi David,
I've found the best way is to create an image from your text-- black
on white, then gaussian blur it using a Sanke library call (I actually
use my own but Wilhelm figured out how to do convolution matrix math
even faster), then set it as an alpha channel for a solid colored
image
Recently, Nicholas Thieberger wrote:
If I loop, it starts from the correct timecode for the first
iteration, but then reverts to the previously called start timecode
for the second and subsequent loops, even though the 'start' field
on mouseup
set the looping of player audplayer to true
Thanks - Ill take a bash at that tomorrow :)
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On 09/10/06, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Group the graphic and the image, with the graphic in back. Set the
ink of the graphic and group to blendSrcOver. Set the image to
blendSrcAtop.
OK - got this working. though I dont really get it :)
If the image changes a lot or you will be
There is a property the variablenames I think (not in front of Rev at
moment) . You could put the names and their values into a global
variable before calling a function and get at them that way using a
looped do statement in your function. This may add too much overhead
though.
I came up
On Oct 9, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Luis wrote:
Hiya,
ICMPd sends the data packets in either TCP or UDP over that port
number, check IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
Here is the packet structure: http://www.techbooksforfree.com/
intro_to_data_com/page253.html
Luis,
How sure
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