Metacard still wins
Okay, so I've been learning the Rev IDE. Yesterday I had a bunch of option buttons and I was putting scripts into them via copy/paste. Didn't want to group them. I pasted the scripts, closed and saved the script, and saved the stack. Went back to discovered most of the buttons were missing the scripts. Did it again and again and again on and on, and for some reason the scripts wouldn't stick. Really unnerving because you just wonder how much is disappearing that you'll discover later. I've NEVER had that happen with the MC IDE. Ever in many years, from MC 2.4.3 to 2.9, it has never happened (using Enterprise). So I attempted to install the MC IDE hoping Klaus was wrong about Media, but sadly, it wouldn't stick either so I guess I'm going to be sleeping with the Rev IDE over there. At least here I can dance with my happy MC IDE :-) -- Dogs and bears, sports and cars, and patriots t-shirts http://www.villagetshirts.com WlND0WS and MAClNT0SH shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: Metacard still wins
I've NEVER had that happen with the MC IDE. Ever in many years, from MC 2.4.3 to 2.9, it has never happened (using Enterprise). So I attempted to install the MC IDE hoping Klaus was wrong about Media, but sadly, it wouldn't stick either so I guess I'm going to be sleeping with the Rev IDE over there. At least here I can dance with my happy MC IDE :-) Revolution Media, as Jan suggested, has a different emphasis than Studio and Enterprise. The ability to use your IDE of choice - Rev, MetaCard or Galaxy is a major advantage, as is the ability to build standalones. Media is really positioned more to replace HyperCard by providing a very inexpensive way to get into authoring. Media isnt without expansion capabilities though - you can still use libraries like Animation Engine. Media is therefore more complete out of the box, but feature limited compared to Studio. Im going to write a follow on post about the toolkit which is media in our Issue Release method we have moved to at Mirye, which will expand on this. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Mirye Software Publishing http://www.mirye.com Mirye Community NING http://miryesoftware.ning.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Metacard still wins
Shari wrote: Okay, so I've been learning the Rev IDE. Yesterday I had a bunch of option buttons and I was putting scripts into them via copy/paste. Didn't want to group them. I pasted the scripts, closed and saved the script, and saved the stack. Went back to discovered most of the buttons were missing the scripts. Did it again and again and again on and on, and for some reason the scripts wouldn't stick. Really unnerving because you just wonder how much is disappearing that you'll discover later. I've NEVER had that happen with the MC IDE. I've never had it happen with Rev either. How are you saving the scripts? I usually just hit the Enter key twice while the script is frontmost, at which point the script closes and saves. Then I save the stack. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Metacard still wins
Shari, Something similar happened to me. Sometimes because Revolution didn't notice that a stack couldn't be saved, sometimes because a script didn't compile while no errors were reported. Unfortunately, there are multiple factors that cause this situation and it is difficult to reproduce. It happens only rarely, but when it happens you may lose a day's work and find out about it only the next day. You might want to put true into gRevDevelopment (use the message box) and see whether an execution error appears when you apply the script. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Benefit from our inexpensive hosting services. See http://economy-x-talk.com/server.html for more info. On 8 aug 2008, at 20:58, J. Landman Gay wrote: Shari wrote: Okay, so I've been learning the Rev IDE. Yesterday I had a bunch of option buttons and I was putting scripts into them via copy/ paste. Didn't want to group them. I pasted the scripts, closed and saved the script, and saved the stack. Went back to discovered most of the buttons were missing the scripts. Did it again and again and again on and on, and for some reason the scripts wouldn't stick. Really unnerving because you just wonder how much is disappearing that you'll discover later. I've NEVER had that happen with the MC IDE. I've never had it happen with Rev either. How are you saving the scripts? I usually just hit the Enter key twice while the script is frontmost, at which point the script closes and saves. Then I save the stack. ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Metacard still wins
I've never had it happen with Rev either. How are you saving the scripts? I usually just hit the Enter key twice while the script is frontmost, at which point the script closes and saves. Then I save the stack. I've always hit the enter key in MC. In Rev I use the menu Save and Close or Apply and Close or whatever it's called. It worked on every other script except for those option buttons, and it worked on some of them. You might want to put true into gRevDevelopment (use the message box) and see whether an execution error appears when you apply the script. What is gRevDevelopment? (Please don't tell me you have to turn Execution Errors on in Rev? MC just automatically does them!) Shari -- Dogs and bears, sports and cars, and patriots t-shirts http://www.villagetshirts.com WlND0WS and MAClNT0SH shareware games http://www.gypsyware.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: Metacard still wins
Shari wrote: What is gRevDevelopment? (Please don't tell me you have to turn Execution Errors on in Rev? MC just automatically does them!) Rev behaves identically and will show errors unless you specifically turn them off (there is a toolbar icon to toggle that.) The gRevDevelopment global is an undocumented setting used by the Rev IDE team to debug errors that occur in scripts within the IDE stacks. On the assumption that most users don't want to debug the IDE, it is turned off by default. Mark is suggesting that you turn it on temporarily to see whether an IDE script error is blocking the saving in your own scripts. It isn't usually necessary but in rare circumstances it can be useful to see the guts of the IDE in action. I kind of doubt this is what's going on but it won't hurt to check. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
