revFontLoad Crashes
Hey, I am finding revFontLoad to be quite troublesome. I would like the ability to load fonts dynamically in my app from a given directory. However, I have run into a few problems, particularly on OS X. One font I tried to load using revFontLoad on OS X made the entire interface, including everything in the Revolution IDE, to turn a different language. I don't know what language it was, but it had a lot of curvy lines and dots, for what it is worth. Now any font I try to load on OS X just crashes my application immediately and without any errors. On Windows things seem to be working better, but I haven't done too much testing there yet. One thing I have noticed is that if a text field is set to use a particular font before the font is loaded, the font will not be loaded correctly for all sizes and the field will not show the font. For example, if I have a field with Lucida Grande 18 point text, when I load the Lucida Grande font, size 18 does not work. This is not mentioned in the docs. Also, is ttf the only font format that revFontLoad supports? If it is, I can't find any mention of that limitation in the docs. TTFN Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Linux Revolution Executable
Well, never mind. For some reason, it just wasn't turning up on the Ubuntu system. Unzipping it from a Windows machine and carrying it over on a flash drive worked. How odd. I wonder if it could be a safety "feature" because the file was downloaded. On Dec 13, 10:51 pm, Peter Alcibiades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Downloaded it a week or so back, and there is the usual Revolution 2.5mb in > the 2.9 dp2 folder, click on it and it runs. So it definitely was there and > working not long ago. > > Peter > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Linux Revolution Executable
Hmm, very odd. I wonder why the executable was removed. Hopefully it was an accident, and will be fixed soon. I just checked the previous beta, and it is how I expected it to be. I sure hop I am not overlooking something obvious. TTFN Bridger Maxwell On Dec 13, 10:51 pm, Peter Alcibiades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Downloaded it a week or so back, and there is the usual Revolution 2.5mb in > the 2.9 dp2 folder, click on it and it runs. So it definitely was there and > working not long ago. > > Peter > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Linux Revolution Executable
Hey, I am feeling really slow right now, but I can't find the executable for the Revolution 2.9 db2. I downloaded the zip file and unpacked it, and it looks just like my OS X install, except the lack of anything named "Revolution" that I can launch. Am I missing something obvious? I feel silly even asking this question. Her is the list of files and folders in the folder: Documentation IDE Change Log.txt Resources Toolset Engine Change Log.txt Plugins Runtime Whats_New.txt Externals Read_Me_First.txt Supporting Materials TTFN Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Images Miscolored
A friend of mine cooked up a fix. He created an automator action that will change all the files from png to jpg by making a new jpg image and pasting the png into it. Apparently, when simply saving the png to a jpg (from Preview) it does not solve the problem. This is definitely a Revolution problem, because the images display just fine in every other program, but I don't even know how to submit a bug like this when I am not sure what causes it or exactly why the fix works. Can anyone give me a hint on this? TTFN Bridger On Dec 13, 12:07 pm, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BridgerMaxwell wrote: > > Hey, > > I am experiencing an odd problem with the way some images in my stack > > created on Leopard show up on Tiger. Their colors get off. Some grey > > images end up with a very distinctive blue tint. I can't quite pinpoint the > > cause though. The problem does not happen to all images, but I can't figure > > out a pattern. It can be an image referenced by filename, or imported into > > the stack. I thought maybe it is only the images I created in Photoshop > > CS3, but others display just fine. > > I wonder if this is due to the png file format, which stores gamma > information and displays differently on various machines. Does it only > happen with pngs? Does it happen if you save the images as jpg instead? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software |http://www.hyperactivesw.com > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences:http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Images Miscolored
Hey, I am experiencing an odd problem with the way some images in my stack created on Leopard show up on Tiger. Their colors get off. Some grey images end up with a very distinctive blue tint. I can't quite pinpoint the cause though. The problem does not happen to all images, but I can't figure out a pattern. It can be an image referenced by filename, or imported into the stack. I thought maybe it is only the images I created in Photoshop CS3, but others display just fine. I don't have Tiger machine to test on, so I am a little limited in what I can try. The images in question look fine in Preview on Tiger, but start looking odd when displayed in a stack. I have uploaded one of the troubled images as a png and its original Photoshop file, if anyone could give me a hand. www.fieryferret.com/oddimages/PreviewBack.png www.fieryferret.com/oddimages/PreviewControls.psd TTFN Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
MySQL Driver for Linux CGI
Hey, After a small change in the way my website's files are arranged, some of them have stopped working. I have traced it to a problem connecting to the database, which previously worked. I get this error when running my cgi: Failed to load dbmysql.so error dbmysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryfound /serverPath/cgi-bin/dbmysql.so symbols -1208625966,-1208626080,-1208625994 The file that is is referencing is there, and the case in the filename is correct. When I move the dbmysql.so file, or change its case it gives me this error: Failed to load dbmysql.so error dbmysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryError opening database: revdberr,invalid database type I can't make heads or tails of this. It seems like it gives me the error about there being no driver file when the driver is there, and the more general error when the driver is not. Both the engine and the driver were taken from the 2.6.1 distribution of Revolution. When I check "the version" it returns 2.6.6. Both the engine and the driver have their permissions set to 755. Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Scriptlimits Barrier
Hello, I am writing an app in which I would like to save objects to a file, and restore them later. I am able to store all of their properties as XML and restore the object fine in the IDE, but the scriptlimits poses a problem. Because many of these objects need script to be restored, it is impossible to recreate them in a standalone without hitting the scriptlimits barrier. Is there an alternative way around this? Does the scriptlimits apply when you use the copy command? Perhaps I should use a frontscript that acts as the script for different types of objects. Neither of these workarounds sounds particularly clean to me though. If anyone has any experience with this kind of problem I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Relayering Grouped Controls
Hey,
Either I am missing something very obvious, or I have discovered a
bug. I am unable to relayer a control that is within a group. I have
set the releyerGroupedControls to true, but I still receive the error
"can't set layer (card not open, or control in group)." Here is my
script, if that helps. Both the group ("Symbol" & vNum) and img
"SceneFrame" are within the same group, "SceneWrapper."
on layerSymbol vNum
lock screen
set the relayerGroupedControls to true
if vNum is not empty and there is a grp ("Symbol" & vNum) then
set the layer of grp ("Symbol" & vNum) to (the layer of img
"SceneFrame") --Throws an error
end if
end layerSymbol
I have found a workaround using the start editing group command, but
it is too slow for my purposes. Here is the workaround script that
does work.
on layerSymbol vNum
lock screen
set the relayerGroupedControls to false
if vNum is not empty and there is a grp ("Symbol" & vNum) then
start editing grp "SceneWrapper"
set the layer of grp ("Symbol" & vNum) to (the layer of img
"SceneFrame")
stop editing
end if
unlock screen
end layerSymbol
Also, I am running Revolution 2.9 dp-1 on OS X "Leopard," perhaps this
is a new bug? Can someone verify that is running the Beta or Leopard?
Thank You,
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
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Preference Files on Linux
Where is the standard place for preference files to be stored on a Linux machine? Also, where is the right place to store externals when installing? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Communicating Between Rev CGI and PHP
Hey, I read on this list how to execute a Rev CGI from a PHP script using exec(). I also saw in that discussion that they were able to pass in parameters from PHP to the CGI and back. How is this done? Is it possible to access an array created in the PHP script from the Rev CGI? Can I make a global variable that either can access? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
MySQL Timeout
Hey, Is there a way to set a maximum time for a MySQL query to execute before it times out? As it is right now, if the MySQL server is having problems or something then my application will hang indefinitely waiting for a response. Is there a way to set a timeout? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Best place for putting preferences on a PC?
Hey, > Lastly, I noticed recently that when I go to build the standalone > version (a demo) of my app, I get some kind of weird errors in a giant > box when I build. It only happened recently, but I get it > consistently, every time I try to build that app. It looks like > there's a problem with revCopyExternals. I have had that same problem. It gives a lot of numbers in the dialog right? If you look at those numbers, they are actually line and column numbers at the exact script where the error is taking place. For me, there was an error in my "savingStandalone" handler, which would interrupt the saving process. Maybe if you trap the savingStandalone message you could double check it? TTFN Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Smoothest Way To Play Video
Hey, I have a short video (3 seconds?) that plays very choppy, that I need to run smoothly on an old computer (500 MHz). Right now, it is playing from a player object with the movie file referenced. It is layered, so its alwaysBuffer must be set to true. It also has a few callbacks that must be included. All of this added up makes the movie play extremely choppy, and it really looks quite terrible. I am looking for any tips to make a video play smoothly. Is there a magic setting I can use, a way to pre-load the video in memory, or a certain compression format to use that works well with Revolution? I think the setting that really makes it run slow is the alwaysBuffer, but without it, I can't have the player underneath other objects. Is there an alternative to this? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: SQL Access with Rev CGI
Hey, Again, somehow asking the question allows me to see the answer. Funny how that happens. I thought I would share what works, in case someone else runs into the same problem. First of all, my Linux CGI engine is version 2.6.6, which I got off of the runrev ftp site. The mysql driver I am using is from the 2.6.1 distribution of Revolution found in the installation folder /components/global environment/database_drivers/Linux/dbmysql.so. This driver is about 32 kb, in case you would like to check it against the driver you have. Although I played around with different engine and driver versions, this was not my main problem. The problem was due to a simple, yet undocumented (as far as I could find) quirk. When using the revOpenDatabase() function, if the database type is spelled "mySQL" then the database driver name must be "dbmySQL.so", including the correct case. That is where I was caught. TTFN Bridger Maxwell On 8/6/07, Bridger Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > I have just got a Rev CGI set up on my Dreamhost server, and I would > like it to access my SQL database. I have been searching around the list > archive, and it seems like it is possible, but I can't figure it out. Is > there a driver I need to download? Where can I get that driver? Whenever I > execute revdb_connect, it returns "revdberr,invalid database type." I am > running the linux engine version 2.6.6. > > TTFN > Bridger Maxwell > ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Windows Exe Crashes
Actually, even the stack that gets compiled into a .exe still has its source
available. If you drag the executable to a text editor and scroll through
all of the garbage, you can find all of your scripts in plain text.
Compiling a stack is essentially attaching the Revolution engine to a
stack. You can encrypt your stacks to protect your data though. In the
standalone application settings, under the "Stacks" tab and at the
bottom-right, you can put a password on your stacks.
TTFN
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
On 8/6/07, Tracy Riegle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Actually, I tried that and it worked. But here are my questions to that
> approach. Does the "main" stack NOT get compiled? Will my "main"
> stack now be available in its source format (I don't want the source to
> be available to the public)?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> -Tracy
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2007, at Monday, 2007/06/0816:24, Derek Bump wrote:
>
> > Hello Tracy,
> >
> > You should consider using a Loading stack.
> >
> > This would mean that you would have 2 stacks. The first one loads the
> > second one. And the first one could be built into any format,
> > ensuring
> > that the second one stays the same.
> >
> >
> > So in other words.
> >
> > |---| |--|
> > | Loading Stack | -(opens)-> | Main Stack |
> > |---| |--|
> > (Standalone)
> >
> >
> > Derek Bump
> > Dreamscape Software
> > http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com
> >
> >
> > Tracy Riegle wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I'm new to this list, so please forgive me if I ask a question that
> >> has already been answered (although I searched the archive
> >> and couldn't find an answer).
> >>
> >> I'm using Rev 2.8.1 build 472. I have a stack with about two dozen
> >> cards, with each card having a large image on it, and several other
> >> controls (some of which are shared among all card).
> >>
> >> The project runs find within the IDE. If I build a Standalone for a
> >> Mac, it also runs just fine. If I build a Standalone for Windows
> >> it crashed with:
> >>
> >> NAME 1.0.0.0 for Windows has encountered a problem and needs to
> >> close.
> >>
> >> I get NO other windows at all, just this small error pop-up, like
> >> it isn't even trying to start.
> >>
> >> I tried building for Windows from a Mac and Win XP machine.
> >> I tried commenting ALL the startup scripts so NO code script gets
> >> executed at startup. It still crashes.
> >>
> >> I tried deleting cards to see if I had a bad image on an offending
> >> card.
> >> The only way I finally got it to run was if I delete over 1/2 the
> >> cards
> >> and get the stack size down from about 6 Meg to less than 3 Meg
> >> (it makes NO difference which cards I delete to decrease the size).
> >>
> >> Once I got the stack down to less than 3 Megs, then the Standalone
> >> runs on Windows???
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be going wrong?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> -Tracy
> >>
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SQL Access with Rev CGI
Hey, I have just got a Rev CGI set up on my Dreamhost server, and I would like it to access my SQL database. I have been searching around the list archive, and it seems like it is possible, but I can't figure it out. Is there a driver I need to download? Where can I get that driver? Whenever I execute revdb_connect, it returns "revdberr,invalid database type." I am running the linux engine version 2.6.6. TTFN Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Rev CGI Post
Hey, The way you are reading info is for an HTTP GET, I am not sure if that is how PDT sends the data, but with IPN, the data is sent in an HTTP POST. You can check to see how the data is being sent by looking at the $REQUEST_METHOD global. Here is my script to read from the POST data: put empty into gBuffer REPEAT until length(gBuffer) >= $CONTENT_LENGTH read from stdin until empty put it after gBuffer END REPEAT put "cmd=_notify-validate&" & gBuffer into vReturn Hope that helps! TTFN Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Rev CGI Post
Hey, Never mind, problem solved! By looking at the PHP script, I was able
to throw together a script to write the POST and receive a response from
PayPal by reading and writing to sockets. I am still curious to know if I
can use in libURL functions in a Rev CGI though.
TTFN
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
On 8/5/07, Bridger Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hey, I am trying to make a Rev CGI play nicely with PayPal, and I am
> stuck. I am trying to implement PayPal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification)
> which sends data to a CGI on my site when a purchase is made. It does
> this by sending a POST. My CGI is supposed to POST back to PayPal the
> data PayPal sent me, and a little extra for verification. As part of the
> second the POST, the PayPal site is supposed to send back either
> "VERIFIED" or "INVALID." I hope made sense. :)
> My CGI is receiving the data, and I try to send a POST back, but no data
> is in the "it" variable or the result. How do I get the data? Is the
> POST command available in a CGI? Should I just do this with my own custom
> sockets?
>
>
> TTFN
>Bridger Maxwell
>www.FieryFerret.com
>
>
>
>
> If it helps, I have sample PHP code I am working from, and some of my code
> from the CGI.
>
>
> PHP Code (From PayPal):
> // post back to PayPal system to validate
> $header .= "POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.0\r\n";
> $header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
> $header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n";
> $fp = fsockopen ('www.paypal.com ', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
>
>
> if (!$fp) {
> // HTTP ERROR
> } else {
> fputs ($fp, $header . $req);
> while (!feof($fp)) {
> $res = fgets ($fp, 1024);
> if (strcmp ($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) {
> // process payment
> }
> else if (strcmp ($res, "INVALID") == 0) {
> // log for manual investigation
> }
> }
> fclose ($fp);
> }
>
> My CGI Code:
> put empty into gBuffer
> REPEAT until length(gBuffer) >= $CONTENT_LENGTH
> read from stdin until empty
> put it after gBuffer
> END REPEAT
> put "cmd=_notify-validate&" & gBuffer into vReturn
>
> post vReturn to "http://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr "
> --After this post, the "it" variable is empty, and so is the result
>
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Rev CGI Post
Hey, I am trying to make a Rev CGI play nicely with PayPal, and I am stuck.
I am trying to implement PayPal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification) which
sends data to a CGI on my site when a purchase is made. It does this by
sending a POST. My CGI is supposed to POST back to PayPal the data PayPal
sent me, and a little extra for verification. As part of the second the
POST, the PayPal site is supposed to send back either "VERIFIED" or
"INVALID." I hope made sense. :)
My CGI is receiving the data, and I try to send a POST back, but no data
is in the "it" variable or the result. How do I get the data? Is the POST
command available in a CGI? Should I just do this with my own custom
sockets?
TTFN
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
If it helps, I have sample PHP code I am working from, and some of my code
from the CGI.
PHP Code (From PayPal):
// post back to PayPal system to validate
$header .= "POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n";
$fp = fsockopen ('www.paypal.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
// HTTP ERROR
} else {
fputs ($fp, $header . $req);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$res = fgets ($fp, 1024);
if (strcmp ($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) {
// process payment
}
else if (strcmp ($res, "INVALID") == 0) {
// log for manual investigation
}
}
fclose ($fp);
}
My CGI Code:
put empty into gBuffer
REPEAT until length(gBuffer) >= $CONTENT_LENGTH
read from stdin until empty
put it after gBuffer
END REPEAT
put "cmd=_notify-validate&" & gBuffer into vReturn
post vReturn to "http://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";
--After this post, the "it" variable is empty, and so is the result
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Borders and Icons
Hey,
This is a small problem, but I can't figure it out and I thought I would
toss it out to all of you geniuses. I have button that I have made custom
look for by setting its icon to an image. I would like to also have a
border around it, but when the showBorder is true, the border wraps
everywhere except where the icon touches the side of the button. For
example, I have button that has an extremely wide image set as its icon so
when the button grows more wide, the icon is big enough to accommodate.
When the border is being shown it shows on the upper and lower edges, but
the portions on the right and left of the button where the icon extends past
the button's rect do not have a border showing. Coincidentally, those are
the only places I want the border to show up. Is there any way to force the
border to show up around the entire button? Sorry to bug you guys with such
a minuscule problem.
Thank You,
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
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Replacing the Menu-bar
Hey, I am making a stack which I would like to have the sunken menu-bar look, like in iTunes. I have made the graphic, but of course when I set the shape of the stack the menu-bar disappears. With the menu-bar, the exit, minimize, and maximize button disappear. I know I could fashion my own, but I am afraid that if I do it will not match the rest of the interface. Is there any way to put these back on, in any place I want? I only need this for the OS X version of my app. Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: What I did with Rev last night
Hello, One interesting stack I did was for a teacher of mine. He was switching everything over from an older test-making program he had to a new testing website. However, there was no way to export the tests from the old program into a format the website could read, so I made a stack that could take a test and answer key, then spit out a properly formatted test file. It was really a simple program, but my teacher sure gave a lot of extra credit for it. :P TTFN Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: What version of Rev is running
Hey, As far as I could find, there are two handlers to find the plugins folder: revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath() and revEnvironmentPluginsPath(). I found these by looking at the revUpdatePlugins handler in the script of the revMenuBar's first card (edit the script of the cd 1 of stack "revMenuBar"). They were not in the documentation, so I guess they are officially "unsupported," but they seem to work for me! Also, to find the license, the same script used the following code: get the line 4 of the revLicenseInfo TTFN Bridger Maxwell Check out Lumen at: www.FieryFerret.com/lumen/lumen.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Revolution Freezing
Hey, Lately, I have been able to freeze Revolution a lot more than I would like too. It dies almost every 5 minutes. I haven't been able to track down the problem, because it always happens when I have my whole development environment open. I haven't submitted a bug report yet, because I don't know what causes it, although I have noticed it is mostly likely to freeze when I look away, or switch to another application. Just barely I discovered something odd about these freezes. If I go into Activity Monitor, then double click on the Revolution process (which shows up as "not responding") to pull up its info, Revolution magically starts working! What does this mean? If no error dialogs show up, can I assume is a problem with the Revolution Engine, and not with my stack? Anybody's experience or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Mac Icon problem
Hey, For some reason, a new app created with Revolution doesn't show its icon immediately. You can try moving it to a folder where it has never existed before, or even restarting your computer for Finder to display the application's proper icon, but I found the quickest way is to zip up the application bundle then unzip it. Another problem I have found is that my build settings do not apply right if the mainstack is not the top window at the time of the build. Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com On 6/10/07, Thomas McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: building a standalone with Rev 2.8.1 on my Mac 10.3.9 My apps are not displaying the icon I've assigned to themit worked before. Anyone else have this problem? ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
External Writing Help
Hey,
I am trying to get my feet wet with writing externals for Revolution, and
I must admit I am a little stuck. I read the newsletter articles on writing
externals, and found them extremely helpful. However, I only have a very
basic understanding of C++ and I need some help. There is a framework I
would like to use that would enable me to communicate with a Bluetooth
device, but it is written in Objective-C. From the newsletter, I only have
the C++ "glue" code that allows the external to bind with Revolution. Is
there an Objective-C build environment I can use, or is it possible to
invoke the functions in the Objective-C framework from my C++ code? This is
for OS X, and I am using XCode. I am in above my head, and any help would
be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
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Color of Drawer
Hey, Is it possible to set the color of the border around a drawered stack? Right now it is the default white with pinstripes that is common on OS X. I have tried changing the backgroundcolor of the drawer stack and the parent stack, but it did not change anything. I am hoping to make it black. Is this possible, or would it be breaking the "Apple Human Interface Guidelines?" Also, this is my first time trying out drawers, are there any gotchas that I should worry about? Looking back at the user list, there was some issues with dragging windows on different versions of OS X. Is this still an issue? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Making OS-Specific Standalones
Hey, Is there any way to have the Windows standalone saved differently from the OS X standalone? I would like the Windows standalone to have custom properties containing the externals to be unpacked, but because OS X uses bundles this is not an issue and I don't want these custom properties to be saved as part of the OS X standalone (no need to use extra memory). I know I could just build for Windows, clear the externals, and build it again for OS X, but is there an easier way so I don't get mixed up? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
2.7 For Linux?
Hey, I was wondering when the Revolution with support for Linux is supposed to be released. I realize that it is going to be in version 2.9 of Revolution, but the current beta build is 2.8.1, does that mean that we are going to have several updates under 2.8, and that the 2.9 release will be released much later than I thought? I guess what I am looking for is a general time estimate until 2.9. Is it weeks, months, a year? Until then, is there any way that I can use Revolution 2.6 to build a Linux version of my app even though I don't have a 2.6 license? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Sortable Table Field
Wow, you guys are amazing. Thank you Sarah for the quick reply, and I would
also like to point a "thank you" to Altuit for all the great tools on the
site. The Revolution community has saved me hours of time and frustration!
Thank You,
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
On 5/2/07, Sarah Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/3/07, Bridger Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> Has anyone made a sortable table field (like in iTunes, where you can
sort
> it by name, artist, etc.) and knows how to easily make one. The
> functionality shouldn't be too hard to program, I just want to make sure
it
> looks right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
Check the Altuit web site. Chipp has a great plugin called
altFldHeader (or something similar) which gives you resizable column
headers which can be clicked to do whatever you want.
Cheers,
Sarah
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Sortable Table Field
Hello, Has anyone made a sortable table field (like in iTunes, where you can sort it by name, artist, etc.) and knows how to easily make one. The functionality shouldn't be too hard to program, I just want to make sure it looks right. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TTFN Bridger Maxwell www.FieryFerret.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Crashes with 2.8.1 dp4
dp4? 2.8.1 dp3 has apparently expired today, did they already release the next one? I don't think I have received that email yet. TTFN Bridger Maxwell On 5/2/07, Mark Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone crashing on OS 10.4.9 with Rev 2.8.1 dp4 near the end of building a standalone? I posted bug: <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi? id=4831> if you have any additional comments. Mark Talluto -- CANELA Software http://www.canelasoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Window Level Core Image Transition
Hey,
Thanks for the reply, but I am looking for something slightly different.
The Core Image Sampler stack shows how to do transitions on a section inside
a stack. I thought the changelog entry said that a transition could be done
on the entire stack and carry over to the desktop behind it. I have got
transitions to work on an entire stack, but it does not extend past the rect
of the stack or make so you can see parts of the desktop ("transitions with
alpha channels on an entire window"). Perhaps I am mistaken and this is not
possible though.
Thank You,
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
On 4/29/07, Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Recently, Bridger Maxwell wrote:
> I saw this in the changelog of Revolution 2.7:
> * Window level transitions. Now you can perform transitions with alpha
> channels on an entire window, allowing effects such as rippling
applications
> on the desktop.
> However, I couldn't find any documentation on it.
Take a look at the Core Image Sampler stack that should be included with
your install. Note that you can only use transition effects; no filters
or
anything else that does not involve transitioning from a source to a
destination. And of course, the effects are Mac only.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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Window Level Core Image Transition
Hello,
I saw this in the changelog of Revolution 2.7:
* Window level transitions. Now you can perform transitions with alpha
channels on an entire window, allowing effects such as rippling applications
on the desktop.
However, I couldn't find any documentation on it. I am assuming that this
means we can do cool transitions that effect the entire desktop, like how
everything ripples when you drag a new widget onto the Dashboard. Am I
reading into this right? I would like to use this for a stack of mine to
have a transition when the window changes size. It would be especially cool
if I could get the cube transition. Any attempts I have made so far only
effect my current stack's rect. Nothing is transparent and nothing effects
the rest of the window. If anyone has used this new feature, or if I am
just interpreting it wrong, I would love some help.
Thank You,
Bridger Maxwell
www.FieryFerret.com
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Resize a Group Without Moving Objects
Hey, Is it possible to set the rect of a group, without moving the objects inside the group around? Whenever I modify the size of a group, the groups loc will change a little, and the objects inside it will move also, is there any way to go around that? TTFN Bridger Maxwell Fiery Ferret ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Lumen - Game Made In Revolution
Hello, Brent Anderson and I have decided to start a small company that offers consultation services. To kick of the business and draw people to the site we have made game called "Lumen." Lumen is a puzzle game in which the user must "activate" checkpoints placed on the board by coloring a laser beam and using mirrors to bounce it around the board. Although the objective is simple, the puzzles can be quite a challenge! Lumen is available for Mac OS X (Universal Binary) and Windows. You can download Lumen at: www.fieryferret.com/lumen/lumen.html . Go ahead and try it out, then spread the word! Make sure to leave feedback so we can continue to improve Lumen. Oh, I almost forgot. Lumen is absolutely FREE! Best Wishes, Bridger Maxwell Fiery Ferret ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Document Icons on Windows
Never mind, I found a guide online on how to change the registry to do this. I would put down the site, but I have forgotten it. Woops. TTFN Bridger Maxwell On 4/13/07, Bridger Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, I am trying to deploy to the Windows platform, and I can't get the icons on the documents work quite right. At first they weren't associated with my stack at all. Then, after telling them to open with my application, the icon is a little paper with my application's icon slapped in the middle of it really small instead of the icon that I specified for the documents. How do I make my application's documents be associated with my application from the beginning, and how do I get the document icons to work? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Document Icons on Windows
Hey, I am trying to deploy to the Windows platform, and I can't get the icons on the documents work quite right. At first they weren't associated with my stack at all. Then, after telling them to open with my application, the icon is a little paper with my application's icon slapped in the middle of it really small instead of the icon that I specified for the documents. How do I make my application's documents be associated with my application from the beginning, and how do I get the document icons to work? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Drag Files To Application Icon
Hey, How can I handle the dragging of a file onto my standalone application's icon (in the dock or on startup)? Is this easily done in Transcript? TTFN Bridger Maxwell Fiery Ferret ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Anyone see this same ?bug?
I get the same error every once in a while, but I just rearrange it, or add parentheses and then it works again. It has only happened two or three times, and has always been fairly easy to solve, but I never am able to see why it is throwing an error. Good to know I am not the only one. TTFN Bridger Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center On 3/16/07, Jim Ault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems to be a bug, or just an inconsistency. Am I missing something about Rev? Error = if: missing 'then' if "Version Alpha" is among the lines of the cardnames then answer "This has already been linked to a card" exit to top end if This version works by adding parens if "Version Alpha" is among the lines of (the cardnames) then answer "This has already been linked to a card" exit to top end if Mac OSX 10.4.7, Rev 2.7.2 IDEnvironment Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Core Image Transition Parameters
Hey, I was playing around with Core Image transitions, and while I found the Core Image Sampler stack very helpful, I am still a little confused about the parameters involved in a Core Image transition. The transition I am using is CIRippleTransition and the line I use looks like this: show grp "Shields" with visual effect CIRippleTransition slow with center (175,275) and extent (0,0,0,0) and scale -10 and width 30 and shadingImage id 2455 The "center" I found to be where the center of the transition, relative to what is being revealed or hidden. The "extent" I am really confused about, it looks like it might be a rect, but I can't figure out how to work it. The "scale" and "width" I have been able to play with until I got the desired effect, but I honestly couldn't explain why those numbers work. The "shadingImage" seems to be in the wrong format any time I pass it anything except an empty image. What should a proper shadingImage look like and what format should it be in? Really, I am trying to get the effect that OSX uses when adding a widget to the dashboard. If anyone knows more about this, could you please help me out? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: LIST and RUNREV security
It wouldn't take an infected PC to harvest emails. Our email is out on the
web:
http://mail.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2006-November/089491.html
You can tell that steps have been taken to protect it, ("at" instead of
"@"), but I am sure there are spiders sophisticated enough to figure that
out.
TTFN
Bridger Maxwell
Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center
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Re: XML Question
Never mind guys. I made a horrible mistake. In my format handler, I accidentally replaced something with a lowercase letter that should have been uppercase, which matters in XML. I fixed it, not major harm done, just wasted time. Sigh... Good thing the rest of Revolution isn't case-sensitive. Thank You, Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
XML Question
Hey, I was just debugging the project I have been working on (with all of your help) and it kept getting erratic results. I ran my XML through a parser, and it came up with several errors. I think I had a giant misconception when making this project. Is the following legal: In other words, can nodes with the same name be nested within each other? The parser keeps claiming that it expected the end of the Object node every time it encounters another Object node within the first. Does this mean that I did it all wrong? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [fun] Valid rev syntax. The silly scripts thread.
This silly script actually has a story to go along with it. It was a very frustrating day for programming. Bugs were absolutely everywhere. There was one handler that was particularly troublesome that I kept modifying, but it would inevitably crash the program and cause me to lose all my work since the last save. I was growing more frustrated, and decided to put a script in the handler to make sure that the stack saved each time it ran. Because the script was in the stack the handler looked like this: save me Wow, talk about a high-level language. This particular line of Transcript sounded exactly like my thoughts at the time. TTFN Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
CDATA
Hey, Here I am on the usergroup again needing even more help on XML. I am trying to use CDATA to store HTML-formatted text inside a node, but I am not having much luck. The text starts out looking like this: Hey! 20857 How are you? Then I wrap it in the CDATA tag: Then I store it in the XML. It looks like this in the XML: <![CDATA[ <p>Hey!</p <p>How are you?</p> ]]> Then upon retrieving it, I only get the first line. In this case: Hey! In an earlier post on this Ken Ray said: Yes, it is AFAIK - if you have *just* CDATA, you should be able to read it, but if you have both text contents of a node AND CDATA, the CDATA is not read. It's odd that it works on Windows, though, and not Mac since I thought it used the same library code under the hood. I am running OS X and plan to release for OS X, so there is a bug, but because I am not storing anything else inside the CDATA text, I didn't think it would affect me. Thanks again for all the help you guys have given me throughout my struggle with XML. TTFN Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: XML Woes
Ah, well, that goes to show how new I am at XML. Thanks a ton for the help. TTFN Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
XML Woes
Hey, I am new to XML and I am having troubles again. I have a handler that makes XML, and in some cases it recursively calls itself and uses the revAppendXML command to combine the recursively called tree into the tree it is working on. For some reason though, after I insert the second XML tree into the first, some of the XML nodes in the second tree get messed up. Any node in the second tree that doesn't contain any data gets messed up. becomes: What does that mean? When the second tree is returned it looks fine, it only gets messed up after the revAppendXML command is called. Is it even legal to have an XML tag with the forward slash character at the end of the name? And where did the closing tag go? Any help would be greatly appreciated. In case I wasn't very clear here is some sample XML to show what is happening: 20 20 <--- Problem area Thank You, Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Formatting XML Data
Hey, I am a first time XML user, just testing it out. I noticed that the text returned by the revXMLText() function has no formatting (returns, tabs) and isn't very easy to read. Is there a way to format this so it is easier to read, or would it be best to keep the XML how it is now? I am not sure what the standard is, but I thought XML should be formatted to be easy to read, like HTML. TTFN Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Emergency - (sort of) "a stack name with the same name..."
Hey, I have had a few experiences with an answer box popping up, but then making itself inaccessible, either by hiding itself or by simply lacking an "OK" button. Revolution will not let you do anything until you have responded, and you are unable to respond. I have been able to fix this by opening another stack with networking enabled (I found I am still able to open stacks, even with Rev stuck) and then remote-administering from a different computer. This usually includes: close stack "Answer dialog" and: lock messages; wait 5 seconds with messages I don't know if you happen to have two computers and a good networking stack lying around, but it is one possibility. Sorry if this wasn't much help, I was just sharing how I usually get myself out of that situation. Best of luck! TTFN Bridger Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center On 1/22/07, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have done this so many times - but wandering if someone can tell me how to get out of it... Rev is stuck in an infinite loop... it keeps infinitely saving two files and has the error dialogue stuck in the back. Command period and nothing I can think of exits the loop. I have almost never got out of this without a force quite - and I have just finished some complex coding. Is there any way to get out of it??? I am sure you all know what I mean - it happens pretty well all the time if you change stacks name and then"Save as..." I can never quite believe that it will do this so occasionally I try a "Save as..." - deadly! I'll go and have a beer and hope some guru has a hack to get out of this? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Altplug-ins demo stacks...
It is a problem in the "initme" handler. Change line 2 (the non commented
one) to to read:
put "http://downloads.runrev.com/alt_externals/altFont.zip " into
lMacExternalUrl
They accidentally spelled Mac with an x when updating the code to reflect
the new download site. Once that is fixed you will have to run openstack
again, then click on the Update External button and it should work.
I am not sure about the crashing stack, maybe someone else can help. I do
know that the external is PPC, so if you are running an Intel Mac, you might
have problems (see my post).
TTFN
Bridger Maxwell
Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center
On 1/19/07, Andrew Meit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have found bugs using the altfont demo
1. installing the plug-in:
Unzip problem:
ditto: Couldn't read PKZip signature
3. running the demo
after I installed manually the altfont bundle in externals, I ran
demo. It crashed.
Any help would be valued now.. :-)
Shalom, Andrew
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AltFont External On Intel Mac
Hey, I was trying to work with the AltFont external, but I couldn't get it to load as an external, while I was successful with the other externals. I looked at the AltFont bundle, and discovered it was PPC. I have been able to get it to work by forcing Revolution to run under Rosetta, but that is definitely not a solution I would like use permanently . Is there any other solution to this, or is there a Universal Binary external somewhere? TTFN Bridger Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
SFTP
Hey, I am trying to get a server set up on a School District's network, but they won't let me open an FTP port to the internet unless it is an SFTP connection. As far as I can tell, Revolution is not able to open Secure FTP connections out of the box, but are there any workarounds that anyone knows about? Any tips would be greatly appreciated. TTFN Bridger Maxwell CMSEC ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Broadcasts On OS X
Hey, Today I was trying to get broadcasts working for a simple (very simple) chat program for use on a LAN that sends using broadcasts. I was able to get the Windows version working fine, it sent to the IP 192.168.0.255 and all the other clients received it (PC and Mac), but I can't seem to send a broadcast on my OS X machine. I am sending it to the same address, but no one receives it. I ran the shell command ifconfig to divine the broadcast address (which was the same as the one the PC was using), but it didn't work. Is there a different address I should be sending it to? TTFN Bridger CMSEC ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: GIF Playrate
Thanks everybody, that suits my purpose perfectly. Bridger Maxwell CMSEC ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
GIF Playrate
Hey, I am using an animated GIF in my stack, and I can't figure out how to slow it down. What is the property (if any) that specifies how fast the frames are played? Bridger Maxwell CMSEC ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Lock Moves Bug?
Hey, From the way the documentation reads, I would think that setting the lock moves to true, issuing a few move commands, and setting the lockmoves to false would start the move commands on all the objects at the same time. But I can't get it to work that way. Here is my script: lock moves set the lockMoves to true repeat with z = 1 to 10 put "Contact" & z into vObj ---Here is where I had a lot of script to calculate newLoc move btn vObj to newLoc end repeat unlock moves set the lockMoves to false When I run that they each move one after the other. They do not start at the same time. Not only that, but it takes up time as if it is moving, but I don't actually see the animation. I made a simpler test script with only two buttons and without a repeat loop and got the same result: on test if the loc of btn "Move1" is the line 1 of the tooltip of btn "Move1" then put the line 2 of the tooltip of btn "Move1" into loc1 else put the line 1 of the tooltip of btn "Move1" into loc1 end if if the loc of btn "Move2" is the line 1 of the tooltip of btn "Move2" then put the line 2 of the tooltip of btn "Move2" into loc2 else put the line 1 of the tooltip of btn "Move2" into loc2 end if lock moves move btn "Move1" to loc1 move btn "Move2" to loc2 unlock moves end test Because I can't use the lockmoves, I am just making it move without waiting. Does this mean there is a bug, or am I just doing it wrong? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Make an Object "Wander"
Hey, I am designing a program is the Tactical station for a Star Trek-type simulator. It has 10 of buttons in a grid. These buttons represent other ships outside of our ship. The kid working the station targets the contact by tracing the mouse over it for a while (not very difficult, it has to be operated by a 5th grader of any intelligence). Right now the target picks a random loc, moves there, then picks another loc. It is supposed to look like they are just drifting in space a little, but it looks really lame right now because they move in such perfectly straight lines. Does anybody have any ideas to make them randomly wander inside of the grid? I would like to have it run as a background task so the move command doesn't tie things up. It would also be cool if the speed they moved at varied a little. Much appreciated. TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Right-Clicking A Table Field
Hello, I made an application that uses a table field as a list field. Never does each cell "pop out" to be edited, it just hilites the line and keeps everything lined up. However, a right-click will "pop out" the cell, but the pop out will be empty, whether or not there is data in the cell. After three right-clicks the table gets mad and clears itself. Is there any way to make sure that you can't right-click the field? Right now I am thinking that I can make a button set to noop, so it is invisible. If it gets clicked by the left button, it will turn itself invisible and then click at the loc. A right click would be ignored. However, I am against this solution because it is messy, and other mouse events will be blocked. Does anybody have a better idea? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
HostNameToAddress Replacement
Hello, I have a friend who's iMac G5 seems to dislike the hostNameToAddress() function. She is trying to help me develop a program, but without that function she can't run my networking system and that makes it extremely difficult for her to help. I am looking for a replacement to the hostNameToAddress() function. All it has to do is retrieve the IP address of the machine it is running on. It doesn't have to be particularly clean either, it only has to run on her computer, not the computers we are distributing to. Does anybody have any ideas? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Checking For An FTP File
Hey, How would I check to see if a file exists on an ftp server? "There is a file " does not work with ftp addresses. TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Clicking A Button With An Icon
Thank you everybody. I realize that for normal purposes a button that is selective about where it is clicked would be bad. I was planning on using an image instead, but before I went through the work of changing everything in my stack I wanted to see if there was an easier way. TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Clicking A Button With An Icon
Hey, I noticed that the mouseUp message is not sent to an image when the user clicks on a part of the image that is transparent. However, when the user clicks on a transparent-type button with its icon set to the same image, the mousUp message is sent regardless of the transparency of the pixel. Is there any way to apply that behavior of the image to the button? Right now I have a set of icons that are all 32 x 32, but if the actual colored portion of the icon is smaller (which it often is), I don't want the button the receive the mouseUp message. Is there a way to do this? Another possible solution would be to resize the buttons according to the size of the painted portion of the icon, but I don't know if that is possible either. TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: HostNameToAddress Function
I found out some more information. Apparently the nslookup Unix command returns the following: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. Server: 192.168.0.1 Address:192.168.0.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: 158.36.131.209.in-addr.arpa name = f1.www.vip.sp1.yahoo.com. Authoritative answers can be found from: 36.131.209.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns5.yahoo.com. 36.131.209.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns7.yahoo.com. 36.131.209.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns1.yahoo.com. 36.131.209.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns2.yahoo.com. 36.131.209.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns3.yahoo.com. ns1.yahoo.com internet address = 66.218.71.63 ns2.yahoo.com internet address = 68.142.255.16 ns3.yahoo.com internet address = 217.12.4.104 ns5.yahoo.com internet address = 216.109.116.17 ns7.yahoo.com internet address = 68.142.226.82 I guess that means that nslookup has been removed from her machine? Is that what Revolution uses for hostNameToAddress()? TTFN Bridger On 11/5/06, Bridger Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, I made a networking stack that retrieves information about the computer. The first check it does is hostName(). This returns the name of the machine. Then I take the result of that and run it through hostNameToAddress() to find the IP address. This works fine on my computer, but one one of my friends, the hostNameToAddress() doesn't return anything. The hostName() function still works though. We are both running Mac OSX. Has anyone had experience with this? Is there a different way to find the IP address? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
HostNameToAddress Function
Hey, I made a networking stack that retrieves information about the computer. The first check it does is hostName(). This returns the name of the machine. Then I take the result of that and run it through hostNameToAddress() to find the IP address. This works fine on my computer, but one one of my friends, the hostNameToAddress() doesn't return anything. The hostName() function still works though. We are both running Mac OSX. Has anyone had experience with this? Is there a different way to find the IP address? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Making an Image
woops, I wrote that last email before I read carefully. Please disregard that. On 11/1/06, Bridger Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a more effective way, besides the imageData? On 11/1/06, Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: > > > How can I make one image look like another image? I set the > > imageData of > > img 2 to the imageData of img 1, but that got really weird. > > set the text of img 2 to the text of img 1 > > > What other data > > makes up an image? > > the rectangle > the imageData > the alphaData > > Y' gotta get the size (and shape) right if you need to use imageData. > > Dar > > > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Making an Image
Is there a more effective way, besides the imageData? On 11/1/06, Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: > How can I make one image look like another image? I set the > imageData of > img 2 to the imageData of img 1, but that got really weird. set the text of img 2 to the text of img 1 > What other data > makes up an image? the rectangle the imageData the alphaData Y' gotta get the size (and shape) right if you need to use imageData. Dar ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Making an Image
Hey, How can I make one image look like another image? I set the imageData of img 2 to the imageData of img 1, but that got really weird. What other data makes up an image? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Fonts in a Stack
Wow, that looks like the exact thing I was looking for. Just a question, does it actually install the font? I don't mind it if does I guess, but somehow it would be cooler if nothing was left on the users computer. TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Fonts in a Stack
Hey, For a stack I am making, I have a very specific font that I am wanting to use, but it is not a font that would be one most people's computers. Is there a way to install a font from within Revolution, or if possible, use a font that is not installed. This would be intended for Mac OSX and Windows. I know that this probably won't work, but you never know... TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Activating a Function in a Different Stack
Wow, thanks for the great response everyone. I tried a few and I found that the value function works the best. I had actually been using virtual properties in a few places instead of functions, but the problem then was that I couldn't pass parameters to them. Here is the final script: put "Stack" && where & quote into vStack put requestData && "of" && vStack into vRequest try put value(vRequest,vStack) into vReturn end try One thing is still a little confusing though. Calling a function like "the short name of the current stack" return the name of the right stack, but a request like "the mouseLoc" returns a value that is relative to the stack that is retrieving the data, even if that stack isn't the top stack. If the mouseloc function is not relative to the top stack, and it is not relative to the stack that the value is being requested from, how does it decide which stack it is relative to and how can I know which functions are funny like that? Also one odd quirk I discovered was that when nesting value functions things get weird. i.e value( (value(vRequest,vStack) ), vStack) "the short name of me" would return "Odyssey" when the stack name was "Odyssey Sensors", and that was the only function that would come close to working. Not important, but very mystifying. TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Activating a Function in a Different Stack
Hey,
Is it possible to activate a function that resides in one stack, and get
the result from a different stack? Right now I have it set up so that Stack
A gets a request for info from stack B over the Internet. Lets pretend that
the request is "the background color of this stack". It puts that into a
variable called vWhat. Then it executes do ("get" && vWhat && "of Stack
B"). Then Stack A returns the data over the Internet. This works well for
requesting properties, but I can't get it to activate a function and put the
result in the it variable. Is it even possible? Is there a "send"
equivalent for functions?
TTFN
Bridger
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Re: Specific Color Ink
Hey, You were right in assuming I wanted hilites. I just wasn't sure how to say it. I already have the program made and the interface done, I was just looking for a way to improve it. Right now the interface is pretty simple. It is designed to look a little like LCARS ( http://homepage.mac.com/randmiranda/.Pictures/Desktop%20City%20II/lcars.jpg) from Star Trek (we do space simulations). 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 would like to do is add an image over the top of everything that is the hilites, but only shows up when the pixel is completely black. That way I could add a cool effect, without redoing the whole interface. TTFN Bridger On 10/8/06, Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 8, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: > I have a need for an ink that makes an image visible ONLY if the > color > beneath it is a specific color. I was shooting for black, but I > can work > with whatever color is possible. I have a program where all empty > space is > black. This has advantages because it is very easy to move object > around > without having to worry about how it fits into the background. My > thought > would be to have an image and an ink that shows up only where it is > black. > Then I could give the black space a cool shiny black look (like > frontrow), > or whatever else. I'm a little confused about what you want. You mention a "specific color" and then you want to have a "cool shiny black look" which I assume means that you put highlights on it. This might do what you want: This needs 2.7. Choose any color or texture for your empty space color. Make it transparent where you don't want color. You can make an image that is transparent in those place and you can also build up a shape with multiple graphics grouped to together. Call that the "empty space" object. Group that with the image you want to move around with the image to the front. Set the ink of the "empty space" and the group to blendSrcOver. Set the ink of the image you want to move around to to blendSrcAtop. The opaqueness of the objects in the group under the image will allow the image to show. Outside of the image (or where it is transparent) the color or texture of the underlying "empty space" will show through. If I missed what you want, I apologize. You might not need any special ink. An alternate approach would be to set the color of the card to black. Make everything else not black. Then put the moving image between everything else and the card. That is, move it to the far back. Dar -- ** Dar Scott Dar Scott Consulting and Dar's Lab 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, office, home: +1 505 299 9497 Fax:call above first Skype: ask http://www.swcp.com/dsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer programming ** ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Specific Color Ink
Hey, I have a need for an ink that makes an image visible ONLY if the color beneath it is a specific color. I was shooting for black, but I can work with whatever color is possible. I have a program where all empty space is black. This has advantages because it is very easy to move object around without having to worry about how it fits into the background. My thought would be to have an image and an ink that shows up only where it is black. Then I could give the black space a cool shiny black look (like frontrow), or whatever else. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, is there any way to access Core Image besides transitions? Can we use the blend modes or filters? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Simulating Keystrokes
Hey, Thanks for all the suggestions. I think that should work for what I am doing, but I was wondering if there was any way to send keystrokes so it seems to the system to be coming from the keyboard. I realize this would probably be a security hole, but I have seen programs, at least on windows, that can simulate any keystroke as if it was coming from the keyboard. Is AS GUI commands as versatile? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Simulating Keystrokes
Hey, I know I can simulate keystrokes from Revolution to my stack by sending the keyDown message, but is there any way to send keystrokes to the system or to other programs? I would like to send keystrokes like "F9" to activate expose, but it would be very nice to be able to send any keystroke. TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Kill a Standalone
Hey, I am sure this is a common question, but I can't find any posts that address it. I compiled a standalone application, but I created my own titlebar and my own exit button. The exit button has the script "delete the current stack". This works to hide the stack, but the process never dissapears (I am using Windows). I even have the destroystack property set to true. What is the command to completely close a standalone application? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Communicate with stepper motors?
Hey, I have been working with the BASIC stamp from Parallax. It is a micro controller and can control a few I/O switches. The language that you program in is called PBASIC. It is a simplified version of the BASIC language that the stamp understands and has a few commands that are specifically made for the micro controller. Maybe this is what your friend was talking about. So far I have been using the Parallax BASIC editor to make and load programs to the stamp, but once it has the program is has been EXTREMELY easy to talk to the stamp with Revolution via COM ports and give it parameters that it has been programmed to wait for, such as a position for a stepper motor. It may even be possible to write a program that will compile script and load it to the stamp, I haven't tried though. Just another option that you might want to look at. This process is pretty easy to do (I am 15 and I have handled it so it can't be that terribly difficult) and has a lot of potential for controlling custom devices. TTFN Bridgeyman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language than Transcript?
Hey, I was just getting the Revolution update and I happened to notice that on one of the little info screens it displays as it installs it says, "You don't have to have a degree in programming to develop in Revolution. Revolution uses an easy to understand English-based language also called Revolution." That sounds pretty official that the language is no longer called "Transcipt" anymore by the people at Runrev. (Realize that I was paraphrasing a little except for the sentence "language also called Revolution" because I don't have a photographic memory). TTFN Bridger On 8/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chipp, Thanks for the kind words. I'm always gratified when I hear folks implement the suggestions. Dan and I had a short talk after the conference about me giving a full session to disseminate similar marketing morsels. We both concluded that those who might benefit most would probably not attend. Glad to hear you ran with it! PL -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 8:44 AM Subject: Re: OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language than Transcript? Excellent point Paul. You often say the most interesting things! Thanks again for the advice about pricing you gave at the conference. I've implemented it on ButtonGadget and it seems to work :-) On 8/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can be more specific with more knowledgeable people. > When I travel overseas and people ask where I'm from, I say "The > United States". When people ask in the US, I say "California". If they > live on the west coast, I'll probably say "Los Angeles". If they live > in California, I'll just say "LA". If they live in greater LA, I'll say > "San Dimas". If they live in San Dimas, I'll say "The corner of > Commercial St." > Sometimes "Revolution" is right. Sometimes "Transcript". Transcript > definitely has its place and it is seldom difficult to know when to use > it. > Paul Looney ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Write To Process
Hey, I want to develop an external using C++ to use with Revolution. My plan is to communicate with it using the "write to process" and "read from process" commands. Does anybody know how to intercept the data sent to an external using the write to process, or to send data so it can be read using the "read from process" command? Thank You, Bridger Maxwell ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Sending Messages To API's
Hey, I am seeing if it is possible to control the Skype API using Revolution. The Skype Developer site ( https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc/Using_the_Skype_API_on_Windows) says to use the WM_COPYDATA command to communicate with Skype, but I have no idea how to do this. I have used the "open process C:/.../Skype.exe for text update" command to open Skype, but the write to process yields no results. I am also not able to receive anything from Skype using the read from process, or close Skype using close process. Skype shows up in the openProcesses and the result never shows any errors. Can someone help me make heads or tails of all this? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Repeat Unexpectedly Aborted
Hey, For some reason every time I open the script editor using the keyboard shortcut (CTRL + Shift + C (or S)) it will quit a repeat loop that is running, but if I open the script editor from the menubar on the RevMenuBar stack it is fine. This doesn't make any sense, no errors are popping up, and try/catch setups are catching any errors. Here is the script I was having trouble with. The image "Pinger" is just an animated GIF that is of a wave of white that spreads outward in a circle and fades away during the last 30 frames. It is in the card script, if that makes any difference. on ping lock screen set the repeatCount of img "Pinger" of me to 0 set the currentFrame of img "Pinger" of me to 1 set the blendLevel of img "Pinger" of me to 0 unlock screen repeat with x = 1 to (the frameCount of img "Pinger" of me - 10) set the currentFrame of img "Pinger" of me to x wait 2 tick with messages if the abs of (x - the frameCount of img "Pinger" of me) < 30 then put 30 - (the frameCount of img "Pinger" of me - x) into y set the blendLevel of img "Pinger" of me to (y * 5) end if end repeat end ping Thank You, Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Without Waiting
Hey, Is it possible to have two handlers, and to call the second handler from within the first handler, and have the first handler keep executing without waiting for the second handler to finish? Example: --- on Handler1 Handler2 ---Call this handler, but don't wait for it to finish before beeping beep end Handler1 on Handler2 doSomeStuffThatTakesALongTime end Handler2 Thank You Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Microphone
Hey, I am in desperate need for some way to record sound, besides the record command. The record command takes half a second to start and end, and it saves the data to a file. This is just not what I am looking for. If there is any way to directly read from the microphone port (on a mac and pc) I desperately need to know how. Thanks for your help. Thank You, Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Visual Effects
Hey, I have a handler that shows something with a visual effect scroll down, then on the next line it moves an object. For the effect I am going for I would like both actions to occur simultaneously. Is there a way to make so that a visual effect does not pause the current handler? Thank You, Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Multiple Monitor Backdrop
Hey, Does anyone know how to make the backdrop display on anything but the primary monitor? Revolution 2.7 says that they have support for multiple monitors but all I could find was that the screenrects can return more than one line. Can anyone point me to some other functions? TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Clipboard Data
Hey, I was wondering if there was any way to represent objects (or an entire card) as text so it can be sent over a network and be unpacked somewhere else. I messed around with the clipboard and made a stack that copies the objects to a new stack, saves the stack, sends the stackData to the other computer, and copies the objects to the other stack. This works, but it is overly complicated and a little too unstable. The clipboard() function returns "objects" when I have copied buttons or cards, but the clipboardData["objects"] doesn't return anything. Does anyone know why? Thank you, Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Non-Contiguous hilites
Try setting the hilitedLines of the field. Just list the line numbers, each seperated by a comma. set the hilitedLines of fld "list field" to 1,2,6 TTFN Bridger On 6/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a list field in which I want to select multiple lines by script. It works fine by holding control while clicking the lines, but how do you do the same in a script? select line 1 to 5 and line 7,8,12 of field "ListData" -- I know this syntax is way wrong. Roger Eller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Layering QT Players
Hey, For one of my programs I needed to create a card with a movie that has two different motions that can move independently of each other. To create this effect I used two QT players and layered them, but they aren't acting how I expected them to. When the one on the top layer is not playing, then it disappears beneath the other player. If they are both playing then the player on the top layer get very buggy and unstable, so it reverts back and forth from being visible to not being visible. I think I might be able to solve this problem or think of an alternate solution if I just knew a little more about the player object. I especially need to know about layering between two players, and a player with a regular object (such as a field). If someone could explain this to me I would greatly appreciate it. Thank You, Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Play a Player Backwards
Hey, Does anyone know a way that I can play a player backwards? It is a player with an external reference. Importing the videos would make my stack way to big so it has to stay as a player. I thought there was a simple property, but I can't find it. Thank You, Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Corrupted Images
Hey, I have been having troubles with a few of my stacks. At random times images that I have imported will just show up as a big rectangle of uniform black and white pixels. The only resemblance the image keeps is its original size. I think they have all been PNG images. I would use a different image type, but PNG is the best for transparency. Has anyone had this problem before? It has happenend in both Revolution Dreamcard 2.5.1and Revolution Studio 2.7. TTFN Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Changing Script In Standalone
Hey, In one of my programs I use the "Set the script of object to string" alot, but when I recently switched over to 2.7.1 Studio and started to make standalone programs, I noticed that this no longer works. For my test I made a field and two buttons, one button set the script of the other button to the field. I typed a simple on mouseUp handler that answers a message. It worked when I did it in the development environment, but not as a standalone. Does this mean that I can't change script from the user-interface after it has been saved as a standalone? Can someone give me the basic rundown of how Revolution compiles stacks into a standalone? TTFN (ta-ta-for-now) Bridger ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Acessing button scripts in a HC stack ?
Try using AppleEvents. I don't have a mac nearby to test it on, but I have seen it work. I don't think the Hypercard program needs to have a handler to receive this. request "the script of btn " & (cd fld "ButtonName) from program "Hypercard" On 3/21/06, Francis Nugent Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi from Paris, > > I thought that I had been explicit, but apparently not ! > > From a Rev 2.6.1 stack, I want to open a HC stack (at the > same time), examine it visually, type a name into a field in > the Rev stack which corresponds to a button that I see in > the HC stack. Then I want to hit a button in the Rev stack > which picks up the script from that button in the HC stack, > and returns it to the Rev stack where I can play with it, using > a Rev script. > > I also want to do the same with scripts from fields. > > "Reasonable request - no other interest" > (Only the very best - Tycoon - 1992 - Peter Kingsbery) > > Please don't ask me why I don't use "Cut" and "Paste" . > > All of this is with the object of automating (as far as I can) > my HC to Rev conversions. Building the stacks is a piece > of cake with Rev, but modifying the scripts is a pain, so I do > it .. using a script . of course ! My problem is bringing > the script over to Rev . > > -Francis > > "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !" > > > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Locking Messages
Thanks, I think that might work. I need to try it out. The reason I can't know what is triggering the problem is because my stack is made to work with any card, and every time I use it I am sending a different card with different handlers in it accross the network. Most of the errors are from the openCard, preOpenCard and such, but because I am working with a lot of different cards from any stack a mouseover handler might be in there, or maybe an idle. My stack has to be able to deal with anything. On 3/5/06, Rob Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bridger, > > > The thing is a > > card may have a handler in it that is triggered, that refers to an > > object on > > another card. Because it has been seperated from the rest of the > > stack, it > > can't find that object and it causes errors. Once it is inserted into > > the > > new stack it should stop causing errors, but until then I need to lock > > the > > messages to the stack holding the card so it doesn't trigger anything. > > I > > can't really predict what handlers will be triggered, or what the > > errors are > > going to be so I can't just intercept them beforehand. Any ideas > > 1. Isn't it possible to isolate the line in Stack 1's handler where > this occurs and lock/unlock messages before/after that line? > > Eg: > > on createStackForNetwork stack3CardId > > > lock messages > copy card id stack3CardId of stack "Stack 3" to stack "Stack 2" > unlock messages > ... > ... > end createStackForNetwork > > 2. I'm still having trouble understanding why you can't predict when > and what will happen if Stacks 1, 2, & 3 are your creations. Only a > limited number of messages might trigger Stack 3 card handlers when the > card is copied to Stack 2: newCard, preOpenCard, openCard, and > closeCard. If you step through the handler in the debugger with the > Message Watcher open, you should be able to determine the line(s) that > trigger the problem. > > Rob Cozens > CCW, Serendipity Software Company > > "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; > Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." > > from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) > > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Locking Messages
Hey, Sorry I wasn't very clear on my question. I have made a stack (Stack 1) that copies a card from any stack running in the background (Stack 3), pastes it on another stack that was just made (Stack 2), and sends stack 2 over the network where the card that was added to any stack that intercepts it. It is made to be able to add any card to any stack. The thing is a card may have a handler in it that is triggered, that refers to an object on another card. Because it has been seperated from the rest of the stack, it can't find that object and it causes errors. Once it is inserted into the new stack it should stop causing errors, but until then I need to lock the messages to the stack holding the card so it doesn't trigger anything. I can't really predict what handlers will be triggered, or what the errors are going to be so I can't just intercept them beforehand. Any ideas? On 3/4/06, Rob Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Bridger, > > > I have a stack (Which I will call Stack 1) that > > makes another stack (I will call it Stack 2), copies a card from some > > other stack running in the background (which I call Stack 3) and sends > > the new stack with the copied card all over the network where it is > > added to whatever stack sees it. The problem is that sometimes the > > card on Stack 2 has unexpected handler in it that cause random errors > > when I am working with it. I realize I can lock the messages, but > > that locks the messages for the Stack 1 also, which I cannot do. Is > > there any way of keeping messages from being passed to Stack 2, > > without locking the messages from Stack 1? > > > > I am not sure exactly what you are describing. > > If Stack 2 is created on-the-fly, where does the "unexpected" handler > come from? The card copied from Stack 3? > > Do you have handlers with identical names in Stack 1 and 2? > > If Stacks 1, 2, & 3 are all your creations, you should be able to avoid > any duplication. > > If the error is caused by broadcasting a message (eg: doWhatever), > perhaps the problem can be avoided by directing the message to the > correct object (eg: send "doWhatever" to card 1 of stack "Stack 1"). > > Rob Cozens > CCW, Serendipity Software Company > > "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; > Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." > > from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) > > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Locking Messages
Hey, It is me again. I have a stack (Which I will call Stack 1) that makes another stack (I will call it Stack 2), copies a card from some other stack running in the background (which I call Stack 3) and sends the new stack with the copied card all over the network where it is added to whatever stack sees it. The problem is that sometimes the card on Stack 2 has unexpected handler in it that cause random errors when I am working with it. I realize I can lock the messages, but that locks the messages for the Stack 1 also, which I cannot do. Is there any way of keeping messages from being passed to Stack 2, without locking the messages from Stack 1? TTFN Bridgeyman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: It Variable
Hey, Thanks for your responses, but they don't quite work for my particular case. Putting get the result below the line where I call for the netrequest will work, but it would be extremely difficult to do because it is located in odd places all over in more than 40 stacks. Right now I am thinking of making a stack that will do it for me, but I was hoping there was an easier way. On 3/3/06, Sarah Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/4/06, Bridger Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just made a giant switch from Hypercard to Revolution. In Hypercard > > networking we used "request thedata from program theComputer" to request > > data from across an appletalk network. In Revolution this didn't work > > anymore so we made a new command, "Netrequest" that serves the same > > function. "netrequest thedata,theComputer" The problem is that in > > Hypercard put the data into the it variable when it is done. Without > > changing the script in the card where it initiates the netrequest > command > > (such as in the card or a button), can I add something the to stack > script > > where the command is contained so it puts the result into the it > variable? > > > netrequest thedata,theComputer > get the result > -- "it" will now contain whatever was returned from the netrequest > handler. > > HTH, > Sarah > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
It Variable
I just made a giant switch from Hypercard to Revolution. In Hypercard networking we used "request thedata from program theComputer" to request data from across an appletalk network. In Revolution this didn't work anymore so we made a new command, "Netrequest" that serves the same function. "netrequest thedata,theComputer" The problem is that in Hypercard put the data into the it variable when it is done. Without changing the script in the card where it initiates the netrequest command (such as in the card or a button), can I add something the to stack script where the command is contained so it puts the result into the it variable? TTFN Bridgeyman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Workgroup Computers
Hey, Does anyone out there know how to access a list of workgroup computers or anything similar? I am making a networking stack, but it has to be able to detect all the computers that it is hooked up to. I would like something that works on any system, but I am mainly looking for it to work on a Mac. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
