Re: Revolution and fonts

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: And on most systems, merely setting the textfont to any invalif font name (I tend to ue "0") will force it to use the default system font, so really the only platform-specific setting is the textSize. On Monday, August 25, 2003,

RE: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-28 Thread Monte Goulding
> > On 8/27/2003 at 10:15PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I just uploaded a new plugin called Democratic Revolution. The idea is > you > > create feature requests and vote on them to give the RunRev team a good > idea > > of what we want. You can vote as many times as you want but try a

Re: docs bug in 2.1?

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Gehlbach
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/28/03 4:57 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem. Open the Transcript Language Dictionary and select an item from the Show: drop-down list. Does the correct category listing display? Mine doesn't. Mine does (OS X) but some

Re: Scripters Scrapbook

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Thanks very kindly for taking the time to answer my question and make such a long list of style suggestions. It will probably take me a while to absorb the full meaning of these, but coming from someone experienced, I intend to give them a great deal of consideration. You mention SC and MC, an

Re: docs bug in 2.1?

2003-08-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/28/03 4:57 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem. Open the Transcript Language Dictionary and select an item from the Show: drop-down list. Does the correct category listing display? Mine doesn't. Mine does (OS X) but someone else on the list said

Re: local host does not see broadcast on OS X

2003-08-28 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: I have a small sockets stack that listens on a UDP port (accept) and sends datagrams to that port on an IP address. If the address is broadcast, the behavior is not consistent among platforms tested. This applies whether the broadca

Re: OT: Myst

2003-08-28 Thread James . Cass
> which was capable of splitting render jobs across several networked macs. Now you too can make your own Mac Cluster with "Pooch"! Now you'll have something to do with all those dual G5's you ordered. ;-P http://www.daugerresearch.com/pooch/recipe.html -James |-+---

OT: Myst

2003-08-28 Thread Edwin Gore
For Myst II I believe they did - they went out and blew all the money from Myst one on SGI Onyx's, as I recall. Myst was modeled using a combination of the Strata modeler and (I think) the Amapi modeler, then rendered entirely on Macs using the Strata renderer, which was capable of splitting re

docs bug in 2.1?

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem. Open the Transcript Language Dictionary and select an item from the Show: drop-down list. Does the correct category listing display? Mine doesn't. Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Myst

2003-08-28 Thread Judy Perry
Somewhere I have a 'hacked' Myst stack that displays some HyperTalk scripts... I did it to prove to my students that Myst was indeed a Hypercard stack... Judy On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Barry Levine wrote: > IIRC, the genesis of Myst was "The Manhole" which was a HC stack > (multiple stacks due to the

RE: Re: Myst

2003-08-28 Thread Judy Perry
I thought that I'd read somewhere that they had an SGI going 24-7 for the 3D work... Not true? Judy On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Edwin Gore wrote: > (Oh, and all the 3D was done using Strata 3D, also on the Mac) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

[OT] G5, Macs, and Revolution

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Rice
To anyone writing externals on OS X, or just wanting to keep up with the cutting edge on Mac OS X developments: IBM has released a free trial of their new XLC compiler for Mac OS X. The G5 optimizations are supposed to be far superior than the GCC compiler being offered by Apple in their De

Ink Effects problem

2003-08-28 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Thanks to Björnke and Sarah for sending pdf screenshots from their platforms. I guess that the Ink effects are switched on Mac or PC. srcOr becomes srcAnd and viceversa. Anyone from Linux, please? Alejandro = Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Search the mail list: http:

Re: Scripters Scrapbook

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 01:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I collected the following tips and tricks over the years... Feel free to disagree, add or ignore OK! this is definitely going in my revolution tips and tricks folder. -  Balance length of handler with compiling time overhead a

Drawer in Rev.2.1

2003-08-28 Thread Benny Frödin
Hi! Does anybody know why the drawer become smaller for each time you open it To make it unresizeable doesnt work Is it a bug? Benny ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Drawer samples stack

2003-08-28 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
TReacting to a discussion we had on the Metacard list about the new drawer command and some posts on the use-revolution list I have uploaded a sample stack "drawers2.zip" to "ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de/pub/uni-kassel/Zentraler.Medienbereich/Sanke/Metacard/MetacardPractice/" The stack does *not* use th

Re: Scripters Scrapbook

2003-08-28 Thread FlexibleLearning
In a message dated 28/08/2003 06:15:21 PM GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Can you explain how the ScriptersScrapbook app is "different"? Also, any > other folks that have links to good examples of coding style and > methods, I would love to see them. The main window is dynamicall

RE: here's a challenge

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks to Dar, Sarah, and Monte for a solution to this. I was able to use a combination of your suggestions to make it work. If anyone is interested, here's my final script for this: on mouseMove pMouseH, pMouseV -- only if we're timing if the cTiming of this stack and the cShowGuide of thi

RE: here's a challenge

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks to Dar, Sarah, and Monte for a solution to this. I was able to use a combination of your suggestions to make it work. If anyone is interested, here's my final script for this: on mouseMove pMouseH, pMouseV -- only if we're timing if the cTiming of this stack and the cShowGuide of this

Re: Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Donnerstag, Aug 28, 2003, at 06:01 Europe/Vienna, Dar Scott wrote: On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: just bought 199 studio version, now what, the home page just gave me a thank you for your transaction and stoped!!! Where do I get my license? Is this really ugl

Re:

2003-08-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi John, ... libSMTP isn't an external... Oh... I thought they were. Are the calls made in that project built into Revolution now? Or if not, what would you call the LibSMTP project? just call it "Sean" :-D (Hi Sean, you're fine? :-) Just kidding. Technically it is a "library" stack. That means

Re: players & TIFF files

2003-08-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi sims, It seems that the only way to display a TIFF in Rev is with a player. That's true, but only on top of QuickTime... I am using a Mac and it works well. No wonder... ;-) But what happens if someone using a PC that does not have QuickTime installed uses a PC version of my app...will the p

Re: [ANN] The Scripters Scrapbook v3b4 for RR

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Gehlbach
www.flexibleLearning.com/xtalk/scriptersscrapbook/ScriptersScrapBook_v3b4.zip Feel free to delete all the contents and fill with your own... That's what it's designed for. If you wish to give it a spin and let me have some feedback before it is finalised, your support would be much appreciated

Re: Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/28/03 4:36 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: It's yet the time Rev's team generate the licenses for all the MC to Rev crossgrade users updating to Rev 2.1 (by hand, Jacque ?). Well, by button anyway. ;) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | ht

Acrobat Reader is present?

2003-08-28 Thread ecu
Amigos: Many times you want to check if certain sw is installed in the users computer, this is true for Quicktime (in order to run QT files like QTVR etc), inthat case it is easily tetsted with the result of the function QTVersion(). But what if you want to know if Acrobat is installed? I want

Re: Double arrows

2003-08-28 Thread Barry Levine
John, The Rev Object Inspector's double-arrows are a "single-set", so to speak, rather than two sets at opposite ends of a scrollbar. It looks like Cocktail is attempting to double-up those arrows so a click doesn't register with the appropriate widget. (I can't believe I wrote that last sente

[ANN] The Scripters Scrapbook v3b4 for RR

2003-08-28 Thread FlexibleLearning
To let you know that the final beta of The Scripters Scrapbook is now available at the link below. It's been around since 1985 (for those of us who go back that far), first under HyperCard, then SuperCard, then MetaCard, now Revolution, upgraded each time. What is it? "Designed for scripters to co

CGI

2003-08-28 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi everyone, I'm wondering if there's step-by-step documentation and perhaps an example for using Rev as a CGI in OS X. Regards, Greg ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

2003-08-28 Thread John Patten
Message: 2 From: "Monte Goulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Simple question re: Using Extenals... Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:43:24 +0930 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello All... > > I haven't had the need to use an external Revolution, such as > "libSMTP"... > In

Re: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-28 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 8/27/2003 at 10:15PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Hi All > > I just uploaded a new plugin called Democratic Revolution. The idea is you > create feature requests and vote on them to give the RunRev team a good idea > of what we want. You can vote as many times as you want but try and be > honest

revNumberOfRecords ruturns -1 in ODBC

2003-08-28 Thread dave
Hi, I've just started using Revolution for a project. I'm using the revNumberOfRecords( RecordSetID) function but this only returns -1 with an ODBC data source. It's ok with MySQL. Am I stuck with this behavior or is there something I'm missing? Thanks for any tips. Regards, Dave Cope, I.T. O

revTools + : NEW VERSION

2003-08-28 Thread Mathewson
Dear Jeremy Smith, The effect of having the application browser floating onTop was not intentional on my part: it is, however, a consequence of it being loaded as a 'palette' through revTools. All the best, Richmond Mathewson __ See Mathewson's

Re: Lost revMenubar on Windows XP

2003-08-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Same happens here... Just hit ctrl + M to get the messagebox and type "set the loc of current stack to 400,400" and it is back immediately... Happy coding, Ton Kuypers > From: "Jeremy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:05:12 + > To: [EMAIL

Re: revolution 1.1.1 download availability

2003-08-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wanted to download copies of all Rev1.1.1 > installs, for all the different OSs, and write them > to cd. > > [snip] > > Does anyone have a solution for this scenario? > > Regards > Bernard > Hi Bernard, I recently downloaded them all myself, based on infor

players & TIFF files

2003-08-28 Thread sims
It seems that the only way to display a TIFF in Rev is with a player. I am using a Mac and it works well. But what happens if someone using a PC that does not have QuickTime installed uses a PC version of my app...will the player object still be able to display the TIFF? TIA sims -- --

WAV file woes

2003-08-28 Thread Klaus Major
Hi all, i have a slight inconveninece here... I have a WAV file 11.025 KHZ, 8 bit. A valid format, actutally... Works fine: on a Mac on windows using WMP on windows in RR in a player using QT on windows in RR using "play ac ..." When i set "dontuseqt" to true on win: plays with "play ac ..." i

revolution 1.1.1 download availability

2003-08-28 Thread revolution
I wanted to download copies of all Rev1.1.1 installs, for all the different OSs, and write them to cd. I know it might seem strange, but I still haven't found any compelling reason to use 2.x yet, and I prefer the design old 1.1.1 IDE. I'm entitled under my SBE license to use any of the avail

Re: revTools + : NEW VERSION

2003-08-28 Thread Jeremy Smith
When I click the application browser using revTools is seems to always stay OnTop of the other stacks (unlike selecting it normally from the menu). Just curious if this is a design or bug? Windows XP Rev 2.1 Cheers Jeremy. Dear RunRev Afficionados, I have just uploaded a new version of my modi

some people like to do it HORIZONTALLY

2003-08-28 Thread Mathewson
Dear RunRev Afficionados, Just uploaded the horizontal version of my modified revTools stack incorporating Klaus Major's FVOURITES stack. go on, I dare you: try it horizontally for a change! Love, Richmond __ See Mathewson's software at: http:/

revTools + : NEW VERSION

2003-08-28 Thread Mathewson
Dear RunRev Afficionados, I have just uploaded a new version of my modified revTools stack to my website: it incorporates Klaus Major's FAVOURITES stack (with his permission). Will try to sort out a new version of the horizontal revTools sometime this afternoon. Love, Richmond

Re: Newbie enquiry re using Revolution for Myst style games

2003-08-28 Thread peter9 . smith
> From: Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am doing the same. I already did little myst like games... it's > pretty easy, no I am on a more adventurous task that is to create a > SCUMM-like engine, remember scumm games from lucasarts (monkey island > series, day of the tentacle, sam & max,

Re: Lost revMenubar on Windows XP

2003-08-28 Thread Jeremy Smith
This problem occurs often to me as well, the solution is to right click on revolution in the task bar select move, then hold down shift and press any of the arrow keys, then move the mouse (while still holding shift) and the menu bar will reappear. Its a bug that sets the location WAYYY off, is

RE: Re: Newbie enquiry re using Revolution for Myst style games

2003-08-28 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le jeu 28/08/2003 à 04:32, Dan Shafer a écrit : > On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:01 AM, Edwin Gore wrote: > > > It's too bad that the market these days doesn't really seem to have > > any place for brilliant, imaginative, playful software like those > > original Cyan games. > > > I'm not s

Re: Alignment palette

2003-08-28 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 8:28 PM -0700 8/25/2003, Jim Hurley wrote: Am I the last to discover that the old alignment palette is still available in RR 2? Select two or more objects. Select "Object inspector" from the "Object" menu. This brings up a "Multiple object" palette. Select "Align Objects" from the pull down

RE: undocumented feature

2003-08-28 Thread Monte Goulding
> > So all we need now is a way to set the style info for translation using > > inheritance along the object model and I can throw away the style sheet > > stuff in in libXMLtext ;-) > > > > Cheers > > > > Monte > > I was looking at revXMLText(), now that's a handy thing to have > available. I c

Re: Finding the disk name

2003-08-28 Thread Trevor DeVore
On 8/28/03 Sarah wrote >In the newer version of Revolution, running under OS X, when I get a >file name (say from answer file), I get something like this: >/Users/sarah/Documents/FolderName/Filename.txt >This is fine and Rev reads such a file perfectly. The problem arises >when I want to pass a

Re: [ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 07:15 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi All I just uploaded a new plugin called Democratic Revolution. The idea is you create feature requests and vote on them to give the RunRev team a good idea of what we want. Cool! -- Lobby... [Vote for Me] Vote for offsetA

Re: Newbie enquiry re using Revolution for Myst style games

2003-08-28 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 06:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, I am doing the same. I already did little myst like games... it's pretty easy, no I am on a more adventurous task that is to create a SCUMM-like engine, remember scumm games from lucasarts (monkey island series, day of

Re: Now What? [while the cat's away]

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Brownell
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:34 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If they are already at the pub at 5 AM Scotland time, then I think we need to worry... ;) Maybe not so bad. Perhaps they are still just getting off work from yesterday. ___ use-revol

Re: Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/27/03 11:13 PM, Alex Rice wrote: On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Revolution licenses are not generated by automated robots, but rather by a real live person who lovingly creates each license personally. WELL! They need to get some 802.11/airport hubs dow

Re: undocumented feature

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Brownell
Wednesday, Monte Goulding wrote: So all we need now is a way to set the style info for translation using inheritance along the object model and I can throw away the style sheet stuff in in libXMLtext ;-) Cheers Monte I was looking at revXMLText(), now that's a handy thing to have available. I co

Re: Re: Newbie enquiry re using Revolution for Myst style games

2003-08-28 Thread Edwin Gore
You may be right - I mean, I really hope so. It would be great to see a market for this sort of "exploration, click and see what happens" sort of game. And I must apologigize - I got my Dan's momentariliy confused - Shafer wrote the book I love, goodman could tell you Mediavision tales. - Ori

Re: Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread Andre Garzia
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 01:01 AM, Dar Scott wrote: On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: just bought 199 studio version, now what, the home page just gave me a thank you for your transaction and stoped!!! Where do I get my license? Is this really ugly... Well

Re: Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Revolution licenses are not generated by automated robots, but rather by a real live person who lovingly creates each license personally. WELL! They need to get some 802.11/airport hubs down at the pub then eh? joking :-) Alex Ri

Re: Picture this

2003-08-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 06:22 PM, Ken Norris wrote: Well, I wanted it to scroll simultaneously into view in the box, just like the field scrolls, but larger in the box. Like you were holding a rectangular magnifying glass over the middle of the field. A field with all the same text and

Re: merge property profiles?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:26 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Based on my limited understanding of the underlying mechanism, don't you want to set the cREVGeneral[profile] of the object? Geoff - thanks! you gave me just the nudge I needed. I could have sworn: the profile = the revProfile = cR

Re: Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: just bought 199 studio version, now what, the home page just gave me a thank you for your transaction and stoped!!! Where do I get my license? Is this really ugly... Well, first check your mail. If it is not there, send Heather a n

Re: Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/27/03 10:42 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: just bought 199 studio version, now what, the home page just gave me a thank you for your transaction and stoped!!! Where do I get my license? I think they are still sleeping in Scotland right now, but when Heather wakes up and gets to work in a few hour

Re: Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:42 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, just bought 199 studio version, now what, the home page just gave me a thank you for your transaction and stoped!!! Where do I get my license? Is this really ugly... You will receive it in email. I think they don't have

.mp4 filter in OSX and windows

2003-08-28 Thread Thomas Speitel
I forgot to mention that the filter needs to work on OSX and Windows. I am having trouble setting up an "answer file" filter that allows .mov and .mp4 Quicktime files to be loaded. Thanks in advance for any help. Tom Speitel Tom Speitel, Ph.D. Curriculum Research & Development Group College of

.mp4 filter

2003-08-28 Thread Thomas Speitel
I am having trouble setting up an "answer file" filter that allows .mov and .mp4 Quicktime files to be loaded. Thanks in advance for any help. Tom Speitel ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-rev

Now What??? Where's my rev license?

2003-08-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, just bought 199 studio version, now what, the home page just gave me a thank you for your transaction and stoped!!! Where do I get my license? Is this really ugly... Cheers Andre Garzia  2003 imac2 ibook p100 e uma torradeira ___ use-re

Double arrows no problem-Tinker Tool

2003-08-28 Thread John Tenny
Re double arrows... I'm using Tinker Tool and the only problem is not in Rev. Occasionally the bottom down-arrow doesn't work - this in any scrolling window. The upper down-arrow works fine, and the bottom up-arrow works as well. ___ use-revolution ma

Re: merge property profiles?

2003-08-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
Based on my limited understanding of the underlying mechanism, don't you want to set the cREVGeneral[profile] of the object? On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 11:47 AM, Alex Rice wrote: put the cRevGeneral["profileList"] of fld id 2368 into tProfiles if "SectHead" is among the lines of tProfiles

Re: merge property profiles?

2003-08-28 Thread Geoff Canyon
If there's code you want to run against a set of controls, then Navigator will allow you to easily do it. There isn't a built-in facility for dealing with profiles, but the command panel lets you run arbitrary code against whatever controls are selected. gc On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 10:2

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1829 - 17 msgs

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Shafer
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, Martin Pilkington wrote: Are there any websites out there that have tutorials on how to use revolution. I'm fairly new to developing and I am finding it hard to use the features I want as the online documentation does not describe all the features in depth. I have g

Lost revMenubar on Windows XP

2003-08-28 Thread Anthony Kouvousis
Please help! I open Rev 2.03 on Windows XP and sometimes ONLY the toolbar is visible, the menuBar does not appear anyplace. Obviously is nothing I can do to open even the msg. box and type "show revMenuBar". When this problem occurs, I try to launch Rev again but still no menuBar is appearing

Finding the disk name

2003-08-28 Thread Sarah
In the newer version of Revolution, running under OS X, when I get a file name (say from answer file), I get something like this: /Users/sarah/Documents/FolderName/Filename.txt This is fine and Rev reads such a file perfectly. The problem arises when I want to pass a filename to an AppleScript, w

Re: Revolution 2.1 Installation Problems on OS X

2003-08-28 Thread Joel Rees
> >> Where did you put the Revolution folder? > > In Applications > > I'm a little confused about the applications in my user folder and the > one in the boot drive. Maybe they are related in some way. Which did > you actually drag to? It's the same folder, but you can't write to it unless yo

Lost Rev. icons in my stacks (Windows XP platfoem)

2003-08-28 Thread Anthony Kouvousis
On windows XP using the uninstaller, I uninstalled Rev 1.1.1, Rev 2.0, and Rev 2.01, BUT kept the rev 2.02 folder. I did so to save disk space and I thought that it is good practice to keep the latest version only on my computer. Result: I lost all the Rev icons of my stacks. Further more, when I

Re: Getting cross-platform IP address

2003-08-28 Thread Dar Scott
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 06:13 PM, Scott Slaugh wrote: set the itemdel to ":" get HostNameToAddress(item 1 of the address) ... Now, for Mac OS 9... Rats! It doesn't work for my Mac OS 9.2. Dar Scott _

Re: Getting cross-platform IP address

2003-08-28 Thread Scott Slaugh
Yay! I did not read your script right. Thanks for responding to my dumb reply! (In an environment in my dark past, variables were prefixed with 'the' and I kept reading a variable name, not a property.) And this works on my OS X, too. That's good to know. This also provides a hint as to why h

RE: Re: Newbie enquiry re using Revolution for Myst style games

2003-08-28 Thread Dan Shafer
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:01 AM, Edwin Gore wrote: It's too bad that the market these days doesn't really seem to have any place for brilliant, imaginative, playful software like those original Cyan games. I'm not so sure. I spent some time last weekend watching my 13-year-old grand

[ANN] Democratic Revolution

2003-08-28 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi All I just uploaded a new plugin called Democratic Revolution. The idea is you create feature requests and vote on them to give the RunRev team a good idea of what we want. You can vote as many times as you want but try and be honest so that RunRev can take it seriously. There's no link on my

RE: undocumented feature

2003-08-28 Thread Monte Goulding
> > Look at it going back the other way using htmlText of fld 1: > > > > hello world ! > > > > hello world ! > > > > hello world ! > > > > ___ So all we need now is a way to set the style info for translation using inheritance along the object

Re: Getting cross-platform IP address

2003-08-28 Thread Dar Scott
Yay! On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 06:13 PM, Scott Slaugh wrote: set the itemdel to ":" get HostNameToAddress(item 1 of the address) I think the goal is to get the primary IP address of the computer not of a connection. I may be confused there, too. I do know that if you run the above script

Re: undocumented feature

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Brownell
Monte Goulding wrote: set the htmlText of fld 1 to "hello world !" Try this: set the htmlText of fld 1 to "hello world 1 hello world 2 hello world 3" You will notice that it also creates line breaks for header information just like in HTML. === Look at it going back the other way

undocumented feature

2003-08-28 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi all Here's a good one: set the htmlText of fld 1 to "hello world !" When did this sneak into the engine? Is it possible to alter the style sheet? Cheers Monte ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listi

Re: Getting cross-platform IP address

2003-08-28 Thread Scott Slaugh
> > set the itemdel to ":" > > get HostNameToAddress(item 1 of the address) > > > I think the goal is to get the primary IP address of the computer not > of a connection. I may be confused there, too. I do know that if you run the above script on a PC with two network adaptors in it, it returns t

RE: Simple question re: Using Extenals...

2003-08-28 Thread Monte Goulding
> Hello All... > > I haven't had the need to use an external Revolution, such as > "libSMTP"... > In the past with SuperCard, I could just use ResEdit to move an external > into a new project. libSMTP isn't an external... > > How do I use externals now with Revolution? Is it just a matter > of m

RE: here's a challenge

2003-08-28 Thread Monte Goulding
*** Well, I think it's a challenge anyway. I have a field with text from a story. It's just basic text split into one or more paragraphs. I need to come up with a way to create what we call a reading guide, which would basically consist of a rectangular box that follows the mouse po