Re: Shrink Image quickly

2003-01-06 Thread Ken Ray
It's not the send that's the problem. I ran your code inside a tight repeat loop and got the same results, both with the alwaysBuffer on and off for both the image and the stack. I'll bet it has something to do with the fact that for each pass at shrinking, the image needs to be redefined to be

Thumbnail of JPEG's photos

2003-01-06 Thread yves COPPE
Title: Thumbnail of JPEG's photos Hi, I posted a message without answer. can someone help me please ?? Hi, I'd like to show photo's in a fld the user chooses a folder with jpegs photos (on Mac OS X) thet's the script : on mouseUp answer folder Choose the folder... if it is empty then

Re: struggle to use lineoffset

2003-01-06 Thread DVGlasgow
In a message dated 5/1/03 1:29:22 AM, Jan Schenkel. writes: In this case, wouldn't it be easier to keep track of the linenumber you're checking, instead of using lineoffset to go through the entire text every time? on mouseup get the selectedtext of me put char 1 to 3 of word 5 of it into

Re: Thumbnail of JPEG's photos

2003-01-06 Thread Klaus Major
Bonjour Yves, here a quick thought: Hi, I posted a message without answer. can someone help me please ?? Hi, I'd like to show photo's in a fld the user chooses a folder with jpegs photos (on Mac OS X) thet's the script : ...    put the number of lines of tFilesNames into totLines    put 1

RE: RTF vs HTML

2003-01-06 Thread Vikram Singh
Dan, I was talking about the latest edition of Metacard (2.5, Beta), which I hope shall power Rev 2.0. Please see below an extract from the docs: snip The clipboardData property can be used to get or set the data on the clipboard directly without having to use cut/copy/paste. To set data of

Re: struggle to use lineoffset

2003-01-06 Thread erik hansen
is there any funny business between hilited and selected if both are involved with the same chunk of text?[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.orgDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

Re: struggle to use lineoffset

2003-01-06 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/1/03 1:29:22 AM, Jan Schenkel. writes: In this case, wouldn't it be easier to keep track of the linenumber you're checking, instead of using lineoffset to go through the entire text every time? on mouseup get the selectedtext of

Re: setting pointer location

2003-01-06 Thread Phil Jimmieson
In a message dated 28/12/02 2:31:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having just posted a defence of moving the cursor in the context of measuring reaction times, I will now cite an example of when it is *very* irritating. My three button logitech mouseware does move the cursor to default

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Montag, Jänner 6, 2003, at 03:17 Uhr, Klaus Major wrote: maybe you missed one of my last posts. No I did not missed it. But is this the same stack like yours? regards Wolfgang M. Bereuter Learn easy with trainingsmaps© INTERNETTRAINER Wolfgang M. Bereuter Edelhofg. 17/11, A-1180 Wien,

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Wolfgang and all, maybe you missed one of my last posts. No I did not missed it. But is this the same stack like yours? ??? There is just one stack and that's mine... (OK, there are 2 stacks ;-), but they are the same, only one is in ZIP-format. And they are mine :-) regards Wolfgang

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Rob Cozens
I use label icons instead of fields is label icon a RR expression describing an icon? or a description of the use? Just my generic term, erik. Igor's original question mentioned setting the text of label fields. I was pointing out that I use buttons with icons as labels instead of fields.

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Rob Cozens
As for me I've being using in my HyperCard stacks three different ways of dealing with such a problem: Hi Manuel, My problem with these approaches (or the Profile Manager) is, AFAIK, they can only support languages that are preprogrammed in the application. OenoLog and future applications I

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Rob Cozens
One final issue not touched upon so far: In addition to translating text, internationalisation involves storing dates, times, numeric values in a generic format and validating/displaying them based on current system settings user preferences. Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Rob Cozens
In Oenolog, the label field, Name, is replaced by an icon of a person, the label field, Address, is replaced by an icon of a mail box, and label field, Telephone # is replaced by an icon of a telephone. Forgot to add, the title icons can, of course, have translatable toolTips holding label

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Igor Couto wrote: Or have people found other ways/approaches to internationalising their apps? All suggestions GREATLY appreciated! Consider the following for the brainstorming only. Cocoa, Apple's Objective-C application framework, has the most

Re: Get File Owner

2003-01-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Ken, I am glad that this should work, but on my system (NT 4.0 service-pack 6) it tells me that /Q is an invalid switch. It seems that in Win 95 - 98 dos commands had some enhancements that don't work anymore. I wish RunRev would just add owner to the detailed files. Thank you for your help.

Re: Shrink Image quickly

2003-01-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: set the width of image shrinkTest to (x - 1) set the height of image shrinkTest to (y - 1) Perhaps this can be set based on the fraction of the target shrink time. Pick a target shrink time, say, 1.5 seconds.

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Scott Rossi
Consider the following for the brainstorming only. Cocoa, Apple's Objective-C application framework, has the most elegant internationalization method I've ever seen in a programming environment. It might not even be applicable to Revolution. However, maybe people will want to dig deeper and

Re: performing date calcs

2003-01-06 Thread Steve Messimer
on 1/6/03 12:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: search the index for convert. You can convert one or more dates to dateitems or the seconds (or more...) and do some calculation then... Hope that helps. Regards Klaus Major Klaus, Thanks for the prompt reply. I

Re: Thumbnail of JPEG's photos

2003-01-06 Thread yves COPPE
Bonjour Yves, here a quick thought: Hi, I posted a message without answer. can someone help me please ?? Hi, I'd like to show photo's in a fld the user chooses a folder with jpegs photos (on Mac OS X) thet's the script : ... put the number of lines of tFilesNames into totLines put 1

Re: Timing (was wordOffset, repeat loop, speed?

2003-01-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 07:54 AM, Glasgow, David wrote: It may be that things have moved along a bit, or I am getting something wrong I'd be interested in any comments. Computers and timers are a lot more accurate. It is true that interrupts and system threads are running all the

Re: Shrink Image quickly

2003-01-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: Goal is: shrink and image while is is moving along a path, smoothly, quickly. Animated gif? Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

the volumes to detect CD?

2003-01-06 Thread RGould8
Looking through the Revolution documentation, I see that "the volumes" returns a list of all mounted volumes (hard-drives, CDs, etc). Is there a way that I can determine which one is actually the CD-ROM vs. a hard-drive?

Re: Timing (was wordOffset, repeat loop, speed?

2003-01-06 Thread Mark Brownell
Hi, Three questions below. Code that works for me; ten-line-limit for testing at this point: -- button #1 global gData, tStart, tElementNum on mouseUp put the milliseconds into tStartTime put the text of field impfield into gData put (the milliseconds - tStartTime) milliseconds into

Re: Timing (was wordOffset, repeat loop, speed?

2003-01-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Mark Brownell wrote: 2.) I noticed that it won't work with multiple words or empty space between characters. I would like to work with the numericle offset of characters and place that info gathered into an array if possible. Would offset() do what

Re: Thumbnail of JPEG's photos

2003-01-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Klaus Major wrote: This syntax does not work: ... set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to url(binfile: some_path_with_image) ... Can someone give a hint or two ? The example in a TD leaves off the URL part. That may be a typo or it may be a clue.

Re: Thumbnail of JPEG's photos

2003-01-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
I have verified that this syntax works. Dar is correct. URL is not needed. set the imagesource of char 1 of line 3 of fld 1 to binfile:C:/somewhere/image.jpg Roger Eller [EMAIL PROTECTED] The example in a TD leaves off the URL part. That may be a typo or it may be a clue. Dar Scott

Re: Timing (was wordOffset, repeat loop, speed?

2003-01-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Dar Scott wrote: (Your method probably has mc^2 time, call it E ;-), I think got this wrong. When I saw the mc^2 pun, my brain turned off. In any case, my guess is that offset will be faster. Dar Scott

Re: Timing (was wordOffset, repeat loop, speed?

2003-01-06 Thread Mark Brownell
Wow! 63 milliseconds; 206 hits; 390345 characters ...looks like I have a very fast parser. It even works well with empty space, it gives me exactly what I needed. The array contains all first character numerical valuse for each hit. So what about multiple OS uses for the licensed person of the

Re: Timing (was wordOffset, repeat loop, speed?

2003-01-06 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 10:58 AM -0800 1/6/03, Mark Brownell wrote: 3.) I have an off-topic question about a single user pro-license. If I get that version does it mean that I can use it on Mac Windows to debug on those OS Yes. (Also Unix.) The license fee covers development and deployment on all supported

Re: Re[7]: groups and background

2003-01-06 Thread erik hansen
"J. Landman Gay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if the number of cds in this bg 1then answer "I'm shared." without evoking the "background" concept? the number of cds to which group "foo" is attached.Actually, my example does invoke the "background" concept by referring to "this bg". You can refer to

Re: Fwd: Shrink Image quickly

2003-01-06 Thread Scott Raney
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: Maybe someone on the MC list will know We've had few problems with indiscriminate cross-posting between the MC and RR mailing lists, and I'm hoping this is not going to start a trend... on Shrinking put the width of img shrinkTest into

Re: Re[7]: groups and background

2003-01-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 01:31 PM, erik hansen wrote: so there IS a RunRev specific reason to use the the background concept. I think the double the typo is significant. I think we run into trouble in thinking of the background concept. There seems to be two, even though both seem

Re: Timing (was wordOffset, repeat loop, speed?

2003-01-06 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 01:12 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: Wow! 63 milliseconds; 206 hits; 390345 characters ...looks like I have a very fast parser. You might be able to tweak out a few more milliseconds. Consider using for instead of with or making the with work harder for you. It

FTP Time/Date

2003-01-06 Thread Roger . E . Eller
The following is a FTP dir listing retrieved from a Win-NT FTP site using Rev1.1.1. I noticed this anomaly as I was parsing out the Time... The Year is where Time usually is. Why are the returned results inconsistent? Is there another way to get time/date of remote files with Rev? -- 1 owner

re: Printing what you can't see

2003-01-06 Thread Ray Bennett
Dear List, I think I've figured out the answer to the printing question I posed a few days ago. Specifically, the problem was that the data area of interest on my card was 800w x 1638h. The visible window (rect of the stack) that I view the card through is usually about 800 x 1000, and I

Icons/standalone substacks in data fldr

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Presender
Hi, Using 10.2.3, Rev 1.1.1r2 Will appreciate help again(yet). So far, haven't found any help in searching the archives. I have no trouble in obtaining my custom icon for the application(OS X and OS PPC checked in builder. I have a ResEdit file for a BNDL resource (APPL and Data types and

Re: Internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread manuel companys
Le Monday, 6 Jan 2003, à 09:54 US/Central, Rob Cozens a écrit : As for me I've being using in my HyperCard stacks three different ways of dealing with such a problem: Hi Manuel, My problem with these approaches (or the Profile Manager) is, AFAIK, they can only support languages that are

Internationalisation II

2003-01-06 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear Rev Friends, A very big thank you to all Revolutionaries who replied to my previous posting, re: suggestions for approaches to internationalising apps. Your information has been most useful, and has sent me back to the drawing board! I just had a quick look at Apple's Developer site,

Re: Thumbnail of JPEG's photos

2003-01-06 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
This is proven to work where you want to view them vertically (vertical scroll), and you have the folder path in a variable and the list of files in another field.. put into the field in advance the number like this: 1 2 3 4 etc. (up to a very high number... higher than you would ever use)

Timeout with call to unix shell

2003-01-06 Thread RGould8
I'm trying to run a unix file that I installed at the home level of the hard-drive. The file is called "PPPSetup", and I've got this script that runs it in Revolution: do "do shell script " quote "cd ~" quote as Applescript do "do shell script " quote "PPPSetup e -e" quote as

Re: Internationalisation II

2003-01-06 Thread Manuel Companys
Le lundi, 6 jan 2003, à 18:47 US/Central, Igor de Oliveira Couto a écrit : I just had a quick look at Apple's Developer site, which has a special section on 'localisation on MacOS X': http://developer.apple.com/intl/localization.html Apple suggests the use of a FREE Apple-made software

Re: Timing (was wordOffset, repeat loop, speed?

2003-01-06 Thread Ken Ray
Mark, That one's easy... you buy one license, you get all the platforms. Neat, huh? :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Mark Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: Timeout with call to unix shell

2003-01-06 Thread Sarah
I don't know the answer to your timeout problem but I can think of a workaround. AppleScript's do shell script allows you to put the requisite password in the script. How about asking for the password in your Revolution script and then adding it to the AppleScript command yourself rather than

Internationalization II: localisation and internationalisation

2003-01-06 Thread Manuel Companys
The word localization, used in Europe, is problably better than internationalization if we are dealing with the adaptation of one program to another country which may imply translation and/or other changes: key short cut equivalents, time and mesure, postal adress system, text sorting, etc.

Re: Internationalisation II

2003-01-06 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 4:47 PM -0800 1/6/03, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: 1) Are the apps compiled by Revolution 2.0 Carbon or Cocoa? Carbon. 1.x Rev apps are also Carbon, but they are in PEF format. 2.0 produces Mach-O applications. -- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Runtime Revolution Limited - The