Re: How to get a return value from a vbs file?

2009-09-25 Thread Ken Ray
Where I now stuck is, that I don't know how to get back any return value from the vbs script file back into my rev, e.g the result of calling icacls. I can't just say return in vbs. You use Wscript.Echo stuffYouWantToReturn at the end of the VBS file. When you run the script file with the

Perl and Revolution at OSDC.fr 2009

2009-09-25 Thread Trevor DeVore
I just heard that Thierry Douez was accepted to present at OSDC.fr 2009. In his presentation he will be showing off the Perl/Revolution integration he has been working on. http://act.osdc.fr/osdc2009fr/talk/2399 Thierry presented his Perl external for Revolution at RunRevLive 09.

Re: [OT] How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks in Firefox?

2009-09-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks? Okay, I found that checkbox. It comes up when you want to subscribe to a feed. So I think you'd have to start to subscribe to a feed, and when the dialog comes up, uncheck the checkbox. Then cancel out of the subscription

Re: Java applets Revlets

2009-09-25 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Jerry, Bear in mind that the brand-new revlet system isn't even finished yet. It is still in alpha, and there's still plenty of functionality to add before the shipping date. Hence, few people are going to take a dive deep enough to hit these sort of questions. But I'll give it a shot. Not

Re: [OT] How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks in Firefox?

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks? Okay, I found that checkbox. It comes up when you want to subscribe to a feed. So I think you'd have to start to subscribe to a feed, and when the dialog comes up, uncheck the checkbox. Then cancel

Re: [ANN] Multi-platform tree control library (in beta)

2009-09-25 Thread Ken Ray
Over the past couple of months, I've been working on a tree control for RunRev that produces great looking controls that look like they belong on the platform that you're running. For example: Tree in Mac OSX mode http://theworcestersource.com/Portals/0/Blog%20Images/tease%20macosx.png

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet.

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Maniquant
Hi, I'm working on a highly structured web project that now seems possible with the revlet approach. I do find this example VERY INTERESTING outlining some major design issues on which I'm sure we can combine our thoughts for the best of all. 1) the major point I came accross is INDEXING

Re: Whither Photoshop and GIMP?

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond Mathewson wrote: For those of you who haven't been to the conference or looked at Ben Beaumont's stack (with RevMedia dp-4), the: Dropshadow Inner Shadow Outer Glow Inner Glow and Color Overlay are at least as good as Photoshop's and considerably better than GIMP's. They're

Re: [OT] How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks in Firefox?

2009-09-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: Really sorry for the bandwidth use, but asking this question in the busy forums at Mozilla hasn't yielded a reply, and my RSS feeds just aren't as much fun until I fix this: How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks? I don't see an option for that either, actually.

How do I check for two conditions to be true?

2009-09-25 Thread William de Smet
Hello there, This must be an easy one but it got me puzzled: How do I check for two conditions to be true at the same time? I want to check the startangle of two graphics to be true: the startangle of grc 1 is 270 the startangle of grc 2 is 20 Do I use if..then? on mouseup If the startangle of

Re: Java applets Revlets

2009-09-25 Thread David Bovill
2009/9/22 Jerry Balzano gjbalz...@ucsd.edu I hope this isn't too bizarre a request. I want a Revlet to be able to control which of several (pre-made) Java applets a user sees. How would one do this? Is it possible to embed a Java applet inside a Revlet? No - as you cant have revbrowser

Renaming and Deleting

2009-09-25 Thread Ray Horsley
Greetings Users, I've discovered that rename oldFolderPath to newFolderPath doesn't work on Windows. (Works fine on Mac as far as I can tell.) I'm not trying to relocate a folder, just rename it. No files in the folder are open when I try to do this. I've also discovered that delete

Re: Java applets Revlets

2009-09-25 Thread Jerry Balzano
Thanks, Stephen, for your reply, which actually does clarify what was an ambiguous situation for me. At least now I know I need to take up my question with Rev-support directly because at this point they're the only ones who might provide an answer. I'll report back if I find out anything

Whither Photoshop and GIMP?

2009-09-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
For those of you who haven't been to the conference or looked at Ben Beaumont's stack (with RevMedia dp-4), the: Dropshadow Inner Shadow Outer Glow Inner Glow and Color Overlay are at least as good as Photoshop's and considerably better than GIMP's. [Parenthetically, Todor Georgiev, one of

Re: Synchronized videos with superimposition

2009-09-25 Thread Thierry
Hi Scott, I managed to play them all together , but can't do the superposition ( flashing at the intersection ). . but here are 2 things to try: 1) Try setting the alwaysBuffer property of each movie to true -- this allows you to layer movies just like any other object on the card.

[ANN]libRevFreeDB

2009-09-25 Thread Mark Smith
I've made a library to get CD track data from FreeDB. It currently uses the pList that OS X builds for each inserted CD to get the info it needs to query FreeDB, so it's OS X only until I figure out how to get the info on Windows and Linux. It's here:

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread Ray Horsley
Thanks Ian. I appreciate the clarification. Ray On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Ian Wood wrote: On 24 Sep 2009, at 21:50, Ray Horsley wrote: I'm finding many files, especially applications, come up empty for the creator and type using either of these methods. I imagine applications

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Ian Wood revl...@azurevision.co.uk wrote: You can get them via AppleScript - 'the creator type' and 'the file type'. Just be aware that there is a big developer sh*tstorm blowing up about file and creator codes being deprecated on Snow Leopard - instead it

test

2009-09-25 Thread Ian Wood
Just testing, some of my messages don't seem to be coming through... Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Setting the 'Open With'

2009-09-25 Thread stephen barncard
sometimes I just cruse the docs looking for commands that I've never tried and then get ideas! - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2009/9/24 Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com: Very interesting Stephen!  I've never used these commands

Re: How to get a return value from a vbs file?

2009-09-25 Thread SparkOut
Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, following Jim B's advice I want to change the user rights of my program (-sub) dir to be able to write a file with rev to that dir. Creating the dir at setup with the correct rights s one thing. Now I want to change the rights with icacls at an existing

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread Tariel Gogoberidze
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:48:35 +0100 Ian Wood wrote: Just be aware that there is a big developer sh*tstorm blowing up about file and creator codes being deprecated on Snow Leopard - instead it basically just uses file extensions to decide what app to open when double-clicking on a file. :-(

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread Ian Wood
On 24 Sep 2009, at 21:50, Ray Horsley wrote: I'm finding many files, especially applications, come up empty for the creator and type using either of these methods. I imagine applications don't have a creator and type but I thought a zip file would. Maybe I'm wrong. As mentioned in the

Re: Whither Photoshop and GIMP?

2009-09-25 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill
Richard wrote: They're gorgeous, but with two significant omissions: *Nods* 3. I would also love to see blur. Well, maybe in 5 *dream* :) Malte ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ray Horsley wrote: Very interesting Richard! Thanks. I'm finding many files, especially applications, come up empty for the creator and type using either of these methods. I imagine applications don't have a creator and type but I thought a zip file would. Maybe I'm wrong. Windows and

compress - revZip

2009-09-25 Thread Claus Dreischer
Hi, can someone please explain me the difference of these two compression methods in Revolution? Especially regarding the filesize which can be compressed/ziped and the quality of the compression/zip. Compress obviously can only compress what fits into the main memory. What about revZip? Can

Re: Synchronized videos with superimposition

2009-09-25 Thread Thierry
Le 23 sept. 09 à 23:21, Ian Wood a écrit : If you want to combine them into a single video and have iWork on your MacBook, Keynote will let you lay them out and resize them however you want, then you can export it out as a new video ready for use in the Rev slideshow (assuming there are

revVideograbber CPU use

2009-09-25 Thread Martin Koob
When revVideograbber is previewing or recording the CPU use on my Mac Book Pro (2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo) spikes up to about 105 %. (This gets the fan running quite high) I have checked other apps that record video. Quicktime player goes up to over 150% when previewing or recording.

Crashing my G3

2009-09-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I played some games with RevMedia 4 on my G3 iMac [400 MHz, 384 MB RAM] and really froze just about everything with this: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/POLYWARP.rev.zip a fairly silly stack that leverages the new optical effects. As my history teacher said years ago: What does this tell us?

Open many instances of one stack

2009-09-25 Thread Josep
Hi List, I need open many instances of the same stack. These stacks perform a queries. I want drag drop and after drop open the stack. How can launch instances of the same stack? Like Textedit create new document. Any tip about use this for performance and stability? Salut, Josep -- View

How to create a background process

2009-09-25 Thread Josep
Hi List, I need launch a process that startup with the application and finish when close the app. This with preopenstack and closestack can be controlled. The process need every x time check or perform some action. But each time that the process run the x var will be randomized and execute the

Re: How do I check for two conditions to be true?

2009-09-25 Thread Devin Asay
On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:34 PM, William de Smet wrote: Hello there, This must be an easy one but it got me puzzled: How do I check for two conditions to be true at the same time? I want to check the startangle of two graphics to be true: the startangle of grc 1 is 270 the startangle of grc 2

[ANN]libRevFreeDb update

2009-09-25 Thread Mark Smith
I've only just started getting the list mails through again, so I don't know if my previous announcement made it, but I've made a library for getting the cd title, artist, track titles and (sometimes) year of a cd from the FreeDB system. It now works on windows as well as macs, though is

Re: Challenge: to do something like this in a revlet.

2009-09-25 Thread François Chaplais
Le 24 sept. 09 à 19:36, Colin Holgate a écrit : On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:19 PM, François Chaplais wrote: My second son (age 18) is a student in graphic communication. He is NOT a programmer. He is naturally aware of Flash and I have bought some books about Flash and ActionScript. The result

Re: Open many instances of one stack

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Josep wrote: I need open many instances of the same stack. These stacks perform a queries. I want drag drop and after drop open the stack. How can launch instances of the same stack? Like Textedit create new document. Any tip about use this for performance and stability? See the clone

[ANN] tRev Feature Friday - modest but meaningful

2009-09-25 Thread Jerry Daniels
Well, if it's Friday (and it is here!), it has the potential of being... FEATURE FRIDAY! Here's what's new in tRev today: - Search tRev Support Site via tRev's Help menu - Definitions expanded with more synonyms - Select Structure now supports every weird form of IF-THEN-ELSE you can imagine

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread Ian Wood
On 25 Sep 2009, at 00:20, Sarah Reichelt wrote: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/09/horrifically-bad-software-demos-become-performance-art.ars Not sure how I posted that link by mistake, it should have been: http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2009/09/metadata-madness.ars On 25 Sep

Re: How do I check for two conditions to be true?

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Ault
Just a little further down the logic trail put the the startangle of grc bar into barAng if ( the startangle of grc foo is 270 AND \ ( barAng 90 OR barAng 180 ) \ then -- barAng not in 2nd quadrant end if if ( the startangle of grc foo is 270 ) OR \

[OSX] mouse keyboard 'bug' in OSX 10.5

2009-09-25 Thread Jim Ault
Over the last several months, my system 10.5 seems to get into a mode that ignores the number pad keys on the extended keyboard. Beyond that, when I do try to use the number pad, nothing gets entered into a word processor or spreadsheet, or anything, THEN the mouse down does not select

Re: How to create a background process

2009-09-25 Thread DunbarX
Josep Try this crude example, and add your own timing and functionality. In the card script: on preopenStack send yourMessage to this cd end preopenStack on yourMessage var if var = 5 then close this stack -- some condition to exit put random(9) into var put var --just to see

Re: [OT] How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks in Firefox?

2009-09-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks? Okay, I found that checkbox. It comes up when you want to subscribe to a feed. So I think you'd have to start to subscribe to a feed, and when the dialog comes up, uncheck the

Re: [OT] How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks in Firefox?

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: How do I turn off Always use Live Bookmarks? Okay, I found that checkbox. It comes up when you want to subscribe to a feed. So I think you'd have to start to subscribe to a feed, and when the dialog

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread Sarah Reichelt
As far as I'm aware, there is currently *no* option in the UTI scheme to set the default opening application individually on a per-file basis - just per-extension. If you want some of your .rev files to open in Rev and some to open in your own app by default then in Snow Leopard you will have

Re: Open many instances of one stack

2009-09-25 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I need open many instances of the same stack. These stacks perform a queries. I want drag drop and after drop open the stack. How can launch instances of the same stack? Like Textedit create new document. Here is a good article about doing just that.

Re: Open many instances of one stack

2009-09-25 Thread Josep
Thanks for the info. :) Sarah Reichelt-2 wrote: I need open many instances of the same stack. These stacks perform a queries. I want drag drop and after drop open the stack. How can launch instances of the same stack? Like Textedit create new document. Here is a good article about

Re: How to create a background process

2009-09-25 Thread Josep
Thanks, I will try to test my process. Salut, Josep dunbarx wrote: Josep Try this crude example, and add your own timing and functionality. In the card script: on preopenStack send yourMessage to this cd end preopenStack on yourMessage var if var = 5 then close this

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Since this (like creator codes) depends on software developers setting up the right links, we need the RunRev standalone builder to start giving us the option to define a UTI for our apps, as well as, or instead of a creator code file type. The SB has an entry for a

Helper Application?

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists helper application as one of the possible values the function can return: If the environment function returns helper application, Revolution is running as a helper application, configured by a web browser to display

Re: Helper Application?

2009-09-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richard Gaskin wrote: The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists helper application as one of the possible values the function can return: If the environment function returns helper application, Revolution is running as a helper application, configured by a web

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: Since this (like creator codes) depends on software developers setting up the right links, we need the RunRev standalone builder to start giving us the option to define a UTI for our apps,

Re: File Types and Creator Codes

2009-09-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Imagine you have an app that creates HTML files. You might want to just let the default browser handle them, so you would need a UTI with public.html If you wanted these files to open your app when double-clicked (even though they were standard HTML files that would work

Re: Helper Application?

2009-09-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists helper application as one of the possible values the function can return: If the environment function returns helper application, Revolution is running as a helper application,

Re: [ONREV] beginner - site download

2009-09-25 Thread -= JB =-
Blue Crab is back on line again. Actually Limit Point Software is back on line and they make Blue Crab which is available if you are interested. Here is the link to Blue Crab, http://www.limit-point.com/BlueCrab/BlueCrab.html -=JB=- On Sep 23, 2009, at 5:41 AM, -= JB =- wrote: Blue