Distro Builder

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
How do I save the settings in the Distribution Builder for a given stack file? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM:

Re: Distro Builder

2003-09-30 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 11:12 PM -0700 9/29/2003, Richard Gaskin wrote: How do I save the settings in the Distribution Builder for a given stack file? Choose Save Distribution As from the File menu. (To restore them, open the Distribution Builder and then choose Open Distribution.) -- Jeanne DeVoto ~ [EMAIL

RE: Distro Builder

2003-09-30 Thread Monte Goulding
How do I save the settings in the Distribution Builder for a given stack file? Do you mean individually? As in you have 5 stack files and you want to use 2 in another project but use the same settings??? You can't do that at the moment but I'd be interested to know how often you think such a

Re: Cursor: inverted colors

2003-09-30 Thread xbury . cs
Tamee, Im working on a tool to make cursors behave as they should but it is definitely not built-in... Transparencies work fine for imports but when you use these pictures as a cursor transparencies are definitely not imported correctly and all you get is an ugly picture with the wrong

Re: Does SharedText work?

2003-09-30 Thread Graham
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:53:09 -0700, Dan Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham asked: I have just such a field in a group and I suppose I've set its SharedText to true by checking the 'share text' box in the Property Inspector for the field (while editing the group); but I find that if I

Re: transparent graphic with border visible, windows

2003-09-30 Thread Howard Bornstein
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:34 AM, Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote: This works perfectly on the MAc a blank area on a blank ground you can see nothing but on windows (builds) you see a ugly grey rectangle. Make sure that the ShowFocusBorder is set to false. I've found that on Windows, this

opaque fields not scrolling correctly

2003-09-30 Thread rand valentine
rand valentine wrote: I am using mac os x.2.6, and have a problem with opaque fields when i scroll them. if i scroll a field back to the top, there are seeming fine horizontal white lines in the field's contents that render the contents unreadable until i click in the field or otherwise

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-30 Thread Rob Cozens
What if externals were simplified to be as easy to use as native calls? Richard, et al: I guess I would find it difficult to complain too loudly IF that were the case AND the externals provided noticeable performance enhancements. In general, my vision for libIPC, revBlowfish, SDB, other

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2003-09-30 Thread Stephen Messimer
Hi All, This is just to let you know that the Public Beta of PreceptorTools has been release and is available for download. :-) = For Immediate Release PreceptorTools Public Beta Released The New Way to Develop Courseware - In Minutes! Edinburgh, Scotland, 25th September,

Re: PreceptorTools

2003-09-30 Thread Rob Cozens
Congratulations, Steve! May PreceptorTools become part of a core of flagship applications demonstrating the power and capabilities of Runtime Revolution. -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a

[Fwd: PreceptorTools Public Beta Released

2003-09-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Steve, The subject header of your announcement was missing. I'm going to test PreceptorTools right now ;-) -- Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores 100, rue de Paris F - 77140 Nemours GSM: +33 6 03 95 77 70 Pro: +33 1 41 60 52 68 Dom: +33 1 64 45 05 33 Fax: +33 1 64 45 05 33 Inspection

RE: PreceptorTools

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Ray
Same here! Congrats, Steve! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Cozens Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Unicode and Chunks

2003-09-30 Thread Dean Snyder
Trevor DeVore wrote at 9:05 PM on Monday, September 29, 2003: I don't know how you are getting the data you are using but I have created fields with tabs unicode that display properly in tables. Doing something like: put uniEncode (tNewMovieName tab pMoviePath), UTF16) into tNewLine set

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Rob Cozens wrote: What if externals were simplified to be as easy to use as native calls? Richard, et al: I guess I would find it difficult to complain too loudly IF that were the case AND the externals provided noticeable performance enhancements. In general, my vision for libIPC,

Window's Icon

2003-09-30 Thread Robert Presender
Hi, I created a window's icon, for my standalone, a long time ago with Rev 1.1.1 without a problem. I am now trying to upgrade my application using Mac 10.2.6 and Windows ME but have not been able to include my icon for windows. I have used Iconographer and QTam (followed Chipp Walters'

Re: Window's Icon

2003-09-30 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 11:25 AM, Robert Presender wrote: Hi, I created a window's icon, for my standalone, a long time ago with Rev 1.1.1 without a problem. I am now trying to upgrade my application using Mac 10.2.6 and Windows ME but have not been able to include my icon for

Re: PreceptorTools

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Norris
Hello Steve, Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:17:46 -0400 From: Stephen Messimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (no subject) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, This is just to let you know that the Public Beta of PreceptorTools has been release and is available for

Re: Preceptor Tools

2003-09-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Stephen Messimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, This is just to let you know that the Public Beta of PreceptorTools has been release and is available for download. :-) Congratulations, Steve ; may the number of great add-ons for Revolution grow for the benefit of all :-) Jan

RE: Window's Icon

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Ray
I don't know why it's asking you for 744 instead of 766... but I did put in a feature request in BugZilla for greater-than-16-color-icons (Bug #730), and put a couple of votes on it... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Saving Preferences

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Norris
Howdy, What are you favorite ways of saving Preferences? examples: external files, substacks, reading into CustomProps, hidden fields, etc. HTH, Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Linux application metadata

2003-09-30 Thread Chipp Walters
Hey guys, Lindows uses KDE which handles the MIME types. I'll do some research and get back to you. I'm thinking when the app first starts, it can write to a MIME file stored somewhere on the hard disk, but this is just a guess. I'll let you know more about it when I get there. best, Chipp

Re: Saving Preferences

2003-09-30 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Ken Norris wrote: Howdy, What are you favorite ways of saving Preferences? examples: external files, substacks, reading into CustomProps, hidden fields, etc. Definitely a data stack with custom properties. Here is a function, not really tested,

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-30 Thread Rob Cozens
Richard, et al: ... for Blowfish to become a practical option for general use it would require revisions; like Mark pointed out, its currently more an example than a product. As are libIPC, SDB, and possibly even Dar's contributions to the revolution_ipc stack library; but given the group is

Re: Saving Preferences

2003-09-30 Thread Rob Cozens
What are you favorite ways of saving Preferences? Hi Ken, 1. Dialog subStacks of main library stack 2. Stack properties 3. Records in an external db -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; Who are a little

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Rob Cozens wrote: Anyone who would like to help turn our examples into produ... oops!, make that tools :{`), is welcome to join our group. One might use product in the sense of that which is produced. Though that produced by the group may be broad,

Re: snapshot on XP makes icons wink out

2003-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:23 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Windows XP, import snapshot or export snapshot causes the icons on the primary monitor to wink out. Anybody else seeing this on Windows? Try this in the message box: export snapshot of rect 0,0,100,100 to x as PNG Or something like

RE: Saving Preferences

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Ray
What are you favorite ways of saving Preferences? Read in from an external file on startup; if the file doesn't exist, default prefs are applied inside the program an a new prefs file with the defaults is written out to disk. This way, if someone wants to reset their prefs to the defaults, all

RE: snapshot on XP makes icons wink out

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Ray
Try this in the message box: export snapshot of rect 0,0,100,100 to x as PNG Works here for me on WinXP... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-30 Thread Rob Cozens
One might use product in the sense of that which is produced Ah Dar, I knew someone would challenge that.:{`) I considered qualifying the remark with an analogy; but I believe there is a demonstrable difference between the concept of two handlers in a library and an encryption

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Rob Cozens wrote: I considered qualifying the remark with an analogy; but I believe there is a demonstrable difference between the concept of two handlers in a library and an encryption product...along the same lines as the difference between the collection of Rev socket commands and an IPC

Re: snapshot on XP makes icons wink out

2003-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 01:23 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Try this in the message box: export snapshot of rect 0,0,100,100 to x as PNG Works here for me on WinXP... Maybe it's my video cards; they are GeForce2 MX or something like that (based on driver info). Or something weird about using

[ANN] For Sega Game Enthusiasts

2003-09-30 Thread Scott Rossi
Tactile Media Announces GeniSearch Are you a veteran Sega Genesis or MegaDrive player? Still have an old 16 bit cartridge system lying around? Then you might want to take a look at GeniSearch. Following up on a recent post regarding specialized Web browsers and our MacCentral news reader, we

Re: [ANN] For Sega Game Enthusiasts

2003-09-30 Thread Scott Rossi
you might want to take a look at GeniSearch. (BTW, Mac Windows only.) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

RE: [ANN] For Sega Game Enthusiasts

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Ray
Way cool, Scott! Love those specialized web browsers... Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: Tuesday, September 30,

revGoURL questions

2003-09-30 Thread Alex Rice
Why does A work, but not B? -- method A revGoURL file:/// the defaultFolder /launchThisDoc.pdf -- method B revGoURL file:launchThisDoc.pdf I scoured the archives for the best way to launch a PDF file in Windows, and I guess I like method A the best. It's the method I have found that does all

RE: Saving Preferences

2003-09-30 Thread Graham Samuel
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:21:48 -0500, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you favorite ways of saving Preferences? Read in from an external file on startup; if the file doesn't exist, default prefs are applied inside the program an a new prefs file with the defaults is written out to disk.

Distribution Builder strangeness

2003-09-30 Thread Graham Samuel
I have been developing (using RR2.1) on a Windows XP machine, and I need the queryRegistry function - to get this I found that I had to include 'all others' in the build. When I did the build on the Windows machine, the folder with the .exe file also contained two .dlls. One was videograbber,

Re: revGoURL questions

2003-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Also, what is the reason for the /// in method A? I don't know what that represents in a URI. The file URL file:///alex/myfile.pdf is the same as file://localhost/alex/myfile.pdf In both cases the host name (empty or localhost) refers

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: Mark has contributed Rev_Blowfish to the revolution_ipc group's stack library as a starting point for incorporating support for Blowfish encryption/decryption into the collection of IPC commands that will be released (most likely)

Re: Saving encrypted customProperties outside the app?

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Brownell
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 09:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark has done a truly amazing job and deserves many kudos and at least a six-pack of his favorite beverage in recognition of what he's accomplished. Thanks, I'll drink to that... ___

RE: Distribution Builder strangeness

2003-09-30 Thread Monte Goulding
I have been developing (using RR2.1) on a Windows XP machine, and I need the queryRegistry function - to get this I found that I had to include 'all others' in the build. queryRegistry is built into the engine. You don't need to chech 'all others' to get it. When I did the build on the

Re: revGoURL questions

2003-09-30 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 03:59 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Also, what is the reason for the /// in method A? I don't know what that represents in a URI. The file URL file:///alex/myfile.pdf is the same as

Re: Unicode and Chunks

2003-09-30 Thread Tuviah Snyder
I'm using a Unicode font that has 912 characters in a contiguous block of Unicode code points. Any single byte of any 2 byte Unicode code point in that block that equals 09 triggers tabbing in Revolution table fields. (The tab character is 09 in ASCII and 0009 in 2 byte Unicode). Sounds like a

[ANN] Tiny Loupe plugin

2003-09-30 Thread Dar Scott
I have made a small magnification plugin available free here: http://www.swcp.com/dsc/revstacks.html It is a small window that shows a magnified view of the region around the mouse pointer. There are no controls; you work hands-free and simply glance over to the magnified view as you work.

Re: Windows Icon

2003-09-30 Thread Robert Presender
Hi, Thanks to Alex and Ken for your input. I don't know what I was doing wrong but I took a break and restarted the process again. I again used the PC and QTam and used Rev v 2.0.3 and 2.1RC1. and now all is OK. I tried to repeat what I thought I did before my break but couldn't repeat the

RE: Saving Preferences

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Ray
Here is a function, not really tested, that decides good place to save preferences x-platform (snip) put format(%s/%s, tAppDataF, Mindlube) into tAppPrefsF Just curioius, Alex, why did you choose to use format() instead of: put tAppDataF /Mindlube into tAppPrefsF ?? As I said,

Re: Saving Preferences

2003-09-30 Thread Alex Rice
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 07:55 PM, Ken Ray wrote: put format(%s/%s, tAppDataF, Mindlube) into tAppPrefsF Just curioius, Alex, why did you choose to use format() instead of: put tAppDataF /Mindlube into tAppPrefsF Just habit... After using C, Perl, and PHP I start start to

RE: snapshot on XP makes icons wink out

2003-09-30 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Dar, Yep, this is the existing behavior. The desktop is redrawn each time a snapshot is created. I've mentioned this before as well, and would like to see it fixed. On slower machines, some of the windows don't even finish redrawing by the time the snapshot is taken. -Chipp -Original

Re: Saving Preferences

2003-09-30 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Ken, From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Saving Preferences Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:21:48 -0500 Organization: Sons of Thunder Software What are you favorite ways of saving Preferences? Read in from an external file on startup; if the file doesn't exist, default prefs are