Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Signe, I thought this was a plausible explanation, so I built a distribution for Win32 and tried it, but still a Rev app does not trap these key combinations and translate them into 'international' characters. I think this is starting to look like a bug. - when I press the 'AltGr' key it

Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread revolution
Signe. Thank you for going to the trouble of doing that. I think that this indicates that it is some setting in Windows 2000. Given that one cannot know what the user's settings are (and that as an application developer one probably shouldn't rely on being able to reconfigure these), and

Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread Manuel Companys
Le mardi, 10 déc 2002, à 09:02 Europe/Paris, Signe Marie Sanne a écrit : Bernard, I just downloaded Revolution on my Windows 2000, made a standalone and tested the accented letters. Here on my (Norwegian) keyboard everything works fine. In development mode there's a problem with accent aigu

Re: inserting accented characters

2002-12-10 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Signe. Thank you for going to the trouble of doing that. I think that this indicates that it is some setting in Windows 2000. Given that one cannot know what the user's settings are (and that as an application developer one probably shouldn't rely on being able to reconfigure these), and

Re: Checkboxes

2002-12-10 Thread David Vaughan
On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 22:30 Australia/Sydney, Jez wrote: Please someone tell me how I can set and retrieve the status of a checkbox ! set the hilite of button checkboxname>> to true | false get the hilite of button checkboxname>> or put the hilite of checkboxname>> into somevar>>

Re: [OT] All this talk of Whisky...

2002-12-10 Thread Rod McCall
At 10:13 10/12/2002 -0800, Rob Cozens wrote: Basically all you have to do is post a *relevant* message to this list between now and Christmas day. Hi Rod, Does that mean *relevant* to whisky? By relevant I mean chatting about something to do with Revolution and not simply posting a message

Re: Passing selectedField Location between Stacks

2002-12-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bernard Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the issue is actually to do with moving from stack to stack: the selectedChunk only refers to the character numbers in a (numbered) field. There is no reference to a stack. So it seems logical to me that if one is to click on another stack, that

Saving the clipboard

2002-12-10 Thread Dan Friedman
Hello! My standalone contains several stacks files. During the course of activity in my standalone, I copy objects from one stack to another. I want to preserve the clipboard text during the copy/paste of objects. Here are the calls I am using to save the clipboard text: on aLongRoutine --a

Re: Saving the clipboard

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Friedman wrote: My standalone contains several stacks files. During the course of activity in my standalone, I copy objects from one stack to another. I want to preserve the clipboard text during the copy/paste of objects. You could also use copy obj to dest option or the clone command

Re: Passing selectedField Location between Stacks

2002-12-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
Thanks for the suggestion. It was a mouseUp handler, so I changed it to mouseDown but it didn't make any difference. I think the issue is actually to do with moving from stack to stack: the selectedChunk only refers to the character numbers in a (numbered) field. There is no reference to a

RE: System Language

2002-12-10 Thread Monte Goulding
Thanks Alex for clearing up the issue. I'm actually expecting Raney will chime in at some point and tell us that it's a bug in OS X not anything with Australians being a day ahead of the pack ;-) Cheers beers from down under Monte ___ use-revolution

Re: 2.0 - (OT) Malt

2002-12-10 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Montag, Dezember 9, 2002, at 01:33 Uhr, Rod McCall wrote: Ok, for what its worth I couldn't agree more. Even better for me though I live next door (well for another month) to the Scottish Malt Whiskey Society! Lets put it this way their menu is large and isn't usually for food! I would

Re: how to share cards between substacks?

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: I have a few cards which I need to reuse in several substacks. I could put the cards in the mainstack, or their own substack. How can I programmatically do something like this? insert card the card of stack sharedCards into this stack set the script of card the card to ...

Re: Sequential Layout of Script-created Objects

2002-12-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 07:04 PM, erik hansen wrote: i was afraid something like this would happen. a recent DeVoto (co-author of The Book) posted that x is only calculated once. maybe that lets the former go faster. Maybe the poster was thinking of something like this: repeat