Re: Underlined characters in button label?

2003-01-01 Thread Sarah
On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 02:02 pm, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 3:48 PM -0800 1/1/03, Sarah wrote: I too have ben trying to apply different formats to various characters of a button name or label but not succeeding. I think Jeanne has provided the reason: Hmm. You could fake it by

Re: setting pointer location

2003-01-01 Thread David Vaughan
On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 15:10 Australia/Sydney, Alan Gayne wrote: Happy New Year David, Thanks Alan, hope it is a good one for you. On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 10:27 PM, David Vaughan wrote: In normal use there is no significant difference between having it modal or modeless

Re: Standalone Data folder

2003-01-01 Thread Robert Presender
Hi, Thanks to all who have helped me with this problem. I appreciate your interest. I have tried the suggestion of putting a dot(.) before the name of the data folder. It seems to work ok. I rearranged my initial single stack file which contained the main stack and its several subtacks into:

Re: setting pointer location

2003-01-01 Thread Alan Gayne
Happy New Year David, On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 10:27 PM, David Vaughan wrote: In normal use there is no significant difference between having it modal or modeless but the latter is a slight advantage to me where the user can pause to adjust something else, affecting a calculated fi

Re: Underlined characters in button label?

2003-01-01 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 3:48 PM -0800 1/1/03, Sarah wrote: >I too have ben trying to apply different formats to various characters >of a button name or label but not succeeding. I think Jeanne has >provided the reason: > >> if you set a property, you need to set all of it - you can't set a >> chunk of a property. > >Th

Re: tutorials + idea

2003-01-01 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all Revolutions Users! Happy New year to everyone! I've follow with interest these messages about Tutorials and Ideas. This remember me, something that I begin to suspect when I take a 2 week course about the use of the Technology of the Information in the Classroom: Most Teachers and Instr

Re: setting pointer location

2003-01-01 Thread David Vaughan
On Sunday, Dec 29, 2002, at 11:08 Australia/Sydney, Alan Gayne wrote: Let me know how it works out. I like it. The card has two groups (not in the Rev sense but logically connected) of fields plus sundry other data. I use two modeless dialogs to complete each the two field sets when needed.

Re: sending and receiving cookies

2003-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey Mark, Yup I will be compiling the info and posting it here in a day or two. Cheers! Valetia > From: Mark Swindell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 11:30:04 -0800 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: sending and receiving cookies > > on 1/1/03

Re: Bounce in dock, flash in menu, blink in tray...!?

2003-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yup I can definitely wait a couple of days...keep me posted. Thanks! Valetia > From: "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Sons of Thunder Software > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:48:33 -0600 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bounce in dock, flash in menu

Re: Tutorials + idea

2003-01-01 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Dienstag, Dezember 31, 2002, at 08:08 Uhr, Richard Gaskin wrote: But for the near term, while printed books have many advantages, it seems more worthwhile focusing on electronic learning materials. In addition to being more enviro-friendly than a dead-trees version that lives only a few

Re: Standalone Data folder

2003-01-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
on 12/30/2002 8:51 AM, Robert Presender at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to make the Data folder(and all its components) > invisible and only have the app as a result of making a standalone > for Mac and Windows? Using the procedure of Tip 1 of RR site. > > Is there a reason that the

Re: tutorials + idea

2003-01-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote: > More scripting or more authoring? Keep in mind that one can build alost any level of authoring systems with Revolution. Ken recently built a specialized authoring tool for one of hisw clients, and I built one a while back that uses template shell and prefab compone

Re: redrawing buttons - animation

2003-01-01 Thread Sarah
While other people have suggested better ways of moving your buttons, the debugger problem still needs to be solved. Does the button jump to it's new location or does it refuse to move at all? If it jumps then it could be that you locked the screen somewhere and the debugger may automatically u

Re: How to get printer info

2003-01-01 Thread Sarah
The printPaperSize property will return the selected dimensions for the current printer & paper. You'll have to work out from them whether the paper is landscape or portrait. The dimensions are in points with 72 points per inch. Sarah On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 10:15 pm, Graham Samuel

Re: tutorials + idea

2003-01-01 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Mittwoch, Jänner 1, 2003, at 04:33 Uhr, Al Rudnitsky wrote: Something like Hyperstudio is out. Does this mean you are looking for anything more professional? So, suggestions for how to begin learning Revolution would be terrific as would tutorials created by knowledgeable users. if yo

Re: Standalone Data folder

2003-01-01 Thread Sarah
What happens if you rename the Data folder to ".Data"? In OS X, any file starting with . is invisible but I don't know if this works with folders. As regards the advisability of this, you can still get to invisible folders using the "Go to folder" command in the Finder's Go menu. The best solu

use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

2003-01-01 Thread Sarah
Have you tried the "Paste as formatted string" option in the Edit menu of the Script editor menus? If you type (in a field or the message box or in a text document): She said, "I do." select it, copy it and then use the special paste command, you get this: "She said, " & quote & "I do." & quote

Re: Underlined characters in button label?

2003-01-01 Thread Sarah
I too have ben trying to apply different formats to various characters of a button name or label but not succeeding. I think Jeanne has provided the reason: if you set a property, you need to set all of it - you can't set a chunk of a property. The possible solutions suggested so far are: - us

Re: Bounce in dock, flash in menu, blink in tray...!?

2003-01-01 Thread Ken Ray
Well, Valetia... if you can wait a day or three, I'll have one ready to go as well... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 2

Re: ppc engine dowload problems

2003-01-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if a ppc only build would be much smaller than a 'fat' build. Yes, by nearly half. This is true of all "fat" applications, since they efectively contain two complete sets of object code (one for 68k and one for PPC). But as time goes by, I'm delivering

Re: tutorials + idea

2003-01-01 Thread Al Rudnitsky
Well, if you are looking for an expression of interest in the "tutorials" project, here's one. I teach a course entitled Information Technology and Learning. We cover a great deal of ground in this course (www.smith.edu/edc333) including learning several applications. The most important app

scroll window

2003-01-01 Thread Kurt Kaufman
I have an 850X1105 image which I need to display in a scrollable window. I will have editable fields in specific places in front of the image. I assume that if I combine the image and the fields as a group, I can scroll the image/fields for data entry. I understand I'm to set the size of th

Re: sending and receiving cookies

2003-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just figured out the answer to question 2. Thanks anyway! Valetia > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 22:30:57 +1000 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: sending and receiving cookies > > OK, I've managed to figure out for

Re: sending and receiving cookies

2003-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, I've managed to figure out for myself the answers to questions 1, 3 and 4. That leaves question 2: How do you retrieve cookie information from a browser? In fact, this may be related: How do you obtain the list of passed variables via a GET to a server-side revolution script? The foll

ppc engine dowload problems

2003-01-01 Thread DVGlasgow
I was wondering if a ppc only build would be much smaller than a 'fat' build. I selected ppc in the build distribution stack, and was duly invited to download the engine. After a few seconds a dialog advised "there was an error trying to decompress the engine. The file appears to be corrupt

Re: popup and background reference

2003-01-01 Thread David Vaughan
On Wednesday, Jan 1, 2003, at 18:39 Australia/Sydney, Dar Scott wrote: snip should take more care when I'm tired. Dar Aren't you on U.S. Mountain time or thereabouts? By my estimate (where 2003 arrived nearly twenty hours ago) you ought to have been into the new morning when your wrote this

Re: Bounce in dock, flash in menu, blink in tray...!?

2003-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Ken, I'll take a look at the Mac OS tools. For Win32 I just found the following tip at your site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/tips/proc001.htm ...and I thought perhaps Igor Nys (programmer of PrcView mentioned on that page) could write a custom command line app that shows/

sending and receiving cookies

2003-01-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, A couple of questions regarding cookies. Server-Side Revolution Script: 1. What statements should be used to properly send cookies to the browser? 2. What about extracting information from cookies stored in the browser? Client-Side Revolution App: 3. What statements should be used t