At 11:39 PM -0500 8/3/04, Chipp wrote:
Just wondering, other than the length, big words and legalese, what
specifically was objectionable in the license agreement?
I didn't read far enough to get to anything more objectionable than
the language itself!
I was set up for a laugh by the heading of
Hello!
Is it possible to open a window in the finder from a button on the card?
In fact, I want to put on my card a button whos says show Folder Résultats
in Finder (of course, the label's button will be shorter!:-)
Thank you very much every body!
Amicalement
François
Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Mar 8, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
It appears that even with traversalOn set to false, QT players respond to
the press of the spacebar (at least on OSX). Might there be some way to
disable this?
I've tried employing a keyDown handler in the stack, card, and
Michael
I was set up for a laugh by the heading of the non-capitalised text,
WITNESSETH. It's not in either of my dictionaries, and
www.dictionary.com has no entries. Good fun, but it leads to some
interesting questions. If a legal document contains a made-up word
without definition can it
Just to let you know that Calendar has been uploaded to
http://www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk.htm
It automatically localises to your language and you can choose the first day
of the week.
/H
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Chipp Walters wrote:
I use MP3 for voice compression...it works well..about 2K per second.
Question is, how long is your video?
My 1.9MB file was just under 2 minutes.
I just checked out some of the
SnapZ videos and here's what I found:
from a private chat
chippwalters: for
Howdy,
Something is drastically wrong. I got my stack sized down for printing, but
the printer goes a little over half way and stops, and my Mac locks up. It
happens every time, (4 times) although sometimes it doesn't get that far.
I just checked the printer handling another file, the same size
On Mar 8, 2004, at 11:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Trevor DeVore wrote:
On Mar 8, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
It appears that even with traversalOn set to false, QT players
respond to
the press of the spacebar (at least on OSX). Might there be some
way to
disable this?
I've tried
A while back, my good friend Jerry Daniels started extolling the virtues
of the Geometry Manager. Well, I had used it in version 1.1 rather
unsuccessfully, and had since surmised real men doon't use the Geometry
Manager and hand-coded all my resizeStack messages.
So, on Jerry's urging, I
Chipp
The tutorials were extremely helpful. The second did not run all
the way through for me. The picture disappeared although your
voice continued with the commentary.
This method of instruction, i.e. movies, is being used by Apple for
their on-line seminars and they are very effective.
Hi,
I'd be most interested to hear from anyone based on or near the south coast
of the UK - essentially near Brighton - who might be available for some
freelance or contract work using Revolution or MetaCard.
Our immediate requirement probably involves Revolution with AppleScript, but
even if
Thanks, Chipp !
Le 8 mars 04, à 09:01, Chipp Walters a écrit :
A while back, my good friend Jerry Daniels started extolling the
virtues of the Geometry Manager. Well, I had used it in version 1.1
rather unsuccessfully, and had since surmised real men doon't use the
Geometry Manager and
I was very pleased to read about SS3.1 - I'd thought of using earlier
versions but had never got around to it. It looks like a great product, and
for me it will (I trust) solve a very particular problem I have which is
that I can't easily develop a new version of a stack or stacks by
Monte,
Thanks very much. Can I put my vote in at least to try and get this in
if possible. I think that most developers expect to be able to
dependably set the version number of their applications when building
standalones. The worst thing here is that it appears that setting
versions is
Thanks...
Actually, a hidden table field could be the right thing. Then I could store
information about the lines on the same lines as the original. Because I
also need to store detailed information about the users text. I'm building
something similar to a scriptwriter - like Final Draft. The
Is there a way of checking the processor type and speed with Revolution
under Windows? The processor function is not helpful under Windows. Can
queryRegistry or shell or MCISendString be used?
Thankyou
Cos
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your best bet might be a resource kit utility called srvinfo
here's a sample output with a multiproc w2k server...
names replace with for security reasons...
Server Name: servername
Security: Users
NT Type: NT Member Server - Terminal Server
Version: 5.0
Build: 2195, Service Pack 3
Current
As an exercise, I tested the script given in the Scripter's Scrapbook:
=
on mouseUp
put calendar(Apr,1995) into cd fld Calendar
end mouseUp
function calendar month,year
put Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat into dayHeader
get (month 1, year)
convert it to long date
put it into
Morning all,
I trashed the responses to this thread before I realized I had
something to contribute:
If the value sought is a custom function, not a group property, the
function call must include () following the function name:
get [the] functionNameIForgot() of group
Only built-in
Hi Chris,
Have you tried using a preceptorTools generic module? The generic
module allows you to roll your own instructional design. it is a stack
that contains about 25 content cards and a prebuilt navigation system.
Everything that goes on the cards is up to you. No Objectives or
lengthy
I tested also all the months, not only April ;-)
and I encountered a very strange bug (?):
in some months, the day 22 is not written in the calendar field!
This seems to be systematic, only in months from April to October!
Dom:
I created a stack with a button and field, pasted the handlers you
is it possible to 'hack' the Revolution Documentation
stacks?
G'day, Chris:
I don't see why not: I have hacked operational Revolution stacks (eg:
revmenubar.rev and revdbquerysetup.rev).
Just duplicate the Revolution stack and rename it so it doesn't start
with rev.
--
Rob Cozens
CCW,
On Sunday, March 7, 2004, at 01:21 PM, Jim Carwardine wrote:
put getTheDate(field it) into field it
When I execute this statement, it contains... actionStepDueDate of
group
actionStep1
In this case, the engine is looking for a field whose name is all that
is in 'it', that is, a name with
In a message dated 08/03/2004 14:21:00 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Message: 9
As an exercise, I tested the script given in the Scripter's Scrapbook:
=
on mouseUp
put calendar(Apr,1995) into cd fld Calendar
end mouseUp
Try this which we have found rather more
Thanks for the tutorial! Well done!
Kevin
-==-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-
Disclaimer:
Any resemblance between the above views and those of my
employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely
coincidental.
Any resemblance between the above and my own views is
On Mar 8, 2004, at 8:20 AM, Mathewson wrote:
1. From RR how can I access a database and display the
contents of its tables/fields in RR ?
You can use the Database Query Builer tool to help you create your
database connections and queries. It's pretty straitgh forward. Just
launch the tutorial
I'm trying to support a Win client who doesn't have (and won't have!)
QuickTime installed. Whilst AVI files run fine through Rev (I'm
using v2.1.2) they are much bigger and poorer quality than WMV files.
However, when I try to play back WMV files from Rev I get
intermittent results -
Hugh - thanks for replying so promptly
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:02:16 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have an older version to export the records from? If so, simply export
a backup, close the old version, open the new one and import. If you do
cannot do this, you will need to create new
Is there a way to create structures in Transcript?
I want to represent an entity that has several attributes
(actually, I want to represent an array of such entities).
So, is there something similar to the struct that exists
in programming languages like c++ and scheme?
For example, one of my
For example, one of my students wants to create an array
of bullets for his video game. For each bullet we need to
know the following:
- its current availability (already in use, or available)
- its movement in the x direction if in use
- its movement in the y direction if in use
We could use
On Monday, March 8, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Marty Billingsley wrote:
Is there a way to create structures in Transcript?
1.
You can exploit chunks like this:
constant xV = 1
constant yV = 2
constant inUse = 3
...
if item xV of bullets[i] maxV then explodeBullet i
...
With lines, items and words you
Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I created a stack with a button and field, pasted the handlers you
posted into the button, and it works fine...April 1995, April 2004,
and October 1995 all show the 22nd here.
Hmmm... seems to be Voodoo ;-)
Anyway, I posted also on the french list, and I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try this which we have found rather more satisfactory.
Passed :-)
I note you replaced seconds by long system date... seems it obviates
to the item 4 bug ;-)
How about the same exercise in a table field, with tabs as separator?
--
Vous parlez français ? faites un
As far as I know, control over video is pretty minimal if you don't use QT
so I don't believe you can do what you want without QT. I may be wrong but
I've run into the same issue you describe.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Hmm, thanks Scott for the feedback.
Has anyone had any success using the
Ken,
You don't have to clean it up. Some times I learn more that way. I get
to see the inner workings of your mind that way. :-)
Tom
On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:22 AM, Ken Norris wrote:
Of course, I'll share when I get it all together and try to get the
code
cleaned up.
Ken N.
Thomas J. McGrath
(top posted, 'cos I included three replies down below)
Thanks for the answers. To reply to jbv, structures were
indeed created to combine different data types, which isn't
an issue in Transcript. However, they have the advantage
over multi-dimensional arrays in that you don't have to
remember
On Monday, March 8, 2004, at 12:20 PM, Marty Billingsley wrote:
However, they have the advantage
over multi-dimensional arrays in that you don't have to
remember the position of the data in order to access it.
In that way, to the student, structures are cleaner.
Remember, your subscript doesn't
I could not get the codec to work either in QT or in Explorer.
Any ideas?
The asp just downloads to my desktop. I click it and get dreamweaver to
open?
I went to the decoder web site and downloaded a package but still no
results???
Tom
On Mar 8, 2004, at 3:01 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:
A
I'm having the same problem as Tom, except that when I click on the
download EnSharpen decocder link, what gets downloaded to my desktop is
something called transfer.asp --which appears to be an Apple System
Profiler document. Double-clicking on it just runs ASP.
I WAS able to hear the audio,
I also so far I haven't developed a mental model of what the scrapbook
is - a collection of cross-linked files, a database that points to files,
files converted to special format, files in their original form, etc?
Yes. Basically that's it. A flexible way to store information and access
useful
If I make a stack that consists of 1 card with an image (jpg) on the card
and I import that image so that there is no path issue, it works as expected
when run from a Mac hard drive under OS X or OS 9. If I burn the standalone
to a CD (hybrid or Mac only with Toast Titanium) it shows the splash
On 08 Mar 2004, at 21:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Message: 8
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:55:57 -0500
From: Marian Petrides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Video Tutorials on the Geometry Manager
To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain;
Wouter wrote:
After installing the EnSharpen codec, I had to reinstall the other
codecs again,
Divx an 3ivx. I 'am not sure if the installer removed these as I didn't
check
before installing.
Hmm, I installed both on XP (two different machines) and OSX Panther
(i-book) without consequence.
Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to work for me... can you give me a specific month and year
where yours is failing? I'd like to see what you're seeing...
A lead: considering the dates, somebody on the french list proposed that
it it may be related to daylight saving hours -- here in
OOPS,
My mistake, I inadvertantly only posted the EnSharpen Codec for
Quicktime on the PC. The TechSmith Codec (which is also the EnSharpen
Codec) for Windows Media player is at:
http://www.getafile.com/cgi-bin/merlot/get/techsmith/TSCC.exe
You don't need to unistall the other codec as it
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 Marian Petrides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having the same problem as Tom, except that when I click on the
download EnSharpen decocder link, what gets downloaded to my desktop is
something called transfer.asp --which appears to be an Apple System
Profiler document.
On Mar 8, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
I got no problems here on a Windows XP computer. I could download
ensharpendecoder_winsws.exe
and the videos display fine.
What I am wondering about is that without the Ensharpen decoder the
AVI-files
indeed only can be heard with the player.
with more and more things being sent across
the web, is burning DVDs still important?
if you can stream videos from a web site,
and back up your files on a portable disk,
is it really worth spending another $200 to
get a Superdrive on a Mac?
thanks,
Erik Hansen
=
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Marty-
Monday, March 8, 2004, 9:29:40 AM, you wrote:
MB For example, one of my students wants to create an array
MB of bullets for his video game. For each bullet we need to
MB know the following:
MB - its current availability (already in use, or available)
MB - its movement in the x
Chipp-
Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:01:49 AM, you wrote:
CW I hope some of you find them valuable and begin to use GM in your own
CW projects!
CW http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/VideoTutorials.htm
Outstanding! Thanks.
--
-Mark Wieder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Depends on two things:
how big the files are you want to back up and
how much you want to make video DVDs.
I like backing up my entire home (user) directory periodically and the
SuperDrive facilitates that.
And I REALLY like using iDVD!
My 2 cents.
Marian
On Mar 8, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Erik
I had already downloaded and installed the decoder from this site to
no avail.
However, your email got me thinking that maybe I needed to logout and
log back into OS X. When I did that, things worked fine. Thanks,
Chipp. I learned a LOT from the first video alone.
To Dan Shafer:
me too
mac osx panther
tom
On Mar 8, 2004, at 6:38 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:
I had already downloaded and installed the decoder from this site to
no avail.
However, your email got me thinking that maybe I needed to logout and
log back into OS X. When I did that, things worked fine.
Hi. I have 3 questions, which I'll put into 3 separate messages. Here's
the first:
I recently upgraded from v2.1 to v2.1.2 and discovered, to my great
relief, that the Rev debugger now clears breakpoints when it's supposed to
and the Variable Watcher displays properly (variable names and
Is there any way to get a script to put text into the TOP half of the
message box? I have some HyperCard scripts that put text into the msg box,
ready for the user to (edit and) execute the command, that I would like to
transfer to Rev.
Jonathan Cooper
Manager of Information / Website
Art
I have some scripts that manipulate text on the clipboard (turn text to
uppercase/lowercase etc., add up a column of numbers, wrap/unwrap text
etc.) but I can't seem to get them to leave the text as PLAIN text.
Here's one of them:
on mouseUp
put the clipboardData[text] into temp
set the
Now you see!!! I thought that the scale and the position part of the
geometry manager were an either or choice and not that you can use both
at the same time. DUH
Also, I thought that I needed to set the scale for each side of the
object to scale not just the bottom and right. When I played
Log out - no good here
but
restart worked.
That codec needed a restart.
Wow, I haven't had to do that in awhile. I think this is the first time
I've had to restart my mac in four months.
Tom
On Mar 8, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
me too
mac osx panther
tom
On Mar 8, 2004, at
Hi Folks,
I've been fiddling with HTTP and Rev for some time, now and them I
posted some news here. Many people visited the server and got
interested in the project. Now it's time to release the code. For those
that do not know what this project is or what it is able to do, I'll do
a
On Mar 8, 2004, at 7:06 PM, Erik Hansen wrote:
with more and more things being sent across
the web, is burning DVDs still important?
if you can stream videos from a web site,
and back up your files on a portable disk,
is it really worth spending another $200 to
get a Superdrive on a Mac?
thanks,
OK, Chipp,
I want to thank you personally for this. I now understand where I went
wrong in my understanding of the GM.
There is still more to understand with the GM though and I will
bookmark your site especially if more of these are forthcoming.
Thanks again,
Tom
On Mar 8, 2004, at 3:01
Yup and I have to admit I was working too hard over the weekend. I should
have taken a break. Thanks for setting me straight. I was building a ship
and all I needed was a row boat... Jim
on 3/8/04 6:41 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
but in terms of
indirection you're working too hard as the
Thomas,
Now you see!!! I thought that the scale and the position part of the
geometry manager were an either or choice and not that you can use both
at the same time. DUH
Mee Too, it was only after talking with Kevin that I figured out you can set
these independantly.
Also, I thought that
Andre,
Wow! This keeps getting better and better! Do you have any performance
measurements yet? How many simultaneous users to you think you can have
connected with reasonable response times?
Also, what kind of CPU load do you see serverwise?
Keep up the good work!
best,
Chipp
--- Marian Petrides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Depends on two things:
how big the files are you want to back up and
how much you want to make video DVDs.
I like backing up my entire home (user)
directory periodically and the
SuperDrive facilitates that.
i can back up files on an external
On Mar 8, 2004, at 11:39 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Andre,
Wow! This keeps getting better and better! Do you have any performance
measurements yet? How many simultaneous users to you think you can have
connected with reasonable response times?
Chipp,
You cumpliments make me smile! :D
I have no
You haven't given us much info to work with here :-) What sort of
database are you trying to connect to?
Basically, as others have said, you can use the Database Query builder
to get basic control of any of the SQL databases or Valentina. If you
want to experiment with more direct access
Is there a way to create structures in Transcript?
I want to represent an entity that has several attributes
(actually, I want to represent an array of such entities).
So, is there something similar to the struct that exists
in programming languages like c++ and scheme?
For example, one of my
On 9 Mar 2004, at 10:36 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way to get a script to put text into the TOP half of the
message box? I have some HyperCard scripts that put text into the msg
box,
ready for the user to (edit and) execute the command, that I would
like to
transfer to Rev.
Thanks, Jacqueline, I've tried everything I can think of to get this to
work, but no luck with 2.2.
Have you (or anyone else) tried using Revolution with acgi Dispatcher
(http://www.sentman.com/acgi/)?
If not, do you know of other good ways of real-time debugging of stacks
used for cgi web
Did anyone read the license agreement for the TSCC codec before
clicking through and having it installed? It is 23969 characters long
(Rev counted them for me ;-) and includes definitions such as:
The above identification of parties and recitals are true and correct.
and:
The term access and
Hi Michael,
Hey man..it's just a friggin codec ;-) LOL
'course that being said, you may be in the codec design business, and I
can certainly understand why you wouldn't wish to agree to something
which you may later be involved in competing against.
btw, you ought to check out the one Apple
No message here but I'll reboot once I can close the other things I'm
working on. This is exactly the kind of things the Rev community needs
to keep producing to attract people. Forget changing to .syntax, just
showing people how things work, literally, would speak louder than
talking about
Did you notice that section also was titled : WITNESSETH ?
Yours,
Chris
On Mar 8, 2004, at 9:47 PM, Michael J. Lew wrote:
Did anyone read the license agreement for the TSCC codec before
clicking through and having it installed? It is 23969 characters long
(Rev counted them for me ;-) and
On Mar 8, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
It appears that even with traversalOn set to false, QT players respond
to
the press of the spacebar (at least on OSX). Might there be some way
to
disable this?
I've tried employing a keyDown handler in the stack, card, and front
scripts
to
Chris - this is a great idea. I was an early adopter of Oracle Media
Objects (you had to be early otherwise you missed out completely
because the application was pulled fro the market!). One of the
things that they did was to produce two videos (VHS) which showed
how one could use the
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