Re: What is the minimal install process?

2003-03-23 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks to all who replied on this (Ken, Alex, Monte). I think I'm being told that a 3rd party installer is best, certainly for Windows, and maybe for Mac. A few comments: On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:13:51 -0700, Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [helpful info, for which thanks, then...] I'm no

Converting Regular graphics in Polygon graphics

2003-03-23 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi fellow list members, I was working in the code to convert regular graphics in polygon graphics. You can see the results in the following file: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/metacard/files/export_regular_polygons.zip You need to have a Yahoo account to download from this group, so a Temporal F

More snapshot stuff

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Norris
Howdy, I expected the following script to show me an new image of the button (in the 'down' state), but nothing happened. on mouseDown rectSet -- This handler sets the group's rect to the rect of the button show group "kybdDN" import snapshot from the rect of me end mouseDown ...Why not?

Math question: How to compute the area of polygons

2003-03-23 Thread Alejandro Tejada
on Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:47:10 -0600 "Tomas Nally, P.E." wrote > I'm not too much of a Transcripter, so let me give a > BASIC version, > from which a transcript version could be generated. Geoff Canyon wrote an article comparing RealBasic and RunRev. Maybe him will translate this for us. This is a

RE: Autofile snapshots

2003-03-23 Thread Chipp Walters
look at the import snapshot command > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken Norris > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 2:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Autofile snapshots > > > Hi list, > > How do I take snapsots and put them into a

RE: DLLs

2003-03-23 Thread Chipp Walters
Dan, My guess is you have a path problem. In RR from the msg do: put the externals of this stack to tell you what your stack currently 'thinks' is the path to the dll. If there is any path info other than the name, then it probably won't work. I always set the externals of this stack to "fred.

RE: Send an eMail attachment?

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Ray
Dan, Take a look at Shao Sean's libSMTP library; it allows for direct SMTP communications, attachments and more. Go to: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm and go to the bottom of the Downloads section. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: h

Math question: How to compute the area of polygons

2003-03-23 Thread Tomas Nally, P.E.
Subject: Math question: How to compute the area of polygons >> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:06:57 +0100 Subject: Math question: How to compute the area of polygons > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (Malte Brill) > > Hi List, > > this one goes out

RE: What is the minimal install process?

2003-03-23 Thread Monte Goulding
> > Last July (I'm amazed it was so long ago) I was asking the list about > installers for RR standalones, particularly on Windows. At the time, > I was interested in the association between documents and the > corresponding applications. Ken Ray gave me a very clear explanation. > He ended his mes

RE: Autofile snapshots

2003-03-23 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Ken Download Happy Snaps from my website sweattechnologies.com/rev It will do the work for you if you just want a once off otherwise if you want the functionality in your app you can inspect the scripts. Cheers Monte > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Send an eMail attachment?

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Norris
** > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:48:48 -0800 > Subject: Re: Send an eMail attachment? > From: Dan Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Jack, > > Thanks... But this doesn't solve the problem. *I* want to include the > attachment in the eMail. I know that I could have the user add the > attachm

Re: What is the minimal install process?

2003-03-23 Thread Alex Rice
On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 03:48 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: Is anyone on the list publishing programs with any kind of installer who would care to share their techniques with the rest of us? For Mac OS <=9. Donnow. MindVision has some nice installer tools. For OS X, I would recommend distribut

RE: What is the minimal install process?

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Ray
> 1. As I understand it, there are certain conventional places programs > are supposed to go (various flavours of 'Applications' folders in > MacOS 9 and 10, presumably the 'Programs' folder in all versions of > Windows). I can't guarantee that my user is going to follow my > written advice and

Re: Substack trouble

2003-03-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
> When I open it from the msg box like this: > > open stack "devVK.1" > > It tries to run the script of the main stack and, of course, throws an > error window. > > I looked in the docs and it suggests putting: > > on openStack > exit openStack > end openStack > > ...into the substacks script

Autofile snapshots

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Norris
Hi list, How do I take snapsots and put them into a file? As it is, it looks like I'd have to import, cut, paste into PhotoShop (or something) to make a JPEG file out of it, for each one. Since I have at least 80 to do, I'd sure like to automate it somehow. Any ideas? TIA, Ken N. ___

Re: Substack trouble

2003-03-23 Thread Sarah
Hi Ken, One solution is to put an empty openStack handler in the stack script of all your substacks. That way they trap the message without passing it on to the main stack. An alternative is to have your mainStack openStack handler check for the name of the topStack and only proceed if it is ac

What is the minimal install process?

2003-03-23 Thread Graham Samuel
Last July (I'm amazed it was so long ago) I was asking the list about installers for RR standalones, particularly on Windows. At the time, I was interested in the association between documents and the corresponding applications. Ken Ray gave me a very clear explanation. He ended his message wit

Re: Streaming media (a little OT)

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Norris
on 3/23/03 1:41 AM, Ken Norris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** >> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:17:50 -0800 (PST) >> From: erik hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Streaming media [was:Scripted musical notation available ] >> >> so what does it take to stream your own QT videos >> to

Re: Filemaker Pro, Web and Rev - Correction

2003-03-23 Thread Jim Lambert
Just guessing, perhaps 'unload' the url before subsequent calls. jim lambert ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Image Refs in Distribution

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Cozens
How can I send this stack on CD in a way that my friend can still view the images? Hi Mark, Have your stack set the defaultFolder to the pathname to the folder holding your images on the CD in preOpenStack. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm "And I, w

Image Refs in Distribution

2003-03-23 Thread MGreenb551
I need to send a Rev file distribution to a friend who also has RR but on a different platform. (I'm Win, he's Mac.) The stack has 30 rather large images, so I've referenced the image objects to files off-stack. When I burn a CD to send to my friend, the image objects naturally lose trac

RE: Filemaker Pro, Web and Rev - Correction

2003-03-23 Thread Gary Rathbone
>How long did you wait after the second click before clicking again? >To know if something has gone wrong, you'll have to wait until at >least as long as the socketTimeout interval. I've tried different socketTimeout intervals but the results are the same. > If you still think something is wro

Re: Filemaker Pro, Web and Rev - Correction

2003-03-23 Thread Dave Cragg
At 11:09 am + 23/3/03, Gary Rathbone wrote: Sorry for the incomplete earlier post...Too early in the morning... Anyway... I've been playing with Filemaker and Rev for a project I'm working on. Basically there's an existing Filemaker database and I want Rev to sit on the server and periodically

Filemaker Pro, Web and Rev - Correction

2003-03-23 Thread Gary Rathbone
Sorry for the incomplete earlier post...Too early in the morning... Anyway... I've been playing with Filemaker and Rev for a project I'm working on. Basically there's an existing Filemaker database and I want Rev to sit on the server and periodically query it. When I type http://127.0.0.1:68/FM

Filemaker Pro, Web and Rev

2003-03-23 Thread Gary Rathbone
I've been playing with Filemaker and Rev for a project I'm working on. Basically there's an existing Filemaker database and I want Rev to sit on the server and periodically query it. When I type http://127.0.0.1:68/FMPro?-DB=requests.fp5&-Format=qeds/results.htm&Status=C urrent&-Find into my we

Re: Streaming media

2003-03-23 Thread Ken Norris
** > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:17:50 -0800 (PST) > From: erik hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Streaming media [was:Scripted musical notation available ] > > so what does it take to stream your own QT videos > to RR users? if this means desktop broadcasting > from your own digital

DLLs

2003-03-23 Thread Dan Friedman
Hello, Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong... I have a dll that I want to call. The script that communicates with the DLL is the main stack. I have set the destroyWindow of the stack to true and I have set the externals of the stack to "myDLL.dll" (I can't use a hard coded path because I don't