bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Maybe someone can help me with this simple question: put the long id of field Test Field into gField set the foregroundColor of the last line of gField to red -- works put This is a test after gField -- fails, puts the text into the var It seems as if RR cannot tell from context whether it is a

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 04:27 PM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: put This is a test after gField -- fails, puts the text into the var It's a feature. It puts the text (the long id of field Test Field) into the var; like it should Try: put This is a test after field gField unless you need: put

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 04:40 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 04:27 PM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: put This is a test after gField -- fails, puts the text into the var It's a feature. It puts the text (the long id of field Test Field) into the var; like it should

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Mark Brownell wrote: put This is a test after gField -- fails, puts the text into the var It's a feature. It puts the text (the long id of field Test Field) into the var; like it should Try: put This is a test after field gField Thanks, I tried that, but put This is a test after field

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: Any other ideas? OOPS!!! how's that for a fast reply... ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Steve Gehlbach wrote: put the long id of field Test Field into gField set the foregroundColor of the last line of gField to red -- works put This is a test after gField -- fails, puts the text into the var It seems as if RR cannot tell from context whether it is a variable or a

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Scott Rossi
put the long id of field Test Field into gField set the foregroundColor of the last line of gField to red -- works put This is a test after gField -- fails, puts the text into the var It seems as if RR cannot tell from context whether it is a variable or a reference on the last one. Is

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Steve Gehlbach wrote: put the long id of field Test Field into gField set the foregroundColor of the last line of gField to red -- works put This is a test after gField -- fails, puts the text into the var ... Is there a way to do what I am trying to do? Scott gave you a couple of good

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Does this work?: put This is a test after the text of gField -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel:

[ANN] Democratic Revolution Updated

2003-08-31 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi All I've had to fix a couple of things on the server side and this has meant that votes and feature requests to date have been lost. I've changed the design so this won't happen again. Sorry about the inconvenience. Regards Monte Goulding B.App.Sc. (Hons.) Executive Director Sweat

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Richard Gaskin wrote: Does this work?: put This is a test after the text of gField no, but set the text of gField to This is a test works. However, I want to add lines to the field, so I can't find a way to do the after part. The doconstruct works, and leads me to believe there is

Re: [ANN] Democratic Revolution Updated

2003-08-31 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 07:45 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: I've had to fix a couple of things on the server side and this has meant that votes and feature requests to date have been lost. I've changed the design so this won't happen again. That's good because I clicked on that vote

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Steve Gehlbach wrote: Does this work?: put This is a test after the text of gField no, but set the text of gField to This is a test works. However, I want to add lines to the field, so I can't find a way to do the after part. set the text of gField to (the text of

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, I wrote: set the text of gField to (the text of fld gField This is a test) Oops, the above is wrong (fld reference is not needed). Revise: set the text of gField to (the text of gField This is a test) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design

Re: Showing one image in a hidden group of images

2003-08-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
How about breaking the group up? Instead of this: Group A object 1 object 2 object 3 object 4 Do this: Group A object 1 Group B object 2 object 3 object 4 That way you can make Group B invisible and then set the visible of object 1 to true or false as you please. On

Re: OS X: Can launch app but not file

2003-08-31 Thread Alex Rice
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 03:52 AM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote: This works for me: launch /Applications/BBEdit 7.0/BBEdit.app but this doesn't: launch /Applications/BBEdit 7.0/myfile.txt with /Applications/BBEdit 7.0/BBEdit.app If BBEdit is not running, I get no such program If it is

New to Revolution

2003-08-31 Thread Troy
Hi, Im new to Revolution, but I am a professional Windows developer with about 10 years of experience mostly in VC++ and VB. I have a couple of questions I was hoping someone could answer: 1) Is it possible to access the Windows API (and the equivalent on other O/Ss) from within

Re: Showing one image in a hidden group of images

2003-08-31 Thread Barry Levine
Geoff, I probably was not very complete in my description. Any of the four images must be available to be shown individually. I grouped them in order to make showing them all very quick when the time came to print the stack (and the images needed to be visible for that). My code seems to be

Limit of chars in a field

2003-08-31 Thread Anthony Kouvousis
I created a field named myField, I then set the dont't wrap to tue, set the font to courier new and the fontSize to 12 and run the following handler: on mouseUp put empty into fld myField repeat 937 put blah, after last word of line 1 of temp end repeat put temp into fld myField end

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Alex Rice
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: The only reason I haven't use the short id is I wanted something general that would work from any stack. Seems like you just need a word, like object in front of gField that would do it. The do approach seems clunky, and,

Re: Limit of chars in a field

2003-08-31 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Anthony Kouvousis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created a field named myField, I then set the dont't wrap to tue, set the font to courier new and the fontSize to 12 and run the following handler: on mouseUp put empty into fld myField repeat 937 put blah, after last word of

Re: Limit of chars in a field

2003-08-31 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 11:01 PM, Anthony Kouvousis wrote: My application calls for storing in one line the coordinates for a graphic to draw (like set the points of grc x to fld myField). I was under the impression that the chars limit of a fld was way above HCs 3 limit. Here on a

Re: New to Revolution

2003-08-31 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Troy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to Revolution, but I am a professional Windows developer with about 10 years of experience mostly in VC++ and VB. I have a couple of questions I was hoping someone could answer: 1) Is it possible to access the Windows API (and the

Re: Limit of chars in a field

2003-08-31 Thread Mark Brownell
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 10:24 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Hi Anthony, The problem isn't in the fact that there are 4685 characters in the field, the problem is that they're all on a single line, and there's a maximum width in terms of pixels that can be displayed -- the data is still

Link text but like the Rev docs

2003-08-31 Thread Barry Levine
Maybe this will be useful. The Rev docs give an example of how to have link text automatically highlight yellow when the mouse passes over it (like the Rev online docs). However, only passing mention of how to make it not -look- like link text is given; the reference says that the Property

Re: New to Revolution

2003-08-31 Thread Alex Rice
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 10:50 PM, Troy wrote: Im new to Revolution, but I am a professional Windows developer with about 10 years of experience mostly in VC++ and VB. ?I have a couple of questions I was hoping someone could answer: Welcome! 1)??Is it possible to access the Windows

Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #1847 - 16 msgs

2003-08-31 Thread Dan Shafer
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 08:57 PM, Troy wrote: 1) Is it possible to access the Windows API (and the equivalent on other O/S's) from within Revolution? Not trivial as I understand it. There are some intriguing workaround ideas but the APIs themselves are not, as I understand it,

Re: Limit of chars in a field

2003-08-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Anthony Kouvousis wrote: My application calls for storing in one line the coordinates for a graphic to draw (like set the points of grc x to fld myField). I was under the impression that the chars limit of a fld was way above HCs 3 limit. Here on a single line we have 937 X 5 = 4685

Re: OS X: Can launch app but not file

2003-08-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 03:52 AM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote: This works for me: launch /Applications/BBEdit 7.0/BBEdit.app but this doesn't: launch /Applications/BBEdit 7.0/myfile.txt with /Applications/BBEdit 7.0/BBEdit.app If BBEdit is not running, I

Re: OS X: Can launch app but not file

2003-08-31 Thread Alex Rice
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 12:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The Mac OS API's _launch call has been riddled with issues since Mac OS 7, or maybe earlier. This gets funkier in OS X since a .app is not a file, but really a folder. Best to use AppleScript and let the Finder sort it out:

Re: HyperCard and Revolution stacks

2003-08-31 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 04:45 AM, Dale Pond wrote: -- Life, Light, Love and Laughter, Dale Pond Sympathetic Vibratory Physics Sacred Science - Sacred Life http://www.svpvril.com SVP Discussion Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svpvril/ I don't see the problem with someone's individual

How to I get clickItem?

2003-08-31 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have a field in which the itemDelimiter is numToChar(255) instead of return. This allows me to have items with multiple paragraphs in the same item. I can retrieve specific items in the form: set the itemDelimiter to numToChar(255) put item 3 of field fTest How can I get the

Re: HyperCard and Revolution stacks

2003-08-31 Thread Dale Pond
Mark Brownell wrote: Not to be contrary I will share an interest of mine that exposes a kind of weakness. I once set out to find a weakness in the game of Roulette and I found it. I tried to explain it and prove its existence using computer games and simulations. I also went on to share it. I

Re: HyperCard and Revolution stacks

2003-08-31 Thread Dale Pond
Richard Gaskin wrote: It works great if you binhex them first. If memory serves it even converts the audio resources to au format when importing a binhexed HC stack on Wintel. Richard, The first download item under Revolution HTML CleanUp is a .rev file binhexed (not standalone). The second

Re: bug or feature

2003-08-31 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 11:30 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: As it turns out, I was seeing some other problems, specifically, where gField holds the long id of a field, and the context is a different stack: set the textColor of the last line of gField to blue This was setting the last line

Re: OS X: Can launch app but not file

2003-08-31 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
At 11:27 pm -0700 30/8/03, Richard Gaskin wrote: [...] The Mac OS API's _launch call has been riddled with issues since Mac OS 7, or maybe earlier. This gets funkier in OS X since a .app is not a file, but really a folder. Best to use AppleScript and let the Finder sort it out: tell program

Re: OS X: Can launch app but not file

2003-08-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Put tell program quote Finder quote to open quote drive:folder:application.app quote into vScript Do vScript as applescript This should do the job ;-) Greetz, Ton Kuypers From: Kaveh Bazargan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:57:25 +0100 To:

Re: OS X: Can launch app but not file

2003-08-31 Thread Kaveh Bazargan
At 10:20 pm +0200 31/8/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put tell program quote Finder quote to open quote drive:folder:application.app quote into vScript Do vScript as applescript This should do the job ;-) Hey thanks. Is there no easier way? :-( -- Kaveh

Re: How to I get clickItem?

2003-08-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/31/03 1:01 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: On 8/31/03 1:01 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: I have a field in which the itemDelimiter is numToChar(255) instead of return. This allows me to have items with multiple paragraphs in the same item. Items can always have paragraphs in them. Items don't end until

Re: OS X: Can launch app but not file

2003-08-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not as far as I know... But once you get the hang of it, it works pretty slick... For scripts with variables in it, you can put them together like this, when using bigger scripts, create them in the script-editor and store them in a custom property and when needing information from the other

Re: How to I get clickItem?

2003-08-31 Thread Mark Brownell
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 12:18 PM, Mark Brownell wrote: on mouseUp global itemArray2 put the clickCharChunk of myField into zap put 1 into z repeat if itemArray2[z] = zap then put z into itemNumberIs exit repeat end if add 1 to z end repeat end mouseUp

Hide minimizeBox - bug?

2003-08-31 Thread R. Hillen
Hello list, Using Mac OSX 10.2.6, Rev 2.1 I wrote: on preopenstack set the decorations of this stack to default set the minimizeBox of this stack to false end preopenstack I built standalones for Mac OSX and windows. On OSX it worked as expected; the MinimizeBox became white and was

Re: OS X: Can launch app but not file

2003-08-31 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 02:30 PM, Kaveh Bazargan wrote: At 10:20 pm +0200 31/8/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put tell program quote Finder quote to open quote drive:folder:application.app quote into vScript Do vScript as applescript This should do the job ;-) Hey thanks. Is there