Re: StartUp handler on Windows

2003-01-22 Thread erik hansen
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want this initialization to happen once, on startup. the preOpenStack handler is activated each time the stack is opened. maybe the usewr does not want re-initialization. How many times will the mainstack that is the standalone be

Re: StartUp handler on Windows

2003-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
erik hansen wrote: --- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want this initialization to happen once, on startup. the preOpenStack handler is activated each time the stack is opened. maybe the usewr does not want re-initialization. How many times will the mainstack that is the

MAC OSX - 10.2.3 - Unexpected Quit

2003-01-22 Thread Nicholas Feasey
I have an simple application with one main stack and a sub-stack. The main stack displays a list and when the user double clicks on an item it opens up a sub-stack with a data entry screen. Pretty simple and straight forward I believe. When moving fields around in the card of the sub-stack

Re: MAC OSX - 10.2.3 - Unexpected Quit

2003-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Nicholas, When moving fields around in the card of the sub-stack the Revolution application unexpectedly quits. It is really quite annoying as, obviously, all of my changes are lost. I have not had any problems with RR quitting when moving fields around in a sub-stack. I too am running RR

newbie: how play sounds in RR

2003-01-22 Thread Esa Kivelä
Greetings again from Finland I have long time project: I have started make MUD editor some time ago by Hypercard and now I continue this project with RR. I have some sounds file (wav-files steero and mono), like rusty doors sound, chain, sword, orc etc. I imported one sound (wave

Re: MAC OSX - 10.2.3 - Unexpected Quit

2003-01-22 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Nicholas Feasey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an simple application with one main stack and a sub-stack. The main stack displays a list and when the user double clicks on an item it opens up a sub-stack with a data entry screen. Pretty simple and straight forward I believe.

Re: OT: Elegant Cross Platform Fonts

2003-01-22 Thread Signe Marie Sanne
Does someone have a short, fairly reliable, list of fonts that are likely to be found both on Mac and Windows machines? I suppose I could look at one of our windows machines here, but I am thinking someone of you has already been down this road and will already have a definitive list. In

Why is the Stack ID wrong?

2003-01-22 Thread Matt Denton
Hi-ya all, I've been off working on a few projects and I'm stumped again. (I'm sorry I don't always appear on this list to help out, I do often check to see if there is a tidbit that I've got that is unique). Often the most simple stump us (shall we restrict this to 'me'?): Create a new

Saving User-Entered Text

2003-01-22 Thread Gardner, Joseph A
This is so simple, I can't find where I'm going wrong. I have a field that the user enters some text in. When the stand-alone is closed, the text disappears. How do I get user-entered data to stay in the field when the stand-alone is opened again? Thanks! joe.

Re: Saving User-Entered Text

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Joseph, This is so simple, I can't find where I'm going wrong. I have a field that the user enters some text in. When the stand-alone is closed, the text disappears. How do I get user-entered data to stay in the field when the stand-alone is opened again? Thanks! joe. This is an easy

RE: Why is the Stack ID wrong?

2003-01-22 Thread Chipp Walters
Matt, I checked this out in both RR and MC. You are correct. Here's my best thinking why this doesn't work. The ID of a stack continually changes, incrementing as you add controls. So, using it as a stack reference in a script is probably never a good thing, expecially if controls are ever

Re: path of a 'closeStackRequest'

2003-01-22 Thread Vikram Singh
Graham, You could get the name of the substack from 'this stack' The mainstack script: on closestackrequest put the short name of this stack into tryingToClose ---handle tryingToClose here end closestackrequest Regards Vikram - Original Message - From: Graham Samuel [EMAIL

Can I embed PDF driver in a Rev stack built for distribution?

2003-01-22 Thread Ray Bennett
I'd like to be able to include the ability to save as PDF right into my application when I distribute it. Has anyone done this? Thanks again in advance. Ray ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: path of a 'closeStackRequest'

2003-01-22 Thread Vikram Singh
- Original Message - From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:37 AM Subject: Re: path of a 'closeStackRequest' Graham, One of the simplest approaches I've used in mainstacks is this: on openStack if the owner of the target is me then

Re: StartUp handler on Windows

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Thomas, Hello List Something strange happens with a Project of mine, so I guess there's some stupid code in my script. I have a stack with two substacks both in palette style. In the startup script (on startUp) one of the substacks should be opened (if stackname is not among the lines of

Re: Saving User-Entered Text

2003-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Klaus, 1. Make that stack with the field NOT part of the standalone so it can be saved 2. write the field to a file and read it in again when necessary... Is there a method that prevents the saved data from being read by any other means? For instance, you can open both the non-standalone

Re: Saving User-Entered Text

2003-01-22 Thread cassj
Joe - Try putting this in the stack where the field is... on closeStack save this stack end closeStack This will save the text entered by the user. -Cassj On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:01 AM, Gardner, Joseph A wrote: This is so simple, I can't find where I'm going wrong. I have

Re: FTP download

2003-01-22 Thread Jacques Hausser
Using Rev 1.1.1 I downloaded a file from a FTP server with the following script: put ftp://XXX:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Belle.mp3; into tUrl put binfile://DiscoOSX/Songs/Belle.mp3 into NOMEURL put url(tUrl) into url(NOMEURL) I expected a binary file... but I got a TEXT file WHY? How can I download

Re: Saving User-Entered Text

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Valetia, Klaus, 1. Make that stack with the field NOT part of the standalone so it can be saved 2. write the field to a file and read it in again when necessary... Is there a method that prevents the saved data from being read by any other means? Hmmm, that's the point ;-) You could

Re: Saving User-Entered Text

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Valetia and all, i just uploaded this tiny and cheesy crypto_lite stack. Get it here: www.revolutionboard.de/klaus/crypto_lite.rev.zip It is in german and english :-) Have fun, but don't complain ;-) Regards Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Too many clicks

2003-01-22 Thread Greg Wills
Hi All Hope the new year is being good to you so far. I'm having difficulty locating the correct term to stop multiple clicks before a script is run. In a dice type game, students are to click on a button to roll the dice. Some students are clicking on the button more than once and this is

Re: Too many clicks

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Greg, Hi All Hope the new year is being good to you so far. I'm having difficulty locating the correct term to stop multiple clicks before a script is run. In a dice type game, students are to click on a button to roll the dice. Some students are clicking on the button more than once

disapearing labels

2003-01-22 Thread manuel companys
When I quit Revolution the cd fld labels disapear This does not happens when I close the stack, neither with the buttons labels. I have tried to change properties, but nothing helps. I would like to use the labels to reset some preferencies such as the language of the dialogs. Thank you for

RE: Why is the Stack ID wrong?

2003-01-22 Thread Matt Denton
Dear Chipp and List, Thanks for the tip, however I don't think that really explains it. In the case below we haven't added anything to the stack and if you inspect the stack in Rev the ID is correct. Anyway it is a small lesson, and a bit of unlearning for me. In the old HyperCard days, the

Re: Saving User-Entered Text

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Valetia, Hey Klaus, You could passwort-protect your stack so it can not be read when opened in some kind of editor, but when opened in RR, except the scripts... Is there a way to prevent RR from being able to open a password-protected stack? Unfortunately not. But you can ask for the

error 3 whenever i cklick on 'script'

2003-01-22 Thread Henning Pertiet
Hi, I am new to revolution and began testing on my Mac with OS 8.1 german. Whenever I make a new mainstack and try to access the script of any part of the programm revolution crashes with: error 3. I searched the archives and figured out that some developers had solved the problem switching the

Re: Best way to swap background images?

2003-01-22 Thread Rob Cozens
What I need to do is figure out how to swap that background image with another image (background #2) of the same size, dynamically, via Transcript, so that once I make the swap it is now the default background image throughout the whole application. Can someone steer me to the best way to

RE: Hiliting Buttons

2003-01-22 Thread Rob Cozens
I don't have a .sit file there, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. My apologies, Chipp: The problem was with Netscape, which for some reason I have not got set up correctly to deal with .rev files. I used IE instead, and got the .rev file. My thanks, Chipp. Once installed your

Functional Library Stacks

2003-01-22 Thread Jez
I want to create a stack containing only functional code which I can reference and use in other stacks (standalones). Currently I am creating the library stack lib.rev and effectively importing code into standalone stacks (eg. app1.rev, app2.rev) using the insert script command so that functions

RE: Why is the Stack ID wrong?

2003-01-22 Thread Howard Bornstein
Anyway I'm still scratching my head, bit of an unsolved problem and strangeness. Anyone else got any ideas why you can't reference a stack by its ID? Hi Matt, Try this in your button: on mouseUp put the abbrev id of this stack into tThisID put tThisID set the altID of this stack to

Re: StartUp handler on Windows

2003-01-22 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Thomas Bähler wrote: I have a stack with two substacks both in palette style. In the startup script (on startUp) one of the substacks should be opened (if stackname is not among the lines of the openStacks). On my Mac with OS X the stack works OK but

scripting help on rollover buttons

2003-01-22 Thread rel102g4
List, I am trying create several sates on buttons(in , over,out,clicked). I could use some help on scripting. Thanks, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

How to control the topstack

2003-01-22 Thread Piero Menno'
Hi to the all list, I have a main stack with several substacks, but I have to mantain a certain substack as the topstack (the user interface), while sometimes in my application other substacks become topstacks (blocking the application): how to oblige a stack to be THE topstack? TIA Piero

Re: How to control the topstack

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus Major
Oooops TYPO, sorry... ... I have a main stack with several substacks, but I have to mantain a certain substack as the topstack (the user interface), while sometimes in my application other substacks become topstacks (blocking the application): how to oblige a stack to be THE topstack? you can

Re: scripting help on rollover buttons

2003-01-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Rob, List, I am trying create several sates on buttons(in , over,out,clicked). I could use some help on scripting. Thanks, Rob with a bit of luck, no scripting needed :-) Just create a button and look at the button tab of its properties. There you can define different icons for its

Random generator exercise

2003-01-22 Thread ncouch
I am in a bit of a quandry trying to tweak this script. It's main function is to generate a random sequence of from 1-9 alpha and numerical characters. The main problem I am having is updating the global value of x after each run of the repeat loop. As it stands right now it keeps resetting the

2.nd try / error 3 whenever i cklick on 'script'

2003-01-22 Thread Henning Pertiet
Hi, I tried to send this question some hours ago, but I didn't even receive it myself. So I thought I send it once again... I am new to revolution and began testing on my Mac with OS 8.1 german. Whenever I make a new mainstack and try to access the script of any part of the programm revolution

Re: Random generator exercise

2003-01-22 Thread Ken Ray
Nate, Why don't you use repeat with x = 1 to valrn - this way you don't have to do an until, or increment x; it happens automatically. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: ncouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Random generator exercise

2003-01-22 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 11:05 AM, ncouch wrote: on MouseUp -- setting things up on MouseUp global x -- setting things up Will this help? Dar Scott ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: path of a 'closeStackRequest'

2003-01-22 Thread Graham Samuel
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:49:06 +0530 Vikram Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [a long quote from an earlier (and very useful) mail from Ken Ray] Vikram, I'm not sure if you intended to comment further, but I don't think you included a comment. From my point of view, the explanations given by

Re: Random generator exercise

2003-01-22 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 11:05 AM, ncouch wrote: put it into char x of field random I didn't realize that would work. I see it does. I usually use after. Also, I would build the string and then put it into the field after it is built. on rnum global x put random(9) into

Re: 2.nd try / error 3 whenever i cklick on 'script'

2003-01-22 Thread Gernot Lorenz
Henning Pertiet wrote: Hi, I tried to send this question some hours ago, but I didn't even receive it myself. So I thought I send it once again... I am new to revolution and began testing on my Mac with OS 8.1 german. Whenever I make a new mainstack and try to access the script of any part of

Re: StartUp handler on Windows

2003-01-22 Thread erik hansen
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on startup works on the first stack opened when you start the Revolution app (from the Transcript Dictionary). this occurs before i open my own first stack. what is this mysterious masked stack and can i put my very own on startup into

Re: StartUp handler on Windows

2003-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
erik hansen wrote: --- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on startup works on the first stack opened when you start the Revolution app (from the Transcript Dictionary). this occurs before i open my own first stack. what is this mysterious masked stack and can i put my very own on

RE: StartUp handler on Windows

2003-01-22 Thread erik hansen
Richard Monte, on startUp worked in the stack script of the first stack i opened, AA! i moved the handler from what was going to be a splash stack. anyway, it would be nice to know if there is something like the HC Home stack where a startup handler fires when the Rev app is clicked. then AA

Re: OT: Elegant Cross Platform Fonts

2003-01-22 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear Sannyasin, Does someone have a short, fairly reliable, list of fonts that are likely to be found both on Mac and Windows machines? I suppose I could look at one of our windows machines here, but I am thinking someone of you has already been down this road and will already have a definitive