Just for fun, here's a little experiment that duplicates an old Flash trick
of creating a simple ripple effect in an image, like random drops hitting a
water surface and expanding outward. The effect is accomplished by using
two images, one in front, one in back which is slightly enlarged, and
Scott,
Very groovy! Thanks for sharing that (and all your other great stuff.)
-Scott Morrow
Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust !)
web http://elementarysoftware.com/
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On Jun 12,
I have a feeling that:
on mouseUp
answer color
end mouseUp
does not launch a custom color chooser or wheel made
in revolution
it does, however, launch the colour chooser of the
operating system where RR is being used.
Pop over to my Yahoo Group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RRgraphix
I imported and image as a control and now I am
trying to print it. If I am right many objects are
a control and this includes fields. I can print the
text in a field with styles. But I am not sure how
to print the image I imported and is it in a field
or what is it called.
The image is id
Hi JB,
you wrote:
I imported and image as a control and now I am
trying to print it. snip
How do I print it? All of
the revPrint commands appear to be for fields
and text. Where is printing images discussed
in the Rev Manuel.
The manual isn't much help, if I recall. You probably
want some
On 6/11/07, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Depending on the line you want to check, you can use the
'formattedText' property - which will return you the data from the
field with hard returns where it has wrapped naturally.
Brilliant. I didn't appreciate this about the 'formattedText'.
On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:29 AM, Michael Binder wrote:
The manual isn't much help, if I recall. You probably
want some variant of the Print Card command. Check
the rev dictionary. For printing your image, try:
get the rect of image myImage of card mycard
put item 1 to 2 of it into topleft
put
Hiya,
I've made myself an Excel sheet with the current (2.8.1) Dictionary
exported. It's very simple, the column names are Keyword, Type and
Syntax (the Syntax is a little truncated in cases, but you can get
the general idea).
It's good for getting an overall picture of the available
Ooops!! Forgot to mention: Printed in Landscape on A4, on other
formats YMMV.
Cheers,
Luis.
On 12 Jun 2007, at 12:08, Luis wrote:
Hiya,
I've made myself an Excel sheet with the current (2.8.1) Dictionary
exported. It's very simple, the column names are Keyword, Type and
Syntax (the
Well, it took me 15 minutes to work out:
let us suppose I have a stack with 1 card containing
an inage called Z and a field called fHOLDER
plonk the following script in a button:
on mouseUp
set the imageSource of char 1 of line 1 of field
fHOLDER to Z
revPrintField (field fHOLDER)
end
Tom,
Searching the archives I found a libUrl.rev that should work with the Linux
engine I have running in the cgi-bin
My rev app is database driven so I started to take your info in the text
files and put it into the database, when and if I get it working I will post
the info
Thanks
Rob
Thanks for the answers and thank you Richmond.
That was precicely what I was looking for.
I just wanted a custom color chooser that I could hack. The system
specific chooser that answer color pops up does not suit my needs. I'm
glad I didn't have to explain what I was going to do.
Salute
Hi Richmond,
Thanks. I downloaded the stack and it does
print. So apparently the image needs to be
in a field to be printed.
I wonder if there is a way to call it and print it
without putting it in a field. I'm glad that you
posted the stack and info it is a great help.
-=JB=-
Lastly I'll mention this. I am a hobbyist 3D user:
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/vuelab/FutureLab.htm
I make no money from it, but enjoy using the tool, Vue6-Infinite, immensely.
I also participate in a number of the 3D forums (Renderosity, CGTalk, etc..)
and I find the loudest complainers
Very nice Scott!
Along these lines - I'm doing some image experiments. First is zoom - which
is OK but not perfect - as the image magnifies a lot I need to crop it so
that it does not get too huge in memory. One of the aims is to do a Ken
Burns type effect i a slide show. The problem is getting
On 12 Jun 2007, at 13:57, David Bovill wrote:
Another thing I haven't tried - partly as i keep thinking Rev will
add this
as a feature is to be able to do QuickTime based transforms like
you can do
with Core Image fun House. There is the sampler stack for using
QuickTime
for transitions -
I said:
I would suggest that the best way of offsetting the costs incurred by
really adequate bug prevention is to involve the users in the production
process.
---
For those who don't know how this is done by Ubuntu, I'd just like to
make it
Hi Ian can you clarify - I've not read too deep on this:
On 12/06/07, Ian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Core Image Fun House lets you use *Core Image* filters - nothing to
do with QuickTime, and strictly OS X 10.4 and above.
Core Image transitions are already available in Rev (again,
Hello, I have searched the archives and revdeveloper.com, but I don't know
where to find RevOnline? Could someone point me to it?
Thank you
Tiemo
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Hi Tiemo,
Hello, I have searched the archives and revdeveloper.com, but I
don't know
where to find RevOnline? Could someone point me to it?
Menü: Development - Revolution Online
:-)
Thank you
Tiemo
Best
Klaus Major
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http://www.major-k.de
Oh my good, Klaus heureka, a new menu item :)) searched the web up and down
but didn't get the idea to look for the closest...
Thanks Tiemo
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An: How
Hi Tiemo,
when you get there, click on 'Latest News'. You will be
thrilled to learn that Rev version 2.7 has just been released.
The user spaces are a valuable resource, but it looks like
the rev team has abandoned rev online. Come to think of
it, it seems that they have also abandoned the
Hi Michael,
Why are you so negative?
I know that a completely new RevOnline is in the works but can't
tell you when it will be ready.
In the meantime, there are two plugins that might help you:
1. Rev Online Picker 1.0, a sophisticated Rev Online browser to find
and display the stack you
Based on the simple but fast philosophy of JSON - I'm looking at defining a
text based format which is readable, non binary and as fast as possible for
Rev to parse. I want like JSON to throw away all those pesky XML tags.
Now I can't remember the details but JSON and YAML I think use a simple
From: Eric Chatonet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why are you so negative?
I know that a completely new RevOnline is in the works but can't tell you
when it will be ready.
In the meantime, there are two plugins that might help you:
1. Rev Online Picker 1.0, a sophisticated Rev Online browser to find
Hello.
For perhaps an even better effect, you could have a slight gradient
on the rings themselves. By Doing so, the rings would achieve a
slight amount of depth making them even more realistic.
Either way, very well done. Very cool effect.
Thanks,
Brent Anderson
On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:09
-= JB =- wrote:
Hi Richmond,
Thanks. I downloaded the stack and it does
print. So apparently the image needs to be
in a field to be printed.
Not really, and actually that's the exception and not normally used.
There's really only one print command in Revolution: print card. The
So it's simply name/value pairs. UrlEncoding might be worth
considering - will deal with any line-ending stuff, and since it
encodes tab to %09 should allow for nesting?
Not that it would necessarily matter, but I've generally used = as
the name/value delimiter in such cases.
Best,
Mark
On 6/12/07 7:30 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh my good, Klaus heureka, a new menu item :)) searched the web up and down
but didn't get the idea to look for the closest...
Thanks Tiemo
Also
Menu:View:ToolBar Text check this on
Menu:View:ToolBar Icons check this on
Also
Scott Rossi wrote:
Just for fun, here's a little experiment that duplicates an old Flash trick
of creating a simple ripple effect in an image, like random drops hitting a
water surface and expanding outward.
Too cool! As always. :)
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On 12 Jun 2007, at 14:38, David Bovill wrote:
Hi Ian can you clarify - I've not read too deep on this:
I'll have a go. ;-)
QuickTime has a set of built-in transitions (*and* a set of built-in
filters), going back many years (QT3?). These transitions and filters
are available to any app
OK - so my question is can Trevors existing external apply Core Image Units
to QuickTime files so that QuickTime can take advantage of them using Core
video? If not how hard would it be to add, because then we could take
advantage of the hardware accelerated effect on still images via the Player
The Rev filter command is very fast and I would recommend considering it.
The one caution is to replace null with empty, if this is a possible
character.
I often use
replace delim with cr delim in textBlock
filter textBlock with *tab wordToKeep tab *
I use tab most frequently, but
On Jun 12, 2007, at 8:09 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Not really, and actually that's the exception and not normally used.
There's really only one print command in Revolution: print card. The
revPrintText and revPrintField commands are actually custom handlers
in the IDE that do a lot of the
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:09:25 -0700, Scott Rossi wrote:
go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/ripple.rev;
Very cool, Scott! And the code is really straightforward...
:-)
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Thanks Jim, very helpful!
Tiemo
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Juni 2007 17:13
An: How to use Revolution
Betreff: Re: AW: Where do I find Revonline?
On 6/12/07 7:30 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB [EMAIL
On 12/06/07, Jim Ault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Rev filter command is very fast and I would recommend considering it.
The one caution is to replace null with empty, if this is a possible
character.
That would only be in binary data? Databases? When would you get null values
- certainly
You can load a url and you can do asynch ftp upload - but how about if you
want to send a large amount of data to a remote location without using ftp?
Can you do an asynch post? I guess you could do an asynch ftp upload and
then a quick sychronous post on completion - any thoughts?
my messages don't seem to get trough. maybe this one does?
if it doesn't you can't read this.
if it does
you can.
so what does that mean?
it means it does
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If for any reason the tab character proves to be unusable, you might choose
the pipe character | just above the enter key with the backslash. I too
like simple name/value schemes for data where possible. Generally they're
much, much faster than parsing xml if nesting isn't an issue. As an
David,
a format I like is the vObject format used by vCards and iCalendar files.
It's easy and allow for grouping, name/value pairs and attributes.
I made a alpha library that you can check. My routines have some bugs
as many pointed out but I can't really focus on that library right
now.
Not exactly sure what you want to do but
http://www.fefe.de/ncp/
and woof
might be interesting. You need Python installed for woof. I was thinking
about using woof over a LAN, but on the whole a usb stick seemed it would
take less of a toll on the users
Peter
Recently, David Bovill wrote:
One of the aims is to do a Ken
Burns type effect i a slide show. The problem is getting the transitions
fast enough and yet smooth enough.
A worthy goal, though I doubt Rev will ever be able to do this natively for
images of any size. It's simply too slow to
David,
if your on *nix (and that includes Mac OS X) then you can shell() to
curl or wget to post... if you assemble a nice curl command you can
upload your data and check it periodically by reading a log file or by
reading from process. (reading from logfile is easier)
Cheers
andre
On 6/12/07,
Andre, have you found a way to shell() on OS X without blocking? The
appending of at the end of the shell string doesn't seem to work
from within Rev, here.
Best,
Mark
On 12 Jun 2007, at 17:57, Andre Garzia wrote:
David,
if your on *nix (and that includes Mac OS X) then you can
Wow - really I'll take a look - when I had to write something for vCards /
iCal it was a really really nasty format to parse reliably!
On 12/06/07, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David,
a format I like is the vObject format used by vCards and iCalendar files.
It's easy and allow for
True - still I think for some applications a very slow, or slowish, subtle
movement will work fine to add attention to an image - it just must be very
smooth?
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Yes - that was my question :)
On 12/06/07, Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andre, have you found a way to shell() on OS X without blocking?
The only way i can think of doing this is a separate application in its own
process and IAC - can be done in Rev but still
On Jun 12, 2007, at 8:25 AM, David Bovill wrote:
OK - so my question is can Trevors existing external apply Core
Image Units
to QuickTime files so that QuickTime can take advantage of them
using Core
video?
It cannot. It only adds the built-in QT effects mentioned in the docs.
If not
Hi Eric, You wrote:
Hi Michael,Why are you so negative?
I know that a completely new RevOnline is in the works
but can't tell you when it will be ready.
Oops, sorry about the negativism... its not my usual self.
Actually I am quite positive about rev. That's why I invested
in a studio
David,
If you want something nice and very fast, try a ken burns slide show
just use iphoto and dump it out as a quicktime movie. The joke with
my video producer is how amazingly well iphoto does just guessing on
pan and scans. its a bit creepy, kind of like those segues that
itunes does
I am in awe. I shut down my recently acquired iMac, moved it to a
different desk, and then plugged it back in. Now it doesn't boot at
all. No LED lights up, no sound is made when the plug goes in.
Nothing. Checked the power source, the power strip and the power cord.
Nothing.
I'm starting to
Recently, Derek Bump wrote:
I am in awe. I shut down my recently acquired iMac, moved it to a
different desk, and then plugged it back in. Now it doesn't boot at
all. No LED lights up, no sound is made when the plug goes in.
Nothing. Checked the power source, the power strip and the power
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Not really,
And the RR world needs to know something:-
There are an awful lot of purists about who try to
do things the proper way.
However, I spent quite a lot of my formative years on
a farm (!!!) where one mended the fence, the suctions
cups on the milking machine, the
If there a built-in thousandths delimit function that takes a number and
inserts the appropriate delimiter (e.g. commas for USA). Alternately, does
someone have an idea for a really fast and efficient custom function that does
it? I have maybe a hundred thousand numbers at a time to convert
-= JB =- wrote:
The print command prints only the area of a card that is visible in the
stack window. To print an area of a card whose objects extend beyond the
window boundaries, either set the stack's rectangle so it's large enough
to hold all the objects to print, or use the print...from
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Not really,
And the RR world needs to know something:-
There are an awful lot of purists about who try to
do things the proper way.
I agree, and I didn't mean to imply one couldn't or shouldn't do it your
way. Rev's flexibility is pretty
On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Derek Bump wrote:
I am in awe. I shut down my recently acquired iMac, moved it to a
different desk, and then plugged it back in. Now it doesn't boot at
all. No LED lights up, no sound is made when the plug goes in.
Nothing. Checked the power source, the power
As a further clarification for those of us who like to understand;
not just have something work; Think back to all of the programs
that create a print spool. They are just creating an image in
memory of what is normally being seen on the screen and then using
that memory image to do the
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:46:48 +, Mark E. Powell wrote:
If there a built-in thousandths delimit function that takes a
number and inserts the appropriate delimiter (e.g. commas for USA).
Alternately, does someone have an idea for a really fast and
efficient custom function that does it?
Thank you, Ken. Works like a charm.
---
Here you go - this is based on a function that Mark Wieder created:
function formatThousands pNum,pSeparator
repeat with x = length(pNum)-3 to 3 step -3
put pSeparator before char x+1 of pNum
end repeat
Derek Bump wrote:
I am in awe. I shut down my recently acquired iMac, moved it to a
different desk, and then plugged it back in. Now it doesn't boot at
all. No LED lights up, no sound is made when the plug goes in.
Nothing. Checked the power source, the power strip and the power cord.
The iMac in question is a G3/333 (M7440LL/A). So far I've tried leaving
it unplugged for a while and still nothing. I'm going to wait until
tomorrow before I throw it up in the store window as a display item, as
I have the Scheduled Startup set.
Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
Hi Jacqueline,
Thank you very much for taking the time to provide
all the information related to my question.
-=JB=-
On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:53 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Well, yes and no, and maybe. ;) Where do you want to place the
objects? If they
On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:53 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Do you have any info on this or can you direct me to the best area
to read about it.
The best way is to read other people's scripts, but finding those
can be hit and miss. I just looked at revOnline and didn't find
much there. There
On 6/12/07 3:52 PM, Mark E. Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you, Ken. Works like a charm.
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Here you go - this is based on a function that Mark Wieder created:
function formatThousands pNum,pSeparator
repeat with x = length(pNum)-3 to
On Jun 12, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
I created an overview of all of the printing commands and properties
that you may find useful. It includes a few script examples:
http://revolution.byu.edu/printing/printing.php
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support
Jim-
Nice. Very nice.
Ken-
Is this a candidate for inclusion in the standard library?
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:08:46 -0700, Mark Wieder wrote:
Jim-
Nice. Very nice.
Ken-
Is this a candidate for inclusion in the standard library?
Very possibly - the Rev Standard Library is being moved to the
revInterop group so things like this can be put up for comment before
inclusion.
Thanks for the props.
Note: the function also handles the accounting format where the - sign is
trailing since the decimal and beyond is held as a suffix.
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On 6/12/07 5:08 PM, Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim-
Nice. Very nice.
Ken-
Is this a candidate for
On Jun 12, 2007, at 6:11 PM, -= JB =- wrote:
Thanks, that is a nice overview. I have a few questions.
1. You mentioned print card into pageRectangle.
I haven't tried and you didn't say but do
you know if you can use revPrintField into
a pageRectangle.
Not to my knowledge.
2. In my
On Jun 12, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
On Jun 12, 2007, at 6:11 PM, -= JB =- wrote:
Thanks, that is a nice overview. I have a few questions.
1. You mentioned print card into pageRectangle.
I haven't tried and you didn't say but do
you know if you can use revPrintField into
a
One thing ver (1) does not handle is the switching separator.
I should have said:
if pSeparator is , then set the itemDel to .
--otherwise comma will be used
...then finished with...
get (holdPrefix pNum)
put holdDec into item 2 of it
return it
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I will offer a slight (2)
On Jun 12, 2007, at 7:20 PM, -= JB =- wrote:
How would I use the revPrintField to print my text
in a specific area on my page like I can with the
print card commands.
I don't think you can use it like that. I think your best bet would
be to use a card with a field on it to get the precise
Scott, Phil-
Now cut that out... I'm trying to get some work done.
Never mind... I'll work tomorrow. Having too much fun here.
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On Jun 12, 2007, at 7:01 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
I don't think you can use it like that. I think your best bet would be
to use a card with a field on it to get the precise style and layout
you want, then use print card to print to a specific area of the page.
Thanks for the info. I am sorry
Derek,
Definitely replace that Motherboard battery!
I believe it is probably just the standard 1/2 AA 3.6 volt lithium type
that you can get at Radio Shack, or elsewhere on the internet.
A machine which is usually on all the time and then gets powered
down for any reason such as being moved,
Actually I had the same problem with an original iMac as well..
There's a small button on the motherboard that you need to press to
reset it and then it should be good to go. :-)
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